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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I'm baffled by the government's need to waste resources making criminals out of pot smokers, then point the figure at the pot. It's the game of politics I guess. Shrug off the blame for your own failures, and blame it on something out of your control, then blindly continue making the same wasteful mistakes. The public is catching on though. In the day of the Internet Age, it's allot more difficult to hide the facts. Don't be discouraged though. Our government, even with all it's problems, eventually has to wake up. It's going to take the people though, and that means contacting your congressional reps and lobbying them for support of ending the causalties that our current Marijuana drug policy produces. Take action, do your part. It takes every little brick to build a skyscraper. Be a brick.
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There are Ways To Make Current Policy Better
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Special Advisor for Policy, ONDCP
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[Draconian] Ways to Improve the Current Policy
Dr. Kevin Sabet - your posts border offensive. Your article "There Are Ways to Make Current Policy Better" suggests that the current policy is not invasive enough! Your 2nd paragraph says the most important thing we need to do is get better pricing and purity data on pot. Why is that "first and foremost"?
Your 3rd paragraph suggests racial profiling. You go a step even further and say, I quote, "In what aspects of society can we target those most at risk for marijuana use?"
Your 5th paragraph lays the framework for something truly sick. You suggest physicians should screen patients for drugs, and then provide 1 time "interventions"! You go further by suggesting more intrusive workplace and school drug testing.
In closing, you ingorantly suggest that legalization sigals that it's "ok". Last time I checked, bonfires are dangerous, but nevertheless, legal. People respect fire, and they respect the dangers of Marijuana. You are right about one thing - education is the key
- Asemili
August 5, 2008 1:46PM
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Stop the propaganda
I think that marijuana should be legalized in the US. The reasons are myriad and have been thoroughly addressed here. All I can say, is that as a former alcoholic, I KNOW marijuana is harmless in comparison. Furthermore, I think we should outlaw alcohol again, since we found that prohibition worked so well in the organized crime-ridden 1920's. Hell, let's just burn the Constitution too. I find that most anti-marijuana proponents argue with infinitesimal logic and a dearth of morality, which they want to impose on those who disagree with them. THAT, my friends is the true EVIL. As a former psychological operations soldier, I know a thing or two about propaganda. That's what drug warriors use, because they have no logic to back up what they argue. Stop the lies. Stop the propaganda. STOP THE DRUG WAR!!!
- PSYOP
August 5, 2008 9:02PM
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Education???
You state the following:
"Education should be a chief component of any anti-marijuana effort. I do not just mean educating young people (that is obvious), but also the medical and community health clinic community which is shockingly ignorant of the true dangers of occasional and heavy use of marijuana."
How do you intend to educate the medical community about the dangers of a drug when your beloved policy won't even allow scientific studies on the drug?
Also, every legitimate scientific study done in other countries shows that the dangers are minimal... far less than any legally prescribed drug, which must, by definition, have an ld50 (lethal dose 50%).
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January 25, 2009 7:24PM
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