Congress Loosening Up on Marijuana?
Filed under: Politik
Massachusetts Congrassman Barney Frank told the House on Wednesday that the U.S. should stop arresting responsible marijuana users and introduced a proposal to end federal penalties for Americans carrying fewer than 100 grams.
Not that we smoke the 420, but woo hoo!
Representative Frank went on to say that current laws targeting marijuana users place undue burdens on law enforcement resources, punish ill Americans whose doctors have prescribed the substance and unfairly affect African-Americans.
"The vast amount of human activity ought to be none of the government's business. I don't think it is the government's business to tell you how to spend your leisure time."
Funny, something tells us that Representative Frank won't get far with his proposal.
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NORML 4 EHVA!
The war on drugs has been the most miserable failure this country has ever seen. Since it started, we have spent billions of dollars, locked up millions of people, and the net result is what exactly?
Has drug use gone down? No
Has the war on drugs made it any more difficult to find drugs?
No fucking way, you can find any drug you want in any town USA in a matter of minutes. You can find drugs in high school and prisons in every state.
And if I want to smoke weed in my own home, why should that be illegal?
Firearms and fast food and cigarettes are legal, and each year 3-400000 people die from smoking related illness, and don't even get me started on obesity and heart disease from fat ass Americans who eat too much crap food.
Prescription pill addiction accounts for half (if not more) of all the drug addicts in this country, and people get upset over weed?
Oh well, keep it illegal. Every drug dealer in the world thanks you for it because there's nothing the cartels fear more than softening the drug laws in the US, because they would lose so much business overnight if it were controlled and sold in the US.
And let's remember our history, Prohibition anyone? Did that work?
EVERYONE GO TO WWW.NORML.ORG AND VOTE TO GET THIS PASSED!!! LETS PUNISH REAL CRIMINALS AND NOT HARMLESS POT SMOKERS!! DRINKING , SOMETHING THAT IS GLORIFIED IN OUR SOCIETY DOES WAYYYYYY MORE DAMAGE!!
Re: elle – You actually believe that "gateway drug" nonsense?
May I just say that some of the smartest people I know are heavy users of marijuana? For example; one friend of mine is currently attending NYU, another is going to BROWN this fall. So to say that weed smokers are "just plain stupid" as you say is highly inaccurate.
It's as though you got all your drug facts at above the influence. Try reading up a bit on your own sometime.
Re: FReal – Go F yourself.
Look at that huge nose! He looks like a platipuss or something gross!
Barney Frank? nice name…
Re: no –
Scientists also can "prove" that God does'nt exist; that does'nt make them right. Because of the bad rap that marijuana has received, it's no wonder that people use it as a "gateway drug". When society says, "drugs are bad" and put marijuana is that category, of course, when people try to escape their mental anguish and anxiety will they first try marijuana. When, what do you know, marijuana does'nt do "it" for them, they try hardcore drugs like coke and ecstasy. Then, can I understand how mental illness can prevail like you say. However, the sole use of marijuana has been scientifically proven to cure many illnesses and be therapeudic for anxeity and stress. As I mentioned before, God is being eradicated from society but people are still worshipping Him, because sometimes science and law is BULLSHIT! Simple.
Old lawmakers believe in the old "Domino Effect" That is when if one thing goes then the next ones goes and so on. So if X amout of weed is decriminalized, soon an X amount of cocaine will be. Then heroin. Then… So it'll never happen.
GIVE ME A BREAK. Enough with the damn race card. If black people choose to smoke weed thats there own damn fault the same goes for everyone for that matter. It is illegal and everybody that have anything illegal on themselfs should get arrested. and that is final.
Well, it won't go anywhere… But THANK GOODNESS that people in the establishment are starting to put things like this up for consideration. How silly it is to put people in P R I S O N for Marijuana. So silly. Years from now we'll be incredulous about such things.
Hooray for Barney Frank!
I am a conservative republican and I say YES. Let those who wish smoke…smoke in peace.
Considering all the crap that Perez got for saying "spoke" not "smoke". I just realized that during my typing frenzy I spelled "doesn't" as "does'nt" Sorry for that, I am aware of the correct spelling, I just got carried away.
