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420 Campaign - Top Ten Reasons Marijuana Should Be Legal

Tue, Mar 13, 2007 4:10 pm

more: 420 campaign, 420, activism, legalization

The readers of HIGH TIMES want marijuana legalized, nationwide, and now. The 420 Campaign is a plan to bring legalization before the US Congress and the public. We want to use April 20th as a focal point every year to concentrate pressure on Congress to legalize marijuana until we get the job done.

Here are our top ten reasons marijuana should be legalized:

10. Prohibition has failed to control the use and domestic production of marijuana.
The government has tried to use criminal penalties to prevent marijuana use for over 75 years and yet: marijuana is now used by over 25 million people annually, cannabis is currently the largest cash crop in the United States, and marijuana is grown all over the planet. Claims that marijuana prohibition is a successful policy are ludicrous and unsupported by the facts, and the idea that marijuana will soon be eliminated from America and the rest of the world is a ridiculous fantasy.

9. Arrests for marijuana possession disproportionately affect blacks and Hispanics and reinforce the perception that law enforcement is biased and prejudiced against minorities.
African-Americans account for approximately 13% of the population of the United States and about 13.5% of annual marijuana users, however, blacks also account for 26% of all marijuana arrests. Recent studies have demonstrated that blacks and Hispanics account for the majority of marijuana possession arrests in New York City, primarily for smoking marijuana in public view. Law enforcement has failed to demonstrate that marijuana laws can be enforced fairly without regard to race; far too often minorities are arrested for marijuana use while white/non-Hispanic Americans face a much lower risk of arrest.

8. A regulated, legal market in marijuana would reduce marijuana sales and use among teenagers, as well as reduce their exposure to other drugs in the illegal market.
The illegality of marijuana makes it more valuable than if it were legal, providing opportunities for teenagers to make easy money selling it to their friends. If the excessive profits for marijuana sales were ended through legalization there would be less incentive for teens to sell it to one another. Teenage use of alcohol and tobacco remain serious public health problems even though those drugs are legal for adults, however, the availability of alcohol and tobacco is not made even more widespread by providing kids with economic incentives to sell either one to their friends and peers.

7. Legalized marijuana would reduce the flow of money from the American economy to international criminal gangs.
Marijuana’s illegality makes foreign cultivation and smuggling to the United States extremely profitable, sending billions of dollars overseas in an underground economy while diverting funds from productive economic development.

6. Marijuana’s legalization would simplify the development of hemp as a valuable and diverse agricultural crop in the United States, including its development as a new bio-fuel to reduce carbon emissions.
Canada and European countries have managed to support legal hemp cultivation without legalizing marijuana, but in the United States opposition to legal marijuana remains the biggest obstacle to development of industrial hemp as a valuable agricultural commodity. As US energy policy continues to embrace and promote the development of bio-fuels as an alternative to oil dependency and a way to reduce carbon emissions, it is all the more important to develop industrial hemp as a bio-fuel source – especially since use of hemp stalks as a fuel source will not increase demand and prices for food, such as corn. Legalization of marijuana will greatly simplify the regulatory burden on prospective hemp cultivation in the United States.

5. Prohibition is based on lies and disinformation.
Justification of marijuana’s illegality increasingly requires distortions and selective uses of the scientific record, causing harm to the credibility of teachers, law enforcement officials, and scientists throughout the country. The dangers of marijuana use have been exaggerated for almost a century and the modern scientific record does not support the reefer madness predictions of the past and present. Many claims of marijuana’s danger are based on old 20th century prejudices that originated in a time when science was uncertain how marijuana produced its characteristic effects. Since the cannabinoid receptor system was discovered in the late 1980s these hysterical concerns about marijuana’s dangerousness have not been confirmed with modern research. Everyone agrees that marijuana, or any other drug use such as alcohol or tobacco use, is not for children. Nonetheless, adults have demonstrated over the last several decades that marijuana can be used moderately without harmful impacts to the individual or society.

4. Marijuana is not a lethal drug and is safer than alcohol.
It is established scientific fact that marijuana is not toxic to humans; marijuana overdoses are nearly impossible, and marijuana is not nearly as addictive as alcohol or tobacco. It is unfair and unjust to treat marijuana users more harshly under the law than the users of alcohol or tobacco.

3. Marijuana is too expensive for our justice system and should instead be taxed to support beneficial government programs.
Law enforcement has more important responsibilities than arresting 750,000 individuals a year for marijuana possession, especially given the additional justice costs of disposing of each of these cases. Marijuana arrests make justice more expensive and less efficient in the United States, wasting jail space, clogging up court systems, and diverting time of police, attorneys, judges, and corrections officials away from violent crime, the sexual abuse of children, and terrorism. Furthermore, taxation of marijuana can provide needed and generous funding of many important criminal justice and social programs.

2. Marijuana use has positive attributes, such as its medical value and use as a recreational drug with relatively mild side effects.
Many people use marijuana because they have made an informed decision that it is good for them, especially Americans suffering from a variety of serious ailments. Marijuana provides relief from pain, nausea, spasticity, and other symptoms for many individuals who have not been treated successfully with conventional medications. Many American adults prefer marijuana to the use of alcohol as a mild and moderate way to relax. Americans use marijuana because they choose to, and one of the reasons for that choice is their personal observation that the drug has a relatively low dependence liability and easy-to-manage side effects. Most marijuana users develop tolerance to many of marijuana’s side effects, and those who do not, choose to stop using the drug. Marijuana use is the result of informed consent in which individuals have decided that the benefits of use outweigh the risks, especially since, for most Americans, the greatest risk of using marijuana is the relatively low risk of arrest.

1. Marijuana users are determined to stand up to the injustice of marijuana probation and accomplish legalization, no matter how long or what it takes to succeed.
Despite the threat of arrests and a variety of other punishments and sanctions marijuana users have persisted in their support for legalization for over a generation. They refuse to give up their long quest for justice because they believe in the fundamental values of American society. Prohibition has failed to silence marijuana users despite its best attempts over the last generation. The issue of marijuana’s legalization is a persistent issue that, like marijuana, will simply not go away. Marijuana will be legalized because marijuana users will continue to fight for it until they succeed.

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thatoneguy420

Mar 5 2010, 6:17 pm

im 16 and ive been smoking weed since i was 14. i think weed should be legalized because if it was than i would not be suspended from school for 8 weeks for possession. fuck politics, 420 everyday!

K Budda

Mar 2 2010, 12:26 am

das was up shit im high write know.dast da best fuck n news i herd since i started get n high n dat was n 1995 make dat shit legal 2010 is n and with a spark hugh i rather smoke WEED den drink som beers n if u a WEED smoker u no what im talk n bought KEEP MAKE N DAT SHIT LEGEL!MAN IM SO BLAZED! Role it up light it up n hail exhale.BUDDA YA DAS ME AHHHHHH........

light 'r up

Feb 28 2010, 6:51 pm

Marijuana has more support than what we are seeing. The country uses it right now for many many things. Carpet backing, rope, paper, clothing, hairspray and cooking oil, to name a few. All of these aside from the never ending fun of it's relaxation properties, it holds the key for many medical uses as we all know. Muscle aches, anxiety, appetite aid, nausea, glaucoma, and many others. I have been told that the plant itself produces more oxygen than other plants the same size. Unconfirmed at this point. Since being busted, I've had to give all my utensils away and resort to the only legal means of relaxation the gov't allows. Drinking. My day would be complete if I could come home and light up instead of drinking. I like it far far more. I only wish the gov't would see the benefits of allowing to have a small quantity on your person. They spend way too much money fighting it and advertising against it right now. They don't make any money off of the busts except for a fine. Not enough to cover the time involved covering the initial officers pay, on down the line to the last person dealing with the case. Legalize and sell it. The deficit would be in the clear in no time. And all of us happy. "Light 'r up".

hiazsh*t

Feb 18 2010, 10:43 pm

i love weed. im doin a paper on why marijuana should be legalized and this is gonna help prove my point. fuck the government for not letting marijuana be legal

fellow plant smoker

Feb 18 2010, 6:44 pm

weed is a plant nothing else.tobaco is full of unhealthy chemicals and does nothing for you but kill you.alcohol is a drink that makes u stupid and causes internal amd brain damage.and yet they are legal.if our government is so smart and they know whats best for us then why cant they see that weed shouldnt be illegal.i would love for weed to legalized but i would rather it be decrimalized.american prisons are filled with people who have killed and done things that are worse.we should not have people in jail or prison for smoking a plant.people have been smokeing weed for as long as people knew how to lite a joint,people will never stop smoking weed the government makes it illegal and we still do it anyway.so why does the government keep wasteing their time and money? i will never stop smoking weed,it just a plant.

#1reefersmoker

Feb 15 2010, 5:48 pm

this is response to Vyrgil Bugganstabaggen frosty doesnt share cuz he did once and well u can see they wont go away...lol

#1reefersmoker

Feb 15 2010, 5:44 pm

this is response to the alaa comment. What F****** planet are you from??? When in the h*** have you ever heard of ANYONE dieing from smoking pot??? The next time YOU ever THINK about writing or saying something that other people will read or hear YOU NEED TO GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT!!!! You sit there and call us, potheads losers when you are probably the one who sits on his imitation lazyboy with a cooler of beer beside you and a laptop who has nothing better to do but critisize people who like to enjoy themselves without harming themselves. Shut the F**** up...you have no idea what your talking about and NEVER will!!!!

CollegeKid

Feb 9 2010, 1:26 am

I found this article while researching for a college paper. Its 2 years old, and yet Marijuana has yet to be legalized, which is slightly upsetting. The reasons seem solid enough, I just wish I knew how or whom they got their facts from, so everyone could see for themselves. Of course, If everyone just smoked once, then they could definetley see for themselves.

Becky

Jan 19 2010, 2:55 am

In Reply to Vyrgil:

1. The most effective way to smoke is actually a vaporizer.. it uses the most THC without wasting it

2. The affect of cigarettes after smoking.. I personally think it depends on the person

jman

Dec 30 2009, 2:24 am

I think an underlooked question is what the legalization of marijuana would do to a lot of other thriving businesses in our economy... example: tobacco, legal drugs, etc. Could it be possible that the government realizes that marijuana could potentially challenge the HUGE tobacco industry? Which might I add has probably helped substancially in our inevitable over-population dilemma. Obviously over-speculating, but I assume "they" are a few thoughts ahead of the general population on this :).
Also... think about the first time you smoked, dank or dirt: You were seriously impaired. How many people would try it for the first time once it became legal? Quite a few... how many people could potentially put themselves in bad situations during their beginning smoking stage, being more impaired as you would off of a lot of drugs? Quite a few.
Now... if you told me you had a love for cannabis that was stronger than mine, I couldn't believe you. Take that into account as well if reading. One more point : Marijuana is the biggest gateway drug in the world. That alone is enough to keep it illegal. The arguments against it in most cases outweight the arguments for it in my opinion.

HimDaFang

Dec 12 2009, 8:55 am

For all those who don't want weed to be legalized because they think that if the govt taxes it the price will be outrageous, you have it backwards. All you are taking into account is that taxes will be added in. The cost of the weed itself will drop due to simple economics. Supply and Demand. Being legal, more people would be able to grow it and distribute it. The more supply there is of an item the less the item will cost. If you are still unhappy with that, grow your own damn supply and don't worry about getting taxed.

"Man made beer. God made weed. In God we trust!"

anonymous

Dec 11 2009, 9:42 am

phil 194 your stupid you obviously do not get the point. Your worthless.

PHIL 194

Dec 10 2009, 6:43 pm

In response to argument 10, we feel that just because an act that is against the law is not followed, does not mean it should be legalized. For example, murder is an act that is against the law but it is not always followed. So is murder something that should be legalized? No.

A. Soto :)

Dec 7 2009, 3:04 pm

so ive been smoking for about 2 years now, loved every bowl,blunt,joint ive tooken.:)one day ill be the hitler of cannibis, but in a good way haha.

jack

Nov 23 2009, 10:39 pm

completely agree with these reasons. pot is less dangerous than tobacco and alcohol yet those 2 are legal and pot is illegal..make any sense? i think not

Jess

Nov 17 2009, 2:09 pm

Just want to say. MJ is wonderful! Theres nothing like coming home after work lighting up a bowl/joint/blunt/bong/whatever! and feeling like you know what today wasnt that bad! :)
there is nothing wrong with marijuana or the people who smoke it (they are some of the tightest people i have ever met! just chill as shit and not judgemental. everyone just needs a little bud!) and I will stand by that statement firmly until the day i die!

cowboy bob

Nov 6 2009, 11:00 pm

I've been smoking weed since I was 15, in 1975. I've always loved it, still do to this day. I've always had a job until recently when I was let go because of the economy. I've been married for 22 years, and still have 1 son at home, and the other boy is a snior in college. I've coached baseball for over 10 years, been very involved in the community, volunteering, etc. Smoking pot has never held me back from being a responsible adult. I prefer it much more than drinking, but the one thing that scares the hell out of me are drug tests. Now that I'm out pounding the pavement for a job, I've stopped smoking so I can pass a fucking drug test. This is just total bullshit. I've never gone to work stoned, nor done any while there. Talk about unjust disrimination, why just cause I like to toke up when I'm out playing golf in the woods, or home at night with the wife just wanting to unwind, and maybe watch a good movie. It's time to legalize it, NOW!

=D4Mp..

Nov 3 2009, 9:44 pm

420 WE STAND

K.Lynn

Nov 1 2009, 1:49 am

Im 16 years old been smoking pot since i was 14 i love it it makes me feel great .. and i am a stright A student i go to school high every single day it makes me consentrate better i pay attention in class i love it because i use to be an awful student the highest grades i made then were D's
LEGALIZE THIS =)

gmoney

Oct 29 2009, 12:33 pm

In this day and age we try very hard to do what is best for our country in ways that would be very helpful. I believe that America as a whole is ready for change. It is now, It is time for us to standup for what we believe in and fight whole heartedly. Our relaxation is just as important us as that is to the person who drinks for their relaxing moment.
As it is writtin "We the of the United States" We are the people so let us all fight for our right to relax the way we want.

Fred G

Oct 3 2009, 5:46 pm

I have't smoked pot since I was 15 (a very long time ago). The government doesn't want to change. Think of all of that money that is spent on the war on drugs. They don't want to win that either, They would lose their funding also. But the people of the US need to wake up and realize that their so called war is only about money and power. On the surface they say it is about the destruction of our society. It's not. I think for the people to really be free, they need to legalize all drugs and let you make your own decisions. I want the government to leave me alone. I pay too much taxes as it is. Stay out of my wallet and leave me alone. Pot being illegal is rediculous!

Vyrgil Bugganstabaggen

Sep 15 2009, 5:14 am

So I have been a stoner for a little over 5 years now. Love the hell out of it. But I have always wondered 3 questions that have never been answered for me...

1. Between my prefered 3 ways of smoking( Joint, Smoking Stone, Corn cob pipe.) which is more effective technically?

2. Why does Frosty the Snowman have a corn cob, and why does he never share with his children? lol

3. Does smoking a Cigarette after a good ten increase your high? Or does it just make you Couch-Locked?

Can someone plz answer these Q's for me?
Thanks in advanced!
Peace!

justanothersmoker

Aug 24 2009, 1:26 pm

i believe that marijuana helps people such as myself.I have A.D.D wich they prescribe me DRUGS that didnt help.They made me not feel like myself wich is more dangerous than anytype of drug out there.When i smoke pot it help me calm down and relax,not to the point were i cant do anything, it acually help me channel in on a task that i am doing becasue my mind is not wondering around. i am currently attening a school that drug test so i am forced to stop for a little while.i find my self not paying attetion like i used to,and i was told for the time being i should go back on the drugs wich acually makes it worse becasue i am so slowed down i cant even get things done.now that is one medical use for marijuana that could benifit thousands of adults who have add and dont want to take the meds for reasons i have explained.

justanothersmoker

Aug 24 2009, 1:22 pm

WakeUpAndLegalizeIt

Jul 28 2009, 1:19 pm

I posted a video on youtube called 20 reasons marijuana should be legalized... help support the cause by viewing, rating, subscribing, and getting the word out. My profile name on youtube is WakeUpAndLegalizeIt and the URL is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPDq89SiZU

Thanks in advance for your help and support, peace

wes j

Jul 21 2009, 11:36 pm

what a respectable artcle. though i cant play music, i hear it when i am high, a song nobody has heard before. i don't hear lyrics unfotunately.

ella

Jul 20 2009, 5:39 pm

i agree smoking cigs only feels worse each day and smoking weed well to be honest its a mood adjuster and if you have troubles going to sleep , trust me this will work better than tylnol sleeping pills. I also think its more of a prestigious product ratter then your 5.99 cheap trill of cigs ( your only paying for the cost of the package) while weed well if there was a pretty good looking package for this product the tabacoo industry would be out of business and of course they cant / wont have another compettion in there industry, especially something that actually stimulates the mind and doesnt take 20 cigs a day to reach that first buzz off a cigg not to mention the cliental that would be lost and not to metion the positive side effects of natural herbs and possibles ways to create ideas with pot. When have you ever heard tabbacoo tea? Never! But you will here weed tea, weed brownies and other creative ideas that simply would make more money then the tabacco industry. trust me that would be a tabbaccos ceo worst nightmare but he would also be moving into the weed industry just because it's gonna make people happy when they smoke not worried . Im done for now.

whataboutIDAHO!

Jul 5 2009, 5:16 pm

COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF! I agree 110% I love all of you! This made my day, my week even. I love it so much I'm going to show my religious ass family THE REAL COMMANDMENTS. Ima smoke 10 bowls just to show my support. PEACE YALL!

lil_chris

Jun 5 2009, 5:58 pm

alright
it should be legal
i have smoked bud for 10 years,
i'm 24 now.
i have cystic fibrosis,autheritious,
and it helps so much.
i'm able to breath deeper and better
okay u can die from cig smoke..weed smoke is a lot better for ur body than cig smoke
u can die from drinking. so i mean i never heard beer to help with body? have you?
well i'm behind ya'll 100%
chris stone

niba

May 25 2009, 12:11 am

and just think of all the new job opportunities that would be availible!!

Merry Jane

May 16 2009, 10:20 pm

This is so incredible and pro-active! I love it! Knowledge is Power, and we need to show the other people who don't understand plant medicene, that there is NOTHING to be afraid of or stress about. It has been used without any law for a documented 8,000 years, and a speculated 12,000 years. Plus, Marijuana is a WEED!!! Come on Government World Leaders, don't be such control freaks. Your misuse of power and hunger for constant control is suffocating our country, and misinforming our people. And GO GREEN BIO DIESEL!! Way cool! Not to mention clothes, paper, building materials, waterproof products, and all the other awesome stuff you can make with hemp. A hemp seed has 6 X's the Protein of a soy bean. The oils heal topical, internal, and mental discomforts/diagnosis. It's a natural anti-aging serum. I could go on and on about all the pros and none of the cons....
Love You Mary Jane! xoxoxo!
Our Day Is Coming!!!

artman

May 14 2009, 6:47 pm

Overall marijuana has both its ups and downs, but the effects it incurs are

useful in many ways. Medical patients can get their medicine faster and of better quality.

The FDA will be able to regulate the quality and control of the substance. The facts will

be known and out there, preventable ways of exposure can be brought upon and taught to

our peers and young ones. There are ways of staying away, but the legalization is critical,

not only do we benefit from the legalization but so does our government. The fact that

it’s just as harmful as alcohol and tobacco speak for itself.

SmokeFree

May 7 2009, 1:55 pm

I do not smoke Marajuana or condone it's use, I do however see no reason why it shouldn't not be legallized if tobacco and alchohol have been. I'm working on a college essay on Marajuana legalization and that's how I found this site. Be safe everyone, and God bless!
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

jason

May 6 2009, 10:42 pm

you dont need to sound smart to smoke weed. some of us had to work from the age of 15 to help keep food on the table. and if weed is a better alternative than alcohol or dip that should be my option to do so and not teased about it. you need to look in your heart that weed isnt a drug that makes people fall apart. it helps us come together and share our love and friendship and lessons that need to be learned. if you think that marijuana should be illegal, shame on you and your misinformed information

420 DuDe

Apr 20 2009, 1:53 am

The BEST day in the whole year !!
This will be my 23 rd 420 DAY of smoking a JOINT on the hour!! Everyone enjoy your BUZZZZZZ !!:)

Peace out Stoners

Thatoneguy

Apr 13 2009, 9:42 pm

Weed def should b legal been somkin 4 9 yrs and lovin it. doesnt matter if its legual or not lol yall have a good one

Stewart

Apr 7 2009, 12:00 pm

I have been smoking marijuana for almost 26 years now, i have two perfectly healthy boys who are now 18 and 19 and although having trouble with the government growing up because I smoked marijuana both my sons are at university becoming lawyers and fighting to legalize marijuana through a system that the government can not ignore. I support legalizeation to the limits.

sir_smokealot89

Mar 27 2009, 4:32 pm

All i gotta say is i love reefer. i don't think anybody in their right mind believes weed is worse than cigarettes and alcohol. why isn't mary jane legalized yet? me and my friend smoke out all the time and we both make straight A's and are going to college in the fall. we've both never done any of the things the anti-marijuana commercials have portrayed those kids doing, most of which none of my stoner friends have done either. they are tremendously ridiculous. i always get a laugh when they come on TV though. but i live in tennessee and i'd have to estimate that for people above 18, at least 5 to 6 people out of 10 smoke weed. it's very common and i know it's like that in many other parts of the country as well. also marijuana prohibition is insanely expensive and has does virtually nothing to decrease the widespread use of it. considering what weed does for many people, happiness, peacefulness, everything's funny, connection with fellow stoners, connection with god. that's just recreational use. many know the medicinal uses of ganja such as relief from arthritis and glaucoma and much more. but alas no one listens. it's cool though because i'm pretty stoned right now and i'm feeling great. shout out to all stoners. keep the movement alive.

Michael

Mar 20 2009, 5:10 pm

I'm a 26 year old man in TN.I'm am also Epileptic.I would like to say I can type this because I smoked a tater.My fingers generally shake so bad I can't hit the keys.It helps my nerves so I don't get stressed out so bad my eyes roll back in my head in front of my two and five year old children.Which I do not smoke in front of.I stoped drinking moonshine for the simple fact I am smart enough to see that it was fucking up every thing in life.And how many people do you here of dieing every year of tobacco and booze? Compared to herb? They can make billions of dollars to put into schools,law enforcement,health care.Witch I can not get.And a list of hundreds of other options. But I guess they think I might get geeked up like some other dangerous drugs out there and rob or kill somebody over a 20 peice.

sloppyjalopy90

Mar 19 2009, 8:23 am

just want to get behind this and show my support

one love

CNYDEPRESSEDTEEN

Feb 25 2009, 11:22 pm

yeahh.. so im 16 been smokin for over a year... sorry im not a senoir smoker. haha but anyway. we should deffinatly keep it underground to keep govt sticky hands outta our sticky bud. you think a pack of newports are expensive?!?! itd prolly increase the price 200%. if tree is used the way it should be as a relaxer and if everyone was just chill about it with no skimpy bags and no stabbings, then it would be less of a problem. I do believe that there should be legal busnesses that should never rip people off and could get it legally to consumers. after that they are not liable and its the consumers responsibility to keep themselves outta trouble by just chillin and smokin and jolkin whether than getting into trouble like the stereotypical "teenage hoodlem." idk... there are many good arguments and anything can be acheived in great numbers if you get enough ppl to stand together.

lisa

Feb 16 2009, 10:23 am

you know they always looking to make peace in this world,well all the indians over time have smoked for peace. Also it helps arthridus and been proven to help cancer patient, nothing could harm you any worse than chemo and such shit. So wake up people, and smell the green in the world:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Haze

Feb 2 2009, 12:11 pm

You guys took the words right out of my mouth. Those are great/ true 10 reasons why marijuana should be legal. We can make it happen, just don't stop trying.

