Ok, consider this… millions and millions of people use drugs everyday whether they are legal or not. I strongly believe that the Drug War is the catylist for much of the violence and crime associated with drugs. Just like the days of alcohol prohibition we have huge crime waves and lots of violence, mainly because the illegal status of alcohol made it extremely valuable and kept honest regulated businesses from controlling the market.

They ended alcohol prohibition because it didn’t work and was actually counter-productive in reducing violence and crime.

With your rational, you would have expected the entire nation to become a bunch of drunken frat boys. You know what though!! It didn’t and crime went down and regulated alcohol sales became a major source of income for many honest people in our country.

You know what else?? During alcohol prohibition there were reportedly 500 legal cannabis smoke shops in New York alone! People were using it responsibly back then and for thousands of years before that.

The Drug War has been overwhelminly aimed towards cannabis even though it is actually safer than either alcohol or tobacco and does IN FACT have medicinal qualities that can be used to improve the lives of millions of sick and dying Americans. Yet between 60 to 80% of those billions and billions of dollars spent on the Drug War are spent in a futile effort to keep people from using a safer alternative.

The Drug War is a failure, plain and simple. Obama along with MANY prominent officials have even admited that it just doesn’t work no matter how much money we through into it.

We need a new plan to more reasonably identify what restrictions should be put on different substances, but more importantly we need those regulations to CORRECTLY identify the reality of a substance.

The fact that cannabis remains a Schedule 1 narcotic despite 13 or so states that currently have legal medicinal marijuana laws. Obviously there is an acceptable medicinal value to cannabis, why then has it not been rescheduled?

I declare that the Controlled Substances Act has been corrupted to the point where goverment and big corporations can use it as a tool to control the public. That was not supposed to be the original intent of that act. It was supposed to be a useful way to set nationwide standards established through scientific and medical data.

End the Drug War, at least the War on Cannabis. It is a crime against humanity to so calously refuse sick and dying people the right to access safe and effective medicine, especially when their state has passed a law allowing it.

It’s time to rethink and end the crime and violence inducing, cartel enriching, and citizen harming failure of an idea called the Drug War!

Cannabis has anti-cancer properties that can cancel out the effects of carcinogens. Besides that, you can vaporize it or eat it and there’s zero carcinogen exposure. They’ve done studies in cannabis only cultures like in Jamaica and found literally no increase in cancer rates compared to people who smoke nothing.

Yes, and I’m sure tobacco lobbyists can find “studies” that show tobacco is benign too. Bottom line, if the first time you do something it makes you cough, that’s your body saying don’t do that shit again. My biggest concern every time I advocate for legalized drugs is that I’ll get lumped together with the pot-is-good-for-you-man crowd. Enjoy your pot, just stop with the lies to get it legalized.

PS
“you can vaporize it or eat it…”
Right, I suppose that’s what the vast majority of pot users do.