I live in MA, and they rarely bust anyone but dealers. BUT this issue to de-criminilize MJ is on the ballot this November.
Re: no –
Hehehe - sorry, but this "no" person made me laugh. "Cannabis causes mental illness"? hAHAHAHAahaHAaHAAhaHAHAhAhah!!!1
Tell me another one… you're funny!!! Nice "facts"! hehehe
Re: Frank – You are right, there is no recorded OVERDOSE on marijuana….look at history and determine why they made it illegal…ANYWAYS theres a law enforcement group called LEAP Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, who are in San Fran and against non-violent arrests. ALSO…AMERICA IS HAS THE MOST INCARCERATED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD…WE SURPASS COMMUNIST CHINA
AND 1 MIL OF THOSE IN JAIL RIGHT NOW ARE IN FOR NON-VIOLENT CRIMES, LIKE A DRUG POSSESION CRIME.
It's terrible that people are against legalizing it, smoking kills more people even from second hand smoke…and alcohol causes death and i dont know me an angry potsmokr
Barry Cooper is amazing…check his name on youtube…
Re: Michi –
Don't you think it should be illegal to prey on the lives of actors/actressess? It sounds like you are very opposed to anything illegal, so don't you feel bad when you devour the celebrity news that you read that paps go to illegal means to receive? Don't come to this site and be a hypocrite. You have to be purely holy to decide what people should receive and whatnot. Sorry bud, but last time I checked, it's not "Michi"
Re: elle – and as I'm sure you know, alcohol is a drug and is definitely as much a gateway drug, if not more so. actually the whole gateway drug concept is annoying. some people will get addicted to things; heroin could be the gateway drug.
Cool! Does anyone have a profile on DowntownDudes.com
Pretty Cool!
Why does the MaryJane laws unfaily punish blacks? Every race in America smokes it! Same laws affect all races. Sounds like the race card is being used to get a law passed!
oh my god this is amazing!
MASACHUSETTS is so ahead of the rest of the country!!! i love being a masshole!!!
i really hope marijuana gets legalized… so then there can not only be people under then influence of alcohol driving on the road next to me, but people under then influence of marijuana on the other side of me too.. that sounds like a splendid idea. what the fuck is wrong with you for supporting this??
if you think this is the only thing in the government that makes sense than you deserve to be called stupid, and you should NOT be able to vote. what the fuck is wrong with you people?!?!?!?
its insulting and embarassing that this person is a part of our congress.
this is an OUTRAGE!
awesome!!
They won't change anything. Busting a person for a roach in their ashtray = lots of money for small town courts. Also, it stays in your system for about 30 days, so they can't tell if you smoked right before the car wreck or 2 weeks ago. Another point, employers will not change their policies.
My opinion, charge people a "Growers Tax", where for a yearly fee, you would be allowed to grow for personal consumption at your home, but you are prohibited from selling or transporting.
ALL drugz should be legel! We (USA) could make BILLIONS of dollors if we made ALL drugz legel!!!!!!
FUCK you perez! wht do u have against marihuana use, anywz it time to lift the TABOO that cannabis has endured and recognize it as a safer recreational method than alcochol! gO CONGRESSMAN FRANK!
oh great so we'll have a bunch of dumbass people more then we already do.
In high school my school had many pot heads and i dont care what people say, those that used were STUPID.
America you guys are so far behind the 8 ball,from what I can see Canada is much further advance then your country,granted we don,t have alot of your big guns and toys,but honestly who really wants that shit.Up here the pot laws are very liberal and we have gay marriage,so start joining the 21 century.
marijuana will become marginally legal. the studies that are coming out are
definately supporting it. did you know a chemical in our bodies produces effcts like thc? just ask pro athletes when theyre "in the zone" popular science current issue
I won a case against me about pot, without hiding a damn thing. Don't believe for a second that this can't be argued successfully
You know Barney Fag used to run a gay brothel out of his DC townhouse. What a scumbag.
Re: FReal –
A FUCKING MEN.
Poke some smot anyone
Re: no – you are accurate with everything you say. you, unlike 95% of the people posting on this blog, have a brain.
