420 Campaign - Public Support for Legalization Reaches All-Time High

How could the fedral government be so blind as to not know how much this could help americas debt problem. Think about how much the weed dealer is making off the consumer, does this product not fall under the adequate economical standards.

I sure hope so i mean what is the big deal sure i smoke weed but i mean come on now its just an herb unlike crack which is a real DRUG i am just saying making weed legal is the best thing to do for this broke ass country and that would be bad ass and be able to smoke a blunt out in front of cops hell yea that's the type of country i wanna live in lol

Yeah, I think the Day is coming soon man. You guys are working real hard. I wanna say thanks 4 making 420 coming true...;)

So... there are a lot of good ideas and true facts listed above, and I think I have a solution we can all live with.

From now until 4-20-10 save every viable see from every sack you have. Keep them in a cool DRY place, and on 4-20-10 plant as many as possible in COMPLETELY RANDOM PLACE! I mean if you see a plowed farm field disperse them randomly, plant as many as possible, and do it DISCREETLY PLEASE! Plant them in plain sight places and DO NOT GO BACK TO TEND TO THEM!!! Just simply let Nature take it's course. If we tie up even 100 hours of Narco Task Force time then we've succeeded, because that will allow 500 herb growers to grow without being hassled by the task forces. The Marijuana plant is a perennial and if allowed to grow without interruption will re-seed itself and we will return to the days of old where the shit grew naturally. To the critics, it may not work, but you never know unless you try. Plus we all have lots of seeds we plant in trashbags in landfills anyway, save some landfill space and plant those seeds EVERYWHERE...Note don't plant them on your own property or anywhere you intend to revisit. This may work, pass it on...please

Please vote here for the legalizing of Marijuana. We deserve to have a voice concerning our freedom to live!Please tell a freind to log on today and vote to legalize. Thanks

How can the government not see how us smokers are being 100% desciminated from this world we call home and our only life we have to live so we choose smokepot instead of drink or smoke cigarettes. This is no crime its flatout descriminates us smokers to throws us in jail for something we perfer over drinking. All our life we have to keep our lives a secret and not interact with acceptance. We desearve to life our life as all other Americans we do'nt need jail. If you think we will mess your community! Give us our own gated community it would be better than throwing us in jail on tax payer dollars for doing what we choose to do!I taking a big guess but I think the government really depends on our descrimination to provide them with bigger police authority," We need more police to fight the war on drugs".If not for pot the police station would not have as much staff to enforce the other laws.Wait lets not forget if they will make pot legal our poor dealer would have to get unemployment and just another problem for our government to fix. They rather throw us in jail its our time and famliy miss and no problems to fixed. Lets just take smokers freedom they benefit so much from our life.
The bottom line is we are every day Americans who can't be accepted socially because they choose to label us as Potheads like the time they've decriminated women, blacks. How can you tell others what to do, We live our only life as we choose. Are we really bad people for choosing pot over achol and really why are we decrimanated. We (pot smokers) are millions of Americans who deserve to live a life of freedom as all other Americans. We do'nt deserve jail time let us have our own communities they then could compare on how many times the police had to come to our communitiy vs nonsmokers if they want results.

I dont understand why marijuana is illegal anyways, I think our government is RETARDED for making it illegal. People die from alcohol daily.... Noone has EVER died from smokin too much, like Kat said, "You mighta thought that nigga was dead, he aint dead!!", I think our world would be a better place if everyone would just smoke some instead of going to get drunk. And to all you "christians", read the bible, God says, " I give ALL seed bearing plants unto thee.", he DID'NT say, " I give all seed bearing plants except Marijuana.", so save the biblical stuff for a Christian website. No matter how you put, politically or biblically, there is NOTHING wrong with marijuana... If you dont like smoking, eat it, its healthier and does the job better anyways :p.

hells ya come on people let unify humanity lets turn up the heat on congress and the hole government that were not going no where nether is marijuana god created it as the government says in god we trust well lets trust him and enjoy wat he birth for us one day the hole world will sit down on april 20 and toke some of the finest herb come on people let do this the time is now! if we dont do it now it will never be done. thanks for the support keep up the great work peace an one love

To the dumbass that said that the government will charge more your retarded. If its legal they can mass produce it and there will be an abundance of it so it will go for cheap. For legalization even though it will put growers out of business but its an easier world with marijuana being legal.