The Richard

Jan 22 2009, 3:52 pm

whats up im out of Hollister CA.

it is time to let us be free

i want to just sit in the front

of my house and smoke like it's

nothing i would not mind having to

pay little more for it if you really

love some thing your going to do it

no matter what the mount
SO I SAY IT LOUD I LOVE WEED

Thaddeus420

Jan 12 2009, 1:39 am

Im SICK of the DAMN United States Government being so Fuking ignorant.....how do they expect their citizens to respect them and be confident in their decisions if they continue to place criminal charges on marijuana smokers when it has been proven that marijuana is far more safer than the legal drug, alcohol. Its not even logical for marijuana to remain illegal why alcohol is. You know what i want to do? I want to do an interview with the president of the United States and all I want is the oppertunity to ask him two questions and for this interview to be brodcasted live all over the country. First, i wanna ask How many deaths have been alcohol related in the United States the last 50 years? The answer is outragous considering the number of alcohol induced deaths from 2005 alone was 21,634 and another 12,928 people died from alcoholic liver disease, thats 34,562 people from the year 2005 alone. That would then lead to my next question, How many deaths have been related to marijuana use? ZERO!!!!!!!!!!! DO YOU REALIZE THAT YOU IGNORANT POLITICIANS??? But you know what pisses me off even more is that government continues to sell tobacco products when it is obvious that it is a cancer causing substance. Anybody who is in the right mind can see the ignorance in this situation. How can it be legal for me, as a citizen, to buy a cancer causing substance from a store but if i want to buy and smoke something that wont kill me i have to purchase it illegally and my biggest risk is getting caught? Does anybody understand what i am saying or am i the only one, cause i know damn well the government doesn't.

jones

Dec 26 2008, 12:50 am

nice work. education is the key, combined with resources, determination and the commitment to lobby lobby lobby!!!

I am pushing for New Orleans-post Katrina-to return to its roots and legalize prostitution and pot. Hell, the red light district could use some cleaning up and legalized or "tolerated" coffee shops much like Amsterdam would help the city generate enough tax money to build all the levees they want!

The state and the city are drowning in debt (pun intended).

weed=world peace

Dec 7 2008, 8:56 pm

the govt is billons of dollars in debt and goin billons more every month if pot was legal the govt could make some much money its not funny not to mention the econemy would get a huge boost from it bein legal lets see first of all face it americans are lazy they say that its to easy to grow so govt cant make money off it but let me ask u this would u grow ur own or would u got to the store and buy it theres tax money. if u want to grow the govt can make u have to get a permit theres money for the govt not to mention u get cotton mouth so ull buy more bev. theres tax money munchies more money. if theres weed and the store that means a company is growin it and packing it shippin that means more jobs helps the econm. specaly with all the lost in jobs crime rate would go down. and i sure there are plenty of things that i have mention or thought of. it is stupid not to legalize it the govt is responsible for the econmey and by not thinkin about all of this and deciding to make pot legal means they r not doin there job that we elceted them to do

samantha

Nov 25 2008, 8:26 pm

who wrote this? i'm citing it in my paper for legalizing marijuana and i need an authorrrrr =(

luis alvarez

Nov 13 2008, 8:55 pm

this is a little of my english project i had to do for college and i would like to thank high times for helping me with it all.

Why should marijuana be legalized? There are endless reasons why marijuan

should be lgealized. One reason marijuana should be legalized is because it is a

natural seed that grows into a plant. It comes from the earth it's not man made

like other drugs. Another reason why marijuana should be legalized is because

marijuana unlike other drugs will not kill you the first time you experience it. Meth,

Coke, Acid, Heroin man made drugs can kill you the first time you try them, and

yes our very own legal alcohol can also. Ever herd of drunk driving, its the

number one death in America for teens. Finally my last reason why marijuana

should be legalized is because it would help our goverment out. It sounds

crazy but the increase in money will increase for the goverment.

Marijuana is a plant that comes from a seed and is grown. It needs water, sun,

and oxygen just like every plant on this whole world, from here in New Jersey

all the way to Australia. It can be home grown or found from the ground. In

High Times Magazine it says " More than 26,000 marijuana plants were

removed by the combined effort of Federal and State agencies over the past

week from public lands over Springville." This was recorded Sat August 2,

2008.

Which brings me to my next reason why marijuana should be legalized, when

you experience marijuana for your first time you will not die from it nor will you

become addicted to it. Crack cocain can stop your heart the first time you

snort, inject, or smoke it. X or exdecy can cause your brain to over heat and

evenutally lead to death. The first time you smoke marijuana you might not

even get high, it could take you a few trys. Which is good with marijuana

because it is not a addictive drug at all, so if you try it again and do not like

it you can simply say no thank you.

My last reason why marijuana should be legalized is because it will help our

goverment in so many ways its not even funny. For one the

goverment will make alot of money off the taxes of marijuana. It will help cut

down on alot of illegal actions that have to deal with marijuana if the

goverment taxes marijuana. In High TImes Magazine " 10 reasons why

marijuana should be legal " it says " Legalized marijuana would reduce the

flow of money from the American economy to international criminal gangs."

America would make more money if taxing marijuana than probally almost

anything in the world because marijuana is a ever lasting plant. When you

grow a marijuana plant it produces seeds. Which you can use thoes seeds to

make more plants and have a endless amount of marijuana.

If the goverment legalizes marijuana it will be the best move they have ever

done. It's the right thing to do, it will bring the crime rate in the U.S down alot

and make the U.S look like a better country. Also it will make over 750,000

people happier.

DOWN4THECAUSE

Oct 12 2008, 8:32 am

GROW FOR FREEDOM UNTIL WERE FREE TO GROW

mountainjedi

Sep 1 2008, 12:07 pm

Had to quit 6 months ago due to an accident,that was the fault of a 75 year old woman broadsiding me while I test drove a customers car.Hadn't smoked anything for 2 days ,but of course I still failed the piss test.Luckily was able to keep my job,but have to take a drug test every 21 days.My boss who I've known for 15 years was stunned.When I told him that weed was not what he thought it was he told me I needed to grow up.god what a jerk .He has that 1920 mentality and thinks pot makes you do crazy shit.Ever since I've been treated like a criminal at work ,but there is no way I can quit this job .So now I drink,I've gained 20 lbs. And I hate it.Don' get me wrong I love beer,but not this much,it was always just a thing for football or a beer with dinner.Now it's my buzz and I can feel it slowly killing me.Marijuana is the least harmful of all drugs be they natural or man made.I never went to work stoned,never but I've had co-workers on loratab,valium and the like some that are full blown drunks who drink from the time they get off work till' they pass out and not a word is said.I was a moderate pot smoker,usally less than a 1/4 a week,sometimes not even that much,and I just think this is one of the biggest crocks of sit this country allows to happen,and if Obama gets in,his drug czar running mate Biden will only make things worse.I have 22 years to retire before I can smoke again.Hopefully before then some politicians will wake up and see the disservice they are imposing on the people that give them their jobs on the first place.

dave in wales

Aug 16 2008, 6:48 pm

About time they legalized it, the uk are ignoring the official advice of there own labour backed advisery body and are doing a u turn on there own labour partie re-caterisation several years ago from a class b to c drug !!.
They intend to go back to a class b drug next year !!.
what annoys me is it probaly took 20 million pounds or more to put the change in law a few years ago and now they are doing a complete u turn !!.
wouldnt this be much better spent on a harmfull drug crack down (excuse punn)like coke,e's,crack ,tobacco,smack or drink !!.

feel the need for weed

Aug 12 2008, 4:20 pm

IT IS TIME FOR WEED TO BE FREE

Bonghits420

Aug 12 2008, 11:31 am

I agree with all of this, I am a little worried about the tax being rediculous, but it is time for change.

420 all day every day

Aug 12 2008, 3:39 am

but if they legalize it companies will be able to sale in smoke shops and other stores using pestaside and other chemicales to make it grow faster

cia211productions

Aug 4 2008, 9:52 am

the reason they made it illegal is cuz they thought that it made blacks think they were white!!!!!!

Tommy J

Aug 3 2008, 2:03 pm

Well let me first say hello to all you supporters of legalizing marijuana. now for some fun facts not politicians lying to make their pockets fat. ha. did you know this country was founded on marijuana and alcohol. in 1632 the first marijuana seeds were brought to America. then in 1738 the pilgims came over with seeds and hops. why? well because they were simple people with simple needs. back to the point. 1923 this is the date that marijuana was made into a drug that made you crazy. not true. hurst advertising and a man named john d. rockefeller. was the reason marijuana was made illegal now before this time hemp and cannibis were the biggest commodities that america had going for it. infact the first diesel engine was blueprinted around hemp-oil fuel. and i bet it would have cost 2 cent a gallon back then. anyway hurst and rockefeller. bed buddies and all two of the most powerful influences in america at this time, decide that hemp is taking away profit from them. so they make it into a huge lie. get our grandparents and parents to believe it. (babyboomers) then with hemp out of the way big oil companys now had free road to take over and rape this country, and the people have to suffer with paying now almost five dollars a gallon. our country is is being sold off to the highest bidder. the war we need to fight is the one here at home. we the people. this is our time to rise and take back our counrty. secure our borders, tell the U.N and the government to fuck off. bring home our troops,and make our country what our Forfathers. wanted it to be the land of the free and home of the brave. not land of goverment and home of slaves. its time to take the power back people and the only way to do it, stand and be heard. i hope this motivates you to make a difference. god bless you all.

colleen

Jul 23 2008, 2:20 pm

yeah, this is true, but do you really want it legalized? right now it's the cheapest drug, but if they do legalize it, they are gona tax the shit out of it.

Anon

Jul 23 2008, 11:33 am

alcohol use is worse in EVERY way than marijuana, it has been found to be 400% more associated with psychotic symptoms (precursors to schizophrenia and various other mental illness). People believe alcohol is less harmful mentally than marijuana which is wrong, the government needs to distribute this information because people who have had a bad mental reaction to marijuana and hence avoid it may turn to alcohol, likely leading to increased risk of mental illness in already genetically predisposed individuals... The facts have always been ignored :(

2011232

Jul 15 2008, 6:07 pm

I wouldn't actually recommend smoking the weed thats at Legalbuds.com its the fakest weed ever.. And its a dead giveaway when you open up the bag it smells like Hay. Search for hawaiian gold bud on youtube and you'll somebody buying a bag (from the internet/legalbuds.com) and "reviewing it" .

Bryce

Jul 14 2008, 4:49 pm

I think what you people are doing is great. would you mind if i spred this article around? you hsve a lot of valid arguments and the facts are on your side so i think people should Know this. All i want is to be able to go home after a hard days work, sit down on my couch with my pup at my feet, and smoke some bud while drift off to sleep.

.....?

Jul 11 2008, 9:25 am

it's only a matter of time before the government gives in to the demands of marijuana users but until then legalbud.com is a good way to go where the weed is cheap, i would prefer this site b/c its at a price that it would be if marijuana was actually legal

Green is GREEN

Jul 10 2008, 3:07 pm

The only reason weed is illegal is because so many people misunderstand it. The only people that should be able to decide if its legal or not are the people that have smoked it. It is unfair to everyone else that non marijuana smoking politicians get to choose for everyone else if americans can smoke weed. They all need to just relax and smoke some bud, until then, i dont want someone telling me I cant smoke marijuana. And i find it rediculous that alcohal(poison) is legal, yet it kills people eveyday! FUCK it pisses me off!

get real

Jul 9 2008, 4:20 am

go out and do something!!! ur goverment is wrong and we have enough evidence for what we stand! take the streets fuck the police! politics is bullshit, be a man of action and u will be heard!

2011232

Jul 8 2008, 2:48 pm

If you think about it when companys start growing marijuana and their is a Huge supply of it the price that we but marijuana for illegaly now will go down just like if you buy weed online... An ounce of dank now goes for about 120$ where i live but with The gross amount of product it will be sold about 40$ an ounce just like it is on legalbud.com Who the hell cares about a 5 % tax on that? or an extra 2.50 $ (USD) for a freaking ounce... Taxes arent going to matter when it comes to getting the herb for so cheap and an ounce for 40-50 bucks or even cheaper sounds pretty good right now with gas being more expensive than weed

tubby

Jun 19 2008, 7:19 am

This should be made in to a book to get out to all

common sense

May 14 2008, 11:34 pm

A major reason why marijuana is illegal is because of the reputation of pot smokers. They are often depicted as uneducated burnouts. Posting comments such as, "Yo smoke weed ery day yo dat shit is dank yo I need to chill out and smoke a fat one legalize it so I can get fucked" on an article attempting to create a case for the legalization of marijuana is not helping to mend this reputation.

I believe there are a lot of well educated marijuana users out there, however they are afraid to speak up for fear of being persecuted. This leaves the burnouts who have nothing to lose to defend our rights.

Please limit your comments on this topic to discussion on the ideas presented here rather than posting stupid jibberish. No one who is reading these comments hoping to make an unbiased decision on this topic is going to take us seriously.

budsmoker

May 12 2008, 9:46 pm

cops are dicks my friend was driving with her brother who was on paroll for a marijuana charge and the cop that made the first arrest pulled him over and searched him but didnt find any drugs so he pulled a bag of weed out of his own poket and said thats yours then arrested him and the court said she couldnt tesify because she was family she also "just happend" to be the only eye witness, her brother went back to jail for 4 more years and her bro is still in jail this happend over spring break when it happend she hadnt seen him for 2 years now that poor girl dosnt get to see him for another 4 years

bwag

May 7 2008, 3:57 pm

some ppl dont understand and never will!!!

i love mary jane more than my girl and we been dating for 3 yrs not.

cautiondeb

Apr 23 2008, 3:54 am

Because if they make it legal they would have to admit all these year they were wrong. Do you really think the USA is going to admit that? I think not USA is provening time and time again they arent never wrong!!! And besides if they did make it legal they would still have thier hands in it, all just a money game for them. Just something else they can add taxs to and still turn a blind eye to what all Marijuana could help on. People are very mollow when smokeing Marijuana. Plus the fact that gas prices would drop if they would put thier heads in the right frame of mind and look how hard it is now for people in the USA.
I know some people who have to choose food over gas. It all comes down to the people who own oil rights and you think they would stop lining thier pockets with the money they are getting now I dout it. PLus it isnt even summer yet, And I am willing to bet that Bush will still fly in his jet and still go on vaction, But what will we do sit home letting the rich man win!!! ALL JUST MONEY :(

rave

Apr 22 2008, 10:36 am

true true smoke till my lungs collapse

420 DuDe

Apr 19 2008, 8:19 pm

Yes I agree with he top 10... 4 hours to 4-20-08
PEACE to ALL POT SMOKERS & ENJOY YOUR HIIIIIIIIIII

jahstick5

Apr 7 2008, 10:53 pm

there have times i have felt like screaming so loud hoping that someone will listen but i dont because it seems that no one wants to listen.they have been shown physical scientific proof of its beneficial properties and yet the fed gov turns a blind eye and a def hear.but i am an american if i dont like it i dont have to leave. i will change it. listen to my scream!

cheba man

Apr 7 2008, 3:34 pm

when they show comercials that have those kids sayin oh i was so high thats bull shit all it is doing is telling lies and all cops do is pull over people so they can searh them for weed so they can take it home and smoke it they do it in my town and why dont they show comercials about how cocain and all that other shit can affect your life and people thinke that if you smoke weed your a low life thts a load of bull shit

cheba man

Apr 7 2008, 3:33 pm

38yearssmoking

Apr 6 2008, 2:16 pm

weed is illegel because of our governments elitist few who want complete control of our populace. You cant have control (illegal wars.etc.)if the people can have freedom of choice. The US government wants to control your every thought,movement and "freedom". Free country my ass.

38yearssmoking

Apr 6 2008, 2:04 pm

what about the cop that made a pot bust, and took it home,instead of turning it in. He and his wife made brownies.They called 911 to say they were dieing and needed medical assist.It was on worlds dummist criminals.

Kenneth- aka HARPO

Apr 3 2008, 11:50 pm

I was busted in 1992 and the police stole my bud & sent me to prison. First of all if not for marijuana charges the lawyers would starve to death. Secondly its no about right or wrong... its about money. If you think the police really destroy it...then your a stupid fuck. The police are crooks that move up in the world on the expense of the people they arrest. I'm sick & tired of these assholes lies because they are the organized crime. Its a criminal justice system operated by the real criminals. WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!
HARPO
Western Kentucky

Calloway County Deputy Max Parrish sent to Federal prison on meth charges. Retired Murray PD officer- Dean Alexander on cocaine or meth related charges. YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW !!!! Just wish the FBI would come back & round up the rest of the crooked bastards.

Adam

Apr 3 2008, 8:06 pm

man has created the term "illegal plant"

dermot

Mar 27 2008, 10:55 am

But weed is soo bad. If you smoke weed you will shoot your friend with a gun! Didnt you see the commercial? haha such bull shit fuck all these commercials, especially the one with the fucking kid and his dog, what his dog doesent like him anymore cuz he smokes weed and plays with him, Why are there no coke or heroin, and e commercials? Oh yeah, because weeed is the real danger... thats right.

AndyMac

Mar 24 2008, 9:58 pm

it should be every smokers duty to print this out, make copies, and start making it reconized to everyone that legalization is truley a good idea

AndyMac

Mar 24 2008, 9:58 pm

it should be every smokers duty to print this out, make copies, and start making it reconized to everyone that legalization is truley a good idea

Mar 24 2008, 9:38 pm

i friggin hate drug tests, i cant smoke for 90 days, the FIRST drug test i failed--i got sent to the for 5 freakin days! and the next time i fail one im gettin locked up for 3 months! who the hell is he to ruin my life on a matter of which he knows nothing about! all that goes on in that judges tiny brain is that weed is bad weed is bad weed is bad

AndyMac

Mar 24 2008, 9:28 pm

dont be sooo bummed if they dont legalize it, we can still getit just as much.
we just have to be careful

it will happen someday though and most likely in our time, someday doun the rode we will get a president that smokes,

he will understand our reasoning

DaNelli

Mar 21 2008, 7:20 pm

Pot is good.Simple. Relieves stress and you enjoy yourself... Legalize... PLEASE! Weed doesn't give you a hangover like alcohol does... Weed is good.

Zedd

Mar 20 2008, 2:46 am

THE reason weed isn't legal (in the u.s. at least) is because our government is controlled by private corporations that give the politicians (who are supposed to be representing the people and looking out for their best interests!!!) all/most their money for campaigning. And said corporations don't want cannabis legal because they would stand to lose A LOT of money if it were (i.e. drug companies, alcohol producers, tobacco companies, paper companies, DU PONT, the list goes on and on). Instead of the people being able to use cannabis, something that can help humankind to a great extend the FDA approves foods and drugs that poison our bodies! If you want to know the truth read THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES by Jack Herer

laronja!

Mar 18 2008, 5:31 pm

i hate that weed isnt legal.smoking it can ethier come your nerves or make you geek like a mother fucker.ethier way,your still enjoying the shit.i mean alcohols good,dont get me wrong. but id rather have weed legal than alcohol.you dont see people out here killing other people when they're high.right? weed is the best damn thing man has created yet. fuck the government. ima hit the bowl till the day i die. no matter what anyone says.

Kimmy

Mar 13 2008, 11:42 am

Anyone ever organize a protest? Ive been a drunk for 10 yrs and a toker for 15. Never had the problems, heartbreaks and ruined relationships over the ganja. 2 DUIs and a whole lota rehab, ganja is the only thing that keeps me sober but not straight. Smoke on!

Krystine

Mar 12 2008, 6:56 pm

Has everyone seen the commercial where that young girl gets a phone call about an embasassing picture that got sent around..and she goes "I was so high" and then the other kids next to her are looking at their cell phone and start laughing at her.

worst commercial ever. It's shit like that that makes everyone think that weed just makes you do stupid things all the time, something like that is more likely to happen if you are drunk than high.

LAME

legalize it. we are going to smoke it anyway. It's gonna happen, look how the prohibition of alcohol ended..

David

Mar 12 2008, 1:10 pm

Puff puff puuuuufffff puff pufffffff pass!!!

Taylor420

Mar 10 2008, 5:24 pm

Anyone that doesn't know/understand why marijuana is not legalized in the US yet, please go to Showtime On Demand and watch American Drug War - jails are big business for the US and if we legalize pot, the 60% of ppl that are in jail for drug related arrests will drop to 25% of drug related crime...& still the system does not work - let's lock up the drug addicts instead of helping them with a program......you can't cure AIDS or cancer by locking a person away nor can u lock up a person with a drug addiction/disease.

420 supporter

Mar 10 2008, 2:41 pm

i got drug tested 2 days ago, and failed miserably, i can't smoke until i hit 18 and get out of this fucking house, and i know every pothead out there knows what type of misjustice this is, so fucking legalize already.

metal2death

Mar 8 2008, 2:25 pm

the only reasons that i can think of why its not legal is that the US doesnt make the best weed, so the imports would mess our economy up.also i think the insurance companies are looking for any way to not pay for accidents and other health issues.

metal2death

Mar 8 2008, 2:20 pm

my parents just found my weed and bowl and they said that they are gonna give me drug tests every month.if i fail, then they said they will call the cops and send me 2 rehab. FUCK THE SYSTEM!

Charlie

Mar 5 2008, 6:14 pm

My best friends family just got torn apart because someone snitched on them and told the cops to search their place and found 3 ounces of weed. This is some bull shit if u ask me, MAKE WEED LEGAL!!!!! It tears familys apart. and its sad to see my friends get taken away from there own parents cuz there all sum really cool, law-abiding african americans. SMoke Da GANJA !!

Davo

Mar 4 2008, 4:42 pm

man shut the fuck up with that weed is deadly shit fuck that if anything its gonna keep me livin. smoke weed everyday;)

KAYA BROOKS

Mar 4 2008, 2:37 pm

weed is the only thing i smoke,half of my family smokes cigarettes and its probably going to kill them like the other millions of people. Put down them cigs and smoke some weed, feel better and live longer legalize it !!!

stoner

Mar 3 2008, 4:45 pm

WTF. if booze is legal, pot should be. i got a dui a couple weeks ago... i was black out drunk; don't even remember gettin in the car. i could have killed someone or myself. smokin tree has NEVER made me black out, or made me make really bad decisions. NEVER have i woke up after a night of tokin, and not known where i am. Legalize It!

Supporter

Mar 2 2008, 10:16 am

I support legalization of marijuana!!

I smoke pot to relax after a longs day work without a hangover the next. If I do have a hangover from alcohol, I smoke some pot to relieve the nausea! It's the greatest.

imstillalive

Mar 1 2008, 3:10 pm

amanda are you retarded weed isnt deadly to anybody and dumbasses like you sayin shit like that is why its illegal now.

amanda

Feb 27 2008, 11:56 am

weed is just deadly..make it lagal already!!

tazmania

Feb 26 2008, 3:44 am

look at how many actors and teens loose there mind or spaz out and die or urt someone on prescribed drugs ambien xanax and etc... noone has ever done that on pot but yet docs still prescribe the stuff. so why not pot its safer.tell that to the opposers ya agree

d man

Feb 26 2008, 12:36 am

Honestly its not like were trying to legalize meth.

adaman/houston/tex

Feb 24 2008, 4:41 pm

solutions are only solutions when people have no choice but to accept them. even though thousands die yearly from prescription, legal,(and by legal i mean alcohol) and illigal drug use, marijuana is still used as a scape-goat to put hard working americans in jail. you cant live off of selling weed. most of the folks i know that do just do so to put food on the table, and keep a roof over their head. we know the truth folks and this april 20th, im dedicating my bash to the american way of life that we all know we should have.-a

ryen

Feb 20 2008, 1:54 pm

it should be legal!

PChanges fromWestVirginia

Feb 19 2008, 11:46 pm

The first thing I agree with is that taxation of bud would totally help out the government in that our money would stay here instead of going to "international gangsters". They would make alot of money from it. Bud isn't addictive. I am 19 y/o and started smoking at 13. Thats six straight years of hanging out at friends houses and just blazing up. Recently i quit smoking bud and it wasn't hard at all. That is another reason it should be legal.

