How can telling the truth be wrong? How can you say that legalizing marijuana would ruin the world economy? At some point we must make a stand and do the right thing as we see it or else nothing will ever change.

I would rather live in a world with more poverty than have people suffer if it came to that but who is to say it would? Where do your get your projections of the economic devastation caused by the end of prohibition? I'm having trouble following your logic. Would it shut down Microsoft? Ford? All the air conditioning companies? I will say that it will shut down the timber companies and the oil companies would have to compete with bio-fuels but would no longer chopping down tree's for paper and particle board or using polluting fuels be a bad thing? All it would do is switch the revenue to another portion of our economy, in this case our farmers.

The researchers cured brain tumors! If you go to a doctor today with them he will give you drugs to dull the pain and tell you how long he thinks you'll live. In our medical science there is no cure, or at least one they will allow. Yet it was cured with cannabinoids in 20% of the subjects and the rest lived 36% longer than the control subjects. I would call that a major step forward in cancer research but the US government has shut down all research into it and purged their data. What, are they concerned that the researchers were going to smoke it and pass it out at grade schools? Come on! Then to hear John Walters lie through his teeth saying it isn't a medicine! Do you like to have your government lie to you?

Bob Marley smoked blunts, tobacco as well as weed. I agree it may be bad to inhale any kind of smoke so use a vaporizer so you do not have to. In fact, ask yourself why tobacco is legal, even knowing how many people it kills, but weed isn't. We lose people in the hundreds of thousands every year from cancer and tobacco is the leading cause. Yet it is regulated and I can buy it at any convenience store. Researchers have admitted they can't even give subjects emphysema with just pot smoke alone.

"there are many cancer drugs out there that do that too" Show me one that does anywhere near as well and without all the side effects of big pharma's products, Mr. Devious. Give me a good reason why researchers can study heroin and cocaine, doctors can even prescribe them, and not marijuana? Studies that could save the lives of ten's of thousands of people a year?

Does it sometimes seem there is more to this than meets the eye? I mean, our drug policy for marijuana doesn't make sense. So why doesn't it? Where is the disconnect?