thus the OWS movement.

This is so dumb. Cheech and Chong pic, terrible “high” puns, Cheetos reference. This is an actual issue, but shit like this keeps the debate in the “pothead vs. normal people” realm. Weak.

This just further proves how out of touch with the rest of the country you conservatards are. Not to even mention how out of touch with reality you psychos are.

Yaaaaaaaaaa…..

Please! Hurry & click & sign petition http://wh.gov/gP1 to END MARIJUANA PROHIBITION
at White House now! deadline Oct. 22

And people wonder why the country’s gone into the shitter.

50% of the country on the dole of some kind and 50% want to legalize pot.  I suspect they’re the same people, but what else can they do with their lives?

Put the bong down Levi, you’re not making any sense.

Apparently half the country is high.

I’ll shove it up your inbred ass instead.

How can you move with Barney Frank in every one of your orifices?

OWS movement.
Pothead and hippies
Arrrrrrgh!

Barney Frank is gay
Arrrrrrgh!
Arrrrrrgh!
Arrrrrrgh!

Its all the potheads fault

Arrrrrrgh!

Freedom is popular.  And no you don’t have to think drug use is good to condone adults taking responsibility for their own decisions, good or bad.  This is why Ron Paul is gaining such traction in the polls.  

People are tired of the nanny state.  Drug prohibition works no better than alcohol prohibition did.  Enough is enough.  Ron Paul 2012.  More here: http://www.freemarketfan.com/2011/08/ron-paul-has-pushed-ideal-of-liberty.html

OWS Theme Song !!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UnCtGI63yo

A majority would be 50% +1. What we have here is a plurality. Duh.

This is such a stupid argument. Where are the poll results from the other half of the century? I think it’s almost inevitable that it becomes legalized as the arguments to keep it illegal aren’t sufficient enough. If there were thousands of people dying ever year from it then it’d be a stronger case. The reality is that the people who smoke it now smoke it while they drive anyways, it’s just never listed as the cause of any accidents.

Sorry that you seem to be unaware that you are about 35-40 years to late for a hippie comment unless you  are referring to the gray haired retired crowd.   Arrrrrrrrgh!

Oh the perverted the things conservatives like to think about.. Very ‘family values’ of you.

This is something that sure have been passed years ago because it’s no more dangerous than drinking beer or wine, but the real reason why they don’t want nothing like weed to pass is because it would give the beer and wine industry one hell of a hit once it’s controlled just think about it.

The illegal drug trade is now estimated to be somewhere in the region of $400 billion a year ( equal to the defense budget ). This “former land of the free” arrests 1.5 million of it’s citizens a year for drug law violations, half for marijuana alone, The majority of the 2.2 million inmates in the USA are incarcerated because of this insane drug war (Prohibition 2) at a staggering cost to all taxpayers and trauma to their families.

Prisons have been filled to capacity. Violent criminals, murderers, rapists and child molesters are released early to create space for these so called drug offenders. Half of court trial time and also a huge chunk of police officers time is pointlessly wasted. Enormous untaxed profits from illegal drugs fund multi-national criminal empires which bribe law enforcement authorities and spread corruption faster than a raging bush fire. These laws take violent criminals and turn them into multi-billionaires whilst corrupting even entire countries such as Columbia, Panama, Mexico and Afghanistan. The extreme violence on and south of the border is drug gangs fighting for turf in this lucrative business. The drug laws are also funding the Taliban whose illegal opium profits allow it to buy weapons and pay it’s fighters more than $300 a month, compared with the $14 paid to an Afghan policemen. 

When governments prohibit drugs they effectively and knowingly hand a monopoly on their sale to dangerous criminals and terrorists. Without a legal framework in which to operate, these black-market entities can always be expected to settle their disputes violently, while terrorizing many peaceful and innocent citizens in the process. Were the users of alcohol to blame for the St Valentines massacre in the US in 1929? Of course not! It is just as naive to assume that one can compel all the users of Marijuana or Cocaine to simply quit, as it is to assume that all the users of Alcohol should have stopped drinking after the introduction of alcohol prohibition in 1919.

The definition of insanity is great folly, madness, extreme senselessness, lunacy. Prohibition can be described as being all of the above and may therefor, along with all it’s supporters, be deemed insane.

Each day you remain silent, you help to destroy the Constitution, fill the prisons with our children, and empower terrorists and criminals worldwide while wasting hundreds of billions of your own tax dollars. Prohibition bears many strong and startling similarities to Torquemada­’s inquisition­, it’s supporters are servants of tyranny and hate who’s sole purpose is to make the rest of us suffer their putrid legacy of incalculable waste and destruction.

