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On the Legalization of Marijuana37 Signatures
Description:For decades now, in the United States and most countries around the world, marijuana has been deemed by the elite, controlling politicians of the world to be an evil drug of dangerous properties that no one should ever smoke, when in actuality, it is a completely natural and organic plant with mind, body, and mood enhancing properties. In many cultures it is seen as literally a holy herb given to man by God, and in Rastafarianism, which is actually a legitimate religion, it is a sacrament, much like the drinking of wine by under-aged children at our Christian masses. For this reason alone it should be legalized as it is in direct violation of our first amendment rights, including freedom of religion and freedom of speech. However, marijuana itself is actually quite harmless, aside from the smoke inhalation. Doctors in certain regions of the country actually prescribe dimebags for people with conditions such as chronic pain, cancer, arthritis, etc. There has never been a recorded incedent of a marijuana overdose ever. That is actually common knowledge and fact among the marijuana smoking scene everywhere in the world. The fact of the matter is that marijuana is not a drug but in fact an illegitimately illegalized plant that does give pleasurable effects, but still keeps the user under far more self-control than any other mind-altering substance, including the universally legal substance alcohol. Think about it and sign so that one day this weight of oppression can be lifted from all people over the world. Loading People... |
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Legalize it!!!!
look everyone it's not about death or brain cells
back in the day we were tlking this same talk aboutt alcohol the goverment was putting moon shiners in jail costing money and we had bad market and money was short( the great depression) then they got smart and said we need to spend less and make more so they made it legal they saved money because now not as many going to jail and we can now tax it makking more money ....... look alcohol is man made just like meth, cocaine weed grows wild our first pres ( Washington) was a hemp farmer there is nothing to add to it before smoking .. i'm not a smoker and i say lets make some oney fromit and help our contry
I say legalize it. there is nothing wrong with it, at all. think about all the other drugs that are out there: cocaine,ecstasy,heroin,meth,acid,and PCP. they are 100 times as bad as weed. when people are high on weed, they are mellow you out. you chill the f**k out. and you buy food, putting $$$ into the economy.
Signed,
The Great Wolverine
most of you have proved the point that dope should stay illegal. you say that you have smoked pot for years and you are alright yet most of you have killed off so many brain cells you can't form a thought much less a sentence.
Look I ask you do you drink, do you smoke Tobacco of any kind, then you are a hypocrite marijuana is the safest and all natural thing on the planet people die every year from tobacco approximately 440,000 persons die of a cigarette smoking-attributable illness, resulting in 5.6 million years of potential life lost, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III (NHANES III), and the U.S. Census. This report summarizes the results of that analysis, which indicate that an estimated 8.6 million persons in the United States have serious illnesses attributed to smoking; chronic bronchitis and emphysema account for 59% of all smoking-attributable diseases from smoking cigarettes, and that is just cigarettes a perfectly legal drug. (alcohol) drinking and driving causes over 25,ooo deaths a year. overall 100,000 deaths occur each year due to the effects of alcohol. Correction: According to the NHTSA web site (nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/nrd-30/NCSA/RNote s/2006/810686.pdf), there were 43,443 alcohol related traffic fatalities in 2005 in the USA.
How can alcohol be blamed for 100,000 deaths each year?
* 5% of all deaths from diseases of the circulatory system are attributed to alcohol.
* 15% of all deaths from diseases of the respiratory system are attributed to alcohol.
* 30% of all deaths from accidents caused by fire and flames are attributed to alcohol.
* 30% of all accidental drowning are attributed to alcohol.
* 30% of all suicides are attributed to alcohol.
* 40% of all deaths due to accidental falls are attributed to alcohol.
* 45% of all deaths in automobile accidents are attributed to alcohol.
* 60% of all homicides are attributed to alcohol.
(Sources: NIDA Report, the Scientific American and Addiction Research Foundation of Ontario.) Also see Alcohol Consumption and Mortality, Alcohol poisoning deaths, CDC report,
100,000 deaths. That's more than a statistic. That is 100,000 individuals with faces. 100,000 individuals with lives not fully lived. 100,000 individuals grieved by mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, and children. Every year. and the facts
Tobacco kills about 440,000
Alcohol kills about 100,000
Workplace accidents kill 60,000
Automobiles kill 40,000
Cocaine kills about 2,500
Heroin kills about 2,000
Aspirin kills about 2,000
Marijuana kills 0
Now I have bin smoking marijuana for most of my life I am a high school graduate with a 3.0 avrage. Hay is this more then a sentence. OOPS. Get the facts and stop talking about stuff you know nothing about. My name is Justin Denham and I am a marijuana smoker until the day I die.
i say dont legalize it. deal with the worlds problems head on. stop using this escape door.
