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SMOKE POT BE HAPPY BE HIGH!

Hi, I'm not a "user". But I greatly support the introduction of a bill to decriminalize the possession of marijuana. But, what about all the things the police call, "paraphernalia"? Will it be legal to tote my bong around in the car? There are too many issues to wonder about with our federal and state legislatures that we can only wonder when this dream will finally become a reality.

Backed by the Marijuana Policy Project, medical-marijuana advocates in Arizona plan to submit a ballot proposal to the state that would legalize marijuana for medical use, the Arizona Republic reported April 18.

The measure would allow Arizona residents suffering from illnesses like cancer and AIDS to purchase up to 2-1/2 ounces of marijuana every two weeks from a state-licensed dispensary, and also allows residents of rural areas to grow the drug for their personal medical use.

Arizona residents voted as early as 1996 to legalize medical marijuana, but the initial ballot initiative was thwarted by state lawmakers. In 1998, state voters rejected a ballot item that would have required that the federal government or Congress approve medical use of marijuana before Arizona doctors could prescribe the drug. In 2002, voters rejected a marijuana decriminalization question that would have given the drug free to medical users.

Backers of the latest question need to gather 153,000 voter signatures to get it on the 2010 ballot.

It is crazy for marijuana to be illegal. I just had to watch my sister suffer to death with cancer and marijuana is one of the only things that could calm her down and mellow her out as she died. I dont see why something that can help someone so much is illegal, but yet tobacco and alcohol which can be a cause of cancer is legal! Marijuana being illegal is a waste of our tax dollars! Our tax dollars fund the states which fund the prisons where thousands of people that have been arrested for marijuana get to stay on us! Just think about all the money the USA would save by legalizing marijuana.

yo the next time your mom your dad the police your teacher i dont car who it is tries to tell you weed is meant to be illegal because its dangerous or tell you prohibition is a good thing you look dead in the eye and tell them this:

You support robberies and assaults on innocent people.
The high prices of drugs caused by prohibition force many drug addicts to turn to robbery in order to pay for their drugs. Legalization would drop drug prices. Drug users would no longer need to rob/assault innocent people in order to support their drug habit. This violence against innocent people would end if drugs were legalized.
You support clogging our prisons and jails with nonviolent people.
Nearly 50% of all people in prison and jail are serving time for nonviolent drug charges. There are thousands of people in prisons for 5, 10, 50 years—even life—for possessing marijuana or cocaine! The average rapist is set free after serving only 3 years in prison, the average murderer is set free after serving only 9 years in prison! To house just one prisoner for one year costs the taxpayer $40,000! The result of these harsh penalties? Drug use has increased! (Tough laws have not stopped me from using marijuana—nor will they ever!)
You support organized crime and drug cartels.
Huge drug cartels and criminal organizations thrive off the enormous profits caused by drug prohibition. These organizations are responsible for thousands of murders! Many of people killed or hurt are innocent people who get in the way! These violent organizations will never be put out of business—unless drugs are legalized.
You support environmental destruction.
Underground cocaine and methamphetamine labs use toxic chemicals to produce those drugs—the wastes are recklessly dumped in forests and streams. These highly toxic chemicals are causing major environmental damage in South American rainforests and now in the U.S. This environmental destruction will stop only if drugs are legalized.
You support drug dealers and street gangs.
Drug dealers and street gangs fight over drug territories. Thousands of people are murdered and assaulted because of this fighting—many are innocent people who get in the way. This violence is another result of the huge profits caused by drug prohibition.
You lure thousands of young people into quitting school.
It is a fact that thousands of inner-city youths drop out of school to make enormous profits by selling drugs. The incentive to drop out of school would end if drugs were legalized.
You do nothing to keep drugs away from kids or out of schools.
In spite of what you may believe, keeping drugs illegal does not keep drugs away from children! Drugs are easily obtainable in almost every high school in America. Legalizing drugs would put schoolyard drug dealers out of business! There would be less drugs in our schools if drugs were legalized. Drugs would still be illegal for minors!
You subsidize criminals by letting them reap huge drug profits without paying taxes.
Since drugs are sold anyway, wouldn’t you rather have them heavily taxed so it would reduce your tax burden? You are giving criminals a free ride and it’s coming out of your own pocket. Working people pay 100% of all taxes for the drug dealers! Why do you want to pay taxes for drug dealers?
You advocate punishing millions of harmless drug users (like me) at an enormous cost to society.
If you believe drugs should be illegal, then you advocate spending your tax dollars to arrest/jail/punish millions of productive, honest, and harmless working people (like myself). Why? We hurt nobody! Who benefits from this policy? Nobody! Who loses from this policy? Everybody!
Drug users can only hurt themselves. But the drug war harms/kills hundreds of thousands of innocent people and burdens you—the taxpayer. The drug war costs you hundreds of dollars every year! The drug war has not reduced drug use!

Prohibitionists claim drugs must be illegal because they harm people. Why are prohibitionists so concerned about what other people do to themselves? Why do they feel it is their responsibility and right to control the lifestyles of other adults? The prohibitionists tell stories of people who hurt themselves with illegal drugs. So what? For every one person who has been harmed with illegal drugs, there are dozens of people who have used illegal drugs and were not harmed. For every one person who has been harmed by illegal drugs, there are 1,000 people who harm/kill themselves by deliberately choosing these harmful lifestyles…

* Being overweight
* Smoking cigarettes
* Watching too much TV
* Eating high-fat/high-cholesterol diets
* Eating too much meat
* Participating in dangerous sports/activities
* Drinking alcohol
* Eating too much sugar
* Eating too few fruits/vegetables
* Drinking too much coffee
* Getting little/no exercise

A little weed never hurt anybody. I'd much rather be around a stoner than a drunk, any day!!!
Plus, all the drug violence in Mexico spilling over into the US? If it was legal in the US and regulated like tobacco; no more drug war!!!!!!!
And just in case someone reading this thinks I'm some druggie kid---I am 54 years old and I just hate BullShit, and STUPID BullShit at that!!!!!

I hate the fact that all of these politico-pundent assholes tell us that we are breaking the law so our voice doesn't matter. Well I say "Eff this Ess!" Let's show them that we too are a minority one that votes, spends money, and yes get high. Being a bartender I see the effects of alchohol on a daily basis and the fact that this is legal and pot is not is complete and utter hog-wash. Eff you buerocrats I am going to continue to smoke my pot. You can take my bong when you pry it from my cold dead (probably not cold or dead but super high) fingers.

=Tony

PINEAPPLE EXPRESS, and all those movies rock when high!!!! smoke lots of bud err day

i smoke bud
i agree with every person on here when they say it needs to be legalized
or atleast decriminalized for many many reasons
mainly
1. 9 out of 10 people in jail or prison are there for marijuana related reasons
2. almost everyone i know smokes
3.it calms my crazy ass down enough to where i can actually go to sleep
i just think its fuckin retarded that there are people out there suckin dick for crack and killin people over meth

and all us stoners want to do is sit back and have a good time
i mean i have NEVER seen a stoner flip out and kill someone for a little bud....maybe throw a fuckin pizza box at someone here and there but thats beside the point.........legalize the only bitch that hasnt fucked me over (mary jane)