Marijuana

[dabaldone]

Well like a poster said earlier, cannabis is not a drug. Everyone needs to stop saying "marijuana", that is a stolen word used in the propaganda campaigns to make, and keep the plant illegal. The definition of the word drug does not apply to cannabis. Are apples drugs? Worms drugs? Oak trees drugs? Would someone look at you like an idiot if you called honey, a drug that should be illegal? Yes. Drugs are substances formed in a chemical reaction that undergoes heat. You know, like alcohol.

This is what I tell the uneducated all the time. It is NOT a drug. No matter what you have been conditioned to believe!

[gaysian71]

God damn, I love this feeling.

[Ananke]

if it grows in the ground in your backyard then it's not a drug. Is a tomato a drug? Alcohol fits the description of a drug. It's completely processed. Cigarettes have so much crap in them they are def a drug. Raw tobacco no.

Definition: a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body
Nothing to do where it grows or where it comes from. Duh!
So alcohol, tobacco (raw or not), even coffee have to be called drugs

[Ben]

I think we're going to lose a generation to marijuana. Much like we lost a generation to drugs and liberalism, we will lose a generation to the legalization of marijuana. You can't deprive the stupid of their stupidity.

I truly feel sorry for drug users. For whatever reason, pot makes them feel better than they usually feel. Can you imagine that? You need an elective drug to feel good? The only question is; Why can't you be happy in the skin you are already in?

I don't smoke pot. But it's the sensible and rational approach to take. Treat it as a health issue. That includes all drugs. I mean, as Ron Paul pointed out: we don't throw alcoholics in prison... unless, of course, they harm someone else.
Anyway, drugs, all drugs, are a health matter. And should be treated as such. It's a benevolent and sensible approach.
This "tough love" approach to drugs is a failure.... So the focus should be on education, treatment and prevention.
I mean, sugar is a drug. Do we throw people in prison for drinking Coca-Cola? No. What about nicotine? Probably the most harmful drug of all. Do we throw people in the slammer for smoking cigarettes? No.

CNN Poll: Support for legal marijuana soaring:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...juana-soaring/

[goatman]

Well like a poster said earlier, cannabis is not a drug. Everyone needs to stop saying "marijuana", that is a stolen word used in the propaganda campaigns to make, and keep the plant illegal. The definition of the word drug does not apply to cannabis. Are apples drugs? Worms drugs? Oak trees drugs? Would someone look at you like an idiot if you called honey, a drug that should be illegal? Yes. Drugs are substances formed in a chemical reaction that undergoes heat. You know, like alcohol.

Everybody read ReeferMadness: Sex, Drugs, & Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser [2003]...Prett much sums up the history of Pot Prohibition in America(see I didn't use the "M" word)...The term "marijuana" was conveniently appropriated by people like Harry Anslinger(father of the DEA) & William Randolph Hearst(Mr. "Yellow Journalism") who had an axe to grind against Mexican immigrants...(Hearst probably also had considerable interests in the wood pulp based paper industry--via the DuPonts--& probably view hemp as a threat.)

(Later chapters also examine illegal immigration & the porn biz.)

[Ben]

[Dino Velvet]

The worst junkies on the Westside are the zombie housewives you see at Whole Foods who get their hooch from their head shrinker. If one ate their baby in front of me I wouldn't blink an eye.

[Ben]

Smoking has killed 20 million Americans prematurely since 1964. But we've a sensible approach: focus on prevention, treatment and most of all: education...



And the great comedian Bill Hicks:

[Tiffany Anne]

William Randolph Hearst(Mr. "Yellow Journalism") who had an axe to grind against Mexican immigrants...(Hearst probably also had considerable interests in the wood pulp based paper industry--via the DuPonts--& probably view hemp as a threat.)

Most definitely. As did DuPont view hemp as a threat to nylon....

Hearst's actions are some of my favorite conspiracy/corruption bits in American history. He'd have his papers print editorials about the "dangers of marijuana", then he'd have his bought congressmen read the editorials on the floor of congress--thereby entering them into the congressional record, and then Hearst's journalists would report about the congressional record.