It should be legalized. I’m not sure “Black people are targeted more often” is good enough support though.

There’s over 20 serious diseases that are put in arrest or stalled just from puffing on some ganja…

Unless the drug lords are paying the U.S. govt. billions to keep it illegal, which I don’t think is true…this entire country could benefit from legalizing/taxing/regulating its use..

This country has a HUGE ego problem, though. At some point we have to LEARN that some ‘wars’ just aren’t winnable. The war on weed is one of them.

Wow, the NAACP is a joke now. Endorsing a drug? Smh

[...] Michael Whitney wrote an interesting post today Here’s a quick excerpt From Capitol Weekly On Monday, the California State Conference of the NAACP announced its “unconditional endorsement” of a November initiative. [...]

Awesome! More and more people are wising up and realizing that legalization NEEDS to happen!

How about we teach these NlGGAS to live life without depending on drugs instead of making the drugs legal and causing more problems. Lots of NlGGAS get arrested for murder; should murder be legalized too? NAACP has just proven that they are a bunch of dumb A$$ NlGGAS.

It’s funny how all the weed smokers are agreeing with this stupid idea. For the dealers out there: if this drug gets legalized it will be sold in stores, which would mean that you will be out of business. So if you’re a dealer, pray and hope marijuana stays illegal.

@I_AM_BACK_4_MORE… How you gonna compare “weed” with “murder”? They ain’t anywhere near being the same thing or even in the same category. That was ignorant dogg…c’mon son, get the f*ck outta here wit that bullsh*t.

@I_AM_BACK_4_MORE You obviously don’t what you’re talking about, your argument makes no sense. Who’s to say that those drug dealers wouldn’t become legitimate businessmen with its legalization? And comparing it to murder? Seriously?

Psalms 104:14 “He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man.”

[...] “It is time for them to stop using my community to fill the prisons,” Huffman said. “Once you get into the system, the next time you get arrested, they bump you up [to more serious charges].” NAACP Endorses Legalizing Marijuana Due To Black Arrest Rates [...]

Yea that is some of the dumbest s**t I ever heard; “money will be taken away from the drug dealers who operate illegally!” Oh s**t like that makes me so angry!!! Hemp was/is a very lucrative commodity that could encourage more so called drug dealers to fill up community colleges to study ways in developing more potent strands. Every so called criminal bud dealer I have met has always expressed interest in studying botany and doing something positive to get away from the streets. Think of all the jobs that would create legitimately!! S**t this could save alot of people, but the higher ups know that so they make it illegal, because they need slave labor, so instead of weed why not build prisons. Marc Emory is doing years in prison for selling seeds. He is a Canadian citizen who our country crossed borders to incarcerate. Seeds for crying out loud!!! He just finished 21 days in the hole for blogging over the telephone! This country is evil!! Land of the free my ass! I and so many others were able to put down the bottle and live competent lives thanks to the urb washing away our frustrations! This is truly God’s medicine, as it has counseled me out of doing negative things and has enabled me to have a deeper spiritual connection with the Almighty. I don’t know about many of you but when I smoke, I like to be alone to pray. They need to legalize this plant, I guarantee violent crime would see a significant drop.

Am I reading correctly? are you stupid coons endorsing the use of drugs? Wow, smh I swear I really need to stop clicking on these types of articles I REALLY do

[...] So, let me understand this, The NAACP’s Sacramento president, Alice Huffman, believes that marijuana should be legalized because Blacks are more likely to be arrested than whites for having the drug; “It is time for them to stop using my community to fill the prisons,” Huffman said. “Once you get into the system, the next time you get arrested, they bump you up [to more serious charges].” NAACP Endorses Legalizing Marijuana Due To Black Arrest Rates [...]

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its from da earth shi mightess well and if u never smoked maryjane wtf do u know wut it does to u come on now get real. smokn on purp ease my mind!

@we_b_s, I was using that as an example. What I meant is just because many black people get arrested for the possession of marijuana, they shouldn’t legalize it for that. They should find ways to get them off of marijuana. My example was simply stating that you can’t solve high rates of imprisonment by making something legal.

@Southern_ATLien, my argument had nothing to do with whether or not the dealers will still be profitable if marijuana was made legal. That was just a joke that I wrote in my second comment. However, if the government made it legal, you really think the street drug dealer will still be able to sell weed when I can just buy it at the store? And so what I compared it to murder? Maybe if you had a friend or family member who got killed because of weed related violence you would understand. You can’t make something bad legal just to stop people from going to prison.

first of all misz_pink_diamond, let me ask u a question… have u ever thought about y its illegal? did u know that africans have been smoking this since europeans were scratching carvings in caves. it never was illegal in africa or the ancient americas. native americans called the peace pipe.

u have a serious contridictions in ur views regaurding american law. at one point slavery was legal. b4 u get all mad because of the annalogy, think about the similarities between the way africans were stolen from africa (paid for by countless popes i might add) and ur everyday episode of cops.