As long as we KEEP FIGHTING to legalize bud it will happen and hopefully Hilary Clinton doesn't get office so it will happen sooner.

josh

Feb 19 2008, 3:02 am

Another, thing i smoke weed pretty much daily. I also play ice hockey 4-5 times a day, and have been for 12 years. Only been smoking for like 2 years. But just wanted to put my say in it. That it will make you permanetly lazy and etc.

heide

Feb 16 2008, 10:03 am

chapter corrections
genesis 1 vrs 29 30
genesis 3 vrs 18

this is to correct the chapter from wince the verse came
and 1 more thing to be specific
cannabis/ hemp is a green herb
peace
heide

heide

Feb 16 2008, 8:55 am

GENESIS 1 VRS 11&12
GENESIS 2 VRS 29&30
GENESIS 4 VRS 18
GENESIS 6 VRS 21
GENESIS 9 VRS 3
cannabis/hemp is an herb
god to us gave
if our leaders are such staunch bible believing people
then they are HYPOCRITS &BLASPHEMERS
this bible just told me so

~*STASIA*~

Feb 13 2008, 1:22 am

Dude! You never wanna c me on whiskey..but give me a blunt and you'll love me.
Why do I have to pass a drug test to get a job I've already qualified for when all the potheads on welfare or government assistance doesn't even get asked if they use illegal substances!??
Why!?
I'm a good person on dope but, get me tipsy or drunk and I wouldn't even be me. I'm violent and have blackouts. Not once have I ever done anyhting I don't remember while high!.

heide

Feb 12 2008, 10:09 am

look what i found

http://christiansforcannabis.com

at last some christians with some sense

celtacia

Feb 11 2008, 1:17 pm

why did the American people ever let the government get started on enacting laws against victimless behavior anyway? i can't smoke grass, i'm allergic. but as long as the people who do smoke are grown and downwind of me, i say leave 'em be. and seatbelts and helmets and all that controlling mess..... it is insurance lobbies trying to get out of paying for stuff. there are too many laws that infringe on our freedom. it is a policy of 'incrementalism.' the buggers take everything, one little tiny bit at a time. then they own you, down to the bone. stop them now, while you still have a spine.... good luck with the legalization campaign!

Friedcat

Feb 9 2008, 11:13 am

Alcohol brings out the violent nature in drunks. I have seen lots of mean drunks in my time. I have never seen a mean stoner. Pot mellows you out, oh, my bad, that does conflict with the government campaign to keep us in a state of shock and awe,anyone know what the terror alert level is now?

willy p

Feb 8 2008, 11:28 pm

number #8 isn't bullshit. if teenagers were allowed to do it, they simply wouldn't have the desire to do it. that's part of being a teen. whatever u do that's allowed, just isn't the same as if it were illegal.

WILLIE "B"

Feb 6 2008, 8:22 am

ALL I CAN REALLY SAY IS FUCKING "A", HELL THATS ENOUGH SAID....ALL PEOPLE IN FAVOR OF *I LOVE THE HELL OUT OF YOU* the govt just makes me sick-and yall,im sick and tired of being sick and tired,so just keep on keeping on,the road will be long and rough,but dammit im in a hummer

jessenjad

Feb 5 2008, 5:42 pm

I am an alcoholic and was a bad one. I drank for the last 25 years or so and the last few years I was drinking 24 hours a day non-stop. Over a fifth a day at least. Was in the hospital twice. Went to rehab more than once and finally WITH THE HELP OF SMOKING instead of drinking have made it 5 MONTHS THIS WEEK!!!!Someday soon I'm telling my family I smoked this whole time or I'd have relapsed by now. Those that know how bad I drank and those friends of mine from rehab that can't stop say SMOKE ON!!! TO me...they know how bad it was...thank god for pot!!!

fuc law

Feb 4 2008, 2:40 pm

how come number nine says white people are at a lower risk of getting in trouble for weed were i come frome there an't nothin but hispanik/"non-white"(whats up with that shit anyway)and it don't mady what color u r the cops fuc with everyone race is not a factor in gettin baked everyone gets high nomader the race and we all get busted nomader the race

gelflinggrl74

Feb 3 2008, 2:50 am

i have ms and use marijuana,it does help with alot of my symptoms incuding muscle spasms,restlessness and my stomach problems i have optic neuritis(partially blind in left eye)and it takes the pressure off the side effects are sleepines and intense hunger lol the doc approved drugs prescibed for ms patients have some scarey sounding side effects you should look it up and you will see they are far more harmful for you than smoking a little bit of pot

SHANNON D

Feb 1 2008, 12:15 am

ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT R TRYN 2 OUTLAW BUD R JUST HATERS OR CLOSET-SMOKERS THEMSELVZ AND DONT WANT N E 1 2 KNOW IT!!JEALOSY IS A DEADLY DISEASE....DIE HATERS...DIE!!!SMOKE ON SMOKERS!!HOLD UR HEAD UP HIGH(LIKE U ALREADY R) AND START EVERYDAY OFF RIGHT...ONE BLUNT AT A TIME....WE CAN MAKE THIS HAPPEN YALL!!

SHANNON D

Feb 1 2008, 12:07 am

I AM ALMOST 30 YRS. OLD, IVE SMOKED SINCE I WAS ABOUT 17-18!!NOTHING BAD HAS HAPPENED 2 ME!!I LUV IT.. U LUV IT...WHY NOT FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHT 2 DO WHAT WE WANT AS FREE PEOPLE(HAHA)!!WE CAN SEND OUR LOVED ONES OFF 2 B KILLED OVER SEAS FOR THESE BASTARDS...BUT WE CANT SMOKE WHAT WE WANT TO??....FUCK OFF!!!

nothigh

Jan 30 2008, 1:28 pm

hello i dont smoke but i have friends that do i suport wantting to make it legal i think there alot of ppl that it can help other then for pain ..sleeping and other helpful things anyways thought id share how i feel as a nonsmoker

smithy321

Jan 28 2008, 12:44 pm

if you like smoking try this: httt://www.water-bongs-glass-pipes.com/

johnnyweed

Jan 23 2008, 3:49 pm

right on

jaron penn

Jan 20 2008, 10:30 pm

Aye I also fight for what you stand for i think that if or government would allow High Times to sell bud legally than they could tax it an make money to support this stupid ass war an if cannibis is so bad then why did i get arrested for marijuana an all they cops did was take it an talk about how good it smelled ????? I MEAN MAN MADE BEER GOD MADE BUD IN GOD WE TRUST

Dr. Timothy Leary

Jan 20 2008, 7:46 pm

Tune In, Turn On, & Drop Out!
(LSD & POT 4-ever)

Abbie Hoffman

Jan 20 2008, 7:44 pm

If you don't like the news, go make your own!

Prince Karol of Poland

Jan 20 2008, 7:37 pm

If I can get 'stoned drunk' then I should be able to just get 'stoned' PARTY ON!

Jan 18 2008, 9:51 pm

i think they should make bud legal for who ever wants to smoke it because me personaly i think ciggrets are worse than bud i just love to smoke weed and so do so many other people just make it legal already.

Jan 18 2008, 6:38 am

hey u bitch alaa now i dont approve of this shit u r saysin about bud but let me tell u somethin i am somkin some bud right now as i am typing you this message bud is 1 of the best things in this world and u better shut up about bud or i will slap u in the face with a big ass chronic bud so never hate on bud ever again until u try it

late

KITTYBOB

Jan 18 2008, 3:53 am

This made more sence than the campains that are running against marijuana. I think that if it was legal we would build a tolerence of it and stop the drug trafficing to the criminals also if cannibis is legal then you can focus on the real drug users marijuana is a plant that releaves pain in the back musle cramps and also provides the opportunity to get back your health. GO legalizeation

therealist

Jan 15 2008, 4:04 pm

I think that it shouldn matter what u do the government should let u be free as long as u aren hurting anyone what's the problem u can't owe people for drugs if they are regulated amsterdam has it and people are happier just like universal healthcare why are we afraid of our gov't shouldn they be afraid of us we are what makes things work

johndoe

Jan 10 2008, 10:03 pm

The illuminati is behind the marijuana prohibition because they don't want people to be peaceful that is why it won't be legalized anytime soon.
but keep fighting!!!

Greenmountainboy

Jan 9 2008, 12:14 pm

As much as i agree with oldskoolstoner in the long run we arnt going to get anywheres that way. the goverment presses on making it harder,dryer and not to mention more exspensive. we should offer what they want a tax its the only way

Richview

Jan 8 2008, 11:01 pm

Sarah Mc is a crack-whore
from the 90's

oldschoolstoner

Jan 5 2008, 8:15 pm

Legalization brings governmental "management" and taxation of a product that one can grow in the privacy of their own home; decriminalization keeps the government out of our business and out of our pockets. If we legalize bud, then the government will only want its unfair share. I say stick it to the man and keep bud a private issue without taxation or governmental policies.

drummerforpeace

Jan 4 2008, 2:42 am

number 8 is bullshit, but don't tell the feds. im 13, and i toke up two to three times a month. i go to the skatepark, and people are toking up daily, but they also smoke cigs like they were eating food. they just do it straight up. nobody cares, and cigarettes are regulated. if weed was legal for peeps over 18, it would just make the numbers grow at a faster rate. then kids could just smoke joints like they were cigs, and nobody would care. that reason is corrupt.

eatHERBtalktomeinanhour

Jan 2 2008, 5:20 pm

Look up the song "Irony of it All" by Te Streets......great song/musicvideo............................basically its saying why the fuck isnt weed legal, and slcohol is!!!!!!!!!!!! First of all, if was really high, i can be in control of anything i do....but if im drunk...i cant sumtimes

That is a joke!

Jan 1 2008, 10:10 pm

First off I am disabled for over 8 years! Congressman BUCK McKEON didnt care when my mom went to his office and tried to get SSI to reverse the verdict from the ALJ of denied, baised on 100% lies! Buck also thinks you are all drug dealers, so how then do you pass any laws? You people are out of touch! All disabled people and pot smokers are hated! hell,, no one at a pot shop will hire me and I have cancer....Maybe because I am a white male? lol So who is there to protect my right's? NOONE!! and life is so grand when you have cancer. Maybe FOX news will take my story? lol Opperate at your own risk!!!!!!!!!

snowmanhoes

Dec 31 2007, 11:08 am

smoke weed fuck bitch and leave a nice corpes

snowmanhoes

Dec 30 2007, 8:10 pm

smoke not snow sorry bout that

snowmanhoes

Dec 30 2007, 8:09 pm

do not vote in hilary clinton u think are goverment is fucked up now let her take office and you will see worse than it is now she is to scared to stand up to the terrorest and she supports all these money spending program so if she end the war she will just spend the money on everthing else she wants

so i will sit back and snow my pot and wait for the end in 2012

what

Dec 29 2007, 9:21 am

say that there was a chemical solution that would aide in the translation of neurotransmatic activity. the individual would have to be conscience and apparatus would be necessary. the environment they are in could effect the thought process. not only that but the necessity of keeping the person conscience would also allow this person to create false thoughts or even a montra. in addition to that you would have to do a correlation study on the individual prior to the use of the drug and apparatus. this means that the individual would have to be cooperative at some point. in all honesty it would not be cost efficient or even necessarily accurate. it would cost millions of dollars on the labor used to study the individual and operation of equipment just on one person. Would it make sense to do this in mass numbers?

col. mustard

Dec 29 2007, 12:50 am

hilary clinton sucked it for the war on terror

col. mustard

Dec 29 2007, 12:50 am

hilary clinton sucked it for the war on terror

DAVID WILLMOT

Dec 28 2007, 11:29 pm

DO NOT GO TO TORONTO, EVERY ONE IS RATS FOR THE CIA

CLINTON HATES LIFE
STAY AWAY FROM CANADA FOR YOUR SAFETY

TRANSMITTERS ALL EVERYWHERE

ALL FOR CIA
INJECTIONS FOR SPYING

IN A 2 CC NEDDLE
TRANSMITTERS/TRANSISTORS

DAVID WILLMOT

Dec 28 2007, 11:29 pm

*smoothi

Dec 28 2007, 2:30 am

alright to the future voter:
i know alot about marijuana and its good and bad effects. i also know why people would not want to legalize it,sometimes it can make people lazy and not give a damn but if you are responsible it can be a new begining to your life. i for one am a firm believer that gonja is more than just a "drug" im glad your not like that aala person or whatever, saying that it kills...they really need to do more research than just listening to haters. but i agree these reasons arent that great, so please check out hempfest.org. please it truely gives all the facts. anyway go to a hempfest near where you live. it is an experience you will never ever forget! to everybody: keep smokin the ganja and never ever let the government put you down!!

heide

Dec 26 2007, 8:29 am

i do apologize in my hurry to push the send button
i forgot to put the p in the word HYPOCRIT
and me thinks the better word being excuses,, not reason
they didnt use 1 bit of reason

ian

Dec 26 2007, 12:03 am

weed may kill brain cells but it is so sweet to do weed is like the best herb that came from mother earth.no im not a hippie im just a guy who lves his weed

poncho

Dec 24 2007, 10:25 pm

you need to stop creating conspiracies gainst the torontonian gov't. These allegations can only anger political members and they are less likely to help you with your concerns.

heide

Dec 24 2007, 9:15 am

1937
we must criminalize marijuana cause it makes white women seek relations with black men

there ya go people,,1 of the biggest if not the biggie reason why cannabis is illegal

racial predjudice+= and or penis size envy
either way a pretty fd up reason to criminalize a whole species of plants,, which i might add,,is called by their very own god,,in their very own holy book GOOD

leave it to the hyocritical/white/christian fear filled male
to either want to cage or destroy

montoya420

Dec 23 2007, 12:56 pm

your tottally correct im an avid smoker and i see no reason why marijuana shouldnt be legalized

Danngo

Dec 23 2007, 2:58 am

The American government is entering a old greeks house when they are sleeping at night

Bill Blair where do they get the keys

You piece of shit you will never get a dime from us!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you dig

atlbeauty

Dec 21 2007, 12:38 am

Shit i dont see the problem with weed!I mean c'mon the *uck on!!Alcohol kills and brings the worst outta people.Weed on the other hand caters to the body, mind, spirit.When have doctors ever used *uckin liquor or beer to heal or treat the human body? Shit Sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nicole

Dec 20 2007, 11:08 am

if god didn't want it here, It wouldn't be around.

JOHN Jr

Dec 19 2007, 3:18 am

VICTORIA GOTTI DOUCHED OUT HER STANKY ASS

DA SPADE

Dec 18 2007, 10:24 pm

gotta love mother earth she gives us great goodies like ganja to keep us happy.

Abdula Subhan

Dec 18 2007, 6:49 am

I LOVE, LOVE CAANNAABBIISS

subhan

Dec 18 2007, 6:27 am

I LOVE CANNABIS

Dec 17 2007, 11:22 am

WITH THE PRISON AND JAIL OVERCROWDING ISSUES IN THIS COUNTRY IS IT NOT A SENSIBLE CHOICE TO AT LEAST RELEASE FREE THAT PART OF THE POPULATION THAT HAS CAUSED LESS HARM THAN ANYONE OTHER SO CALLED CRIMINAL???!!!

JASON FROM HOUSTON

Dec 16 2007, 8:17 pm

IVE BEEN ARESTED A NUMBER OF TIMES FOR IT AND THEY WANT TO MAKE A JOINT A FELONY FOR ME AND THATS CRAP

Peter Gotti

Dec 8 2007, 11:23 pm

Donald Trump said I wont live till Wednesday

If not everything get seized by the American government

Brian bud

Dec 8 2007, 4:12 am

you people are either high on meth or coke! legal pot would be great in the us, we could grow freely and sell the best smoke on the planet , because if the gov. let us , we would, because we could grow the the best like other countries that can ! look , let the gov. tax us if they want if we can grow for personal use or profit, those dollars can help pay for the money we wasted on the war and help pay for the war on meth and crack, everbody wins ! happy trails

imabeast

Dec 7 2007, 7:52 pm

if they legalize it... growers lose money... dealers lose money... enforcement agencies lose money... everyone who has anything to do with marijuana will lose money...

and why legalize it when u are getting high right now...?

imabeast

Dec 7 2007, 7:51 pm

imabeast

Dec 7 2007, 7:51 pm

imabeast

Dec 7 2007, 7:51 pm

In Toronto

Dec 6 2007, 2:43 pm

Then police here talk about prevention by taking his guns away, but do nothing about the people entering without a warrent

what a fucking joke pigs

frog

Dec 4 2007, 12:59 pm

Legalize pot and all my friends will be unemployed. How would they buy the phat rides or the big screen plasa televisions. Some states already have taxes in place Seldom paid the tax on a 1/4 once is 40 bucks thats would be 80 bucks a 1/4. Am I in KY. Growers smokers and High times mag. would go broke so lets don't change the law lets just don't enforce the law

JSS420

Dec 3 2007, 6:26 pm

I THANK THAT POT GOOD FOR SOME OF MY FRIENDS .THAY ARE A.D.A HIPER BUT WHEN THAY FEEL LIKE SHIT WE SMOKE BIG FAT J... THAT HOW WE DO IT ABAY PS SMOKE ON

zoxymon

Nov 30 2007, 1:57 am

moke smarijuana dall ay

zoxymon

Nov 30 2007, 1:24 am

this site right here is the bomb diggety!!!! i love the gallery of pics. i always get stoned before i get on this site cuz it makes it so much better. also high times is the best magazine ever made and i agree 110% that weed should be legalized. MARILIZE LEGALJUANA

dankage#9

Nov 23 2007, 12:52 pm

stevestanziano is a pig!!!!!!!
you ain't foolin nobody dude give it up

Tit-a-Lot-a- Pot HKY

Nov 20 2007, 8:34 pm

Love this website! It rocks,for real! I smoke weed everyday and it actually makes me eat a lot healthier (i like to munch out on fruit sometimes!) Little Johnny smoked some crack and gave himself a heartattack Little Johnny smoked some pot, a little hungry's all he got!

Marijuana IS great for the appetite. Snorting pain pills kills your urge to eat.

Kendra and Bridget

Nov 20 2007, 1:37 am

Holly Hefner merried |Huge for his money

drb

Nov 17 2007, 11:47 am

In response to aala,you need to sit back and think of the benafits of. marijuana to people who need it for cronic pain,cancer and alot of other reasons.you sit back and critasize people for using,I worked in the prison system for thirteen years and over 50 percent of the staff and administration used it.legalize it and it will empty 30 percent of the prision system.you need to stay off this web site aala,put a stick up your ass smoke a bowl and see if you care about the stick.alcahol kills weed chills,so G.F.Y aala.

GANJAGANGSTER

Nov 17 2007, 1:14 am

I SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY
HIGH PRICE IS WHAT I PAY
BUT SMOKE OUT ANYWAY
FAT SACK THAT ALWAYS WIEGH
ME AND GANJA HERE TO STAY
DONT CARE WHAT POLICE SAY
WHAT ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY?!?!??!?!

karr

Nov 15 2007, 10:49 am

legalize it now now its for the better
i want it now
i want to get high
dont want to lay want to fly
fly high with life
legalize the green
and send me some good nugget

stoned to the bone

Nov 14 2007, 2:36 pm

marijuana should be legalized. It doesnt effect you like the government claims. For real, they should put a tax on it and sell it.. that would make some money for our economy... Alcohol is ten times worse than marijuana and yet its legal..... which do you hear more of... people dying in car crashes because they smoked a bowl, or people dying in car crashes because they drank a beer... EXACTLY... KEEP SMOKIN!!!

still smoking

Nov 13 2007, 4:34 pm

i myself enjoy smoking weed and have for 30 yrs and in that time i have graduated high school,taken college courses and worked productively...i have never killed,raped, or hurt anyone because of it...people just are stupid and don't understand it....the government if they were smart(which they aren't) could fix the economy with the profit they could make off it...get the young pot smoker in office and screw the old farts(reefer madness people)....i hate the fact that our life is not our own anymore with employers thinking they can control what you do on your time, i smoke morning noon and night and show up at work on time and am probably one of the best workers at my place of employment..get awards all the time(think i would if they knew i smoked HELL NO) such double standards.....just legalize it already......

H.I.cat

Nov 12 2007, 11:36 pm

So I've been reading the posts, I thought I'd add mine for the future voter. So your a future voter, I guess that would mean your a future tax payer also? Look up how much this country spends a year on the Drug War, currently over sixty billion a year. This Free country of ours incarcerates over 2.5 million people with over 50% for non-violent drug charges. In most cases people spend more time in jail for a pot bust than for armed robbery. So tell me who should be in jail, violent offenders or pot smokers? Since you weren,t born when this war was declared you can have little understanding of how it has underminded all of our freedoms. Prohibition does not work! My finale point is that if you look in a PDR and see all the other drugs listed you'll see they all have multiple adverse side effects, cannbis is less harmful than asprin. I if you want to know more read Jack Herrer's book.

Amy

Nov 9 2007, 7:58 pm

freedom of speech rite? we should all get together on 420 n have like the 25millon smokers march put us all on the door steps of the gov. and make them listen to the pros of legalizing marijuana..strength in numbers..ive been smoking 4 15 yrs now n i tell ya im pretty freaking healthy.. so lets all get toghter and make them listen!!!!

Slaptop

Nov 8 2007, 5:09 pm

Here is an idea, the stats say there are 25 million of us pot tokers in this country. IF we each donated say a measly $5 a month, for just one year, that amounts to $1,500,000,000 or a Billion and a half bucks. More than enough to buy all the votes we would ever need.
So how about let's all play the old time Capitalist Pig game and just buy what we want from Congress. And why not all the other big businesses are doing it, aren't they?
So; how many of you out there would be willing to spend a measly $5 a month for just 1 year to get the job done and get the cops and their threats out of our lives forever?
I'm ready, are you?

jack ass

Nov 7 2007, 2:19 pm

We should not forget that the very prisons that small towns depend on for jobs are being privatized at an alarming rate. We have large companies making huge profits on running these prisons. The more peacefull herb smokers, or addicts of drugs in general The greater the profit of these companies. What incentive is there for any sort of rehab?
We really need comprehensive reform of not only our drug laws but the way our society looks at drug use. (yeah i'm sure there are plenty of misspelled words here as if it really matters, frrrrrruuuunkis)

jack ass here

Nov 7 2007, 2:05 pm

Is there some election on "soft drugs" that only future voters know of? If so I'd love to hear about it.

The unreal amount of money we spend locking up peacefull herb smokers is hard to beleive, however its only a fraction of what is spent on our goverments other never ending war. The dreaded War on Terror. the fact is however that prisons are built in areas whose economies are very poor and dependant on them for jobs.

What we need to do in the election that really is coming up is elect someone clue recognizes that the war on "drugs" & "terror" are both just slogans that fail to acomplish anything.

McDankin

Nov 7 2007, 12:50 pm

Another point congress doesnt address is the funding we tax payers pay to hold the offenders behind bars..In August of 2005, 60,000 people were behind bars on marijuana offense..It costs us 1.2 Billion dollars per year to keep them locked up..I dont know about everybody else but i would rather spend my money somewhere else

future voter

Nov 7 2007, 12:09 am

What? Your circular reasoning makes no sense.It is like saying the "apple is red because it is red." Maybe I added an extra "to", but at least I spelled it correctly. I am looking for concrete reasons to vote yes on legalizing "soft drugs", seriously sounding like an uneducated idiot is not one of them. Let's start out with something easy like legalizing Hemp. It has great benefits i.e, it removes toxins from the body. It also has a lower level of THC than marijuana, the government could start with Hemp and then go from there. Respond with some substance.By the way it is "stuttering" not studdaring.Jack ass

future voter

Nov 6 2007, 11:45 pm

What? So I added an extra "to" at least I spelled it correctly. And your circular reasoning makes no sense. It is like saying the "apple is red because it's red." I am looking for concrete reasons to vote yes on legalizing "soft drugs". There was a great article on Hemp, and the benefits that it has i.e, it is a great antioxidant and carries toxins from our bodies. Also it does not have the THC level that marijuana has. Why couldn't we start with legalizing Hemp? And then go from there. Stop sounding so stupid and get serious.

budMerker

Nov 6 2007, 5:45 pm

GOD MADE POT MAN MADE BEER WHO DO YOU TRUST??? SERIUSLY

BlAzE a BoNe 420000

Nov 2 2007, 2:29 pm

There is a difference b/t being a pothead and a burn out. A pothead is someone who enjoys life with pot but goes to school does their job and is able to function. A burnout is someone who just sits and waste their life. I agreee1000% that pot should be leagl beacuse when your mad-smoke a blunt. When you wanna have fun-smoke a blunt. when ur bored-smoke a blunt. Smoking pot is something to do when your bored.Ps iluv 2 Get HIGH!!!! smoke weed

Snooch2daooch

Nov 1 2007, 10:59 pm

if you dont like marijuana, dont smoke it. If the government was to take on the task of opening government based smoke shops where we could buy this god given tree , like said before, they would make a couple pretty pennys. Which would lower taxes. Such as Oil, tobacco , and everything else thats getting bumped up . Now that effects even the non-smoking douche bags dont it...sounds like almost a reasonable idea...you might not like marijuana , dont aprove of its use...well some of us do aprove and will continue to smoke this bud.

mind your business

let us smoke our bud

and it helps every

with gas

with cigeretes

with global warming...

so therefore if you dont agree with legalizing marijuana you're killing penguins....i think thats perfectly clear...