Protect our Children; Legalize, Regulate & Tax!

I think the parents of the kids that hung around Foley’s office were more upset at the betrayal. 

Malcomkyle:  I am for legalization.  I do not smoke (cigarettes/marijuana) nor drink; however, I do not believe it should be legalized because of the abusers (lets see, it causes prisons to fill to capacity and beyond and costs millions of dollars in law enforcement…so let’s just legalize it!).  If that is the case, then we should legalize EVERY illegal drug.  Yeah, that sounds like a plan!

pothead are normal people they are actually a great deal calmer than those who display erratic  dispositions and going off the deep end..its about time the court systems stop using pot charges to pad their private wallet and allow  the government to use the taxes from sales to reduce the debt ceiling and ensure social security to our deserving senior citizen…

If you’ve ever used pot, the idea someone could go to jail for it is absolutely insane. They should only sell it at liquor stores and after 8:00pm or something and to people over 21. 

A majority of the country wants something.. and yet we are told NO by the people that are supposed to represent us. Pretty Bizarre.

A plurality would require 50/50.

Only 46% believe it should still be illegal.

that would be +4 Duh.

Have another hit, dude.

It Is “JUST TIME” To  “LEAGALIZE”  “WEED” !!!    IT IS NOT ONLY USED FOR GETTING ‘”High” !!!!!

Pot,the beer of the drug world,should be treated as such,Taxed,age controlled,legalized,studied.

How many resources that could be used to fight meth,heroin and prescription pill abuse are being wasted on pot?

Once the old people who are against marijuana becoming legal start dying-off, the hippies can claim victory once and for all!!

America’s “War on Drugs” has been an epic FAILURE!

how is this an ideological issue?…  being a conservative psycho will not prevent me from enjoying a spliff this evening…  a majority of that 50% pro legal may indeed be liberal, but you’re the one who’s out of touch with reality if you think this nation is anywhere near 50% liberal…  

some of the biggest contributors to the partnership for a drug-free america are the alcohol and tobacco lobbies…

i like how the graph converges into the shape of a joint…

Arizona voters passed a ballot initiative a year ago making medical marijuana legal (the third time voters have approved it since 1996. Republican-led efforts used loopholes to repeal it the first two times).

Now, our haggard Republican Governor and Republican State AG have put a hold on dispensary licences and are trying to repeal the law altogether. F the voters I guess.

Oddly 47% dont pay federal taxs.

Well, that explains the half of the working population that’s so apathetic that it doesn’t work hard enough to actually pay taxes…

see there it is.  Their all wanna be hippies….cool, chic, making a statement man and shoving back in mom/dads face.  Opps they still live in Mommies basement and she cuts the crust of off their PBJ’s.

I’d rather be stoned than near a loud-mouth, abusive drunk. . . . . but that’s just me. . .

Yeah, I’m personally looking forward to having even more stoned people answering phones, working cash registers, and sharing the road with my family (and they DO toke and drive, don’t even try saying pot users sit in their basements and don’t move for hours).

 that’s quite the trick, working hard enough to afford weed yet paying no taxes…  sounds like general electric…

I confess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrRYv52DpqU

When Milton Friedman disagrees with you Prohibitionists.. then you know you are on your wrong side.

Pot, it’s against federal law. 

Look how the feds are getting on the case of “pot shops” in Calif.

AZ gov’t, as are governments in other states that have passed such legislation, are taking their “q” from current federal directives and enforcement.  Pot is still against fed law. 

If the states can ignore the feds on pot as you wish, why can’t the states enforce their own laws on illegal immigration?  The DOJ says no.

Again, it seems we want to pick and choose the laws we like. 

It’s bad enough that right now the fed gov’t picks and chooses the fed laws it enforces.

Under this admin, many feel the DOJ is a joke….maybe that’s what is now means: the Dept. of Jokes.

Now, got the munchies…need some Cheetos!

I’m not sure I support the idea of legalizing all drugs.  But I don’t think the idea should be dismissed so easily.  It would put an end to the drug cartels.  Free up tons of resources presently devoted to law enforcement.  Clearly it would need to be regulated.  But for most people the fact that, say, heroine is illegal has little to do with why they don’t use it. 

Gov Brewer/AG Horne’s reasoning is that they’re putting state employees at risk for Federal prosecution if they “allow” what the voters explicitly asked for. Only problem is that no state employee has ever been arrested in Med MJ states for such a thing in the 15 years it’s been medicinally recognized.

As to your comparison to immigration, while it’s a fair point and one used by Sheriff Arpaio in the past, immigration is–and always has been–unique in that it’s strictly a Federal issue. States have extremely limited legislative authority regarding immigration. Not so with drug laws.

