After my deep research about the marijuana around the internet, I would like to post about my research.
War on Drugs
My opinion about the War on Marijuana, it has never, NEVER, solve anything except for destroying people's lives and their families, even death, and cause pothead became panic and hard to trust other new people which cause them islotated themselves. Also, my opinion, marijuana doesn't kill anyone (not even one, in the fact), but war on marijuana does kill.
Here's some of examples.
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Casey Matthews was arrested in his home in North Carolina and convicted of trafficking marijuana by possession, manufacturing marijuana, maintaining a vehicle/ dwelling for sale/delivery. His sentence is a minimum mandatory sentence of 25 to 30 months.
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A friend of mine was in a bad situation. I chose to help because I don't believe there is anything morally or ethically wrong with marijuana and it would have helped a friend in dire straits...
... I was dragged out of the house, thrown to the ground, restrained while the team secured the house. After searching, they read the warrant and proceeded to try to obtain information. I responded that I simply had nothing to say until my lawyer was present. I was taken to the county jail, booked, and placed under a $100,000 bond. (a man who was charged with rape was only given a $30,000 bond)
Casey Matthews - NORML
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Rita Faye Quick was arrested in North Carolina for trafficking, distribution, repackaging, maintaining a dwelling, and conspiracy involving 220+ pounds of marijuana. Ms. Quick was sentenced to 140 to 168 months, which was reduced to 105 to 126 months through an appeal. The other parties involved spent no time in jail, and were sentenced to six months probation in exchange for their testimony against Ms. Quick.
At the time of her arrest Ms. Quick was a 43 year old single parent of two young daughters. She was a full-time homemaker, and also an outspoken activist for the legalization of marijuana in her hometown.
Rita Faye Quick - NORML
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Richard Armstrong was arrested in September of 1993 after attempting to buy marijuana. He is currently serving his 8th year of a 30-80 year sentence at the Ross Correctional Institution in Ohio after being convicted on four counts: 1) Engaging in Corrupt Acts, 2) Drug Trafficking, 3) Possession of a Criminal Tool, and 4) Theft. Since his incarceration, Richard has developed terminal cancer, been separated from his wife, and found it difficult to see his 10-year old son, Aaron, and his 82-year old mother. Although Richard is up for parole in February 2005, he is likely to die in prison.
Richard Armstrong - NORML
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John Adams
Shot to death during a SWAT drug raid while watching TV. The house didn't match the description on the warrant.
Xavier Bennett
Xavier was accidentally shot to death by officers in a pre-dawn drug raid during a gunfight with one of Xavier's relatives.
Delbert Bonnar
Shot 8 times by police in drug raid. They were looking for his son.
(keep going, click this link Drug War Victims)
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War on Drugs is not cool, and are very sad.
If the war on marijuana doesn't help, why does the marijuana remain illegal?
Well the marijuana are on the Schelude 1, which the marijuana does not fix in at all. Here's what the Schelude 1 said.
First of all, there are very rarely people who are pothead that are abusive compare to alcohol which most of alcoholism tend to be emotionally and abusive.
Secondly, recently the health studied that the marijuana help many of pains people have, even some of people said that the marijuana helps better than the pain killer pills, also it help the glacuomca, and even the cancers.
Thirdly, see the first and second again.
So of course, the marijuana doesn't fix in the Schelude 1 at all. Also remember, this is from 1970s and it is too old for the modern world today with higher health study and more.
Other reason why it was illegal, which I suspect, is the money. Governments love the money so they prefer to keep the marijuana illegal so they can receive money from the fines against the people who was arrested for smoking the marijuana. This, my opinion, is really terrible. I would rather to see people happily shop for the marijuana from a nice Mary Jane store and it keep the ecomonic boom, also what's wrong with the taxes instead of the fines? It's better for us to see that over those people who pay the fines and sleeping in the ugly concrete building.
If marijuana should be legal, why it was illegal while the alcohol was legal?
I do suspect over the government about the money through this question again. Remember, the governments want more arrests so they can get more money from the fines. Since the marijuana does not cause emotionally or abusive, the alcohol does so there will be more arrests for violence, rape, murder, etc which serve the governments more money from the fines. That's why I never like the governments that much myself.
Well isn't alcohol enough for the people to buy and screw themselves up legal?
Believe it or not, most of people don't drink and smoke the marijuana at the same time, most of people prefer the marijuana at a time or the alcohol at a time. There's fewer people who drink and smoke the marijuana at the same time, even some people dislike alcohol, but like marijuana!
What if they legalize the marijuana, more people, especially teenagers, smoke it?
First of all, since some of states had decriminalized the marijuana, the amounts of arrests nor numbers of potheads doesn't increase that much.
Also, in fact, there's more teenagers drinking the alcohol which lead them to be alcoholism when they turn into 21 which lead them into being emotionally and abusive. My opinion, as my personal pothead friends who raised with pothead parents, they are not abusive or emotionally and they continue as pothead today and still friendly people, they just want to have fun. The only thing I see them become emotionally is when they become panic when they are facing to be arrested.
If there are people who have problem with the marijuana, what can we do?
My opinion, it's people's choice to consider their habit with marijuana as problem or not. Just like the alcohol, some people don't feel like they have problem with the alcohol even though they do, some of them feel they do have alcohol problem. But since the marijuana seems doesn't cause emotionally or abusive, there will be fewer people who have the problem with the marijuana compare to the alcohol.
Is there any way I can support to legal the marijuana?
Yes! Go to
Marijuana Law Reform - NORML, you can find many interesting stuff there and they just kept updating any news or alerts to request the support, help you find lawyer, help you to keep away from being arrested, etc.