Hey Perez is there any way to link your articles to facebook so I can share stuff like this with my friendyfriends?
Re: noooo –
Oh my goodness…people who have "a brain" are not figured by their use of marijuana….get it!!! I have a brain and many others who use marijuana do do, and many of us have a better brain than u…so don't hate so quickly dear.
Re: Natal – and dont be so quick to make statements that arent true, moron. we can talk IQs here, but i seriously dont think you want to. and yes, in an anatomical and physical sense you do have a brain. maybe i phrased that wrong. if you are for the legalization of marijuana, then you willingly choose to not use your brain in a positive manner…. and for that reason you are an idiot.
What we should do in south america is legalize the transportation of YOUR drugs to YOUR border.. from there on you can do as you please and innocent ppl can stop dying at the hands of cartels.
Re: noooo –
you know what? you may think i'm an "idiot" but, because of people like you, this country is in the shits, because you all think you're right on everything you think. At least, I have presented a legitmate argument here and all you've done is ride on some other person's comments. Give me something more because all I have is shit from you. Don't be an ass, argue sensibly. I am for tolerance of those people who use marijuana responsibly and not be criminalized for it. There's more in this world to worry about. Try you hand at the MADD website…I'm sure your comments will make more sense.
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I was in DC last week and toured the Capital. Later on, the kids and I went up to the Gallery to watch congress meet. Barney was one of the more lucid people present.
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When you do a Gallery tour, you cannot bring any electronic devices. Now I know why? It's not that you might accidentally record what someone says, it's because you might record what someone does.
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The sitting speaker, a man who looks a little like Bob Menendez but with darker hair and no glasses, was farting, picking his nose and at one point grossed out the whole gallery when he picked his ears, looked at his finger contents, rolled it up into little earwax balls and tossed them to the floor.
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I said to my kids that this man was a disgrace to the country.
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What a tool, to do that when over 100 people were watching him. I guess he just doesn't care. God, what a disgusting pig he was. They don't want electronics in there so that his nastiness won't go out on YouTube.
Really, Mario, do you want a drug that numbs the central nervous system and turns people into ambitionless, ignorant zombies to be legal and available to our children? How about growing up and not crying about something that you can't have. This shit is poison, it hurts people and it should remain illegal. How about promoting healthy things that are good for your body and prolong life? Every straight-thinking adult agrees. The fact that colossal retard Barney "Gay Brothel" Frank is spending time on this when we have much more pressing issues in this country like inflation brought on by high fuel costs shows what totally fucked up morons we have running our government, people who do the opposite of what's best for the people.
100 grams is a lot!!
so yah im abit out of the look but what does 420? mean/stand for?
Re: elle says: "Weed is a gateway drug & it impairs your judgment."
Weed as a gateway drug is a bogus argument. There is something called personal responsibility for one and two marijuana is psychologically addictive not physically addictive meaning no physical withdrawal which would make it that much harder to kick. Psychological addiction means you just have to make up your mind that you don't need or have to have the stuff to cope, exist, etc. Alcohol impairs judgement too but it's still legal. I'd say that alcohol is even more dangererous than weed.
Marijuana should not be legalized it should be decriminalized. If it is legalized then the government can tax it and we don't need another tax just like we don't need to trust the government with anymore repsonsibilities. The government can scarcely take care of the responsibilities it has now. Do you really want to trust the government with more?
Re: Natal – so why add to the list of the things wrong with this world? two wrongs dont make a right. also, i agree whole heartedly with everything that person said, and that is why i "rode" on that persons comment… i do have tons of statistics about how marijuana negatively affects society and personal health. i know the truth, you know the truth, but you and everyone else are hiding from it.
and if you can give me factual, statistical information to make me change my mind i might reconsider. however, saying that marijuana is not addictive is not true. saying that no deaths occur because of marijuana use is not true. saying that marijuana is less harmful than cigarettes is untrue.
like someone said awhile back, we all know smoking kills but people still smoke, and they for damn sure dont want to hear about how its killing them.