I can't wait! It's just a matter of time. Just watch out for a few more fender benders than usual!=)

the bc bud depot link (at least on firefox) is screwed up

wait until government charge you more than what you pay on the street, then you will wish it was never legal... i mean government ain't going to sell it like tobacco... but do they really have a choice? Since DEA already know where the drug dealers are, so they can just switch their job to taxing it or bust it. All tobacco company will have their own marijuana mix, thus adds more life into the tobacco industry.. there can be marijuana wine, butter, meat, paper, shit... you can built the whole world on weed

i really think that marijuana should be legalized for the simple fact that i do smoke weed on a day to day basis. I think if they legalize bud this damn country would be out of this bullshit recession that were in. there are so many people that smoke weed and pay alot of money for it to come on weed is better than cigarretes and it makes you feel alot better. but no all the fucking stupid people that dont want weed to be legalized so they fuck it up for all people that smoke weed like me..........................

I believe that it is ridiculous that this is even an issue. Weed comes from a natural growing plant. It is really no different from cigarettes, or is it? We have direct access to cancer causing products(cigarettes), but not marijuana. Although, cigarettes contain tobacco and tobacco is also a plant. One is illegal and one is not. The funny thing is that there is probably as much weed bought and sold or more than cigarettes, but it is not taxed. Bad economy you say? Would legalizing and taxing this product not help a little or alot?
Would it not cut down on costs of drugtests waisted by the typical everyday smoker? Would it not help create new jobs?
Would it not cut down costs for convictions of possesion charges? Is a bag of weed more dangerous than a bag of pills? Is there a possibility that marijuana could help or cure certain diagnoses physical or psychological?

Legalize it honestly.
Instead of having all these people kill each other and die from Drinking and smoking from stuff that is legal?!
Marijuana isnt even legal but yet how many people does it kill?
Government is fucked up.
One day we need to have a big gathering and have the government their and hotbox a fucking building and change their mind.
Thats whats up bro.

After the last few months I have been keeping up with the war on drugs and it seems to me that there is a basic fix stop focusing on arresting every tom dick and Harry who go out to pick up a few grams of this stuff and go after the dudes bringing in pounds of it, I am a heavy believer in Legalization for one major reason, We are US citizens we have the right to seek out our own happiness without worry about government or other people harassing us, by all means if someone decides to use a substance to alter their state of being and commit a crime against another person or someone else’s property put em in jail, rehab, purgatory whatever floats your boat, not for using the substance but for being an idiot and hurting someone or destroying something, it won’t work I have heard if you go and drink yourself stupid you wont go to jail until you try to drive or start acting like an idiot? If that works then why can’t it work for any substance? This way all the money stays in the US, Mexico will then have to find another border to destroy, and all trafficking into the US will come to an end if we make the product and offer it for sale to our citizens. Once it is on the open regulated market prices will drop, everyone and their mothers will be trying to make a profit on it and only way to make profit is to sell the stuff at better prices than the guy down the street.

We are loosing our families in this war and I would rather see a family member in rehab than loose the ability to get scholarships, loose all hope of getting any licensed job, ( yeh Billy smoked some dope he cant cut hair ) Loose housing benefits and theoretically loose their lives at the range of 16 – 20 because of an arrest record, not to mention the law and military forces we loose when they actually find a real dealer or trafficker and aren’t breaking into an 72 yr old woman’s home giving her a heart attack and having her death on their hands.

Common Sense is the number one thing needed in this country, we are spending trillions not only in our nation but in others as well fighting the same war and the only difference that it has honestly made is instead of the dealers selling the weak stuff now they have a whole new grade of stuff to sell. Come on America please just open your eyes for an hour enough to read the basic facts.

PLEASE VOTE

Vote NO on Bill HR 875, google it, before it's too late!
Google CODEX, Monsanto, FDA bilateral's via trilaterals and quadralaterals.

Sounds impressive, 'eh? Does any of that sound like AMERICAN FARMER'S ARE FUCKED? 90% of all plants and animals, FUCKED. Cuz they code it appropriately, and cover generously with HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP. Google that too!

All of this, to feed 300 million obese diabetics? WOW! Mars may not even be able to help us.

It's TRILLIONS, not billions that legalization would produce. Do the math, cuz they obviously aren't.

It's oppression, the super rich elitest fucks don't want an uneducated person to be able to "get rich" or just make a living by watering a weed...especially if, "it makes you stupid and lazy".

But none of that should matter now. It's obvious that the majority of the population is FRIENDLY, and if the gov't still refuses to act -

AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE TO THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS
200 years of talkin shit and walking with a big stick, but nothing near a democratic process.

Jesus, Jeremy - It ain't even legal and you got all the "guidelines, restrictions, regulations" all spelled out. That's not very encouraging. Especially using alcohol as an anology. It's almost as bad as testing deadly toxins on army personnel. Hey, it's legal.

It's a plant and should be regulated like any other plant. No restrictions or taxes for personal consumption. You don't get taxed for growing strawberry plants, just on the seeds you bought. If you sell, you pay taxes.

There are hundreds of plants that cause psyhchotropic effects, some are very deadly. Yet, they're all still out there, growing all over the place.

