Just gonna quote flemco in full on this.

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Support for decriminalization of Weed is growing again.

It's not a big fucking secret, the reason why, y'see: As old people who were taught that pot is a killer get older, they will die. This will leave more and more of us that know the truth: Marijuana is less dangerous than pretty much anything out there except baby aspirin.

My problem, as always, has nothing to do with medical usage. Hell, I still don't smoke weed. Haven't in ages. It is, in my opinion, a great insomnia cure, a great painkiller, and something teens and young adults like to fuck around with.

The argument should never be about whether or not it makes a good medicine. That's where the people fighting the law fucked up. As St. Douglas Stanhope put it:
"Let's start the argument where it fucking begins: this is my body, and I'm going to do what I want with it. Make it illegal, sure, that just means I'll be a criminal to you rat-fucking bastards with your jackboots, when you bust my door down for having a joint in the privacy of my own home."

Were it legalized thirty minutes from now, I would not run out and buy a pack - many of my friends would, and gaw'blessum. That would be fine by me. I might pick one up the next time I went grocery shopping, just in case I got another bout of insomnia. It would likely last as long as my last bottle of Melatonin.

I have no real dog in this race, but I say: Legalize it and tax the FUCK out of it. Tax weed like you do tobacco. Then let's see all the stupid asshats whine later when the legalization fails to bring the entire Western world to its knees. Let's see the Repubs eat their words when the jobs created bring the economy back up. The only people left fighting this are the cowards who take everything they're told at face value AND never tried it themselves.

LEGALIZE IT.

From: http://flemco.livejournal.com/3139303.html

Comments

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

It's not my vice, but I wouldn't mind seeing the state get some revenue out of it.

[etcet.livejournal.com]

I feel more or less the same about most drugs, really. The ones where you can kill yourself with an OD will have warning labels a foot high.

[marchenland.livejournal.com]

Just like they do now, pretty much. The legal ones you can OD on, that is.

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Yeah, me too -- although my sis, who's worked with hard drug users & their families for years, & who very definitely knows the score, would have different views about the legalisation of some hard drugs. I respect her, and her opinion, enough to have at least acquired some doubts about legalising some hard drugs.

Still -- alcohol and tobacco are already legal. It is fucking insane that weed, acid, E, and shrooms, at least, are illegal; they're less harmful than either alcohol or tobacco.

[satorisearching.livejournal.com]

Not mine either, but the combination of tax revenue with the savings in law enforcement resources makes legalization sound like a no-brainer to me.

[y2kdragon.livejournal.com]

I keep saying that if they regulated and taxes marijuana like they do alcohol and tobacco, we'd solve a lot of our financial issues. Or at the very least, lessen the burden.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

Agreed - not to mention the other industries (like paper and fiber production) besides medicinal and recreational drug use that would get a boost.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

That's the funny part. Idaho farmers have been trying to get the okay on growing industrial hemp for a decade. The Department of Agriculture is okay with this, considering that standard hemp is a different species of Cannabis. It's the DEA that keeps fucking things up, on the argument of "Well, someone could smoke it to get high"...which is possible if you want to huff an entire bale of it at once.

[excess-and-oohs.livejournal.com]

baby aspirin can cause reye's syndrome. pot is still safer.

[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

I hear you. I can't smoke, due to horrible asthma-rotted lungs bequeathed me as a premie, but I'm firmly and foursquare for legalization. Hell, I'd grow it in my back yard solely for friends, the way I'm tempted to do for tobacco. (Small amounts for legal use are perfectly okay, and you have a lot of heirloom varieties that do quite well in pipes.) Best of all, since I can say with authority that I've never had anything other than secondhand pot smoke in my life, there goes the argument that the only proponents of decriminalization and legalization are users of the stuff.

[smaugchow.livejournal.com]

Sure, lets give the GOP another plank they can be unianimous about, and thus regain some power and respectability as the whole "abortion and gay marriage" thing is getting old, and the Dems something they can be fractured about, thus making them look like the ineffectual dweebs they certainly are.

I'm for legalization, although pot never did anything to me but male me stupid. Um...stupider, I guess. But it won't happen any time soon and any democrat who pushes for it is just handing the GOP a giant weapon that WILL be used EFFECTIVELY. It's political plutonium.