Us Attorney:no More Marijuana Raids

[Wilsontruth]

A local lawmaker is promoting the idea of legalizing marijuana as the answer to the state's money problems. This comes after DEA Administrator Michele Leonhart, and reiterating a position made by the White House following DEA raids in California. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters that ending federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries "is now American policy."

US Attorney: No More Marijuana Raids

[14hourlunchbreak]

Wow... that's sort of stupid. I'm guessing he's Republican?

[Complete400]

At 2/27/09 03:29 PM, 14hourlunchbreak wrote: Wow... that's sort of stupid. I'm guessing he's Republican?

Just like the people who loosened regulations on the banks, thus causing the economic crisis were all democrats, but hey, they are brilliant.

[Muffin]

Promoting the idea doesn't mean it's happening or going to happen, it's just an attempt. But any steps are good ones, no matter how small they might be.

[ForNoReason]

Yeah, its not the end of raids for drug dealers or local growers, just the MEDICAL growers/sellers. Unless you have a prescription, dont start a farm.

[DroopyA]

Don't legalize it... just decriminalize it.

It shouldn't be anything more then a fine for having marijuana on your person... but it shouldn't be legal either. If marijuana is legalized, tobacco companies will mass produce it, fill it with chemicals, coat it in posions, give us less pot that makes us less high for a shorter amount of time, and charge us 3 times the amount. The price will slowly go up over the years... to the point where we all look back and say, "Remember when a quad was only $40?"

That would suck. I like pot prices now and I enjoy buying it on the streets. It keeps it real.. the prices stay low and the quality stays high. I just don't want to go to jail or have my house raided over it...

Decriminalize it and make it little more then a fine. Caught with pot? $30.00 fine, go about your business. Sounds good to me!

[TheJamoke]

At 2/27/09 03:39 PM, Muffin wrote: Promoting the idea doesn't mean it's happening or going to happen, it's just an attempt. But any steps are good ones, no matter how small they might be.

Pretty much, yeah. Progress towards radical new policy, especially on a federal scale, is slow but every small step counts. It seems that little by little the higher ups and policy makers are beginning to see the folly of throwing good money after bad, wasting time and putting the lives of federal agents at risk pursuing marijuana as part of the war on drugs. As Ross Mirkarimi said in the video, blowing taxpayer money prosecuting people on weed related offenses while there are more heinous crimes to consider is waste of effort.

While I don't support the legalization of marijuana because I'd like to see everyone be free to be stoners, rather I am with Mirkarimi in the sense that I'd like to see the country's resources and my tax dollars put to better use pursuing major crimes, like punishing the execs of failing corporations who give themselves 7-figure golden parachutes from their company's funds while robbing the low level employees of their pensions, or the war profiteers who made billions in Iraq and Afghanistan thanks to the last administration's back-door dealings. By comparison, people owning plants should be but a minor concern.

[Wilsontruth]

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[ZekePowerful]

I've often heard that cigarettes do much more damage, and are more addictive than marijuana, and yet marijuana is illegal.

Of course, I could be wrong. Since I'm sure a few of you self-proclaimed smokers aren't lying, is it?

[sk8erguy321]

At 2/27/09 04:08 PM, DroopyA wrote: Don't legalize it... just decriminalize it.

It shouldn't be anything more then a fine for having marijuana on your person... but it shouldn't be legal either. If marijuana is legalized, tobacco companies will mass produce it, fill it with chemicals, coat it in posions, give us less pot that makes us less high for a shorter amount of time, and charge us 3 times the amount. The price will slowly go up over the years... to the point where we all look back and say, "Remember when a quad was only $40?"

That would suck. I like pot prices now and I enjoy buying it on the streets. It keeps it real.. the prices stay low and the quality stays high. I just don't want to go to jail or have my house raided over it...

Decriminalize it and make it little more then a fine. Caught with pot? $30.00 fine, go about your business. Sounds good to me!

sorry man but you are wayyyy off. They worried when they legalized alcohol that it would be less quality then bootleg alcohol, higher price, and that the underground bars would still be there. But the exact opposite will happen. Look at the quality of medical marijuana. It is some of the best i have ever smoked!!! Super silver haze, bubble gum kush, white widow, all medicinal quality and we would get the same quality as consumers. If the government started messing with it, then they might as well keep it illegal because no one will buy it from them, and go back to their dealers. No the quality will go up and the price will drop because they can start mass producing it. Farms upon famrs will be growing it everywhere and it will be amazing

[Sevkat]

Marijuana! yay!

