what a bunch of fucking idiots.

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just like a cop to say like politicians

I am more annoyed with the DEA than the newspaper, but they are both cowards to me. The war on drugs has already ruined millions of lives, if it does not end soon people will start leaving the US. Most of the world already hates the US because it forces the war on drugs upon the entire world. The only way to end the war on drugs is to make it clear that those who support the war on drugs will be tried for war crimes, this includes the DEA.

Here is how you die from smoking marijuana:

Police get a warrant for the wrong address, they bust into your house and when you stand up to see what's going on, they shoot you to death.

Hey wait a minute, that guy wasn't even smoking marijuana.

Marijuana saves lives, police take them.

for years people have argued that marijuana's main harm is that it is a gateway drug. Have any of these ignorant people taken the time to think about why marijuana is a gateway drug? I doubt it. Think about it. Marijuana is lumped into the illegal drug group with heroin, cocaine, meth, etc. So when kids go to their dealers to buy pot, they see these other drugs and begin to experiment. The day marijuana is de-criminalized, is the day that marijuana stops being a gateway drug and starts becoming the accepted healer that it is.

don't you think that if MJ was made legal that the government would modify it as they have cigarettes or beef for that matter? Seems to me that the gov likes to change nice natural products by GMOing or using additives for productivity.

On topic these guys are freaken stupid. Don't know about you folks but I know who is growing my grass and I know they aren't trying to kill me.

21 USC Sec. 802, Makes it very clear that you can't be addicted to cannabis.

I am above the influence, the influence of drug war propaganda

I wouldn't smoke marijuana that came from the government crop, even if they were paying ME to smoke it! What I hear is that is horrid tasting, and very weak stuff. I also know who grows my weed and they are not trying to kill me, either; best thing about it is, it is one hit shit!

But I'd rather feel even safer growing my own, (non-criminal) weed, Like I wrote elsewhere, marijuana should be as easily obtainable, as non-criminal to grow in your home garden, to sell or give away, and to ingest as are tomatoes and cucumbers.

The story percolated up (down?) to Fox News. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcPF59CoGvs

it can hurt u yes but cant KILL u

Reading articles on this site always fills me with such hatred. DEA agents are such shitty people, it's unbelievable.

WHO EVER CAME UP WITH THIS SHIT HAS PROBABLY NEVER SMOKED A DAY IN THEIR LIVES!!! WHATEVER!

I GUESS I BETTER WRITE MY WILL OUT BC IT LOOKS LIKE I WON'T BE HERE AFTER TOMORROW!!!

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Just another example of people being intolerate, ignorant and just plain fucking stupid

dude i bet they get their hands on the best bud ever! they just don't want to sell. those bastards

There are many pros and some cons about legalizing marijuana.
PROS:
- Most marijuana based crimes are because of possession, selling, growing, or usage. All of which directly relate to marijuana being illegal. Considering the average cost to house a prisoner in jail is 9,000-over 75,000 dollars a year (from our taxes) Legalizing marijuana would be a great economic move.

- The other couple percent of marijuana related crimes indirectly come from dealers and buyers fighting, which sometimes leads to murder.

- The only legit marijuana related crimes (meaning crimes that you should be arrested for) are DUI's. Keep in mind that compared to all reported DUI arrest, less than 1% deal with people high on marijuana and 85% are because of alcohol, which is legal and was made legal after it had once been banned.

- The slim remaining crimes involving marijuana occur when a cop catches someone using marijuana and out of fear of being arrested, the person fights or runs away, leading to assault charges or charges for running from the cop.

All of the above marijuana crimes, except DUI's would be eliminated if marijuana was legalized.

