Hungry Freaks

There has never been a case where somebody died from ingesting marijuana-never. It is not toxic. It is stronger today, but in states with legalized marijuana, there are also controls to make sure it is pure. Adulterants are added by black market dealers, not by legal establishments touting purity.

They say "more studies are needed" but marijuana has been in use for 4,000 years. That includes hashish and other high-powered grades of marijuana just as potent as today''s hybrids. What is there left to study?

It is not addictive. There are methods of ingesting other than smoking, removing the dangers of tars from the smoking process. It is simply the safest recreational drug on the market. It should have been legal 30 years ago, or, more to the point, never been made illegal.

I can go to the doctor and get high-powered narcotics like Oxycontin or chronic pain, a drug that has k**led thousands. Yet that same doctor can't prescribe marijuana for the same condition. This is beyond strange.

That it is a gateway drug is also not true except that the same illegal dealer who sells pot sometimes sells other drugs. Remove it from the black market and you solve that problem.

So much disinformation out there. "It can k**l you" is laughable, except that there's more a half-million people in prison, most for simple possession or low-level dealing, of this drug. A waste of resources, a tragedy for people criminally charged with using pot and another example of the federal government intruding into the lives of it's citizens.

Hungry Freaks

Exactly, Stan-there's too much money in the "War on Drugs" to make even one of them legal. It's a money game, one that ruins the lives of people deemed insignificant by the vested interests.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

LOL!

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

Interesting responses!

I thought the legalization of marijuana might be a topic on which both liberals and conservatives might agree (with few exceptions).

Does anybody think marijuana WILL BE legalized nationwide?

I think it will. The experiences of Colorado and Washington will be big determinants, however. If they are successful in both saving money on enforcement and incarceration and generating needed tax revenue, the other states will fall in line like dominos.

Of course, the federal government would first have to take marijuana off the list of Schedule 1 of the U.S. Controlled Substances Act, which Obama can do, I believe, with the stroke of a pen.

Two Congressmen, Jared Polis (D-CO) and Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), introduced legislation earlier this year to decriminalize marijuana at the national level. I don't know the status of either of their efforts, but I suspect that John Boehner has (figuratively) tucked them away in a drawer somewhere.

Here's the White House website's take on the legalization of marijuana:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/ondcp/ondcp-fact-sheets/marijuana-legalization

Wouldn't one think that Obama, who has never hid his use of marijuana as a youth, would be more liberal about its legalization? I do. And I think he holds back on it because he doesn't want to be known as the black president who legalized marijuana.

Hunter

I have just a simple question. Let's just say hypothetically it gets legalized. If a couple has children and they use marijuana in the house, what about the second hand smoke? Before someone answers well they can go outside I'm sure the neighbors will appreciate it if they don't use it just about like someone that doesn't smoke cigarettes.

Sonny Magoo Loc: Where pot pie is boiled in a kettle

There should be no restrictions on any unrefined vegetation OF ANY KIND.
It has nothing to do with puritanism either.
Alcohol prohibition was backed mainly by big oil (Rockefeller),
to make sure Henry sold gas guzzlers.
Hemps demise was financed by the pulpwood industry (Warehauser), to make sure pulpwood, wood dominate the lucrative industry of papermaking.
If pot were totally legal it would become like a tomato.
Easy to grow well, but people still buy it.
unlike tobacco which requires work, pot would proliferate and become impossible to regulate and make money on by taxing etc.
Hybridization is responsible for the new easy growing hi potency grass, not add on chemicals.
You people on this forum know lots about politics and stuff for sure, leave the grass alone, most of you dont have a norml clue.

Will I am Loc: Tucson, Arizona

Cannabis is harmless, unlike tobacco, alcohol, and all the other "legal" k**lers out there.
But, the pharmaceutical industry is scared of it, because it can do a better job fighting a lot of ailments the pharmaceutical industry is making money providing pills to fight.
And the prison guard union see the cons in the house for marijuana offenses as the easiest, best behaving, and least dangerous cons.
The two entities listed above are the 2 biggest lobby entities in favor of it being kept illegal (similar to the initial lobbyist to make it illegal, DuPont, in order to make it so their invention of polyester or nylon [I forget which], did not have hemp fabric as competition anymore).
The safety of cannabis, the many different uses of the plant, the people's desire for it to be legal, and everything else does not matter in Washington. But, money does, and the potential taxes on the plant must not seem to be as high as what the lobbyists are kicking out in Congress. Money makes the world around.
Meanwhile, what kind of paper are the original Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution written on?