[Xinxinix]

Oh wow, the smartest thing I've ever heard. "Legalize weed! It's what America wants!".

[Sensationalism]

At 3/3/09 10:58 PM, sk8erguy321 wrote:

At 2/27/09 04:08 PM, DroopyA wrote: Don't legalize it... just decriminalize it.

It shouldn't be anything more then a fine for having marijuana on your person... but it shouldn't be legal either. If marijuana is legalized, tobacco companies will mass produce it, fill it with chemicals, coat it in posions, give us less pot that makes us less high for a shorter amount of time, and charge us 3 times the amount. The price will slowly go up over the years... to the point where we all look back and say, "Remember when a quad was only $40?"

That would suck. I like pot prices now and I enjoy buying it on the streets. It keeps it real.. the prices stay low and the quality stays high. I just don't want to go to jail or have my house raided over it...

Decriminalize it and make it little more then a fine. Caught with pot? $30.00 fine, go about your business. Sounds good to me!

sorry man but you are wayyyy off. They worried when they legalized alcohol that it would be less quality then bootleg alcohol, higher price, and that the underground bars would still be there. But the exact opposite will happen. Look at the quality of medical marijuana. It is some of the best i have ever smoked!!! Super silver haze, bubble gum kush, white widow, all medicinal quality and we would get the same quality as consumers. If the government started messing with it, then they might as well keep it illegal because no one will buy it from them, and go back to their dealers. No the quality will go up and the price will drop because they can start mass producing it. Farms upon famrs will be growing it everywhere and it will be amazing

I agree with skaterguy here.
Legalisation is way better than decriminalisation. The quality would improve and it'd be regulated. People will get ripped off much much less and it's not going to be played around with. You'll be getting quality weed without having to deal with shady drug dealers.

Droopy, I think you're freaking out for no reason. And I don't think they'll need to keep raising the prices because they'll be able to tax the product. Plus weed does something that cigarettes do not. They give you the munchies. Which means you'll be buying more food which means you'll be supporting the economy. Go potheads!!

[RacistBassist]

At 3/3/09 10:58 PM, sk8erguy321 wrote: Farms upon famrs will be growing it everywhere and it will be amazing

Until the supply eventually overshadows the demand, and many farms will go under from the farmers being stupid shits and switching over to strictly weed.

And what's to stop us from growing our own shit? I can see people more inclined to grow a a marijuana plant then their own garden

[Stoicish]

Don't flip shit.

The legalizations of MJ will take some time in this country. If you have a big ziplock bag of weed you better bet your ass you are still going to get arrested. That's a huge mistake US citizens make when they visit Canada, cause guess what fuckers, they are nearly as strict as the US is when it comes to pot.

Now, I'm not sure you'll see the legalization of pot anytime soon, but you'll probably see a lessining of sentence involving the drug. The problem is that its just costing states too much money to prosecute these blowholes who get busted with pot.

Given a few years eventually the bud will be legalized and you'll see it given the same statues as alcohol.

i.e. Don't Smoke and Drive, Can't be Stoned in Public, etc.

Which is fine, I suppose, but I'll never use the drug. Cause, like alcohol, it just makes you act stupid. If you want to risk a momentary bliss then fucking go ahead. But like any substance you can become addicted to the feeling it gives you. Alcohol has this effect, cigarettes have this effect so why shouldn't pot have the effect.

And honestly at least 5-20million people in the US has done or does pot on a regular basis.

So, yeah.

[NeverHundred]

At 3/3/09 11:04 PM, Sensationalism wrote:

At 3/3/09 10:58 PM, sk8erguy321 wrote:

At 2/27/09 04:08 PM, DroopyA wrote: Don't legalize it... just decriminalize it.

It shouldn't be anything more then a fine for having marijuana on your person... but it shouldn't be legal either. If marijuana is legalized, tobacco companies will mass produce it, fill it with chemicals, coat it in posions, give us less pot that makes us less high for a shorter amount of time, and charge us 3 times the amount. The price will slowly go up over the years... to the point where we all look back and say, "Remember when a quad was only $40?"

That would suck. I like pot prices now and I enjoy buying it on the streets. It keeps it real.. the prices stay low and the quality stays high. I just don't want to go to jail or have my house raided over it...

