Drug Laws/Reform

I am curious how many people are for marijuana legalization and how many are against it. Please post your stance, and if you want to, explain why you feel the way you do.

Just like Breckenridge! Here is a cool article about how the successful legalization effort in Breckenridge has inspired other towns in both CO, and other states to follow suit. It is a strategy by the advocates of legalization that will probably be very effective I bet. The more places it becomes legal, the more of its own people that the federal government finds itself at war with. This has me totally amped.

 Activist1 now claims it is her "inalienable right" as guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States of America to keep marijuana illegal. I have yet to find the pertinent passage alluding to her assertion.

 My challenge to all Hivers on both sides of the issue is to show me that this "inalienable right" does indeed exist, or conversely, that the present prohibition on personal marijuana use is in itself unconstitutional.

 Of course Linda will not be able to defend her position, as usual. She will chime in with an insulting/hateful comment claiming there is nothing to debate, again, as usual. Expect her comments too include pfffft, LOL, and the ever popular "you legalizers".

 How about it Hivers, what are your thoughts on this?

Now this should be of interest to everyone! it has tons of data and shows some states have a decrease of almost 50% !! ... so NOW I say to YOU " THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!"

http://www.csdp.org/research/2005TeenUseReport.pdf

 With the welcome prospect of legal Marijuana looming on Californias horizon perhaps we should be asking ourselves what the Federal Governments response will be. We all know that Big Brother isn't going to take legalization lying down, and will likely want to make an example out of California to discourage other states from following our lead. But really, just what can the Feds do?

 They could withhold Federal Funds from the state until we come into compliance with Federal law. If they follow such a course though it could bring on the next Great Depression, withholding funds from the largest economy in the Nation would cripple Californias economy, and that in turn would pretty much ensure that the rest of the Nation would start circling the economic drain with us. Does President Obama really want to go down in history as the next Herbert Hoover? Not likely, so withholding funds would not be at the top of his "to do" list.

If your son were to become ill in the same way I did, and it can happen to anybody, when you have surgery and your internal organs are exposed to air and saline they can begin to adhere together, and he was dying, no other medication will work. will you just let him die? which is more important your views on cannabis or your childs life? and please just give a straight answer because if he is going into military service this could very easily become a reality for you!

I am not trying to bait you just maybe get you to think. even if you wont admit it here.

Marijuana has long been classified as a dangerous drug with no medical benefits. But thanks in part to the work of a University of Washington medical student, a major medical association this week urged the federal government to reconsider.

"It's a huge shift on medical ideology," said Sunil Aggarwal, who's been studying the medical uses of marijuana for 10 years. "It's something I've been dreaming of since I was an undergraduate and found out that marijuana wasn't a horribly dangerous thing."