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How long Must We Study Marijuana?
by jsknow

WHY ISN'T EVERYONE SCREAMING FOR LEGAL MARIJUANA?

Every report says the same thing about MARIJUANA

IT HAS NEVER KILLED ANYONE IN HISTORY

No adult deaths, no kids have ever died from it, (not that kids should have it but it's good to know they won't die from it).

Most reports say users drive with even higher safety than people that are not under the influence of anything.

It does not lead to using other drugs, that's like saying beer leads to whisky.

People are going to use something to alter their state of mind, they always have they probably always will. Why not allow them to have something that HAS NEVER CAUSED A DEATH IN ALL OF HISTORY?

PLEASE TAKE CIVIC ACTIONS AND STOP THE DEATHS, VIOLENCE AND CRIME CAUSED BY MARIJUANA PROHIBITION

On March 22, 1972: The Richard Nixon-appointed, 13-member National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended the decriminalization of marijuana, concluding, "[Marijuana's] relative potential for harm to the vast majority of individual users and its actual impact on society does not justify a social policy designed to seek out and firmly punish those who use it."

1997 ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS

CAUSED BY DRUGS

TOBACCO ........................ 400,000

ALCOHOL ........................ 100,000

ALL LEGAL DRUGS .......... 20,000

ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS ....... 15,000

CAFFEINE ............................ 2,000

ASPIRIN ..............................­.... 500

MARIJUANA ..............................­. 0

Source: United States government,

National Institute on Drug Abuse,

Bureau of Mortality Statistics.

Marijuana And Hemp The Untold Story

The right; to freedom of religion, free speech, a free press, to keep and bear arms, to be secure in your person, house, papers and effects against unreasonable search and seizure, to life, liberty and property, to be protected from having your property taken by the government without due process of law and without just compensation, to confront the witnesses against you, to be protected from excessive bail, excessive fines, cruel and unusual punishment, to vote and many others have been denied to millions of Americans in the name of the drug war.

It's time to remove all the politicians that promote prohibition.

How many more lives have to be needlessly devastated or lost?

Prohibited drugs are way easier for kids to get than regulated drugs!

Prohibition never works it just causes crime and violence.

The year alcohol prohibition was repealed violent crime fell by 65 percent.

The USA spends $69 billion a year on the drug war, builds 900 new prison beds and hires 150 more correction officers every two weeks, arrests someone on a drug charge every 17 seconds, jails more people than any nation and has killed over 100,000 citizens in the drug war.

In 1914 when there were no prohibited drugs 1.3% of our population was addicted to drugs, today 1.3% of our population is still addicted to drugs but there’s way more crime and violence because of the huge profits prohibition generates. Drugs today are more potent, more readily available and often less expensive than they were in the early 70’s when Richard Nixon started the war on drugs. Every time you look at the news you see more and more drug busts involving bigger and bigger quantities of drugs, not less and less... doesn't that call for change?

If you are called for jury duty and you don’t agree with the law the person is charged with, you have the right to vote not guilty, no matter what evidence is produced. Jurors implementing this right in all non-violent drug cases will shut down the ridiculous laws of prohibition. One juror in each case is all it takes. The bottom line is a juror has the right to judge not only the accused person but the LAW the person is accused of breaking. Don’t be intimidated stick to your position Vote Not Guilty in all non-violent drug cases.

IT'S A SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICINE TOO:

In 1988, after reviewing all evidence brought forth in a lawsuit against the government's prohibition of medical marijuana, the DEA's own administrative law judge (Judge Francis Young) wrote:
"The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for the Drug Enforcement Administration to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence." Judge Francis Young of the Drug Enforcement Administration went on to say: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. In strict medical terms, marijuana is safer than many foods we commonly consume." Judge Young recommended that the DEA allow marijuana to be prescribed as medicine, but the DEA has refused.

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