Marijuana Legalization: East Coast, West Coast Governors Call For Legit Medical Cannabis on a Federal Level

Malcolm Kyle

If you're a Prohibitionist then you owe us answers to the following questions:

#1. Why do you rejoice at the fact that we have all been stripped of our 4th amendment rights and are now totally subordinate to a corporatized, despotic government with a heavily armed and corrupt, militarized police force whose often deadly intrusions into our homes and lives are condoned by an equally corrupt and spineless judiciary?

#2. Why do you wish to continue to spend $50 billion a year to prosecute and cage your fellow citizens for choosing drugs which are not more dangerous than those of which you yourself use and approve of such as alcohol and tobacco?

#3. Do you honestly expect the rest of us to look on passively while you waste another trillion dollars on this ruinously expensive garbage policy?

#4. Why are you waging war on your own family, friends and neighbors?

#5. Why are you so complacent with the fact that our once 'free & proud' nation now has the largest percentage of it's citizenry incarcerated than any other on the entire planet?

#6. Why are you helping to fuel a budget crisis to the point of closing hospitals, schools and libraries?

#7. Why do you rejoice at wasting precious resources on prohibition related undercover work while rapists and murderers walk free, while additionally, many cases involving murder and rape do not even get taken to trial because law enforcement priorities are subverted by your beloved failed and dangerous policy?

#8. Why are you such a supporter of the 'prison industrial complex' to the extent of endangering our own children?

#9. Will you graciously applaud, when due to your own incipient and authoritarian approach, even your own child is caged and raped?

* It is estimated that there are over 300,000 instances of prison rape a year.* 196,000 are estimated to happen to men in prison.* 123,000 are estimated to happen to men in county jail.* 40,000 are estimated to be committed against boys in either adult prisons or while in juvenile facilities or lock ups.* 5000 women are estimated to be raped in prison.

#10. And will you also applaud when your own child, due to an unnecessary and counter productive felony conviction, can no longer find employment?

Brandt Hardin

Marijuana is the safest drug with actual benefits for theuser as opposed to alcohol which is dangerous, causes addiction, birth defects,and affects literally every organ in the body. Groups are organizing all over the country to speak their minds onreforming pot laws. I drew up a verycool poster featuring Uncle Willie Nelson and The Teapot Party for the causewhich you can check out on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot... Drop in and let me know what you think!

Denny Simpkins

YES : ) FREE THE LEAF

Guest

I am glad that those Governors are trying to take a step forward! This has not been easy since the Feds have blocked every possible step anyone has taken to end the vastly destructive and costly prohibition of marijuana. I would love to have every single member of congress and every single senator put in writing exactly why they don't support legalization so that we could finally learn if it makes any sense whatsoever. If it does make any sense it totally eludes me and it's not because I'm stoned! How could any intelligent and compassionate person possibly believe that busting someone, locking them up in jail or prison, and ruining their record (thus making finding decent employment extremely difficult) is the correct thing to do? The absolute stupidity boggles the mind! Carl Sagan was a closet toker and I believe his intellect was far superior to the combined intellect of the American Govt; based on the way they've treated decent people just for using or possessing marijuana.

Nance6mary

Talking about mistreating descent people, last week my husband and I took a stand and decided to remove our 10 month old grandson from our daughters home, where she repeatedly was severly beaten by her drunk abusive husband with my grandson asleep. My daughter was not willing to walk away matter of fact she was going to go in to the courts and say all the police reports was a lie and that she did all that major damage to her face herself. Her husband was biting our grandson and that all was brought to light the last beating when my daughter had bite marks on her cheek. Well my husband is disabled and instead of taking addictive controlling substance he chooses to smoke marijuana, due to us living in a state its illegal, our daughter and son n law was angry with us and told the courts we smoked marijuana that being the only thing in our life, the courts deemed us a harm to our grandson and put him in states custody. Now my daughters home was an unsafe enviroment but the courts took a child from its grandparents due to us smoking marijuana. Made me feel like the scum of the earth and they wander why so many victims die or take the abuse. If i hadn't done the right thing and took a stand and had my grandson removed I would have been able to spend the weekend with my grandson. But would the next beating for my daughter from her drunken husband been the final blow that would have killed her. Where is the justice cause we choose to smoke marijuana for medical purposes.

DonDig

It is time for the economically motivated prohibition of cannabis to be ended. Moving it from Schedule 1 to Schedule 2 would be a dream come true for the Feds: they can still incarcerate people as much as they like, protecting the jobs of correctional officers etc, and patients can get it when needed, creating another cash flow through additional regulation. All of this regulation is unnecessary in this case, but I suppose here in the land of the terminally-complicated-by-corporate-interests that may at least be a step in a better direction for the moment. God forbid we should actually do something beneficial with our vast resources like feed and mentor the homeless and unfortunates and crack down on alcohol fueled domestic violence.