Legalizing Marijuana Would Stop Growers From Destroying Our Forests
The annual marijuana harvest season each fall brings increased discussion of the hopeless process of eradicating outdoor marijuana crops on public land. Growers are damaging precious natural resources and their livelihood continues unabated even as police achieve record marijuana seizures each year.
Fortunately, the Marijuana Policy Project has introduced the only plan that could possibly address the problem:
SAN FRANCISCO -- Recent alarming reports of environmental damage caused by illegal marijuana farms in national forests and wilderness areas in California and elsewhere show that an entirely new approach is needed in order to solve the problem, officials of the Marijuana Policy Project said today."Year after year we hear from law enforcement and U.S. Forest Service officials about growing environmental damage caused by these criminal operations, even as law enforcement seizures of marijuana plants set new records every year," said Bruce Mirken, MPP's California-based director of communications. "What we've been doing is plainly not working and has actually caused the problem in the first place. It's time to get off the treadmill and try a new approach."
Seriously. Who in their right mind could possibly contend that we are on pace to bring this mess under control? For decades, cops in combat fatigues have been rappelling from helicopters armed with industrial strength hedge-clippers and for what? Marijuana is the number one cash crop in America and that isn’t going to change no matter how many police we send off on these ridiculous drug war nature hikes.
Californians should be allowed to grow marijuana on their own property for all the same reasons that they are currently permitted to grow grapes and make wine.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 11:33pmFor the same reason they ignore industrial hemp:
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wouldn't that be a winner all around?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sun, 10/19/2008 - 8:04pmIncluding the reduction in alcohol related violence that will happen once the government stops forcing people to use alcohol instead of safer cannabis.
I am a freshman in college,
Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 11/13/2008 - 10:21amI am a freshman in college, and I have been smoking marijuana since the beginning of my freshman year in high school. I want to tell you what kind of student I was. I was brilliant. I got extremely well grades, and I scored a 27 on the ACT.
Marijuana has never made me sick, upset, dependant, or has never caused me to lose one job. I also have consumed alcohol in certain stages in my teenage life. When I have consumed alcohol I have been sick, depressed, angry, emabarrased and hurt on countless occasions.
What I don't see is the reasoning behind the legal drug choice. There hasn't been one recorded death by marijuana, EVER, but look how many alcohol and tobacco have. Like the legendary Bill Hicks said, "It's okay to drink your drugs, we meant those other untaxed drugs. Those are the ones that you can't do."
How I see it is that whatever you want to do in your spare time, as long as you doesn't directly effect anyone else in a negative way, should be fine to do. It makes sense to me, and someone else would seem ignorant to me if they didn't see the logic behind it.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/07/2009 - 9:23amI totaly agree with you. I have been doing marijuana since middle school and know I 'm in high school and I'm a senior.
I have never gotten hurt by marijuana and I have never had any side effects either. I think that we should be able to do marijuana when ever we went if we are not harming anyone by it.
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Comment posted by Yasmine B on Tue, 03/31/2009 - 4:55amSomehow, the used of marijuana as medicine for patients is reasonable, but of course we can’t deny that it has also disadvantage particularly to young people, since, some are abusive on using this. This matter must be given an attention by people at the White House than a White House Easter Egg Roll. It sounds like it involves Chinese food – but unfortunately, the White House Easter Egg Roll is more like egg bowling. This is one of the most popular questions as to whether Obama was going to be legalizing marijuana, which he promptly shot down. Doesn't he have work to do instead of putting on a White House Easter Egg Roll?
Where's the Sierra Club when you need them?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/14/2008 - 9:15pmWhy don't more environmental groups take a stand against this?