Bloody Sally 13

Oct 30 2007, 11:36 am

you know what we all are going to die no matter what why not help it alone by having fun. and yes those reasons are gay as hell. but still im doing a report on why pot should be legal and the good out do the bad.

Bloody Sally 13 in Oregon

OrangeKush831

Oct 29 2007, 6:04 pm

If Beer is F***** legal so should dank...
What the fuck.?
Bud over Beer.....

Re: Future Voter

Oct 27 2007, 6:30 pm

The only reason anyone needs to favor an herb policy that works is just that it works and its logical no matter how you look at it.
As for the English lesson you offered lets look at line three of your rant. "If you want to people to listen to you..." Man you are actually studdaring in something that is written. The bottom line is that you can be a genius or a dumb ass and legalizing herb just makes sense.

bongtoke

Oct 27 2007, 7:31 am

totaly agree pot should be leagalized. its normal for your body to want to get high

future voter

Oct 26 2007, 7:28 pm

Give a future voter a reason to legalize marijuana. I am sitting here reading your posts and I see a lot of misspelled words, and I am hoping this is not a result of smoking marijuana. If you want to people to listen to you and vote for your cause, you need to sound intelligent. Most people judge by the way one speaks and spells. I am thinking about voting to legalize marijuana and other "soft drugs" like those in the Netherlands. But give me a good reason and do it intelligently. The police do not make the law they only enforce them. And yes, it is unfortunate that blacks or overrepresented in the prison system, that stems from the fact that so many of them are already on probation. Basically one foot already in the criminal system door.

Tattoo

Oct 25 2007, 10:51 pm

yeah aala shut your damn mouth! you dont have a freeking clue what youre talking about. the only thing weed gives you is a serious appetite. why do you think they perscribe it to cancer patients? because they cant hold down food! so until you sit down and smoke a bowl shut the hell up!

AlbyG

Oct 25 2007, 7:25 am

YES!! YES!!
We all just have to unite in this cause and in the end we will win!! I just hope I live to see that day :)
In the entire history of marijuana usage there has never been a death caused by weed, NEVER!!
Oh yeah aala would you just mind your own F*cking bussiness you silly bitch you don't know what your talking about and only sound like a complete idiot crispy!!!
P.S. Hightimes ROCKS!!

Sam Sharp

Oct 24 2007, 10:40 am

In response to the alaa comment:

Question: If as you say "marijuana will kill you", then why are you worried that it is also addictive? Duh.

How insanely stupid are you in your reefer madness? You make monkeys look like geniuses.

Sam Sharp

herbal essences

Oct 21 2007, 3:42 am

i really dont think that these are the top ten reasons but at least its a start. i mean arent we all working toward the same thing here? living in a world where we can chill smoke a bowl, or a blunt or what have you. i mean ive been smoking now for about 6 years and i have met so many people and friends, none of which are criminals, and have had a great time. ive even gotten along with my mom better when we found out that we both smoke! but i have to say if it does become legal, it will become commircalized and taxed, my solution? just grow your own! ohh and BTW alaa the comment you posted was pretty ignorant, you prob just had a bad experence and are piss off at the rest of us for enjoying, and why even post a comment on a message board saying that weed is bad when everyone else on here smokes?

freeman?

Oct 20 2007, 7:57 pm

Goatman,you have the rightious idea,bud

freeman?

Oct 20 2007, 7:43 pm

alaa,Don't Knock it Til you've tryed it Why are you even on this page!

freeman?

Oct 20 2007, 7:38 pm

It's Time for another Boston-Tea-Party!They change the constitution to meet their needs.They tax every thing we accually have to have Milk is as expensive as the gas.They tax it if you need it.WE've got a government that is too big for their britches.They've Killed the backbone of AMERICA The FARMERS.LOOK people what there doing to us we are going the way of comunisium. IS IT SILL?WE THE PEOPLE? THE BOTTOM LINE IS WE'VE SOLD-OUT TO (OUR GOVERNMENT)LET THEM WALK OVER US AND THEY WILL RULE US!

alaa

Oct 20 2007, 6:26 pm

Those are the stupidest reasons I have ever heard. Marijuana is a drug and will kill you, and it is addictive. Pot heads are losers.

jeffrey

Oct 20 2007, 5:01 pm

they should legalize it cause you never here of an accident being caused do to marijuana i'm surprised that they have'nt already done it

K G K

Oct 19 2007, 12:24 am

Keep Fight...
dont be "LemOt" ...
Legalize GanJa @ my belove Indonesia...

CLAY

Oct 17 2007, 12:34 am

THATS GREAT MAN

orlandoflboy

Oct 16 2007, 4:37 pm

towelie says " wanna get high "

smokinbanta

Oct 15 2007, 3:46 am

amen... that is perfectly put. in my opinion the only reason weed is not legal yet is because we are all to stoned to do anything about it.

MisBeaHaven

Oct 15 2007, 2:35 am

You're all high... Shutup and roll one ;�

bigboy85

Oct 15 2007, 12:02 am

Look a everyday pot head likes to get high, but I really don't think when there's no money and no refer we go and rob and kill for money for herb! But if we get caught witha small bag we get locked up or a fuckin fine! But fuck em one day it will be legalized and there aint shit they can do about it!!!!

m,ailman451

Oct 14 2007, 1:11 pm

govt is afraid that if pot became legal, that their big business buddies would lose money by all the heads laid back and calling in sick.

'you knowe they would get all stoned up, and listening to the pink floyd music and saying"man I'm to wasted to make it to weork man
i'm calling in
'
'

'

mailman451

Oct 14 2007, 12:46 pm

need not fear the truth

fellowsmoker

Oct 14 2007, 4:06 am

[high all the time] you jackass,cops wont care once marijauna is legal.

high all the time

Oct 13 2007, 3:41 pm

shit thats what im talking about legalize herbs so i can smoke in peace and get hated on by the pigs.

Denver

Oct 9 2007, 11:39 pm

We The People. of this country. will have marijuana legal! the pros over weigh the negatives.Fucking politians get there kickbacks from drug companys.we have a pill 4 everything 2day.$$$This was placed on this planet 4 a reason.2 benfit us,cancer,aids,pain,common head ache.Wake up its time!!!!!!!!!!!!

weedman

Oct 9 2007, 12:51 pm

if u dont get high u aint right in the head

Justine

Oct 4 2007, 9:18 am

i love weed

satan

Oct 1 2007, 10:19 pm

fuckin eh

poo poo head

Oct 1 2007, 4:12 pm

lick you are an idiot u spelt paul wrong

Drake Wolff

Sep 30 2007, 10:29 pm

Thats a good ten reasons for legalizing ganja I think weed should be legalized because its natural plants on this earth for 1 purpose to smoke and get hi

Doc

Sep 29 2007, 4:04 pm

I honestly think this world would be a much better place if they legalized BUD and more people smoked!!!

Gfam

Sep 26 2007, 10:37 pm

I am from New York and I agree that pot should be legal. If it were to be legalized, I do not think it would cut down on illegal sales, however it would reduce the penalties for possession which I am a victim of.

vinny

Sep 25 2007, 10:20 pm

i love smoking. i cant wait for it to be legalized. that would be the best day of my life

lickalottapink

Sep 24 2007, 10:16 am

www.ronpual2008.com Vote for change and the only candidate that wants to end the war in Iraq and the war on drugs.

fatty

Sep 23 2007, 11:49 pm

poke smote..

icecoldreality

Sep 21 2007, 4:08 am

. . . or in laymans' terms, go fuck yourselves for commercializing a criminal activity instead of genuinely committing to legislative change.

icecoldreality

Sep 21 2007, 4:03 am

decriminalization will, in the very least, make organizations like high times obsolete. If you don't like that you can go take internet surveys for gift cards.

Donovan B.

Sep 20 2007, 8:29 pm

Damn...we need to legalize the plant...Now.

Goatman

Sep 19 2007, 11:53 pm

and God said I give unto thee
Every seed bearing Tree, Fruit, and Plant. Look it up its in the
Holy Bible King James Version!
God made it for us and said we could use it, So who is any man to have the right to outlaw it and turn us into Criminals.
Let him without sin cast the first stone.

the homie

Sep 19 2007, 11:08 pm

another good reason for the legalization is that it violates the constitution...in some religions they use marijuana for celebrations as part of their culture...and as long as nobody but yourself is effected, you should have the right to practice your religion

Frank

Sep 19 2007, 4:58 pm

Best 10 Reasons I Ever Heard!!! ligaliz IT!!!!!!

mr. greenthumb

Sep 19 2007, 4:09 pm

very good observations. keep it up and we will have the campain on or side for shur

sindy

Sep 19 2007, 3:48 pm

The only reason our messed up government won't legalize pot for everyone is because then they can't make all the money from stealing our grow opperations for a fucking plant! And it seems that they would rather house us in the local jail for possesion, but fuck a child molester can move in right next door. What is that shit. If you kill, you die. Or you can have the wonderful choice of being tested on so we can finally end the animal abuse, Lets fuck some people us that have fucked some people up. I mean dosn't it make sence for us to test products and procediers on humans, who it is intended for. My point is the govenment sucks in so many ways. Smoking some reef is safe, relaxing and it always puts me in a happy smilling mood. And totally productive

oregon

Sep 19 2007, 3:42 pm

Here in oregon weed is legal for approved patients. But in reality who should decide if someone can and can't have it, especially if it is legal. I realize like other perscription drugs you have to have a doctors note. But my point is, is that the fines are way to steep on something that is "semi legal" ya know what i mean. All the bitchin in the world would not change the big mans decision. And ya, it is way messed up when you can go to the store and buy alcohol and drink it and possible drive and kill someone or yourself, from something you bought at your local grocery stores.But us people who choose to burn, relax, hang out with some munchies can't get it without being called a criminal cuz we are possessing illegal substances. It's all crap.

Semp

Sep 19 2007, 2:01 am

The government utilizes mj and other drugs to pay for secret wars around the world. I don't ever see them legalizing pot in our lifetime. Dirty bastards.

Matty fatty

Sep 18 2007, 11:43 pm

Willy hears ya, Willy don't care.

Mike

Sep 18 2007, 11:27 pm

A man should be judged by the quality of his work not by the quality of his piss...

Chris

Sep 18 2007, 10:44 pm

cronic....i dont think it would be an issue for employers hiring stoners because that would be sterotyping stoners as being lazy. i love smoking and going out to socialize. here's a better question: would an employer want a pothead or a drunk?

clate leonard (fuck cops)

Sep 18 2007, 5:52 pm

stfu stuper trooper. i smoked in front of police before. the only reason cops are cops is cuz they used to get picked on and now they take their anger out on others who dont deserve it. so fuck cops. 420 4 life.

potgremlin

Sep 16 2007, 9:00 pm

supertrooper you're a real tool.....classic.....

ari sativa

Sep 14 2007, 8:39 am

i got a new name ,,,

for some ak and whitewidow

spiderwebs ... . nugs
legalize it , the tast of freedom

adam

Sep 14 2007, 2:35 am

good one super trooper you fucking dumbass. how long did it take you to come up with that.

Super Trooper

Sep 13 2007, 9:52 pm

Hey Cronic....(is that short for "cronic retard"?). Go ahead and smoke in front of me. I KNOW you don't have the balls!

choi

Sep 12 2007, 4:21 am

It's 4 fuckin 20 here!! Puffin time once again!

choi

Sep 12 2007, 4:19 am

I disagree, I think we can agree!

muffin

Sep 11 2007, 2:16 pm

Thats da damn truf

Cronic

Sep 9 2007, 11:36 pm

I got nothing wrong with smokin dope, I smoke it everyday I think one reason they wont legalize mary jane is because people would be able to smoke it at work, and how many people would get fired for smokin dope at work now? and once its legal what employer wants a pot head? in reality, but i would love to smoke a big fatty blunt in front of a cop

Smilez2007

Sep 9 2007, 9:39 pm

True so true.

the3lb.com

Sep 8 2007, 8:50 pm

the best top 10 list of the year

sadfucker

Sep 8 2007, 7:01 pm

the reason the gov. will not legalize pot is they make too much money on it by arresting people with it on them, then the bastards turn around and try to sell it to another individual(which them doing are they not breaking the law themselves) and then arrested that person for purchasing. i say fuck i think pot should be legal cause fuck clinton smokes

David

Sep 8 2007, 12:41 pm

Amen...

with a k

Sep 7 2007, 3:01 pm

right on mad man!!! Everyone is so freakin worried about a lil harmless thing like marijuana, but there are so many other drugs out there causing kids to OD, people to get srung out to the point of having mothing not even teeth... damn in my opinion weed doesnt make the worl go round, but it does make the ride worthwhile!!!!! fello smokers keep it up....

with a K

Sep 7 2007, 2:53 pm

Hi i am a 25 year old female currently living in the united states. I have been enjoying greenery for many years and i really enjoyed reading the top ten reasons. Not only was the article some what educational, it is also so so so so true in many ways. To all my fellow marijuana smokers... Keep Doing What You Do!!!!!!

Alcohol - Repealed

Sep 5 2007, 7:29 am

Article XVIII, ALCOHOL Ratified in 1919, Repealed in 1933.

Article XXI, Ratified in 1933

WHERE WAS THE (CSA) IN 1933 FOR ALCOHOL AND WHAT SCHEDULE DRUG IS ALCOHOL CONSIDERED?

ALCOHOL WAS RATIFIED AND REPEALED, NOT UNDER THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT.

Cannabis rescheduling in the United States is the proposed removal of marijuana from schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act, the most tightly restricted category of drugs, by the U.S. Congress or the Attorney General.

THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT (CSA) WAS ENACTED INTO LAW BY THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES AS TITLE II OF THE COMPREHENSIVE DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ACT OF 1970. HOOKED ON FUCKING PHONICS!
WHERE WAS THE (CSA) IN 1933 FOR ALCOHOL, AND WHAT SCHEDULE DRUG IS ALCOHOL CONSIDERED? HOLY SHIT!

THE LEGISLATION CREATED FIVE SCHEDULES , WITH VARYING QUALIFICATIONS FOR A DRUG TO BE INCLUDED IN EACH WHILE DRINKING A BOTTLE OF JACK DANIELS AND JIM BEAM? SO ALCOHOL IS OVER THE COUNTER MEDICINE?

TOBACCO, BEER, WINE, AND SPIRTS (GHOSTS) ARE EXPLICITLY EXEMPT FROM THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT? WHAT THE FUCK IS UP WITH THAT?
SCHEDULE I DRUGS
(A) THE DRUG OR OTHER SUBSTANCE HAS HIGH POTENTIAL FOR ABUSE? ALCOHOL REHAB?
(B) THE DRUG OR OTHER SUBSTANCE HAS NO CURRENTLY ACCEPTED MEDICAL USE IN TREATMENT IN THE UNITED STATES? ALCOHOL IS FOR MEDICAL USE?
(C) THERE IS A LACK OF ACCEPTED SAFETY FOR USE OF THE DRUG OR OTHER SUBSTANCE UNDER MEDICAL SUPERVISION. DRINK A PINT OF RUM AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING? HOW FUCKING STUPID ARE THESE PEOPLE?

Shit.

Sep 4 2007, 3:25 am

Marijuana should be legal, but restricted like any other drug. To claim that no one has ever died from marijuana is false, people have been lost to car crashes directly stemming from marijuana use, although the numbers pale in comparison to those of people lost in crashes caused by alcohol. Have you ever heard of a pothead dad beating his kids? If the government feels that the public is old enough to decide whether they would like to drink 24/7 and throw their lives away by becoming alcoholics, then we should also have the right to throw our lives away by becoming the stereotypical "stoner", even though you and I both know the majority of marijuana users are upstanding, productive citzens.

Shit.

Sep 4 2007, 3:23 am

So, marijuana is legal if you aren't driving and are at least 21 (18 whenever the drinking age comes down). Police still have marijuana users to chase, including the illegal dealers, because marijuana can only legally be bought through Philip Morris and other tobacco giants, which are allowed to grow marijuana under direct government supervision. The 'burnt out' effect some people experience is caused by restriction of oxygen to the brain during the parasympathetic phase (coming down from being high), but this is combatted by the fact that the cigarette companies only grow the finest weed, and possibly chemically lace the marijuana they sell with bronchodialators. The government taxes the marijuana industry just as heavily as the tobacco industry, although the marijuana industry outstrips the tobacco industry in astonishing fashion. Organized crime goes down, with more law enforcement focused on the serious offenders, but government jobs are not lost, seeing as how marijuana still needs to be regulated. Less people are exposed to the actually harmful drugs like heroin because they are no longer in the same class as marijuana. Excess hemp is used to combat ridiculous gas prices (once Bush is gone). Marijuana reasearch is expanded to prove that, used in the right circumstances, it enhances brain activity, not inhibits it. You and I can both walk down the street to the convenience store and buy a 20 pack of joints(assuming were 21). Only in a perfect world. Alcohol should be illegal, it's a vile substance, it's no wonder you throw up when you drink too much of it, your body hates it, and it also has to be produced. I've smoked plenty of weed and I've never thrown up, just been content or wanted more. GOD put marijuana on the earth for a reason. Stop pissing me off and make marijuana legal.

tburr420

Sep 3 2007, 3:23 pm

my opinion about marijuana being legalized is the government should grow weed just like they are now and tax it just like tobacco products and sell it in stores it's that simple but then us smokers would have to worry about them damn basters raising the prices on us

Deniz Yeter

Sep 1 2007, 5:00 pm

Injecting THC intravenously would likely mean sudden cardiac arrest, since it isn't a water soluble chemical like opiates and would clog your blood vessels.

Phil E. Drifter

Sep 1 2007, 4:04 pm

It *may* be possible to overdose, but certainly not by smoking; you'd have to inject thc (only one chemical out of many) directly into your veins to get that much that quickly to cause death. This has never happened. In effect it is basically impossible to overdose on cannabis, and totally impossible by smoking it.

MIKE

Aug 30 2007, 10:24 pm

in regards to Over Dose (someone posted that they dont think someone would smoke that much) it is completely impossible to over dose on marijuana. You would have to consuem 1,600 POUNDS in a short period of time to OD that is a real number i got from norml's website

doughboy420

Aug 30 2007, 3:46 pm

yah dallon ur stuipid

Aug 30 2007, 1:27 pm

dallon you stupid ass it doesn't say anything about blacks and hispanics smoking more it says that they are arressted more because they are discriminated against by the fucking pigs.

G4NJ4L0V3R

Aug 30 2007, 12:52 am

I don't know if I am to high to understand it or what, But I don't get the racial thing? Please explain more.

KMKSoilder420

Aug 29 2007, 12:03 pm

Thats wats up ! I use to be on probation and that is sum fuckin bull shit ! Theres a sayin that says a man should be judged by the quality of his word not by the quality of his piss ! SMOKE FOREVER!

ANARCHISM

Aug 28 2007, 9:10 pm

ANARCHISM is a political philosophy or group of philosophies and attitudes which reject any form of compulsory government and support its elimination, often because of wider rejection of involuntary or permanent authority. Anarchism is "a cluster of doctrines and attitudes centered on the belief that government is both harmful and unnecessary.

1. The state of a society being without authoritarians or a governing body.
2. A chaotic and confusing absence of any form of political authority or government.
3. Anarchism; the political theory that a community is best organized by voluntary cooperation of individuals, rather than by coercive government.
4. confusion in general; disorder.
Anarcho-capitalism see free-market capitalism as the basis for a free society. Anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard defined free-market capitalism as "peaceful voluntary exchange," in contrast to "state capitalism," which he defined as a collusive partnership between business and government that uses coercion to subvert the FREE market.

Rich

Aug 28 2007, 8:18 pm

AS a disabled veteran, i beleive I should have the FREEDOM to smoke!!!
Keep it up!!!

Jangles

Aug 28 2007, 1:10 am

Thats good stuff dude

Dallon

Aug 27 2007, 8:24 pm

i love the facts cause there true but the fact about blacks and hispanics smoking more weed then white people is bull shit cause all that is saying is that blacks r different then whites when it comes to weed umm not true cause i smoke with with my black friends just as much as my white friends .ps:i LOVE WEED !!!

silly billy

Aug 26 2007, 11:39 pm

I like reason #1, thats the truth plain and simple

The MadMan

Aug 26 2007, 5:55 pm

Bravo!!! We must keep up the fight. We are getting closer everyday. Why should an herb I can grow in my backyard that is relatively safe be outlawed while kids are ODin' all the time on oxycontin?? It's absurd. Keep up the good work!!

tt7i

Aug 25 2007, 3:14 pm

8o7y6

nick johnson

Aug 25 2007, 3:13 pm

alcohol kill alot of people each year and how many people do you see dieing of marijuana that just goes to show how the goverment is stupid i say weed is the best thing ever

john edmonson n nick

Aug 25 2007, 3:09 pm

marijuana is the thing that make me the happiest and it riliefs a lot of stress and it helps you get though the day and if i get in a bad mood all i need to do is smoke a joint and ill be the happiest person in the world

$$ Brandon $$

Aug 25 2007, 1:29 pm

Yo good work i say keep the weed! Alcohol can be dangerous if you drink to much with weed you can smoke alot and you will not O.D unless you smoke a hell of alot and i don't think anyone would smoke that much.
and by the way the site is awsome! PEACE OUT.

S. smoke
W. weed
E. every
D. day

KY friend

Aug 25 2007, 1:06 am

Bravo!! keep up the fight ....fuck them we are on the verge of winning this stupid fucking "drug war"

On 5 Year Probation

Aug 24 2007, 11:03 pm

They can take away my rights,serch my house,and drug test me all they want! I will still fight til the death or decrim. witch ever comes frist. I will teach others to grow. I will get people to VOTE! It Will Happen!!! your Friend in KY

Lizard

Aug 22 2007, 12:08 am

Hells yeah! If pot was legal I know a lot of people that would do that way more then drink. I would rather get high then drunk. And with the exception of my headachs when I don't feel very good it totaly helps me. I would love to see its leagilization, and wish my dad could have lived to see it.

TC-ROCK -SHOW-WTN.S.D.

Aug 21 2007, 6:24 pm

ALL STATES COULD TAX IT.USE THE TAX TO HELP THE PEOPLE WITH MEDICAL AND DENTAL;FREE TO ALL WHO SMOKE AND PAY THE TAX.ALSO THE PRISON POPULATION WOULD BE DOWN SO THEY COULD HAVE ROOM FOR THE REAL BAD GUYS.

smokey joe

Aug 21 2007, 10:59 am

Here in sunny South Africa things are much better for us pot smokers, see 50% of our policeforce are smokers and the other 50% is just to corrupt to even care. Yep the RSA is the Eden of good potent wheat. Keep on rolling. Fight the MAN

Words of Wisdom

Aug 20 2007, 9:10 am

"To sin in silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."

Abraham Lincoln

"As long as our Government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."
ANDREW JACKSON

"Loyalty comes from love of good government, not fear of a bad one."
Justice Hugo L. Black,
Februrary 17,1960

"The whole of the government consists of the art of being hones."
Thomas Jefferson

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination.

"I have never objected to paying taxes but I do object to government eating up the real wealth of this country on the pretext of giving it back to the people."
Henry Ford

"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."
Samuel Adams

"If this young republic ever goes down to oblivion, it will be because of the difficulty of educating its multitudes of rulers."
Edmund Burke

"Whoever deprives men or women of land and a home of their own upon the earth not only dispossesses his fellow-men of their rights, but flies in the face of God's law, and is defying him in puny, though merciless and wicked disobedience."
Abraham Lincoln

Dr. Hybreeder

Aug 20 2007, 1:40 am

In the past ten years I have seen a dramatic increase for the tolerance of medical bud. It should be available to every responsible adult with the same laws that pertain to and govern alcohol use as far as I am concerned. Here we are 2007 a hell of a long way from the harrison tax stamp act and marijuana laws are still somewhat old fashion. This is a shameful disgrace. Sometimes I wonder if the government knows just how much tax revenue they are throwing away with this war on mj. and how much they are loosing by not legalizing it and taxing it. I will gaurntee they would make enuf to pay for their little middle eastern wargames. Remember everybody organization is key and 1,000,000 voices are louder than 100,000. If you smoke it is your direct responsibility to protest these bullshit life destroying laws and to make yourself heard. If you smoke and do not support it in this way then you are part of the problem.

til death do i toke

Aug 20 2007, 12:41 am

The justice system is fucked up everyone says that MJ is bad. Question whats so bad. A substance that can relieve pain, help depression, and countless other wonders. Whats the diffrence between the countles legal pills and MJ. Two one MJ is illegal and it onkly takes a little to get the same help. Theres no risk of overdose unlike pills. Shut the fuck up and legalize it. I'll smoke till i die.

