1. Free The Weed,, Its a simple thought. The Hemp plant can be used for so many things. Fuel being the main use. But we as a people have the responsibility to use with caution. It takes baby steps, so please decriminalize weed first, then make your laws and taxes. Ive been smoking for 20 years and im not alone. There are millions of us everywhere. Free the Weed. thank you Dewbeesnacks

2.Cannabis should be legalized first and foremost because its prohibition represents an unfair restraint of trade, and an unfair preference by Congress for certain industrial and agricultural interests over others. Historically, cannabis prohibition was enacted after a very successful lobbying and fear campaign waged by these interests, who saw cannabis (”hemp”) as a significant competitor. Theseinterests included petrochemical, pharmaceutical, logging and paper processing, cotton and other big economic players.

In order to prohibit cannabis, these economic interests had to borrow a foreign slang word for this popular, beneficial plant (”marijuana”) and disguise its everyday identity as hemp. Hemp was a part of America’s success and economic independence from the very beginning. For a while after Independence, it was mandatory for farmers to grow a certain amount of hemp, so that the US Navy and merchant ships would have enough hemp rope and other products for their growing
needs.

With the Industrial Revolution, hemp began to fall behind. The cotton gin made cotton easier and faster to harvest, while hemp still required difficult hand harvesting and retting. But in the early 1930s, the invention of a new hemp harvester threatened to bring hemp back to its rightful place as America’s “moral fiber”. That’s when the competing economic interests struck, using the most blatant lies and fear-mongering to convince elected representatives that cannabis represented a new and vicious threat to the nation’s youth.

In addition to a readily-renewable source of fibers that now require the wholesale destruction of our slow-growing forests or chemically-intensive cotton monoculture to produce, the prohibition of cannabis has cost us an inexpensive, readily-renewable, clean fuel; a biodegradeable substitute for virtually everything, including plastics, now made from petrochemicals; and, most shockingly, the first food crop ever cultivated by human beings, rich in protein and essential fatty acids, that will grow in any type of soil and enrich it in the process.

This has been done in the name of protecting American citizens from themselves, and a moralistic protectionism that presumes to decide what a person may think, eat, smoke, drink, or rub on their bodies like catnip.

Prohibition has also deprived us of a medicine so useful that today even the pharmaceutical companies that once lobbied to ban it now seek to market patented products made from one or more of cannabis’ constituents, while still denying to sick and dying people the whole plant and the benefits it confers, physical, mental, and spiritual.

The enforcement of prohibition has itself become a very great evil, in which corruption, informants, set-ups, planted and stolen evidence are the norms. Forfeiture laws skew law enforcement priorities. Court dockets are crowded with non-violent possession or minor dealing cases while “big fish”, as in any criminal enterprise, can pay for protection. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding Americans have been tainted with criminal records for
choosing one type of relaxation or medicine over another.

In America today, prison guard is a fast-growing field. Giving urine for
pre-employment analysis has become an acceptable practice. And yet another generation of kids is learning that the government can’t be trusted, and that the way to survive is by hiding and lying.

Can a change be made?

YES, WE CANNABIS! - http://www.CannabisResource.com

           

First let me make it clear, I know marijuana should be legalized.
There are many factors and different reasons. The only thing I hear are politics.

Feds give us money to follow their rules, so our state, even though we voted to legalize ignores it, because if we don’t, we might not get fed. money.

First lets start out with a few facts.

One is that marijauana is only thought of as a drug. Marijuana is the female plant of cannabis. The male plant is usually called hemp
which is what we made rope with for our boats 75 years ago. The female plant makes a bud when not fertilized by the male. The bud of a female plant is the only part that has THC in it. Hence thats what everone is talking about.

Now the female bud, which gets all the attention, can also be used to
practically eliminate most over the counter cold meds, this threatens the drug companies. Smoking THC creates hunger, it helps you sleep, it is useful as a muscle relaxant, these are all facts and unlike the meds they advertise on TV, with no side effects.

The main problem is people think it’s addictive. It’s not. It’s simply a matter of taste. If you don’t have medical reasons to smoke then, don’t. It’s the smoke that hurts your lungs, not the THC……. But the emense profit that can be produced and taxed, not even talking about the bud.

Well it’s just mind blowing…………..

How about the fact the the male plant, which can be grown in 3 months can be used to relace trees for paper, clothing, rope,
and about a hundred other things can also be manufactured and taxed but we’re not even dicusssing that.. I mean really, I’m talking about the leftovers. Blankets, tents, this stuff is tough…and lasts like canvas.

Bye the way, Im not even getting into the fact that to purchase you have to deal with people. These people usually have other drugs
for sale and that’s how you wind up getting envolved in other drugs. If you could just pick up your, pot, lollipops, brownies, cereal, or other
form of choice at the State distrubition center you wouldn’t have to deal with them.

Speaking of them, how many people do we have locked in a jail for POT. Nobody is gonna want to let them out.
It’s shameful.

BOTTOM LINE
LEGALIZE

-David