LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!

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Colt45er

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Congressmen Barney Frank and Ron Paul are attempting to pass a bill to legalize 3 ounces or less of marijuana in the United States!! (House bill 4853) first attempt in American history this has been attempted! CNN has a story tonight, GANJA REVOLUTION BABY!!!!!

1 bill is focused on the use medical marijuana for health reasons.

1 bill trying to focus on what the average person has the right to do.

baby steps but its gettin there!

"The more people that smoke the erb, the more likely babylon is to fall"

-Bob Marley
 
Awesome, although I don't think it'll get through it's great that there's an attempt. and uhh I don't think I would ever have more than 3 ounces haha.

we should definatly have that right, but then again it is the land of the free
 
it won't get through. the people who control the united states are big fans of propaganda. but at least somebody's trying.
 
Marijuana Facts:*60,000 individuals are behind bars for marijuana offenses at a cost to taxpayers of $1.2 billion per year.
REFERENCE: Marijuana Arrests and Incarceration in the United States. 1999. The Federation of American Scientists' Drug Policy Analysis Bulletin.Taxpayers annually spend between $7.5 billion and $10 billion arresting and prosecuting individuals for marijuana violations. Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for marijuana possession only.
REFERENCE: NORML. 1997.The state of California saved nearly $1 billion dollars from 1976 to 1985 by decriminalizing the personal possession of one ounce of marijuana, according to a study of the state justice department budget.
REFERENCE: M. Aldrich and T. Mikuriya. 1988.New Mexico's 2001 state-commissioned Drug Policy Advisory Group determined that marijuana decriminalization "will result in greater availability of resources to respond to more serious crimes without any increased risks to public safety."
REFERENCE: New Mexico Governor's Drug Policy Advisory Group. 2001.Marijuana arrests have more than doubled since 1991, while adult use of the drug has remained stable. During this same period, the number of arrests for cocaine and heroin fell by approximately 33 percent.
REFERENCE: Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2000.Police arrest more Americans per year on marijuana charges than the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
REFERENCE: Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2001.Marijuana violations constitute the fifth most common criminal offense in the United States.
REFERENCE: Bureau of Justice Statistics. 2000.More than 734,000 individuals were arrested on marijuana charges in 2000. Eighty-eight percent of those arrested were charged with marijuana possession only.
REFERENCE: Federal Bureau of Investigation. 2001.Almost 5 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana since 1992. That's more than the entire populations of Alaska, Delaware, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, Washington DC and Wyoming combined.
REFERENCE. Federal Bureau of Investigation.According to editors of the prestigious Lancet British medical journal: "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ... It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat ... than alcohol or tobacco."
REFERENCE:Deglamorizing cannabis 1995.According to a 1999 federally commissioned report by the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine (IOM), "Except for the harms associated with smoking, the adverse effects of marijuana use are within the range tolerated for other medications."
REFERENCE: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (IOM). 1999.The National Academy of Sciences further found, "There is no conclusive evidence that the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs."
REFERENCE: National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine (IOM). 1999.More than 76 million Americans have admittedly tried marijuana. The overwhelming majority of these users did not go on to become regular marijuana users, try other illicit drugs, or suffer any deleterious effects to their health.
REFERENCE: Combined data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 1996.
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 35 percent of adults admit to having tried marijuana. Of these, only 5 percent have used marijuana in the past year, and only 3 percent have used marijuana in the past month. According to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter: "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."
REFERENCE: President Jimmy Carter: Message to Congress, August 2, 1977Convicted marijuana offenders are denied federal financial student aid, welfare and food stamps, and may be removed from public housing. Other non-drug violations do not carry such penalties. In many states, convicted marijuana offenders are automatically stripped of their driving privileges, even if the offense is not driving related.
REFERENCE: Section 483, Subsection F of the Higher Education Act of 1998.Under federal law, possessing a single marijuana cigarette or less is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $10,000 fine, the same penalty as possession of small amounts of heroin, cocaine or crack.
REFERENCE: J. Morgan and L. Zimmer. 1997.In several states, marijuana offenders may receive maximum sentences of life in prison.
REFERENCE: NormalA recent national study found that blacks are arrested for marijuana offenses at higher rates than whites in 90 percent of 700 U.S. counties investigated. In 64 percent of these counties, the black arrest rate for marijuana violations was more than twice the arrest rate for whites.
REFERENCE: J. Gettman. 2000. The NORML Foundation: Washington, DC.*Combined fact information above from Mike Gravel 08A 2002 Time/CNN poll found 80 percent of respondents support the legalization of medical marijuana.There are currently 12 states that have laws protecting medical marijuana patients from prosecution: Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.To date the DEA continues to raid medical marijuana dispensaries operating in these states, enforcing the war on drugs, free Americans.
 
good, Maryjane shouldn't be used to make profit. anyone who carries 3 O's is not looking at that much of a profit thats why there saying its fine, more for personal reasons. thats why all the other shit if you know what im sayin should be more taken care of, the drugs that are really fuckin' people up. hopefully it can veer off the road of kids trying other drugs, but it all depends on the individual and what there atmosphere of there living space is.

