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Post by libertyordeath on Aug 6, 2003 20:51:43 GMT -5
I have a sister with MS and it is a terrible disease. One thing that helps is cannabis/marijuana. A company in the UK will be marketing cannabis extracts and whold cannabis by the end of the year. I am not for medical marijuana. I am for complete legalization as cannabis is an herbal remedy for many things. Having read on the subject I have never been so disappointed in government as I am over the WOD and also its mean-spirited and immoral policy on marijuana. What do people think on regulating marijuana like tobacco and alcohol? It is a question with only one answer worth a darn as one thing is for sure- cannabis prohibition is wrong. but please respond. A good website for this is www.cannabisnews.com/
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Post by bite the government on Aug 7, 2003 10:54:39 GMT -5
Marijuana is illegal because it is. What's the problem? Do you want to be taxed on weed too? I'm sorry for your plight, but you can surely find as much weed as you want, and if you just don't smoke it out in the open (or even if you do) nothing is going to happen to you.
Remember what tobacco used to taste like, compared to how crap it is now? Tobacco manufacturers put so much filler into our cigarettes that there's almost no tobacco left in them. Do you want the same thing to happen to weed?
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Post by oldtimer on Aug 7, 2003 15:21:56 GMT -5
They put depleted uranium in fertiler also I have read from one place on the web. The WOD is bogus as cigarettes kill 442,000 people a year and pot kills 0.
It just illustrates the lies we are told. Depleted uranium they say is safe but something is causing all the birth defects in Iraq and made 215,000 Gulf War Veterans on disability. Then they turn around and say pot is really, really evil, and it is just another lie.
It all just shows the government could care less about the truth or life, liberty, or the pursuit of hapiness. The government is run for the rich and by the puppets of the rich, whether they be individuals or conglomerates. Pot is illegal because the powers that be want it illegal and that is the only reason. It is the same with why are prescription drugs twice as high here as in Canada. Because the powers that be want your money and they control the political machinery.
By the way, you can grow your own tobacco and if taxes get much higher it might become popular. There are places on the Internet that sell seeds and have information.
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Post by Redneck on Aug 8, 2003 17:10:18 GMT -5
They put depleted uranium in fertiler also I have read from one place on the web. The WOD is bogus as cigarettes kill 442,000 people a year and pot kills 0. So you're saying those who smoke a pack of cigs. then get behind the wheel kill 442000 people each year? But roll up some dope, hit the hiway and all is well huh? Well try to explain that to families who have had a family member killer by some low life on drugs. For the record, I see no harm in using pot for medical purposes, just as pain killers are used. But make it legal for the irresponsible dim wits who get high for the pleasure? I don't think so! It just illustrates the lies we are told. Depleted uranium they say is safe but something is causing all the birth defects in Iraq and made 215,000 Gulf War Veterans on disability. Then they turn around and say pot is really, really evil, and it is just another lie. It all just shows the government could care less about the truth or life, liberty, or the pursuit of hapiness. The government is run for the rich and by the puppets of the rich, whether they be individuals or conglomerates. Pot is illegal because the powers that be want it illegal and that is the only reason. Any reason is good if it saves someone from killing an innocent person. It is the same with why are prescription drugs twice as high here as in Canada. Because the powers that be want your money and they control the political machinery. By the way, you can grow your own tobacco and if taxes get much higher it might become popular. There are places on the Internet that sell seeds and have information.
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Post by DamthatKitty on Aug 28, 2003 23:02:41 GMT -5
I have never understood why pot is illegal and alchohol is sold freely. It seems like our law-makers have no thinking skills. They have all this propaganda against cigs and weed, but nothing for drinking (except driving under the influence). It seems that alchohol is a necessary evil "on the hill". They are not going to go against something that they spend taxpayers money on. But it doesn't seem fair really. If they can drunk on our money - we should be able to get high on it. I actually dont even smoke pot, but I'm all for it becoming legal. The government needs all the tax dollars they can get! That way they can throw parties and get drunk more often.
