Marijuana Debate - Portland, OR

Keeping marijuana illegal is hypocritical considering our laws around alcohol and prescription drugs. All we are doing by continuing the prohibition is fattening the violent black market.

Save taxpayers money in law enforcement, earn revenue in issuing permits. Safer than alcohol.

in comparison to alcohol its harmless and the war against drugs needlessly criminalises otherwise promising youngsters and sets them on the road of exile from society, despite the relativly mild effect of the drug in comparison to other drugs

considering it's easier to contain and could now be done at will, does that mean people will more freely show up to work baked out of their heads? The tests they now conduct would be obsolete right? It would be like testing to see if you drank alcohol in the last 30 days. Not gonna happen. How does this affect the GNP?

The last thing responsible people need is to babysit leagalized pot addiction.

It's not dangerous and would provide much needed tax revenue

Leygee wrote:

It's not dangerous and would provide much needed tax revenue

said the Mt Dew drinking pothead, living in his mom's basement watching star trek re-runs dressed in his obi wan kenobi outfit, praying they legalize it.

That's the same tired stance I have heard for years from professional potheads. bring us real medical evidence moron.

According to an ex-cia turned Professor at my college, marijuana crosses our borders all the time and is used by every social class in America. Leagalizing it would be better to regulate from the American perspective. Of course we will endure problems from the legalized trade, but no more and (predictably) probably less than the gang fighting neighbors from the south are having due to drug gang wars. I think legalizing it would cut down on violence and it then can be taxed thus helping out the economy.

It's no different than beer, wine or cigarettes

It's an easy way to "weed" out societies losers!

Ruprik wrote:

It's an easy way to "weed" out societies losers!

Such as those who don't know the difference between plural and possessive words?

not legalize, decriminalize!

The Geno wrote:

<quoted text>said the Mt Dew drinking pothead, living in his mom's basement watching star trek re-runs dressed in his obi wan kenobi outfit, praying they legalize it.
That's the same tired stance I have heard for years from professional potheads. bring us real medical evidence moron.

Emerging Clinical Applications For Cannabis & Cannabinoids
A Review of the Recent Scientific Literature, 2000 — 2010

http://norml.org/index.cfm...

Marijuana Research
Current restrictions on marijuana research are absurd

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm...

The British Gov't thinks it's important enough to re-classify Marijuana into a new schedule for medicinal use.

http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.c...

American College of Physicians supported further medicinal research. Hmm, they're Doctors, so I'm quite sure they have more information than you do.

http://www.acponline.org/advocacy/where_we_st...

sorry for the multi posts, topix didn't show them the last previous attempts.

The harm potential of Marijuana is much lower than the legal harm that can be done.

Tax it! Save state budgets!

Pete Priebe wrote:

not legalize, decriminalize!

That to.

Hey Geno, seems like cat's got your keyboard, no rebuttal or smartarse reply?

The Geno wrote:

considering it's easier to contain and could now be done at will, does that mean people will more freely show up to work baked out of their heads? The tests they now conduct would be obsolete right? It would be like testing to see if you drank alcohol in the last 30 days. Not gonna happen. How does this affect the GNP?
The last thing responsible people need is to babysit leagalized pot addiction.

No more or less than we have to keep an eye on the drinkers we work with.
Having a fellow worker show up hung over is worse than having a guy show up after he smoked some weed...
I have worked with both....
Never seen a pot smoker who HAD to have a smoke during the day..Seen LOTS of drinkers who have a few at lunch.

support

The drug war is just as big of a failure as the 1930s prohibition, we need the cops to chase and lock up REAL criminals, and so we need DRUG PEACE.