 
Wow thanks for posting this. I'm definitely gonna check out this story more. And +karma to Dave for posting up the TRUTH.

p.s. I like your quote there ;)....no homo
 
I can't tell you how much I hope you're kidding if this is a statement against the legalization of ganj.

Those were awesome facts, I hope those are brought to light when this bill is put to the vote. So stoked for this, it won't happen but every step in the right direction helps the overall cause. It has to start somewhere, I didn't expect something like this on the federal level in my lifetime...
 
only if you can hand out a legit reason for why you did it. so say somebody killed the bitches from fox news, cnn, etc. that should be legal.
 
i would love to see this happen.

but right now with the financial trouble people are in, it might not be the best. it could cause more money problems.

but for sure LEGALIZE IT!
 
im pretty sure you can if you live in Cali, its called a green card. Your allowed a certain amount of plants for medical and religious reasoning or something like that.
 
nah, green cards only allow you to pick up from marijuana retail stores. there are only a few legit ones though, most of them are getting busted each and every week. you walk in with your card, show it to the people at the counter, and they have displays all laid out showing what types they have. you pick your type and they hand it to you, free of charge (green cards are issued upon prescription from a doctor).
 
TURN ON CNN RIGHT NOW!!!

Sorry for the caps, I just happened to turn on CNN and notice a little blurb about the story coming up next.
 
false alarm. It was about just plain old cigarettes. When I saw some old dude talking about evil cigarettes I just assumed.
 
Shit dude, I just stopped browsing NS to figure out what channel CNN was... wastin' my time like that, son of a bitch...
 
Haha my bad. But come on, if you see a crazy old dude who looks like he had a stroke screaming about evil cigarettes, you're going to assume he's talking about marihuana.

And shame on you for not knowing what channel CNN is on haha.
 
Not really, nearly every bill that's passed has circumstances and ramifications that need to be thought out and solved. This one is no different, that's one of the reasons Congress exists. I'm not naive enough to think this particular bill will get passed, but the more media attention it gets the better. I think the nation will eventually come around, it's just going to take a lot of time. As I said earlier, I didn't even expect to see an attempt in my lifetime and here I am at 19 years old reading about it on NS, so I think it will happen sometime in the future.
 
It was so funny. Last week the senator of virgina was walking around shaking hands with people at This music festival I was at. And this guy right next to us was right in the middle of a joint right as the senator came up to him. The senator didnt even notice it at all and was talking to the guy and just kept going on shaking peoples hands
 
it may just be the legalization of posession or even decriminalization of it in all of US would be nice. but yah prob wont happen any time soon if ever. government could make bank if they did tax it like cigs and whatnot. would suck but whatever, ill pay yhe tax for it to be legal
 
my question is why havent indian reservations made it legal and capitalized the shit out of it.
 
When I read this one big smile came across my face. Its from the news article posted above.

If HR 5843 were passed, the House would support marijuana smokers possessing up to 100 grams -- about 3½ ounces -- of cannabis without being arrested. It would also give its blessing to the "nonprofit transfer" of up to an ounce of marijuana.
 
I think it means something else. What I got out of it was that you can't be arrested for dealing drugs as long as you aren't making money. So you can break even and its all good. I think they put that in there so making money off of ganj is illegal. That way at a later time the government can swoop in with their taxes and cause us to grow our own!
 
no you're dumb. indian reservations are their own sovereign regions so i dont see why they dont legalize it quick and set up like pot restaurants like in new Amsterdam
 
im also kinda excited for this. though being in the military i think that this will never benefit me til im out of the guard. but u never know. once upon a time i herd somethin about the DOD lowering the drinking age for people in service as a tactic to get people to join, so who knows if theyd ever do something!
 
RIGHT!! Do you know how much harder it is for kids to get beer than weed? This approach would solve the whole "Teen Use" thing, and would regulate the quality and of the product.
 
Do you mean EST or Pacific? Because I've been watching CNN and all I see is pointless election talk and that stupid cigarette thing again. I hope it comes soon because I can't take much more of this crap.
 
did i call you dumb??? uhhh no... no shit there, there own region thing. i have friends that are indian and know why they dont legalize it.

tingas hats haha
 
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