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mfqr · #51 (**permalink**) Apr-02-2007, 04:42

Yep, I think so. Once all these damn prohibition advocates die or resign from positions of authority, I believe things will change for the better. It's only a matter of time before the truth is spread completely, and we gain more supporters. Time... give it time. Just like alcohol prohibition expired, I believe prohibition of Cannabis will expire as well. My city has already decriminalized any possession of Cannabis 25 grams or under (Madison, WI! It's a very recent step forward). It still annoys me though, because they did not do it because they know it isn't bad, but because we're lacking funds to prosecute every small possession of weed. But it's a step forward, and soon more steps will be made, especially since Wisconsin has a NORML chapter. And during this waiting period, continue to blaze up.

unclebob · #52 (**permalink**) Apr-03-2007, 19:18

I don't think it will happen any time soon. At least not for recreational purposes. The gov / DEA has spent so, so much time, effort and money trying to prove how harmfull it is. Changing gears now would be like admitting we have been so wrong for so long.

I only hope and pray that the rest of the states will legalize or decriminalize it for medicinal purposes. Too many patients are suffering needlesly because they can not get a steady supply of quality bud.

As for all complete and total morons who say it does not have any medicinal value, I say this - Let's see any one of them go through harsh chemo and then see how they vote?

Sorry for the rant, but I am a cancer survivor and I do in fact NEED this medicine for vaious reasons related to permanant nearve damage, kidney damage and other factors.

Unfortunately I live in the East.

bob

bob

suhl · #53 (**permalink**) Apr-04-2007, 12:47

nope, not until pretty much all of the "greatest generation" is dead. even then i dont see it happening. they have known that there is no harm in it for a very very long time now. all the facts are pretty much in on it so if it was going to happen in a few years it would just happen right now, there is nothing to just come out on it over the next few years that will make people totally change their minds on it. the thing is a lot of nonsmokers may not think it should be illegal, but it is an issue they could care less about. in the grand scheme of things it isnt a political issue that really gets talked about much on the federal level. in some states it is already decriminalized, state level is about all you can hope and the fed gov does as much as they can to prevent that, ie raiding medical suppliers and so on

mattmao · #54 (**permalink**) Apr-04-2007, 13:00

your political system is backwards.never in a million years.people having fun and it being legal,dont make me laugh.

CheebaMan · #55 (**permalink**) Apr-04-2007, 13:28

I dont think weed will ever be legal in all of the US

people have already been brainwashed with all this propaganda about how bad marijuana is on their children's health and mental stability

theyve become ignorant to its possible positive aspects.

obviously, the negative always weighs more than the positive things

evertking · #56 (**permalink**) Apr-18-2007, 10:26

sure... why not?

**stinkyattic** · #57 (**permalink**) Apr-18-2007, 13:50

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Originally Posted by PlantBoxer

No. A huge portion of our system is built upon jailing it's citizens for building more government.
These laws have nothing to do with keeping you safe, but to build system where you single out what the population wants, alcohol, tobbacco,pot, make it illeagle, then you need proscuters,lawers,judges,counseling services,jails,then those lawers become judges, they become politicians, then they start getting lobbist moneys from Coors, Budwieser, cotton industry, plastics, wood, all to give more money to keep it ileagle!!
Even taxing it, they would lose so much corrupt income.!

And it gives the government a use for its war machine during peacetime.. if we ever have a peacetime again. Wasn't Halliburton getting prison construction contracts? Hmmm.....

I don't think weed will be legal, but I'm hoping for decrim status and believe that is at least a possibility.

andrewmorrisey · #58 (**permalink**) May-15-2007, 20:22

I think it will be legal someday. I mean, back in the day, Mozart's day I believe, drinking coffee was illegal... or shunned.... but look at it now.

bad example.

onequickmove · #59 (**permalink**) May-16-2007, 23:49

someday, yes; soon, no, but i hope; i'd say 20 years maybe

Baby Seymour · #60 (**permalink**) May-26-2007, 01:26

Cannabis will only be legalised when the government realise how much money they are missing out on by not taxing it, and how much money they are wasting victimising the peace loving chongers of the world. We arnt the ones going around partaking in mindless vandalism and other stupid crimes, nope we are too high to do anything that takes up that much energy, doesn't the real problem lie in alchohol abuse? Not only does it incite violence, which by the way, cannabis doesn't, which cost government money in all sorts of departments, but it also has detrimental effects on health, which cannabis hasn't been conclusivly proven to have (aside from the harm that tobbacco causes (also legal btw)) so all of your drunks who are either taking up doner livers, or liver disease medication or lying in ER after a drunken bar brawl, or in the STD clinic after a night of drunken and unprotected sex. All of these people are the guys who should be getting targeted by government legislation, not the friendly peacefull people who only want smoke a little doobie.

So yeah, until the governmet realises all of that rant, I doubt if we will ever be able to skin up walking down the street, oh well, we do it now and its illegal right?

Peace Out.

bowl · #61 (**permalink**) May-27-2007, 07:57

So i gotta wait for a bunch of old farts to die before i can toke??? Most of

those old turds look like they're almost there...say a day or two...lol

PlantBoxer · #62 (**permalink**) May-29-2007, 07:55

Hey stinkyattic, [And it gives the government a use for its war machine during peacetime.. if we ever have a peacetime again]

We lost peacetime way back!! Right around the time America was conquered, or over thrown, by the scum and villiany who unleashed the Federal Reserve System on us, a private group of families that own the banking system. HINT, HINT...Read about a debt free money system!!