once again, how can something man made be ok (a majority of those who oppose this progressive idea have taken some form of man made or altered drug in the last 24 hours… asprin, coffee, caffine, even sugar are concidered drugs by the fda and almost all are fatal in large doses), but something that grows naturally be illegal.

think about what ur sayin here, have u ever thought that marijuana might be illegal because it grows best in brown skinned countries? “god forbid some brown or black controlled countries make some money” chris rock.

did u know that ALL pharmacutical drugs that relieve pain are opium, cocaine, or heroin based (thats y people get hooked and overdose). have u thought about the fact that it might be illegal to keep the doctors and big pharm companies paid and give them a monoploy of drug market?

finally thousands of american citizens with health insurance (the drug broker)either is addicted to, dies or catches some disease from some legal drug that the fda was paid to approve. how many people have overdosed from the use of marijuana? zero. u sound like u need a blunt (and/ or a history book ) right now.

Maybe if you had a friend or family member who got killed because of weed related violence” @i_am_back_4_more

where do u get this stuff, sarah palin? i know u dont smoke because “weed related violence” is an oxymoron like “military intellegence” or “black republican” (u really sound like one). read my last post for the truth about the drug situation. my first post was erased (i wonder y?)

but again, the justice dept makes trillions of dollars from locking up non violent criminals up for “polluting” their own lungs (but no one goes 2 jail for polluting an ocean, but thats another issue). now the states are bankrupt from this supposed “war on drugs”, how bout a “war on poverty” or a “war on the highschool drop out rate”. the reason is we would have countless fbi, cia, dea, judges, police officers, public defenders, probation officers (all the alphabet boys that are making a fortune from convicting BLACKS for a plant) on unemployment and congess knows it. the prison industrial complex has unlimited lobbying capital and have bought the rest of the branches of govt to keep the party going. big ups to the naacp for calling them out on it.

As far as I’m concerned if you make one drug illegal, all of them should be illegal. That includes cigarettes, alcohol, and common cough syrup. If you have a problem with that view, then they should all be legal and people should take examples from the rest of the world where moderation is practiced if drugs are used. It’s been proven that nations with more strict drug laws have a higher percentage of drug addiction and drug related crime. More than likely that’s because we’d rather turn a blind eye to the problem rather than deal with it appropriately.

Let’s talk about something that’s actually relevant. This country should do a better job of supporting the people that fund its activities. That would be tax payers, not big corporations, and especially not the owners of private banks that control our Federal Reserve. Our tax dollars are supposed to be used to help the people and that’s not happening. Instead it’s used to fund so called wars overseas. Why do we need to destroy entire countries to find a few hundred or thousand people? Did the government blow trillions of dollars to find your cousin when he had warrants? No! We have the technology to find anyone very quickly, but our education system has been dumbed down over the years so we don’t know about that kind of stuff. Google the parent that caught book companies selling school texts books with inaccurate info in them a few years back. They knew the info was wrong. You can not sit back and just let gov’t do whatever because greed can ruin the best of people in no time at all.

Learn about Nikola Tesla. I swear to GOD, Allah, Buddah, and anyone else people believe in that EVERYONE needs to learn about him, his inventions, and what that has to do with us today. Here’s a hint for one of his inventions- HAARP. Weather engineering. Even Jesse Ventura did a show about that. It’s real, but few people know about it because we’re too busy trying to survive to learn about it. I know it’s real because I understand electronics. The state that this nation is in was done on purpose and it has nothing to do with 9/11. Read “The truth about money.” It has a brownish cover with a dollar sign on it. If you see a book with the same title with some white guy on the cover, it’s not the right book and I’m convinced that was given the same name to throw people off.

Do you really think people hate this country for no reason? Maybe it’s because we pay for our troops to go around destroying people’s lives that didn’t do anything wrong and we, the people, are oblivious. Perhaps it’s because the same people that start these stupid wars are the same ones that own a large percentage of the media stations that are supposed to give us accurate information. If you don’t believe me, when have you heard any civilian from a foreign nation saying they want to attack us? Never. I’m sure plenty of them speak english, but they always depict people speaking foreign languages in the news to play on our ignorance. Our politicians do all the talking when it comes to us having a problem with another nation.

