07-03-2009
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Governor
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Member Since: Sep 2008
Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 538
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Re: Make an argument as to why marijuana should be illegal....
While researching the Cannabis controversy, I've come across some good one liners and quotes.
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A DUI is really attempted murder. Pot possession is treated harsher under the law than DUI.
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Prohibition turns the government into criminals and turns the criminals into wealthy power-brokers
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if drugs like heroin were legal tomorrow would you pick up the needle? Very few people would and the ones that would would most likely be picking it up whether legal or not.
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The laws don't stop people from using drugs, they just stop them from getting help.
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Convicting drug users breaks up families and teaches them to be criminals.
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Prohibition of drugs puts the sale of drugs into the hands of criminals and causes gang violence
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The history of prohibition of any substance is the loss of a culture of common sense about that substance.
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It is truly an evil thing to imprison a human being and that punishment should be reserved for the truly evil.
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It's about money and power.
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Stop criminalizing a social problem.
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The Netherlands is the only nation where weed has been completely decriminalized and is sold openly. Their use of hard drugs is 1/3 that of the United States. Use of marijuana by minors is also far below the US and the UK, according to the British Journal of Medicine
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It's not that pot LEADS to hard drugs. It's like kissing. I've kissed a ton of girls in my life, but I've only slept with two, one being my wife. Kissing someone doesn't make you have sex with someone. But if you've had sex, you've probably kissed that person.
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Milk is a gateway drug. If you've done heroin, it's guaranteed you've drank Milk before.
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My Grandmother had big, beautiful poppies in her garden. I remember the day she was told they were illegal. "Well, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard! If you don't want to grow them, then don't grow them. But don't tell me what to do".
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Until all of our elected government officials are off the list of lobbyist, that have bought their votes against the legalization of marijuana, are stopped, our government will always be against legalization. Big corporations buy the votes they need to get what they want. Marijuana and hemp should be legal. It will help our environment and our economy. It will help with many medical problems and has been proven to kill brain and lung cancer cells. Big Pharmacy corporations will fight to the death to keep it illegal. Big oil will fight to the death to keep it illegal because it can be used to make bio fuel. Our government always votes in favor of big corporations and against we the people.
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I'm leaning a bit more toward 'illegalizing' the government!
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question:, "Why do so many people want alcohol to be legal and not pot?"
Answer: Because we drink wine in Church.
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If people ever start using it on a regular basis, it's going to cost the pharma industry huge amounts of money and we can't have happy healthy people walking around when there's money to be made, now can we?
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I have acreage, if its legalized in my lifetime, I'll sell my business,buy a tractor and retire a happy farmer.
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I've known a lot of people who get high every day. They are, for the most part, productive and otherwise law-abiding citizens. I can't say the same of anyone I've known who gets drunk every day.
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