Marijuana: After 30 Years, Nebraska Legislator Wants to Recriminalize

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Pot is a heck of a lot safer than alcohol. It never should have been criminaized in the first place.

I'll bet this moke is a Republican toady of the Bush administration even though his party affiliation isn't listed here. When comes the revolution there'll be no Dick and Bush screwing everyone over nothing at all. VOTE DEMOCRAT 2008!!!!

"To "Pot is a heck of a lot safer than alcohol..."
Comment posted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/18/2008 - 5:23pm
Do your research before blurting out your over simplistic and substantially un-informed rhetoric! "

I have read the research. I'm an MD, for crying out loud ... and -- although it is indeed simplistic -- I don't see an error with the first statement at all.

Is there some confusion for you, anonymous?

Is that a request for some research results, perhaps?

You're the one most in need of research, shithead; get your head out of your asshole you ignorant fuck!

it makes me giggle.... i must be such a hard criminal.....

Giggling is bad enough already, but it can lead to fits of uncontrollable laughter.
And that's real deadly!

THEY think they can make marijuana go away. . . So hilarious!!!

If anything can kill prohibition---it's laughter; lots of it!

Few medical doctors and certainly fewer scientists would come to the same conclusion as the MD above regarding the relative dangers of marijuana versus alcohol.

On the other hand, a medical degree is not necessarily sufficient to confer expertise. I once met an MD who believed plants had ESP. Fortunately, he was refused a license to practice medicine because he was recognized as being nuts while still an intern. His specialty was pediatrics.

Giordano

Other than a possible correlation to cancer (but correlation does not mean causation, if you are college educated you received that bit in Psych 100-level) marijuana is one of the safest drugs known to man. No one has ever died from an overdose. In most clinical studies, the only noticeable effect was that of a slight drop in short-term memory, which equated to a slight drop in IQ (1-2 pts.) - but this drop was temporary. In fact, some scientific studies performed with it found that, on average, marijuana users had an IQ of 113 - compared to the average IQ of the rest of the population being around 100. It is also known to slightly increase alpha wave brain activity.

Which can mean one of two things. One, marijuana possibly increases intelligence. Or two, on average, people with above-average intelligence smoke marijuana. The alpha wave aspect just means people who smoke marijuana are a little more creative than non-smokers on average. That fact is objective.

Either way, it looks good. You can die easily from alcohol overdose, and it quite literally kills your brain cells. Not to mention the fact it can cause a physical dependency, which can lead to lethal withdrawal symptoms.

Keep on drinking, buddy! All of the marijuana nay-sayers can just keep on drinking themselves into an early grave, as far as I'm concerned.

Booze put my brother-in-law in his grave at 49 by destroying his liver.
I tried getting him into smoke but by then his brain was so addled by drink, he believed the the tsunami of lies put out by drug-war scum-bags.
It kills me that these fucks never pay for the shit they cause!
An intelligent society would have them behind bars, where they belong!

There is a drug epidemic at large that few people seem to be aware of. It has been silently raging for well over a thousand years and is responsible for many times more destruction than all of the other drugs combined. As a result of the abuse of this drug, millions of people around the world have been cast into such a state of despair and alienation that they have been driven to seek solace through the use of the other drugs and alcohol.
This is the same drug that corrupted the thinking of the first European immigrants to the Americas and helped them to rationalize the killing of over 100 million indigenous Americans. That horrendous campaign included the theft of everything from Hudson Bay to the southern tip of South America, and stands as the second worst act of genocide and terrorism ever committed on planet earth.
This is the same drug that corrupted the European colonizers of Africa and helped them to delude themselves into thinking that what they were doing was somehow, not only excusable, but Christian. The estimated death toll to that horrendous campaign is around 400 million souls. By far the worst crime ever to take place on this planet.
This is the same drug that corrupted the thinking of the leaders of the church and inspired them to operate something called the Inquisition for 350 years. The resulting reign of terror was responsible for the torture and murder of well over a hundred million people on five continents.
This is the same drug that the leaders of the church were on when they and various monarchies insinuated that they were infallible and omnipotent. The result was six centuries of forced ignorance now referred to as the “dark ages”.
This is the same drug that the followers of Islam were on in centuries past when they convinced themselves that God wanted them to force their religion onto the rest of the world at the end of a sword. No-one knows how many died as a result of that campaign of religious inspired insanity because record keeping was not considered necessary.
This is the same drug that the founders of this country were on when they said that they were founding a democracy but simultaneously declared that it was perfectly acceptable to deprive the vast majority of their constituents the right to vote and even buy and sell others like cattle. Had they not had their reasoning clouded by this drug they would have understood that a democracy differs from all other forms of government by the fact that they, the government, exist to serve all of its citizens, not just the rich and powerful.
This is the same drug that twists the thinking of the current world leaders into continually devoting ever increasing proportions of our resources towards the development of weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile tens of millions starve to death annually for lack of less than a dollars worth of food per day.
Please take note of the irony of the present day situation. The very same people, i.e. the pseudo-Christian and their neo-monarchist accomplices who have, throughout history, been responsible for the most horrible acts of genocide and theft that the world has ever seen are now telling us that it is necessary for them to implement a right wing totalitarian state once again. The reason being that somehow it is the fault of the people that they have been systematically exploiting century after century, so therefore it is now their duty to strip us of any last vestige of Democracy “for our own good”. Unfortunately, this is just another example of the very twisted logic that our pseudo-democratic and pseudo-Christian governments are so well known for.
This is the drug that presently perverts the thinking of most of our current world leaders and makes them blind to the fact that the real culprit is now and has always been the abuse of power. The simple fact is that there is a very easy way to make most of the terrorism, crime and sufferings in the world disappear without killing anyone, and that is to simply initiate an actual democracy and begin to serve all of the people instead of just the rich and powerful.
As you can see our government, church and corporate leaders are addicted to the “mother of all drugs’ and are in an ongoing state of denial. In many ways we, the worlds’ people, are like the country bumpkin who is met on the way to town every month and gets swindled by the same group of hustlers using a slightly different version of the same scam. We have allowed the people who are supposed to be protecting us from tyranny to become the criminal organization that have always been responsible for the worst acts of tyranny that the world has ever witnessed.
It is time for the citizens of planet earth to figure out who the addicts are and what the real drug is.

