Aww dudes, you're never going to guess what time today I originally
planned to put up this post. Wait for it -- 4:20!!!
Yes, today you can be certain that the smell wafting from your neighbor's apartment is what you think it is as stoners celebrate the second most annoying made-up holiday. (Valentine's still first.)
To anyone busted for pot today, I have no sympathy. But I do have news.
I've already mentioned it but the Obama administration has taken a lenient stance towards pot. Medical marijuana is defacto legal now that the Justice Department has stopped raids on medical marijuana. After that it didn't take long for the first medical marijuana company to go public.
Nor do it take long for a second company to follow. Like Medical Marijuana Inc, Cannabis Science is also listed on the OTC. Its symbol is GFON and it currently trades at five cents a share, a low. But not all marijuana business is bad. When I first wrote about Medical Marijuana Inc on April 6, its share stood at $1.13. Two weeks later and its shares are up nearly 60 percent to $1.90. Who said drugs don't pay?
I'm not so sure legalizing pot would be a good thing but the obvious way to do it is through the business community. That would involve these publicly held companies behaving like, well, publicly held companies. Cannabis Science put out a press release about today announcing the "420 Commemorative Certificate Program," saying that stockholders with shares in the company "are eligible to purchase a limited
edition Commemorative Certificate...properly framed and righteously dated." I can see the promotion appealing to some pot smokers, but it undercuts its message that it's a serious company who views marijuana as a pain relief drug for those in need. Merck would never say one of its drugs was "righteously approved by the FDA."
Protesting also remains popular. The 2009 Global Marijuana March is Saturday, May 2. According to a local marijuana board (hey it's my job to view these sites) the Kansas City protest will gather at high noon at the J.C. Nichols Fountain in "protest of the inhumane laws brought about by racism and
greed to suppress marijuana and its many uses." The actual march through the Plaza begins at 12:30 p.m. It should be a grand, clear-minded time.
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What harm could come of it? Uh, more potheads for one. Two, it wouldn't necessarily crack down on crime UNLESS it was decriminalized properly. Let's use the alcohol comparison. With current laws, you go to a bar, have a drink and are fine to drive home. How would that work with hashish bars? Could you have a couple of joints and still be legal to drive? Where would over the limit be? Now take that scenario and multiply it by 35,000, which is the number of laws in the US concerning just beer. Not alcohol all together, just one aspect of it.
I'm just saying, it's not as simple as saying, "hey it's legal now!" No, it would be a mammoth legal process and one fought at every turn. Whereas now, if you smoke pot, do it in your own home and don't make a big fuss about it, you're not very likely to get caught. So for the people who attended 4/20 parades and then got caught, I have no sympathy or desire to bend the laws for.
I'm tired of my tax dollars going toward locking up people that are just smoking weed in their own home. people should be allowed to grow it and use it in their own home, and they certainly do not deserve to rot in a metal cage for it, that's inhumane and absolutely crazy! They are not doing anything different than the guy that goes home from work and has a few beers, yet they are treated like violent criminals?????????? Makes NO sense!!!!!!!
DO THE RIGHT THING AMERICA, LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND END THE WAR ON OUR OWN PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!
Kids will be safer and better off if the government would regulate the marijuana market vs. letting the black market control it. Black market does not card and sells to anybody. Just the other day my son was approached by a guy asking if he wanted any weed! No one has ever asked if he wanted alcohol, I think its painfully obvious that marijuana is one of the safer substances out there compared to alcohol and cigarettes so why is it so hard for the gov. to get their heads around it? If political fear is taking the front seat on this issue, then I say American government is more concerned about their own image than the real reasons their in the position they are, and that's to make good decisions for our country hard or easy, so if they cant hack it, they can get out!
A key question is whether we continue a system in which all of the money flows to criminals and guns, or do we legalize and tax marijuana so the money can flow to the public treasury and rebuilding America?
Support a personal use and cultivation permit: $100 for twelve plants. Let's let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own backyards and put the criminal cartels out of business.
I don't understand HOW anyone can say .. "I don't know if legalizing Marijuana would be a good thing?"... REALLY!?!?!?! Why?
What HARM could come from it? Any that don't already come from alcohol? The only reason journalists say this is to appease the ultra right wing. THERE IS NO RATIONAL VALID REASON FOR MARIJUANA TO BE ILLEGAL. Every possible CON has been disputed successfully. It's a joke now. Anyone who thinks Marijuana is dangerous better not drink alcohol OR smoke cigarettes because if you do then your are a walking hypocrisy and you officially suck at life.
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