Herp derp, God isn't real, And if he created us, humans are pretty fucking bad. 

Cancer? Poison? Tsunamis? AIDS?  Really dude?

Legalize weed because it will keep innocent people out of jail and stop young kids from getting killed over nothing. Legalize it becuase it was banned for racist reasons in the first place.  Keep religion away from this.

well he made nuclear fission and fusion didnt he? haha but seriously support the cause!

Yes to all of this.  Do a little research on how cannibis became illegal in the first place and you may be pretty surprised.  It had nothing to do with being dangerous to your health, but stemmed from a racist political agenda in the 1930's.  Specifically one of Harry J. Anslinger, which is evident with such great lines as: 

“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.”

This are quotes of the man in charge of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, a newly formed department of the Treasury in 1930.  I don't want to spoil it for you though: http://www.drugwarrant.com/articles/why-is-marijuana-illegal/

I , as a voter, as a born citizen of this country, as a wife, as a mother, as a grandmother of 6, and a friend to most...and a supporter of cannabis due to circumstance changes in my life due to an illness... i wish to say..

That since I have found out I had MS, lost my use of my leggs, depended upon family member for more years than i can remember, loss of work due to this illness and forced to  live on income which pays nothing to live on... reallty open up my eyes to a diffrent reality and changed my life completly...

From being an activist since i was 18, against all mind alterating drugs, including booze of all sorts, and spoke at prisons, boys homes, girl homes, hospitals, and meetings, i was strongly against what these things have done to a loved family member , and have seen so many families torn apart, seen good friends die , and so forth.. but over the years of this involvement , i have not seen anyone die due to cannabis... and when later on in my years , when i became seriously ill and lost the best job i had including the benifits , my life changed drastly... needless to say.. to make a long story short... cannabis has given back to me what i lost... being able to do more for myself.... to live life without the challenges that i face due to my MS, from bed ridden, to wheelchair, to walker , to cane.. still it changes from day to day the challenges.. but at least i am aware of my surroundings, and more alert and due to this i was able to let go of many of the pharmacuticles that was putting me under the rug,, so to speak..

this is something i would like to see come into reality.. to be able to live without fear , to live without wondering if you were going to come in on me and arrest me... knowing that i was breaking federal law, but due to my health knew that the state law allowed the utalizing of my cannabis for medical purposes... but still... i would like to see that way it was in the history when it was once legal in the 1930's... We need our govern afficalas to now pay attention to the people by the people on this issue as well as other issues involved, and work on soulutions to these issues... but first our government need to open up their eyes, including the state afficials, the city afficials, the county afficials, polititions, ect.. We have a right to choose , the natural way of relife and relaxation besides booze, or pharmacuticle drugs which some have not even been approved before they reached the doctor's office..

But also the people should be able to have a choice to obtain safe access to their choice.. like we do with pharmacuticle drugs, which is obtain by pick up or delivery... well that should be allowed to those whom wish to go to a store front , whom feel safe in doing so, and obtain a variety of sorts of strains that they wish to try out.. or open up a coffee house setting or what ever they choose like any other business...But also those whom grow, should be able to have  a choice to grow for that store, or to grow for themselves or grow with a dozen members in a home site business.. but still... the most important thing oto me..

That to live without fear, that someone is going to raid your house due to your growing your own, or due to you obtaining it from a store front, and utalizing it in your home, or visiting a friend and utalizing in their home, even though the state laws allow you to utalize it... its still against federal laws even though they break their own laws and supply it still even today across state lines, to those whom are still alive ... we the people should be able to choose or be able to benifit from both that is available in hand in hand... for example: Cancer or Aids...

And at one time it was legal , so.. lets have it legal again...

Cannabis is growing stronger across our nation.. and at one time we have used hemp products  to serve for our country along side our country men.. whom served for protecting our freedom...

So .. as a voter, as a senior , as a citizen of my beautiful country that i was bornin.. i urge you to free cannabis from the chains that binds her.. and allow her to be free in the hands of your people whom you serve.. people for the people by the people... ... Resechedule it ... but better yet.. let it be free to roam amonst the citizens ....

