I think that our government should reconsider the impact of prohibition of marijuana. From criminals to Congress, this plant is partaken upon by both. I think it's silly to have something be illegal, especially because it's assumed that about half of the population has tried it at some point. But it just sounds too good not to use it as a political agenda to attract voters. Protect our kids, get drugs off the street. Consider this, the Dutch have been fairly lenient in their handling of cannabis, and surprisingly they have a lower drug abuse rate than the good ol' USA. It's believed that the free access to marijuana has quelled the abuse of some of the "harder" drugs. All I know is that the current handling of the issue is far from ideal or adequate.
I read about a case where this guy was in a car accident. It was his fault and no one died, but the other driver was injured. The prosecutor charged the driver at fault with DUI causing injury because the driver took a drug screen and was found to have marijuana in his system. He claimed it was from a joint he smoked a couple of days before the wreck and no evidence proving otherwise was found (no weed in the car, etc.) Unfortunately, that's the only thing I ever heard about the case, so I don't know what the outcome was. If the guy was convicted, that sets a pretty scary precedence, don't you think? One the one hand, he did have THC in his system, but on the other probably wasn't under the influence at the time of the wreck.
I don't know. Once emotion plays into it you NEVER know how a jury's going to react. Just the fact that he was charged at all is bad enough. I'm going to do some research and see if I can find out the case's disposition. If I remember correctly, it was in Fla.
Whoever believes that marijuana is not controlled by the government are fooling themselves. Everything is controlled by the government. That's why there are stringent rules against it. You get caught, you pay the government $$ to be exonerated. Just like alcohol, but alcohol was spoken about by greats such as: "I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer." -Abraham Lincoln "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -Benjamin Franklin "Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop." -Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War, 1944 This is why beer is legal. Before all these guys showed up from the mother land, we should have quoted the Chickasaw's, the Choctaw's, and other indians who lived here first. What did they do while conversing about the future around a camp fire? ....Peace Pipe, baby.... I understand what others means about marijuana causes laziness, fatigue, etc. BUT, that can be associated with almost anything. Smoke over this...what is ADD and ADHD? When I was a kid I never heard of that! Everyone is on a narcotic these days! It's the fad! Oh, and pharmaceuticals are controlled by the government too! I say, if you are at your home (without the presence of minors), not driving anywhere, just as rules apply for drinking alcohol. FIRE THAT BAD BOY UP! ...AND PUFF, PUFF, GIVE! :grin:
I smell a new anti-smoking commercial. Small band of indians sitting around a camp fire peacefully smoking. Along comes the army and kills them all. "See what happens when you smoke. Genocide, my anti-drug."
60 Minutes did a somewhat interesting story on medical marijuana in California, and the associated stores. It pretty much just proved the point that it's assinine that the Feds have limited their involvement to banning it for all purposes, and then wasting taxpayer resources on a benign drug. I simply can't believe their utilization of taxpayer resources in battling marijuana represents what Americans want. Heroin? Sure. Cocaine? Fine. Crystal meth? Absolutely. Instead, they focus on low-hanging fruit of marijuana. Typical politics, I suppose.
