There's some aspects everyone I think has yet to view; but then again i was lazy and didn't look through the entire post and am belligerent enough to shove my thoughts out here....

There have been proven medicinal purposes behind the Cannabis plant; we don't need to get into that.

Legalization. Taxation. Economic growth.

If you start with the first step of getting it widely seen as a medicinal product (and shit, the only reason it's not legal now is because being seen as having so many choices, 'big company' like Pfizer for instance, would never be able to patent marijuana, thus, no market for the pharmaceutical companies)
you can then get people's opinion to eventually change about how it is viewed as an entire whole.

Thus, we have cultural psychology.

Convince the public of the positives rather than shunning them and shrugging them off as not purposeful; you can then move onto complete legalization.

Legalization should bring on as a controlled substance, just like tobacco and alcohol; clearly for the fact we don't need 8 year olds getting high at their after-school programs. We offer an 18+/21+ law just like the others.

We can take this into an agricultural economic view into retrospect now:

1) Legalizing the herb, gives way to commercializing the herb for paper, the buds itself, and even clothing.
2) Commercializing the herb brings another possible product for the US of A to have under it's agriculture lists;
3) Farms: Farms produce jobs, and will obviously produce the herb.
4) The herb being sold by private companies can unfortunately ween the price a little but creates a more widely available product, safe from toxins, other drugs (crank, cocaine, opium) that can cause you to feel addicted to the herb when it's really the drug residue sometimes found from multi-selling dealers.
5) Profit pulls in taxes, taxes increases the economy.
6) Taxes on >US< THE PEOPLE get reduced because people like us getting busted for a 1/4oz or 1/2 oz, or oz of weed in jail won't apply in a legal world.
7) Jails would see a decline in over-population from marijuana possession.

Thus, we have a plant that can:

1) Replace trees indefinitely for paper
2) Create clothing
3) Create the herb we smoke
4) etc. etc. etc.

When you stare down the route of legalization, it's all about the fear of the public as far back as the propaganda propagated from the nixon years; where they had a psychopath on trial state he was high on marijuana which caused him to go psychotic. ( oh yeah? i just get relaxed and my temper cools off.. possibly the munchies and obviously a feeling of well being.)


so, here is what's stopping it (like said before)

1) General publics mind has been twisted by years of propaganda
2) THE D.E.A., FBI, local law enforecment loses money because of lack of catching the $50k-$100k marijuana busts a year over the border, and the multi-million inside the urban cities through out the US of A.
3) Big Company (like most politicians find their backing from) will ultimately not be able to patent, thus, a single company can't make all the money. They're votes are obviously on a NO to a "miracle drug" which can help with HIV/AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, consistent severe nausea, glaucoma and other forms of cancer.




And there's more, but i'm getting a little buzzed off some YuengLing and i'm losing interest trying to educate

Just a note...

Science has never proven Pot causes cancer. They have shown that Pot has 4x as many carcinogenics as tobacco; BUT. What you oftenly do not read along with that propaganda is that THC; is seen as a natural cancer-inhibitor. an endocannibanoid (that which regulates hunger in the body) at the root, has also been shown to kill cancer cells on contact.

The only possible way of conceiving cancer is the fact that your breathing in hot smoke into your lungs which have and always been meant purely for oxygen.

But, then again, you get a vaporizer and well... No smoke.

(or an iced up bong... hooray!)


Anway, I really hope some of you took the time to really take a look at the real reasons for why this world is the way it is, especially in America.

but if we as the people cannot come together to prove to the world that this is what needs to happen, well, we're stuck in the hole that we're still in today. Smoke on kids!