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I'm looking for fellow 420 activists...
Posted by exileguy • 3/04/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: 420, hemp, legalization, Marijuana
I'm looking for fellow 420 activists to trade our blog links and maybe share or jointly (no pun intended) create some new content. I am very serious about marijuana legalization, especially regarding medical marijuana, and hope to find some like-minded people.
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Why are you very serious about it? -
Good question. I think it is unfair to punish people who are seriously ill for using a medication that is unreasonably proscribed by the law. Cancer patients should not be treated as criminals for using a natural medication to relieve the ugly side affects of their treatments. The laws are arcane and need to be changed. People who are terminally ill should find no hindrances in seeking to make life a little bit easier.
Thanks for asking.
How do you feel about this?
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I agree generally with regard to medical marijuana, but understand that legalization for that purpose alone creates a complex web of administration and can understand why it's a can of worms that some are reluctant to open. Beyond the medical issue, I don't have strong feelings one way or the other about legalization. I'm somewhat troubled by the fact that there is no test to determine whether or not a person is presently under the influence, which would make it difficult to address issues like operating a vehicle or industrial equipment under the influence if marijuana were legal. The bottom line at the moment, though, is that the issue really needs to just get in line. With tens of millions of Americans lacking ANY access to medical care, a projected 8 million foreclosures in the next couple of years and Americans killing and dying in Iraq every day, I just can't imagine how anyone could have very strong feelings about whether or not it's legal to get high.
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No gratuitous link dropping here: www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/no-link-dropping-at-the-end-of-posts-in-d...
And no link exchanges: www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/read-before-posting-1
You run the risk of your posts being deleted, if you ignore this advice. -
You can find some members who share your concerns including NORML at the below link...
www.blogcatalog.com/group/marijuanahemp
re: Marijuana legalisation
There is no doubt that Marijuana is a health hazard…Some people would argue that Mcdonalds type fast food,junk food snacks, candy etc. are perhaps even greater health hazards…Cigarrettes and alcohol are also known health hazards..
What would be the downside of legalizing Marijuana ?….More Usage and increased physical/mental health problems…Perhaps even greater driving and work “impairedment” problems….
There is very little evidence if any that supports any arguments that allowing marijuana use would increase criminal or behaviour that would hurt society..
Some benefits of allowing marijuana use include using the other parts of the plant for the manufacture of pulp products we currently chop down the planet’s forests for..
By legalizing marijuana do you mean a citizen could legally grow marijuana in his home(w/electrical permit etc.) or yard and smoke what he/she grows himself ?
Or do you mean you could smoke marijuana but only buy it from government authorized agencies at government set prices and failure to so would result in criminal charges ?-
If I had to say anything treating it more like alcohol would be the most appropriate. Not allowing smoking and driving and a thc limit, permits to produce, sell, etc. If this is to be legalized I think following the example of alcohol would be the most successful path. -
Liberty, the problem with that is that we have a test that determines whether or not someone is under the influence of alcohol. There is no such test for marijuana.
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There are field tests and urine tests that can prove you are under the influence.
Retinal examinations, and field sobriety tests can help determine if someone is on the influence of something, and further investigation (urine sample downtown?) can tell you exactly what "it" is.
It's not perfect - but with time, science, and a need for it I'm sure a more concrete test can be come up with. -
Marijuana usage as a prescribed drug would be great. The side effects are lesser, it reduces nausea and discomfort caused by pain.
As for personal use, how many people pop pills and drink just a little too much for apparent relaxation purposes?
Alcohol kills, without it we wouldn't have MADD, we wouldn't have fetal alcohol syndrome. To legalize one crappy Drug "alcohol" and demonize another is rather idiotic. Let those who want to be stoned, get stoned. From visual experience they'll be watching infomercials and eating all the cheetos at the mini mart. Maybe even buying up all the zig zags... -
Field sobriety tests are useful, yes--but with a high margin for error and degree of subjectivity, not to mention inadequate training in most jurisdictions, any mediocre criminal defense attorney could create reasonable doubt in a case reliant on such tests alone. And there is no urine test that determines whether or not one is under the influence of marijuana--only whether or not one has used marijuana within, roughly, the past thirty days. At least one state (Michigan) has resolved this by making it a crime to operate a motor vehicle with 11-carboxy-THC in one's system. That's a bit awkward for marijuana users, since they have no way of knowing when that substance is out of their systems, but it generally lasts for days or weeks beyond the actual influence of the drug.
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" it is unfair to punish people who are seriously ill for using a medication that is unreasonably proscribed by the law. Cancer patients should not be treated as criminals for using a natural medication to relieve the ugly side affects of their treatments. The laws are arcane and need to be changed. People who are terminally ill should find no hindrances in seeking to make life a little bit easier."
Agreed.
"If I had to say anything treating it more like alcohol would be the most appropriate. Not allowing smoking and driving and a thc limit, permits to produce, sell, etc. If this is to be legalized I think following the example of alcohol would be the most successful path."
Agreed. Alchohol is more of a danger to society than marijuana IMO.
Much money could be saved by removing marijuana from the war on drugs equation. Much money could be made by taxing it.
I believe legalization should be a decision of individual states and their voters.-
The thing is, individual states have taken steps to soften the laws regarding marijuana, but the federal law overrides all of these attempts. For example, in California there is a Medical Marijuana Law, which allows folks to grow and possess marijuana for personal use and local law enforcement are required to uphold that law. But Federal agents still make arrests. So the Federal prohibition needs to end. Then the states are free to do what the voters want.
Regulation and taxation are fine with me. The mechanism exists already for alcohol, and changing and adding a few words in a manual is no big deal if the will to do it is there. Laws are amended, and added all of the time. -
The federal prohibition has no place operating within states, anyway--this is (yet another) area that was once reserved to the states and has been hijacked by the federal government.
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Not suprising, from what i've heard Beck is right-libertarian. It's sort of a no-brainer for anyone who wants to cut government spending/intervention. Off subject here, but Glen is one of the few people who I actively think of as white. So much for our post racial world.
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Sign me up. I've done a number of articles about legalizing marijuana on my blog.
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