Me and my cousin wrote a letter to the president today. Check it out and give me your input on it. Mr. President, After doing much looking into the subject of the history of the regulations and enforcement of marijauana, we find that these regulations have been based on and propegated by false information, and propaganda. Since the beginning of the 20th century, lawmakers have been doing their best to devise ways to lure the American public into believing that marijuana is the downfall of society. Many of the claims by these Senators, Congressmen, Presidents, Secretaries of Departments, etc. have made statements that Marijuana "leads to heroin addiction," "causes mental insanity," "violent behavior," "sexual permiscuity," and detrimental effects on health. These statements haven't been sufficiently proven, tested, or justified by any sort of doctor or person with scientific research on the subject. Existing research showed that marijuana does not make a person "go crazy," become violent, or seriously affect a persons personality. The history of laws on marijuana is a very misleading and false collection of propaganda. Harry J. Anslinger was a huge creator of bogus facts and claims about what marijauna does to people. Because of his misleading of the American people, many laws concerning marijuana were passed out of hysteria, and panic. They didn't know the actual truth about it, and the government wasn't about to start doing any research of their own. Over the past century, over one-quarter of a trillion dollars have been spent trying to thwart the marijuana "problem." The proof of its success can be found in the number of Americans who smoke it: an ever-increasing number that hasn't been recessed in its duration. If these laws were to be revoked, lessened, or rethought, this money could be spent elsewhere, such as in the investigation of substancial drug problems, as those presented in Cocaine, Heroin, and a big problem in our state, Methamphetamines. These drugs have caused death, deterioration, destruction, and sorrow among the users, their families, friends, and society. One meth lab can cost as much as $200,000 to destroy the materials for and clean up, making it a very expensive problem as it continues to spread. The benefits of the creation of marijuana aren't very hard to see. Four times as much paper can be created from an acre of the cannabis plant as from trees, thus saving the amount of trees cut down. Hemp is a good fabric in clothing, rope, and thousands of other uses. In closing, we would like to express the interests of most Americans by saying that marijuana is NOT the big problem facing America right now, or ever will. There are plenty of other things for the government to worry about than not even just a few people, but the DEMOGRAPHIC of people, that smoke marijuana regularly, occassionally, socially, or just experimentally. (Most information taken from the Documentary "Grass" by Ron Mann)
Nothing wrong with sending off a letter to the monkeyboy . I'd suggest though checking out some of the sites like NORML and get a few more facts and sources. Doesn't hurt to have current research etc.. with thngs like 'Dr.' attached to it Odds are too that any letter to the prez about the herb will be dumped as soon as it hits the screening process, so maybe beef it up like I said and start shipping em' out to your reps, your mayor, your schoolboard pres, etc... Certainly can't hurt. More exposure, more voice, more better
Yeah, we sent the same to a Senator too. This was just our first draft, and my cousin based most of the facts after watching "Grass."
its nice that you want to get your point across to the president... but fact is.. you're voice is nothing to him.... voice yourself on a lower point..... city majors... state reps.... that way they can voice what the common folk voice... and the president will listen to them... somewhat... seems with bush being president we're gonna get absolutely no where with marijuana prohibition.... because even if the house does vote apon something for marijuana, wether it medical or whatever... bush can still veto it... looks like its gonna be a 3 year struggle before our voices are properly heard
sorry but its rather naive to think that a letter can change something as huge as legalising cannabis plant. thats gigahuge and your letter is picosmall
Looks good... Ive wrote many letters, to MANY Governers, Vice Pres., The pres, etc. And Ive learned one thing.... its a waste of time Its good to do shit like this... but they still view people that wanna legalize it, as hippies, anti-war protestors, and tree-huggers. You've seen the movie Grass right? Well you saw the people that were protesting shouting "We Smoke Weed! We Smoke Weed! We Smoke Weed! We Smoke Weed! We Smoke Weed! We Smoke Weed!" Well thats not gonna get congress to legalize it will it? No matter how much we object to the current laws, people are SCARED of Marjiuana, and view it as a VERY sensative subject, and mostly dont wanna talk about it, so just blow it off. We can all agree the tearm 'DRUG' is over-used and underthought. Drug is anything that effects your body internally. So when the TV says keep your kids away from drugs... first thing that pops into people's minds is... Crack, Heroin, and more than others: Marijuana.... its not "Hey, gotta keep my kid away from Asprin or the Vitamin Supplaments in the cabnet!" So you gotta approach people in a way they feel comfortable talking about the subject... who those people are that will even listen to you... I dont know... and I dont care... My reccomendation is ..smoke weed, not enforce it.. =) -E
my advice is to wait until we have a democratic president. republicans will die slow creul death before they will allow any comfort for the working class. (such as the marijuana)
well a little bit of good news that at least they are loosing their war on drugs. more people are smoking weed than ever in this country (this is just my reasoning not a fact as far as i know) and all of their efforts to kill crops in mexico and south america aren't working cuz as soon as they get rid of the farms in one town they pop up in another. and after all of this work and billions of dollars the price of drugs has actually gone down over the years meaning that there are more drugs on the streets than when they started the friggin war. its sad to think that we are wasting all this money on bullshit but at least they aren't winning. supply and demand if there is a large supply that must mean there is a large demand.
Thank god bush's rain of terror is almost to an end! I think he's done more than enough damage to the world.
wildfire, i wouldnt be too sure that more people are smoking weed. more people taking drugs? yeh maybe but theres heaps fo bad shit that spopular like speed, and not as bad but still infinitely worse than marijuana (practically every drug is), E
Dont forget the part where u say something like "but u probably wont lift a finger trying to reform marijuana laws because that on top of the fact that you fukt up in Iraq qill completely devastate ur chances of b eing rre-alected because of the fact the nobody has properly informed the general public on the effects of marijuana yet."
well that more people are smoking weed is just my reasoning. based on what i know and what i see in the media. any tv show or anything with a live audience they say something about weed instant applause. and like i said going on the supply and demand with all the stoner movies. if there are a lot of stoner movies that are making money then there must be alot of stoners. that's the young generation. now all of the people that were smoking weed in the sixtys and when the movent spread to middle america in the seventies alot of them are still smoking weed and don't forget you have your jazz people from before that that are smoking so three generations there is a lot of people smoking right there. now a lot may have quit, you know the hole experiment when you are young then sell out thing but i think a lot of people still are. or maybe my facts are just off because i live in a place where all of the young people smoke and all of the old people are hippies. don't know. views from people in the states would be appreciated.
just another note. i have not gotten drunk since october or something like that. i am drunk now cuz i am out of weed and have been for over a week. the rum is doing its job though and i feel awsome! thank you and lave a good nought.
yeah i saw that same thing on the history channel. and just the fact that they are illegal in the first place is against the law. it goes against the constitution. the gov't has no right to tell people what they can and can not put in their bodies. as long as they are not harming others...i guesses thats why they made up all that crap a about people killing people and raping people so that it would seem like the drugs made you do that and they would have a basis for banning them. all drugs do need to be legalized but one step at a time or nothing will get done.