Re: Alex –
Why would you want to trust the government to "monitor" sales? If it is decriminalized you can just grow yo own and smoke yo own. I don't want it sold in stores where kids can buy it(they can still buy cigarettes as they have their ways to get them). If marijuana is legalized then it's essentially the government endorsing it and promoting it. Marijuana is still not healthy for an individual and so no one should be actively promoting use of it to children. It's still healthiest to be 100% alcohol, cigarette and drug free.
pardon…. for all you pot smokers out there.. i meant smoking cigarettes at the bottom of that one, not weed.
Re: Naaah –
Why should I have to pay for the healthcare of someone who chooses of his own free will to engage in unhealthy lifestyles such as: morbid obesity, sexual promiscuity, drug or alcohol abuse? These people would have to be covered if the government forces socialized healthcare on us. Do you even understand how expensive that would get? Fuck that. Pay for your own health insurance. Healthcare is expensive now because the government is already involved with it via Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. Not to mention all the doctors defrauding the government by overcharging for services because they know the government or the taxpayer is picking up the tab.
THAT'S NOT BARNEY FRANK ASSWIPE !
Re: april –
Sorry but Barney Frank is a fucking moron. This is just sensible legislation that is a long time coming. I seriously doubt it will go anywhere.
Re: cele –
Prescription drugs didn't kill Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger killed Heath Ledger. He was the one who chose to abuse drugs. He had a history of drug abuse even using Heroin and cocaine.
Re: Miaz2 –
Fuck you. I'm a conservative and support the DECRIMINALIZATION NOT LEGALIZATION of Marijuana. You don't know shit about conservatives. You just believe whatever the MSM tells you about conservatives. Or your liberal college professor, an actor, or hippie musician who can't make good music to save his ass.
Re: WalRu –
Agreed. The symptoms of prolonged Cocaine abuse mimics the symptoms of Schizophrenia. I learned this in my college level Psychology 101 class. And Heroin…well you are a very pathetic person who deserves no sympathy if you are stupid enough to try Heroin even once.
Re: Ryan –
Ron Paul rocks and is the most honest man in congress. A true statesman who loathes big government. He should be president but he's too honest and sensible for Americans to vote for him. Instead we get stuck with buffoons like Nobama and McSame.
Between this and the loophole that you CAN be drunk in the streets even if you are not 21, Massachusetts is a pretty great place to have a good time! OBAMA+PAUL '08
way to much logic involved for our current government to comprehend. They only want waste OUR money (while increasing theirs{george & dick for instance} lying & killing. How many people have died or been harmed LEAGAL alcohol? Even the HOLY BIBLE says we should partake of the herbs!!!! land of the free my ass. If we were really free we could grow our own and the cops would have fewer dealers to bust… ……IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY…
Re: noooo –
FACT: my sister who suffers from cataracts has her disease in check because she uses marijuana.
FACT: my husband and I who use marijuana have continuously progressed in our lives by graduating college (me) and starting a real estate business that is booming.
FACT: My friend (a successful nurse) who uses marijuana was pulled over when she was carrying it, went to jail and now she must pay thousands of $$ in legal fees for an very uncriminalized offense. This is not what the system should focus on.
If you've read my past posts…I am not in denial. I am very intellegent and competent. You may have all the "scientific proof" of the negative effects of marijuana just as you may conjure up the negative effects of trans fats and alcohol but the use of such is the deciding factor here. If you're a depressed bump who has trouble getting off the couch then marijuana is not for you as fatty foods and "Judge Judy" aren't. If you are a person with self-control and discernment and you want to frequent the bong room, then go for it!! We should not be criminalized for it…that's all I'm saying.
Re: Rish –
Ron Paul would never be on a ticket with the neomarxist Obama, you tool. Ron Paul believes in lesser government meaning less taxation. Obama believes U.S. taxpayers should pay a global poverty tax(S. 2433). By all means, we should pay to take care of people from other nations when we can't even take care of our own people and our own country.
Coke and tweek ruin lives, I know from personal experience. Marijuana may make you a little lazy, but booze can help you beat your kids when abused and it is widely excepted. Relaxing marijuana laws will ease problems with overcrowded prison, possibly save our pathetic economy and help a lot of very sick people.
You must be "spokin" something ’cause you can't type for crap!! There's that and the fact that you are "reporting" old news.