We can not have a drug free society, when we have pharmacies that push drugs.. we live on drugs from one thing or the other... or we are given drugs that just came out to test.. so.. instead of wasting our government funding on the drugs.. allow it to flow.. freely... for once and for all.. change it to the point that demanatory chean up in a health agencity to those whom are abusing it.. jsut like to booze, tobacco, ... i am not asking for all drugs to be legal.. but cannabis should be free to those whom would like to utalize it.. for most of the population of this country utalizes .. that is a fact... i trust in the laws of our government.. but when it comes to my health.. i must use what helps me most. under the advise of my doctor.. but for those whom use it as a relaxer like wine.. they should be able to be.. so.. please change the federal laws when it comes to cannabis..... thank you... cannabis supporter.... 

You are brilliant, and hit the nerve of the reality of the ban on Marijuana. Thank you for your post. I live with two disabled people: The husband fell and broke his neck, WAS to be 

You are brilliant, and hit the nerve of the reality of the ban on Marijuana. Thank you for your post. I live with two disabled people: The husband fell and broke his neck, WAS to be quadriplegic but now partial. He can walk with a walker and at times with crutches. Had serious side effects from pharmaceutical drugs and the doctors could not stop the intense pain when he had neurological issues such as severe shaking, restless leg syndrome, and other things that were serious, the medical Marijuana has stopped all of that, including serious headaches, depression & insomnia. No wonder the pharmaceuticals try as hard as they can to keep this plant away from those who need it. Not one person ever has been known to die from marijuana alone. Not one. Why this plant is illegal is strictly rooted in money and corruption, nothing less. Too, God is a personal thing, no need to bring it up in a forum such as this as you will receive arguments (not you but the other who DID bring it up). Keep it personal. The other person I live with has R.A., fibermealgia (sp), depresson and a few other problems. We, the people, need to stand up and stop this non-sense. THC or no THC, doesn't matter. This should have never started in the first place, it has caused illegal trafficking, millions of people's lives ruined and jailed. Drug testing should only include white drugs - or skip the testing, and merrit on performance.

The beauty of legalization of this plant creates people the right to help themselves, and in this economy especially. Pharmeceuticals have had their hay day, is the root behind innocent people being jailed and ruining people's lives. Too, cancer is big business, and this plant is known to kill the cancer - cure without the poison of chemo.

It shouldn't hurt anyone to allow this to be wide open legal. If it was, watch what happens to the cartels that depend on it being illegal. Enough said.

For those legislators that keep up the lie, they are the ones to watch with pharmeceutical and tobacco companies - to understand that the money is greater than people's lives. Do you want someone like that running laws in this country? I sure don't.

c.

I agree with you, the God argument is empty. God is supposed to have created humans and prohibitionnists, too. But I disagree with your idea that we are run by money. The real problem is that with prohibition we are run by BLACK money, and more and more grey money. This means that prohibition transform the state into a mafia state. This leads to arbitrariness in all domains and this concerns all enterprises and all lives. Prohibition and the war on drugs has been, and still is, a victory for the bandits and the drug dealers. It is a complete failure for health, but also, and mainly, a complete nonsense in democracies. Prohibition of a drug always makes it more dangerous and more available, especially for the kids who become the target one of the bandits. Prohibition of cannabis lasts since a long time, because cannabis is not toxic at all, so that even its prohibition does not make it dangerous. But it is a Trojan horse for the bandits. 

Very nice. The last sentence is the cherry on top.

Yes, but for different reasons than most accept as non paranoid or delusional, lol.
My premious is that "it's all about the money" in this current economical struture existing for our world. ALWAYS< ALWAYS>>>ALWAYS.. about the money.
Since it's just a weed, and can be grown most anywhere, in anyback yard, who's money is threated by legalization? Disruptive forces always have consequences, who loses what money from which revenue streams, should disruption happen(legalization/pot)? More importantly, should the revenue streams that are dependant(in the volumes that they enjoy now) on Marijuana
not having a legal status, exist at all, or even be alowed to call the kettle(pot) black?
Let's consider, beyond"Drug War succesful" or not and get down to the brass
tacks of whom benifits in a war, this war.
Alchohol comprises, in all it's industries involved in consumtion, 5% of the American economy... about 700 billion dollars of commerce.. might some of that go away with legalization? Does anybody care?
A major portion of what's commonly called "Defense spending" is dedicated
to and through private and public agencies with Mandates to spend to Prohibite "pot" in many guises. The essence of the statements of "Billions of Dollars wasted in Drug War" is lost on most.. simply due to overlooking the modeling of any buisness in todays structuring. Meaning, those Billions spent have created jobs and consumption and Bonds And Stock values and CDOs and CDSs and synthetic derivitives against and for other dirivitives.......... 10-30 Billion spent on Drug War yearly does not scratch the underlying financial
concerns where the "Drug War" and "National Defense" come into co-insidense.
And yet the ultimate monetary concern and the modeling that supports that Industry.. just going by shear dollars spent and taking the Social implications, Health Care. Not is (Cannibinols) it better treatment or worse ect... again whom is threatened by disruption(we can grow some of our own medicine in our back yard, marijuana or else products).. How many Billions of dollars, from Pharmas, to Doctors paying education loans to the underlying financial dirivitives, do not want any disruption.

