...what more can I say?

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All those prosecutors and counselors and narco police with nice salaries would lose business.

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Please stop the destruction of our youth.

With my Girl Scouts, Pleasant Hill Association, I spent the night in a prison. In a national park, the island of Alcatraz.

We had a wonderful time but I couldn't help but think of all the people in prison on pot charges, that is my church we are talking about. So I became a missionary. My church is the THC Ministry.

I want you to free my people. I blog at AlterNet.

Sister Lauren
THC Ministry

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More people suffer.
And Obama laughs while belittling those on the internet for their valid questions about the legalization of marijuana.
Change? Not!
So, how much is a ticket to Amsterdam????

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Glenn Greenwald, Jay Rosen, and Bill Moyers discuss the corruption and failure of the DC media

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More About Obama's Ditchweed-Level Response to That Marijuana Question

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Should Medical Marijuana be Federally Legalized?

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an agency that needs to be reeled in and read the riot act by their Commander in Chief.

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All you newbies growing outside, START YOUR SEEDS TODAY OR TOMORROW, THE MOON IS IN TARUS AND IT IS NECESSARY TO PLANT NOW IN ORDER FOR YOU TO DETERMINE THEIR SEX BY THE MIDDLE OF MAY!
May the Creator bless your efforts and give forth a beautiful garden of goodness for the soul.
Aho
mk

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The new president must stomp on these rogue agents and agencies. He can't let them get away with any more insubordination. They don't make policy he does. They simply follow whatever policy decisions he and the justice department make, nothing more. If these out of control agents are not brought to heel and soon, the whole government structure will break down.

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Jim Webb: Pot Legalization Could Be Part Of Criminal Justice Overhaul

Quoting the story, Webb expects a "pretty broad range of legislative priorities to come out of it." The report would cover "not just incarceration but the entire panorama of criminal justice."

I don't see why we have to wait 18 months to realize pot should not be illegal. Any idiot should be able to figure that out in 18 minutes.

The story also mentions that when Webb gets an idea, the other politicians listen. He might make a serious challenger as a new party presidential candidate if we all get disgusted with Obama and the Democrats.

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Marijuana: It’s Time for a Conversation

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Obama lied...plain and simple

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I think it is relevant to this discussion:

"PaulMagillSmith wrote:
Let's put a few numbers to this discussion:

About 800,000 Americans will be arrested on a pot charge this year,

Since Nixon declared his "War On Drugs" over 37 million have been arrested for non-violent drug charges,

Over 2.2 million Americans are incarcerated at this moment, and about 25% on pot related charges,

Over $1 trillion of taxpayer money has been wasted on a failed effort,

Thousands die in America yearly from alcohol overdose, yet there are valid claims not ONE person died from pot overdose in America last year,

Americans spend over $100 billion yearly on illegal drugs, most of it going south of the US border,

Over 7,000 people have been killed since January 2008 in wars with the drug cartels along the Mexico/US border,

The drug cartels get about 75% of their income from smuggling pot to the US; legalize pot in the US, and you kick the financial legs from under the drug cartels,

Over $70 billion yearly is spent on the means & processes necessary to incarcerate Americans,

Millions of Americans are denied the right to vote due to prior pot charges, giving the most knowledgeable people on the subject of drug & pot use no voice in the discussion,

Latest estimates are it takes about $40,000 per year to keep someone incarcerated, strict out of jail supervision costs much less.

With 4.6% of the world's population, America today has 22.5% of the worlds prisoners.

For more info check www.askLEAP.org

LEAP is 'Law Enforcement Against Prohibition', an organization of police, prosecutors, judges, legislators, & legal scholars who have recognized the insanity of the "War On Drugs".
3/28/2009 5:17:27 PM"

About 40 years ago I heard the Chambers Brothers sing a song, "Time Has Come Today". It is criminal that 'today' means 40 years later.

Legalization is a non-issue except for those who financially gain from prohibition, errant political ideology, or radical fundamentalist faux moralist dogma. Neil Young's lyric, "Should have been done long ago", seems very appropriate here.

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grass make you homo..google it and see...www.henrybook.com

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1 out of 100 Americans is incarcerated, largely because of drug prohibition.
Tell Obama and your elected representatives that marijuana should be legalized and taxed, like alcohol.

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Though I admire and respect Obama and despite the fact that I understand the reasons why he would play down a divisive issue like “immoral” drug use, I believe that he should be held responsible to use the same meaningful insight and common sense honesty to issues surrounding America’s drug war. When Obama was elected he chose to highlight the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln during his inauguration. Lincoln lead the country through one of its most difficult and divisive times. The civil war is remarkable because it pitted brother against brother and displayed to history the inhumane brutality that we as Americans are capable of inflicting on one another when fall on opposing sides of a powerful ideology. There are many similarities between the war on drugs and that civil war of old. With the war on drugs American is once again pitted against American in battle wrought with bloodshed and human suffering. It is time we as Americans exercise our collective control of government and write, email or call a representative and make the drug war an issue to be dealt with now rather than a lingering pain to be laughed off and prolonged until…….
SunflowerPipes.com

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This is government terrorism. Tyranny at the level, that it's time for our right to bear arms to be put to task. Our forefathers gave us the right, and the DUTY to remove a tyrannous government, by force if necessary, this is still our country, the government works for us, they have given themselves too much control over us, it's time we take it back god damn it. But we've turned into a country of pussy's. And we deserve what we get.

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There are many pros and cons to the use of medical marijuana. One of the positive uses of pot is in medical purposes. Marijuana may help people who have serious medical ailments with pain management. An example is the presence of marijuana clubs that cater to patients using medical marijuana for treatment. For more on this topic visit http://medicalpot.com . Most importantly pot is known to help reduce cell growth in cancer patients.

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I personally am leaning towards the legalization of marijuana/cannabis. A huge debate over whether the we should legalize pot is raging in states all over the world. Many people think pot should be legalized. There are many pros for legalizing pot, and many cons against legal pot as well. An interesting site I have found on this subject is http://LegalPot.com.

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Medical Marijuana legalization does not go far enough. As a criminal defense attorney in California I see the deep resistance our Judges have to medical marijuana use. Recently, a woman lost custody of her 2 year old daughter because her boyfriend had a medical Marijuana card issued under our 1996 Compassionate Use Initiative. Despite proof that the mother did not use any drugs (a negative drug test taken the mother) she lost custody because police kicked down her front door on the tip of her boyfriend's jealous ex wife. The only crime committed was destruction of property by the police. Police took several thousand dollars in cash and arrested them both. No charges have been filed.
The Judge said she lost custody because she wasn't remorseful enough for the "bust". Implicitly, she found that the mother could not provide a safe environment for the child.
I argued that the evil was not her boyfriend's possession of what was for him a legal substance, but the violence of the police drug enforcement method. The Judge concluded that her visits needed to be supervised indefinitely.
The Judge made her decision based on an Internet newspaper article about the “bust”. I objected to it as inadmissible hearsay evidence the court could not legally consider. She instead relied on the court mediator’s opinion, which DID consider the article (and other hearsay).
Prejudice is hard to wash from the minds of even our most educated, intelligent professionals, but legalization would go far in doing so.
Marijuana is merely another medication, illegal if not prescribed, legal if prescribed by a doctor.
We must legalize and tax Marijuana, subject to law and taxation.

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