Marijuana Debate - Pensacola, FL

ThomasA wrote:

<quoted text>You seem to be floundering in a pit of quicksand grabbing at anything that you can to confuse different issues into a rope to save your ass. Put the pipe away, get some oxygen to your brain and look again. YOUR mindset is what's slowing the legalization for medical use only. You want to throw open the doors and sell MJ on the street corners from push carts and be legal to smoke anywhere or anytime and without jobsite testing. Mark my words,it ain't gonna happen in our lifetime! Get over it!

Hellbilly 1 wrote:

<quoted text>Twisting words is what a Neo-Nazi does.

Think wrote:

Kim Russell founded People United for Medical Marijuana in February 2009. She is a UCF graduate, retired real estate executive, President of The Compassionate Cure Foundation, Inc., past Secretary of MOM’s Club of Orlando-Conway, Inc., Orange County Republican Executive Committeewoman and Campaign for Liberty Coordinator. Her mission is to educate people on alternative medicine while providing them legal access to medical cannabis.
http://www.pufmm.org
This is a worthy group to support. I have been a member for 2 years and have personally met and talked to founder, Kim Russell about this important issue. Her father suffers from Parkinson's disease and although illegal, he uses marijuana to greatly alleviate the debilitating symptoms of his disease. I urge you to contribute to this worthwhile organization as I have. Together we can work to legislate common sense reform in Florida.

Think wrote:

Conservative golden boy, Chris Christie, yesterday spoke out against the war on drugs. Politics makes strange bedfellows. Up until just recently, Christie was on the short list as Romney's VP choice.Ironic, as Romney is a hard core drug war advocate and friend of big Pharma (#3 ranking as recipient of contributions from big Pharma behind Obama and Orrin Hatch).
Back to Christie..here is what he had to say yesterday to the Brookings Institute....
"The war on drugs, while well-intentioned, has been a failure, "We're warehousing addicted people every day in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment" the Repubican New Jersey Goveror said.
Christie continued "We're warehousing addicted people every day in state prisons in New Jersey, giving them no treatment. If you're pro-life, as I am, you can't be pro-life just in the womb. Every life is precious and every one of God's creatures can be redeemed, but they won't if we ignore them." It costs us $49,000 a year to warehouse a prisoner in New Jersey state prisons last year. A full year of inpatient drug treatment costs $24,000 a year."
Wow, Chris Christie agrees with liberals on the drug war-I admire him for thinking outside of the box instead of following party line. A politician that actually speaks his conscience...I respect that in any political party.

Think wrote:

A little levity for the day:
Marijuana Quotes:
“Marihuana is responsible for the raping of white women by crazed negroes.”—Hearst Newspapers Nationwide-1030
“Marihuana influenced negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows, and look at a white woman twice.”—Hearst Newspapers-1935
"After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat."
Marijuana Tax Act expert witness
pharmacologist Dr James Munch-1937
“Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.”-Henry Anslinger, the father of the War on Drugs-1937
“If the hideous monster of Frankenstein came face to face with marihuana, he would drop dead of fright.”—Anslinger, FBN, quoted in Hearst newspaper-1938
“Negro entertainers with their jazz and swing music are declared an outgrowth of marihuana use which possesses white women to tap their feet.”—statements to Congress by Anslinger, FBN-1940
"Marijuana is more harmful than habit-forming opium, inducing fits of temporary insanity.”—Newsweek, 1-15-45
“Marihuana leads to pacifism and Communist brainwashing.”—Anslinger, before Congress-1948
“Marijuana use makes you sterile.”—Reagan Administration-1985
“Marijuana leads to homosexuality, the breakdown of the immune system, and therefore to AIDS.”
-- Carlton Turner. White House Drug Czar under Ronald Reagan-1986
This is the basis of our current drug policy. If it wasn't so sad, it would be humorous.

mandoman2 wrote:

<quoted text>nice....