As long as we don’t speak up, our gov’t can do what it wants. Let’s talk about people that spoke out and tried to do something about the misuse of our government: JFK=video of his bodyguard ordered to get off his car moments before he was killed and the bullet passed through where the guard was standing on the bumper. MLK, Malcolm X -no matter how he felt about Muslims, no black man, crazy or not, would have killed him willingly. He did too much for us. Easy E-no role model, but a menace to the powers that be. Google Royal Raymond Rife. He could CURE and CREATE viruses with ELECTRONICS in the early 1900s, but his technology was suppressed mostly by PHARMACEUTICAL companies. Easy’s AIDS came on so quickly because it was given to him as far as I’m concerned. Tupac. He was not a gangster. He spoke up for black people in his earlier music and spoke against our racist government. He got “robbed” and shot, while going through that trumped up rape case. Watch that Thug Angel movie. He did BALLET! HE WAS NOT A GANGSTER. That beef with BIG was a convenient way to kill him and BIG had to go to make it look like more black on black crime. A white detective traced BIG’s murder back to a dirty cop that owned the same kind of car that the shots came from. There was a doc**entary on that. High up powers in his department wouldn’t let him investigate the dirty cop. Why not??????? Find out what Michael Jackson’s last tour was supposed to be about. Here’s a hint: it starts with “Ill” and ends with “ti.” Katt Williams-dogged George Bush Jr. in two comedy specials and all of a sudden he’s crazy. Kanye West said Bush hates black people and his mom conveniently passes away after a simple surgery. Too convenient. Even Pimp C spoke out against our corrupt system and he suddenly dies of “sleep apnea.” How many people do you know that died of that? You stop breathing with that for a while, but you start breathing again… Listen to UGK’s albums. Ignore all the degradation of women and listen to songs like “Ain’t that a b*tch”-Bun B’s verse. Listen to their last two albums. Listen to any Rap-A-Lot album really. That’s why that label had to go through all the drug investigation stuff. They were causing problems. Even Jimi Hendrix. Listen to Machine Gun. He knew about it in his time. They say he overdosed on sleeping pills, but they found a bunch of undigested wine in his stomach, with no alcohol in his blood. He was drowned! The girl that was with him that night “committed suicide” shortly after. Black people don’t care about him because he played “white people music”, but his music was the most meaningful music I’ve ever heard. On top of that, he was a blues player at heart, not a rock player. Besides, rock was derived from the blues, OUR music, it’s just played faster. Read newspapers people. Pay attention to the laws that are passed and make sure they are constitutional. You need to know your constitution to make that determination. READ! Pay attention to the history of the people you vote into office. The president doesn’t have the power that most people think he does. Congress has most of it. Some of the congressmen are crooks and others mean well, but are “persuaded” to do things that aren’t in the best interest of the people. You’d better start paying attention to what’s going on around you before it’s too late. The people in our government that mean well can’t do ANYTHING without knowing that we have their back when they try to make serious changes. The only way they’ll know that is if we get involved. Start showing up to city council meetings. Go to your kids PTA meetings. Call, write, email your representatives and congress people when you see them trying to vote bills into law that don’t benefit the people. If you really want to talk about something important, talk about how corrupt politicians get convicted of crimes with minimum sentences after they rip us off for hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars and get less than that minimum time at sentencing (Vince Fumo). However, minimum sentencing guidelines are used as an excuse for locking up an african american that just so happened to have consensual sex with a white female. If it weren’t for Al Sharpton, he’d still be locked up. Our government is supposed to take care of our education needs so that we have decent, AFFORDABLE education without having to pay back thousands upon thousands in student loans-I give our government an F on that. It’s supposed to provide good, AFFORDABLE health care to EVERYONE. Yet another F. It’s supposed to make sure our money system is in check so we make decent wages for a decent living. F once again. Drugs aren’t the problem to begin with. If people practiced better personal responsibility there would be no need for laws at all whether it be for drug regulation or driving practices. As long as everyone sits around looking stupid waiting for someone else to tell them how to live their life, there will always be people happy with laws and people not happy with them. You can’t satisfy everyone.

One thing I really don’t get is why someone has the nerve to use the phrase “stupid coons.” That’s more relevant to me than people sitting around high, watching tv all day. If that’s the way they choose to live, that’s their decision. It’s everyone’s job to live their life to their best ability. If people would start SHOWING each other the right way to live instead of TELLING each other the right way to live, this entire world would be a much better place. Shout out to ProjectCamelot.com!

I don’t smoke, can’t and don’t want to, but have friends that do. The ones that started on weed, ended up on cigs. Weed either got boring to them or other various reasons, but they started smoking cigs. I just found out today that a friend of mine is in drug classes because she used to smoke weed, not she smokes cigs and drinks occasionally. The NAACP’s argument is a dumb one at best. If they wanted to get the point across, they should use statistics of what weed helps with instead of trying to bring race into the argument. Weed has THC in it, which is acid for those who don’t know. That affects you in a negative way.
I’m not knocking anyone who smokes weed, do as you please. Just trying to make a point that it is a completely harmless drug.

We can’t live in a society and allow “any and everything to go”.I read the story because I truely wanted to know the stance of the NAACP.I’m not certain that their reason is good enough to justify legalizing marajuana, after all it is still a drug!Lets say they legalize weed ,what’s next? Cocaine, Exstasy,Heroine? You know people will always push the limits.

@1beinghimself

I agree because it takes away the criminal element, but have you ever lived around tweakers? If there is one drug that should be eradicated completely it’s meth.

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Marijuana is not a drug, its a herb. Drugs are man made, and a man cannot make a plant.

@TheHalochamp thc is not an acid, acid makes you halucinate. Weed don’t have you seeing things.

@Kaikai7 you can’t compare weed to coke, heroine, and x-pills. With weed I can just grow the plant, let it dry, and smoke it without chemically changing it.

