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Marijuana is the linchpin of the drug war. Legalizing marijuana wil l s ound the death knell
for this devastating crime agains t humanity.
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By Carmen Yarrusso, Truthout | Op-Ed |
Bryna Pizzo
(66)
Monday June 10, 2013, 12:21 pm
Thank you! (s, n, p, t)
JL A. (206)
Monday June 10, 2013, 1:28 pm
Excellent sum mary! Thanks Kit!
pam w . (185)
Monday June 10, 2013, 4:03 pm
I agree with each and every one of these points.
BUT....
PLEASE DO NOT LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!
DECRIMINALIZE IT!
"Legalizing" means the government can regulate/tax/inspect, blah, blah, blah.
"DECRIMINALIZE" means I can grow a plant in my garden right next to my basil, my
cilantro and my spinach!
It's a PLANT! It's not a manufactured concoction like alcohol! Or cocaine! Or heroin! It's a
PLANT!
Why in blazes should a PLANT be "legalized/taxed/restricted," etc?
Yvonne White
(221)
Monday June 10, 2013, 4:25 pm
Is that the only difference, Pam? If s o, I do think decrim inalizing it would be better - but
legalizing it sounds Safer to me. Certain seeds are Legal & yet what you do with them
can make pois on..not gonna mention their nam e. But I think you should be able to buypot seeds, etc. & grow your own & I would think that means it'd Have to be Legal firs t. ?
*shrug*
Rose
NoFWDSPLZ
(231)
Monday June 10, 2013, 4:31 pm
Legalize it
MJ M. (490)
Monday June 10, 2013, 4:40 pm
Tomatoes can be grown for personal use without being taxed. They are taxed only when
sold. Tomatoes are fully legal, not 'decriminalized'. How would legalized cannabis be any
different? I've been lis tening to this argument for 40 years. It seems to me that if
som ething is 'decriminal ized', it wouldn't take much at all at a future date to 're-
criminalize' the substance. Once som ething is 'legal', I would think it would be quite
difficult to reverse that status.
I want my weed as legal as tomatoes and broccoli.
Jennifer C.
(155)
Monday June 10, 2013, 5:05 pm
Thank you.
Lois Jordan
Monday June 10, 2013, 5:09 pm
Thanks for posting this very sensible article, Kit.
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(49) First it HAS to come off Schedule 1. There was a panel nearly a year ago that decided
NOT to remove it. I don't know how often this panel meets . It's now listed with heroin and
cocaine. I remember when I was pregnant 22 yrs. ago and the doctor had to check to see
where pseudoephedrine was listed because I was badly congested...it was way down
the schedule, even though it caused tum ors in mice.
I agree with pam w. & MJM. #11 s hould be: Because it's a freely growing plant/weed/herb.
Plus, it s hould NOT be taxed.
Angelika Roll
(123)
Monday June 10, 2013, 5:49 pm
I wonder if anyone-except of course US govt - has or will ever come up with ONE, let
alone 10 reasons for it being illegal?! I am not speaking of the cash flow or the privat
prison busines s. anything REASONABLE ?
Kit B. (335)
Monday June 10, 2013, 5:50 pm
I have another concern in legali zation -v- decriminalizing, that would be akin to what
happened tomatoes and corn. I think that natural marijuana holds many positives for
humans, I don't know about what GMO marijuana might be turned into.
If the US government holds the patents that turn marijuana into such a healing plant for
people, then how dare they say it has no beneficial use? (they do hold the patents -
Google it)
Another item to consider from Marijuana is hemp. Nei ther the OIL companies who
manufacture plastic nor the lumber i ndustry want legal hemp. Both products of the
Marijuana plant, both hold so much potential for a world inundated with plastics and
suffering from forests being destroyed. Marijuana has no lobbies speaking in it's behalf.
Many doctors have spoken openly to issue of the healing potential of Marijuana. At the
worst, it can do no harm , at it's best is the potential to heal cancer and so m any other
diseases.