Ron 2 toke jones

Aug 19 2007, 5:44 pm

Its stupid to waste all those tax dollars on prosecution when you can tax the product and spend the the money on a good cause. Marijuana will be around forever so wake up and mell the roses, your throwing good tax dollars down the drain. Alcohol and Tobacco are for more worst, seems to me you have your priorities backwards.......

K dog. California

Aug 19 2007, 5:31 pm

YOU ask and wonder why the united states gov. still considers marijuana a schedual one drug with no medical benefits. And if you smoke pot you will turn into a heroin injecting, pedophile murderer. That is the sickest thing I have ever heard. The reason is they woud have to cut their precious little drug war budget in half. Without all those extra billions how would they be able to afford their little satellites in space and all thier fun little toys. I used to be a hardcore republican. Now that I am grown up and educated now all i see is our government leading us all like little sheep. They do nothing to help us. But they take, take, take, money, more money then more and more money. Then start by not allowing us to choose because they dont want to have to cut their budget. Repulsive. Someday we will prevail Fellow smokers. And when we do i'm going to sit on the steps of the federal courthouse with my back to it of course. Then I'm going to lite the fattest stinkiest blunt and sit down while I write a letter to the president of the united states thanking him for all his help in destroying the thousands of lives of people who were out there working for him and being forced to pay him taxes for which he turned around and used that tax money to prosecute and destroy their lifes. Oh and ill be sure to enclose a photo of my future garden and a nice little sample nug.

DESTROYED IN CALI.

Aug 19 2007, 5:10 pm

Prop. 215 what is that? Well it is California's medical marijuana law passed in 1996 by voters, more than 35% were not marijuana smokers!!! This law makes it legal for certain people to smoke, grow, and posses it for their personal medical needs. So why are hard working California citizens who go out of their way to obtain a medical permit still having their lives and the lives of their family members destroyed by law enforcement. Then they are forced to pay thousands in legal fees defending theselves against charges that are so disgusting and repulsive that it literally makes you want to heave in horror. Then the scary part hits. There you are on a beautiful sunday afternoon tending your perfectly legal and well within limit personal crop. Then BANG, BANG, BANG, "SEARCH WARRANT" a 100 pound horizontal sledge comes through your front door hitting your beautiful wife in the face knocking out three teeth and breaking her nose and bone above her right eye. Your two and a half old little boy screams "DADDY" you run from your grow room 9mm in tow. You are confronted by 15 men holding everything ranging from small hand arms all the way up to ar15's with all the trimmings aimed at you your son and your gravely injured wife. You have no criminal record, earn more a year than the first three lowlife ski masked loosers that came through your door with a business you built from the ground up for the past 9 years. Then in one years time you have lost everything you had ever worked for house, cars, mountain cabin, and two 20 acre parcels in palm springs. Then are given a generous all expenses paid vacation for 22 months to one of Californias beautiful beautiful multi men camps. Take in mind this was all for 6 plants that were flowering and 22 others including mothers, clones, and vegers. The medical permit was good for 42 plants. 22+6=28. Nor could the states weak ass lawyers prove that anything was ever sold.

Ravin v. STATE of Alaska

Aug 18 2007, 5:53 am

Opinion by Rabinowitz

THe constitutionality of Alaska's statute prohibiting posession of marijuana is put in issue in this case. Petitioner Ravin was arrested in 1972 and charged with violating AS 17.12.010. Before trial Ravin attacked the constitutionality of privacy under both the federal and Alaska constitutions, and further violated the equal protection provisions of the state and federal constitutions....

Here Ravin raises two basic claims: first, that there is no legitimate state interest in prohibiting possession of marijuana by adults for personal use, in view of the right to privacy; and secondly, that the statutory classification of marijuana as a dangerous drug, while use of alcohol and tobacco is not prohibited, denies him due process and equel protection of law.

We first address petitioner's contentions that his constitutionally protected right to privacy compels the conclusion that the State of Alaska is prohibited from penalizing the private possession and use of marijuana. Ravin's basic theses is that there exists uner the federal and Alaska constututions a fundemental right to privacy, the scope of which is sufficiently broad to encompass and protect the possession of marijuana. In light of these controlling principles, petitioner argues that the evidence submitted below by both sides demonstrates that marijuana is a relatively innocuous substance, at least as compared with other less-restricted substances, and that nothing even approaching a compelling state interest was proven by the State.

smoke!

Aug 17 2007, 1:51 pm

prescription drugs come with a list of side efffects, every info mercial drug has a list o possible severe side effects, ... yet our government allows these drugs to be sold legally..

Dallas Child

Aug 16 2007, 2:38 pm

High Potent Marijuana deserves to be legalized in every country, state, and city! Blow Tree's Everyday!

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

Aug 16 2007, 7:51 am

ARTICLE I.

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE government FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.

ARTICLE X.
THE POWERS NOT DELEGATED TO THE UNITED STATES BY THE CONSTITUTION, NOR PROHIBITED BY IT TO THE STATES, ARE RESERVED TO THE STATES RESPECTIVELY, OR TO THE PEOPLE.

WHO MAKES THE LAWS IN GOVERNMENT

Only the legislature can make laws and they MUST be within the limits set forth in the Constitution. To assume that every bill passed is a law would be giving a power to the legislature that they can not have. To accept an illegal law would be accepting despotism even it it was said to be for the public good.
"Sometimes when the public good is pretended, a private benefit is intended."

Coke, 10 Rep. 142 b.

"The public good is in nothing more essentially interested than the protection of every individual's private rights."

"NO ONE IS BOUND TO OBEY AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW AND NO COURTS ARE BOUND TO ENFORCE IT."

"THE ILLEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA IS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL LAW."

Words of Wisdom

Aug 15 2007, 10:40 pm

"The high office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
John F. Kennedy at Columbia University, 10 days before his assassination.

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men."
Abraham Lincoln

What was in the minds and hearts of the fifty-five delegates that gathered in Philadelphia during the four months of deliberation, controversy and compromise that led to The Constitution of the United States of America? The answer lies within the records taken at the convention, bongs, rolling papers, case of coor's light, diaries of acid trips, Cannabis filled pipes and letters written by delegates on mushrooms.

40 years ago ....tonite

Aug 15 2007, 7:21 pm

woodstock was raging and everybody was havin a great time....i never looked back and you should pay tribute by torching one up .....right now

Serena Graham

Aug 15 2007, 2:46 pm

Because it's my God-given RIGHT!

Kristopher

Aug 14 2007, 2:49 am

Okay lets look at this...Alcohol has killed more than how many people again?...marijuana has killed..0.

any other drug besides shrooms acutally need to be made and processed, marijuana..does not.

side effects of alcohol: hang over, liver failure, depression, and down right ignorance.

side effects of marijuana: hungry, happy, lazy (sometimes not a good thing), and not one report of lung cancer caused by marijuana tar.

point proven?...I think so.

Pro V S

Aug 12 2007, 10:37 pm

yeah um, u can do a alcohol,crack,meth, and cigarret Maddness. Then compare it Refeer Madness. That should be great. This country has done an injustice to The healing of the Nation and the people. Beleive me The Herb anit never hurt anyone.
It seems like the look to the west to see what its doing, the world would be like "oh snap the US is gettin high and admitting it". That might start a peace wave or get us BOMB!!!

zig zag king

Aug 12 2007, 4:46 am

Okay, anouther good reason to legalize...weed has less side affects that any drug i know....anytime i hear a pill comercial to get ride of sinuses or depression the side affects are worse than the damn desease...secondly, the one danger of mariguana is that if you get fucked in a drug deal you cant get the cops involved...a.k.a. here comes the violance...i dont know about you, but i wouldnt love anything more than to be able to stop at the store and buy a pack of J's...wouldnt you?

zig zag king

Aug 12 2007, 4:46 am

andi nez

Aug 9 2007, 7:36 am

it's good for everyone.......somepeople just need to try it......i bet those cops smoke all the confinscated shit and wanna waste time looking to bust someone again becuz they went in fien mode...........yeah i seen this happen......fucked up that foo is gettin free weed...........gahhh why cant we jus smoke......i wanna help out but im not really aware of all this political shit if someone would do it the stoner way and youll have my vote in what ever..........pCe out....

Aug 9 2007, 2:37 am

Perhaps an 11th reason should be that making marijuana illegal is counter to the law of supply and demand: Anyone who belives in the law of supply and demand will recognize the hypocricy of outlawing drugs--the more governments crack down, the more they drive up the prices of the commodity they are attempting to prohibit.

Beast

Aug 8 2007, 10:55 am

the trouble is most stoners smoke it but dont know anything about helping to legalize it. We need to inform pretty much everybody of how to help. For example if we could get a vote for it going and get enough media attention for all the stoners to know about the vote then im sure it would happen.

Ganjafarmer420

Aug 7 2007, 4:58 pm

Yeah I say we need to all band togetherand legalize it. Herb was given to us to use it says so in the Bible. NOt to mention where is all the herb that the cops take in busts and shyt??? Legalize it ........

elixir of the gods

Aug 7 2007, 4:56 pm

Hello fools, we must be a cluster of fools! I've read several comments so far, no way will I ever read them all, it's fuckin pointless. some of you say in order to legalize mj we should let the gov tax it or that the gov makes less money than if it was legal or what ever the stipulation. Listen now fools, the gov already makes way to much money from taxes as it stands. "we the people" are now and forever getting royally fucked from taxed wages and the gov giving tax breaks to upper class fucks. Why are some of you saying that mj should be taxed to make mj legal? Don't you fools know that the gov fabricates money out of thin air, and do you think we should let city council and fed fucks dictate to us who's making "good" or "evil" choices? Anyway my little fools, the gov makes their own money, they need no other tax money, they already tax everything whether there's a lawful way or not. We want the pot legal? I'm not so sure, since we are all saying the same shit(give gov more taxes from mj). What the fuck? Get your heads out of your asses. We should smoke and smoke and I don't think we should tax weed ever.Whether or not our naturally green friend is legal or other"not"wise. Why should anyone be sick or worse to make this particular choice and where the fuck does taxes and money come in to play? Mary Jane is probably pissed off at us for being locked up for 300 unending years. She's just a girl and only a plant. Earthly money can't and should not be our motivation for change. God, Mohammed or Buddah(or what ever god) gave us this gift and it's our natural choice since the beginning. Wake up fools so we will be fooled no longer!

Stevie Sunshine

Aug 7 2007, 11:27 am

If we are able to decriminalize pot usage and offer amnesty to those already imprisoned on marijuana charges, we could free up jail space for those criminals more deserving of incarceration. We don't need to waste taxpayer funds erecting new prisons for people whom the American police state deems deviant and undeserving of a break. What is needed is a reform of our antiquated drug laws and a re-education of law enforcement officials. This country needs to get its priorities straight! The 420 Campaign, if implemented properly, will go a long way in bringing the US out of the cannibis Stone Age and bring us in line with the rest of the world.

Nat

Aug 6 2007, 10:22 pm

canada has the poorest record for crimes against humanity

blunt smoker

Aug 6 2007, 9:44 pm

there is a shit load of reason why pot should be legal so one they could tax the hell out of it and the government would make money of the shit. Lower the overpoplation in state prisons.For one its just a fucking plant. Hell cigs are way more addictive than pot. I just got out of rehab for alcohol abuse but pot never cause any problems in my life hell i smoke it instead of drinking my life is better now

Billybudsmoker

Aug 3 2007, 11:17 pm

Anyway we can contact the people we have put in office(ok maybe the court may have had a role to play with ol King George) We need to constantly annoy these people in every legal way in order to acomplish anything. e-mail, phone, in person if possible, snail mail, get f'n creative, I'm sure if the issue is given the spotlight Americans will use commen sence regarding weed. Our plight could easily be given the spotlight if we had a presidential candidate that was for completly legalizing pot. the only one I'm aware of is MIKEGRAVEL & he has really done some things like being key in ending the draft. He is kind of a crazy old man but why not everyone else sucks

Tom420miles

Aug 3 2007, 11:47 am

Man the bud has saved my life.
I was hit by a truck while on foot I suffered 6 strokes during surgery after 3 yrs of their medicine I turned to bud and the last 5yrs have been great. I no longer take any pharma med I have regain quite a bit of movement on my right side to feel your brain come back to life every time you light up is somthing I can not explain how great yhat feels well time to medicate

Soon to be Miss High Time

Aug 2 2007, 6:43 pm

How can they seriously sit there and sell a product that has rat poisoning, tar, and other disgusting shit that has proven to kill so many people, and keep marijuana, something that has proven to help people and is given medically, illegal?? How fucking stupid can you get? And how can you not love getting high? It just makes everything better

OGERR

Jul 31 2007, 3:40 am

I am currently in IRAQ, serving this great country of ours. Even thou we shouldnt be here. I have been an toker since 1991 I have pissed hot for coke( it was the first time I tried it and the last) that shit suck balls. I have been in the Army for 8 years and have never pissed hot for pot but when I go home I will have to take a piss test. Every time I piss I think of how fucked up our system is. SO I SAY "OVER GROW AMERICA" Mark Emery. I like the all the supportive evidance on pot, I all so agree on the top ten reasons for legalized pot. Keep up the good work and Let us know whats up with THE PRINCE OF POT. It's hard to know whats going on over here.

bethany & mike

Jul 28 2007, 9:47 pm

This should b sent to the president....& all his lil pplz...kuz we high now...& we don't see no harm in it....i mean it's jus that daym thing we call the GOVERMRNT!!!!!!!! yes yes we know....there fucked up individuals....but yeah....LEGALIZE MARY JANE!!!

ya_on_420

Jul 27 2007, 10:22 pm

I agree with the_man. The police are really cool with us if they catch us smokin. They understand the drug well and know we never carry very much. I don't see why it cannot be legal? From my research on the drug it has no harmful affects on humans. How can you not legalize something that is less harmful than alcohol?

the_man

Jul 27 2007, 10:17 pm

SuperCopper if you really are a cop you'd know that crowds that have been smoking pot are the easiest to handle and probably the most peaceful people. I am a cop and i do not believe i have ever had to lock up someone for smoking pot. I live in B.C. Canada and we have some of the most wicked pot. I smoke faithfully and i do my job to the fullest. You as a "fellow police officer" should know the drug very well...that is..if you do your job?

pissedofmotherfucker

Jul 27 2007, 8:50 pm

the united states of america, home of the free. what does that mean? sure we are free in this country unless we want to do whatever we want to like smoke a fucking bowl. how can we call this the home of the free when the government is control our lives. when i think of a free country i see people being able to do whatever they want to unless it harms others. so in our country of america where has our freedoms gone. i blame our parents and there parents who decided to start to control our freedom. in the state i live in you cant smoke in a public place and i am talking about tobaco. even though a man opened his bar on his property that he pays his fucking taxes for he cant allow the use of a legal drug. if you dont like someones rules in there business leave dont change the law. every time we create a new law usually we strip the american public of the freedom this country was founded for. like in the revolution lets throw the fucking tea in the harbor and fight the fight on our own soul to make this fucking country great like it was before our stupid fucking ancestors fucked it up. to anyone who wants to stop this and that from happining come to me i will fucking show you what a pissed of american can do. lets gather the fuck together and kill the fucks who take things from us like our right to fucking do what we want as long as we dont hurt others.

sassykitten420

Jul 26 2007, 11:09 pm

If i can come home after a long day of work and drink a beer. I should have the same right to come home and smoke a joint.

ganjaholic

Jul 24 2007, 8:33 pm

too bad our countries politicians are retards. a bunch of old fuckers that are bought out by lobbyists.

jeremy

Jul 24 2007, 7:18 pm

Relaxation is a very important part of having a well balanced brain. without relaxing and just chilling the brain produces less of a chemical called serotonin. Lack of serotonin causes many physical and emotional problems. such as Depression, ADD, aggression, chronic pain, nausea, chronic fatigue, anxiety and much more. My point? Marijuana is a very good tool for losing stress and relaxing which in turn can really help those of us who are by nature easily stressed. the cure is here.

shay

Jul 24 2007, 3:24 pm

maybe if we worked hard enough and seperated among the untied states we can beat this ting the question is how much do you love weed....pot...marajuanna?!?! if people are determined enough us people can beat this thing and over ride the feds!!!!!! theres more of us and less of them!!!

Cap'n Morgan

Jul 24 2007, 1:50 am

I think a reason its not legalized yet is 'cause the government's being too lazy to make another amendment...

NORMLkid14

Jul 23 2007, 4:36 pm

Yeah I highly doubt supercopper is a real police officer, I like to think that even though I dont agree with all laws, that the majority of cops are not that ignorant. I would be willing to bet a large percentage of cops would agree to the legalization of marijuana. So to those who are with me, smoke on!!!

twistone

Jul 22 2007, 7:21 pm

hey supercopper there is no reason #11.

mike haze

Jul 22 2007, 3:51 pm

and another thing why cops think they doing people a favor by arresting people? Prisons is just a way of sayin we can not live with what we do. God said we gotta live an by any means. once we start thinkin about living instead of dying no one will stop us. cause only God can judge. half of these cops need a blunt just to release some of that built up anger in them. lets see what happens when the tables turn.

mike haze

Jul 22 2007, 3:46 pm

Weed gives you knowledge. thats what i have learned. from experience it let me see whats wrong with people and gives me the strength to say i can. Weed is food for thoughts. so its food for God. its as simple as that. i think weed should be tax free also. let it grow everywhere so everyone can know that it is good.

weedro420

Jul 22 2007, 1:18 pm

the only reason legalization of marijuana hasnt been done is because most of the the tobbaco and alcohol industries are mostly goverment owned which means if something gives you actually freedom then its not going to be tolerated by any goverment at all

FUCKSUPERCOPPER

Jul 22 2007, 4:11 am

Go suck a dick supercopper

sara

Jul 21 2007, 7:31 pm

i think it sure be alowed to be in the stores, and that we should be able to buy them just like smokes in the stores too

Souljah

Jul 20 2007, 1:20 am

Yo, this "Super Trooper" has got a lot of nerve to say what he did. Well, the NORML movement is in full force and goals will get accomplished, but all in due time.

Heatherbell420

Jul 19 2007, 4:48 pm

fuckin' right! The legalization of pot would solve a shit load of problems. Keep on smokin'

Strath-Vegas

SuperCopper

Jul 18 2007, 10:11 pm

Yawnnnnnn. Did you say something Hippie?

SuperCopper

Jul 17 2007, 10:01 pm

Reason #11: So I don't have to waste my time locking you idiots up. No wait...I LIKE locking you dipshits up. Life is good when you're the Police!

davidsma86

Jul 17 2007, 8:51 am

Well, Ive been smokin for 22 years,still smoke, always will! I think its BULLSHIT that beer is legal, after all when was the last time u heard about someone dying or killing someone in a car accident because they were stoned? Beer is the enemy.. hello?......Keep smokin that shit,Congress need's to get high, maybe they would get it then!!!

Jul 15 2007, 10:33 pm

i've heard from a couple people that if all the people from the ages 18 to 21 voted on it, the drinking age could be lowered to 18, i'm not saying that should or shouldn't be the case, my point is that we screw ourselves by not voting, we have to vote or else you cant complain about the conditions we're living under cause you had a chance and didn't do your part to change.
our laws are supposed to elect the will of the people of america, but they dont.
Ralf nader coulda made it happen, he was right on on so many topics, people talk about goinn out adn voting, we have good intention, we're just not willing to put out the effort necessary to succeed.
but it's all good, all these ideas or refer madness are diminishing more and more all the time, our generation is gonna have weed legalized.

native brother

Jul 15 2007, 3:03 am

yeah it should be legalized so it can be grown for good use for our people as a whole all people

billybongster

Jul 14 2007, 2:29 pm

free the weed!!!

happy trees

Jul 12 2007, 8:41 pm

everyone who reeds this grow happy trees

weed man

Jul 12 2007, 8:36 pm

all i have to say is LEGALIZE IT

lui2

Jul 12 2007, 4:26 pm

hey i just want to say that all the world should legalize weed because we need weed in the future, all the world is fucked up with global warming, i mean in ten years we better do something about it we can just roll a joint sit down talk and chill out...instead of making stupid laws, lets just have fun and roll another joint

gethigh420

Jul 11 2007, 3:52 pm

THE GOVERNMENT DOESNT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT THE PEOPLE. THEY CARE MORE ABOUT MONEY. THEY LIE ABOUT ALOT OF THINGS AND AMERICA TRUSTS THEM. WEED NEEDS TO BE LEGAL FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE OVER 18 AND ALCOHOL SHOULD STAY THE SAME. WEED IS BETTER FOR YOU THAN ANY OTHER DRUG. ROLL IT UP AND SMOKE IT. FUCK THE GOVERNMENT!!

im high and luven it

Jul 11 2007, 1:21 am

WE NEED TO MAN UP AND JUST LEAGLIZE THE SHIT AND MAYBE AMIRICA WILL BE A LITTLE MORE SATISFIED AMEN!!!!

smokey bear

Jul 9 2007, 5:42 pm

if you want pot legalized, vote 4 David Kucinich in 08. he wants to end this fucking war on drugs and to decriminalize weed.

the420er

Jul 9 2007, 1:15 am

thats the right on man! RIGHT ON!

Titaniumchick06

Jul 8 2007, 8:33 pm

Hey peeps,I was in a bad car accident 1yr ago,I have titanium implants in both of my legs,which cause serious pain,any who I love the use of weed to ease alot of the pain that I feel,sure beats the oxy's ,the vic's'and the methadone haze.***legalize maryJane and she will sustain us all in love and peace****.Lots of good love and high times(^^)

velzymama's comment 4/25/

Jul 8 2007, 11:38 am

mother of 2. there was a study in Australia of pregnant mom's that smoked weed during the 9 mos, from the time born to age 12, the kids showed NO difference whatsoever from nonsmoking moms kids. i read that on NORML website. so where's the problem?

geocities.com/tarotchuck

Jul 8 2007, 11:07 am

if i can go out and get stoned drunk, then i should be able to go out and just get stoned, right?

INDICAT

Jul 7 2007, 10:01 am

The problem is that to make it legal the government would have to admit they fucked up for 80 damn years.Admit they defied the laws of nature. Admit they dictated a flawed policy. Admit they persecuted hundreds of thousands of people for no reason and ruined thier lives. Admit they lied and belittled the basic rights of americans all along.

crazy about 420

Jul 6 2007, 11:54 am

I am a frequent smoker. I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and put on legal medicinal drugs that made me into a non functioning zombie. I took myself off of those drugs and started smoking. It is totally better. I can still function, go to work and have a life with my kids. So I believe that pot should be legalized for the better health of us all.

ace

Jul 5 2007, 12:18 pm

the best way to put the profits from buds is to do it the same way tobacco is done. anyway that tobacco is smoked pot is done the same way, pipes, joints, blunts, even bongs, and hookahs. tobacco has different brands that are priced according to value. pot is the same way. sell some pre-rolled joints, packaged like cigarettes, same for blunts. or get it loosely and roll your own. instead of putting people in jail for growing, give them government jobs to produce it. tax it like tobacco and the price goes down for the consumer(which is great) and all the profits go back to our economy instead of "too fund terrorism" as i saw on one commercial. the best green really does come from the U.S. so why not make it legal and help out our economy instead of worrying about what is going on everywhere else

Puffy

Jul 2 2007, 3:32 pm

I LoVe MaRiJuAnA. LeGaLiZe It. MaKe ThE wOrLd A bEtTeR pLaCe To LiVe In ThE fUtUrE. pEaCe AnD lOvE. LaTeR pEoPlE. tAkE cArE.

Lucafer

Jun 23 2007, 9:25 pm

Heya Name is Lucafer, What everyone has to relize is every drug out there the gov had something to do with it. Reason peps use mith is cause it was used to help peps on herion used to get them to stop using mith- thus making the addicted to herion, some of those here need to know this. Back wen i was a kid everyone would tell me i would die before i was 18 cause of the life i was leading. This was befor i was in high school. When in high school i had a bad temper, i was stealing, till i was exposed to herb. After that i started to see my life and where it was going, if it wasnt for herb id prolly be in jail or in prison. Also it helps with insomnia which no pills actually do help, peps out there with other probs could benifit from it as well. i know its a touchy subject but in the bible- God says- use my plants and all herbs for they all cure illness and disease's. The gov does need get off therer ass and worrie bout U.S. Not iraq- yes we fighting terriorism, so they say, but y we really there not cause terriorism cause of oil. We have so many problems in usa that legalizing herb would help but also cause problems as well, Bud was legal at one time so we may see it legal in U.S.A. shortly. Bud was legal in the 1930s after beer was prohibited, thus making profit for gangsters. There is alot of money in bud,and yes i believe it could help our society by legalizing it- Taking hobos of the streets, could help out with the convicts in jail, cause everyone knows so hard for felons to get jobs thus its y they go back to prison.......

