The Cannabis Debate

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<h1 style="margin-top: 0pt;"> The cannabis debate... </h1>

<h4 class="grey">Posted By Submitted</h4> <h5 class="grey">Posted 10 hours ago</h5> Dear Editor,

 

One beneficial component of legalizing cannabis (marijuana) that doesn’t get mentioned online (Marijuana - Time To Make It Legal? Panel Says Yes, May 25, 2009) is that it will lower hard drug addiction rates. DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) will have to stop brainwashing youth into believing lies, half-truths and propaganda concerning cannabis, which create grave problems in the future.

 

How many citizens try cannabis and realize it’s not nearly as harmful as taught in DARE-type government environments? Then they think other substances must not be so bad either, only to become addicted to deadly drugs. The old out-dated lessons make cannabis out to be among the worst substances in the world, even though it’s less addictive than coffee and has never killed a single person.

 

The federal government even classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance along with heroin, while methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances. For the health and welfare of America’s children and adults, that dangerous and irresponsible message absolutely must change.

 

Further, regulated cannabis sales would make it so that citizens who purchase cannabis would not come into contact with people who often also sell hard drugs, which would lower hard drug addiction rates.

 

Stan White

 

Dillon, Colo.

 

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[jimbojones5678]

The federal government even classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance along with heroin, while methamphetamine and cocaine are only Schedule II substances. For the health and welfare of America’s children and adults, that dangerous and irresponsible message absolutely must change.

 

Didn't know that, very interesting and stupid to boot...

 

Jimbo

[hawaiiankorn]

Good Point...another argument is that cannabis is said to be a gateway drug,,,yet making it only available through illegal dealers who also sell cocaine etc... is the reason why it could be considered a gateway,,,what would dealers prefer, a cannabis customer or a cocaine addict, the illegal dealers try to make it a gateway and push the hard stuff to mellow burners...

 

 

legalize it

 

ALOHA

[BaronS]

actually, IME, most decent dope peddlers want to sell dope and don't much care about the rest.

 

'middlemen' and organised crime want to get the hooks in.

 

Legalisation, or at a minimum decriminalisation, of pot would put most of the scum out of business.