I know lots of people that live quite normal and successful lives, and yet enjoy the use of this substance on a regular basis. Unfortunately, the government has decided that it knows what is best for you and everyone else, I guess that makes it easier to profit of its peoples.
you all know that if a cow eats it it will die
Then don't eat it
I completely agree! Marijuana should be legal. The only thing stopping it is the governments knowledge that THEY won't be the only ones benefiting from it being legalized. Hell, they legalized alcohol and cigarettes and both of those are far more dangerous and bad for you! I have seen plenty of fights started by alcohol drinkers, I lost a good friend that some drunk driver ran him over while he was riding a bicycle, I myself was beaten many times by my ex who was a drinker, got molested by my drunk step father, and I have NEVER had a bad experience while being around people smoking POT!!! NEVER!! People are pleasent, relaxed, gentle, and hilarious. Not rude, obnoxious, loud, hateful, dangerous, and abusive like those on alcohol. The goverment shouldn't of made POT illegal in the first place. IT is natural. No more dangerous than eating parsley, and a LOT less dangerous that smoking cigarettes!! Wake up America!!!!
i have smoked pot for years and i find nothing wrong with it. i think that everyone should try it a lest once. my boyfriend didnt like it at all tell i got him to do it and now he smokes more than i do...lol...and im very smart.i would smoke then do my homework and do better than when i was sober...its all in how you use it is the way i look at it.
the dude under me is a ****. It should be legalized anyone who as ever tried it knows this. I just hope that Obama will at least decriminalize it if he gets put into office.
im glad marijuana is not legal it is a drug that kills brain cell and also like other substances has bad after affects
but i also think alcohol and ciggeretes do the same and should be illegal
I love you Maryjane
I SMOKE POT EVERYDAY AND IT IS TRULY AWESOME.
I was a regular pot smoker and I can tell you that argument is the same argument I've been making for years. Marijuana has opened my eyes and mind to a deeper understanding of life, death, and afterlife (what it holds and how to reach heaven, what heaven looks like, what a certain circle of hell looks like, not through weed alone but in conjunction with shrooms). I am also a firm believer that anything found naturally in the world should be legal to buy, sell, possess and consume. Especially in a capitalist country the demand is so high nearly everywhere i go I just want to be able to open up my own shop pay my taxes on the **** I sell, and be somewhere where people come from all around to purchase their bud. I cannot believe the laws that restrict this capital and make investing in such things a criminal offense. I love weed, its brought me so much happiness and just recently has brought me a lot of grief, for now I am a criminal under probation and unable to smoke the reefer, I am going to be telling everybody I know about this site and going to be working on my community to push and not stop pushing for the legalization of Marijuana!!!
Brilliant, concise, punctual, persuasive, and factual! I love the description above I just hope that I can inspire enough of an overwhelming support from central Texas to really get the country knowing how many people's lives are being affected in a good way by marijuana, and how many lives are ruined due to the laws that are unjust and ridiculous.
I know how you feel not being able to smoke. It sucks. I have five yrs on paper and after that I plan on takin a trip to amsterdam to get fucked up and probably shroomed out also dude good luck on probation and I hope that you aren't in Benton County
that totally sucks monkey balls, the not smoking the reefer thing!!!
I f I couldnt smoke the reefer,
I'd be mega **** pissed,
how do you do it?
haha im diggin da way u think rebecca h...yea niggas dat are high aint finna cause no problems!! da gov really needs to legalize this ****.. --real talk--
yo peter you have to click on the sign petition button above if you want to support this subject...
i'll tell u again in class if you don't see this
its about time ,the gov, wants people drinkin bose so there will be fights and trouble so the police will have a job now have you ever known anyone smoking pot cause trouble no they bake brownies
I am a firm believer that Marijuana should be LEGAL. there are many reasons that it should be legal and one of the bigger reasons I think is that too many people in prison/jail are in there for possesion of weed. In most of the country you can go to jail for even having ONE bud. obviously your not going to sell one bud, and that is ridiculous. With weed being legal or even deciminalized, less people would be taking up prison space, and the people who actually have commited serious crimes can take their spots.