Another problem with marijuana being illegal is many good doctors, athletes, and students lose any hopes of being successful when they are drug tested. The doctor that your hospital fired last year because he smoked a joint a couple years ago (gas-mass spectrometer test) could have made a medical breakthrough but gave up medicine because no hospital would hire him.
Ive personally seen and heard of many talented students and athletes, after being busted for marijuana use by their parents, school, or the police, go downhill and destroy any chances of making a difference in the world.
Also, from my marijuana use experience, believe that marijuana can literally make you smarter. Now im talking about when you are actually high, the common long term affects of marijuana such as short term memory loss are very real. But on multiple ocasions, when I was high, I thought about some science that I never studied in detail, and came up with theories.
or instance, one day I was thinking about how sound waves work and wrote down notes. At first I though I made a breakthroughand was going to be famous but I found most of my findings to have already been discovered and published in textbooks. Then it hit me, I just taught myself the advanced physics of sound waves without any prior knowledge and without opening a book. Now Im a decent student (high 80's-mid90's) but nothing like the scientist who first discovered this stuff, so what if a genius were to use marijuana, if it were to produce the same effects on him or her, the possibilities are endless. Don't forget, these scientist may have used marijuana to aid them and never wanted to admit it.
A very common argument against legalized marijuana is that is kills brain cells, damages lungs, and causes some neurological problems. These have all been scientifically proven to be true. However, if marijuana caused one person in a study to slip into a coma, marijuana would be proven to induce comas, even if there is only a 1 in a trillion chance of it happening.
I agree marijuana is going to shorten your life span and cause problems, but what if a doctor were to use marijuana and discover a cure for cancer? Or discover something that brings us a step closer to finding a cure? The fact is nothing comes easy and great accomplishments sometimes come with great losses.
Another fact, no one has ever been reported dead due to a marijuana overdose. The reason for this is you would simply pass out before you smoked enough marijuana to kill you. However, THC (delta-9-tetrahydrocannibol) the chemical most associated with being high, can kill you in relatively low doses if it is ingected in its pure form. But understand that the most potent strains of marijuana contain around 25% THC, but most of it is converted into other chemicals when lit, or exhaled out. Another large amount simply stays in your bloodstream and gets filtered out by your liver and kidneys. IF you could absorb all the THC in the marijuana you burn, less than .1g of low grade stuff would get you high.

A theory I have on this topic is, if marijuana were legalized, less people would use hard drugs. I believe this because many people result to harder drugs, cocaine to be more specific, because it is easer, faster, and more concealable to use than marijuana. If marijuana was legal I think a lot of people would not bother wasting money on harder drugs because of the legality and lower cost of marijuana.

Legalized marijuana would also lead to strains that produce the same effect and the same taste but with less toxins because large organizatons and future "marijuana farms" would be able to study it and experiment more openly.

CONS

Many people feel that legalizing marijuana will decrease crime rate, violence, and lower taxes (saving money from less prisoners) which I believe is correct (I have no way of proving it).

The cons are less numerous and most deal indirectly with marijuana.

The main reason marijuana is not legal in the US is because most 1st world countries don't have it fully legalized. Legalizing marijuana in the US would cause mass amounts of attention.

Also, as someone mentioned earlier in the post, most countries hate the US for their radical approach to the war on drugs, so making a drug legal would definitely not help our reputation.

Another reason is if marijuana was made legal it may increase violent crime rate because people would no longer be hiding in the woods or someones house while high. This could easily be fixed by placing usage laws, much like those of alcohol only a little bit stronger making it legal to use, buy, and cultivate marijuana on private property or places that have some kind of license (like that needed to buy and sell alcohol and tobacco).

Another reason marijuana is not legal is because it hasn't been proven to do any of the things I was talking about. Although I swear on my life that I have experienced all the for mentioned effects as well as all my friends, that isn't enough to convince the man.