Hungry Freaks

Hemp for fiber is different than hemp for pleasure.

Hemp fiber is an ultimate renewable resource that would do away with the need for pulpwood and create an entirely new industry for hemp-based paper and fabric.

Hemp for fiber is useless for getting high, yet we can't even seem to legalize it.

Even in it's strongest form, cannabis is non-toxic. Researchers have tried to k**l lab animals with it and stopped after subjecting rates to a level of 2 pounds pot smoke per rat a day. There is no lethal dose of marijuana or it's active ingredient, THC.

Years ago Richard Nixon commissioned a study of cannabis and put former Gov. W. Scranton, a conservative Republican (by that day's standard) as the commission chief. When the commission came back with the recommendation that cannabis be decriminalized, Nixon buried it.

Our puritanical laws on marijuana will one day fall. that we have had three presidents who have used pot while the drug still remains illegal is an example of the hypocrisy of society's attitude towards the drug. . every person who goes to prison for use of marijuana or sale or marijuana is a life wasted. We will one day come to our senses.

oldladyfromwaco

I predict that pot will be legalized in a few number of years, primarily because today's baby boomers were the hippies/potheads of yesterday and love the stuff....and have smoked it for decades and really need it now medicinally.
Also, legalization will end the incarceration of millions who should not have been in prison.....for profit I might add....in the first place. You know how it goes....if you want to make a lot of money, criminalize something.....build private prisons.....change the laws to fill the prisons......and make billions....while receiving for each prisoner the equivalent of a year's college education for a year's imprisonment.....and making more money by the farming out prisoners at s***e wages.....
While I'm writing, drugs....illegal.....have been used for centuries by Britain....remember the Opium Wars of the late 1800's? Might interest you to know that when the US went into Afghanistan, 7% of the opium coming into the US came from there. Now, the percent is 70.....and most of it comes through Canada. Just look back over the last wars.....the US goes in, Britain takes all the money and sets up another Federal Reserved(controlled by The Crown)....and drug production skyrockets. Profit comes for the powerful at any cost to the world, doesn't it.

Hungry Freaks

Strange that we demonize the Chinese opium addict yet worship the Brits who forced it on the Chinese. Drugs are big business-laways has been, always will. Old Lady-few people even know about the opium wars-thanks for being informed.

Hungry Freaks

I'm not aware of any "designer drugs" being used to 'coat" marijuana, but then my info is sorely dated. "Designer drugs" like Molly and Ecstasy come in pill form, according to the young people I do know. And the truly deadly drugs like Oxycontin come from a doctor's prescription pad, a fact i know all too well.

Back in the day, some cheap pot was "dusted' with PCP, but a dealer that did that usually was put out of business quickly. Only happened to me once, 40 years ago, and it was an unpleasant experience.

The one thing that is clear-legal marijuana isn't altered or coated with any drug-it's pure marijuana. Marijuana is safe, non-toxic, not physically addictive (hey, coffee and sugar are more addictive) , it doesn't cross the placental barrier and is as safe as anything out there. Why it isn't legal is one of the great mysteries of modern life.

Hungry Freaks

PS: the guy chewed off the other guys face apparently used some kind of "bath salts" not marijuana. Bath salts are popular among a certain group because they're legal, unlike marijuana.

Don't blame that one marijuana lest you be compared to the folks who put together the circ. 1931 movie "Reefer Madness."

One may get the munchies from smoking pot, but not for human flesh or any kind of violent activity. Potheads are the most passive group of people on earth.

Confused

Yes , it should be legalized nationwide . It is an adult choice .

Confused

Marijuana has never k**led anyone . Prescription drugs manufactured and sold k**l a person every 14 minutes in the US .
p.s. Marijuana cannot alter DNA .

Confused

That is just plain false . It is medically impossible to overdose on marijuana .