Coke, heroine, etc… Have to go thru a chemical changes to get the final product, so that makes it man made. You shoulda put them in a category with Pain pills and them other drugs that you get from the doctor, since those are the drugs that’s actually killing people.

I was told that Marijuana/hemp can be used to make the same products that Nylon (from crude oil )the crude oil makes. Hemp would make it cheaper and nylon as a by product would get a run for its money. Its the oil companies that wants marijuana to be classified as a drug.
I have never used Marijuana in any of its forms, but its stupid for a plant to be called a drug and illegal. If you look at the effects of drugs on our society, alcohol has far worse effects, but because its a social drug then its ok to use it even at church functions. Wow!
Doctors at the University of the West Indies have used extract from the plant to treat glaucoma.
Check out Marinol…

From what I have heard or as the story goes, Obama prodded the NAACP (as well as others) to support this because if it does become legal to smoke, it obviously becomes legal to sell and when that happens the seller is now running a business and is libel to file a tax return and to pay taxes which would help both our State & National debt to go down. Now that is finally some cool thinking from the White House.
tj

It’s amazing how people refuse to think for themselves!!!  When most of you tune into your daily programming, and see these commercials about someone having some type of ‘health issue’; then some company introduces some man-made drug that you probably couldn’t even pronounce 10 mins later.  They got these people on there laughing and smiling and sh** talking bout how helpful this drug is, then they hit you wit all the wretched side effects, and when and what not to take the drugs with.  When that commercial goes off, you aint even thinking about how horrible that ‘drug’ actually is, because your a** believes everything on the ‘tube’ anyway!!! That mean somebody in public can pop that pill from that commercial and people wouldn’t even think twice about what they takin because it was just on tv to help wit ‘depression’ or some sh**.  But what about when the commercial said ‘don’t operate motor vehicles when taking this?!’  Lmao how can something man-made be sooo accepting but marijuana not?! BECAUSE GOVERNMENT IS PROFITING MORE WITH IT ILLEGAL!! Do you really that someone isnt allowing weed to cross the borders??  Remember when alcohol was so bad to consume/purchase??? Now they got commercials/billboards, etc… With people smiling, dancing all merry and sh** with a drink in they hand. But your daily programming slaps a *drink responsibly* on the commercial, and now you all ‘ok’ wit it. You know how many people mess up things from alcohol consumption as opposed to marijuana consumption?!? GET REAL!!!  PROPAGANDA IS VERY POWERFUL, and most of people are victim to it. It’s showing so obviously just on these few comments. Think for yourself for a change. Seriously, whether you smoke weed or not, IS IT REALLY THAT BAD?! How many people do you personally know or even heard of have overdosed or inflicted harm on someone else from the effects of marijuana consumption???? I can go on about this all day…..

First of all I know people have strong opinions I was one of the few people who refused to “hit it and pass it” in my college days not simply cause I thought it was wrong but because you never know what you’re buying…Having said that I would like to see most drugs leagalized…In a way these drugs are already leagal in area’s populated by black folks so whats the problem ? We could take away the crime make black communities safer, reduce taxes and the number of young black men going to jail…..I know people can’t visualize it but I see a huge up side for everyone but the dealers….You know in the old days black folks sold Chitlins out the back of there car and now major stores have taken over …None of my kids smoke they know the dangers and if we teach kids young people the dangers then making these drugs legal will not negatively impact there life or our society as a whole…….But it might just make Black communities stronger.

[...] “It is time for them to stop using my community to fill the prisons,” Huffman said. “Once you get into the system, the next time you get arrested, they bump you up [to more serious charges].” NAACP Endorses Legalizing Marijuana Due To Black Arrest Rates [...]

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There is no need for anybody to go to an effort to reduce arrests where the legalization of marijuana is concerned. That idea runs on the down side of what needs to be acknowledged. Marijuana is far from being a cost to society it can’t pay. If things were put into the balances I would not think of the term cost. Benefit would be the word most appropriate where marijuana is concerned. Benefit in the reduction of stress, hypertension. Benefit, where pain intervention without exposing one to the side affect from prescription meds. Benefit, where revenue generation is concerned. Benefit, where comparisons are made between society’s present condition and the positives that marijuana has to offer.

Someone says, “Marijuana is mind altering, it is also on the steps with heroin and other drug use.” Well, what does history tell? People are going to do what they’re going to do. I’ve smoked marijuana here and there for over 40 years heroin is not in my profile. I don’t like needles and I’m surely smart enough to have in mind the risks there are to injecting substances into one’s veins. The gateway drug concept is subject to debate along with the idea you have to appeal to the idea of “too many are being incarcerated” to justify marijuana being legalized. Lets get real, I can be intellectual, between the two where the legalization of marijuana is concerned you have to figure what you want to be, real or intellectual. I choose to be real. What of it?

