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Nat Geo's Explorer: Marijuana Nation tonight, Dec. 2
By April MacIntyre Dec 2, 2008, 16:35 GMT
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my friends and i smoke and have since high school. it was a way relate to each other a way to party a way to kill time in a small town. from what i have read and seen so far the medical marijuana laws and traffic if you will is making legualizations harder and showing smokers and growers like my freinds and i that staying clear for now is the best bet. before this movement the only marijuana related deaths i had known were due to gang bangers. now its too easy for more vialant criminals to find growers. robbery shootings these are things that i had not heard of happening to growers till a few years ago. i would love to grow for cancer patients, however, i would be to afraid of being shot. its not the cops or the laws that scare me its the ones that take what they want with out care to others. shot me for some pot, no thanks!
i have a topic for you. beer and its effects on the people of the world since its begining compared to marijuana. a bar full of drunk people verses a bar full of marijuana smokers.
I was floored with gratitude when this article immediately asked the best question there is to ask: Why is cannabis still a Schedule I drug? From what I've learned, all controlled substances are classified in Schedules 1 through 5 (I - V), I being the most dangerous and V being the least. This classification system was created in 1970 and is called the Controlled Substance Act of 1970.
The CSA is what congress uses to make drug prohibition constitutional, but it is not based at all on science - it is just a tool to get around our Constitution, because our Constitution would never allow the militaristic, no-knock raids that happen about 40,000 times a year (Info from Law Enforcement Against Prohibition). It continues for the sake of Big Pharma's profits and unethical law enforcement members' adrenaline rushes. They love getting paid to bust down doors, point guns at children, shoot all the pets and wreck the place. In one horrible case in January, 2008, they killed a mother holding her baby. Because her housemate allegedly sold weed. RIP, Tarika Wilson.
Cannabis is classified as being very dangerous, having a high potential for abuse and no medical value. It is very hard to research cannabis because, by being placed in Schedule I, it is nearly forbidden to touch it at all. Unbelieveable - American scientists being told they cannot research this natural plant!
The best news, though, is that there is now a bill introduced into our House of Representatives that will reschedule cannabis from I to II, which will free it for research and prescription status. It is HR 5842, the Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act. Please visit your representative's webform and ask him/her to cosponsor this bill - it CAN happen if we each do our part to keep us free.
Cheers for Peace and Wisdom to All!
Why is Marijuana a Schedule I drug when Alcohol and Tobacco, two of the most hard core, dangerous drugs in the world are not even listed on this same Schedule.
I don't advocate the use of any drugs since most, if not all drugs are 99% addictive and forever life changing. I only advocate that, people act Rational, Positive and Creative all the time, even if you use drugs.
It's not the drug that is bad, it's the way people act after they use. Drugs are powerful substances and can be used either positively or negatively. If you use please be on the positive side.
Thank you.
Every job I go to now requies a drug test (urine sample) as a condition of employment. You volunteer to give your sample, marked as evidence. But of course if you dont volunteer you will not be allowed to work. This is forced drug testing and an internal search of our bodies. They must cite statistical surveys that say drug abusers, pot smokers, have more accidents at work. That way they can justify disinfranchising you...you not being able to work or support yourself. Of course the studies are based on statistics and case studies I suspect which can be manipulated and biased to give the proper result and justify the Drug War on us. I suspect the statistics and study results have been tampered with to satisfy the Drug Warrious. Pot is not a dangerous Drug...Period. This is outrageous and a violation of our rights. I have smoked pot in my early years and I know it is not harmful. The unfairness continues and our jails ought to have real criminals in them and not pot posessors or dealers. The punishment does not fit the crime. The crime is very small and ignorance by the powerful people that rule us means the drug war must go on despite not being fair or based on reality.....Wake UP EVERYONE!!!
PLEASE STOP AND THINK FOR TEN SECONDS... JUST PLANT CROPS AND PUT O2 INTO THE AIR AND PAY OFF THE DEFFICET FASTER THAN EVER...
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Why is marijuana still illegal?
Marijuana remains illegal because the American judiciary claims the marijuana laws do not affect rights to liberty and property secured from unreasonable searches and seizure by the 4th and 5th amendments.
The judiciary does not recognized marijuana users as persons under the constitution. That it is rational to search and seize my person and property for violating the marijuana laws.
The judiciary does not recognize marijuana as property.
Alaskans have had constitutional protection to grow marijuana since 1975.
What happened to thr rest of us? What happened to due process of law?
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I think you bring up some pretty valid points here. Well done.
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The infuriating thing is that all of these defenders of weed are users;
I am not. I do not think that drug use is something the state should be involved with.
The state should only be involved with violations of the rights of others. Anything beyond this is personal business.
it's insane to think that marijuana was ever illegal. alcohol and tobacco kill millions every year yet our goverment seems to accept this as if there is nothing they can do. if we can impose our will on the rest of the world and control it, then why can't we control our own people and get rid of alcohol and tobacco and replace these with marijuana? why is bud so hated by our goverment? it's so replenishable we would'nt have to cut another tree down or destroy a habitit for lumber. maybe it's still illegal cause marijuana would destroy big pharmicutical companies with it's natural healing powers. our national debt could be saved, along with a huge increase in jobs and hope for our unseen future. marijuana may be the last thing still available to us that could actually save our planet. if that's not enough to make god's plants legal to the world then i don't know what is. it's time the people of this country unite together and stand up for what is right-i for one am sick of this goverment telling me how to medicate myself.....man-made pills that cost a fortune and can kill you....or plants made from god and mother nature that naturally heal and are 100% safe?
i love you for life i finally hooked up with some good people pls call me asap when u r in town your garden is bella and u ar my bello zio love ya your kidd pacho2
Just wanted to send love and respects, other people love your garden of Eden!!Anyways, call me I love you;
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Hi my name is Carol, I live down the hall from Frank. Word is getting around about your project and it sounds really good. Take care, Carol
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