Quote Originally Posted by Weedhound
Location, location.....I used to live in Norco and my hubby in Corona. Neither being a good city to introduce something like mmj to the redneck crowd.....at least when I lived there 10 years ago.

Mark...yep this country has problems.....lots. But mj not being legal doesn't make us quite the insane monster you make us out to be imo.. How many countries is mj legal in vs not? And most countries laws are a LOT rougher than ours are in regards to sellng and using drugs.
I don't know, I'd say the US has one of the most punishing war on drugs...definitely unneeded casualties..

You wanna know the funny thing is I'll just about guarantee you if the US changed drug policy so would the rest of the world.

Efforts to curb citizens' drug use have existed almost as long as drugs have been used. One of the earliest recorded drug laws comes from 17th century Russia where Czar Michael Federovitch ruled that anyone caught with tobacco should be tortured until he gave up the name of the supplier. In more recent times, most countries around the world have established national drug policies. Between 1989 and 1999, official national drug policies were introduced in 66 countries and a further 41 countries were developing national drug policies or had developed such a policy more than 10 years previously.

Along with the rise in worldwide communication and trade, the use, manufacture and sale of drugs has become a global issue. United Nations work to establish an international system of drug control in which countries are obliged to criminalize all non-medical use, manufacture and sale of drugs. The US also pushes for international cooperation and direct action against drug production and trafficking. Yet illicit drugs play a major role in economies around the world and drug use continues to rise.
Treatment availability and policy focused on demand reduction rather than supply reduction is a growing trend in national drug policy, especially since intravenous drug users are at high risk of HIV/AIDS infection, however, criminal enforcement remains the central theme in world drug policy.

we started it, then we push for international cooperation..

And if you can see where I'm coming from, under the principle of federalism, the federal government should have no right to regulate drugs, because it's not listed in the constitution.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

I don't see anything whatsoever about marijuana in the constitution, let alone other drugs...it shouldn't be their business. Maybe being in a non-medical state and going to jail and facing punishment for having merely a gram fuels my hatred for the way this country treats me a bit more than yours, weedhound?? In a state I might add, that a medical defense isn't even accepted as grounds for acquittal.

Our dis compassionate and idiotic government ran by big corporations, such as big pharmacy is the only reason marijuana isn't legal for medical benefit, and that the only place that can legally grow it in America is a DEA farm. They don't even care to let us know what this plant can do, because you can't charge $10 a dose. They're willing to punish me or force me to suffer, just because they can't make the money off of it. That's utter bullshit. That is why I dislike America.