My prediction is that marijuana will be decriminalized by 2060. Some states allow it for medical purposes and that is the first step. Soon all states will legalize it for medical purposes and that will increase the number of people that use marijuana, thus making more people see the truth. Eventually, it will be legal for people over a certain age too use in private places, then in public places, then stores will start opening and kids will be paying homeless people to buy them bags of weed. (another pro- it would be a charity to homeless people everywhere...jk but think about it)

Hopefully this helped and remember (this is going to sound like its from a Disney movie....fuck it probably is) Alone we can't make a difference, but together our voice can be heard. Remember that we live in a government where THE PEOPLE GOVERN THEMSELVES!!!!

---by the way for her own sake, don't vote for HillaryJERTA, every president we have had was a white male prodestant the only exception was JFK and he was shot by a fricken magic bullet. So if a different sect of Christianity is enough to kill a president, I would NOT throw a women into the mix. by the way I'm not a racist or sexist, a black person or women could be the best president we ever had....until a magic bullet blows up their face, and then some considering the improvements in modern weponary.---but that is for a different post

This is somehow a communist announcement. I don't know how many of had to deal with this type of politics but I'm used to hear stuff like "Don't do anything the state doesn't approve of or you'll die". People, you can use drugs and you might die but in most cases you'll end up in drug rehabilitation and knowing what terrible times you'll pass trough, dying seems an easier solution.

You are all crackheads!!! Who cares what they say!?! People shouldn't do drugs anyway! Marajauna is addicting and people who use it will eventually die from some kind of health problem! Drugs are never good and only used for some medical problems! Your all trying to say what this guy said is wrong or messed up or BS, but maybe he had a personnal experiance, where maybe a family member of his was killed by a drug addict! how do any of ya'll know?!?! this is one a small pieve of a article! get facts striaght! drugs are bad for everyone!!!

Is because all those DEA mother fuckers will be out of work I mean think about it 85% of all there bust is marijuana. When they stop making bust they stopped getting paid.

You should start a daily project, wich is to use cloravouyence to try to to see angels in magnetic stasis prisons that are in a distant galaxy. Mentally tune into the spirit in a cage and when you think you have seen it start a quality chant or prayer for the friend in outer space. Visit the trapped angels and try to relate to the intense unholy rage of the hostile aliens with the telepathy that now exist within you. So pick a Galaxy and SEE several trapped spirit angels at the site.

I had a close friend who came home to his best friend dead in his bedroom, the only drug found in his system was marijuana...

The drug warriors will never give up untill you, your children and your family are all in jail. If it wasn't Cannabis it would be something else, perhaps a "crackdown" on un-prescribed medications. The federal mafia needs funding and they don't care how many families they destroy to get it. The federal mafia and all branches/organizations of it are parasites that feed on the emotions and wallets of the people they swore to serve.

hes talkin about a rogue strategy the DEA is using. what they do is they grow killer pot. and sell it to clubs and people covertly. its weed that got special stuff in it that harms you . watch out.

I've been smoking cannabis for about 6-7 years straight now, and as a matter of fact I haven't been lucky enough to get a single bag that contained heroin or cocaine in it, Per eighth of marijuana, it would cost the dealer about 180 extra $ just to lace the bag sufficiently, and it wouldnt be properly absorbed in the way that marijuana is inhaled, especially with growing development in alternative methods of ingesting THC without smoking. When my dealer throws in that 180$ of heroin that "is going to kill us all!" then i'll just be sure to use it, thank him, and wonder why in the fuck he would ever waste the money or drugs? Lacing is a myth, no ganja grower or dealer is going to spoil their name or spend 4x the drugs worth just to get you higher.