Think wrote:

A little levity for the day:
Marijuana Quotes:
“Marihuana is responsible for the raping of white women by crazed negroes.”—Hearst Newspapers Nationwide-1030
“Marihuana influenced negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s shadows, and look at a white woman twice.”—Hearst Newspapers-1935
"After two puffs on a marijuana cigarette, I was turned into a bat."
Marijuana Tax Act expert witness
pharmacologist Dr James Munch-1937
“Marihuana is the most violent drug in the history of mankind.”-Henry Anslinger, the father of the War on Drugs-1937
“If the hideous monster of Frankenstein came face to face with marihuana, he would drop dead of fright.”—Anslinger, FBN, quoted in Hearst newspaper-1938
“Negro entertainers with their jazz and swing music are declared an outgrowth of marihuana use which possesses white women to tap their feet.”—statements to Congress by Anslinger, FBN-1940
"Marijuana is more harmful than habit-forming opium, inducing fits of temporary insanity.”—Newsweek, 1-15-45
“Marihuana leads to pacifism and Communist brainwashing.”—Anslinger, before Congress-1948
“Marijuana use makes you sterile.”—Reagan Administration-1985
“Marijuana leads to homosexuality, the breakdown of the immune system, and therefore to AIDS.”
-- Carlton Turner. White House Drug Czar under Ronald Reagan-1986
This is the basis of our current drug policy. If it wasn't so sad, it would be humorous.

ThomasA wrote:

<quoted text>Again you're treading water grasping at useless tripe and thinking from years ago. You forgot to mention about the moon being made out of green cheese,the tooth fairy,segregation storks bringing babies,women's suffrage,and the booger man in the closet. Same mentality from a different time.

Hellbilly 1 wrote:

<quoted text>The gay retard mandoman2 is back. Marijuana use does make people gay and dumbs them down also.

Think wrote:

The US needs to look south for policy direction on the failed policies of prohibition-
In 2009 Mexico decriminalized personal possession of cocaine, heroine, LSD and pot. The same year Argentina's Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to punish people for personal use of marijuana. A Brazilian appellate court also ruled that possession for personal use was not illegal.
In 2009, the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy denounced current policy as an expensive and deadly failure. Members took the public lead, advocating decriminalizing drug use. More recently Presidents Laura Chinchilla and Mauricio Funes of Costa Rica and El Salvador, respectively, urged reform of strict drug laws and discussion of legalization as an alternative.
Earlier this year Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, an anti-communist general who campaigned against crime, said the drug war had failed and that "consumption and production should be legalized." He added: "We're bringing the issue up for debate." He pushed the idea at a meeting of Central American leaders and at the April Summit of the Americas, attended by President Barack Obama.
In June Uruguay's President Jose Mujica proposed legislation to legalize marijuana. The government would sell marijuana to citizens, with revenues used for drug treatment and rehabilitation. Roughly five percent of the population, about 150,000, is thought to smoke marijuana regularly. President Mujica explained: "We are doing this for the young people, because the traditional approach hasn't worked."

Dookie With Corn wrote:

<quoted text>Good point, but their are entirely too many brainwashed puppets to allow that to happen in this country. The other problem with this strategy is that it makes too much sense. No way our government will allow us to freedom of choice.

ThomasA wrote:

<quoted text>No one is denying you freedom of choice of anything. You're free to do as you please but you have to remember there are ramifications for certain behavior and you have to put on your big boy britches to make the right choices and not walk yourself off a cliff. You and people like Think are advocating anytime anywhere legality for recreational use of MJ and it's going to a long row to hoe. Controlled use for medical problems may happen in the near future nationwide but that's all we will see in our lifetime.

Think wrote:

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People in the future will look back in disbelief at he damage caused by the war on drugs. It's coming soon. VOTE

Dookie With Corn wrote:

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Now that makes sense,(in your own head) but unfortunately for you and the other brainwashed puppets, we live in a democracy where the majority rules.
Check this sh!t out:
http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/...

Dookie With Corn wrote:

<quoted text>People will look back on the war on drugs similar to how we today look back at the Salem witch trials. I can't wait to vote on this issue and point my finger and laugh in every prohibitionist face.

Dookie With Corn wrote:

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Now that makes sense,(in your own head) but unfortunately for you and the other brainwashed puppets, we live in a democracy where the majority rules.
Check this sh!t out:
http://m.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/...

ThomasA wrote:

<quoted text>That 56% of stoners can get shit faced ANY time they want to. No argument there. It's what happens AFTER they do it and not wasting the common sense that GOD gave us by screwing up their future trying to get past places that will not tolerate it's use. It's not going to allow getting blitzed and heading out to the Krystal at midnite for munchies and being involved in an accident. You will wind up in a contribulatory neglegence case even though someone hits you because it's still your fault if you're impared. The officer on the scene can make that determination and order tests. Pee tests will still be around for Monday morning surprises. Anytime anywhere is still a long way off. You've got a better chance of winning the lottery that getting all the laws dropped and the prison doors swung open.

mr hat wrote:

Legalize!