hundreds of thousands of americans every year are arrested ,detained , beaten ,harassed , tortured,prosecuted,jailed,imprisoned, and/ or killed by the goverment each year in the name of marijuana prohibition .is this any way to spend nine billion dollars a year . dont you think this money would be better spent on health care??
2006-11-19 11:21:29 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
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2006-11-19 11:23:12 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
In Kentucky you get more time for growing 100 marijuana plants than if you kill someone, that's so they can feed the police state with helicopters and the latest military equipment. Our prisons are filled with harmless marijuana smokers, who are exposed to murderers and rapists, and we're paying to incarcerate them. You could balance the budget on the amount of money wasted on the phoney war on drugs.
2006-11-19 19:32:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I agree 100%. They talk down on marijuana while people go out every day killing innocent people while driving drunk! While driving drunk is not legal, drinking alcohol is. Would they care to publish the statistics on marijuana related automobile accidents? I'll bet those numbers are far, far less than alcohol...
2006-11-19 19:29:30 · answer #3 · answered by Yeah, it's good 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
IT'S TIME TO HAVE THE GREAT AMERICA SMOKE OUT.
EVERYONE LIGHT THEIR BLUNTS AT ONCE AND BLOW ALL THE SMOKE IN THE AIR. MARIJUANA IS NOT AS BAD AS EVERY ONE MAKES IT OUT TO BE. I'VE BEEN SMOKING SINCE I WAS 13 AND I STILL AM VERY CAPABLE OF FORGETTING WHERE THE HELL I LEFT MY CARS KEYS. HOLD ON LET ME PUT MY BLUNT DOWN SO I CAN LOOK FOR THE KEYS. I'LL BE BACK LATER.
2006-11-20 14:43:14 · answer #4 · answered by strike_eagle29 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think we'd be better off if they took that money out and burned it than we are by continuing the War on Drugs.
2006-11-19 19:26:11 · answer #5 · answered by open4one 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It sucks.... but *both* parties are for zero tolerance. I, personally, believe that *all* drugs should be legal. That being said, I also believe that *everyone* should be responsible for their own actions and that being on *any* drug isn't an excuse for *anything*. You do the crime, you do the time.
2006-11-19 20:21:35 · answer #6 · answered by lordkelvin 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The war on drugs is an expensive exercize in stupidity and futility.
http://www.libertarianism.com
2006-11-19 19:31:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So what? they break the law, the face the music. Why don't potheads unite and lobby efficiently?
2006-11-19 20:00:24 · answer #8 · answered by Svartalf 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I did not know but seems straight forward to me. Don't deal with the stuff at all and you won't be harassed etc.
In any case did you know marihuana is a dangerous drug?
It can cause halucinations if taken in excess.
2006-11-19 20:00:56 · answer #9 · answered by Imogen Sue 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Guess they shouldn't have bought or sold illegal drugs! Maybe after a few weeks in a cell with a convicted rapist, smoking dope won't sound so harmless. I noticed someone mentioned one hundred plants. Yes that is Federal! Should we legalize meth, heroine, morphine, cocaine, too?
2006-11-19 19:25:55 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Never understood it myself. It's a problem, yes, but not compared to things like child abuse and cancer, which are much more important issues.
2006-11-19 19:43:45 · answer #11 · answered by Huey Freeman 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