Could America Benefit From Legalizing Marijuana?
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2012/07/23 18:00:00
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Election time is always the place for strong and sometimes aggressive debates, but there are some topics that candidates fear: abortion, gun control and medicare, for starters. And then there's the topic of legalizing marijuana. Gary Johnson, former governor of New Mexico and Libertarian Party nominee for the 2012 presidential election, believes in legalizing marijuana in America, just like the country did with alcohol to end the prohibition.
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John Galt jr or Ron/jon 2012/07/23 18:48:29Yes
+30ending the 'war on drugs' would create jobs, cut law enforcement costs, raise revenue – and benefit patients.
We will never arrest ourselves out of this problem that we ourselves have created. But we can quite easily solve it and at the same time benefit millions of Americans. Actually, it is Not about generating revenue, and helping our economical problems though it would immensely help with our national debt which is now escalating into the trillions of dollars.
In Reality it is mostly about Health issues. America gets most of its Marijuana (about 70% or more) from Mexico. It is grown outdoors almost entirely and smuggled in from Northern Mexico across our border. Mexican drug cartels and their employees who grow and maintain these huge fields of Marijuana administer to their valuable commodity numerous chemicals such as DDT, Chlordane, Diazinon, Fenthion, some fungisides and Organophosphates to protect them from insects and airborne diseases which have long since been banned for use in the U.S. And if that is not enough we fly missions into Mexico sp...
We will never arrest ourselves out of this problem that we ourselves have created. But we can quite easily solve it and at the same time benefit millions of Americans. Actually, it is Not about generating revenue, and helping our economical problems though it would immensely help with our national debt which is now escalating into the trillions of dollars.
In Reality it is mostly about Health issues. America gets most of its Marijuana (about 70% or more) from Mexico. It is grown outdoors almost entirely and smuggled in from Northern Mexico across our border. Mexican drug cartels and their employees who grow and maintain these huge fields of Marijuana administer to their valuable commodity numerous chemicals such as DDT, Chlordane, Diazinon, Fenthion, some fungisides and Organophosphates to protect them from insects and airborne diseases which have long since been banned for use in the U.S. And if that is not enough we fly missions into Mexico spraying those fields with herbicides (some similar to Agent Orange) or Paraquat which have all been proved to cause very serious lung diseases especially cancers. What the Mexican Cartels do is quickly harvest it before it defoliates, pack into very tight bundles for easier concealment to smuggle. They do this while the plant is still somewhat moist as it compacts better. Other fungus breeds as the Marijuana is stored for smuggling. I would advise people to Not use this product which will appear Brown in color and tightly compacted. Also, read an August article viewed last month on CNN and other networks regarding some of our active agents and their Billion dollar raids on our forest, park and wildlife refuges lands. The governments excuse was that these plants are first Illegal and they are sprayed with harmful chemicals which they claimed was bad for the environment and wildlife.... so folks there you have it as the government admits to it.
I really don't like the word Marijuana which is a slang (Spanish/Mexican) word attached to it like pot, weed, etc., and discredits the natural herb that God put here any intended for it to grow and for our use as depicted in the Bible on several occasions beginning with the first chapter in Genesis 1:29. It is Not dope. It is from the Hemp plant and should be called the cannabis herb. What our Government will HAVE to do, and MUST do is legalize it.....grow it in a safe controlled environment and regulate just like more harmful drugs that are addictive like alcohol and nicotine. The penalties for possession of any drug should never be for damaging to the individual than the drug itself. The US government has had a patent on Marijuana for almost 10 years now and has been growing it in a safe indoor controlled environment in Mississippi. It is among the best product in the world and definitely they know it has many medical benefits. True Story folks!
If you legalize it, you can TAX it!
plus the industrial applications ....revamping the entire paper pulp industry, converting from wood pulp to hemp for papermaking is also a benefit to the environment.
It's simple enough to brew your own beer, and much cheaper
but most prefer to just buy it. Same for tobacco.
I would say the effects of marijuana champagne outstrips beer and just plain pot, from my experience.
thats just for starters
No! You are precisely mistaken! As a street cop with 30+ years experience young people when apprehended with Marijuana say they use it because drug dealers don't card them like they do for alcohol and tobacco products. That is why alcohol and cigarette use is on the down side but Marijuana is much easier for them to obtain. The facts are: there are over 750'000 teens arrested each year for marijuana possession and it is now estimated that over 900,000 high school teens sell and or distribute marijuana in school. The big problem is that dealers are now lacing the marijuana with meth to get our youths addicted to that which is the worse thing we can allow to happen. Marijuana is also Not a gateway to more harmful drugs. The fact that marijuana is illegal means it is sold in the presence of more harmful drugs by drug dealers who also push much more harmful drugs like meth and numerous black market prescription drugs on the marijuana user.
Legalize it, regulate it, and tax it.
Or better yet, leave it to the states.
People get high from pot? So what? They get high from alcohol, too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
From a few people that I talked with on campus, the only reason they use it is because it makes them seem rebelious. So if we make it leagal, some of those people might quit for that one rediculus reason. We need to be catching the people using meth, and other more harmfull drugs, that cause people to die, or xompletely detirierate the body.
With some people, marijuana is harmful to some, and may not effect some people, but thats not our problem, its theirs, we should have to waist law enforcement funding on people like them. Let them be, they can deal with their own problems.
And, yes, I think the US would certainly benefit from its legalization. Besides the psychological and medicinal benefits of pot, I think that a lot of money can be made by legalizing it. Furthermore, legalization would stop people from being stung with unnecessary fines or imprisonment, which has a negative impact on families and the already failing economy.