Legalizing Marijuana?! HR 2306 Thoughts?

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Permalink Reply by Justin916 on August 31, 2011 at 6:38pm

I dont think it will pass. I would love it to beyond the fact that I love pot because as most know there are 1,000s of people who a put in jail for something as stupid as growing a plant every year, not to mention all the tax dollars spent keeping them in there. I live out here in Cali and its already pretty much legal all you gotta do is pay 35$ a year to get a script which these half ass money grubbing excuses for doctors hand out like candy as long as you got the cash to pay them. At this point even the medical system is corrupt so they might as well legalize and tax it cause people all over are still spending their hard earned money on it weather its taxed or not. For a country in a terrible deficit it blows my mind that our "leaders" are flat out pretending this multi-billion dollar a year revenue potential just doesnt exist just to continuously uphold an incorrect belief that marijuana is such a harmful drug yet they will sell you alcohol and cigarettes (which will kill you) and gladly charge you up the ass for their much more harmful pharmaceutical drugs after the booze and ciggs start to destroy your body. Fuck this pointless war on drugs...../EndRant

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Permalink Reply by sean diego on August 31, 2011 at 6:56pm

ron paul is the man, when will america realize this ? and yes it would be beneficial if it were legal, have you seen the whole cali's in ?

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Permalink Reply by Dukecityspecialist on August 31, 2011 at 6:59pm

here in new mexico marijuana is our 2nd biggest cahs crop , i see only benefits coming from a bil like this

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Longo on August 31, 2011 at 7:02pm

the government wont legalize it cuz they cant control it. they can tax the shit out of it all they want and im just gunna grow my own pot. they cant make money off it therefore it wont be legal. which is fine with me i also live out in cali and no one gives a fuck.

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Permalink Reply by TechNette on August 31, 2011 at 7:28pm

I hope it passes!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Tyler on August 31, 2011 at 8:19pm

Ron Paul IS the man.  Dude has a ton of great ideas, that will never be brought to the table legitimately.  Also I think cali is in a hole for far different reasons and marjuana would not by any means solve this issue, nor make it worse.  In a large enough extent to truly matter that is

sean diego said:

ron paul is the man, when will america realize this ? and yes it would be beneficial if it were legal, have you seen the whole cali's in ?

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Permalink Reply by weed_burglar on August 31, 2011 at 8:31pm

yup

TechNette said:

I hope it passes!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by Alucard on August 31, 2011 at 9:05pm

weed_burglar said:

yup

TechNette said:

I hope it passes!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by ֆӄʐ ♔ on August 31, 2011 at 9:21pm

Lolamerica :')

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Permalink Reply by Landon on August 31, 2011 at 11:22pm

it would benifet everybody but the simple fact is the government doesnt care about if the is not harmful to you they just want that money! its the most used drug in america so if it became legal the government,pigs,dea would lose so much money its just fucked up.. but im hoping for the best! im tired of these lil misdemeanors lmao!

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Permalink Reply by a tie a on August 31, 2011 at 11:41pm

smfh time to bring up the obvious on a topic that should be a no brainer

Obviously i support this, not because i want to smoke it, but because it's smart

 

1. It would deprive drug cartels in Mexico of money, which will lead to the following

a. Reduce their capabilities of destroying the Mexican government

b. Reduce the violence in Mexico, and Central and South America, thus not forcing so many people to illegally travel to the US, which can cause problems at the rate it happens in this country. Right wingers who complain about us Latinos should be happen about that

c. It'd finish this STUPID War On Drugs, based off of false reports from Reagan, or was it Nixon.... both are similar morons so I might be confusing them, that said marijuana was dangerous. We waste billions on this stupid shit that ends tens of thousands of lives and forces even more to this country, where we then bitch them out because we forced them to come here

2. It would bring in much needed revenue for this country to function. no shit

3. It would reduce the use of drugs. Based on what? Based off the fact that several countries, such as Portugal, and Spain if I remember correctly, legalized ALL drugs, with government providing these drugs, the use of drugs WENT DOWN

4. We would stop putting people in jail for this stupid shit. We waste millions to keep drug users in jail. Why? they aren't doing shit. 

a. This also causes overcrowding of prisons, and in many cases, they drug related offenders are kept in and the violent criminals are kicked out of the overcrowded prisons, which won't help society at all

 

Dspite this, it WON'T pass because:

1. The War On Drugs is a profit machine. There is money to be made and the following special interests will make sure this doesn't come through

a. Private Prisons off of drug offenders. They run the prison system, a billion dollar business which they won't give up

b. Drug monopolies

c. Defense contractors who profit off the operations in Central and South America

d. A smaller component, the alchohal industry. They don't want as much competition, but they are definetely not as intensely concerned as the first 3

The first 3 have extreme lobbying power and will make sure that our politicians won't support this bill

 

I'm sure there are others things to add to this, but I can't think of anything else ATM

 

On another note, Ron Paul is an idiot. Explain how the US will work with 0% income tax. Explain how people will settle with the removal of Social Securty, Medicare and Medicaid, all of which are immensely popular?

I mean he has some great positions, but overall he's an idiot, because it's clear he doesn't have a real deep grasp on the issues. I give him props here though because he's fighting for something that makes sense

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Permalink Reply by a tie a on August 31, 2011 at 11:45pm

lol the police make pocket change out of the situation of illegal drugs. look at the big picture bro

Landon said:

it would benifet everybody but the simple fact is the government doesnt care about if the is not harmful to you they just want that money! its the most used drug in america so if it became legal the government,pigs,dea would lose so much money its just fucked up.. but im hoping for the best! im tired of these lil misdemeanors lmao!

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