| # | First Name | Last Name | State | Country | Comments |
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| 501 | Bradley | Corvello | CA | US | |
| 502 | Jeremy | Wright | TX | US | I have seizures witch cause cronic pain. There is not a medical Marijuana program in Texas. I am 26 and cant work I hurt continusley, and can't get ssi do to young age. I would like for the gov. to make it legal to smoke bud. All the way around wheather medisal or municeipal. I now smoke durt weed from Mexico and I dont get what I want out of it. Witch is a pain stimulant. I would like to be a test payshiont for Guverment Medical Marijuana. I can't wait to get the results that congress has legalized all marijuana and start giving it to the ones who need it first. And I need it bad. |
| 503 | luis | sepulveda | NY | US | alocohol kills more people can work out there diffidence with pot and talk about there problems alocohol makes you want to fight and kill each other |
| 504 | Don | Marshall | CA | US | Lets quit wasting tax dollars fighting a war against marijuana |
| 505 | Mike | Meltzer | MA | US | |
| 506 | Mike | Lamb | AZ | US | Ban the booze not the Bud! |
| 507 | Raymond | Baker | IA | US | Marajuana was made illegal by the propoganda of a misinformed congress. The fact of the matter is that the reason marajuana is illegal is because people were not educated on the facts. People were led to believe that marajuana caused violence and the end result was addiction. Now that people know the truth about marajuana what is the real reason it is illegal... could it be profit. The legalization of marajuana would boost the economy, the US would not have to import many products that could be made in the United States from Hemp.Please count on my support for this cause. |
| 508 | Christian | Hopkins | WI | US | Marijuana is not as dangerous as Alcohol. Marijuana is not as dangerous as ciggaretes. Marijuana is safer than OVER THE COUNTER COUGH MEDICINE!
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| 509 | Tristan | Litke | WA | US | |
| 510 | Stephen | Turro | MA | US | Alcoholics beat their wives and lose their jobs, stonners make their wives extravagant dinners and lose their jobs beacause of Gov. Tests when pot is harmless. END the PERSECUTION! |
| 511 | Veronica | Tuggle | UT | US | We have to stop putting people in jail for no other reason than smoking pot. There is no good reason for pot to be any less legal than alcohol. |
| 512 | Brandon | Nun ya | MS | US | Whoever supports marijuana like i do listen to me please.. The only way this will ever become legal is if we just raise hell and get our voices heard. If you support this natural plant that provides relief from stress, anger, violence, and depression lets come up with a date to protest this. Not like any "protest" either. IM TALKING ABOUT RAISING HELL!! Not being violent. That wouldn't help us at all. LETS ALL GATHER SOMEWHERE WITH MEGAPHONES AND YELL AT MOTHER FUCKERS WHO ARE TRYING TO TAKE THIS PLANT AWAY FROM US!!!!!!!!! Damnit it's the only way.. Please someone who is experienced with starting protests help me out with this.. RAISE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET YOU FUCKING VOICE BE HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 513 | Brandon | Nun ya | MS | US | Whoever supports marijuana like i do listen to me please.. The only way this will ever become legal is if we just raise hell and get our voices heard. If you support this natural plant that provides relief from stress, anger, violence, and depression lets come up with a date to protest this. Not like any "protest" either. IM TALKING ABOUT RAISING HELL!! Not being violent. That wouldn't help us at all. LETS ALL GATHER SOMEWHERE WITH MEGAPHONES AND YELL AT MOTHER FUCKERS WHO ARE TRYING TO TAKE THIS PLANT AWAY FROM US!!!!!!!!! Damnit it's the only way.. Please someone who is experienced with starting protests help me out with this.. RAISE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET YOU FUCKING VOICE BE HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 514 | Brandon | Nun ya | MS | US | Whoever supports marijuana like i do listen to me please.. The only way this will ever become legal is if we just raise hell and get our voices heard. If you support this natural plant that provides relief from stress, anger, violence, and depression lets come up with a date to protest this. Not like any "protest" either. IM TALKING ABOUT RAISING HELL!! Not being violent. That wouldn't help us at all. LETS ALL GATHER SOMEWHERE WITH MEGAPHONES AND YELL AT MOTHER FUCKERS WHO ARE TRYING TO TAKE THIS PLANT AWAY FROM US!!!!!!!!! Damnit it's the only way.. Please someone who is experienced with starting protests help me out with this.. RAISE HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET YOU FUCKING VOICE BE HEARD!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| 515 | Hugh | Morris | ID | US | |