I myself approve of the legalization of marijuana. God Said He Made All Green Herbs, Food For The Soul. And That All He Made Is Good……. The White Man as Usual Make The Laws, that are made up to oppress the common people. First They told us to acquire a tax-stamp for marijuana here in Oklahoma,yet if your still busted with some weed your still going to prison. The State of Oklahoma made big money from many people buying and obtaining these tax-stamps. And yet these Political Crackers and Negros here in the State of Oklahoma are steady locking up people and giving BIG TIME in these Oklahoma Prisons. And not only that, they are also making BIG TIME MONEY here in Oklahoma from these drug courts.Let me break that down to you: (1). The people must pay a fee every month to stay out of prison. (2) They also must pay 30.00 a pop for each UA that they take, they might have you pissing 2-3 a week. By the time those whom have completed these drug courts in Oklahoma you would have paid the State over 3,000.00 dollars a year just to stay out of prison. What kind of s**t is that!! Instead of you really receiving help your just playing there game to keep from going to prison. knowing full well you enjoy what you do in the land of the FREE. Where’s the freedom? America is becoming more COMMUNIST BY THE MINUTE.Prison was originally made for murderous,rapist, and child molesters. No where in the Bible was anyone punish for smoking. Legalize Marijuana…Let Us All Make A Change. Go To Change.org and sign the petition on the legalization of Marijuana. So that our people and many others lives will not be wasting behind these Prison WAlls for an Herb that grows naturally from a seed into a plant that has many GOOD uses.

I’m Black and I hate marijuana. all of my friends are Black and we don’t smoke it. I will never date a girl who smokes it. If you smoke weed you are weak minded. White people smoke more weed than Blacks but they don’t get arrested because law enforcement is racist

Who haven’t smoke pot, weed, r experiment with marijuana who was born during the 1950′s, 1960, 1970 1980′s and even former President Bill Clinton who admitted who smoked weed but he did not inhale…Lair, lair, pant of fire.

Of course marijuana is drug, just like other drugs like alchol that was once a prohibted drug to consume in the United States which was later legalized.

However, during that same time frame marijuana was also a popular drug used at that time but the government could not figure out how to tax it and kept marijuana an illegal drug not because of it’s harmful effect on society but because there incapablity to tax pot.

Bottomline our children will experiment with using marijuana in the future and the question, should we be putting our children and ruining there lives with criminal records and jeopardizing the ability to enter the best colleges, being suspended, being unemployable for smoking a joint. The crime just don’t fix the punishment.

However, I am 4 decriminalized pot and not illegalizing pot because who want their weed to be taxed..Then that would mess up everything. You can tax the income of the medical marijuana medical business, but not the pot itself.

Read the “Emperor Wears No Clothes” to learn the history of the conspiracy against Cannabis.

I think the bottom line is, how can the government tell The People what to put in their bodies. As long as its not hurting anyone else.

I am all for legalization of marijuana. Its a shame that we are in the 21th century and have some outdated laws still on the books. I cannot understand how the federal government can say I can have alcohol & cigarettes but not marijuana. When they are just as bad or worse and cause way more deaths than marijuana. I say lets all get us a hoe & some weed and do the deed!!!!

Black People you still stupid

Still havnt learned the message that Boyz in the Hood
tried to teach, with Tray’s Father’s speech

First, marijuana is an herb made by nature, why do you label it a drug? Have you seen the statistics on Marijuana overdoseor any deaths directly attributed to it’s use? Secondly, it has many health benefits, my grandfather used it for glaucoma nd I have witnessed persons with crippling arthritis use it for debilitating pain, cancer patients for nausea, AIDS patients and MS etc… Because a person can get “high” by smoking it doesn’t make it any less helpful or healthful.In fact if my mother had her pain relieved a bonus buzz would be least of my concerns. The fact that grapes can be eaten or made into wine, corn, hops, agave, pears and other natural products can be made into alcohol is not cause for us to make them illegal for all usage or possession. We spend multi- millions criminalizing people for selling something non addictive to others who want to buy it- who is the victim here? For the ones who want to use marijuana for other purposes, it’s also time that we acknowledge that we can not effectively regulate morality and people have a choice of how they want to spend their personal recreational time. Some with a Bud, others with some bud. We would be of better service regulating prescription drugs more carefully, taking tobacco and alcohol off the market, in those cases money and lives would be saved!

What a mark of hypocrisy !!!!

Marijuana is said to be a dangerous drug, to bring addiction, must be kept illegal…

WHAT ABOUT TOBACCO ????

