Just Say Now: It's Time to Legalize Marijuana
FireDogLake and Students for Sensible Drug Policy are officially launching the Just Say Now campaign this week. It's an exciting new effort to amplify the marijuana legalization debate and bring out the vote leading up to California's Prop 19 in November, as well as future initiatives in 2012.
The timing couldn't be better. Everyone's talking about whether the marijuana vote could help the Democrats by bringing out young voters, yet party leadership remains shamefully silent and prominent democrats like Diane Feinstein and Jerry Brown are foolishly fighting back against legalization. As a longtime hub for progressive politics on the web, FDL is the perfect venue for reinvigorating the marijuana debate on the left and driving the issue even more firmly into the political mainstream.
The effort is already scoring big points by helping break MSNBC and CNN's traditional silence on the legalization question:
This is just the beginning. If the Democrats plan to continue relying on young voters and web-savvy campaign strategies, it will no longer be possible to ignore the marijuana vote. And if the Republicans don't want to alienate their sizable libertarian wing, they'll do well to join the conversation. The time for reform has arrived, and if you didn't see it coming, you should have.
The Marijuana Vote
"If the Democrats plan to continue relying on young voters and web-savvy campaign strategies, it will no longer be possible to ignore the marijuana vote." I just hope that candidates who get elected on an anti-prohibition platform don't change their minds when in office.
Don't blindly follow.
We shouldn't trust either party. They have both made billions off this "war" on drugs. They are both responsible for keeping it going because it pads their bank accounts.
When was marijuana made illegal? 1937
Who was President? Franklin D. Roosevelt. Democrat
Clinton and Obama (both Democrat's) admitted to smoking it but did not or have not legalized it.
Ron Paul, Republican has been a very vocal proponent for legalization.
Look at the individual's folks not their party affiliation.
The Time is NOW!
Keep up the fight!
Here's a couple of links on the history of prohibition ( http://bogeymansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/norml-communications-campaign-pt-1.html) and some thoughts on Decrininalization v. Legalization (http://bogeymansblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/few-thoughs-on-crime-and-punnishment.html)
overdose
show me were in history anyone has ever overdosed on Marijuana and I'll vote against it. Till then it's just a illegal herb that has a bad name for no reason. It does more good for the body then bad.
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