What a freakin IDIOT!!!!! Do they get any more IGNORANT than this????
How do they pay him off??? He really can't be this STUPID?? Can he??? He's the freakin Zombie

And prison for fundementalists that PREY more then once a week!

We all know what the drugs of choice is for this wanker... god & gov't!

What a piece of shit... someone ought to beam Kirk up... and make him walk the plank... to a remote desert planet... full of real flesh eating zombies... now that's entertainment I'd pay to see!

End Prohibition or Perish!
Piratefish

B.S. All kidding aside, isn't it time we stopped suffering these delusional fools... we've been enduring their crime spree for 72 years for fucks sake! If assholes like kirk wish to violare our rights by trespassing on our liberties we should do everything in our powers to ensure 'they never survive the trespass'... Set Phasers to KILL!

So we should make it harder to sell the less harmful drugs so that people sell drugs like cocaine MORE often? WTF is this guy thinking?

Really a bad time to try pull a stunt like that. With all the momentum the legalization movement has right now. I'd say good luck to him,cause he's gonna need it. Power to the people! Time to call and write your states representatives. Keep your veterans and citizens out of jail. We have freaks like that in Nebraska also.
Good luck guys! :)

Looking over Congressman Mark Kirk’s bio reveals someone who should know better than to introduce legislation as ridiculous as calling for marijuana penalties that exceed those for first degree murder.  Besides being a Republican pro-lifer, he’s older than he looks (born in 1959) and he’s an active duty military reservist.

According to Wiki, Kirk introduced the marijuana legislation on June 16, 2009, at the behest of “…[t]he Lake County Sheriff's Department, the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group and Waukegan Police Department [who] urged Kirk to expand the laws when they began to discover more potent strains of marijuana. As a result, Kirk called for 25 year prison sentences for first time marijuana users, despite the fact that medical marijuana is legal in 13 states.”

There has to be more to it than this.  Maybe the Lake County sheriff’s boys caught Kirk doing a wide stance in a public airport restroom stall while smoking a joint.  Blackmailed into cooperating with cops motivated to sustain the drug war at any cost, Kirk responded by introducing the most ridiculous legislation he could think of, something that had as much chance of taking flight in Congress as a fossilized pterodactyl.

Mark Kirk’s pandering to the forces of prohibition evil may very well produce negative consequences in his next election cycle, where his previous lead over his Democratc opponent was a modest six points in the most recent election.

Giordano

Well, well. well..... so the USA has its own outbreak of reefer madness - must have wafted across the atlantic from here, the UK.

In the UK our press, mainly the Daily Mail, tries the keep the issue of high thc content alive; they basically make up the most vile and ludicrous "stories", always anecdotal, and whats more, our idiot prime minister believes them........ and so did Jacqui Smith, the ex=Home Office minister who went hand in hand with simple gordon all the way to heavy sentencing and asset recovery, until she got found out fiddling her expenses...............

To be fair, I dont know if gormless gordon or JS believed the nonsense, but they certainly used the language of the Daily Mail, along with all the fatuous arguments: of course, they just may be stupid enought to believe this nonsense, but, more likely, seeing as they both toked as students, its just simpler to take the money and run............... until you get caught, like poor wee Jacqui did: she resigned.

So, has Anslinger been active at mystical sessions communing with the living? Its as likely as marijuana leading to problems.

Mind you, alcohol is just fine and dandy, like so many drugs which have made millions for the pharm. compnaies, but never hurt anybody, eh?

It just winds me up. I'm just so sick and tired of politicians........... Bill Hicks summed them up for me "they are all lying cock-suckers". No more needs be said.

Apparently, you need not smoke kush to walk around zombie-like. Wonder what Kirk smokes??

Higher than what? How many more grams of THC per joint is 15% higher? How was this figure arrived at?

How is this measured? Show us your math, Rep. Kirk (R-IL).

Wouldn't it make more sense to remove all things hemp from the Controlled Substances Act and let states decide how to regulate and tax the quantity of THC per joint?

States could also mandate that there can be no herbicides, pesticides or other added chemicals in a marijuana joint. That alone would allow states to deal with their current financial crisis.

Too, with all things hemp, it would expand state's agricultural and manufacturing base.

But apparently neither Rep. Kirk nor the rest of Congress has any inclination to help states out financially. No wonder Mark Twain called Congress the National Asylum.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Kirk is a "Zombielike Creature" and MUST be tried for treason!

Where did Mark hear about this "super-potent" marijuana? I'm asking because maybe he can hook some people up who don't know where to get it. Apparently he's been dipping in the stash bag too often, though. He may not even be able to get any. You know how these people are, they say they can get something then when you get the stuff it turns out you thought it was the same stuff they said they could get, you but it's not. This sounds like one of those kind of situations. Mark really needs to relax, all that cocaine can make a person paranoid. He obviously knows about hooking up some coke, but who knows if it's good, he seems edgy. Let's watch and see how this thing plays out.

How do the people of Illinois elect such an ignorant politician as Mark Kirk ?
The only zombie-like creature walking around is him and the other elected officials that have "kushy" jobs. They must stay awake at night trying to find more ways to fuel the prison industrial complex in this country.
NEP

This pod-creature is aptly named, kirking on innocent cannabis smokers -- he looks like he should be wearing a track suit and lying down with Heaven's Gate. "If you can make as much money selling pot as cocaine, you should face the same penalties.": right, Kirk, and that should also apply to your salary, perks, and bribes -- 25 years in prison for this creature is too lenient!