Legislation shouldn't be setting an age limit either. If a Dr determines a juvenille could benefit, who the fuck should make a law to argue that?

Or let's just keep feeding them the shit that causes kidney disease, heart attack, stroke, liver failure, convulsions, IF YOU DON'T COMMIT SUICIDE FIRST.

Yah, sign me up for some of that!

and yet congress has yet to do a fucking thing. How uniquely American. We prance around the globe, professing superior education(we're probably 20th), technology (though we fail on the r&d and production and let gemany and japan cash in on our sweat) and the best political process on the planet (though the gov't completely ignores it's constituants and just makes the shit up as they go.

What a superpower, the smartest, and most technologically advanced civilization in history.....please

Got my vote, I'll even quit smoking Tobacco.And cut back on drinking bigtime. Hey, this country needs to go GREEN!! All the way around!

legalize it theres nothing wrong with it so what the fuck the government so stupid you guys have my vote:P!!

This proves that the tide is finally turning on ending the prohibition of cannabis!!!!! This is great news for the country. All of the right wing conservatives are finally dieing off and the more sensible (and hopefully stoned) baby boomers are in power now. Hopefully we will see full legalization in the next decade. But until then some one out there take a fat bong rip for me!!!!!.

so close i can taste it. just the other day my brother told me marijuana legalization wouldn't happen in my lifetime... im only 24.... to which i replied not only will it happen it will happen before i turn 30. it will be even better if it happened before i turned 26 ;)

If we are to truly make an impact on ending the prohibition of marijuana then we must support the mpp and norml both orginazations working towards legalization and taxation of marijuana by contacting CNN and requesting them to do more coverage on the topic. Lets work together to have our voices heard. Remember it is "we the people" and not "we the government". Let our voice be heard. Visit http://norml.org/ and / or http://www.mpp.org/ and find out how you can help the cause.

If the USA legalizes and taxes all sales of medical marijuana and non-medical use.

Why should marijuana be legal?

* People have a basic right to make choices for themselves as long as their actions do not harm others.

Responsible individuals in a free society should be allowed to choose whether or not they use marijuana. Individual liberty is a fundamental value.

* The government is wasting our time and money by prohibiting marijuana.
Taxpayers are forced to pay billions of dollars to persecute, prosecute, and incarcerate people for having marijuana. If marijuana were legal and regulated (like alcohol and tobacco) this money, plus tax revenues from marijuana sales, could be used for other purposes such as education and health care.

* Prohibition is not an effective solution to the problems associated with marijuana use.
Marijuana, like tobacco and alcohol, can be abused. But prohibition is expensive and ineffective; education and regulation are better solutions.

Regulating sales of marijuana and teaching people the truth about its health effects will allow us to minimize the harms and costs to society.

* We have learned a lesson from history.
Alcohol prohibition did not work, and there is no logical reason to believe that marijuana prohibition is a better idea.

What is most likely due to happen is:

1. The USA can help get through the recession faster .
It could raise over $1.2 billion a year in new tax revenues, assuming a $50-an-ounce tax,according to one analysis.

2. Can use the tax from such a bill to legalize marijuana to better enforce the more deadlier drugs on the street which are far more fatle than marijuana.

3. The tax on marijuana not only can be used to help get the more dangerous drugs off the streets but also will help to strengthen the USA's finantial problem while opening the doors to a business designed to the helping of Medical patiance who need the medication.

4. If the USA legalizes marijuana and taxes it while having a law stating that the user must be atleast 21 to buy , posess , and/or own marijuana .

Reason for this is simple and will lessen crime in which a vast % of jails/prisons are holding people for simple
posession while others face more due to culturevation and distriutation of marijuana.

FACT: Annual American marijuana smokers who have died are 0 which is normal while their are more deaths due to DUI's and perscription medications such as Vicodin , Morphine ,and Lithium to name a few.

Can a person ever die due to smoking marijuana ?

ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS

TOBACCO ........................ 400,000
ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS .............20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ..........15,000
CAFFEINE .........................2,000
ASPIRIN ...........................500
MARIJUANA ...................... 0
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Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics

The answer is simply "extreamly unlikely" 0 people have died due to over dose and / or use of marijuana .

Help to support us by simply spreading the word and by answering the simple question:

Should the USA legalize marijuana but treat it as we treat alcohol?

If we all keep the pressure on the all the elected officals, they might start listening what we have to say.
Especially if they want to keep their jobs...

It could go alot further/faster if all the organizations ORGANIZED under one name. Just a thought...

It seems like we are so close to actually getting marijuana legalized and taxed and treated like alcohol or cigarettes. I'm am just so happy and optamistic with this ABC poll, we are almost there people, keep up the good work everybody!