• Twylarants said on Feb 01, 2008....

  You tell 'em Len.

• quietone said on Feb 01, 2008....

  Lbno, You know what.....I pretty much agree!

• GracefullyGrowing said on Feb 01, 2008....

  Hear! Hear! 
   
  At the VERY least, it needs to be legalized for medicinal purposes, as it is in some of the Western states.  The Feds need to spend their time on real criminals.  I think alcohol is MUCH more dangerous and detrimental to our society. 
   
  Of course, when Marijuana is *abused* (as in, smoking all day every day, making one a burden on family and society) that's a bad thing.  I know some pot heads that just need to get a life.  But, I also know some alcoholics who need to just go away and kill themselves slowly all alone instead of ruining the lives of their families too.  Then, the prescription drug users I knnow who abuse those situations are no peaches either.  Anything, when abused, loses it's qualities.
   
  ~Grace~

• GracefullyGrowing said on Feb 01, 2008....

  Humm - I wanted to clarify . . . when I say ...."go away and kill themselves slowly"....I mean alcoholics are killing themselves with alcohol, I didn't mean they should go commit suicide. 
   
  (Thanks for pointing that out to me, G.)
   
  ~Grace~

• Lucytorial said on Feb 01, 2008....

  gee glad you clarified that one grace (LOL)
  
  nothing wrong with a little toke for medicinal reasons... ahem.. medicinal!
  

• satyr said on Feb 01, 2008....

  As one who spent many an evening stoned, I couldn't agree more.  The media is one of the reasons there hasn't been a serious attempt to legalize it.  Condoning pot smoking is taboo in political circles.  Maybe it's about time the potheads and us former potheads stand up and be counted.  Marijuana was commonly accepted before the DuPonts and Hearsts decided to declare war on it. 

• lfbno7 said on Feb 01, 2008....

  "Today's illegal drugs were patent medicines in the 19th century. Morphine and opium were freely available in both Europe and America. Victorian babies were quietened with Godfrey's Cordial, which contained opium. Cocaine was the basis of remedies for the common cold. When Atlanta prohibited alcohol, John Pemberton, producer of a health drink called French Wine Coca, developed a version that was non-alcoholic but still contained traces of coca, thereby creating the world's best-selling soft drink. As for marijuana, Queen Victoria reputedly used it to soothe the royal period pains.
  
  Far from opposing the drugs trade, the British and the Americans notoriously promoted it in the 19th century. In 1800 China's imperial government forbade the import of opium, which had long been used to stop diarrhoea, but had latterly graduated to recreational use. British merchants smuggled opium into China to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. When the Chinese authorities confiscated a vast amount of the stuff, the British sent in gunboats, backed by France, Russia and America, and bullied China into legalising opium imports."

• cotteralladams3 said on Feb 01, 2008....

  For marijuana, no.  It has its risks but some people smoke occasionally or use it as a relaxant for insomnia, pain, fibromyalgia and other illnesses.  No point in arresting a guy with hepatitis or cancer for using it.  It may have some future uses as a painkiller.  If it were legal it could be taxed and the money could go towards the cost of health care.  It would be purer and less desirable because of the 'illegal appeal' of pot.
  
  Mind you, I don't smoke it or drink beer.  I do enjoy wine, liqueurs and cider regularly, and hard liquor on occasion.
  

• JadeLondon said on Feb 02, 2008....

  I second...no, sixth, that notion! I've never heard of marijuana poisoning--have you? :)

• Suddenrain said on Feb 02, 2008....

  I agree and also agree with Grace.

• lfbno7 said on Feb 02, 2008....

  And yet, marijuana legalization isn't even on the table in Washington. All across the political spectrum, left and right, people of good sense and good conscience think it is wrong to put a poor shnook in prison for smoking a joint if he doesn't have any money for a good lawyer. I see no poetic justice in taking Joe Shmo, after he sells $20 of grass to his college buddy, and sticking him in a jail to get bullied and raped by lunatics. Who is that helping, besides the rapists and bullies?
  
  There are many things we disapprove of. We disapprove of girls who are too promiscuous, but we don't jail them. Disapproval and jail time are two different things, and it is also very expensive to imprison these poor Shmos. I think that is the bottom line, on the other side of the fence. Those in charge want to imprison these shmos BECAUSE it is expensive to house and feed them in jail. Money is changing hands. Taxpayer money. It's just another ripoff of taxpayer money, along with being an extremely misguided and horribly immoral way of kissing up to the hypocritical goody goodies of this country who have all done a lot worse in their lives than smoke a joint.

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