John

Jun 21 2007, 10:18 am

I believe everyone should stop asking congress to decriminalize cannabis. Decriminalization does not rid america of the black market and its dangers, decriminalization could only lead to more problems. The way the problem needs to be addressed is all of the legalization groups need to pull together and get behind a effort to completely legalize cannabis. There needs to be a legal system of distribution to people over a certin age, it needs to be taxed. People would need to get a permit to grow at their home for private use. If one would like to sell cannabis they would need to apply for a distribution lisense much like alcohol. We need not only fight prohibition but in order to be effective we need to come up with in depth and detailed ideas for the system of law and regulation. Check out this site, www.DEA.org, its not what you would expect.

shoe ba dizzle

Jun 19 2007, 2:50 am

Sho'nuff, i live up in cali and that would make it easy'r 2 buy insted of going out to the club to get some every week or so. im about a hour or so away, so its the cost of there pricey ass treez plus gas yo

BIGWORM420

Jun 19 2007, 12:32 am

keep up the good work. your writing might just help in legalizing weed. you guys always help inform us readers about new things going on, i for one am greatful, thank you.

Freedom 420

Jun 18 2007, 7:18 pm

Freedom 420

Jun 18 2007, 6:26 pm

OOPS!!! The web address I have in the last comment doesn't work. You have to enter it exactly like this:

http://groups.myspace.com/free420

Just copy and paste the address above.

THANKS

Freedom 420

Jun 18 2007, 6:21 pm

It is true that the U.S. is currently profiting more from prosecuting stoners instead of taxing bud. One individual that gets arrested and charged for even a small amount of commercial pot gives anywhere from $200 to over $1000 to local governments. This is the hurdle we have to overcome. Head on over to www.groups.myspace.com/free420 and check it out!!!

Bev

Jun 18 2007, 5:47 pm

Hell right we'll fight till they past that law. puff puff pass dat shyt.

Chris

Jun 18 2007, 5:13 pm

fuckin right

Passitmyway

Jun 18 2007, 4:25 pm

Ok, I think organizations such as the "Mafia" pay off the government. Organizations like that can up prices of it. If Marijuana were made legal, the government wouldn't profit near as much as they would if the prices were raised due to it being illegal. Because it being legal would allow people to grow. And honestly... Home grown is better.

Mallory

Jun 18 2007, 3:05 pm

Hell yes!

Peace and Love

chris

Jun 18 2007, 2:32 am

i like the last one, we will not give it up, or give up, so let us have it, legal or not, we will still have a toke or two!!!

Pinoy420

Jun 16 2007, 10:16 pm

uhh..any 1.....(passing bowl)

usin

Jun 16 2007, 4:46 pm

Just to say I know when to or not to take marijuana......and it works

TRU2DPG

Jun 16 2007, 12:55 am

ALL THE STARVING CHILDREN AND HOMLESSNESS IN THIS CONTRY JUST THINK IF YOU WOULD LEGALIZE IT AND TAX THE HELL OUT OF IT HOW MANY LIVES YOU WOULD BE SAVING BUT OF COURSE THAT IS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN UNTIL THEY COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF DEVICE TO BE ABLE TO TEST YOU TO SEE IF YOUR UNDER THE INFLUENCE THAT WOULD BE TO EASY FOR THEM TO DO PLUS IT WOULD TAKE ALL OF THERE XTRA CASH BEEN KEEPIN IT REAL FOR 15 YEARS AND GONNA KEEP DOIN THE DAMN THING UNTILL ITS LEGAL OR IM IN THE GROUND FERTILIZING IT DPG

Bummer, Dude!

Jun 15 2007, 4:46 pm

If you feel bad, take medicine to feel good. If you feel good, smoke a little weed and you feel better. What's wrong with trying to improve one's self?

Dr.feelgooddrew

Jun 15 2007, 5:09 am

The only reason I need to know is that it is a part of nature and that no man has the right to outlaw nature..Big bro. isn't God ! We have allowed them to prohibit the most versatile plant on earth, does anybody get that?? From reading all the post below I doubt it.. Some of you people give tokers a bad name..

joshtoner

Jun 14 2007, 6:16 pm

those are such good reasons especially #3 it would save so much government money just to legalize marijuana and would lower gas prices by taking the stress off the huge oil consumption... YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME, good luck and god bless also #4 cleared up a huge question for me that i've been asking myself for a long time. THANX for the info

Cajun Cutie

Jun 12 2007, 9:15 pm

Hey y'all. Just thought I would let you know that I am in Criminal Justice to become a private investigator, and our term papers are on Marijuane use. I say let's all roll another one, just like the other one! Remember when Big Brother said that every one would be doing Zoloft, so that the world would be a calmer attitude? Well, we all know that didn't work, made people suicideal, right? But, unlike any drug that the government has on the market, marijuana use does not make people kill themselves or others, it does not make us go out and carjack folks, and as for me, it has not lead to a bigger drug (marijuana, according to Big Brother, is a "gateway" drug to harder drugs) Wrong! It helps calm the nerves, it helps people with Cancer eat, it helps people with glaucoma see longer, etc. Just wanted to say how nice iot is to know that there are others out there who will not stop fighting until we have our rights to soke marijuana, even if it must be kept inside my home! Peace Out All!!

JUGGALO J.J

Jun 12 2007, 7:28 pm

HELL YEH U GUYS KICK ASS AND I THINK MARIJUANA SHOULD BE LEGAL IT HELPS EVERY BODY SO FUCK THE GOVERNMENT AND THE FUZZ LEGALIZE A FUCKIN PLANT AN LETS FREE THIS NATION MUCH LUV PEACE OUT

slava

Jun 11 2007, 9:53 pm

yea you guys rock you helped me with my homework ;D

MISTY

Jun 11 2007, 2:46 pm

IN THE 20'S AND 30'S HEMP WAS GROWN ALL OVER THE US.. IT WAS A STAPLE IN THE AMERICAN ECONOMY. HEMP WAS USED FOR MANY THINGS BESIDES THE MOST ADMIRED BENEFIT "GETTIN HIGH". THE FIRST T BUCKET MADE BY HENRY FORD WAS CONSTRUSTED BY HEMP COMPOSITE MATERIALS.. A POPULAR MECHANICS ISSUE SHOWS FORD AND HIS NEW CAR PICUTRED IN HIS HEMP FEILDS. IT IS A PLANT, AN HERB, WITH MANY USES FROM MEDICINAL TO GLOBAL. SO WHAT IS THE REAL ISSUE? THE GANJA DOESNT TURN YOU INTO AN INSTANT ASS LIKE ALCOHOL, WHAT WOULD THE POLICE DO IT WE WHERE ALL STONED INSTEAD OF DRUNK? AFTER ALL THEY DO GET PAID FOR EVERY ARREST THEY MAKE, NCLUDING IN HOUSE ARRESTS.. BUT IS IT HELPING OUR ECONOMY OR OUR ENVIROMENT??
GET A CLUE CONGRESS.

Zack

Jun 11 2007, 1:31 pm

I love you guys && if you dont give up marijuana will me legal

I"m sure of it

We just have to keep our heads up

Knightshade

Jun 11 2007, 1:26 pm

i have psychological problems such as anxiety attacks and mild bi-polar disorder. i've been prescribed xanax, wellbutrin, lexapro, and a slew of other drugs that only had negative effects on my brain (made me feel more depressed, even suicidal which was not present before). the ONLY THING that eases my various issues comes straight from the ground, not a crooked pharmaceutical laboratory. and that, my friends, is MARIJUANA. FREE THE PLANT, INCARCERATE THE BUSH! HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/2SICK4RADIO

MCpancake

Jun 11 2007, 1:09 pm

Hell yeah, i love number ten.

MadMan420

Jun 10 2007, 3:15 pm

i agree with alot of points brought up in this article, as a fellow toker for 9 years of my 19 years of being, i have come to realize that mary jane doesnt jsut make things taste way better and look alot cooler. i find it helps me take everything thats scrambled into my head and sort it out into coherant babble. I think the world would be in a better spot now if all countrys legalized mary jane, shes never been bad to me thats for sure. Also wouldnt it make more sence to take the "legal Drugs" such as alchohol off the legal market, i mean common, during the days of bootlegging booze, there was only one thing that stopped them for good, and that was to legalize and allow people to drink. i see this as a stand point for everyone. STOP STREET SELLING OPEN THE BODEGAS! the governemt could be making thousands of dollars annually just by legalizing dope. All they are is scared that the steriotypical hippy stoners will amass and take control of the planet, but maybe thats what we need. A free form government that acctually ALLOWS people to have their own freedom... wait isnt that in the bill of rights?

the creeper

Jun 10 2007, 1:47 pm

i mean if the goverment just took into consideration on if they were to make it legal and regulate it they would have more muney to take care of the u.s.of a 's internal problems more money for our troops to keep our home land safe to keep our sodliers safe

william templeton

Jun 9 2007, 12:24 am

I as well belive marijuana should be legalized for many reasons. I have also sign'd patitions for the company NORMAL and the fight will only get bigger. Marijuana user's will rise above the government and make the product legal.

grinch

Jun 8 2007, 7:28 am

whats up guys? i love the 420 campaign i think it is a wonderful idea. i just like to get high and get on here and read comments...keep em comin!!!

Moldy

Jun 7 2007, 2:13 pm

...and that's what scares the shit out of everyone. SlaterAligator just said it. "It changes your veiw on things" So, it's the gov't that says our veiw is not our own to control? What really scares them so much? I dunno!?

One more thing... It pisses "them" off the term "high" or "smoking stuff to get high". Why does it bother them? Are they jealous? Is it too easy? Should we have to inject it?

I was busted 40 years ago for ditch weed and it's still illegal. If we can't do one thing to help the 420 movement at least try to do one thing. Talk to one person that doesn't agree with you.

Just change one person's fear and you've helped.

SlaterAligator

Jun 7 2007, 7:21 am

These reasons make perfect sense.I smoke weed just to kick back and chill the freak out,and theyre right in the fact that it is less harmfull than alcohol or cigarettes.Usin weed will completely change your point of veiw on things.

midnighttoker

Jun 4 2007, 10:19 pm

The thing that gets me the most is it is so safe to use, as it is basically impossible to overdose on and not one death in the history of mankind can be attributed to the use of it. Oh yeah don't forget Genesis, the first page of the bible, and the herb yielding seed being good in the eyes of the Lord! What else do people need to hear?

zach

Jun 4 2007, 3:50 pm

The government should legalize marijuana and jus sell it in packs like they do cigarettes. that way they could make their taxes and we can all be happy and high.

LouKush08

Jun 4 2007, 2:46 pm

haha love the site and what yall are doin, i dont care if the law is changed to death penalty for marijuana use. im gonna stay high 24/7 all year long lol

green_gifts

Jun 3 2007, 3:18 pm

I think that making Marijuana legal would be a big plus for the economy and society. Just imagine a peace treaty conference with a constant flow of Marijuana..they would be too busy laughing than worrying about WMDs. If the Government controlled the sale of Marijuana it could also be taxed to supplement revenue. You would see signs everywhere, "DIME BAGS OF CHRONIC $9.99!" LOL!

dank nuggets Dunbar

Jun 1 2007, 2:32 pm

lets get to the point, lets roll another JOINT, cause you dont know how it feels. love u sammy- DND

wookalar

Jun 1 2007, 1:06 pm

I have had a few invasive back operations and for going on three years now I have been tried on several different type of meds. to ease the pain and depression. Everything from Tramadol to Oxy Contin. Now sure some of the harder meds. like the Oxy Contin, MS Contin, Methadone etc. have helped ease the pain a little but with side effects that pretty much kept me totally out of it. I have been smokeing pot for several years and nothing has helped with the pain and depression as much and now I have an active life and don't just sit or lay around in a daze like I used to. You don't hear about someone wrapping themselves around a tree or killing others for weed. LEAVE US ALONE!

FORTHEPEOPLE

Jun 1 2007, 8:01 am

HELLO ALL AGIAN FORGIVE MY SHOUTING ONE LOVE FOR US ALL I HAD WROTE A NICE PIECE ON HERE A FEW DAYS AGO POT IS A CLASS 1 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE SAME AS THE 2 WROST THINGS KNOWN TO MAN H AND CRACK WE DONT NEED EITHER HOWEVER WE DO NEED THE WEED PLANT SHE DOES HER OWN THING MAN DONT NEED TO CUT AND TRY TO EXPAND WITH COOKING INGREADIANTS FIRST OFF POT HAS MANY AND I SAY MANY MEDICAL USES AND WE MAKE MYLENAL WHICH IS A THC PILL THAT WE PRODUCE HERE IN THE STATES WE MAKE MORPHINE OXYCOTIN THAT COME FROM THE SAME PLANT AS HERION HOWEVER IS MANNNNNNN MADE CUT AND DISTRUBITED AND ALLLLLL 100% ENDORSED BY THE FDA SO TO TELL EVERY AMERICAN THAT THERE IS NO USE FOR POT IS A GOD DAM LIE LOOK FOR YOURSELF. I AM SAD TO SAY I WAS HOOKED ON METH FOR 4 YEARS AND THAT SHIT IS TERRIABLE HOWEVER POT HEADS ARE THROWN IN JAIL, MORE TREATMENT AND FINES THAN ANY OTHER SUBSTANCE IF U TAKE THE POT OFF OF THE SCHED 1 THE PIECE OF SHIT DEA WONT FIND SHIT NOTHING DONT BELIVE ME LOOK AT WWW.DEA.GOV THIER WEBSITE GO STATE TO STATE AND SEE WHAT SUBSTANCE IS FOUND MOST A POUND OF POT TAKES MORE SPACE THAN A KILO OF ANY DOPE AND SMELLS A HELL OF A LOT MORE TAKE THAT AWAY THEY HAVE NOTHIN MAKE THEM WORK MAKE THEM EARN THEIR 35000 A YEAR FINDING HARMFUL SUBSTANCES THAN NON LETHAL NON DANGROUS NON ADDIVTIVE AND COMPLETLY UNHARMFUL TO SOCITY GO MAKE MY HOME AND ITS SUROUNDINGS SAFEER FOR MY KIDS MYSELF AND EVERYONE ELSE STOP RAPEING OUR RIGHTS WE ARE AMERICANS NOT IRAQIS YOU WORK FOR US AND UHHHHHH WE DO CARE FOR U AND HOPE U ARE HERE TO HELP US NOT CONDEEM US YOU FUCKING JUDGES DONT JUDGE ME OUR ANY OF US YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO EXPRESS URSELF HOWEVER YOU WANT BUT DONT INTERFERE WITH ANYBODY ELSE CONVICTIONS OR MORALS IF U THINK ITS WORNG DONT DO IT WE ALLLLLLL HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE

jukes101

May 31 2007, 2:17 pm

I have been smokin weed for 40 years+ and i am not a raving lunatic like a lot of people and governments would like you to believe, i run my own succesful business and as far as i am concerned Cannibis should have been made legal a very long time ago!The authorities are just trying to oppress us because they cant make money out of it, if they made it Legal!

Mattie Mota

May 31 2007, 9:52 am

I made the decision to smoke out of a need to control anxiety, and some depression. It has made me feel a whole lot better. I didn't want to take any pharmaceutical drugs. so marijuana was the best alternative.

smokin_in_s._chitown

May 30 2007, 7:30 pm

u have to look at the reality of weed. it does not impair you in any serious way like alcohol, ppl hi on weed dont freak out or swerve across roads and kill innocent ppl. it also doesn't "expand the mind" like duescebag hippies will tell you. it will relive stress and help u have a good time. weed is harmless and it should be legalized. if anything all those rich bastards can straight bank off of a regulated marijuana market, and we all know that is the bottom line

making a diff inthe world

May 30 2007, 12:33 pm

i think that the legalizatinon of weed would be good for some things but not for kids only for alduts although there some kids, ages 9-12 that do somke weed I for one do not think that that is good i think its bad also teens that somke weed is NOT ok too i think it is ok here and then for adults be NOT an every day thing!! but i do think the legalization of marijanana is ok!!! :-P

special108

May 30 2007, 1:11 am

i think legalizing mary jane would be awesome, cause you never hear about stoned people driving and hitting someone or even killing someone, but what do you hear in the news all the time. Drunk driving i believe if the U.S would legalize it we wouldn't have such a high percentage of people getting killed in drunk driving accidents

thepiper

May 28 2007, 2:23 am

Legalizing the use, distribution, and growing of marijuana would take away at least 10% of crime in the US. That's why I think it should be legal. Also because the government could make so much profit from selling weed. Just about EVERYONE would buy it. And last because Marijuana is the best dude, there is no better drug.

shotgun

May 28 2007, 1:18 am

the government dont want to legalize it do to the fact its there biggest excuse for creating cop jobs. Ask youself who is waging this "war on drugs"?

matt the maryjane man

May 27 2007, 10:35 pm

i think that the only reason why it is illegal is because the government cant tax it fuck the government! i also agree with dank nuggets dustin.SO COMMRADS WE WILL GET THE REED LEGALIZED WE WILL OVER POWER THE GOVERMENT AND WILL WILL SPREAD THC!! thank you hightimes

chains420

May 27 2007, 12:04 pm

I believe that man has no right to restrict nature. America is not a free country as long as marijuana is illegal, even communists support marijuana.

RIP KING JORGE aka 40Cal

May 26 2007, 5:44 am

One thing I gots to say for sure is that the kush can make a female do things the way u want and how also its good to use when at the strip club can make a stripper suck u down just for a single hit or two purple or reggie a bitch would do u goood thank u god. Late

takemealong420

May 25 2007, 12:03 pm

It's time our voices are heard so we will be able to smoke freely and live in Kush harmony.....peace!

skunkman

May 25 2007, 12:15 am

Let the SKUNK grow freely!

someyoungguygettinghigh

May 24 2007, 10:39 pm

Every hemp users in the nation needs to plant there seeds every where so that the plant is growing in are forest, parks, along highways, swamps even if its is poop weed.
If there are many plants; well then good.

FORTHEPEOPLE

May 24 2007, 6:02 pm

We need public servents to make laws only about one topic we dont even know what we are voting on three laws in one and only 1/3 was apperent to the people this has got to stop. HIGH TIMES PLEASE Do a articale on where our civil servent stand on THE WAR ON AMERICAN PEOPLE> ASK WHY IN GODS NAME THEY TOOK EVERYONES GUND IN KATRINA MARTIAL LAW STATES THATS WHEN THE 2ND AMENDMENTSay we need it most this is our country take it back

Ashley glibert

May 21 2007, 8:16 pm

1 word assine

dank nuggets Dunbar

May 21 2007, 2:29 pm

in the past the world has seen the american revolution, the french revoltion, and the spanish revolution. This is the weed revolution. So in other words: STAND UP AND FIGHT

IV/XX/MMIX

May 21 2007, 3:00 am

Okay, whoever that "$tay High" person is needs to go back to school to take an english class, he/she makes our fellow smokers appear braindead. If the government leagilized marijuana, he/she could grow it instead of paying "$30 a gram". By the way, "dey aint gonna" add nicotine to marijuana to make people buy it; it sells itself. People like "$tay High" just contribute to the reason why marijuana is still illegal. TAKE ACTION TO GET SATISFACTION!

will ellis

May 20 2007, 12:51 pm

all we would hafta do is convince the goverment to legalize it for 3 months and then they would see how much they could make off of it but on the other hand the goverment keeps all the money off of busts so there making money no matter what.

Hydefrom666

May 18 2007, 11:01 pm

with the way people pay for ther pot that money isnt going to the government but the fines for getting cought do and if pot were leagal the pot heads would be out of jail and our court system would be cleaner and faster and the government would be happy with the taxes from selling weed if they tax it like they do cigaretts any way let ther be ganga and scrape your pipes when you cant take a hit

dank nuggets Dunbar

May 17 2007, 1:59 pm

if pot was leagal the crime rate in the u.s. would drop dramatically people wouldent have to sell it and if it was leagal a secure business would carry it and that would stop fiends from running around trying to steal it

rediculous

May 17 2007, 12:04 pm

yeah, best2smoke, the same thing happened to me. I went with a "freind" to get some pot and realized that he really went to get some crack. If I had a bag of dro and was high that day I would have never gone and bought that crap, but I wanted to have some fun and unfortunately I decided to smoke some crack as an alternative (worst decision of my life). If weed were legal I never would have associated with that asshole and I would not have become a drug addict. Weed being illegal forces innocent teenagers who just want to have fun to associate with shady drug users and drug dealers in order to get some weed. So the only thing making weed a gateway drug is its illegallity. Hmmmm, should weed be illegal if its illegallity helps drug dealers meet new clients? No! The government doesn't want to sell you crack and meth, so the best candidate for a weed dealer would be the government, right?

Newfie chronic

May 17 2007, 7:15 am

i say i weed was leagal its would bring alot of money in where its was being sold and it would keep alot of teens out of trouble.Im only 14 and i can say that and im smart enoough to say its could one day be the world biggest resource

best2smoke

May 16 2007, 7:06 pm

I say right on to both randomized and rediculous. I have used, quit, and now totally hate meth, crack, and other "drugs". I do not like to refer to the MJ as a drug cause it is what it is. A plant-an herb. Benificial for many things. My gateway was alcohol when I was 18-my alcohol buyer knew some people that hooked me up with pot and all would have been fine except since I had to find an in with dealers for that I met a crank dealer by ACCIDENT thinking he had MJ, that is why I ended up trying crank. So true, if I didn't have to find a dealer for pot and bought it legally, I wouldn't have ended up doing meth for a miserable 3 years + (haven't touched it in over 6 years know). But I sure keep burnin the herb that helps me-reduce anxiety, sleep, wake feeling rested, eliminate pain that pills can't, and it also feels good. It should be legalized as an herb or supplement, not under the guise of being a drug. I could go on but for now enough said.

Jbow

May 16 2007, 11:27 am

I think that some of your reasons for marijuana legalization are flawed. Don't get me wrong, I fully condone the recreational use of marijuana, but I have a few problems with your reasons for legalizing it.

Regarding reason number 8:
The reason teenagers sell marijuana isn't souly based on the cash profit, they sell it because the people who buy it smoke weed. For ever drug dealer, you have to assume there is at LEAST 3 people who buy with the intent to smoke. Thus, if marijuana was lagalized, don't you think that those with the intent to consume would have an easier time getting ahold of marijuana?

May 14 2007, 9:50 pm

The only reason pot is illegal is because they cannot tax it! Legalize it and I will pay my taxes!!!!

rediculous

May 14 2007, 12:05 pm

the only reason why weed is considered a gateway drug is because people try it and realize that it is not harmful at all (after they have been told that it is dangerous). At this point they will asume that all illegal drugs are just as harmless as pot because they have realized that many of the myths about pot are untrue. The truth is that other illegal drugs actually are bad and weed should never be placed in the same category. If pot was legal people would think clearly and would not consider doing real drugs that could actually harm them.

stoner

May 13 2007, 7:37 pm

if u dont smoke weed u r gay like matthew

Bummer, Dude!

May 12 2007, 4:46 pm

From 1763 to 1769 it was illegal NOT to grow hemp in Virginia???

sw htown

May 12 2007, 12:01 pm

I think this is the best for all, for the goverment and the comunity....420 alrady

Randomized

May 11 2007, 8:41 pm

I'd also like to add that pot wouldn't be a gateway drug if people wouldn't have to learn how to: find a dealer, and learn how to buy/sell pot like REAL illegal drugs.

You don't have to smoke it for it to be a "gateway" drug.

randomized

May 11 2007, 8:34 pm

I think we need to start approaching politicians in their language. Write your congressmen and tell them that if Marijuana becomes a product that can be bought and sold through legal terms then it can be taxed. Business would be booming and this capitalist nation would prosper again. Think about it. What percent of America smokes weed? It's a good amount.

Dare I say: Weed could save this country from it's debt.

Although I'm pushing this idea of taxing pot, I'm still against making pot into a commercial product. It's quite the conundrum. The good thing about marijuana is that it can be grown anywhere, it's not called weed for nothing. Call it an conspiracy but I think that corporations don't want to prohibition to end because pot is a plant of the people.

I will say that during the 60s and 70s when weed prospered there were a couple similar factors that are apparent today:1) untrustworthy presidents in office;2) War that was unwinable; 3) Depressed youth with a feeling of action; 4)New arts arising .

Now we just need to find another Carter.

capt.caveman /up stateny

May 11 2007, 7:22 pm

let it grow...................

Bummer Dude!

May 11 2007, 2:43 pm

1 acre of hemp will make the same amount of paper as 4.1 acres of trees!
Globel warming cure??

Gravitron85

May 11 2007, 12:15 pm

If Marijuana was legalized, the government would not have to tax everyone so much to pay for the war in Iraq, and if anyone remembers when in the history books Alcohol itself was put under Prohibition and then because people made alcohol in their basements anyway knowing it was illegal the government receeded the prohibition of alcohol. because they couldn't stop it. People used it anyway just like we smoke marijuana. If the government doesn't want to remember or equate the two then we have to.

smokeevryday420

May 10 2007, 10:29 pm

its time the government along with everyone else start to realize that even if they don't legalize marijuana again, we still gonna smoke everyday.

highashell09

May 10 2007, 6:40 pm

man if weed was legalized restrants,fast food places would make alot of money

Weed Fiend EH!

May 10 2007, 6:16 pm

your friends in Canada are fighting the same battle, we actually made some progress, well...sort of, under 30 grams of pot was leagl for less than a week in 2004 before the government had "second thoughts" shit, make up your fucking mind!! i think u guys should send these 10 reasons to our government, althought, their probably more concerned with hockey.

$tay High

May 8 2007, 5:22 pm

fuck legalization...dat shit costs enuff as it iz...how da fuck we kno dey aint gonna b pricing us $30 a gram???(down here it cost $10)...i blaze every day and i kno i aint da only 1 dat smokez every day and da goverment knows dat a shit load of ppl smoke every day so dey gonna tax da fuck outta of it and wutz stoppin dem from puttin nicotine or sum otha addictive shit in it??? u gotta look at diz shit from all anglez...legalization wud b good cuz no more jail time no more bull shit over weed...but wut if dey over price it or itz not as good as it iz now...da best thing wud b if dey legalize it but leave da sellin 2 us but we all kno dey not gonna do dat...so in my opinion...fuck legalization

liendo

May 8 2007, 11:49 am

shit its about time they see how serious we are.the whole shit about its illegal is fuckin stupid ,just like mark said its just a plant .now a days the government should get in on all the taxes that could be charged.but as we all know regardless of wat they say and do we will"smoke tillwe choke""!!!!!!!with them or without them.we are trying to help themselves but noooooo!they just wanna stop the mary jane from visiting the u.s.just member "even god spoke through the burning bush"(spm)P.S BEANERS RULE

Mark

May 7 2007, 8:42 pm

I still can't believe that in the year 2007 people are still being persecuted for smoking a plant that in most parts of the world grows in the back yard. Just because some white guy in the 1930's (who never in his life even had a contact high) said it was a dangerous drug. I've been burnin' for 20+ years and lead an honest and good life. I think BUSH needs to start burning roaches instead of foreign countries.
P.S.- To everyone that reads this, WRITE, CALL, FAX your state rep. and get this ridiculous war on drugs ended.

rain928

May 7 2007, 1:56 am

As all reasons are legitimate, I support reason #7 most. We need to get smart about the environment now, and lessen our dependence of foreign oil. There are so many things that can be made from hemp that may also help the environment. I encourage everyone reading this to PLEASE watch An Inconvenient Truth. We need to wake up before its too late, and were all dead from floods, hurricanes. If only the U.S. thought more like Canada. Peace!

May 5 2007, 3:37 pm

damn straight bout those reasons. if our government doesnt repeal marijuana prohibition soon they need a bullet in the head

420 baby(amber)

May 4 2007, 2:36 pm

i no this may sound sad but i am 15 and been smoking this shit for 2 years now.it should be legal cuz its so fun to do.but also.it helped me threw some pritty hard times.i think it should be legal because its something to do aslong as us teens r staying outta trouble right? thats what i think..so legal the fucking thing already!!!
p.s. 420 was the best day ever..can any1 say so fucked up that day..woot woot!!

blizzleforrizzle

May 2 2007, 2:59 am

Well I have smoked now for fifteen years; and the only bad thing thats happened to me because of smoking is getting a couple of little tickets which were a waste of everyones time. I have been ticketed for DWI also and I think Jason said it best I would rather meet someone on the road thats smoked ten or twenty dollars of pot that someone who has drank ten or twenty dollars worth of booz. Anyway everyone knows pot should be legal; but the government thinks it can make more money when pot is illegal. I dont think this is the case. Instead of giving our money to Mexico and South America we keep it in North America. Lets all stand together on this and we may just win. Until that day. Roll up a fat one and pass it around.

captnkirk

May 1 2007, 9:54 pm

I,ve smoked for many years with no bad effects;I think.The worst to happen was having been put in jail for having weed on me.I don't drink or do any other drugs;any more,I work hard every day and earn every dollar and this is just another way for them to get in my pocket.

Johnathon

May 1 2007, 5:51 pm

I HoPe ThAt Weed gets legal that would be pimp

jose420

May 1 2007, 3:46 pm

the fight is on and im in the front lines. the kottonmouth kings said it best "im gonna smoke weed for the rest of my life" im down to keep fighting

Fourfingers

May 1 2007, 1:24 am

i smoked mj for 20 years and was a very productive individual my wife asked me to quit so i wouldn't go to jail and my kids wouldn't lose there daddy i said ok np at first everything was fine but then one day i woke up and i couldn't controll my jaw it was shaking like when you are cold so bad that i could barely drive to the doctors to find out what was wrong my diagnosiss was anxiety very accute as time went by i accuired other problems all associated with some sort of psycological problem now six years latter i am on dissabillity for my problems strange coincidence no i don't think so because threw these past six years i have done some expierimenting on using mj and have found out that in the time pierods i have used all my psycological symptoms have either been reduced or even suppresed complety now i'm not a doctor but i believe mj has a very benificial effect on me psycologically and i shall continue to use and try to get my life back

Gone4420

Apr 30 2007, 11:48 pm

Word Man! You guys keep fighting the good fight and get that shit legalized!!!

flako NYC

Apr 28 2007, 9:59 pm

totally true especially about the side effects, dependency, and risk issues i mean look at how many people are killed each year in the US by the cause of alcohol, then take that number and compare it to marijuana

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Apr 28 2007, 3:29 pm

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Canni-B

Apr 28 2007, 1:24 am

Hey best2smoke i feel you man. I'm sitting here wit a cold right now, and i don't even know how many pills i done took but i can tell i ain't touching em no more. i been smokin for some time now and i totally agree

best2smoke

Apr 27 2007, 2:58 pm

Forgot to add a side effect of weed, it actually makes you feel so good for a few hours. I only smoke after work, and have done it that way since many years ago. Never was a lazy ass good for nothing that naysayers like to say of potheads: always hard working, employers love me since I am reliable, honest to a fault, and a tree hugging everything loving hippie at heart. Sure there are more like me out there that may have been so beat down by propaganda that they are afraid to admit it. What the hell is wrong with that kind of person! If anyone is lazy, it is not because they smoke, it is because they are either ill or predisposed to laziness and don't care anyway (nothing wrong with that either, thats cool, it's your life so make your own choices)

best2smoke

Apr 27 2007, 2:34 pm

Taking into consideration a documentary (on a cable channel) every time smoke has been prohibited it was due to prejudice. Prohibition was used to drive out a certain immigrant population during the great depression to preserve jobs for whitey. It was also at one time prohibited only to blacks, as a propagandist had used unspeakable myths about blacks and violence being linked to mary jane use. This mans own agency was granted to do a study on weed use and effects on society, and not only did the study prove him a jackass, it proved that if there were any dangers in using weed, they were very negligible even compared to alcohol use and actually proved no risk to the user or society. I personally would not chose to use because of course I don't want to spend the money or go to jail, but I have had anxiety issues to a debilitating degree, and NO medication has helped, I have tried them all. If I smoke a bowl I feel great for at least three days. It also manages my pain, helped me to sleep so I am more productive during my awake hours. There was not one pill that could do that, and they all had side effects, some dangerous including a possibility of liver damage. Marijuana does not have any such side effects or risks. Also, if it didn't bother me at all to go without for five years + so I could preserve my seniority and pay raises at my job, I don't believe there is any PHYSICAL addiction, just a mental one for some and the intuitive knowledge that it is helping you for others. LEGALIZE!!

The Runcimans

Apr 26 2007, 10:46 am

we believe these ten comandments, and r willing to help fight to the death! (in a manner of speeking.)

velzymama

Apr 25 2007, 5:59 pm

I am mother of 2, I was recently diagnosed with Crohns Disease. The only 2 healthy pregnancies I had I smoked pot throughout my pregnancy. The ones that I didn't I delievered babies with severe neuro-tubal defects. At the time of my pregnancies I did not know I was suffering from crohns. I am not your average pot smoker I did not start as young teen I started when my brother-in-law who is now a research pathologist saw me struggling to maintain my weigh and eat. He suggested I try pot it was a relief from the pain and nausea I suffered from since the age of 12. I went for over 20 years with out being diagnosed and the pot smoke was the 1st relief from the symptoms I had. Some of my doc. wonder how with such a severe case of this disease I was able to maintain my weigh I owe it to getting stoned. Not only the pain relief came to me from smoking pot but my 2 very wonderful kids too. I would not have any kids if I had not smoked. Some women who smoke pot while prego. will cause their child to be small or slow neither of which mine are. My son plays several musical insturments at the age of 12 and my daughter is in a gifted program and is a 3rd grader reading at a High School level. Hmmm I think it is illegal because our government can't figure out how it will or can control the profit from it as a legal substance. It is frustrating to be considered a criminal just because I want relief from symptoms of a very painful and difficult to control disease. Peace to all my green loving friends out there. Good day from the lovely Evergreen State.

Bio-boosted Dude

Apr 25 2007, 5:06 pm

its 100% true blacks are targeted! I(being black myself) Have been stopped many times because I'm 18 with a lexus(which was a hand me down) so oh my god I must sell drugs right? I've been searched over and over and asked "wheres the weed?" "wheres the coke?!" too many times to count. Dont mean to preach but thats the reality of the situation I cant help it my mom gave me that car and yes I do smoke but I dont sell the shit. I'm stingy I want all the profit to myself I'll grow the shit lol. anyway peace ya'll! Blaze one!

Jason

Apr 25 2007, 4:15 pm

There are alot of reasons why marijuana should be legal but I don't think it will happen soon. There's just too many reasons to list, but I would like to put it to them(government) like this, as far as safty of people, I would rather meet someone on the road that has smoked 10 or 20 dollars worth of marijuana than someone that has drank 10 or 20 dollars worth of alcohol. Drunk driving kills, compare that to the amount of dealths from marijuana, then justifiy why ones legal and the others not!?

"C3"

Apr 25 2007, 2:38 pm

HATE-MONGERS and/or those who's brain size is smaller than your dicks! We ALL laugh at YOU when you post your infantile mommy-missen-30-something got no-where in life peices of used toliet-paper "God is embarressed that you passed through inspection" wastes of spaces!!!!Continiue to express to us ALL just how retarded and mentally-warped that YOU REALLY are!!!God; I love morons....they just ;....make ME feel SO DAMN SMART!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm you

Apr 23 2007, 1:04 pm

tree huggin peace lovin pot smokin porn watchin lazy ass hippies like me

Dont censor our messages. The only books worth reading are those that are censored

i'm you

Apr 23 2007, 9:27 am

conservative christian right wing republican straight white american males
Gay bashin black fearin whore fightin tree killin regional leaders of sales
frat housin keg tappin shirt tuckin back slappin haters of hippies like me
Tree huggin love makin pro choice and gay weddin widespread diggin hippies like me

ynotle

Apr 23 2007, 12:58 am

Happy 420 all the way from CHILE, we�re just starting to fight for the legalization of cannabis, the first senator(?) who said we should do it was ridiculed and called a pothead, so we have a long way to go, but hopefully we�ll get there!!

honey dutch

Apr 22 2007, 10:38 pm

Iv been buring for six years, gone through my ups and downs, but still do it, just did moments ago. Smoking buds gos deeper than some people think, especialy those outside the circle and they cant relate to it unless they make the decision to burn one up. It gos deeper in the the fact of what it does for the individual, it allows you to fully un wind and assess your situation and alows you to be at rest with your self and your enviroment. But im afraid that unless more peope truely take a deeper look and begin to understand what and why we burn, we will be un able to achive the ultimate goal.

swed.
peace peace

outsider

Apr 20 2007, 8:55 pm

First I would like to say that I support legalization 100% and say that I have never seen anyone smoke a spliff and start a bar fight...but it's probably not great for you either.

I think that inhaling or ingesting any substance that alters your state of mind or body ain't good for you (not that you shouldn't ever do anything that wasn't good for you, that'd be boring) but know your s***, be careful and be responsible and if someone doesn't want toke, leave 'em be. It's your choice to smoke and if you want people to respect that you need to respect people if they choose not to too.

Anyways, be smart, be respectful and please, don't smoke and drive.

Peace and tolerance for all!

(Legalize!!!)

smoker smokin

Apr 20 2007, 11:12 am

Just keep smokin', we don't have any choice but to conform to society and the rules set by all the closet cush smokers. Truely happy 420!!!!

Swen420

Apr 20 2007, 10:03 am

Each year alcohol killed 100,000 Americans, Tobbacco killed another 300,000+, prescription drugs killed another 100,000 Americans, Pot since it's first recorded use in B.C. China has killed nobody.

Why we continue to arrest 750,000 Americans for Pot offenses every year is beyond me. We spend $30K a year to keep non-violent offenders in the company of murderers, rapists, and theives, and expect them to be "corrected".

Gen 1:12, "I have given you all the seed bearing plants & herbs for you to use"

Why are opiates prescribed, but not cannabis?

Support NORML & MPP

Kanabyss

Apr 20 2007, 12:01 am

I'm sick of the few whiny little bitches on this sight that have the nerve to talk shit on potheads. I smoked every day during high school and graduated top of my class...not to blow my own horn, but what about you assholes against MJ? Have you ever even tried weed? Hard to take someone seriously when they don't even know what the fuck they're talking about--so before you talk shit, smoke a fucking joint, read the top 10 reasons, and relax while they sink in...then maybe people will take you seriously. I'm sick of people classifying weed as a drug with meth and herione floating around out there. If you don't want to smoke pot, that's fine, but don't talk shit on something you know nothing about.

I'm torn between legalizing and keeping it on the down low--of course I would love it if my paranoia wasn't justified, but I'm a busy girl and I can hardly afford that shit as it is. Gov't will tax the hell out of it...but then again, I'd just grow my own damn plants! So yeah, LEGALIZE BITCH, as they say. Fuckin A I'm excited for manana, going to Santa Cruz to blaze an entire fucking meadow! Hope I see some of you there (except the assholes mentioned above, you know who you are!) Holla fellas! HAPPY 420 SMOKE WEED EVERY DAY

Cordt

Apr 19 2007, 7:26 pm

lol at idiots who think smoking a certain kind of weed makes them less of a hurting ass nerd

best top 10 ive seen thus far

umm

Apr 19 2007, 7:21 pm

What the fuck is this Fito character talking about? yeah use a serious article as a way to make yourself sound tough..awesome dude

shut the hell up with pointless comments, you're ruining the entire ideal behind this thing.

FITO

Apr 18 2007, 6:45 am

So here's a quiz for 4 20 weed smokers or pot heads what ever but here it is so even you hightimes can tell the answer but don't think to hard everyone but here it is how much is a 1lb. Of the granddaddypurple cush go for and how much weed does it take to feel up the in side of a tire and cash value late dum fucks somke smothin bitch ps whiteboys answers aren't talking about SHIT

T. Wayne

Apr 18 2007, 1:48 am

It is simple - big tobacco, the alcohol industry and all of the pharmaceutical companies have lobbied to keep marijuana illegal - they do not want anyone honing in on their addictive turf.

Yes, I said it, it is addictive, but way the hell less harmful than any of the above. I believe that my addiction is because I know that if I have a chance, a toke or two is the quickest way for me to either focus on my task, OR forget about my problems.

It is really (for me anyway) like a cup of coffee, and I have managed to live the last 20 years of my adult life being a very productive, well liked, tax paying American. Abolutely NO negative impacts on my life from my marijuana use, other than feeling guilty for breaking the law.

Marijuana, Ganja, Herb, Weed, Etc.... is NOT just a minority pursuit and our governement should realize that. I'm a 38 year-old white guy, kind of upper-middle class (trying). I have seen so many f'd people in the midwest on crack or meth that you would think that our elected officials would finally have the balls to stand up and demand that all of the the resources in the "Drug-War" go to stopping this blight on society, and draw the distinction between Hard/Soft drugs. Look at some before and after pics of Meth users on the net - they are out there, and tell the tale.

Basically, pot illegality is a way to keep the prison/police/drug testing industries busy and profitable, keep minorities in-check for their choice in recreation, and make sure that the alcohol, tobacco and of course the pharmaceutical industry reap their profits.

Oh yeah, I'm a conservative Rebublican - voted for GW twice. (regret it a little though)

you dont know

Apr 17 2007, 10:11 pm

take a look at some of these messages and wonder why its notlegal!! there are some way bad stoners who dont have a grip on their buzz!!
be responsible when you smoke and smoke up!!

wow. just wow.

Apr 17 2007, 8:00 pm

kronic, you are the stupidest fuck to ever hit the dope market.

kronic

Apr 17 2007, 1:38 pm

lets just smoke and don't care if it's legal or not HAPPY 420

its always 420

Apr 17 2007, 12:34 pm

i think maryjane should be legal.i like to toke to help me relax and it helps me motivate and concentrate.They should make 420 a holiday. There would'nt be crime if everyone smoked.Everybody would be relaxed.Like the kottonmouth kings said my clock always stops at 420.

Hippy Beans

Apr 16 2007, 8:39 pm

A couple of my friends and I are organizing a rally at City Park in Kingston on 420 for the legalization of marijuana. We're inviting anyone that will come and toke right up. If people all over would do the same on 420 then I bet we might just have a statement. And really how difficult is it to talk a pothead into smoking bongs in the sun with a couple hundred other potheads, and for a cause no less.

dread rasta

Apr 16 2007, 1:09 pm

why dont they make it illegal to sell but not to smoke this way the true smokers will just grow their own and it will not get too carried away.

David Brock

Apr 16 2007, 1:02 pm

Although i do smoke daily, i am going to disagree on legalizing the mary jane. the taxes will be a killer and it just wouldnt be the same. they obviously dont understand. smoking isnt for everybody.

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Apr 16 2007, 2:57 am

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Maestro Silindro

Apr 16 2007, 2:48 am

LET'S GO GET STONED!

thumbsup4weed

Apr 15 2007, 10:07 pm

im positive that the fact pot hasnt been legalized is simply casue the government cant tax something people can grow in their own homes,they have no right to judge us becasue we like weed and they like to get drunk

420CampaignSupporter

Apr 15 2007, 6:38 pm

i just want to say that those 10 facts are probably the greatest/truest reasons to legalize the ganja. the non-smokers always say how we cant do anything right and how lazy we are but when im baked i work harder and look at these reasons, pure genius. So do a little research before you dis it you anti-drugists

Arnulfo Deleon

Apr 15 2007, 5:52 pm

That's right white boy spell my name out like u is my liitle white BITCH but overall here in AZ we smoke that 125 a quarter and 500 ab OZ that's called that GRANDADDY PURPLE CUSH smoke somyhing white boy

yasir

Apr 15 2007, 3:08 pm

o ya I forgot weed is not the problem its crack,meth,heroin, and coke man leave us stoners alone we dont do shit except chillout and have a good time while listening to music.

yasir kader

Apr 15 2007, 3:06 pm

Man, you guys got those top ten reasons hammered. All ten of those fucken things are true. I smoke and I choose to do it because it makes me feel better when im in a bad mood. It isnt even that bad and im sure weed will be legal one day. But till then all pot smokers got to stick it to the fuckin goverment and tell them hey man its our body let us do what we want you fuckin pencil pushers!

travi

Apr 14 2007, 6:06 am

im sure this has been said before, but i believe that the only reason pot is illegal is because it is virtually impossible for the government to tax it. think about it.... alcohol is leagal because it can be controlled. it takes a lot of effort to make alcohol and in oder to turn a decent profit in illegal alcohol, you'd have to have a large opperation, one which would be easily noticed and pacified by the government.
therefore, alcohol production is easily controlled. The same principle can be applied to tobacco. ya cant just grow a tobacco plant anywhere. but, weed is far too difficult to control, and therefore is too hard to tax, which means it wont be legalized until our government can make a profit.

purplwcalyxkid

Apr 14 2007, 2:39 am

Pot will be legal one day!Everyone knows the goverment lies;and alchol is legal?I have too take vicdin,xanax2mg three times ady and halcion for sleep,if could just have my sugary sweet kind I wouldn't be ruining my body and mind and depending on unsrupulis phamry comanys!THIS IS THE LAND OF THR FREE RIGHT!LEGALIZE!there is plenty of gangs and cuthroates for the DEA to go after!hippies and pot smokers are mostly nonviolent and make easy targets!coke,heroin,and meth are the problem,tackle that problem and the world would be a better place!so forget us heads grab your balls cops and get the real criminals!HAPPY 420 USA

Andrew

Apr 13 2007, 9:47 pm

the seccond reason is the one i can relate most to. but i think it was a good way to kick it off wit we nvr gonna give up.

streetlegalmarine

Apr 13 2007, 8:48 pm

I'm a Marine Corps Vet, now a Ceritfied Pharmacy Technician. I have been diagnosed with post dramatic stress disorder. They want me to stop smoking kush and take one of the following Rx drugs: wellbutrin, citalopram, prosac, and a few others. I took the citalopram for a week and ended up passing out on the floor in Walmart (by myself- not funny). No one helped me up and my cash and cell phone was all on the floor. I went back to the Dr. and gave him a good dose of Marine. Then I went home and took one to the head, and now once a day (by myself). I've been fine for a couple months now. Please legalize marijuana- I'm tired of being afraid to have something on me that I need. And I would also like to have a place to go buy gauranteed safe and good quality (no chemicals or roach spray they use to conceal the smell from customs). Im not trying to sell to kids or any crazy stuff (the kids nowadays have more than me probably anyway). Look, just help young vet cope with his stress, not ad to it. I went to war for you, now go to war for me! Or I'm leaving. Amsterdam is a passport check away and Canada is right up the street. Here: A drunk driver killed a kid last night~ and weed smoker saw it on the news!- Think about it!!!!

streetlegalmarine

Apr 13 2007, 8:48 pm

NYCHANDSOME420

Apr 13 2007, 9:59 am

GOD IS LOVE AND HE'S ALWAYS FIRST BEFORE ANYTHING!EVERYONE EYES WIDE OPEN AND ALL SAY WITH ME MARIJUANA IS A PLANT AGAIN A PLANT!!!REPEAT THESE WORDS HERE-->IF ADAM&EVE HAD NOTICE MARY JANE IN THAT GARDEN THEY WAS LIVING IN AND TRYED HER BOTH WOULD BE READING THIS ALONG WITH YOU. NOW THATS DEEP.THE ONLY THING THAT WILL MAKE WEED LEGAL AGAIN IS A THOUGHT AND SOCRATES THE GREAT {ALLINFORSITE.NET TELLS YOU SOME ABOUT THE GREAT ONE,GO BUY A BOOK ABOUT SOCRATES.HE HAS MORE MINDBLOWING IDEAS FOR THE WORLD COMING UP VERY SOON.{GOD IS LOVE}2 NAMES {SONNY&DOC}THE WORLD OF WEED WILL NEVER 4GET PEACE.

What the...?

Apr 12 2007, 9:18 pm

Can anyone at HighTimes translate what Arnulfo Jesus said? I don't think I want any of the stuff he smoked! Whatever he had should definitely NOT be legalized!

