Law & Ethics - July 2007

Prohibition does not prevent cannabis use by children or the mentally ill, the vulnerable populations whom we supposedly want to protect. Instead, cannabis prohibition makes it more difficult for parents, patients, society, doctors and law enforcement to control cannabis use.

The Drug War makes honest education about cannabis impossible, and leaves cannabis users marginalized in ways that make their lives more stressful.
This stress is unhealthy for everyone, but it is certainly most damaging to people with schizophrenia.

Cannabis prohibition is not merely a failure; it is a counterproductive fraud that is harming those whom we claim we want to protect.
There are currently more teens in treatment centers for marijuana in comparison to those admitted for alcohol.
Only an idiot would have to ask why alcohol is not the no#1 problem
after all alcohol is perfectly legal ( If you are 21.)
That is due to responsible people handling alcohol by way of the carding and id system.


Contraband markets make no age disgression.
Since the crackdown on tobacco there are 75% fewer teens trying or using tobacco.
However when it comes to cannabis and other illicit substances it’s a whole
other ball game.
Control, regulation and better education work prohibition, dose not.
Or as John Walters of the ondcp (Office for national drug control policy) calls it “ a war on drugs” (Sorry John but it's true look at the Netherlands)

America loves a war even if it is on it’s own people.

One of several reason they don’t legalize drugs is not because of the harm of drugs,
But people would lose more money in the long run.
Some of the people behind the support of this irrational so called war are
The tobacco industry,
the alcohol and distilled spirit industry ( people simply don’t drink as much, or decide not to drink at all with cannabis meaning a decline in there sales.
The pharmaceutical corporations can not make money on whole or raw cannabis, but they can charge an arm and a leg for there synthetic Marinol (dronabinol) CIII.

The textile and paper industry would lose out from hemp production, sinse hemp dose not need to go through all the various processes that ordinary tree products would. Also it’s possible to get two harvest in one season.

However people don’t know the difference between industrial hemp and smokeable cannabis, yet they are able to distinguish between the two in other country’s like Germany, the UK , Netherlands and even Canada, but our `DEA agents are so dumb they cant tell the difference between a stalk and a bush.
Also people who have any knowledge of growing high quality cannabis will tell you that male plants should never be grown next to your high grade female plants,
(unless of course you want to pollinate for future seed production).
When it comes to farming hemp the males are left in tact to pollinate the females and produce as much seed as possible.

This would mean a seedy mess for the pot smoker to clean up and produce undesirable future generations of smokeable cannabis.

If anything, Hemp farming would be anti marijuana and would harm any outdoor pot farming within a one mile radius of any hemp farm.

The petroleum industry would also be affected, sinse almost everything that can be made from petroleum can be synthesized from hemp oil, everything from bio fuel to even plastics. If North America would use a third of it’s land for hemp production we could create enough bio fuel to supply an area the size of Canada.

Now also for a moment consider how many people are incarcerated over just cannabis who are currently in the prisons and jails.
If cannabis were legalized and all inmates serving time for cannabis were freed there would be an over abundance of empty cells, and millions of guards in this country would be no longer needed.
The prison building industry would almost be obsolete ( and if all drugs were legalized that would mean even more empty cells).

So the prison system must have some means of gaining more inmates.
Not to mention other areas such as treatment centers, probation.etc
or HIDTA high intensity drug traffic areas where money is fed in to law enforcement,
(they would miss there green $$$)

Drugs , not even alcohol are the cause of the fundamental ills of society, rather than checking people for the presence of drugs, they should first test people for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

Also check out Law Enforcement Against Prohibition at

www.leap.cc

2007-07-01 01:40:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-07-01 01:23:54 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

How does "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

The way I see it where is the millitia? The people who wrote it did not intend for peopel to shoot each other just the enemy, so how does that give you the right to have a gun?

2007-07-01 01:10:41 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous

I moved to a flat run by a housing association. There have and still are many problems with youths, also one tenant, who commited a serious offence, to which i am the witness. Since then my life has been made a misery, not only because of threats, due to the serious incident, also because of continuous troubles with groups of youths around the building.
The police and the Housing association are doing what they can. Although the Housing association is using a lot of exuses and dragging their heels when it comes to my request to be rehoused to another area.
My house is fitted with a panic alarm now, also i have to carry one in my bag when i leave my home, all of which the Police have given to me. I have lived here for 6 months and will be moved as soon as it is possible. Have i the entitlement to ask the housing Association for financial support with any costs of rehousing. All the above problems are longstanding, non of which i was made aware of by the Association or the Caretaker.

2007-07-01 01:10:01 · 5 answers · asked by sheila s 1

without following the legal name change procedure, will it b enough to give different name while joining in school when birth certificate shows a different name?

2007-07-01 01:08:56 · 3 answers · asked by purna 3

First off guns are not your constituional right anyone who says that is taking it completly out of context.

But I want to know what people say without using that because I do not really have a stance I just hate people using the "my rights argument"

2007-07-01 00:48:22 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous

So the nanny state is here. After the ban on smoking in public is the government gonna ban cars next? After all they cause more damage to health than smoking.
You could lock me in a garage with thousands of cigarettes and i would be able to smoke all day and survive but if you lock someone in a garage with a cars engine running how long would they last? Surely as a non driver its my right not to have to breath in someone elses exhaust fumes

2007-07-01 00:20:16 · 16 answers · asked by bosher80 2

2007-07-01 00:17:29 · 14 answers · asked by ifhusain 4

ime a self employed window cleaner, theres no smoking in workplaces, and my workplace is peoples gardens, will i be able smoke at work? who will report me?

2007-07-01 00:13:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous