I think it should be decriminalized and medical marijuana should be readily available for anyone that needs it. Prescription narcotics are responsible for more deaths right now than any other drug and they just keep pushing them. It's an epidemic, everyone and their grandma is addicted to the pills. But God fobid someone smokes a joint that has no recorded deaths
I agree 100% - although I don't understand your last sentence, although I think I can guess what you mean.
Weed sponsors serious crime, and allowing people to grow it wipes this element out entirely.
According to some research I read recently, most home-grown weed is victimless, although the courts take
a different stance and say society is the victim by having a drug-cultivator within its midst.
For the life of me, I cannot understand why the lawmakers are dragging their feet on this issue,
and I've done a lot of reading in this area. It genuinely puzzles me why this anachronism exists today.
I have a number of disabled friends who would benefit from cannabis, their doctors have told them so,
but they don't want to break the law so they suffer their pain and side-effects from the prescribed drugs
(which is far worse than cannabis could ever be).
All I know is that when I have approached weed fora to see if I could secure enough votes as a single-issue
candidate, they were more interested in in-fighting than realising they were all on the same side. In the
end I told them no wonder the police and anti-cannabis brigade were laughing at them, they were too busy
fighting themselves. In the end I had to consider it wasn't worth my while to make a stand.
(08-16-2010, 04:39 PM)God Wrote: I agree 100% - although I don't understand your last sentence, although I think I can guess what you mean.
Yeah I went back to edit that sentence and my electricity went out :ranting:. Anyway, I meant that there are no recorded deaths from the use of marijuana and that says a lot considering it's been used for thousands of years.
the problem lies in the enforcement of laws that are still on the books...you cannot distinguish between the 'criminal' and the surfer if both are indulging in criminal behavior. you cannot choose who to arrest/prosecute. (or not). that is up to the judge, and also the legislature.
Utter bollox LC, it is up to the voter. Plain and simple.
(Cops also turn a blind eye to what they want)
Sally - yeah, that's what I thought you meant!
Leccy went out? What happened? Your kid stopped turning the dynamo on the push-bike?
e2a:
There's yet another high-profile govt adviser - (there's been a raft of them lately)
Prof Gilmore saying Drugs should be decriminalised - the war on drugs is not working
and to treat addiction as a health issue.
i thought that is what i implied...that the laws have to be changed by legislation/voters.
and if the law is still on the books, you cannot blame the cop who has to enforce it.
only the courts can set precedent.
is this topic about medical (prescribed) use/Rx or recreational/'criminal' use? it seems to have them both lumped together.
Sorry, LC, I apologise. Some days I need a brick across my head to get the implied bit!
Feel free any day to tell me I'm a thick twat! If you don't, I'm sure the other Mocker's will! lol!
Heck, I'm even starting to like Dick's Boi-ish humour! (Look, Dick, No Hat Humour! Ah..Fuck!)
(08-16-2010, 02:13 PM)God Wrote: Cannabis, weed, ganja, bud, sticky, crystals, trichs, canna, MJ, Mary-Jane -
whatever you know it by, whad'dya reckon to the old green stuff?
Medical, Good? Victimless Crime? It's all bad, lock 'em up!
What's your thoughts on the stuff God gave us,
that has caused no direct deaths unlike man-ufactured tobacco and alcohol?
Light up a spliffy, or not, and tell us what you think!
If you read about the wonders of hemp as everything from a superfood to super products, you quickly see what a shame it is that America isn't creating tons of jobs and being the top producer and exporter of hemp products. If you read about the history of hemp and the political corruption at the root of its demotion, and which companies were behind it (like Dow Chemical), you see why all the hemp products went away and how it is now illegal to grow hemp.
I get what you say MF and I'll be sure to look into it.
fwiw, it's not illegal to grow hemp (rudalis?) but it is illegal to grow sativa and indica -
the difference being the amount of trichromes each produces rud=less than 0.5% ; the others around 10-20%
If you go to Vermont hemp grows on the side of the highway. If you go to Georgia mushrooms grow all over. I guess it is all about being an observant hitchhiker.
"If you go to Vermont hemp grows on the side of the highway. If you go to Georgia mushrooms grow all over. I guess it is all about being an observant hitchhiker."
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And, if you go to L.A. you can buy a bag of oranges for $3. from any street vendor.
