While I am in favor of compromise and acknowledge that being humble is a good thing, requiring a permit to grow for personal use it not right.

Charge a nominal sum for a permit/license to grow for commercial purposes; there are already going to be lots of fees for commercial growers, like paying to have it tested, insurance, taxes on its sale, etc… and anyway, all those fees are passed on to the customer.

The government would have no right to tax growers (as long as they do not distribute their crop for profit) in the same way that a person can brew beer or make liquor in the privacy of their own home. The government can put a sales tax on the grains/hops/yeast, even the water, used in the making of beer, but unless the individual is distributing or selling the alcohol he/she does not need to have a liquor license, and does not have to pay taxes on the beer itself.

MPP should sponsor a freelance documentary covering all aspects of marijuana prohibition. Legal, historical, medicinal . . .

“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson (pothead btw)

Many of the problems concerning this “tolerance” policy in the Netherlands are attributed to the “backdoor problem” (supplying coffeeshops with cannabis is still illegal). Full legalization, which is advocated by many within the Dutch government, would correct the supply issue, and therefore remedy almost all problems associated with coffeeshops, but the Dutch cannot legalize because of international treaties regarding drugs.

My opinion on this debate is that Rob could have done better, if he was given a fair chance to speak up. I don’t think it was really his fault, because the debate was not moderated well. I feel like most of the debating was being done by the anchor.

I cannot understand why Cannabis is still criminalized while Alcohol is legal. I am not out to see Alcohol criminalized, but the public (mostly the government) really needs to get the Cannabis versus Alcohol debate into perspective!

Alcohol is 5 Times Deadlier than All Illegal Drugs Combined!

Total Alcohol and Tobacco Deaths per Year (U.S. Only): 520,000 deaths – over one-half million dead Americans.
All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect Deaths per Year (U.S. Only): 17,000 deaths.

All Illicit Drug Use, Direct and Indirect (yes, this would include Methamphetamines, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin, etc. – all hard drugs and soft drugs – all illegal drugs) deaths compared to the annual deaths caused just by Alcohol and Tobacco = 0.03269. This means that all illegal drug use put together is less than 03.27% as harmful as Alcohol and Tobacco use. Wow!

Deaths per year caused by the two legal drugs, Alcohol and Tobacco, are over 30 times more than all illegal drugs combined! Even with 30 times the total number of hard drug users in the U.S. the death rate would still be lower than the annual U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco death rate!

Now let’s look at just the deaths due to Alcohol: 85,000 deaths. 17,000 (All illegal drugs) / 85,000 (Alcohol) = 0.2. This means that all illegal drug use combined is only 20% as harmful as Alcohol use. So – Alcohol accounts for 5 times more deaths per year than all illegal drugs combined! Wow again! – Put that in your beer mug and drink it!

So when you hear a Drug Warrior say that “Legalizing Cannabis sends the Wrong Message to our children” – “The Message” that they are really telling our children is that (when the children reach legal age) they will NOT be allowed to use a safe recreational drug like Cannabis but they Will be allowed to use Alcohol as a recreational drug, even though legal alcohol kills 5 times more people per year than Methamphetamines, Cocaine, Crack, Heroin and all of the worst illegal drugs combined!

Now let’s look at Cannabis.
For those who do not know, Cannabis is the genus name for the very common plant that Harry Anslinger called “Marijuana”, so that he could confuse/trick the public into thinking that Cannabis was some new type of dangerous drug as well as to use racism in quest for criminalization back in the 30’s. (I refuse to use Harry Anslinger’s derogatory terminology)

Total Cannabis Deaths throughout All of Recorded History (Worldwide): 0!!!. Usage of Cannabis (Marijuana) has never killed anybody – ever!

Hmm, we can’t even get a percentage of Cannabis Deaths (0) compared to Alcohol and Tobacco Deaths (85,000) since Cannabis has never ever killed anybody can we?

So – Alcohol and Tobacco kill over a half million Americans in one year and Cannabis has never killed anybody (in the whole world – ever), yet we allow the U.S. Government to support the Alcohol and Tobacco industry while they arrest us, put us in cages and steal our homes/cars/money for using Cannabis – a safe alternative to Alcohol!

The Pharmaceutical Industry also “pushes” many extremely deadly poisons that could easily be replaced by Cannabis and Cannabis Derived Drugs. “Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs” kill around twice as many people per year as “All Illicit Drug Use Combined” – and that Cannabis use has never killed anyone!

I wonder how many people die yearly from Alcohol and Tobacco who would prefer Cannabis instead? Cannabis is a completely safe alternative to Alcohol. Alcohol almost killed me. I would love to use Cannabis as a substitute for the deadly drug Alcohol! The problem is that I live in a country where Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness is NOT possible – I live in the United States of America – Freedom is NOT an option here. The American public is completely terrorized by the U.S. DEA.

Terrorism is, most simply, policy intended to intimidate or cause terror. It is more commonly understood as an act which (1) is intended to create fear (terror), (2) is perpetrated for an ideological goal (as opposed to a materialistic goal or a lone attack), and (3) deliberately targets (or disregards the safety of) non-combatants. (Wikipedia)

Therefore, the U.S. DEA, who break into peoples homes, incarcerate people for exercising their Constitutional Freedom to use Cannabis as a safe alternative to Alcohol (or even as medicine), revoke student aids, separate families, cost people their jobs, take their driving privileges, take their homes, take their right to vote, and kill family pets, are indeed Terrorists! We need our government to dismantle the U.S. supported and funded American Terrorism Group also known as the U.S. DEA. We the People are PAYING for our own Terrorization with our own taxes!

The U.S. – with 5% of the world’s population – cages 25% of the world’s population caged population. Many of the people who are kept in cages should not be. Many people who are forced to live in cages and suffer the brutality of the American Prison System are otherwise law abiding citizens who have simply exercised their Constitutional Right of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Prison Reform (as well as Basic Human Rights) NEEDS TO Seriously Consider Legalizing Cannabis!

Legalize Cannabis Now!

Hows this drug warrior compare getting busted with a joint to a parking ticket FFS! In my state if you get busted you 1) lose your job 2)lose any ability to get federal money for education 3) your ability to get another job is severly crippled (thats 3 hits to your ability to not become a homeless person). 4) public housing will be very difficult to get. I’m sure there a many more things that happen to your life after an arrest that I haven’t thought about. All this because of a law,not marijuana. A parking ticket? Are you serious Mr. Drug Warrior?

If these drug warriors want to get up on national T.V. and shoot themselves in the foot…let them. Marijuana will be legal by the end of the year with their help.

Great job Rob, Keep the faith.