Marijuana in PA, General Thoughts on it.

On 420 this year I had gone to a Medical Marijuana Rally with my boyfriend and some friends. The turn out wasn't too big (atleast when we got their)...but I really hope something more will happen with it. More so with Medical Marijuana. I feel as though sometimes teens and young adults could really care less about the situation.. I mean the thought of it being legal to people that smoke...well ofcourse they want it to be. But I feel as though, since people can get it IL legally then why should they really care? I do, I think that it would be great economically and for people that need it as medicine. I don't think it is discussed enough and I really hope that things start happening with it government wise. I had heard about something going on in September, so we'll see.



I'm hopeful.

 

I'm in Pittsburgh, and I've gotten my hands on some damn good shit, and very rarely get any schwag.
Never got in any legal trouble, or have even come too close really, so it doesn't affect me much personally if it's legalized.

General thoughts on it, though: prohibition is a horrible horrible thing that feeds the gangsta culture and gives violent criminals power, while limiting personal freedoms.
This isn't the America it once was, and it damn sure isn't the America it should be.

 

Yeah I have a friend out their, and he said that what they get is normally schwag. Guess he isn't looking in the right places!

 

i went to a rally on may2 when the dead was here and i thought it woulda have been way bigger esp since there was a dead show right down the street, and i know there is potential because i've been to plenty of rallys and protests for other things and there were great turn outs

 

Yeah that's weird about no one really showing up when there was a Dead concert going on.. Crazies. But that's good to hear about other turn-outs!

 

Well, I don't buy off of the street dealers, and I'm smack dab in the city right near the colleges, so that may help.
Is he actually in Pittsburgh? Residents of our many many suburbs (and sometimes evern nearby townships) always consider themselves Pittsburghers =P

 

yah i live in central PA near altoona which is near stat colledge and johnstown but PM me if yall wanna talk

 

"We have spent over a trillion dollars trying to eradicate the world's most beneficial plant off the face of the earth. Imagine what a better world this would be if that money had been spent on treatment, education and studying the medical benefits of marijuana."
-- Steve Hager - High Times Editor (1988 - 2003)



"But at this point, I'd be in favor of legalization. I wouldn't encourage anybody to smoke any substances. But I don't think it should be stigmatized as an illegal substance. Tobacco smoking causes far more harm. And in terms of an intoxicant, alcohol causes far more harm."
~ Donald Tashkin,
National Institute on Drug Abuse

I left Western Pa in the mid 70's and it was always good pot, and with the Steelers stitching up the generation gap a tad, and Leary overturning the Marijuana Tax Act. It was mostly overlooked as a problem and cops would usually confiscate it and thats it. They had dry counties for booze, but medicinally they could treat it as they do drug stores. State stores sell the hard booze, or did then. Its all based on Nixon's lies and the lies are getting ridulous and repeatative. It's the Commonwealth with the Whiskey Rebellion. I think its ripe for a reality check. Though fossil fools, drugs, booze, prisons, cops and rehabs will always hide behind kids, perpetuating this farce for profits.



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I'm pretty sure he does... but I don't know really!

 

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it would keep ALOT ALOT ALOT of people out of jail too...

 

House Bill Pushes PA To Legalize Marijuana

US PA: House Bill Pushes Pennsylvania To Go Green, Legalize

State panel looks into medical marijuana

Rep. Katie True, R-Lancaster, who opposes the bill, called the promise of medical marijuana "a hoax."



Your rep is the hoax, along with her reefer madness. The FDA can not test cannabis until the feds Health Human Services releases the Institute Of Medicine report stating cannabis had medicinal value and therefore can not be classified as a schedule#1 narcotic. That was in 1999. No cannabis was harmed during these studies. Nothing more than a rehash of the La Guardia, Pa Gov. Shafer and Indian Hemp Commission findings. Even if these groups tested actual cannabis, it would be stems, crushed seeds and leaves (schwag). Grown by the US government, and sent to 4 American patients. 300 joints every 25 days since the early 80.s. Not the quality or consistancy of BC, CA or Amsterdam Apothacaries. Thousands of years of use and recorded data and either these drug thugs are illiterate or coniving greedy deadly fear mongers. Shuck and Jive prohibitionists, drug worriers concerned more with their own gravy train than sick people. Just disgusting. No value for the drug stores homegrown in the kitchen. I'd say Ms True is false and not representing the citizens of Pa, Yinz outa get rid of the bum!
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President Nixon appointed Ray Shafer Chair of this National Commission in 1971, and its findings were released in several stages. The first report from the fall of 1972 was Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding, issued both as a government report and a mass market Signet New American Library paperback. The second report from March, 1973 was Drug Use in America: Problem in Perspective. The findings of the Commission were controversial from the beginning, for they attacked the "hodge-podge" of U.S. drug laws, challenged exaggerated myths about marijuana's dangers , and recommended decriminalization of marijuana use. The Administration virtually ignored the report, and in fact, stepped up the "War on Drugs" at all levels. However, the insights of the Report remain widely acclaimed.

Many praised the courage of Ray Shafer in maintaining the Commission's objectivity and neutrality under enormous political pressure, as in the editorial Findings of Fact published in the Meadville Tribune on March 25, 1972. Ray Shafer continued to promote the Commission's report and speak on drug issues for several years after the report's release.
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Nixon covered up and lied to schedule Cannabis #1 then lumped in medicinal and hemp, not included in the overturned unConstitutional Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Pitiful!
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