Marijuana decriminalization advocates consider Cape Girardeau as focal point of campaign efforts

[Knows more than knowitall]

You can't be serious on this shit, if youre really this narrow minded, you need to surrender your ability to reason and be put down.

Legalize it, its benefited plenty of other areas, america could definitely use the helpm

[Ocean One]

FarceFierce wrote:

It makes no sense to have access to legal alcohol consumption in every strip mall, corner store and home and criminalize marijuana. DUI is DUI no matter the substance. Just don't. It's just that simple. There are very few medicinal uses for alcohol (heart disease and red wine?) At least MJ has medicinal uses as well as recreational uses. Locking people up in an overcrowded penal system for one and not the other is the actual crime. Legalize MJ and save the justice system for something that actually requires just be served.

It cost us 49k a year to house a criminal.Legalize marijuana and save us, who knows how much? Save us the billions of dollars it costs us in tasks force to busts these people.

[Knowitall9]

benjamin wrote:

<quoted text>How about everyone who takes a prescription medication surrenders their license. You obviously don't know too much about marijuana and the things you think you know you learned in 1941, I am quite surprised you know how to work a computer!

I started computering in July of '08 - Look how far I've come - Just trying to survive 'til I can retire -
BTW , just got back from Joplin again - And Carthage and Pursell and Alba and Charleston and Cairo -

[anita bonghit]

i'm proof it helps medically. i went thru 1 year of chemo. never lost a pound, no naseua. no hair loss. nothing,

[the minds of many]

wow wish i had time to read all of these there was a report about this in the " golden triangle" part of California were some counties its ok and I have to be honest it makes A lot more since to make it legal than fight it place laws on it and a tax and then this country is out of debt in no time over 65 % of the nation does it already id open a diner and sell stoner food and get loaded rich whos in

[stoneking]

yeah man like I think that like to supplement hot breakfasts at schools w/ a joint for each kiddie--instead of making it illegal to sell pot at schools--let's make it illegal not to be in public schools unless your're stoned--now that would change the world for the better huh--

[TweakersAreRetar ds]

Man I'm excited about this... I've been hoping for this for a couple years now. If you go out to Los Angeles right now it's a miniture Amsterdam. It's awesome. They have the greatest little week strip mall. 3 building right in a row, your doctor to get your RX, then there's the dispensary where you go buy your weed, and then there's the head shop, so you can smoke your stuff in something brand new.

[uranidiot]

TweakersAreRetards wrote:

Man I'm excited about this... I've been hoping for this for a couple years now. If you go out to Los Angeles right now it's a miniture Amsterdam. It's awesome. They have the greatest little week strip mall. 3 building right in a row, your doctor to get your RX, then there's the dispensary where you go buy your weed, and then there's the head shop, so you can smoke your stuff in something brand new.

so you want the states to be like Amsterdam. Well then we must distribute clean needle to all the junkies like in Amsterdam. The real hidden agenda of legal marijuana is desensitize people to other drugs too. Amsterdam is to drugs as Sodom was to perversity. Is that what you really want. Why don't you go drug free for awhile. Let cannabis out of your system--take a drug holiday--& ask yourself why do I need to be stoned. Possibly, like me you will never tak another drug or smoke another joint again. Straight is great!

[Bob Marley]

uranidiot wrote:

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The real hidden agenda of legal marijuana is desensitize people to other drugs too.

So despite the availability of alcohol, and every pharmaceutical product out there that pretty much resemble cocaine, somehow cannabis is the evil slippery slope to legalization of all drugs?

[Professor Oldtimer]

Yes, you are an idiot, uranidiot. Read back up this column about 10 or 20 pages and go to norml.com and follow thier links to to myriad of medical and economic values of ending the prohibition of cannabis sativa.
People like you who spout sh%& about the "thier" hidden agenda and how awful things are in places you don't know sh&* about make me want to urinate on your counterproductive, antisocial, hateful, idiot selves.
Maybe that would help wake you up to the changes we desperately need to make to improve the quality of life and avoid extinction.
Amsterdam is actually a very nice place (for a city) and legalization of pot plus public awareness/action about the addictive drugs has reduced drug use overall.
After over 35 years of responsible use, I have not had a drink or a toke in over a year...I am suffering from diabetes due to prescription drugs pushed on me by "Real" Doctors.
Thanks for the opportunity to testify....get educated, stop being an idiot and get adamant about ending prohibition and exploiting cannabis, outlawing psychotrophics and saving the planet.

[Professor Oldtimer]

BTW straight ain't so great at all...espcially when you are in pain 24/7.

[tag11]

grow baby grow baby grow baby grow.

[Oldtimer]

BTW urinemind, I guess you don't use sugar, aspirin, acetaminophin, ibuprofin, tea, coffee, caffiene of any sort, milk, cream, turkey...or any other drugs RIGHT???? yuk, yuk!!! Every time you lose your temper (and call someone an idiot), you lose something.... Straight really is great isn't it??? Most of the above will kill you much faster than THC and you can overdose on most anything except THC...even water (at least that's the excuse they are using to withold it from patients in "mental abuse centers").
Also BTW...did you realize that they were passing out those needles in many cities around the world in an effort to stem the spread of AIDS???? Not to promote drug use....God bless us one and all...and help you very much.

