On the quiet [D/L], the US is legalising marijuana

[keep_it_real]

You know things are shifting in America when Fortune magazine, the bible for business journalism, runs a cover story titled “Is pot already legal?”. You also know it when Barack Obama’s Department of Justice publishes a long-expected memo signalling that the federal government will no longer raid medical marijuana dispensaries if they are legal under state law. That happened formally this month.

In 1970, 84% of Americans supported keeping marijuana illegal. Today, that number has collapsed to 54%.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6897958.ece

[rurallib]

1. Hope they are getting some taxes if it is.

Could be a real boost. (would they be termed HIGHER taxes?)

[forum slut]

2. The US is more fascist about weed today than it ever was.

just my opinion but I think it's pretty obvious.

[Nay]

11. Yeah. Tell me about it. If you all out there think pot is legal, go out

and smoke some in public sometime, or carry around a pipe with some residue in it. They're still busting anybody they can.

[Ruby the Liberal]

3. About time. nt

[polichick]

4. Makes me sad to think of the people hurt by the ridiculous War on Weed. nt

[Fumesucker]

5. Let me know when cannabis is removed from Schedule 1 status..

Anything less than that is just smoke and mirrors.

[FatDave]

16. That it's categorized as Scedule I is simply insane.

Worse than cocaine, morphine, methamphetamine and Dilaudid? Yeah, fucking right.

[Taitertots]

6. Medical Marijuana is stupid

Coming from someone whose mother had cancer, used medical marijuana, and recently passed.

We should be fighting so adults can ingest a relatively harmless plant without government retribution. Sick, Healthy, and anywhere in between.

[Joe the Liberal]

7. HA!....

In a country that can barely pass health care reform for it's own citizens, it is laughable to think that it can legalize marijuana.

[Geek_Girl]

8. I have heard from others who work in the IT world and who have contacted with the Philip Moris

that they are already set up for production in their factories.

[tridim]

14. It's probably true, but people have been saying that since the 70's

I'll never buy that crap.

[Obamanaut]

9. If it becomes legal on the face of the land of America will it let us

see the superior million year old beings who brought us here through an experiment that looks like it has failed miserably so maybe they will take us back?

[Swamp Rat]

12. duuuuude!

:smoke:

[Obamanaut]

15. Couldn't help myself. There's this, and a few from last week

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=6886927

[tridim]

13. self delete

[notadmblnd]

10. My 18 yr old nice was just busted for possession

Stupid girl said she and her friends had just finished up a "clam bake" and drove off and the cops pulled her over. All she got was a ticket. No jail, no community service. I would have thought the least she would have gotten was a DUI, but no, just 180.00 fine.

I told her that if she had lived with me should would have known that under no circumstances do you smoke in a car.

[FatDave]

17. I have a hunch that the "just a ticket" rule applies most frequently to 18 year old girls.

Unless it was a local cop in, say, Madison, WI.