Angelika Roll
(123)
Monday June 10, 2013, 5:51 pm
Great article of course, thanks Kit! and it's been known all the time.
MJ M. (490)
Monday June 10, 2013, 6:03 pm
The Age of Deception is ending. Cannabis has the capacity to save both the planet and
the human race. If we will onl y let it.
Thank you Kit for the article, and your more than brill iant comments on this i ssue.
Mitchell D. (39)
Monday June 10, 2013, 6:12 pm
the War on Drugs has morphed into a tool for racism , and large profits for the prison
entrepreneurs!
Kit B. (335)
Monday June 10, 2013, 6:13 pm
I don't think many of us know the laws and issues better than you MJ. Though I do try to
keep up with this.
There is one fact that can not be ignored. we humans have cannabinoid receptors in our
brain. There are dozens of cannabinoids within Marijuana and to date only Marijuana.
Only the use of Marijuana turns on those cannabinoid receptors, which in turn releases
many chemical respons es that work to inhibit and often stop cancer from reproducing.
That alone should be a case for why it should not be illegal.
Kit B. (335)
Monday June 10, 2013, 6:15 pm
I think, Mitchell it always was intended to do jus t that.
pam w . (185)
Monday June 10, 2013, 7:41 pm
Kit's right (as is so often the case.) The human brain has evolved with receptors for the
"pleasant" effects of som e drugs. It's fun to speculate on why that should be.
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Paul Burton (4)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 12:43 am
I agree with the points and wi th Pam W. that it should be decrim inalized instead of
legalized.
Dan and Tina
Partlow (94)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 5:47 am
Whether it is legalized or decriminalized, it should jus t be made available. We need our
industries to start utilizing it ASAP. Our world m ay well depend on it. I know we need to
stop oil and other fossi l fuel production and get going on other alternatives li ke marijuana
and the new solar and wind energies. But the hemp could be used in so m any other
materisl ways to save our rainforests too. Weknow how, we jus t need to DO it!
Kit B. (335)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 6:05 am
While it is true that we have receptors for pleasure in our brains, we also have specific
cannabiniod receptors and with the use of marijuana we "switch" on these receptors
which in turn promote healing. These receptors are in our central and peripheral nervous
system.
In today's world one does not have to get "high" nor s moke to reap the benefits of the
healthy attributes of m arijuana. This can be done at home, using the right recipe you can
"juice" the plant and leave out the THC only using the parts of the plant that have
cannabinoids, no fillers , no strange and unknown additives from a pharmaceuticalcompany. Whether you seek to get high or want the unexpected benefits of marijuana, in
the form of personal healing, or uses for the care and health of this planet, there is no
logical reason it should be illegal. Rem ove the influence of years of propaganda and
allow people to learn the facts.
If that is not natural then nothing is natural. If our bodies could heal us without any
assistance, pharmaceutical companies would not exist.
You have a strong opinion Fred Boulton just not bas ed on the actual facts.
Jaime A. (5)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 7:52 am
Thanks, legalize it.!!
MJ M. (490)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 12:08 pm
Worth repeating: National Cancer Institute says pot fights cancer
How many people has pot prohibition killed, in terms of cancer patients not treated and
research not done? Marijuana: Gateway to Health author Clint Werner s ays potentially
tens of thousands.
“These federal policies hurt people. That’s one reas on I get angry. When you know these
compounds block the progression of cancer and you do research to promote the idea
that it doesn’t work, when it really does — this is evil. It’s a m oral evil to keep people from
having these rem edies.”
Something tells me that it is more than just plain ignorance that prompts comments li ke
Fred B's.
Kit B. (335)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 12:39 pm
Documentary made by Wealth TV and uploaded to You Tube by Allan Frankel, MD.
Frankel has been a part of the testing of medical marij uana for many years.
http://www.youtube.com /watch?v=Tm6Is0a5WVY --- Part 1
Ryan Yehling
(47)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 1:30 pm
Thanks for sharing!
