MARAJUANA
A GIFT FROM GOD TO MY BROTHERS AND ME,
MARAJUANA
THE GOVERMENT WANTS TO TEST ME WHEN I PEE!!!!
Peace-
Moye

Thanks so much for picking up the thread I laid out there and generating this wonderfully developing quilt of opinions, and overall support. What has my head soooo confused over the criminalization of weed, IMO, comes from a very common sense approach. When we compare the cost to society, the destruction of families and all the death associated with the big two legalized recreational drugs of alcohol & tobacco with my little homegrown weed, the unbalanced outrageousness of illegal pot hits me like a ton of bricks, because it just doesn't make sense. People don't die from smoking weed, WE SIMPLY DRIVE SLOW. About 500,000 people die annually from tobacco and it's associated diseases. People don't die from smoking pot, WE SIMPLY LAUGH UNCONTROLLABLY AT THE SILLIEST THINGS. The toll from alcohol approaches the same levels of death & destruction as tobacco, along with the added billions in health-care costs. But people don't die from smoking grass, WE JUST DANCE WILDLY AT DEAD SHOWS. Economically, we need to consider the potential tax revenues from legalized marijuana is open-ended on the high side (no pun intended), but would certainly be appreciated by all state, local & federal agencies that would share it. Weed has never been shown to be a gateway drug by any reputable study. Medical marijuana is supported my med professionals across the board, we're up to 13 states where it's been approved for use, the current Justice Dept. has now dropped the crackdowns & raids by Federal officers on legally licensed & operated medical outlets and their patients.
It's time to move beyond the fear and help our culture move forward in it's evolution to a saner & more balanced society. Many organizations are out there to do just this very thing, the Marijuana Policy Project among them. Let's act together and bring balance and common sense to the people of this country by enacting laws that reflect better judgement, and treats it's citizens like thoughtful human beings. The choice should be ours, just like the decision to drink alcohol or smoke a couple of packs a day.
Tobacco kills, alcohol kills, marijuana smiles...

Peace, Steve

Another aspect of the legalized marijuana debate I neglected to mention before concerns its cousin, hemp. Hemp has been used for centuries for a wide variety of purposes, including making rope for the war effort during WWII. Back in the early '70's living in the St. Louis area, we got wind of marijuana growing wild up in the northwestern part of Missouri. Strangely enough it was around a small town named Tarkio, which of course had a Tarkio Road outside of town (for any Brewer & Shipley fans). Truly hemp has a long and storied history as an industrial type product, and using it now as a bio-mass fuel would be a stellar way to help ease the energy crisis that currently exists. Again, we need to break down the fear, and separate fact from fiction. Believe me when I tell you, I've taken the drive to Tarkio and I know from 1st hand experience hemp has no real quantity of THC, and as such won't get anyone high.
So, IMO, we have one more solid reason to consider bringing the country forward and using the gifts Mother Nature has to offer...

"The future's here, we are it, we are on our own"

Peace, Steve

the conspiracies and the truth:

http://www.world-mysteries.com/marijuana1.htm

not saying that the reason is because of smoking weed, but if you 'lack ambition or motivation' to read that link, here is the condensed movie version:

other history:

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peace.

I guess so after hearing him on the news last night saying that "just because we can make a lot of money(legalizing marijuana) doesn't mean it's the right thing to do." Never thought I'd hear a Republican say that! I guess Arnold thinks the "right" thing to do is keep letting the drug cartels make billions of dollars off of California's #1 cash crop and keep giving them the incentive to have multi-thousand plant growing operations going in all of California's national forests. I guess Arnold thinks the "right" thing to do is to keep millions of law-abiding, tax-paying Californians labeled as criminals who must live in fear of losing their jobs. I guess Arnold thinks the "right" thing to do is keep letting thousands of Californians lose their jobs cause he doesn't care about them. I guess Arnold thinks the '''right" thing to do is to keep people from being able to buy "certified organic" weed so they can get sick from smoking shit that has been pumped full of chemical fertilizers and doused with pesticides. Marijauna has been sanctified by God (read the Bible) and is the best medicine on the planet. If Jesus turned enough water into wine to get a whole town shit-faced I don't think he minds us smoking a little pot. You should have stayed in Hollywood Arnold, maybe you'd still have some respect.