it is true marijuana will kill you.this is a known fact,it killed my 15 year old brother the first time he took a puff on it,he died instentlly from that deadly thc,It's much more deadlyer than cociane,heroin,meth or any other illegal narcodic.the DEA only said that becouse it's true and you need to accept it becouse you live in the best country in the world the goverment knows whats best.and marijuana has killed millions and billions of people.the goverment should impose the death penlety on you people who try marijuana for the first time or ever.You reefer heads make me sick,your scum,you are the reason there's crime in this world.your the reason kids parents beat them and abandon them .MARIJUANA IS NOT HARMLESS IT CAN AND IT WILL KILL YOU.all you people talking bad about the dea should be locked up for life and get the death pently for treson.people shouldnt be allowed to speak bad about the goverment.i love the goverment and how well they've made us safe.i am pro for murder of druggies.stupid pot heads ya'll are going to hell

what do u mean this marijuana will kill? thats just another bullshit remark those government guys say just to get us off this marijuana. Well if everyone stopped smokin pot, then u government guys would start losing your jobs. Because since u keep arresting and charging these potheads, thats where u get 75% of ur pay. You see that marijuana is keepin sort of a balance for a lot of u government, and police guys. If nobody smoked marijuana there wouldnt be as much police officers, so the people that lose there jobs what the hell are they gunna do??? they will probably end up being bums on the street or working at a macdonalds restuarant because less people will be needed for the jobs relating to the law.

LIKE OMG you marywana smokers are fucking stupid,your no good to the world alive go kill ursleves.u cause crime in our country u all rape little children and its ur fault little caylee anthony is missing and dead cause kacey got high on pot and stabbed the poor little girl then ate her body from that thing u potheads get from smoking it the munchies or whatever.i believe the goverment should control our lives tell us what we can and can not do tell us how to dress.and make it illegal to be a gay ass gothic faggot,rretarded juggalo,stoners should be arrested just for wearing tye die.and guys with long hair need to be put in jail for at least a year and forced to cut their hair or they cant get out of jail.all you potheads do is kill people,rape children and steal,and are the reason people are rasic u fucking peices of shit.WE need 8 more years of BUSH, he's the greatest president ever.u stoners need to find god and the holy ghost jesus.cause YOUR SCUM u fucking druggies make me sick burn in hell

I am so tired of the government trying to hide, and refusing to admit that they were wrong. Man if we legalized cannabis our country would prosper so much! In the late 1800's and early 1900's before Harry J Anslenger was the drug Czar, hemp was americas number one export. In fact it was mandatory to grow it to provide for the countries well being. We made everything out of it. It is the most useful plant in the world, that is why God put it on our planet. It is a fact that one stalk of hemp will produce 5 times more ethanol than one stock of corn. 5 times more! That is a significant difference. Also Hemp grows so much faster than trees do, so we can stop destroying our forests and start making hemp paper to satisfy our needs. For Christ sake our Declaration of Independace was written on hemp paper. Our fore fathers would be so pissed off at us if they only knew how corrupt our country has become. The government lies to our faces everyday because they think its good for our well being. Im sorry but the only person who knows what is good for me is me! Cannabis opens your mind to new and inovative ideas. At least it does that to me. It makes you question athority and that is exactly what scares the government. Man the government tells us that they are looking out for our best interest, mother fucker ciggarettes kill 400,000 people a year! Alcohol kills 30,000 just in diseases alone, that doesnt acount for the 20,000 that get killed in alcohol related accidents, and also there is no telling how many women and children get abused by a man who is drunk every night. Legalize pot please. It is a much safer alternitve than alcohol, and it doesnt give you throat and lung cancer like ciggarettes. We are in tough times America, our government has its head so far up its ass that for some reason they cant see the truth. They would rather give money to bail out huge corporations so that their ceos can still pay on there condos in mexico and what have you, rather than stop this ridiculous war on drugs wich is a huge failure. There is about 800,000 people in prison due to marijuana possesion. Its costs the government 30,000 dollars to keep one inmate in prison, so every year our government spends 24,000,000,000 dollars a year just to contain marijuana smokers alone. BULL SHIT so much BULL SHIT. Wake up America its time to end the prohibition on pot!

Ok everybody, heres the facts. marijuana can kill you. it has happened before.

***BUT... the facts are that its not likely at all. there is a small(about 1%) percentage of people that are allergic to the plant
in the same way some are allergic to chocolate, which what it does is it sticks inside you, causing a "permanent high"
so to speak. and it fries your brain cells at a fast accelleration, and eventually you die.
this is where the GOV and everybody gets there info from sayin it is bad.