| 516 | Melanie | Marshall | CA | US | Prohibition does not work, and no one should go to jail if they didn't hurt anyone! |
| 517 | Kat | Smollen | GA | US | Show me the hardcore proof of any real damage caused by Marijuana and I'll quit smoking!!!! Because, honestly, it's done me nothing but good....other than in the job department because 80% of companies these days drug test. As long as you get your job done right and aren't harming anyone then why should that invasion of privacy be allowed?!?!? With pot of all things! It's insane!!!! |
| 518 | Meagan | Dudley | AZ | US | My great-grandmother, 2nd cousin, and best friend have died of some form of cancer or another, but in the states they lived in, medicinal marijuana was illegal to have, so they died in more pain then was right. Please, Make the right de |
| 519 | elisa | sibinski | KS | US | |
| 520 | Sean | Ryan | KS | US | Marijuana is not a drug. I used to suck dick for coke. You ever suck dick for some marijuana?
I didn't think so.... |
| 521 | kevin | hopper | PA | US | |
| 522 | john | gereaue | FL | US | its the time for a change a time to be freed a time to to stop having our civil rights taken from us the time is now . a man once said give me freedom or give death so stop tolerating this nonsense and act |
| 523 | Anonymous | Anonymous | GA | US | |
| 524 | chris | daley sr. | TN | US | |
| 525 | Joe | Friend | PA | US | |
| 526 | Max | Lanning | NC | US | |
| 527 | Anonymous | Anonymous | SC | US | I know there is nothing wrong with making marijuana illegal |
| 528 | Derek | Houle | MN | US | There are more positives than negatives to marijuana. |
| 529 | Justin | Brown | GA | US | Marijuana is not a drug, it is in fact much less of a harmful substance than alcohol or tobbaco and should be legalized. |
| 530 | william | weiser | MI | US | Yes this war on drugs is a war on people and it is outright unconstitutional |
| 531 | Anonymous | Anonymous | TX | US | There is no reason to waste billions annually to protect people from themselves, especially when what they're being "protected" from is more benificial than harmful! |
| 532 | lucas | richard | TX | US | While there are indeed health and societal problems due to the use of alcohol and nicotine, these negative consequences would be amplified if consumption of either substance were prohibited.
Marijuana is already the third most popular recreational drug in America, despite harsh laws against its use. Millions of Americans smoke it responsibly. Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it.
In addition, marijuana is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. It fails to inflict the types of serious health consequences these two legal drugs cause. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking. By comparison, marijuana is nontoxic and cannot cause death by overdose. According to the prestigious European medical journal, The Lancet, "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. It would be reasonable to judge cannabis as less of a threat than alcohol or tobacco."
No one is suggesting we encourage more drug use; simply that we stop arresting responsible marijuana smokers. In recent years, we have significantly reduced the prevalence of drunk driving and tobacco smoking. We have not achieved this by prohibiting the use of alcohol and tobacco or by targeting and arresting adults who use alcohol and tobacco responsibly, but through honest educational campaigns. We should apply these same principles to the responsible consumption of marijuana. The negative consequences primarily associated with marijuana -- such as an arrest or jail time -- are the result of the criminal prohibition of cannabis, not the use of marijuana itself.Substantial research exists regarding marijuana and addiction. While the scientific community has yet to achieve full consensus on this matter, the majority of epidemiological and animal data demonstrate that the reinforcing properties of marijuana in humans is low in comparison to other drugs of abuse, including alcohol and nicotine. According to the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM), fewer than one in 10 marijuana smokers become regular users of the drug, and most voluntary cease their use after 34 years of age. By comparison, 15 percent of alcohol consumers and 32 percent of tobacco smokers exhibit symptoms of drug dependence.