This is not about paranoia, but simple greed,,,, what's in the best intrests of existing edifices of our global societies.

Or to put it more shortly, why would anything be allowed that can grow in your back yard.  

I read the post by rebel rabbit (not verified), June 28, 2011, 07:57 and continuely nodded my head..

I saw a report the other day talking about the California Governer is agreeing on a bugdet or something to that effect that isnt in line with what he originally campaigned...(BIG SURPRISE).. but it was talking about cutting back funding to our already poor Department of Education programs. I shake my head in awe..(0.0) as same sex marriage is approved in another state.. My facts may not be factual...lmao but it is understandable what Im saying.. Over and over again I hear our goverment officials and the everyday John & Jane Doe conversing about how our ecomomy sux and there isnt any money for this and that.. I browsed an article with the headline "New Scientific Study Indicates that Eating Quickly is Associated with Overeating". Are studies such as this part of the reason our city, county, state and other public officials are being laid off? Is this why educational classrooms are overfilled? Is it nice.., we reside in a nation that condones same sex marriage, continued financial cuts to our youths education, further spending researching topics that have been known to the everyday folks like myself for many years already but an answer to many issues that trouble us is illegal and fought so determinedly..Marijuana. An article stated; **San Jose, California now has its first month's worth of marijuana tax in hand. "As of May 10, - 73 medical marijuana collectives have remitted approximately $290,000 in taxes for the month of March," the city announced on Friday.** Thats ONE MONTH, ONE CITY/COUNTY, ONE STATE... Im not a scholar but $290,000 (x) 12= ? (x) every city/county in each state = a shit load of taxable funds for OUR nation AAAAAND thats just in medicinal use.  

http://www.420magazine.com/forums/hemp-facts-information/78024-modern-uses-cannabis-plant.html 

COME ON.... How much longer is our goverment officials going to sneer and turn their heads to the answer right in front of them.. SAVE OUR NATION!!  If we can condone same sex marriages we are then capable of  also condoning strolling down the street toking a joint. We are technologically smarter than we were when we banned marijuana, what the hell are we scared of today? Is it because the officials that have fought the legallization and the departments that have inforced state and federal laws against legallization of Marijuana for so many years will appear kind of stupid for not have relegalizing the plant so many years ago...? !!NEWS FLASH!! Goverment officials are also human and appear stupid in we the peoples eyes all the time... (The e-mailing of vulgar sexual photos of goverment officials own inadequencies...come on.) "Ding-Dong the wicked witch BinLaden is Dead" Notice the chart says F U E L, there is no need for our troops to be dying in a foreign land, come home we have ALL we need here in our own capable hands.

Thats all I gotta say about that...for now (-_- ).....z.z.z..zzz.z

Thanks for the heads-up. I fixed it earlier today -- and proofread the rest of the letter just in case. Too much of a hurry sometimes.

BigPharma and such will only monopolize the market if WE the users allow it to take place. I believe if full blown legal why would anyone bother goin to BigPharma when they can simply add a few plants to their gardens..? I see clubs staying open for reference and learning as there is always someone who doesnt know whats goin on around them... BigPharma aint gonna promote an individual to grow on there own. Besides when Marijuana becomes legal.. I see it being legal like adult entertainment, even though it would be legal it would still cast a taboo shadow. I see those who vote against legalization and/or use atall, using behind closed doors not wanting to be judged by their own peers as their despised "Marijuana User". If ever BigPharma does run everyone out..watevr, I dont see it happening for a decade or so...