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Assemblyman Tom Ammiano discusses his legislation to legalize pot./AP
Advocates of legalizing marijuana are having a great week in California.
First, San Francisco's Tom Ammiano initiated a bill to legalize pot use in the state, and tax it at about “a buck a joint,” one report claimed.
Today came word that newly installed U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would stop the practice established by the Bush administration of raiding legally licensed medical marijuana dispensaries.
The Drug Enforcement Agency will now cease the raids that have continued, according to reports, even after Bush left office. Holder said Obama’s campaign promise to stop the raids is “now American policy.”
San Francisco has about two dozen such clubs, and has often been targeted by the feds. The city recently passed legislation to regulate the businesses more effectively.
“Holder's declaration is a high point for the movement to legalize medical marijuana, which has been growing for decades despite federal hostility,” a report in the Huffington Post stated.
And this line from their story is just to good to pass up: “Patriotic potheads love to point out that cannabis was grown at Jamestown, that George Washington might have used hashish, and that Thomas Jefferson wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence on hemp-fiber paper,”
Read the rest of the report for all you ever wanted to know, and a lot you probably didn’t on the push to legalize marijuana.
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Comments
Legalize it for 21 and older, regulate distribution, register customers, and tax the hell out of them. SWEET
Its gonna be the saving grace of babylon...That along with a health care system that works...and making our public schools look more like the private ones that anyone who is lucky/wealthy enough to send their kids to.
Reality is that Western Europe has been doing it right in many social ways...So when I hear some hick red-neck bash on their way of life I want to flip...
The spirit of freedom should let us smoke dope!
Hell, I'd even say let the hoe's do their thing too...
No law has ever stopped it...so regulate it you morons!
I agree push to legalize marijuana
let me know, I will vote yes to
legalize marijuana.......
21? No way 18+ should be the right age. I want some too. LOL
Legalize Freedom!!
Marijuana should be legalized.
1. It is not as harmful as other legal substances like tobacco or alcohol. FFS aspirin is a more dangerous drug than marijuana. 435,000 people died from tobacco in 2000. 85,000 people died from alcohol in 2000. 0 people died from marijuana in 2000. Also inhaling tobacco into your lungs destroys the whole lung making it not repairable, but when you inhale marijuana into your lungs it only hurts the inner tissue of the lungs that is repairable. . Why should these substances be legal if marijuana a less harmful drug isn’t?
2. People say marijuana is the gateway drug to other drugs. I personally don’t believe in that theory but if marijuana is legalized you aren’t going to have to go a drug dealers house who most likely sell other drugs like cocaine and heroin. You never think your going to try those drugs till you get an offer from a dealer.
3. Legalizing marijuana will make it harder for minors to get. Alcohol is much harder for children to get because for marijuana it is just a walk down the street to pick it up.
4. When alcohol was prohibited the crime rate when way up. If marijuana is legalized the crime rate will drop as well. Less drug wars, people wouldn’t have to steal goods and sale them for their marijuana money if marijuana is cut down to 50 dollars an ounce.
5. Before you turn twenty-one and you can’t drink. There is way more bench drinking because people think its “cool” to break the law. Facts show that after turning twenty-one drinking is more controlled because it is no longer “cool” because it isn’t illegal. Do the same with weed.
6. Legalizing marijuana would put criminals our of their jobs and take away their profit.
7. If legalized billions of dollars would be made a year to help our poor economy and open thousands of new jobs.
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