[Oldtimer]

AND...now that I've paid for your free education with my time, get on the bandwagon and start supporting the legalization and exploitation of cannabis sativa for the immense economic and medicinal values. This along with the outlawing of psychotrophic meds would change our lives so much that we might be able to save the planet - get adamant about all three RIGHT NOW! Y'HEAR? You too Knowitall9!

[Oldtimer]

Make that DEMANDING the legalization and exploitation of CANNABIS SATIVA. Nobody has mentioned lately the jobs and industries that would be created putting those sticks and stems to good use as fuel, paper, cardboard, hardboard, cloth, canvass, etc. etc. etc. and the taxes that would be paid on the all legal jobs and sales involved in all uses. OR the wind that would be knocked out of the criminal world that is using thier ill gotten gains to corrupt every aspect of our lives and government that they possibly can.
Don't just support, DEMAND the changes we desperately need!

[the truth]

Oldtimer I have read your lies, twistings, fabrications, & absolute idiotic statements. It is druggies like you that will continue to fuel a growth industry. The corrections industry. Obviously, THC has peramanently bonded to your receptor sites. I don't truly think you believe the lies you spread. By the way when are you off probation & able to smoke dope again. Just curious.

[the truth]

stoneking wrote:

yeah man like I think that like to supplement hot breakfasts at schools w/ a joint for each kiddie--instead of making it illegal to sell pot at schools--let's make it illegal not to be in public schools unless your're stoned--now that would change the world for the better huh--

I suppose this is what you also think oldstoner er timer. This must have come from a truly THC fouled brain.

[benjamin]

the truth wrote:

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I suppose this is what you also think oldstoner er timer. This must have come from a truly THC fouled brain.

it is people like you, prohibitionist's that can't argue a valid point. What is my point you ask yourself? If you take the time to post your opinion, know what your posting it about. This poor THC fouled brain was being hypocritic and was on your side. You didn't take the time to figure that out because you are so ready to spew rhetoric around.

[LEAP]

Under the current drug prohibition approach, police are forced to endlessly chase and imprison dealers and users. When we take cops off this beat, we need not fear increased violence, crime or drug abuse, because we can apply the protective tools that regulate markets to improve public safety and health.

As we saw in the earlier prohibition of the 1920s and 1930s, much of our street violence stems not from drug use but from the illegal nature of the drug market. In any trade, competitors vie to control markets. Under drug prohibition, rival organizations resort to violence to decide who will triumph in the marketplace. Disputes surrounding quality, delivery, price and credit are not resolved in courts or by arbitration, but at the point of a gun. In legal businesses, valuable inventory can be protected from thieves with legitimate security firms, but in prohibition, only gangsters are hired to provide protection against robbery, embezzlement or fraud. In the illegal market, price and quality information is unreliable. There is no trademark protection, no dependable quality control.

But while today’s prohibition is a failure for much the same reasons as the last one, its consequences are even graver. Whereas alcohol prohibition allowed domestic gangsters like Al Capone to rake in rich profits, today’s illegal market helps fund the efforts of international cartels and terrorist networks like Al Qaeda and the Taliban. After prohibition is repealed, America will be rid of a major source of violence, crime and disorder that plagues every major city and most Indian reservations, counties and municipalities in the United States as well as communities worldwide.

The professionals of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) know from long experience that when we arrest a rapist or robber the number of rapes and robberies in the community diminishes because “we got the guy.” But when we arrest a drug dealer at any level, we simply create a job opening that is quickly filled from the endless ranks of people willing to risk prison or death for the chance of obtaining huge profits.

After spending a trillion tax dollars and making 39 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, drugs are now generally cheaper, more potent and easier for our children to access than they were 40 years ago at the beginning of the “drug war.”

Whenever we attempt to confront our very real drug problems with the brute force of prohibition, we make little progress. The few who have been helped are greatly exceeded by the millions who have been hurt, all while precious resources and opportunities are squandered in the process.

Until prohibition is repealed and drugs are legalized so they can be effectively regulated and controlled, we will have illegal drug money fueling gangs, cartels and terrorists; a deep hole in our public budgets; millions of Americans with criminal records removed from the productive arenas of education and the workplace; lack of respect for the rule of law; vulnerable people afraid to seek help for their addictions…the list is almost endless.

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) is a 15,000-member organization started by police, prosecutors, judges, FBI/DEA agents, corrections officials, military and others who fought on the front lines of the “war on drugs” and who know firsthand that prohibition only worsens drug addiction and drug market violence problems.

Drug Abuse is Bad…The Drug War is Worse!
LAW ENFORCEMENT AGAINST PROHIBITION
Criminal Justice Professionals Speaking Out Against the War on Drugs
www.askleap.org

[the truth]

benjamin wrote:

<quoted text>it is people like you, prohibitionist's that can't argue a valid point. What is my point you ask yourself? If you take the time to post your opinion, know what your posting it about. This poor THC fouled brain was being hypocritic and was on your side. You didn't take the time to figure that out because you are so ready to spew rhetoric around.

So Benjamin you think it is a good idea for for little kiddies in school to all be stoned. Amazing, even if you are for decriminalization of some sort, how anyone would not condemn stoneking for his comments. Maybe his brain was fouled already before intorducing THC into it. Do you think that such language as stoneking's advances the effort of decriminalization of pot. Possibly, you are already getting your kids high.