Pot makes people enjoy life more but it also makes them more lazy, more stupid, more reckless, more apathetic, less ambitious, and more useless to society.
Kal Penn is so fucking hott, id let him split me LoL
Re: elle – you are an evil wart hog that needs to die, and rot, while little crows slowly pick at your ignorant, worthless corps.
en fin.
whatever perez…the war against drugs has to stop. it's the only government program that grows exponentially in costs and continuously becomes less successful. the U.S. keeps flushing money down the toilet and now the economy blows!
I'm for it and I don't even smoke.
The war on drugs is useless and a complete waste of time. Marijuana is a plant. It is not processed like other drugs. and Whatever drugs someone wants to do is their business. If they aren't inflicting harm onto others then who cares?
kal penn is a freaking HOTTIE. love him.
I'm sorry, but exactly how are black people being singled out here? Oh yeah- they're not. The law isn't that you can't smoke pot if you're black. Pot is illegal for every race. No race is singled out whatsoever.
Re: Natal –
:cataracts? how does that work?? ive heard of glaucoma, but never cataracts.
:how come your husband didnt graduate from college? fail/drop out cuz he was too high all the time? or did he just not go cuz he wasnt motivated enough? and how do you even have time to smoke three times a day with such a successful real estate business? do you smoke before you go to work or what? cuz thats the real estate broker i want - one on drugs.. that makes sense
: plain and simple.. dont carry it, dont get in trouble. same for smoking it. and just cuz shes a nurse means absolutely nothing.
conjure up negative effects of trans fats and alcohol?? are you really going to use conjure??
what do you tell someone whos fat?? you tell them to stop eating so god damn much… so they start dieting an dance around the black hole of eating disorders. do they know whether they'll fall in or not? of course not.
do you really think there's that many strong and upstanding citizens out there benefitting society positively while they are high? not likely. most likely working class families or kids coming from them with low self-esteem and self worth who cant break the vicious cycle and get out of it. these are the people that are leaving comments on this blog for legalization of this drug.
Re: Natal –
i have middle school students coming into school high who are neither depressed nor lazy, they are just out of touch with reality. one that sticks out in my mind right now, a sweet little boy with resources to go very far in life: great family, money, intelligence, athletic ability, friends with all the same qualities. this sweet little boy is now failing in MIDDLE SCHOOL because he comes to school high and cant learn. its no fluke when you go from an A to an F.
you are worthless when you are high!
trust me, i used to smoke cigarettes, ive tried my hand at weed more than half a dozen times, i drink alcohol responsibly… i know first-hand the effects of all of them. and judging by what i went through and what friends around me went through, marijuana should definitely not be made legal…. way too many people dropping like flies left and right, out of school, out of college, getting kicked out of both, people die?? ten-fold to results of alcohol. maybe im just lucky i dont have the same amount of ppl in my life affected that way by alcohol.
im sorry but thats totally selfish to legalize for rec use.
thank you barney!!!!!!!!!!
the only thing pot is a "gateway" to is cheetos.
i've been in far more life endangering situtations due to alcohol,i've had far more friends and family die because of alcohol…….oh wait…….i've NEVER actually been in any near death situtation from pot…..and ive also NEVER lost a loved one because of it….how ironic.
Re: noooo –
you do realize that the more you talk the more it becomes painfully obvious that you have no clue what you're talking about.
"you are worthless when you are high!"…. and…. "way too many people dropping like flies left and right, out of school, out of college, getting kicked out of both"
…..that's hilarious, try telling that to my boyfriend's 4.0 GPA. i guess he must be some kind of "super genius" of the stoner world, i can't wait to let him know…he's gonna be psyched.
"cuz thats the real estate broker i want - one on drugs.. that makes sense"
"its no fluke when you go from an A to an F."
"cuz" you really sound like someone i would want enriching high school students minds. do you ignore all of your students needs……..or just the ones that look like they could possibly be high?
ah….but i guess you're right. it is just sooooo much easier to automatically assume drugs are the reason for their failing grades. that way you won't have to spend extra time teaching those pesky slackers…….so what if they might have an actual learning disability…….just let the summer school teachers deal with that while you're away on vacation!! whoooo!