Instead of worrying if whether or not more blacks than whites are arrested for marijuana use… shouldn’t NAACP and supposed black leaders be focusing on NOT using drugs? Or even focusing on blacks not promoting the use of drugs, liquor and cigarettes in songs, tv and other media? Why are blacks focusing on blaming whites when blacks need to look at themselves and ask the question what are THEY doing to THEMSELVES? The white man is NOT the one selling it to blacks. BLACKS are. Perhaps if INSTEAD of blaming the WHITE man, the BLACK man needs to take THAT money and use it to EDUCATE himself, and SUPPORT his children, as opposed to SELLING THEM drugs and DOING DRUGS and ending up with having children born with birth defects, AND asthma, and addictions… hey… what about that???
Maybe INSTEAD of complaining of NOT having money, that MONEY can be invested into buying LAND, to FEED HIMSELF AND HIS FAMILY, hey… what about that??? MAYBE, without being STONED, maybe black males would not have made BLACK WOMEN the NUMBER ONE VICTIM OF AIDS AND HERPES… hey… what about that?
MAYBE if you DROP THE JOINT and USE YOUR BRAIN… maybe YOU WOULDN’T BE IN JAIL or MAYBE you wouldn’t be in the situation to BLAME THE WHITE MAN FOR YOUR REPEAT YOUR IDIOCY???
ME??? Another woman FED up with the BLACK man blaming the WHITE man for the JOINT in HIS HAND….

FACT:

The U.S. War on Drugs has spurred many social and environmental consequences throughout the world. Widespread aerial herbicide spraying aimed at eradication has caused environmental damage from Central America to Central Asia.

On January 15, 2002, a statement by Earth Justice, a U.S. nonprofit and public interest environmental law firm, called upon the UN Commission on Human Rights to urge the U.S. and Colombia to halt its aerial herbicide application program to eradicate coca and poppy and consider alternative methods. With the support of the Amazon Alliance, a coalition of Amazonian people’s organizations and environmental and human rights groups, the firm sought to intervene claiming that aerial spraying of the herbicide mixtures are harming the communities of people and the surrounding environment. The statement further claimed that since the aerial fumigations began, thousands of people have sub come to serious health problems, experienced shortages of foods due to the destruction of food crops and livestock, and has witnessed their entire eco system collapse around them.

In 1999, citing the worldwide instability created by Colombia’s drug trafficking, the United States began to pressure the Government of Colombia (GOC), to take part in developing an aggressive strategy that would be designed to combat the country’s narcotics industry, stimulate its economic growth, promote the peace process, and strengthen its democracy. With the support of Columbia’s President Andres Pastrana, “Plan Columbia” became widely known and criticized as a plan by the U.S. government to further participate in the illegal drug trade leading to vast acc**ulations of wealth.

Plan Colombia called for $ 7.5 billion, $ 4 billion of which then Colombian President Pastrana pledged out of Colombian resources, leaving the international community responsible for providing the remaining $ 3.5 billion. On July 13, 2000, the U.S. Congress approved an emergency supplemental assistance package worth $ 1.3 billion, and President Clinton signed it into law, adding to the more than $ 300 million already pledged by the U.S. to aid Colombia.

After 20 years of drug-wars in the Andes resulting in a two fold increase of cocaine import in the US in the last ten years alone, I wonder what is to be expected from a plan focusing primarily on spraying coca-fields in rebel-held parts of a country where coca is grown all over. Most of the civilized world would probably agree that the US Government is not at all concerned with fighting drugs especially since the post 9-11 rhetoric made it easy for the State Department to now single out the leftist Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Columbia (FARC) as enemy #1 in Colombia.

Among the many who opposed the U.S. war in Iraq, there exists the notion that the U.S. backed war in Afghanistan is a “good” war. This view, propagated by bourgeois and “alternative” media sources alike, portrays U.S. forces fighting against drug-dealing “Taliban” thugs in a lawless “narco-state” that hides and supports the “terrorists” responsible for 9/11.

In 2000, prior to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the Taliban had almost completely eliminated the export of opium and banned its production. Contrary to the mainstream media, it was not the Taliban that replaced food crops with opium poppies. It was the CIA that initiated the Afghan drug trade to support its attack on the Socialist Government of Afghanistan in the 1970s and 80s. It was the CIA that revived the illegal drug trade in 2001 and the CIA that continues to support it today.

Since 2001, Afghanistan has gone from no opium trade to providing 93 percent of the world’s heroin exports, including about 60 percent of heroin exports to the United States.

NOW IF YOU WERE BRAVE ENOUGH TO READ THIS ISSUE OF FACT, THEN YOU MUST AT LEAST AGREE THAT WE CAN’T DO ANY WORSE BY LEGALIZING MOST FORMS OF NARCOTICS.

nar·cot·ic: any of a class of substances that blunt the senses, as opium, marijuana, cocaine, crack cocaine, morphine, belladonna, and ALCOHOL, that in large quantities produce euphoria, stupor, or coma, that when used constantly can cause habituation or addiction, and that are used in medicine to relieve pain, cause sedation, and induce sleep.

