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Police aren't for stopping crimes ? Really ? That's pretty funny stuff.

The hypocricy about marijuana is always good for a laugh..

marijuana is a huge benefit to patients with certain ailments, if you dont believe me, ask them.

My aunt just had a tumor removed from her brain, and is undergoing chemo. She just treid mj for the first time in her life. She says it works, who the hell is gonna tell her not to use it!?

As for recreationl use..why is it a gentleman has some nice 12 year old scotch and a good cigar, but if a man relaxes with a bit of weed, he's a lazy welfare collecting doper whose taking advantage of the sytem??

People get weed anyway...maybe 20 more years and another 100 billion or so for the war on drugs would help?

The purpose of the police is to protect the city/state and raise revenue for the city/state. Crime is just the red herring to justify the city/state retainers.

If the drug companies didn't stand to loose money it would still be legal. Not to mention law enforcment. Overtime pay for raiding parties, extra ammo and pay for training and exercise. What about our borders? Close them down, legalize, and what will the value of the crap that comes across our border be? How much power will those cartels have? You can't tax it though, anybody that can grow tomatoes and corn can grow it. Medicinal purposes my a$$ in Cali. Do you realize how many new Dr.s opened "clinics" just to write prescriptions? Alcohol is far worse. Prohabition worked great didn't it. Quit waisting our money, and giving Mexico the power.

Why is there crime? Because of government and the laws they pass. Take away government and there is no crime. You can't have government without having crime. Crime and government go hand in hand.

Sounds like you took that line right out of the High Times Magazine playbook DD.

Funny, I always see them show up after a crime has been committed. How many crimes have you witnessed a police officer stop lately?

legalizing pot wont change the border issue one bit.....far more cocaine and other things come over the border than pot.....when i was using it recreationally and self medicating 10 years ago i never encountered Mexican weed, everything i got my hands on was "locally" grown or out of Canada.....vast majority of it had spent its whole "life" within the state of Montana....

while im for legalizing pot it wont change a single thing with the border....

I have no idea of who they are or what they are. Nope, I'm anarchist due to serious study and wondering why nothing seems to be working. That lead me to the conclusion that governments can only create problems but cannot create solutions to anything.

BTW: Full discloser, while I do drink from time to time I've never smoked anything, not even the weed.

So the reason we have "crime" is because we classify unruly behavior as such right ? That's your story and you're sticking to it ? Robbery ? Theft ? Beating your wife ? Child abuse ? Should I continue ? You really need to spend some time in an urban area.

Been there done that. Why the hell do you think I've lived in Montana for thirty plus years.

Wife beating and child abuse could be handled by an extended family far easier and cheaper than having a government. As to robbery, theft, murder etc. there's the hanging tree. We the People can do a far better job at justice than any government can especially as the government is a criminal enterprise to begin with.

We (civilized) people don't want to interact with robbers, muggers, thieves etc' so a civilized society has law enforcement types deal with that "element". I don't see alot a Wall Streeter's banning together to form a posse to stamp out crime. Do you ?

This is why it should be legalized and taxed.......Maine also has MM............... Wake up people, it is far less destructive than alcohol!!

I wonder- is Congress required to pee in a cup?

Should be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If they were stoned, they'd probably get something done.

For argument's sake - why?

EVEN IF - a person was smoking weed - for the simple reason that they liked the way it made them feel - why should they be persecuted or prosecuted for using such a drug?

Think about how many people you know who have used it - now think of what percentage of those people ended up being harmed by it.

By almost all accounts, cannabis is WAY less harmful than tobacco - AND also far less harmful than alcohol. If the act of being arrested is more likely to harm a person compared to doing the drug - something has gone seriously wrong with society.

Talk to a cop. Up here, police dread two days a month. "Welfare Wednesdays" and "Pay-day Fridays." Those are the days people cash their cheques. Those are the days cops work their asses off trying to combat one of the toughest things they regularly have to deal with - domestic violence. MANY drinkers abuse alcohol - and many beat their wives or children when they get drunk. Girls who pass out - are often sexually abused. Alcohol and tobacco kills so many people in our society.

Then there are the dopers. Ask a cop how often they get called to protect a woman or children because the man in the home has smoked some weed. Usually the complaint they face is that the individual becomes couch-locked,listens to music or watches TV and then eats too many Doritos.

I'd rather my own three teen-aged girls not find out about my own need to medicate. But - I'm prepared for the conversation should they eventually find out about my own use.

I do believe it best that they use no recreational drugs - at least until their brains and their bodies mature. Drug free is the best way to be.

BUT - knowing what I know now - I have to admit that I'd rather they used marijuana rather than tobacco - or alcohol. I've known too many people who died from complications directly related to both of those two drugs.

Regulate it - tax the hell out of it it (if you want to) - but end the hypocrisy of criminalizing a drug that has so many medical applications and - when compared to so many other drugs - and has so few downsides - at least in comparison to what is already legal - and to what the pharmaceutical companies are presently pushing for our ailments.

RD,

You should talk to a cop.

Laughin' my ass off...



Travis

Yeah, I thought that was especially funny myself.

Marijuana is not the drug problem of America. Cocaine & Prescription pills(pain-killers)are. How many Doctor prescribe pain killers knowing the patient don't need them?

Alcohol is much more harmful than Marijuana. Haven't smoked in yrs, but remember the effects. 2 beers will get your more buzzed than 2 joints.