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MJ M. (490)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 1:47 pm
There is no plant on Earth more condemned than marijuana. We’re talking about a living
organism which governments have taken upon thems elves to designate as an ill egal
substance. Des pite no existing evidence of anyone ever dying of a marijuana overdose,
posses sion of this plant is s till illegal in m any parts. Marijuana has been found to
suppress cancer, reduce blood pres sure, treat glaucoma, alleviate pain and even inhibit
HIV. It is an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective. Can you understand
more now why it remains illegal?
Still Believe Nature Got It Wrong?
Kit B. (335)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 2:00 pm
Thanks MJ, I think that's a new site for me anyway.
Even the Egyptians left hieroglyphics about their mos t treasured drug, used by societies,
until confronted by lobbies for pharmaceutical companies , the lumber industry and OIL
companies. All have some financial stake in keeping Marijuana illegal.
ER C. (54)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 3:41 pm
WOW ! GOOD POINTS !
Theodore
Shayne (47)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 5:27 pm
Noted
Bryna Pizzo
(66)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 6:55 pm
Thank you!
David Lilja (50)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 10:53 pm
Make it legal
MJ M. (490)
Tuesday June 11, 2013, 11:10 pm
RE-Legalize! Cannabis was legal in this country for 140 years before the conspiracy
began.
ER C. (54)
Wednesday June 12, 2013, 9:00 am
Alison Baker _____GOOD POINTS !
SO MUCH OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS ARE WASTED WITH THE PROCESS FROM
CITATIONS, ARRESTS, THE COURT PROCESS, etc.
ER C. (54)
Wednesday June 12, 2013, 9:02 am
SAD POINT _____ MORE THAN LIKELY MONSANTO WILL GET AHOLD OF IT :~((
Gene
Jacobson
(211)
Wednesday June 12, 2013, 9:40 am
" Why are marijuana us ers criminals while alcohol and tobacco users are not? Why are
marijuana dealers demonized, but alcohol and tobacco dealers are not? "
The reason hemp was originally outlawed, prohibited, was because of the incredible
diversity of uses for it. The robber barons who owned cotton plantations, paper m aking
mills , and the other products mentioned wanted this banned because i t hurt them
economically. So the American people have had to endure this prohibition and this
incredibly ridiculous war on a drug far less harm ful than alcohol, because bus iness
wanted it so. It should be legalized, produced, taxed and sold as alcohol is, in the s ame
places. It would be a great new source of revenue and would save billions in the fruitless
attempt to keep it from people who want it. And it would put violent criminal cartels out of
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busines s. There is NO downs ide. Adults can make decis ions about what they choose to
do recreationally and this should not be an exception. Everything points to legalization as
rational, necessary and prudent policy. So let's get it done already.
Jeanne Rogers
(2)
Sunday June 30, 2013, 7:41 pm
It should've been legalized years ago.
MJ M. (490)
Sunday June 30, 2013, 7:45 pm
The Latest Cannabis Discoveries That the Federal Government Does n’t Want You to
Know About
ER C. (54)
Monday July 1, 2013, 11:21 pm
THE REASON IT IS TAKING SO LONG TO MAKE IT LEGAL IS
BECAUSE
MONSANTO HASN'T WORKED OUT ALL OF THEIR BUGS TO RUIN THE PLANTS &
SEEDS BEFORE IT'S READY TO BE LEGALIZED.
mmmmmmmmmmm GMO BUD
GOVERNMENT + MONSANTO + CORPORATIONS + SHAREHOLDERS ... WOW ! ! !
IMAGINE HOW THAT'S GOING TO ROCK & ROLL ON THE WALL STREET TICKERS ! ! !
WON'T AFFECT THE WALL STREET WORKERS, CAUSE THEY'RE ALREADY
SNORTING WHITE LINES.
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