Federal Mandatory Sentences ARE Unconstitutional
(But, then, so are most federal criminal laws)
by William L. Anderson and Karen S. Bond

In a recent speech to members of the American Bar Association, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy attacked the mandatory federal sentencing laws, thus raising the ire of many conservatives. At about the time Justice Kennedy was speaking in San Francisco, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft was ordering his minions to compile a list of federal judges who engage in the practice of “downward departures,” i.e., impose less than the “mandatory” sentences on individuals convicted in federal courts.
Economist Thomas Sowell, for one, is outraged at Kennedy’s appeal. Using Adam Smith’s quote, “Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent,” Sowell presents the “law and order” argument in favor of long sentences, declaring:
Innocent victims of crime seem to disappear from the lofty vision and ringing rhetoric of those who worry that the punishment of criminals is “too severe,” as Justice Kennedy put it. If a day in prison can be pretty long, so can every day living in a high-crime neighborhood, where you have to wonder what is going to happen to your son or daughter on the way to or from school.
The nights can get pretty long too, when you are afraid to go out on the streets and have to worry about how safe you are, even inside your apartment behind doors with multiple locks. Locks can’t stop stray bullets from warring drug gangs.
These statements seem to be “common sense” and no doubt have resonated with many people. The problem, however, is that Sowell is comparing apples with oranges – and mislabeling them in the process. For the most part, Sowell is describing criminal activities that are in the jurisdiction of state courts, not federal courts.
Furthermore, Kennedy’s remarks were aimed not at sentences handed out to violent criminals, but rather the draconian punishments that Congress has demanded be levied on people convicted in federal courts for whom the punishment does not fit the crime. For all of Sowell’s attempts to paint Kennedy as simply another “feel good” liberal who is “soft” on crime, it is Sowell who needs a lesson in jurisprudence.
One of the myths that Sowell repeats in his column is that the vast increase in the prison population over the past two decades is the reason for the drop in violent crime. He writes:
Justice Kennedy pointed out that a higher percentage of our population is imprisoned than the percentage of the population in some other countries. But it has been precisely since we started locking up more criminals in the 1980s that our crime rates finally began to turn downward.
In fact, the United States imprisons more people than any other nation on earth, the present prison population here being more than two million (out of eight million worldwide). Of that near 2.1 million, approximately 171,500 are in federal prisons, and 84% of the 171,500 inmates have been convicted of non-violent drug offenses.
To put it another way, Sowell would have one believe that Kennedy is calling for short sentences for murderers, rapists, and robbers. Actually, Kennedy is doing nothing more than making a plea for federal judges to be able to use their powers to assess a given situation and impose what he or she believes is an appropriate sentence.
Furthermore, of the near 1.9 million prisoners in the state systems, more than half of those inmates have been convicted on non-violent drug offenses. To place these numbers in perspective, in 1980, before the Reagan and Bush I administrations began the drug war in earnest, 315,000 inmates were incarcerated in state and federal prisons. In 1993, the first year of Bill Clinton’s presidency, that number had grown to 910,000. In the past 10 years, the total number of prison inmates has more than doubled.
No doubt, with numbers this large, many violent criminals were put away, but that has always been the case. What we have seen in the last 20 years, however, has been the proclivity of state and federal politicians, judges, and bureaucrats to vastly expand the categories of “criminal behavior” to include those “offenses” that once would at worst have gone to civil courts – or not even be pursued at all.
In the area of federal criminal law, Congress has twisted the Commerce Clause of the Constitution into unrecognizable shapes, creating categories of “crime” that historically have not been considered to be crimes at all. Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation recently wrote a legal memorandum that declares that much of what Congress and federal prosecutors declare to be “criminal” activity is historically dubious. Writes Rosenzweig: “Congress has exercised precious little self-restraint in expanding the reach of federal criminal laws to new regulatory areas.”
In their important work, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton demonstrate how the expansion of criminal law – and especially at the federal level – has resulted in scores of wrongful convictions, ruined lives, destroyed families and businesses, and the general loss of liberty of all Americans. Bill Moushey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1998 doc**ented numerous cases of a federal justice bureaucracy literally out of control, as innocent people spent years in prison because cynical or dishonest federal prosecutors viewed their cases as ways for career advancement. Even when prosecutorial misconduct was clearly exposed, rarely were perpetrators punished, as the feds tend not to go after their own.
Sowell, apparently, is not interested in any of this information. Instead, he would prefer to believe – as perhaps do most Americans – that only the guilty go to prison and that sentences of 20 years or more for “crimes” that often fall into the category of technical or even unintended violations of one of the thousands of federal regulations that hinder our lives are just and warranted.
It is this kind of wrong-headed thinking that has made our prison population explodes; something that we believe in the long run makes our society less safe. From the drug war to the Martha Stewart prosecution, government has expanded its powers to a point where prosecutors have become almost invulnerable. History has taught us endlessly that power indeed corrupts individuals, and that those with the most power often become the most corrupt.

Yes, It helps me on days when other medications are causing other problems or uneffective. Legalize it!

fake ass smokers who smoke for medical reasons and not because you want to should be jailed.

IM 35 YEARS OLD. IVE NEVER TOUCH WEED OR A CANCER STICK IN MY LIFE. IVE NEVER HAD A DESIRE TO. MOST OF THE WEED SMOKERS I KNOW ARE NON PRODUCTIVE. THEY SPEND 3/4 OF THE DAY THINKING ABOUT WHEN THEY GONE GET HIGH AGAIN OR WHO GOT SOME GOOD WEED. I SAY LEARN SOME COPE’N SKILLS AND GET A HOBBY. IT RELAXES YOU JUST THE SAME!!! BESIDES ITS A GATEWAY DRUG MOST END UP STRUNG OUT ON CRACK .

