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................Decriminalize...Now!
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Why should Marijuana be legal?
To alleviate over-crowding in the prison systems and to provide a holistic alternative to terminally ill patients, marijuana should be decriminalized nationwide.
Marijuana is proven effective in treating chronic pain, glaucoma, MS, arthritis, and the effects of chemotherapy, AIDS-wasting syndrome, and other chronic illnesses. Studies in at least five countries have shown marijuana to slow and often reverse the growth of cancer cells - All this from a plant less toxic than aspirin and less habit-forming than coffee or wine.
Also, legally taxed and regulated marijuana market could generate upwards of $200 billion annually in excise tax revenues for the federal government.
Marijuana is proven effective in treating chronic pain, glaucoma, MS, arthritis, and the effects of chemotherapy, AIDS-wasting syndrome, and other chronic illnesses. Studies in at least five countries have shown marijuana to slow and often reverse the growth of cancer cells - All this from a plant less toxic than aspirin and less habit-forming than coffee or wine.
Also, legally taxed and regulated marijuana market could generate upwards of $200 billion annually in excise tax revenues for the federal government.
Mandatory minimums for non-violent offences cost the tax payers millions!
Mandatory minimums are intended to target drug kingpins, many mandatory minimum laws more often have sent addicts, drug dealers’ girlfriends and college kids peddling marijuana to prison for long terms.
According to the FBI, in 2007 police made a record 873,000 marijuana arrests – 9 out of 10 of them for pot possession, not trafficking, cultivation, or sale.
Headlines in USA Today...
A Utah man with no criminal record gets 55 year prison sentence for a minor marijuana charge in 2003. In 2005 a woman received a life sentence for $150 marijuana drug deal.
Child molesters and murderers are serving less time than small time marijuana dealers. Does this mean that marijuana is more valuable than our children? Hopefully not!
We need to decriminalize marijuana to alleviate over-crowding in the prison systems and to provide a holistic alternative to terminally ill patients. Marijuana should be decriminalized nationwide.
According to the FBI, in 2007 police made a record 873,000 marijuana arrests – 9 out of 10 of them for pot possession, not trafficking, cultivation, or sale.
Headlines in USA Today...
A Utah man with no criminal record gets 55 year prison sentence for a minor marijuana charge in 2003. In 2005 a woman received a life sentence for $150 marijuana drug deal.
Child molesters and murderers are serving less time than small time marijuana dealers. Does this mean that marijuana is more valuable than our children? Hopefully not!
We need to decriminalize marijuana to alleviate over-crowding in the prison systems and to provide a holistic alternative to terminally ill patients. Marijuana should be decriminalized nationwide.
Should non-violent offenses carry a mandatory minimum sentence?
Do you agree with medical marijuana and it's benefits?
Joe Drug Dealer's Story
”For 29 years I lived in 11 prisons, costing you millions, as America’s longest-serving non-violent prisoner of the war on weed. When Feds kicked in my door, I’d been retired from smuggling for two years. My ice cream and food concessions employed about 50 people. My Miami auto auction, body shop, and barbershop employed another 40. Good jobs and serious tax dollars – all gone in an instant, not to mention my freedom, my wife and children, and the life savings of my parents, who paid for years of fruitless appeals.”
Medical Marijuana
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