I can't believe that this discussion is actually happening. People have their lives ruined everyday by marijuana prohibition. Check out
"New Reports All Agree: Marijuana Prohibition
is an Expensive Failure
Three Nobel Laureates, American Enterprise Institute,
others call for a new approach" at http://mpp.org/reports/index.html
to end the taxation debate.
Another thing is that all of you at cannabis.com can grow your own, no problem, but that does not account for all those not on cannabis.com that have no experience growing, but still smoke as much as they can.

How can this debate even be happening, I watched my grandfather die slowly and eventual what killed him was starvation because he couldn't remember how to swallow food because of Alzheimer??s. The new Times magazine has an article stating that cannabis can stop the progression of Alzheimer??s. How can anyone be so greedy that they want to be able to smoke for themselves (in the closet, no offence to homosexuals), but be all right with the criminality of cannabis that basically led to my grandfathers?? horrible death? This can go for any medical condition cannabis helps: aids, cancer, MS, glaucoma, epilepsy, ect.

How can anyone say that cannabis should not be fully legalized if only to save the lives of so many people who, without this sacred medicine would die or have a life not worth living? Our government will never legalize marijuana, but as long as I am alive, cannabis will not reach 100 years of prohibition. Citizens will rise up and through citizen initiatives (done in Med MJ states already) cannabis will become legal to whatever level each city or state wants it.

Chris