Remember Prohibition? It Still Doesn’t Work.
According
to government surveys, nearly half the US population has smoked marijuana.
Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America, and has been
used by nearly 100 million Americans.
Tens of millions do so yearly and half do so on a regular basis. Marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the
lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good, hard-working,
productive citizens each year in this country. More than 700,000 Americans were
arrested on marijuana charges last year, and more than 5 million Americans have
been arrested for marijuana offenses in the past decade. Almost 90 percent of
these arrests are for simple possession, not trafficking or sale. This is far more than the total number of
arrestees for all violent crimes combined, including murder, rape, robbery and
aggravated assault. This is a
misapplication of the criminal sanction that invites government into areas of
our private lives that are inappropriate and wastes valuable law enforcement
resources that should be focused on serious and violent crime. Legalization would reduce many of the
problems presently associated with the prohibition of marijuana, including the
crime, corruption and violence associated with a "black market." The
legalization of marijuana would allow for the redistribution of vital resources
needed to address real critical problems facing the nation. As with alcohol consumption, marijuana
smoking can never be an excuse for misconduct or other improper behavior. For
example, driving or operating heavy equipment while impaired from marijuana
should be prohibited.
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This is FASCINATING. The Supreme Court has ruled that police OUTSIDE a building can, if they suspect flushing or other destruction of evidence INSIDE, break and enter without a warrant. If they smell marijuana and then hear a toilet flush, CRASH is kosher.
I've always maintained that if the quantity is so small that it CAN be flushed, police action is stupid. If it's large enough that it CAN'T be flushed, there's time to get a warrant. But I'd much rather see the War on Drugs/privacy/civil liberties ended. We own ourselves, not the government.
Prohibition is what made the '20s roar. With tommy gun fire. No one kills over bootleg whiskey territory anymore.
But they need a certain level of crime and violence to justify each crackdown.
http://www.macon.com/2011/01/12/1407754/case-of-the-wrong-door-opens-at.html
I DON'T EVEN SMOKE MARIJUANA BUT I BELIEVE ONE IT WOULD GET OUR NATION OUT OF TROUBLE. PEOPLE ALREADY BUY IT, TAX IT. GET RICH FAST. SMOKING POT DOESN'T CAUSE ACCIDENTS. DRINKING AND DRIVING KILLS OTHERS AND POSSIBLY YOURSELF. SET AN AGE LIKE CIGARETTS OR AGE 21. IF PEOPLE BUY IT ALREADY ALL AGES TAX IT.
I am tempted tosay not "No!" but "Hell No". Yet: No market, No sales. No sales, no money . No money, why not find something ese to sell.? Could this be the answer in the US for Mexico's cartel wars?
Prohibition will never work,We need to stop this crime in the USA
We as Americans must not put people in office who wants to keep Prohibition.We must vote them out.
The dangers of a police state are vastly greater than the dangers of the most chronic marijuana user. Give a sadistic fascist leaning person a gun and a badge and they will lie under oath and the judges who own stock in Whakenhut and Corrections Corporation of America eat up the lies like candy. Prohibit Tyrannical police state not a natural herb. You cannot deny people the control of their minds and bodies and say the constitution is valid. The illegitimate US government tells us how dangerous marijuana is and then they patent it as a neuro-protectant and anti-oxidant medicine . Government officials making false statements is a criminal. Prohibition is the real crime .
The Netherlands is closing 8 prisons because there isn't enough crime to keep them filled. Our government would have us believe that the " war on drugs " keeps us safe. In my biased opinion, the war on drugs is a waste of resources.
The prison closings had nothing to do with not enough prisoners. According to the Fer'ners Death Panel Exploratory Committee the prisons are being emptied because:
1. They can no longer afford them since they have Gub'ment Nazi Socialized Communist healthcare .
2. They needed the prison space for the "Soylent Green Euthanization and Abortion Center". They did manage to allot a small portion of the space for a daycare.
Americans will never, never, never let prohibition stop them from getting what they want. After all they are free Americans until our leaders put us in jail!! Did not work with liquor will not work with a weed!!
It made certain gangsters rich...compare that with today, who's getting rich while our innocent kids (ones who werent hurting anyone- not even themselves sit in jail): Jails and Prisons get more money from the state because they have more inmates, there are fines so the courthouse can get new computers, and there are court ordered treatment programs where the judge assigns you to a "facility", and that's for the people who are using Marajuana recreationally.....I'm a type 1 Diabetic who's had thousands of seizures, my arms and legs constantly dislocate without warning and I'm in constant pain, my doctor says that the only long term pain medication I can take "safely" is Ibuprofen (without side effects or withdrawls) .....4.5 years ago my general practicioner and my Diabetes doctor gave my kidneys around 5 years of function (ibuprofen damages the kidneys).....People like John Stewart say the american government creates terrorists with our policies, and while the people you and I hired to represent us sit on their hands and do nothing to make the quality of life better for people with disabilities, making us turn to criminals (and by doing so turning us into criminals) to obtain a safe pain medication....meanwhile my doctors tell me everything I know is soon going to change because I was born different....It's difficult for me to sleep:PAIN...It's difficult to be awake:PAIN......I'm 29 years old and I'm taking more medications than my 97 year old grandma....I don't believe in suicide (a cowards way out) ....I dont know if its the pain talking but if I can't live for something maybe I can die for something
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