This guy needs to get checked out by a psych doctor, this madness has to end and these assholes have to be fought touth and nail so that there bs propaganda they spew is called out as bull shit by reasonable and clear-thinking people. PLEASE STOP MARK KIRK!!!!

Never in all my born days have I heard such ignorant rantings as this supposedly smart person that has somehow gotten into the government. Has he lost his ever loving mind or what? Give prison terms of such magnitude just for an herb that is relished all over teh world? By gum, I just think he may have.

turning people into zombies huh?

lol where can i get some of this zombiekush? sounds awesome.

Mark Kirk R U FUCKING SERIOUS? YOU NEED TO GO SMOKE A BLUNT AND GO OVER THIS AGAIN..
ZOMBIE LIKE? GO DO SOMETHING WT UR SELF

The claims about greatly higher potency cannabis than what was around in the 60s and 70s in the US can't even claim historical accuracy. A great deal of very strong grass was available, partly due to the large number of Americans in Vietnam. What average potency of grass was compared to today or what the THC percentages of either is, is something I don't know. Where I lived hash was very common from 1967 (when I started smoking) to sometime in the early or middle 70s and still common years later. I don't think anyone is going to find statistics that the hash had less than this "zombie" producing 15% level of THC. Extremely potent hash oil was very common by the early 70s and stayed common for years. Thai stick clearly didn't sell for such relatively high prices in the 70s for the novelty factor.

People didn't smoke the same amounts of grass, hash and hash oil when they smoked; they smoked the amounts that produced the effects they wanted. Presumably anything in the 60s and 70s that pretty much lived up to the description of "one poke pot" was pretty high in THC. And the fact that "one poke pot" was a normal term in the language should be evidence for even the dimmest bulbs in Congress that people also adjusted the amount of grass they smoked according to how strong it was. Why would anyone think that has changed?

And for what it's worth, I've never come across grass that was stronger than the strongest grass I smoked in the 60s or 70s though it does seem the weakest grass being sold in recent decades isn't as weak as the weakest that was sold in the 60s. Of course, that's just my personal observation and by the early 90s prices had gotten so outrageously high that I generally thought it was worth the greater legal risk of growing my own rather than buying small amounts so I've less representative experience with "street" grass since then (mostly other people's purchases) but none of that experience has been with anything that seemed stronger than my homegrown from selectively saved seeds.

Alcohol kills more people in a day than cannabis does in a year. Easily. No real American will accept being discriminated against in this disgustingly hypocritical manner. Captain Kirk, do something about the carnage caused by your own alcohol using community and stop fucking with peaceful cannabis users.
No harm, no crime.

The bill was introduced without any org sponsors and was referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Energy and Commerce.

Conyers’ and Waxman’s committees – I’m pretty sure Kirk’s efforts will not go very far and as Giordano noted was pandering to local pressures.

To bad we can not activate his military unit and drop him into North Korea on a rescue mission.

Do they know that people who smoke higher potency pot just smoke less because they are not dumbasses? I've been to the burbs and have yet to encounter zombies.

Mark kirk is slime. He is as anti-liberty as they come. Only in a fascist police state could he be considered "moderate". As usual, "moderate" means (when used by the clueless media) "completely unprincipled".

This jerk stands against the concept of property rights and individual freedom. He opposes gun rights and drug rights (two rights reserved to the people, under the US Constitution). He supports "tougher sentences" for marijuana users, including those who use this vastly-less-harmful-than-chemotherapy drug medicinally.
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/jun/15/local/chi-kirk-marijuanaj...

He supports the FDA in their attempts to deny patients to natural cancer cures, and supports the government schools' attempts to turn children into informants, a la "1984" with his support for the damn "drug war" and "war on gun owners". As such, he has made more war on the American people more successfully than any al qaeda operative has.

For his traitorous and anti-American positions, he deserves no quarter from those who favor individual freedom or property rights. He is literally in favor of jailing people for growing flowers. (Would George Washington, a hemp farmer, have sympathized with that?!)

To hell with mark kirk. May the name on his grave marker be lowercase, and may it arrive sooner than those hanging above the medical marijuana patients he wants to murder. Maybe then, we can have a respite from his nasty, vindictive, parasitic political views.

Long live property rights, long live America.

What are we doing about Kirk and those like him? The people with their own futures in mind run this governing body and they seem to want nothing more than to lie to and ignore the people who put them up in their pretty little offices. We are the People and We are the Only ones with True power, this is our country and we deserve the right to live as we see fit! I hope that people like Marc Emery get a seat of power soon so we can end the tyranny! Of course we could just wait until a drunk driving politician kills someone... because the only drug out there as evil as they say pot is, is alcohol. No pothead father beating his kids on lifetime? Nope just the alcoholics and the deceitful politicians! Kirk go to hell my friend!

I usually with republicans on most issues, but this guy is a fucking dumbass. He introduced quite possibly the most ignorant bill since Jim Crow laws- what a tool.