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Post by guest on Sept 5, 2003 6:40:33 GMT -5
8-)ssshhhhh...don't give the gov. a reason to tax anything else..
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Post by me on Nov 8, 2003 9:20:28 GMT -5
Well, not exactly the reason althought this article says it does do just that. It shrinks tumors and keeps the cancer cells from developing a blood supply. The government has known of this since 1974 at a time when the country was at the beginning of the War on Cancer declared by Nixon in 1971. This is a big story and as one in three people are likely to get cancer, the bullnuts
needs to stop and the research begin. Thirty years of death and silence is what we get instead of research into the most promising preventive to cancer we had. It still did not get picked up by the big 5 media companies. The media sucks and this proves it- www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread17748.shtml
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Post by another redneck on Nov 10, 2003 23:08:16 GMT -5
But you see, if marijuana was legal, if we could grow a couple plants in our gardens for our own use, then we wouldn't need to spend our hard earned dollars on those pills to help us sleep. Some of us wouldn't need that expensive zoloft, or prozac they make millions a year from. Some of us wouldn't need those valium. Nor those pills for the so called Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. Meds for sicknesss or side effects from other meds. Then all those big drug corporations would miss out on billions eventually.
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Post by Super Kitty on Nov 16, 2003 16:27:35 GMT -5
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Post by dude on Nov 16, 2003 17:06:33 GMT -5
nope...but you can get high and go driving and kill someone.
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Post by me on Nov 17, 2003 22:37:18 GMT -5
They need to outlaw cell phones, dude. A lot of people get killed because of those phones, but they should arrest everyone that uses one and if people cell them they should put them in jail with mandatory sentences and seize their property.
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Post by Commonsense on Nov 22, 2003 14:39:31 GMT -5
Marijuana does not cure cancer. It is not a remedy for anything. In some cases, some people have maintained that marijuana makes nausea - and thus the diseases that cause nausea - a little easier to bear. That's all.
Marijuana is illegal because people are afraid of it. Alcohol would be illegal if we hadn't been fermenting grapes since the beginning of time.
We need marijuana to be illegal. We don't want the government interfering even more in our lives. It is not necessary for marijuana to be legal - you can get it whenever you want to. And we seriously do NOT want to see a lot of people get high. It would just be too gruesome for words.
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Post by me on Nov 22, 2003 21:11:00 GMT -5
That is the goofiest thing I have read here. What do you mean you do not want government in your life and you are for prohibition? Prohibition is all about the government being in your life.
49% of Americans have tried marijuana in the CNN/Time poll up at NORML from last October. Where is all the gruesomeness? Jailing people and no-knock raids and shooting people's dog's and taking away driving priviledges and kicking people out of appartments because someone they know had a joint, is gruesome.
The drug war was all about extending government power and even the Cato Institute which is truly conservative unlike the Nazi president now ruining the country.
Cannabinoids will be to pain what aspirin was in the 1900's. The cannabinoids in marijuana have shown to prevent 5 different types of cancers in research. It is the promising development of research in the 70's that shut down all research and buried what had been done.
One thing that Mj would cure is a country gone drunk abd the effects of alcoholism are gruesome- enough to warrant a constitutional amendment. Now we have a very constitutionally challenged DEA created by executive order of Nixon that ignores the 9th and 10th amendment. We saw that prohibition failed with alcohol. We see that prohibition has failed with marijuana and cocaine too for that matter.
Judge Gray who wrote a book on the failed WOD called "controlled substance" and oxymoron because it is anything but controlled. He is now running for Senate in California on the Libertarian ticket.
To say marijuana should be illegal because we do not want the government in our lives is opposite what the Libertarians say.
Now why is it illegal? It sure isn't for that reason.
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Post by Gaffnoid on Nov 28, 2003 19:05:30 GMT -5
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Post by Redneck on Nov 29, 2003 7:27:30 GMT -5
Its illegal because the majority of Americans want it that way. Its called Democracy. Learn to like it!
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