According to the IOM, observable cannabis withdrawal symptoms are rare and have only been identified under unique patient settings. These remain limited to adolescents in treatment facilities for substance abuse problems, and in a research setting where subjects were given marijuana or THC daily. Compared with the profound physical syndrome of alcohol or heroin withdrawal, marijuana-related withdrawal symptoms are mild and subtle. Symptoms may include restlessness, irritability, mild agitation and sleep disruption. However, for the overwhelming majority of marijuana smokers, these symptoms are not severe enough to re-initiate their use of cannabis.
Critics claim that marijuana is a "gateway drug." How do you respond to this charge?
There is no conclusive evidence that the effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent use of other illicit drugs. Preliminary animal studies alleging that marijuana "primed" the brain for other drug-taking behavior have not been replicated, nor are they supported by epidemiological human data. Statistically, for every 104 Americans who have tried marijuana, there is only one regular user of cocaine, and less than one user of heroin. Marijuana is clearly a "terminus" rather than a gateway for the overwhelming majority of marijuana smokers.
For those minority of marijuana smokers who do graduate to harder substances, it is marijuana prohibition -- which forces users to associate with the illicit drug black market -- rather than the use of marijuana itself, that often serves as a doorway to the world of hard drugs. The more users become integrated in an environment where, apart from cannabis, hard drugs can also be obtained, the greater the chances they will experiment with harder drugs.
In Holland, where politicians decided over 25 years ago to separate marijuana from the illicit drug market by permitting coffee shops all over the country to sell small amounts of marijuana to adults, individuals use marijuana and other drugs at rates less than half of their American counterparts.
Why should we decriminalize or legalize marijuana?
As President Jimmy Carter acknowledged: "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."
Marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good, hard-working, productive citizens each year in this country. More than 700,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges last year, and more than 5 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses in the past decade. Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for simple possession, not trafficking or sale. This is a misapplication of the criminal sanction that invites government into areas of our private lives that are inappropriate and wastes valuable law enforcement resources that should be focused on serious and violent crime. |
| 533 | Anonymous | Anonymous | IA | US | |
| 534 | Heather | Donald | GA | US | I hate all the giant misconceptions of marijuana, everyone has this idea that weed is bad because that is what has been spoon fed to them. People should try to learn the real facts, and not what people tell them. There are many other ways to find information other than word of mouth. I've gathered what I need to know from results of actual studies that were conducted and documenataries because I was curious to know the real facts. |
| 535 | Anonymous | Anonymous | WA | US | |
| 536 | rise | michael | OH | US | legalize it. |
| 537 | dan | metcalf | HI | US | |
| 538 | Jourdan | Deitz | WV | US | How many people do you know a year that die from marijuana? It should be legalized, it's a natural herb. |
| 539 | Matthew | Adams | MO | US | |
| 540 | katherine | benda | IA | US | |
| 541 | warren | wolff | WI | US | I feel the same way on the subject it is so stupid to make a drug like tree illegal before boose we can destroy are bodys with boose and cig's but we cant enjoy the savors of a fat bowl of tree wich helps me alot with my anxiety wich is horribal for me without!And yes nothing else works for me i tried! so for all you fools thinking bad on the subject of leaglizeation of pot think the next time you pick up that beer for no good reason!!!GET REAL LEGALIZE IT!!!!!!!! |
| 542 | kiela | schneider | WI | US | pot should be legal shit presedent bush probulby smokes legalize it |
| 543 | stephen | jones | WI | US | |
| 544 | stephen | jones | WI | US | |
| 545 | Kelly | McFadden | PA | US | |
| 546 | uriah | brandt | OH | US | its a plant iam gonna smoke it |
| 547 | Tasha | Thacker | IL | US | |
| 548 | Anonymous | Anonymous | OH | US | Cannabis should be compared to achool. You must be 21 to buy. It would drop crimes and make more room for jails witch would then cost less money to run. |
| 549 | Adam | Ring | VA | US | let marijuana live |
| 550 | Anonymous | Anonymous | AL | US | i think they should legalize marijuana it heals the sick n make folks day go better... |
