How many Americans must smoke pot before we stop sticking our heads in the ground and just legalize! THIS IS STUPID.
Interstate 10 – a main artery linking cities from California to Florida – Now the highway is sending thousands of drug bust cases Sierra Blanca’s way, courtesy of a Border Patrol checkpoint just outside of town where drug-sniffing dogs inspect more than 17,000 trucks, travelers – and tour buses – daily for whiffs of contraband..
http://news.yahoo.com/celebrit…
Seriously, I am not sure what the politically correct argument is anymore or what message polls the best for soccer moms and NASCAR dads.
However, what I do know is marijuana sales are not far behind alcohol sales. And Medicinal Marijuana sales equal the sales of Viagra. That is a bunch of Americans smoking pot.
http://www.gazette.com/article…
How much longer can we ignore the fact our CIA, DEA, FBI is knee deep in controversy surrounding drugs and the drug war is completely corrupt?
Moreover, how much longer can we ignore that arresting 800,000 Americans a year for anything pot related is just wrong?
How much longer can we decide to ignore these facts?
Please, someone, tell me why we just can’t end this war?
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It stems from the same motivations that produced the inquisition (not to diminish more serious escapades of the inquisition). I recommend reading “God’s Jury: The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World” by Cullen Murphy.
To criminalize the number of people that pot smoking does, simply provides the government a ppotent tool to stifle dissent and other freedoms.
Keep up the good work.
… who profits by the criminalization of marijuana?
I don’t mean the organized crime cartels, who are obvious, because they exist outside the law and have no lobby in Washington or the 50 state capitols. I mean to “legitimate” people who work to keep marijuana illegal.
While there are probably those who truly believe that any sort of high is immoral and ought to be illegal, as well as those who believe that it’s a gateway to worse drugs, policies like this don’t remain in place without powerful interests who gain from it.
I’d like to know who those people are.
Why is it some sort of shadowy group that keeps it illegal? Support for legalization of marijuana did not get out of the 20% range nationwide until the 1990s and it was big news when surveys starting finding around 50% support quite recently. It is not as if there was wide popular support for decriminalization that was being ignored by politicians.
Furthermore, even if it were put to a national vote I suspect that decriminalization would still fail in the voting booth for the same reasons that Proposition 8 passed in California even though polls showed only about 50% support. The young people do not show up to vote nearly as often as older people.
Why would any politician support legalization when a majority of people who vote are against it? Partial legalization lost here in Colorado 59% to 41% in 2006, not that long ago.
and the relatively paltry results they net. When you have a budgetary sinkhole like this, someone benefits.