DAVID

Apr 12 2007, 8:47 pm

I HAVE SMOKED POT FOR ABOUT 12 YEARS NOW,AND I THINK MARIJUANA GIVES YOU SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.IM A HARDER WORKER BECAUSE OF IT AND IT HELPS ME STAY OUT OF TROUBLE.WHEN IT IS LEAGULIZED I KNOW THE WORLD WILL CHANGE FOR THE BETTER. BURN ON

Legal Eagle

Apr 12 2007, 8:02 pm

I believe pot is safe as a recreational drug, and I believe it should be legalized for all the reasons listed in the Top 10. However, I do have some concerns for those who don't know how to use pot. What is the #1 drug problem in the USA? Alcohol, right?! More lives are ruined by alcohol than any other drug, by far, and it's legal. Some people just don't know how to handle it. The same goes for pot. I've seen just as many people get totally out of control on pot as I have on alcohol. And they're mainly young kids who just love to get high, and they're out of control anyway. That's why I think if it is legalized, the minimum age should be 21. Young kids are going to get it anyway, but at least it may be easier to enforce if THE LAW only goes after the under 21 group. Some people are going to misuse pot as much as some misuse alcohol. That's my only concern with legalization. We don't need another misused drug anywhere near the misuse of #1 ALCOHOL.

daniel420

Apr 12 2007, 4:09 am

marijauna should just be legalized for whoever wants to smoke it. you gonna die anyway, you might as well cheif out and be happy while your still breathing above the dirt!!

tland

Apr 11 2007, 11:20 pm

people might be more likely to speak up. going to rally in masses is good no doubt but its not like EVERY ONE PERSON making their voice be heard. with all this talk of liberation and being open minded to know what we know... IT'S TIME!!
PLEASE SMOKE RESPONSIBLY.
rememer... it only takes one "AW SHIT" to screw up a hundred "ATTA BOYZ".

tland

Apr 11 2007, 11:12 pm

the reason we cant get marijuana legal is because the wealth and power wont allow it to happen. think about it... who has the REAL control over what is happening in society??? big business those with money and power. WE the people are AFRAID to speak up (to a certain degree) because of fear of retaliation from employers mostly (which most all drug test),NO WORK-NO SMOKE. alot of people who smoke at your workplace smoke but cant talk about it. you dont know who to trust. who will rat you out.who will look at you different now that they know.dont want any "stoners" or "potheads" or "druggies" working here. the stereotype of "users". we cant let the fear keep us from being vocal in the workplace. employers need to learn about it. we have to stop going to work stoned and prove to the assholes who dont understand that POTHEADS ARE PRODUCTIVE AND RESPONSIBLE indivduals that have a large part in society.
you cant go to work under the influence of any other substance. if people didnt fear losing so much... like EVERYTHING - house, job, car, kids, time off life(cause you got locked up).

Phillydog79

Apr 6 2007, 7:44 pm

What bothers me when i think "prohibition," is simply that the lawmakers that hold the weights over our herbal freedom, also have a straws up their noses. What i'm trying to say is how great it would be to get a sneak peak at the Betty Ford patient registration list and see how many names can be found on a voter ballots. "HIPPY-CRITS"

billhilly1974

Apr 6 2007, 3:08 pm

in all my years of smoking i have never ever wrecked my car, beat or abandoned my kids, robbed anyone, murdered anyone(although i have thought about the latter prior to smoking JOKING!) i think that the legislators should really take a closer look at the facts and see that even though alsohol IS legal the effects of it are soooooo much worse than the benefits of marijuana use. most of the pot smokers i have known in my life were hard working, family loving people who choose pot to relax instead of something that makes one lose their composure! i am not against alcohol. i just think that the buzz you get from pot leaves a person in control alot better than alcohol. and i think that it should be legalized as soon as possible

Tarik MEMPHIS 10 ya dig!

Apr 6 2007, 2:48 am

1rst off i like how Willie Nelson put God into it... u gotta agree if God in it but it aint nothin wrong wit weed. i jus got pulled ova not 2 long ago and i was smokin wit somebody and i was tellin da police "it aint like i get high and rob or kill people n shit.. i go eat and play Madden" i think its jus anotha way 2 fuck us (black folks) over because its mostly us and white folks dat hang wit black folks dat smoke n they dont like dat shit.

Willie Nelson

Apr 6 2007, 1:04 am

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

J Money

Apr 6 2007, 12:51 am

hell yea its bullshit that it's not legalized yet. it's coming soon though. if everyone just chilled and chiefed some pot i guarantee there wouldnt be so many hostilities going on throughout the world.

BIG HIT88

Apr 5 2007, 12:57 pm

fuck the bullshit man, the government aint got shit else to do but worry bout the wrong shit. worry bout these drunks, these hardcore drugs like crack, worry bout a new president, our troops in fuckin iraq who should be home by now. the good green keeps alot of people sane like me!! legalize that shit BITCHES!! and this smokless guy what hell are you doin on site you cheeseball, join the movement bitch.

biggy fresh

Apr 5 2007, 12:22 am

and as for the legaliztion...my mother and father are nearly fifty and have smoked reefer for over 25 years apeice... we have a beutiful home 2 vehicles, hold down well payed jobs and smoke on the daily...my uncle on the other hand likes to drink and freebase, hes blown over a mil in the last 2 years...hes bankrupt now..., uncle victor..u need ta put down the glass dick and smoke a cone with ur nefew

biggy fresh

Apr 5 2007, 12:20 am

hey i think that smokless cat needs to sit back, turn on some marly jams and smoke a fricken cone doob to ease his mind. dude u seriously need ta get ur pantys out of that bunch and relax for a while...

blunt man

Apr 4 2007, 7:22 pm

damn they need to legalize pot for one the government would make a shit load of money by taxing the sales on it. For one its not addictive and god put it on earth for us to smoke it

Bummer, Dude!

Apr 4 2007, 5:14 pm

We can have justice whenever those who have not been injured by injustice are as outraged by it as those who have been.
...Solon 594 B.C.
Ripped off of the erowid.org site.

SLURM!

Apr 4 2007, 2:12 am

the thing about marching on DC or whatever is that Marijuana makes alot of people lazy, admit it....you could have done something but diddnt feel like it cauz you were high. This is whta we need to overcome to get it legaliszed. So insted of a march a massive pot smoke in, in fornt of Captiol hill or something. Show the world that were not violent criminals, nut normal people who wanna chill play disk golf, hackey sack, and work in every teir of the workforce..

Flagatorsucknpuff

Apr 4 2007, 1:57 am

Why diddnt I gather and create a viable defence for the end of proabition? I was busy gathering first hand evidance then realised that I couldnt use "firsthand" experience in class....then promptly forgot at the sight of my doritos......

Flagatorsucknpuff

Apr 4 2007, 1:53 am

yeah I had to debate this in HS like 3 years ago......where were all the facts, I had to twist the dare officers comments around. I won tho only b/c the other side lost on pourpse.

Roachpuff

Apr 3 2007, 11:05 am

You want to make weed legal? Copy and paste these and send them to your senator/house representative in an email, or better yet, a written letter. I know I have.

Roachpuff

Apr 3 2007, 11:03 am

Whoever the hell smokeless is, you are an ignorant fucking bastard. No one said it was cool you idiot, you probably didn't even read the article. You looked at it and said, "oh! Propaganda!" Here's a clue: Above the Influence is propaganda, and a lot of what the government says is not only propaganda, but (gasp) lies! (from the gov't!? who could conceive such a thought!) Weed is nothing compared to what I've seen coke, meth, and heroine do to people, so you can shut the fuck up because I've known people who DO have their lives taken away from their habits, and I'll have you know MARIJUANA SAVES LIVES!!!!

jeremiah

Apr 3 2007, 2:57 am

To make Marijuana legal! 1.make a poor person president. 2.take care of our own people not the world's crap!3.tax and license growers and make the laws the same as alcohol(there are tests that a cop can give on the road that can tell if you have smoked with in two hours or not) "If you need to get stupid stoned stay home!" All that I ask is just a little common sense people! I have smoked for over 20 years not once got in truble (yet). The better we play the game the faster it will be legal!!!!

smokeless

Apr 2 2007, 7:22 pm

Hey you think its cool to smoke marijuana? Well what if you can't stop smoking and you are addicted and you cant stop even if you try. Is that cool? Is lung cancer cool? Is justin Timberlake cool? NO! just say no and dont believe the propaganda, weed is not worth your life!!

Apr 2 2007, 6:38 pm

a joint a day keeps the drama away

karl

Apr 2 2007, 4:39 pm

word up yo fuck the police smoke de sensimilla

jeffb

Apr 2 2007, 3:44 am

i basically agree with everyone its, bullshit, all the red tape you go through just for smoking weed all the money in fines, its like 2 fuckin ounces while there are tons of belligerant drunk assholes beating whoever. i love the antiweed commercial where the kid did some shit with his friends girfriend cause he was fucked up on weed, pot doesnt do that fucking alcohol does, cigs kill .5 million a year i can only imagine how many die in alcohol related deaths its bullshit ive been saying this for years.

barbara

Apr 1 2007, 5:34 pm

it sounds good to me damn...it should have been legal before they made it bad....nothing bad bout it though.

ScoopS

Apr 1 2007, 5:11 pm

damn straight....these are ten damn good reasons.....lets get it done huh

kelby

Apr 1 2007, 2:18 pm

HELL YEAH SMOKE FATTY BLUNTS!
im bipolar and i have insomnia but since i started smokin a few years ago im happy and i sleep well so fuck the government theres no REAL reason for bud to be illeagle but face it america wont leagalize it cuz of NEW WORLD ORDER they are trying to brainwash us all we all need to get outta america and go chief peacefully in amsterdam. i smoked some purp yesterday and i was blowwnnn. yeah i dunno happy early 420 all fellow proud potheads

smoke flame nugs.

mitch

Apr 1 2007, 4:49 am

what i dont get if selling seeds into the U.S is illegal then why do we make our own lotion made from seeds and hemp. idk what the whole prob is with smoking the great plant keep the fight strong. cya

Lawrence

Mar 31 2007, 10:17 pm

The legalization of marijuana could potentially lower the use of other drugs among teenagers. By selling weed in a legal setting it would cut down on teenagers exposure to other drugs which abound in illegal settings. But alas, the government is too afraid that if we all smoked blunts then our eyes would be opened and we'd no longer follow along like blinded obedient sheep.

Bummer, Dude!

Mar 31 2007, 6:02 pm

Gate-way drug.....No-Doz

stan

Mar 31 2007, 3:38 am

if we can't decriminalize,
legalize!

sean

Mar 31 2007, 1:12 am

your right

Kramit

Mar 30 2007, 3:09 pm

Any drug can be a gateway drug no matter what it is. If you are as an individual brave enough to try it then thats your own free will. Marijauna does not cause that. Out of any mood elevating drug I've tried I believe weed is less harmful and something for others to enjoy.

terracethehigh

Mar 30 2007, 2:10 pm

...besides, its fun!!!

DON VITO

Mar 29 2007, 4:09 pm

I don't do drugs JUST WEED!!

DON VITO

Mar 29 2007, 4:09 pm

I don't do drugs JUST WEED!!

theTRUTH

Mar 29 2007, 2:23 pm

Anyone in here who say's Marijuana shouldnt be legalized due to increased cost's for their product need to rethink this concept. The gov. has made more money from innocent victims . Legal fees from incareceration & property forfeiture costs are unbelievable. We all need to start at the state level, writing our state elected governors. If they do not support this issue then let's get someone in office who does.

4-D

Mar 29 2007, 2:01 pm

If the prohibition of the SINGLE substance alcohol was a horrible failure, then how can we prohibit MANY substances with success? I believe it was designed to be a failing policy! We must legalize it medically first, otherwise it reflects how selfish and insensitive Americans are towards the sick and dying.

REC

Mar 29 2007, 1:35 pm

lets do it
i have been arrested for weed use
and it is fucking up my life right now
i have a permanent mark on my record for no fucking reason
while these assholes drink all their booze like its safe
lets educate and make this happen

chuckmont777ABQ

Mar 29 2007, 3:01 am

Instead of the million man march we need to march on DC on 4/20 and call it something cool? Any suggestions?

polvos_town_pothead

Mar 29 2007, 12:39 am

nah man weed shouldnt be legal cuz then it would be controled by the man, why the fuck would you want that. i personally love the fuckin crazy ass adventure you have to go through to get your bud. time to smoke a blunt

Bummer, Dude!

Mar 28 2007, 3:19 pm

Peyote, The opium poppy, and psilocybe Mushrooms!

cancergirl1974

Mar 28 2007, 10:22 am

Does anyone know what other plant that u know that is illegal??? Seriously???

up the irons

Mar 27 2007, 11:26 pm

man we need to start marching in D.C. this is unjust to have bud illegal

happysmoker

Mar 27 2007, 8:39 pm

i think that we need to ban togethor and stop this fucking bullshit! if i want to sit in my living room and smoke a joint thats nobodys fucking business. people wqnt to dictate and judge because we get high. maybe they should shut up sit down and smoke a dam blunt

captain1redneck

Mar 27 2007, 8:28 pm

i smoke 4 a pain killer and it helps me sleep w all my joint problems. shoulders and elbow, and my knees. leagalize it man

Mr.Buds

Mar 27 2007, 11:49 am

man they should legalize marijuana becuz it would make shit hella better,not so many people would smoke or drink. Kids wouldnt have pot because they can't get tha shit man, unless they go threw some one older, but even if they do they can get searched down by cops etc. taxing marijuana would make it alot better for the goverment they would ring in hella money and people who sold pot would get jobs so more people would be working. which would lead to less drug dealing and crimes with weed and the cops would get more big busts were the REAL drugs are plus tobacco needs to fall anyways, who knows with weed legal it might just throw tobacco off the market. shit, problem is how many people are willing to help?

colo kgb

Mar 27 2007, 2:03 am

AMEN!

Vix*

Mar 26 2007, 12:37 am

this awesome...just think when all this will end. Marijuana beign legalized.

xtasy_chink

Mar 25 2007, 7:16 pm

DONT LET MARC EMERY GET EXTRADITED TO USA! NO ONE SHOULD FACE LIFE IN PRISON OR EVEN DEATH PENALTY (GOD FORBID) FOR CONSPIRACY OF SELLING SEEDS OVER BORDER. In Canada it is still illigal to buy or sell seeds but this isn't enforced. I can go downtown Toronto right now and pick up hundreds of seeds. I can even buy dried seeds at my corner store to put on my salad. Anyone who is Canadian and Pro-Pot should help out Marc Emery by not supporting the extradition, spreading the word, or even contacting your members of parliment. Thank you for reading.

mr mom

Mar 25 2007, 5:04 pm

hey j catlin got the hook up on some killer fuck the p olice they are all gay .....centeral mich is full of stoners as i my self lived there

mr mom

Mar 25 2007, 4:59 pm

to james catlin hey dude whats up if u know an one from reed city let me know

farm boy

Mar 25 2007, 4:52 pm

i smoke because it almost 420

Richard Smoker

Mar 25 2007, 3:35 pm

That was the dumbest thing I've ever heard. I'd like to conduct a little poll. How many people here smoke because it is illegal?

Revivim

Mar 24 2007, 8:29 pm

I don't think most teenagers would try to use other drugs to break the law. If marijuana is made legal, it would still most likely be illegal for teenagers. Same situation as alcohol basically. Besides, teenage rebellion doesn't always go outside the limits of the law and decency.

dj I- Pirate

Mar 24 2007, 2:31 pm

i doubt it. meth sucks, weed rocks.

G4NJ4L0V3R

Mar 24 2007, 12:36 pm

I am for legalizing it and all but I do have one question. If Marijuana is legalized and all, Won't there be somthing replacing it to do as an illegal drug? Because many people like the feeling that they are doing somthing that the law does not want them to. And my only worry is that teens will trade in pot for meth or some other kind of drug that actually does actually harm your body.

SUPER_SILVER_HAZE_BUD

Mar 24 2007, 4:26 am

YOU KNOW EVEN WITHOUT GANJA LEGAL ANYONE FROM THE PRESIDENT TO SOME FUCKIN REGULAR JOE CAN GET MOTA ITS ALL OVER THE FUCKIN PLACE FFROM THE SUBURBS TO FUCKIN GHETTO ASS HOOD AND THATS THE WAY IT WILL ALWAYS BE LEGAL OR NOT

dj i-pirate

Mar 24 2007, 2:33 am

who cares if they tax it. look at cigs. same thing. and with it being legal prices should go down since it will no longer be a risk. i got busted a month ago and treated like a criminal. i didnt hurt anyone...

Sakom

Mar 22 2007, 10:35 pm

well take out the space on the number part of the link

Sakom

Mar 22 2007, 10:33 pm

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/346748080

Sakom

Mar 22 2007, 10:30 pm

sign this legalize marijuana petition this is the link

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/346748080

Jeezum

Mar 22 2007, 8:34 pm

Hey, who the hell does "revivim" think he is, typing like hes all smart and stuff. I dont give a shit about proper english, i fart in your general direction bitch.

Jonathan Davis_420BITCH!!

Mar 22 2007, 7:23 pm

hahahahahahahahah i know what i ment S.W.E.D.
m e v a
o e r y
k d y
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Jonathan Davis_420BITCH!!

Mar 22 2007, 7:18 pm

i say keep it illele because its already 2 expencive now thell tax tht sahit!!!!

use ur heads

Becca

Mar 21 2007, 11:02 pm

i have never read something that made some much sence. and the funny thing is i'm smokin rite now!!!

hey unemployed

Mar 21 2007, 7:53 pm

lol the company i work for does that routenly because they can hold your check and charge you for the DT.

kyle welch

Mar 21 2007, 4:17 pm

marijuana makes life so much easier to deal with and all who smoke it are happy as can be

unemployed

Mar 21 2007, 3:49 pm

I got hired on Monday fired on Friday. I failed a UA, just wish they'd have told me at the interview!

Bummer, Dude!

Mar 21 2007, 12:54 pm

Nothing wrong with a little edumacation!

Revivim

Mar 21 2007, 12:15 pm

You should check your own English, Josh. That sentence is not written correctly.

A lot of people that post here are not fully concerned with their English. It isn't like this is a graded paper. There are also younger people that post on this site, though some of them have better English than some of the older ones.

Yes, I know I make mistakes in my writing too. I am not perfect, but I'm also not getting onto everybody in here to go to an English class.

Josh

Mar 21 2007, 10:46 am

After reading several posts I suggest you spend some of the money you are currently using on Marijuana and enroll at your local college english class.

Lil' Eskimo

Mar 20 2007, 10:25 pm

What G-Bear said!

G-Bear

Mar 20 2007, 9:04 pm

I think the fucking government should relize how profatable selling pot would be for them. It would eliminate drug dealing and the profit the gangs in america make off of dealing. Which would than eliminate a lot of killings also america would just be a much more mellow peaceful place to live in where we could smoke our bowls and blunts in peace and not all peranoid 420 high till i die peace

lani

Mar 20 2007, 5:08 pm

420 is the best time of day when your at my crib everey one is happy. hell ya!!!!!!!!

420

Mar 20 2007, 3:00 pm

dooms day 420

end of times

Mar 20 2007, 2:59 pm

to all gov,s of the free world prepare to meet your doom 420.420.420....1.1..0.01.1

james catlin

Mar 19 2007, 6:28 pm

welll umm i got busted w/t .o7 bout on weed. and i am still waiting and shit 2 see what the outcome is. I got busted in the dorms at Central Michigan. i just think about the 60's and 70's when kids were blzin all the time. i wish that gay ass cops would start worrin bout big time crimes rather then .07 of some MIDS. that made me mad i wish i would have got busted w/t some good. haha well 6months tell i can light up 4 me. if anybody in MI wants 2 smoke me down after that 6th month look me up on facebook under carlos catlin

XTheGreenGoblinX

Mar 19 2007, 2:13 pm

NOT WORTH ADDRESSING! WTF!?!?!? I just got busted for possession bout 2 months ago, cost me $800 for bail and then impounding and then court cost and all the other little bullshit that comes along with it. I had HALF A FUCKIN GRAM!! That lil half g of Purple Haze got me in a bunch of shit. Im sick and tired of bein paranoid as fuck every time i wanna go get a phat sack and get stoned with my crew.
And by the way, im a computer tech for a major computer company who smokes before work, @ lunch and when i get off work... never fucked up one time... AMAAAAZING!!!
If cannabis is legalized in the U.S. it WILL fix the national deficit. It will open SSSOOOO many doors Just for the national economy. There are literally THOUSANDS of products that can be made from cannabis.

P.S. " Ah smell chronic in tha air...that means we taken ova dis sheeeit..."

-The Green Goblin

bob

Mar 18 2007, 11:15 pm

If you guys like the artile pick up Steve Cuby and Ed Rosenthal's book "Why Marijuiana should be legal" they go in great detail of every subject and list all of there sources. I found the over dose chart in the book the most interesting.

faren t colee

Mar 18 2007, 7:02 pm

most people would grow there own if it were legal and uncle sam would not get his cut. why would we buy store bought when we could get a didderent flavor from a neighbor of probable better quality.

Revivim

Mar 18 2007, 2:52 am

Sorry for the double post, but I wanted to refute the 'debater's claims.' I will not lower myself to using his distasteful name. Though it in all probability is an accurate description.

There are many jobs that do not invade people's privacy with urinalysis, and many people can still hold a job if their workplace does. Most of us want it legalized so we can be rid of the dealers, and all illegal aspects of this. Not all marijuana users are potheads, and most are not idiots. At least as far as my experience has shown. Drinking and driving is incredibly dangerous and illegal. How would that be better than marijuana? I'm not saying smoking marijuana and driving is a good idea, but it is much safer than drinking and driving. Most of those that drive after smoking marijuana compensate for the negative affects to their driving skills. Drunk driving is a bad decision from the start, and they do not generally compensate for their level of inebriation.

Revivim

Mar 18 2007, 2:40 am

To Jerry Anastatio, I wouldn't be concerned too much with that person. Even replying to him is probably a waste of time. I've seen those types in here a lot.

His points are flawed anyway. Most of the people that talk like that are the ones that come in here to bad mouth legalization and anyone who uses marijuana.

I just wish I knew why these people who have such big problems with it visit this site and post to begin with. They act like their words will in some way sway us from our beliefs. And none of them seem to have the faintest knowledge of the truth of marijuana.

Their heads are filled with lies, and they seem to suffer from willfull blindness. If they are even reading the articles, they aren't actually doing it to learn something new. They rarely even try to refute any of the articles in their posts.

Jerry Anastatio

Mar 17 2007, 9:19 pm

Perfectely said. Perfectley written. and whoever "Fuck ya i am an idiot" is should shut the fuck up and actually read the article. maybe it would help him take his head out of his ass

nevadabob420

Mar 17 2007, 5:09 pm

smoke on stoners!
Our govenment is a joke!
Our money is in Iraq!
IMPEACH BUSH NOW!

a concerned citizen

Mar 17 2007, 6:03 am

everyone should e-mail this to every local congress rep. See what happens.

J Mo Money$

Mar 17 2007, 2:07 am

You ppl are morons.

I agree with the poster. Someone should e-mail it to the whitehouse.

roxy92si

Mar 17 2007, 12:34 am

i just watch the HBO special about "addition" and i got me mad as hell because one dumb ass hurt himself (motorcycle accident) and the are blaming "pot". people make their own choice to do whatever they want. Every pothead needs to get together and vote! i sick and tired to be judge of being a good for nothing when i work my ass off. not every pothead is stupid!

Fuck ya I am an idiot

Mar 16 2007, 11:51 pm

Legalize is bro. Fucking A, Fuck fuck and more fuck, Hope congress see's what a great fucking idea fucking making pot legal is. Maybe I can fucking sell drugs and not get popped. Fuck I hate drug test's, fucking stupipd because I can't get a job. That is how you people sound, like idiots! No wonder marijuana is illegal. It makes you even more stupid than you are. I suggest sticking to drinking and driving.

stoner101

Mar 16 2007, 11:22 pm

fuck ya legalize the shit.

Buffalo NY Guy

Mar 16 2007, 11:47 am

I Agree Whole Heartly and glad someone finaly put it into word's any morron in Congress can understand.

StonedShaman

Mar 16 2007, 11:32 am

It should be every smoker's duty to print ten copies of these 10 demand-ments and distribute them so the message gets out! Bulletin boards, telephone poles, bars, police stations, government buildings, buses, subways...anywhere the message can be seen and heard.

Revivim

Mar 16 2007, 1:37 am

In all my wildest dreams, I could not have said it better myself.

mikey c from Buffalo nyyy

Mar 15 2007, 8:27 pm

props on that guys

Bummer

Mar 15 2007, 5:47 pm

My new "Ten Commandants".

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