You know I was having a debate about this last week. Does anyone else think if they legalize drugs it wouldn't be much of a problem? America has the biggest problems on drugs. You don't see places like Amsterdam having any drug related problems.

and relatively mild problems with excessive weed use, and plenty of drug rehabilitation still going on, voluntary or otherwise. But so many things would be better, starting with the loss of income and power that all levels of drug dealers would suffer. Distribution of drugs in significant amounts would no longer be in the hands of people willing to sell to children. Our limited (more than ever now) criminal justice resources would be more focused on people who commit violent crimes, and there would be a lot less violent criminals because people (adults anyway) wouldn't be paying black market prices for drugs anymore. Public health workers would have a much better chance to win the trust of those they hope to help, and rehabilitation should have a reliable funding source in the tax revenue that legalization would bring. Drug education wouldn't be twisted up in knots anymore by the need to avoid the reality that the legal drug alcohol is far more deadly and dangerous than the illegal one cannabis. Or if drug educators do admit it, they're admitting that the law is a sick joke. A lot of alienation from society (often manifested in refusal to cooperate with cops) would be eliminated or reduced.
And a safer legal alternative to alcohol is desperately needed. There's quite a few repeat alcohol abusers who should be prohibited from using alcohol, and only allowed to use marijuana if they want to get high. Call me crazy but that just sounds like common sense to me. A better balance between alcohol and cannabis will reduce alcohol related violence significantly.
-newageblues

Yes we would like to have our sustainable cannabis/hemp jobs returned without interruption by corporate government frauds. Its about our jobs,lives, and ending the reign of industrial espionage by global drug and petrochemical corporations which steal from us with a false claim of legality. Its about safer plants grown by nicer people than those global corporations/governments which replace sustainable agriculture with petrochemicals and war. I believe the disgruntled veteran is right on with this. So to DuPont and Monsanto corporation types of the world. We say Cannabis/hemp is safer and more effective than you and your rip off products are,and that we all know is why you bribed,threatened and murdered your way into cannabis prohibition just like you did with alcohol prohibition. Simply to deprive your slaves of resources. How bout instead of everyone being forced to adopt corporate unsustainable practices,the unsustainable corporations are forced to become sustainable or go out of business.

Why are the makers of agent orange, glyphosate,and many other dangerous chemicals allowed to decide what plants are safe? Its the same as hiring serial murderers and pedophiles to work at schools and nursing homes,or in any other public place. These fuckers should not be allowed to run around free and get away with all their crimes against everyone,every,place,and everything! They should pay severe penalties and not be allowed to exist! Exactly the same equal yet opposite treatment they are dishing out yet can not take! Fuck them! I apologize if i have offended anyone but i have serious anger and rage issues against these global corporations.

David,
Thanks for the idea of book bombing. I just have a question. I have only seen this idea on this site so far. I know alot of folks frequent this site without commenting but is this info being distributed to other sites to "spread the word"? I subscribe to about 20 different sites and check them every day or three but havent seen this posted yet except here. I will be buying the book to support the cause and will reefer (no pun intended okay maybe a little punny) others I know feel the same about legalization. There was also a very good recent video-movie mentioned here or on another site that was one of those "gotta have 'ems" but I failed to act quick enough and have lost the name of it. I know its a shot in the dark but any chance you might list a few suggestions that might clear my hazy memory? Thanks for all the hard work and support you and Norml provide our community.
John
Huntsville AL

Oh and is there anyway you can take Oo0 out of the Captcha validation scheme. I am soooooo bad at telling the difference and have gotten one of them too many times to count...bad luck on my part. Thanks again.

To anyone wondering what movie I was trying to remember...it is this, "The Union: The Business Behind Getting High", found on Amazon as well for around $25 US. I will be picking this up as well as the book tomorrow 8-20.

John
Huntsville AL

The Scientologists adopt the same strategy. Buy something so we can get "our message" across to people?
You guys are lame. Cultists. You turn libertarian thinking about a particular issue into just another capitalist carnival and thereby trivialize
the issue.

I always applaud those that risk persecution, or worse, when dealing with the religious fundamentalists & political whores behind the 7+ decade crime spree known as the drug war.

However, it does seem that many reformers are lawyers or have legal backgrounds yet don't/won't take legal actions against the clear crimes of the u.s gov't.

A classic example would be U.s. Patent # 6,630,507 commonly known as 'the marijuana patent'. Most folks are aware that uncle scam continues to maintain the old drug war refrain that marijuana has no accepted medical value... yet the same gov't holds, since 2003, the patent for... are you ready for this... "Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants".

That's right folks your gov't currently holds U.S. Patent # 6,630,507 claiming: "Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties... cannabinoids are found to have particular applications as neuroprotectants... limiting neurological damage following... stroke and trauma... or in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases... such as Alzheimer's... Parkinson's... and HIV dementia".

Please, someone tell me how a gov't that kills or incarcerates those that dare to disagree while claiming one thing - while positioning itself to profit from the exact opposite - can be legal or moral... even in this scoundrel ridden nation.

Why hasn't a class action lawsuit been filed in federal court yet? Criminals in gov't, like joe biden, need to be put on trial immediately!
Prohibitionists like biden need to be charged with federal 'fraud and human rights violations' then perhaps facts can finally be admissable and the merits of marijuana prohibition can be rationally debated in a legal and moral context.

It's not the THC that scares the crap out of uncle scam... it's the BSBs... the 'Bullshit Blockers'!