To catgirlTX1. I understand why you feel the way you do. You are right, but the issue is whether or not legalization is the key to ending many of the drug related issues in America.

I’m not the biggest supporter of the NAACP, but I understand their reasoning of why they would endorse legalization. If you want to cut down the drug use and drug related crimes in America, you have to make drugs less profitable to obtain illegally by creating a legal middle market that NO one fears repercussion from. This action would cut out the middle man by providing a less expensive, lower risk alternative that would eventually drive down supply and demand, making the market too competitive at the street level. Without the middle man, the KING PINS of this great nation would not be able to turn a profit…so causing a collapse in the illegal monopoly of the drug trade. Oh no, I may have stepped on the feet of almost every member in Congress. Say good by to all the reasons for needing special anti drug law reform programs/ laws…which by their intended use further exploit and victimize high-risk crime areas habited mainly by people of color. Read the blog entries…its good reading catgirlTX1.

catgirlTX1, you shouldn’t believe everything you read. You would be surprised of how many people you actually knew smoked weed. It is illegal, so you wouldn’t know who all smoked. Only the one’s who think it’s cool for people to know you smoke are probably the one’s you’re speaking in reference to. Do you know more people have died by lightning strikes then smoking weed, but yet and still they make it out to be even worse then crack almost. You have to 1st get in the water in order to know how deep it really is. One person can tell you the pool is 3 ft deep, even though you yourself can’t see the bottom. What will you do, take there word for it? You talking about weed is like me telling you what it feel like to have a baby. Of course I’ve heard it’s like having to use the bathroom really bad. I say, how does that sound? Then again, what do I know, I’ve never been pregneant…

Plain and simple if you do your research you would find not only was it once legal in the US but our “NAVY” was shipping it in from other countries on our subs. But maybe that’s too deep for ya so I’ll slow it down a bit… At one point there wasn’t a pub, or local “coffee shop”, or even a club that you could have went to in the roaring twenty’s throughout our great nation that didn’t sell it, same as our European counterparts today. The change came about from one senator. The same senator who pushed for, and started the initial “war on drugs” because he was racist and had to try to figure out how to get rid of mexicans without showing it. Honestly, I love my country and state, but America as a whole was created from the degenerates of another society who felt the need to leave because of rules. Rules they themselves now corrupted thru shady politics and greed! Should it be legal? Hell YEAH! And it will become the same thing as any other “product” in a store or on the street…. if u want it, u’ll buy!

This is ridiculous.The NAACP is becoming more of a joke with every passing day. If weed is legalized it will not be because the race pimps in this organization told some sob story about black men going to jail for dealing and/or possession. If black men did not participate in the drug game, then they would have nothing to worry about now would they

Why dont we just issue tickets and fines for murders, domestic violence and rapes? That’d also cut down on black arrest too, wouldnt it? Smh…

MiSz_PiNk_DiamOnd your abilities to make comments have been revoked dumb B.

The point is yes marijuana is illegal but for what? name some reason.
Now look at alcohol, tell me why it’s legal?

1. prison/jail costs 50k a year
2. Will decrease gang violence
3. Man power to enforce that law can be reallocated.
4. Nigas can start being fathers

No one can get through life without drugs because FOOD is a drug you dumb asses don’t have a clue. And yes cannibinoids are naturally found in the human brain. It’s the chemical that makes us hungry and sleepy. Every human being on earth is a drug addict. Learn something before you judge and assume.

FOOD is NOT a drug *rolls eyes* FRUCOSE, C6H1206, a sugars—found within our system, Protein, carbs are also FOUND IN OUR SYSTEM. No ‘drug’ is needed to survive within a healthy person. Please show me where someone has gone 21 years without food and has survived…PLEASE. Food is NEEDED to survive…Smh @ comparing food to weed. DAMN man yall are perfect cases in the amt of braincells kiled with ever puff

Dumb b***h you better research before you make an ignorant statement food is a drug ask a doctor. Weed only kills damaged
brain cells and help reproduce new brain cells(look it up). It also has MANY medicinal values that are safer than perscription pills.
Please know what you are talking about.

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Weed is illegal and do people smoke it? Yes they do. So if they legalize it, what will be the difference. If you smoke it now, you’ll most likely smoke it if it becomes legal. If you don’t smoke it now, but would if it was legal, then so what. You people are making a big deal about nothing. You can’t stop people from doing what they want. Humans will always want to do things that are bad for them. The majority of the foods we put in our bodies everyday are bad for us because of the chemicals and things they put in the food. As long as they have rules like they do for alcohol, who cares. It’s really funny how people get their pants all up in a wedgy when it comes to someone else wanting to do something. We know that sex between men started out the AIDS epidimic here, but I don’t see anyone jumping on the bandwagon to make that illegal again. You all need to take a lesson from your own book. LIVE AND LET LIVE!!!!

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