I'm ashamed and embarassed to be a citezen of Nebraska right now. If this passes, will also be seriously considering leaving my home of 35 years. Yes, because of this idiocracy.

"In fact, some scientific studies performed with it found that, on average, marijuana users had an IQ of 113 - compared to the average IQ of the rest of the population being around 100. It is also known to slightly increase alpha wave brain activity"

Actually, not to brag or anything, just to further prove your point, I have been a DAILY marijuana smoker for 18 years, just graduated from college with a 4.0, and tested with an IQ of 151. Marijuana has also saved my life, as I have suffered with terrible anxiety and PTSD and it is the only non-addictive medication that has ever worked.

Where can I buy some weed? Are there any good police officers out there with access to the evidence room who would like to make some extra money?

Why can't I find any news on whether or not this passed? Maybe I misunderstood, but I thought the vote was yesterday.

I think most of the reason why these bills come to pass and pot smokers get a kick in the balls is because we sit at home. Not enough of us are active in protecting/creating our rights. I know there was an open forum in Lincoln, but the turn out was kind of pathetic. Don't feel ashamed for being one of the millions of pot smokers in the world. This is a democracy. We are the people. Lets go out and let the world know that its not illegal. Lets turn the argument to if marijuana is a lesser fine than possession of alcohol under age then why don't we create a legal age for it and raise the fine for the use under that age. You can't say that one thing is worse for you than another based on a law. You need facts and reason.

does anyone smell a skunk????

This is crazy to be reversing our rights. Keep small time dealers off the streets.

Legalize, Tax, Educate.

Happy 420,

Matt

Its always this same battle, Cowboys and indians, Stoners and Rednecks, its always been this battle between the two. Dumbass rednecks made it illegal to begin with because they saw its use by black people in the south. For some odd ass reason Rednecks have this stigma that pot ruins everything and changes people. If everyone put all of their damn stereotypes aside and look at what has really gone on throughout history. Its simple common sense, Pot isn't illegal because its bad its only bad because its illegal!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck everyone, the best thing you can do is keep cheefin! peace!
GWB

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lay into her ignorant ass

Hey Marijuana is just a plant. If it was legalized it would be a great crop to grow in Nebraska. It'll grow on unusable acres that other crops wont grow on. It can be used for 1000's of puposes. America needs to get off foriegn oil and start grow hemp for oil. An acre of hepm produde 5 times the amount a acre of corn does, plus you can also make oil out of it, which you cant with corn. Anyways I'm just waking and baking and wanted to my 2 cents in.

Nebraska sucks. I live in SE Nebraska and the cops here have nothing better to do than bust MIP parties. Are you shitting me? An 18 year old boy has a beer with has buddies on the farm and they hear about it...oh shit...they would throw a fit. And probly get tazed if he talks back to the cop. If you smoke week in SE NE they see you as trash, dirt. I spent vacation in Cali last summer, a cop walked up on me and a buddy smokin it up all he did was take the joint smash it in the ground and walk away...i was like wtf? in neb they would have tackled you or tazed you...its sad. go get the crackheads boys...leave us cheifers alone!

Fix the mistake that was made in the criminalization of weed. There is not one legitimate reason that weed is illegal it started with Harry J. Anslinger and William Randolph Hearst and his goddamn newspapers. Anslinger was a crooked racist politician and the head of the Bureau of Narcotics who opposed weed just because mexicans brought it into the country. He was a fucking McCarthyist as well making statements about weed with no proof to back any of it up such as:
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."

"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."

"Marijuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."

"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"

"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."

"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."

He received additional help from Hearst. Hearst had invested billions in logging companies to fund his newspaper chains and when people were discovering the many uses of weed and learned it could be used as paper, Hearst realized it could be the end of his logging companies, his newspaper chains, and his money. So he put out columns in his papers about "the evils of marijuana" and people were dumb enough to believe it. With Hearst and Anslinger working together they couldn't be stopped. Hearst controlled the media and Anslinger provided him with material to put into it. Now those lies that everyone beleived to be true have been around so long that they are beleived to be fact. So in a nut shell, the criminalization and subsequent prohibition of Marijuana were caused, or at least contributed to in a very significant way, by those corrupt leaders of this country and their ancestors that uphold their erroneous views of marijuana. The masses are controlled by the media, the media is controlled by the government, and the government is controlled by those pompous, rich, powerful, and corrupt bastards with all the money. They are the reason why things in this country are so bad, why weed is illegal. Legalize weed and that is one step toward a better future, one step against those tyrants who control all with their money.

I am tired of whining about this. I want do something. Any great ideas from anybody?

I vote that somebody takes the time to create a NORML chapter here. I believe that if a few people get one started in Omaha or Lincoln, then more people would join and we would have a better chance of making these changes happen.

We need you people to join our efforts to LEGALIZE NEBRASKA....

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If we legalize weed what comes next this can not happen!