Pew Poll: Support for Legalizing Marijuana Growing

Good post =)

 

arty: it's just a matter of time.

 

Far out.

Makes you wonder though...

Alcohol prohibition was stopped once authorities saw what an extreme failure/waste of money it was. Whisky and booze from Canada was coming in via the black market at a steady rate.

The authorities know that the war on drugs, particularly cannabis (harmless) has been a complete failure. Especially considering that weed is coming in via the black market, as well as from right at home, right under their noses. So what's the difference? Why is prohibition still going?

 

I think the War on Drugs had a stronger propaganda base; and that the propaganda has been renewed enough that there are still believers.

When it started out; cannabis was foreign to most Americans, so the propaganda about this evil drug that makes Mexicans rape and kill your daughters was pretty damn scary.

Then, the FDA started regulating things like opiates; for public safety. Over time, they've regulated more and more, and their authority has become better established and has gained a stronger legal base.

The Nixon and Reagan administrations renewed the propaganda against drugs. The idea has never died that the drug laws are there for our safety. There has been lobbying by groups such as NORML and ACLU to change this idea; but the prevailing attitude in DC is that drug laws are needed, and the prevailing attitude at the RNC is still that drug laws are a moral need.

Plus, regulation of the government is the government's biggest weakness now. Whereas, during prohibition, the political climate was all for reform (which allowed the prohibition in the first place.)

 

Nope, the name marijuana was unfamiliar to most americans. Cannabis had been well established as a treatment for just about everything for over a century.

They got played hard. And in a year or two when people realized what had happened, it was too late, their hemp farms where done and gone, etc.

 

Great point.

 

I just hope it would become legal somewhere where I live, while I am still alive. That would be nice.

 

Makes you wonder what happened to the counterculture/hippies....

I doubt the federal government is still going to budge, to be honest. I think there'd have to be a huge change in government for it to be legalized federally. I don't expect to see it legal in my lifetime, unfortunately.

Woah, you're 53, and I'm 18, and I don't have hope for it in my lifetime.

There's still Amsterdam, though. And I hear Vancouver is pretty accepting, if not really legal.

 

If you don't see it legal in your lifetime, you're a part of the problem, not the solution.

 

Yup, it could have been legal in California, if only people had gone out and voted.

 

As long as people in my age group (50+) are in control, I don't think marijuana will be legalized...however, I do think that people of my son's age group (27+) will legalize it.

To legalize pot/hemp/weed and /or maryjane...the national debt would quickly be wiped away. C'mon...even the Washington jackasses have done that math. They just have to hash and re-hash all the irrelevant things necessary for the bill(s) to pass.

That is, if it isn't done before...hate to jinx things and all. I just know the closed minded mentality of the vast majority of ppl of a certain age group...especially regarding the dreaded weed.

It will take people in power willing to admit this plant can be used in about 100 ways (good ways) and to furthur admit that people that have been arrested and convicted of marijuana possession, and that alone, haven't done anything BAD! Why it, this plant, continues to be placed in the same "group" as narcotics, heroin, etc is just beyond any rational explanation. Not that anything done regarding laws, etc needs to be logical, it's just good to have reasons.

 

:ssmokeit:

 

Well it's all about greed.

Everyone knows weed should not be illegal, and that it's unjust, however they try to rationalize it.

But if they abandon those rationalizations, and admit that they locked up people, caused deaths, etc, for dozens of years based on nothing but lies told for the sake of controlling people, not only do they give up the worlds biggest (and currently, bottomless) pork barrel project, but they also MUST free all the people currently in prison, on probation, etc, for this, and must stop persecuting those with marijuana convictions, etc. There would be thousands wanting felony convictions preventing them from voting and the like overturned, and if the government refused to do it they could be facing a mass uprising and revolution.

So, because there's little friendly middle ground, and they must either say "it's done and over, it's okay, you're all pardoned" or "it's devil weed, to the slammer with you", they will continue and escalate this.

And this is while the drug czar claims the war on drugs is over. Which he said right before a bunch of dispensaries got raided. Yeah, you might have ended the ad campaign billing this as a "war on drugs", but the same thing is happening, and worse than ever.

 

I dont know why george carlin jumped into my head.. but thats all I got.. eh' ive been tripping balls for 2 days so eat me..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JChUO4TLjnY"]YouTube - The American Dream, USA Inc. George Carlin

 

Let's hope, but I really don't see it happening.

 

I really don't see you making it happen, you're right.

These are bare numbers, once we break 50% by a little bit, maybe make 60%, it WILL happen, there will be NO choice, it won't even involve stomping on a minority, it will be minority rule. And the US has way too many guns for that to work, at least with things that can't be linked to terrorism. And try as fox news might, domestic weed can't be linked with terrorism, but keeping it illegal CAN be.

 

There's too much money for corporations and private jails for it to become legal. California is really where the revolution will happen if it does.

I live in a part of Kentucky that grows a lot. I see black helicopters flying low around here all the time. We've outsmarted them though. It's such a smooth operation around here it might as well already be legal.

 

But the rates that kentucky pulls up ditch weed with paratroopers in black hawks proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that more serious marijuana operations are being shut down than ever before, we can win the war on drugs if we just keep up the good work, and airlift more huge bundles of seed baring plant so that there's even more to pull up next year.

 

Yeah, the ditch weed is just a front.