No it wont heal cancer either, back in the day, yes. now no, the weed now is not pure like it was, so it doesnt do the same thing
thats why we get alot higher now.

No weed isnt bad, as far as physically, unless you are allergic to it, yes i myself smoke bud, both for medical reasons, and just to
get fuccin toasted. i think it should be legalized, for the fact that honestly, how many people do you hear about dying that anything to do
with marijuana? not many, people dont hurt people when they are high on weed, its usually controllable when your driving, which is still not a great idea, and overall, you just dont hear about it much, aside from the laws bout it. alcohol is legal and it kills way more people.
its completely unfathomable why they made it illegal.
but now yall know the truth. it aint bad, it dont hurt people, unless your allergic to it in a deathly way, and it feels so good

so smoke a blunt and say screw the gov, cuz we gon do it anyways.

man all of yall people are full of crap. yall need to get a life. and sTOP BULLSHITING NO JOKE

ya'll are nasty smoking pot.its discusting yall are child molesters who molest children u know how i know this cause you smoke marijuana and everyone who smokes it loves molesting 5 year olds and even new borns straight out the woumb sick basterds i hope rot in jail for even thinkin of smoking that evil stuff and no god never created pot pot was created by anient migets who were sent here by aliens who came from hell and who all smoke marijuana CRIMINALS!! i repeat what is a CRIMINAL?its easy its NIGGER,SPICK,KYKE,CHINK,TOWELHEAD,and lets not forget THE FUCKING QWEERS they all smoke marijuana and now all us proud white people are gonna be put into slavery by the new nigger president which is in outrage FUCK THAT STUPID NIGGER OBAMA

ARE YOUH STUPID? FUCKINQ TARDS WHOEVER WROTE THIS.. I LOVE HILLUSINATING UNICORNS ! AND BIG ELEPHANTS IN MY WALLS. OR MAYBE BIENG IN EGYPT AND YOUR GONNA SAY IT COULD KIILLL YOUH ? STUPID...

LISTEN HERE all you people who have posted comments hating on the DEA have been reported and will be kept a close eye on.YOU PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES do not understand how you need to be arrested for marijuana,#1 it's illegal! #2 it's for crimials and terrorist,if u smoke marijuana YOU SUPPORT TERRORISM.YOU have no right to speak bad about the dea they are trying to keep this country clean of pushers and dope fiends.if' i became priesident which i plan too i will make sure THE bill of rights is BANNISHED for there is no need for it people need to be controled should not have the right to privicey nor freedom of speech.you do not deserve to have the right tell the police and goverment not to come in ur home without warrent or search u without perimisson .THE GOVERMENT NEEDS COMPLETE CONTROL IN ORDER TO KEEP YOU SAFE they KNOW WHATS BEST FOR YOU and they will not legalize marijuana becouse it's simple unlike tabacco it doesnt kill people so if it has no way the goverment can make money and kill most of the population by charging them taxes whats the point the best thing is to kill someone with possision of pot even if its less than a gram on sight becouse they are what cause these stupid ridulice dreams of peace when PEOPLE DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE

LOOK man all you reeferheads out there need to PUT THE JOINT DOWN seriouslly you wanna enjoy urself go to a park and DROP ACID it's much more fun than pot TRUST ME

You're all blind faggots who are so addicted, you can't take the time to think about anybody else.

I don't want to go through my life, constantly needing something to "get me through the day." You're too immature to handle things on your own? You're too selfish to stop and think, "maybe I'm adversely affecting Joe Smith's health."

Well, that's your fucking problem.

Can't wait for the day the government just says "fuck this" and poisons your all-too-necessary pot.

But you know WHY it's a war?

because people like you are too addicted to obey the law.

And, no. Pot is not a healer.

It only makes things worse.