SUPPORT NORML.
ps. Kal Penn doesn't smoke pot.
On July 28, 2007, British medical journal The Lancet published a study that indicates that cannabis users have, on average, a 41% greater risk of developing psychosis than non-users. The risk was most pronounced in cases with an existing risk of psychotic disorder, and was said to grow up to 200% for the most-frequent users.[21] Other studies have revealed similar associations,
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Hippie dream, modern nightmare
It epitomised the hippie dream of free love and easy living in the Sixties. Songs, films and books mythologised it. But with the advent of powerful new strains such as skunk, cannabis is increasingly associated with feral youth, psychosis and violent crime. As the government prepares to reclassify the drug, is its decision borne of good science or political opportunism?
Re: no – If you read about the actual study behind that latest reefer-madness scare that said marijuana causes schitzophrenia, you'll learn that the study - which tested 45 people, ahem - actually showed that some language patterns in schitzophrenics are similar to language patterns in stoners. Sometimes. And the irresponsible alcoholics started screaming from the newspapers, "OMG WEED CAUSES SCHITZOPHRENIA." Now, I know you can read, "no," why aren't you doing it? Or, if you did already know about the circumstances of that study, why are you perpetuating the lie here?
I'm generally quite open to different views on most other matters - however not this. Cannabis has destroyed so many young lives caused untold irrevocable life long psychiatric damage in a significant proportion of users worldwide.. if the government are going to legalize to free up resources they need to ensure the type of recreational strains commercially available are age restricted and not potent as well as additionally making the well chronicled side effects widely known so people can make informed decisions if they want to use it.
It's a dreadful drug though that people have skewed views on because of the hippie peace and love associations
It should remain illegal.
it did in London, England, we're all smoking it up on the streets!
www.NORML.org
Join us, lets legalize marijuana.
Wish political figures would smarten up and just legalize -EVERYONE'S puffin anyway.
Re: nah – Sorry to snap you out of your dream but the weirdos you see in Amsterdam are normally the tourists or "artistic" foreigners. As a Dutch I can say that we barely smoke weed, or not at all, just because we are allowed. (Ever thought about that?) What actually bothers the Dutch is that most of the hard drugs produced in Holland is for the American market. Still we're the druggies of the world, though are country is one of the richest, safest and open-minded countries in the world.
The voices of reason…..love them!!!!!
They really should legalize it, if people want to smoke pot they should be allowed. Personally I don't see why alcohol is legal and pot isnt… but thats just me.
Re: FReal – COKE MY ASS!! How do cokeheads get anything done if every 10 minutes your running to the bathroom to do another line? POT HEADS ALL THE WAY!!!!
"SO LET'S GET..TO THE POINT. LET'S ROLL..ANOTHER JOINT. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW IT FEELS…TO BE ME!!!!"
An indicator that all the smokers that actually think what we smoke (pot) should be completely legal know that pot isn't "harmless" and "not a drug" — WHY DO YOU KEEP SAYING "well it's not as bad as alcohol" … saying that just shows that you know deep down inside that it is still bad. If it were harmless you would not need to compare it to alcohol (a harmful drug when abused) because it would mean you have scientific data that shows it's harmless… you're just showing that it should not just be discarded as "harmless" because you are acknowledging that a harmful drug (alcohol) is comparable at all to it (pot).
Re: no – I'm sure NO goes home everyday & knocks back a glass of brandy or two. People can be so ignorant because of their fears. Honestly….I'm not saying that there is some truth in what you say. But REALY!!! Out of every 10 people that smoke pot, how many of them are going to go insane or develop some illness from it? If at best….1. And that's pushing it. I've been around pot for 16 yrs & have a lot of friends, who I might add are in very good professions including myself, who have never been diagnosed with any mental illness or for that matter, have THEY known anyone who has never developed it either. Don't spread lies on which you know NOTHING about!
