The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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Go to the LEAP site ( cops that want weed legal, something about they have better things to do) they have a cost clock and the cost is much higher that the FEDs want people to know about from the studies I have seen the total cost is more like 100 billion a year every year.. Which is not the point to me the fact we are putting good Americans in jail for our leaders greed is my problem. read there stories at http://www.november.org /
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It is a Myth That Small Time Marijuana Users are Crowding our Prisons
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Drug Policy Consultant
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One it one too many
This illegal war on our rights paid for with our tax money is wrong. I feel our country owes everyone put in jail and there property stolen should be paid reparation and released. This war started to enslave Blacks and Hispanic now our leaders are addicted to the 100 billion spent every year to jail Americans being Americans..
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 18, 2008 7:32AM
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Prisons
What about the fact that the private prison industry is flourishing here in the great Incarceration States of America. Why is it that a drug offender gets more time than many violent crimes? Why is it that most of the statistics on drug offenders in prison are actually skewed because of pleas or 'deals'?
This should be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal issue.
- tRANIS
March 8, 2009 8:50AM
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Think of this
When those 'few' marijuana smokers are sent to jail they come out trying to live a normal life again, but because they have records people think that they are much worse than they actually are. So because of this they are sometimes forced to do things that they dont want to, maybe they'll start doing harder drugs, and who knows what else my point is that because of these laws, the prison systems makes good people into bad people.
- ShiverYaTimbers
April 1, 2009 1:03PM
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the truth
That entire article is complete propaganda that would make harry j. anslinger smile in his grave. The author says people in prison for possesion only spend a miniscule amount of time in there at 33 months. so thats just shy of 3 years of thier life. thats a long time to me. Where i'm from you spend a night in jail for possesion. there isn't any tickets here. i have two possesion charges and the next one i get will send me off to prison. But remember thats only a miniscule amount of time so i shouldn't worry about it.
No man has the right to take my life away for something god created.
- darkhorror
July 1, 2009 8:11AM
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stats
47.4 percent of US prisoners are there for drug possession, not sale. That amounts to 650,000 Americans in jail RIGHT NOW for possession of drugs not large enough to be determined sale amounts. When you consider that a couple of ounces of marajuana is sale weight it becomes clear the stats are not on your side... Your statistics are provided by people that PROFIT from keeping Americans in jail. How can you trust someone whose job depends on those statistics?
- gavcoo July 28, 2009 3:23AM
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"Criminals"
That's what the United States government considers marijuana users, which labels normal citizens who wouldn't think to ever commit a heinous crime and changes their lives forever. What danger does marijuana represent, besides a scary name? There simply is no rational reason as for why marijuana, a completely harmless substance, remains illegal while alcohol and cigarette continue to kill thousands. They say that there is no proven medical use for marijuana, so what, alcohol and tobacco have medical use? Aren't they considered drugs , too? When in reality marijuana is beneficial, however the ultra-conservatives swat away this argument because Reefer Madness is the truth to them, I suppose.
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