We have been thrown into one mindless war after another, WW1,WW2, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, now whatever this new horror is called.

Look at how blown up military spending is, and how very long, and things have never been worse!!

Pot is just a tiny way to fragment it's society, keep THEM against US, and RACE...another way to fragment our society, Religion, more fragmentation, Politics, well in America there is one party now, the wealthy.

We have lost our nation when we lost the ability to understand the differences in a Republic and a Democracy....Our forefathers set up a Republic, and right around the time of Americas destruction, whoever, began to remove any/and all that they could ....ANY MENTION OF A REPUBLIC!!

Try reading Bennit LaRosa America a Republic of a Democracy Which Is It?

Americans have stayed pumped up with almost a hundred years of complete propaganda...how come we never lived up to any of that horseshit about, freedom and justice for all...anyone ever go to an Indian reservation...or thru the Smoky Mountains, and see, the savage poverty, no health provisions, see the stripping of their assetts, such as coal, logging, cheap labor, until cheaper labor comes along!!

How come, we are so GOD loving, GOD fearing, and then take Americas waste from her nuclear power plants, refine it into weapons, so we scatter 650 TON's of depleated Uranium across the middle East??? Poisoning our own troops with DU particulate thats finer than our filtration equipment, can filter for the troops!! 285,000 deployed in DS1, 240,000 in the health care system now!!

We dont even teach Civics in school anymore...the basic ways to fight back against this corruption thats captured us!!

Marijuana being legal...sorry, thats just going to happen.

onequickmove · #63 (**permalink**) May-31-2007, 15:23

here's my prophecy: 20 years

greenlemon · #64 (**permalink**) Jun-04-2007, 20:58

someday, when they get smarter, honest and figure out that there is plenty of benefits and not enough excuses, in many ways for everyone.

Maybe in 30 years...

ThePeacockNamethTom · #65 (**permalink**) Jun-04-2007, 22:39

The reason any and all drugs of the psychedelic or psychotropic nature are illegal is because they make one perceive the world differently - "outside the box" thinking one might say. And in a consumer-based Capitalistic-society, which requires people to have to follow and be active members of an economic market (which based on advertising, ruthless marketing and "natural selection," per se), society cannot have a group of people which do not conform to what there is no non-conforming co-existence to.

Drug War - no, it's a Perspective War. Mind games, people, mind games.

GirLScouTs · #66 (**permalink**) Jun-05-2007, 01:22

hell yeah at least for me

psteve · #67 (**permalink**) Jun-05-2007, 02:42

YOU'VE got to legalize it.
Call your senator tomorrow. Call your congressman,
and the mayor, and anyone else you can think of.
Tell them all you're sick of them lying about cannabis,
and wasting your tax dollars on reefer madness fantasies.
And especially, tell the candidates that you won't vote
for someone who wants to put you in jail over a plant.
If we stay quiet, we gain NOTHING.
STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

killerb · #68 (**permalink**) Jun-05-2007, 18:39

Quote:

Originally Posted by suhl

nope, not until pretty much all of the "greatest generation" is dead. even then i dont see it happening. they have known that there is no harm in it for a very very long time now. all the facts are pretty much in on it so if it was going to happen in a few years it would just happen right now, there is nothing to just come out on it over the next few years that will make people totally change their minds on it. the thing is a lot of nonsmokers may not think it should be illegal, but it is an issue they could care less about. in the grand scheme of things it isnt a political issue that really gets talked about much on the federal level. in some states it is already decriminalized, state level is about all you can hope and the fed gov does as much as they can to prevent that, ie raiding medical suppliers and so on

I personally respect the "greatest generation". Six thousand died in one day on omaha beach, and ABC wasn't able ( didn't even try ) to turn us against the war. I'm not saying I'm for every war we have ever been in. I just think once were in one we should give it all we got! We should not run with our tails between our legs when NBC says we should, or when a few rag tag dirtbags release some propaganda video on the internet of our guys getting beheaded.
In my opinion, I think this country is strong militarily, but politically weak.

To get back to the subject though, I don't blame the " Greatest Generation" for pot being illegal. The baby boomers are in power now, there isn't too many 85 year old politicians left. Pot is still illegal.

JaaWaaRKilla · #69 (**permalink**) Jun-08-2007, 21:03

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Originally Posted by Nochowderforyou

In America? Never.

They are too fixated on trying to control everyone there, by that I mean giving drug tests when no needed and doing testing in some schools.

I think the people will end up losing control before it is legalized there.

Maybe when the dinosaur politicians die off, some younger ones from this generation will come through and changes might take place, but in the next 50 years or so, I just don't see it happening.

i agree with this one... theres no way cus of the way the goverment is ran now.. maybe in years like ^ said but even if they did it would be taxed like a motha because its so easily grown so.. i dunno doubt it man.. to much bull shiat in the world with all the dumb nieve ppl

rainbows.rsexy · #70 (**permalink**) Jun-08-2007, 21:46

its somewhat legal now in alaska

Alaska - NORML

provided u keep it under a oz and burn at home

420marijuana420 · #71 (**permalink**) Jun-10-2007, 17:43

some tobacco isn't even legal here right now (Cuban cigars). The only hope is that there will be a high demand for it. Maybe it will, but it will take a long time to happen.

Guitarman88 · #72 (**permalink**) Jun-11-2007, 12:46

I believe weed will be legal sometime in the future.

Reason being because a few of states have already legalized medical marijuana, and some tolerate some recreational levels.