You should also consider the possibility that criminal elements coming over the border from Mexico to push their marijuana would probably begin to see a styeep decline in profits and therefore less reason to come here. I don’t claim to know that would haoppen for a fact, but I do think it’s very plausible.

How does 50% constitute a majority?
Liberal dumbasses.

BTW….Was this “poll” done on Wall Street?
Nah…..They are 100% walking-dead potheads.

Since when does support for legalization make you a pothead?  

OK, I confess.  I voted a half million times.

Weak.  Alcohol is legal and much more dangerous than weed.  Yet the government regulates it.  Why can”t the government regulate weed like it does alcohol.  If somebody drives stoned and gets caught they get a DUI just like alcohol.  Why do you care if stoned people are answering the phone or working cash registers?  If those people come to work stoned and perform poorly, they will be fired, just like if they showed up drunk.  There are bars and restaurants everywhere that serve alcohol.  There is a market on every corner that sells alcohol, even one across the street from our local High School.  Yet it scares you that somebody might drive stoned someday if we stop locking up casual users of marijuana.  Absolutely ridiculous.

America Is Now A Pothead Majority: A Record 50% Of Americans Say Marijuana Should Be Legal

by James Crugnale | 6:11 pm, October 17th, 2011

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Everybody
pass the Cheetos! A majority of Americans now support marijuana
legalization — 50%, up from 46% last year, according to a new Gallup poll. Stoners can celebrate that this percentage is an all-time record-high in the history of the poll. The poll was released following the news that California Medical Association has called on the federal government to legalize the drug.

Here is Gallup’s polling history for the question:

A record-high 50% of Americans now say the use of marijuana should be
made legal, up from 46% last year. Forty-six percent say marijuana use
should remain illegal.
[...]
Support for legalizing marijuana has been increasing over the past
several years, rising to 50% today — the highest on record. If this
current trend on legalizing marijuana continues, pressure may build to
bring the nation’s laws into compliance with the people’s wishes.

(h/t Gallup)

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david r 7 hours ago
OK, I confess.  I voted a half million times.
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Bryce Havens 7 hours ago
Since when does support for legalization make you a pothead?
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AliveStillKickin 8 hours ago
How does 50% constitute a majority?
Liberal dumbasses.

BTW….Was this “poll” done on Wall Street?
Nah…..They are 100% walking-dead potheads.
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When Milton Friedman disagrees with you Prohibitionists.. then you know you are on your wrong side.
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BonnieMcGuinness 12 hours ago
I’d rather be stoned than near a loud-mouth, abusive drunk.

I am a sixty year old disabled Vet, who served most of my life in the military and worked for the BOP, plus the Oklahoma oilfields as a roughneck.  I have smoked pot over forty years, grow my own, never been in any trouble, was a Democrat until that party died and it turned into the Looney Tune Factory, with Obama, Pelosi, and Reid as it’s leaders, so since 2008, I have been a Conservative.  I worked my butt off all my life, paid my taxes, raised four daughters and now have nine grandkids, I have had a back operation, a liver transplant, Hep C, and old age aches and pains.  The only medication I take are anti-rejection meds for my liver and Nexium because they removed my gall bladder.  I don’t take as much as an aspirin, but I do smoke cannabis and I am doing great.  Only the Brain Dead think that Cannabis is horrible.  Alcohol is so much worse than Cannabis, but so many Fools would rather get drunk and drive and kill people.  This old pot smoker also owns two homes in two different countries, so I haven’t done too bad with my life.  Legalize God’s Gift of Cannabis and tax it like alcohol.  Even God said that everything he put on earth is “GOOD” and he put cannabis here.  Ezekiel 34:29 (KJV) says, “And I shall raise up for them a Plant of Reknown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the Land, neither bear the shame of the heathen any more.”

I take it to mean that the rough and rowdy Alcohol drunks are the Heathens!

As usual, this proves my point, if I could only remember what it was.

I thought a majority got you want you want? Has Faux been lying to me again?

I have read the majority of posts here, not all.  I have seen no mention of the value marijuana will add to certain health issues.  Eating disorders, cancer pain treatment, nausea, migraines, glaucoma…  It’s not something made made in a laboratory with chemical additives.  It’s something “God” made, for those of you who have that faith.  It’s natural and unlike Tylenol, alcohol and cigarettes, no one has ever died from smoking weed.

I bet there’s a greater percentage of people who drink nd drive, work in all fields and areas some much more vital than the cashier you’re worried about.  Why not make that illeagle too?  Give the system another area to get the money to line the pockets of the FEW.  Sincerely, another of the 99%  Just Like You I BET

Go weed!

Bullshit.