Decriminalize it and make it little more then a fine. Caught with pot? $30.00 fine, go about your business. Sounds good to me!

sorry man but you are wayyyy off. They worried when they legalized alcohol that it would be less quality then bootleg alcohol, higher price, and that the underground bars would still be there. But the exact opposite will happen. Look at the quality of medical marijuana. It is some of the best i have ever smoked!!! Super silver haze, bubble gum kush, white widow, all medicinal quality and we would get the same quality as consumers. If the government started messing with it, then they might as well keep it illegal because no one will buy it from them, and go back to their dealers. No the quality will go up and the price will drop because they can start mass producing it. Farms upon famrs will be growing it everywhere and it will be amazing

I agree with skaterguy here.
Legalisation is way better than decriminalisation. The quality would improve and it'd be regulated. People will get ripped off much much less and it's not going to be played around with. You'll be getting quality weed without having to deal with shady drug dealers.

Droopy, I think you're freaking out for no reason. And I don't think they'll need to keep raising the prices because they'll be able to tax the product. Plus weed does something that cigarettes do not. They give you the munchies. Which means you'll be buying more food which means you'll be supporting the economy. Go potheads!!

I'm all for smoking pot, but I have to agree with Droopy here. The government will want to tax it, the corperations will want to put nicotine in it and make it addictive and probibly more dangerous. It shouldn't be criminal but I don't know if putting it in the hands of corperations is a good idea.

Even drug corperations would probibly mess it up. But I suppose it would be better in there hands than the tabacco industry. I'd take legalization over nothing I guess, but I'm pretty sure it will be taxed to no end, just like cigs, soft drinks, snack foods and alcohal.

[gibleto]

At 3/3/09 11:06 PM, RacistBassist wrote:

At 3/3/09 10:58 PM, sk8erguy321 wrote: Farms upon famrs will be growing it everywhere and it will be amazing

Until the supply eventually overshadows the demand, and many farms will go under from the farmers being stupid shits and switching over to strictly weed.

Haha well that will take a LOT of supply to happen. I can always use more pot. I don't need to have some right away, but having as little as a G at home just makes me feel better.

And what's to stop us from growing our own shit? I can see people more inclined to grow a a marijuana plant then their own garden

Why should anything stop us? It's not hard, I don't believe. There ARE steps you have to take to get it to get you high. ( I think. ) I'm pretty sure it's not just a pick and smoke type of thing.

Is it?

Either way, I think legalization would make the stuff out there cheaper, in some cases more potent, and easier to reach.

Sure tobacco companies will come out with some chemically altered form that gives you ninety different cancers, but if people are willing to buy it, they can go ahead.

[TheLameSauce]

At 3/3/09 11:11 PM, NeverHundred wrote:

At 3/3/09 11:04 PM, Sensationalism wrote:

At 3/3/09 10:58 PM, sk8erguy321 wrote:

At 2/27/09 04:08 PM, DroopyA wrote:

I'm all for smoking pot, but I have to agree with Droopy here. The government will want to tax it, the corperations will want to put nicotine in it and make it addictive and probibly more dangerous. It shouldn't be criminal but I don't know if putting it in the hands of corperations is a good idea.

Even drug corperations would probibly mess it up. But I suppose it would be better in there hands than the tabacco industry. I'd take legalization over nothing I guess, but I'm pretty sure it will be taxed to no end, just like cigs, soft drinks, snack foods and alcohal.

okay. well then, like alcohol, if it was legal wouldn't you be able to grow it for your own consumption? i mean, as long as you didn't sell it? because people brew their own alcohol all the time. frivolous considering it's not legal, but for the sake of argument, it seems like a way to circumvent an unsatisfactory corporate product.

[RacistBassist]

At 3/3/09 11:14 PM, gibleto wrote: Haha well that will take a LOT of supply to happen. I can always use more pot. I don't need to have some right away, but having as little as a G at home just makes me feel better.

Marijuana is legalized.

Every damn farmer who isn't extremely anti-drug will switch over.

Why should anything stop us? It's not hard, I don't believe. There ARE steps you have to take to get it to get you high. ( I think. ) I'm pretty sure it's not just a pick and smoke type of thing.

That's not what I am getting at. What I am getting at is people already grow, and if it was legalized, even more people would grow their own shit

Either way, I think legalization would make the stuff out there cheaper, in some cases more potent, and easier to reach.

^That.

Though I doubt the more potent part, companies would go for as cheap and least potent as possible to get people to buy more.

Sure tobacco companies will come out with some chemically altered form that gives you ninety different cancers, but if people are willing to buy it, they can go ahead.

People are willing to commit suicide. We should let them do it irght?

[Sensationalism]

If they start putting tobacco in the weed they distribute, I'd switch over to medical maryjane. Fuck that noise.