Also just the fact its a good medicine. No need to explain myself there.
I also can't stand when people say it WILL kill you. I have done it for years, I'm still alive. I am also a intelligent person who contributes to society. I don't smoke and stay in my house all day watching TV. I do positive things. Though there is nothing wrong with smoking and watching TV all day sometimes :)
It's just ridiculous that all this propoganda is still around. If not 100% legalized atleast cancer patients should be able to use it without fear of being arrested. Even if you have a MJ card you can still be arrested for possesion and have your house searched anytime. That is not even fair!
So please people, read up on the TRUE facts of Marijuana. You will see it is a beneficial plant and was put on this planet for a reason. You will understand what I am talking about. Tell your friends, family, co-workers, everyone you know about the postive points of Marijuana. Then get up and do something; sign petitions or what have you. You will be doing the world a favor.
I'd like to sign your petition but the medical use of marijauana for Aids and cancer patientis has already been legallized in many states and provinices so I failed to see it's purpose on that particular point. But I think it is a leap of logic that because it helps terminal people therefore it should be legallized for everybody. There have been recorded deaths from overdoseages of marijauna, all from suffication not unlike opiates where the automatical muscles that control breathing stoped sending signals to the lungs and the people suffocated. The active ingreadient of marijauana bonds with human nervous tissue and it takes approximately three years to become completely eliminated. While this does not make people high because the chemical make up is changed, medical studies from all over the world have shown that there has been a significant increases in Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinsons during the last two decades. Although it will take several years of doing statistical analysis, monitoring volunteers who are willing to record their intake and other medical tests done which are hampered in that the processes of how people get MS and Parkinson are not fully understood in themselves, regardless a higher than normal of people in the general population who get Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinsons are current or former users marijuana whoe used it for more that a year. Of the total poputlation those who get MS and Parkinsons are 20 to 30 percent more likely to get those diseases that a non user. in those people who don't take marijauna Marijauna is not physically addicting, but it is psychological addictive for info see: http://www.marijuana-anon ymous.org/, Children are NEVER given wine at communion NOR are adults given wine at Christian communion services. The host is given by itslef. That observation of children drinking wine in Christianity is simply not true. There are only a few denominations that give wine during communion and they are either allowed to dunk the host in the wine or are given a small sip neither of which would equal a tenth of an ounce. Inhaling smoke of any kind damages your lungs. marijauna smoke is no different form any other smoke. Inhale a lot of smoke for anything and it will damage a persons lungs. In short while I am happy that your post reminds people that marijauna can help people avoid pain when they are being given strong drugs to ameliorate diseases that will in most cases end in a painful death. I do not see the logic then turn it as an argument for it's legalization. Even alcoholic drinkers are forced to take road side tests to see if they are legally in charge of their faculties. Police and scientist don't know the point where Marijauna users lose control of their faculties. Last year, according to the National Highway Traffic Administration, approximately 47,000 highway deaths were cauased by drivers who tested positive for marijauana. 20/20 recently showed a program that marijauna users do not have self control while driving, in that they failed accuity tests needed to drive safely. I have thought about it and I think possession should be made a crime again and if the people who use if feel a weight of oppression they can always stop someking and take off the weight of oppression off their families by spending the money to support their habit on food, housing and medical bills instead of a green weed.
oh and about the MS and Parkinsons, Correlation does not prove causation, just like if you smoke cigarettes your not guaranteed to get lung cancer even though there is a strong correlation to smoking cigarettes and getting lung cancer there are also people who have smoked for decades (my grandfather smoked cigarettes for 33 years and is still alive to this day at a ripe old age of 88 afflicted with Alzheimer's disease and the only grandparent of mine to not get cancer. He doesn't remember anything but never had cancer. MS and Parkinson's may have an increase in chances to develop but honestly we're all gonna get old and die of something, whether it be cancer, Parkinsons, leukemia, War for Resources or some BS like that and hey why not enjoy your life freely, choose a non-violent career that you love, and smoke whatever you want. You can be doing acid your entire adulthood for all I care, and honestly how much do you care about all those pot heads in jail? probably about as much as you care about the leaves on a tree, you don't even notice them anymore. You sicken me, I care too much about my fellow man and you just make me want to go punch every person at the Above The Influence Corporation in the nose. I havn't been smoking weed in a month and a half now and wont be for another 5 months but when all of this crap gets over and done with i'm going to move to a place where i'm understood and open a weed shop.
