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Medical Marijuana Activist Files Complaint Against Anti-Pot Groups
On June 17, 1971, President Nixon told Congress that "if we cannot destroy the drug menace in America, then it will surely destroy us." After forty years of trying to destroy "the drug menace in America" we still *haven't* been able to destroy it and it still *hasn't* destroyed us. Four decades is long enough to realize that on this important issue, President Nixon was wrong! All actions taken as a result of his invalid and paranoid assumptions (e.g. the federal marijuana prohibition) should be ended immediately! It makes no sense for taxpayers to fund the federal marijuana prohibition when it *doesn't* prevent people from using marijuana and it *does* make criminals incredibly wealthy and incite the Mexican drug cartels to murder thousands of people every year. We need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales - to keep drug dealer criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana must be made legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold. "There's something extraordinarily perverse when we're so concerned about preventing addicts from having access to drugs that we destroy the lives of many times more people, either through untreated pain or other drug war damage".— July 19, 2011 2:03 p.m.
California Cannabis Coalition Seeks to Eliminate Ordinances
Thanks for the links and yes, I really do think that you're on the right track. I have to admit though that I can't see where the difficulty would be in controlling marijuana with the same laws that we use for alcohol and tobacco. Legalized adult sales works remarkably well for these two products and keeps us safe from bootleggers and illegal tobacco dealers while restricting, as much as possible, the access of minors to them. Why can't the same thing be done with marijuana? When I'm in a supermarket and see tobacco products displayed behind the counter I can see no reason why "Cali trees" or "Ernst's premium select" couldn't be in there as well. Taxpayers could receive an annual $40 billion cut in taxes if stores were allowed to sell marijuana to adults. And as home growing is no different from home brewing, these two activities should be controlled by the same laws. To do anything else is simply illogical and not up to the standards we expect from our elected officials.— May 12, 2011 9:50 a.m.
California Cannabis Coalition Seeks to Eliminate Ordinances
Ernst, if you're meaning prop 19, then I'm a 100% yes person. A law like prop 19, applied nationally, will decimate the cartels and eliminate their presence in this country. While prop 19 could've led the way to eliminating drug dealers from our neighborhoods, its defeat has left taxpayers like me funding a $40 billion prohibition that gives us nothing back in return but drug dealers, crime and LESS security. It was a close thing though - prop 19 only needed 4% more support to pass, and nationally support for legalizing marijuana stands at 46% in favor, 50% opposed. Legalization *is* coming and its benefits to non-smokers will be a great relief after so many years of failed prohibition. It doesn't matter if marijuana's used medicinally by patients or recreationally as a substitute for alcohol, legalizing its sale in supermarkets and pharmacies will make us *all* safer!— May 11, 2011 4:10 p.m.
California Cannabis Coalition Seeks to Eliminate Ordinances
I like your idea Ernst. As a non-smoker, anything that hurts the drug dealers' profits is good for our communities and good for our children. Now what can we do to change federal law? After all, this is a democracy, not a dictatorship. If the people want the marijuana laws reformed then the marijuana laws should be reformed.— May 10, 2011 10:20 p.m.
California Cannabis Coalition Seeks to Eliminate Ordinances
This issue is of far more importance for us people who don't use marijuana than it is to those that do. While marijuana users want an end to the discrimination and the freedom to put into their bodies a substance that's been described as "safer than water", for us this is our chance to rid our neighborhoods of drug dealers and to guarantee that our children will have no more chance of being offered marijuana than what they have of being offered alcohol today. The federal marijuana prohibition costs us $40 billion a year, is directly responsible for the murder of 38,000 people in Mexico in the last five years, and brings drug dealers into our neighborhoods selling their stinking weed to our children. And worst of all, it doesn't even stop kids from smoking marijuana! We are not murderers and we are not stupid! We CANNOT support a policy that benefits nobody while causing the horrific murder of thousands of innocent people every year! We must legalize adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies, at prices too low for criminals to match, for exactly the same reason that we have legalized alcohol and tobacco sales - to drive unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. Marijuana must be made legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold.— May 10, 2011 3:04 p.m.