"I get high with a little help from my friends" - Lennon/McCartney
Re: Shopg – I know that you barely smoke as a whole, but a) tons of your coffeeshops are for locals b) many/most of the weirdos speak dutch so I assume (i feel it is a fair assumption, don't you?) that a lot of these rastafari and people dressed weird and with disgusting, "statement" haircuts immigrated because holland is a SAFEHAVEN for them. It doesn't matter if people, perhaps people like yourself who don't smoke and the people that make up the 16 million population of holland don't smoke; there are 40,000 AMERICANS LIVING in AMSTERDAM, a city just short of 750,000. Did YOU ever think about that? It is definitely a safe, prosperous country (as i mentioned in the post you attacked) but as a bi-product of having the right to smoke and buy up to 5 grams at a time legally etc., and having thousands of coffeeshops across holland, you are ASKING for these unwanted tourists/immigrants to move in. — part 1
Re: Shopg – —part 2
I understand as a proud Dutchman you will defend your country to the grave and that is normal, but don't deny that you guys have a serious problem with drug tourists and immigrants who came looking for a place to smoke pot. As for the "open-minded" comment; i live in France, not America, so don't assume I'm a "dumb American". I love Holland, it is in an economic boom, the people there are very nice and I have nothin bad to say really except what I have said in this post, so do not get on the defensive. Sarkozy is a prick and the Muslim immigrants in France are a thorn in our side - see? It's ok to poke fun at your own country, no one is perfect.
WEL, WELL, WELL……IT'S ABOUT DAMN TIME………..LET THE PARTY BEGIN!
I HAVE MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT DRUGS, SOME CAN HANDLE IT SOME LET IT GO TO FAR.
glad smoking weed is legal in holland!!
Re: noooo –
Like I said before…you never know and probably will never know who smokes in the professional world. By the way, the real estate business is my husband's and needless to say, he doesn't smoke as much as I do because once again, we're responsible. All I do is go to school and be his muse, so yes, I can hit up the maryjane whenever I want. He hasn't graduated college because his upbringing wasn't geared that way just as mine was'nt. So you want to talk about growing up in a shitty family and a vicious cycle, well, we were destined to fail in our lives, but both of us worked hard to get out of that cycle. He'll be going to school, just for the degree, after I finish school. You must've stayed up late last night trying to figure out how to hate, eh? Well it's early in the AM and I need to get to class but I had fun chattin' with you. Regardless of all that was said…don't you think that maybe an age min. and amount of marijuana carried could be regulated so that people like my nurse friend won't be criminalized for their responsible use of it? By the way, I don't drink at all. I'm just a smoker whose got her shit together.
Re: lucie – You're lucky , my best friend when i was 19 went from happy bright and extremely sociable to introverted depressed and suicidal when he started to smoke weed recreationally .I will cut to the chase and tell you he was found by his mother dead hanging from a rafter in his garage at the age of 21 after prolonged frequent smoking of the drug. I'm sharing MY TRUTH WITH YOU in a hope you'll realize weed is not a harmless hippy drug .The damage it causes is very real . it's probably a worse drug than all of the others combined in fact because people enter into using it believing it's harmless and wrongly think the worst thing it'll do is make them a bit giggly and slow..and ultimately not suicidal or worse.
Re: nah – I get your point, you did not get mine. What I imply to say is that our very reasonable attitude towards cannabis resulted in a lot of very good things. Yes, being the only country brave enough to stand up and acknowledge they allow use of cannabis also had a very negative impact. You say we have a serious problem with tourists, I think that's an understatement but also know that it can be resolved if other governments would pull their head out of the sand and legalize it in their own country. (what is worse, legalizing guns or cannabis?) Holland would be relieved from a lot of drugs tourism and the people who see us as a safe haven won't have to. Stating we're open-minded does not mean Americans are dumb, that's what you make out of it. Dutch in general, including myself, love Americans!
#100 is right. It's all about the lobbyists.
Rep. Frank is also right. In West Hollywood, they do raids on medical marijuana centers. Not only is this cruel and monstrous and hypocritical, but it is a huge waste of county and law enforcement resources - esp. in a budget crisis, esp. when you can't get a cop to help for real crimes.
DRUGS R BAD …..MARIJUANA IS BAD.
I am sure the pharmaceutical and liquor lobbies are against this. I am skeptical that this proposal will get approval even though it makes sense.
Re: Natal – Cataracts are not a disease.