Canada has been terrified of liberalizing our drug laws for fear of angering Uncle Sam. Ironically, the United States is now closer to legalizing pot than we are. While the federal Conservatives in the Great White North are poised to bring in mandatory jail time for producing and selling illicit drugs, the sweet smell of drug reform is wafting across America. Wouldn’t that be a weird buzz? Canada as the
I DO think pot should be legalized because marijuana doesn’t kill you, its the cigarettes. If cigarettes are legal then so should weed because that nicotine in cigarettes cause people to get cancer and when the doctors don’t reach the cancer in time then the person dies. Cigarettes shouldn’t be legal cause thats the thing killing people not pot. So I think pot should be legalized. Please take my opinion
Kristopher Reinertson hit the bull’s-eye with, “Tech Administration Should Retire Zero Tolerance” (CT, Mar. 23). In fact the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant cannabis (marijuana) should be completely re-legalized. A beneficial component of re-legalizing cannabis that doesn’t get mentioned is that it will lower hard drug addiction rates. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) will have to stop brainwashing youth into believing lies, half-truths and propaganda concerning cannabis, which creates
Steve Lopez visited a former Orange County judge who is not just supporting a bill that would legalize marijuana so that the state could tax it, but he is willing to go on the record to say that the war on drugs is a lost. I’m sitting in Costa Mesa with a silver-haired gent who once ran for Congress as a Republican and used to lock up drug dealers as
It’s time to legalize marijuana, tax it to death, then let struggling Joe Citizen – instead of Joe Dope Dealer – reap the pot profits. The most popular question at President Obama’s town hall meeting Thursday? Whether legalizing marijuana would help the economy and create jobs. You know: Pottery Barn goes Pottery Bong. Now the pot posse may have stacked the e-mail deck. Still Obama, who once wanted to decriminalize