Forget jobs and spending cuts. Ask around online, and it seems Americans just want the right to get high.
Marijuana legalization has been the top issue on the White House’s new “We the People” petition site since it launched last month as a way for citizens to lobby for issues that matter most to them.
The marijuana petition already has more than 55,000 signatures — 20,000 more than any other issue on the site and much more than the 25,000-signature threshold administrators set to warrant an official response. The White House has not yet responded to the marijuana petition.
And so it has been each time the Obama administration engaged voters online: Marijuana legalization was among the most popular questions raised on Twitter, YouTube and Change.gov, the president’s transition site…
“The political mind is pretty simple: What can you do for me, what can you do to harm me. … We’re not effectively casting that in either direction,” said Allen St. Pierre, executive director for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which started the White House petition…
“We are not nearly as organized to put together the type of donations and PACs that arrest and immediately catch the attention of the elite body politic,” St. Pierre said.
What happens to transparency when the people speak and the president thinks its a joke?
Ffffffffffffffffft. (sniff-sniff) You’re ALL, like, crazy, man.
Only idiots ignoring history want prohibition to continue. Drug criminalization harms everyone, victims and crooks. Legalize drugs, remove incentives for organized crime, and treat victims. Drug criminalization is only a tool for government and police control of certain populations.
Some supporters of legalization merely want to defund the gangs, uncorrupt entire nations, politicians, police and courts, unclog the courts, free the police to find actual criminals, and generally admit the prohibition just doesn’t work.
So instead we have the lunacy of high drug use AND high destruction of society. The worst of BOTH worlds.
Back to the topic of Legalizing weed. Or decriminalizing growing stuff. The thing I found interesting about Ken Burns’ “Prohibition”, was that the wealthy were in favor of it (at first), because they felt the poorer would do more work if they weren’t allowed to drink. And then the wealth stocked up on all the booze their wine cellars could hold. So they, themselves wouldn’t suffer. Years later, the wealthy changed their minds and wanted prohibition repealed. Because the Great Depression had left so many jobless, the wealthy’s own income was the sole source of revenue. Making alcohol legal again, would mean the gov. could tax its sale, and not have to pick on the rich. What a bunch of self-serving A-holes. Kind of reminds one of the S&L and Subprime Mortgage meltdowns. The wealthy sure have a lot of stupid ideas, that they get the gov. to go along with. And then the country has to pick up the pieces, afterward. Outsourcing US jobs to overseas, will prove to be another one.
BTW, one of the most deadly poisons on earth is Risen. And it’s made from the caster bean. Which you can legally grow or buy online. Nothing stops anyone from making this stuff, and killing thousands with it. Except maybe a Moral Code, and the temporary lack of knowledge of how to do it. But MJ growing and selling is what’s illegal. Even though it’s use rarely ever kills someone. No more so (and probably a lot less) than alcohol abuse, causes accidents and suicides. But apparently “feeling good” is something that must be controlled by the government. And is only allowed by presently licensed and grandfathered commercial industries like alcohol, tobacco, and firearms.
You think?