"There have been recorded deaths from overdoseages of marijauna, all from suffication not unlike opiates where the automatical muscles that control breathing stoped sending signals to the lungs and the people suffocated."
Listen Wesley this petition is for AMERICA not for Canada, you've already got it legalized! And another thing that overdoseages BULLS__T you wrote is false, the only way someone could suffocate from too much weed is if they were in a closet and smoked superblunt after superblunt and forgot to open the door and ran out of oxygen. The areas of the brain that THC affects are many including the frontal, parietal, and temporal lobes affecting the occipital lobe much less than the above three, but I have seen things under the influence of marijuana, the cerebellum, the amygdala, the hippocampus, the thalamus and hypothalamus, but it does NOT affect IN THE SLIGHTEST the Medula or Brainstem. I'm sorry but nobody has ever died because they forgot to breathe because it is in involuntary reaction controled by the medula. The reason opiates can sometimes make people die is because in high quantities the brain literally stops working, and I mean the ENTIRE including the medula. which will kill you. Every human brain has an Endocannabinoid system in their brains with chemical receptor sites to recieve Cannabinoids, or THC. However the ammounts of anandamide, or the Endocannaboid, in our brains is balanced to create natural highs, deliver strong emotions like love, helps our brains to forget usless information so we can have more room for new things in fact if it weren't for our endocannaboids we could quite possibly learn to a certain point and then like an old computer with all its space taken become bogged down and unable to learn anymore. So we need these cannaboids to do their job and therefore we have many receptor sites in our brains for these endocannaboids. It just so happens that the THC molecule actually fits better into those receptor sites and stays there four times as long as our natural cannaboids. which will explain a lot if you know anything about the brain, but from your statement above i'll probably have to spell out all the benefits and all the disadvantages of the marijuana's affect on the brain for you. *Sigh*
This means that there is no long term damage being dealt to any VITAL area of the brain which is why you cannot overdose on it, this also means that you do not have to be sick, or on your death bed to gain the benefits, this means that everyone should be able to experience the euphoria, forgetfulness, desire for food, drink, sex, companionship, friendship, really simply social interaction while tokin it up. Its very simple the THC in marijuana is really the only part that is fun and in actuality healthy. Yes, I said healthy. I believe it is healthy to have a sunny disposition and enjoy the company of friends, I believe it is healthy to add a stimulative to a receptor site that does get absorbed, just takes a little longer and if you ask anyone who's been a fan of the reefer, longer is better, means they won't have to get more for longer, meaning they can save green and green. Yes, people who smoke weed have memory lapses, its part of the affects on the hippocampus. Yes, these people sometimes lose their train of thought, miss their turn while driving (which I've got a rant about your miss-informed statistics on how driving under the influence of weed causes car accidents coming up shortly), or simply forget they have homework due the next day. Now granted sometimes that last example is more a personal choice to forget about that homework assignment because you don't want to do it, but you can't argue with the stats that students who smoke weed typically don't do all their homework if any, and typically have a lower gpa than those who don't smoke. (example, I smoked weed from 11th grade-15th you know... college. and i typically didn't do homework and my gpa was a 2.86 when i graduated highschool and a 3.4 now in college, my little brother has never smoked weed in his life and doesn't want to and was making straight A's. He's a smart little dude let me tell ya, but he has few friends, i'm a very smart person, I made A's on all my tests never studied, never did homework, just listened in class and walked away with a C+ to B average. so what. i know history, science, biology, anatomy, philosophy, art history, drawing, music, graphics, government, economics, algebra, trig, geometry, and many others. I am not stupid, nor am I lonely, on average i meet 2-3 new people per day and see at least 20 friendly faces who care about me and the feeling is reciprocated right back at them. I have so many friends now that I can't even keep in touch with all of them and usually need to split seeing people up in to circles of friends instead of individuals. I'm popular now and back in middle school i was an awkward nerd/band geek/boyscout. Now I'm a Life scout/musician/artist/graphics designer/political advocate/socialite always meeting new people. I do believe my life would've been a lot more lonely and secluded had I never tried marijuana and I am, even after two arrests for possession, extremely glad I did, and extremely prevalent in my community and in the national community trying my hardest to disprove the Idiots like yourself who still are preaching the propaganda that the government has poisoned you with.
Do you really think that good, non-violent, and for the most part law abiding citizens deserver to be thrown into jail where they will have to either pay a **** ton of money or more costly days, weeks, months, years of their life?
think about that, and then think about all the law enforcement individuals who are being MURDERED by angry, hurt, or scared civilians.
and if that doesn't strike some cord with you, what happens to those good, non-violent, law abiding, pot heads when they get caught, thrown in jail, see all these other pot heads in jail, and is treated as an equal by these friendly faces, and treated like dirt, no less than dirt, like criminals who just robbed an elderly lady, by the boys in blue, or black, with the guns and the badges. I can tell you from personal experience that going to jail disillusions you. You see all these good 17-40 year old people all minding their own business, until you get stuck in a sound proof room and they start talking to you. You find out they are generally nice, got funny stories, were arrested for weed, probation violations, DWI's, theft, and evading the police and for the most part everyone there is for weed. The ones that are there for other stuff usually aren't talking at all. I didn't see violent people, criminals, I saw happy people, getting depressed, abused verbally, embarrassed, humiliated, and losing hope, by the people we thought were there to protect and serve. So many times I heard I can't believe I pay taxes for this kinda ****. I can't believe I'm paying for their salary, I can't believe, I can't believe. Well I believe it, I've seen it, I've payed, and stayed in that **** hole. I will fight it. I will right it, and I will change it.
People who smoke weed and drive have been statistically shown to pose a 25% increase chance of having an accident and 8% increase of it being deadly, where as Alcohol the "legal" substance has shown a 50% increase chance of being in an accident at .05 BAC and a 100% chance increase at .10 BAC... from there your literally **** near guaranteed to have an accident and it happens all the time.
Now think about that, MARIJUANA IS 25% WHEN HIGH.
ALCOHOL IS 50% WHEN STILL NOT EVEN BUZZED.
I've spent a lot of money, that I still feel was well worth it, and I've driven HIGH AS A KITE for nearly 5 years at least 3-4 times a week when averaged and have never been pulled over, in an accident, or anything, I have however been pulled over numerous times completely sober and been arrested for possession but again was completely sober when I was, which actually really pissed me off cause if I had been high, if I had my lighter and smoked a bowl on that highway I would've been going slower and wouldn't have been pulled over by that **** cop who ruined my night for a misunderstanding on the speed limit change at night, I was going five over I thought and turns out I was going ten. He then asked to search due to the smell of my car and guess what he found some weed. If it were legalized police couldn't **** with you, wouldn't steal from you, hurt you with handcuffs that slit your wrists, and fines out the ass. If it were legalized the police would actually be protecting us from the violent animals in society instead of having to go to court all the time for some bulls__t possession charges and could finally reduce the taxpayer money to the force as it could be scaled down accordingly. not to mention THE ECONOMIC GAIN OF LEGALIZING IT. PROVIDE A TAXABLE, AND RENEWABLE RESOURCE. EMPLOY MORE FARMERS, AND SPECIALITY GROWERS WHO ARE MAKING A KILLING NOT HAVING TO PAY TAXES LET ME TELL YA, BUT IN DOING SO THEY ARE RISKING THEIR ASSES. ITS WHAT THEY WANT TO DO FOR THEIR CAREER SO LET THEM! WHY IS THIS SO CONFUSING FOR IDIOTS LIKE YOURSELF. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SMOKE FINE BUT ALLOW GOOD PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
SO I'LL ASK YOU AGAIN WHY IS WEED ILLEGAL?!?!?!?!!!
MAN IF YOU DON'T SEE THE LIGHT THEN GO BUY A GRAM OF SOME DANK CANADIAN CHRONIC FROM YOUR NEIGHBOR DOWN THE STREET, SMOKE IT, AND TELL ME THEN THAT YOU THINK IT SHOULDN'T BE LEGALIZED. BUT DON'T COMMENT ON SOMETHING YOU HAVE NO PERSONAL EXPERIENCE ABOUT OR DONE RESEARCH ON ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE!!!
**** THAT WAS A LONG ASS REPLY TO A LONG ASS PROPAGANDA **** OF A COMMENT!!!