Taaw184
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Aug 21, 2008, 11:37 PM
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I made this for my myspace political forum post..
Hello, I'm Jacob. I'm a 16 year old male who lives in Houston, Texas. Today, July 30'th congress is taking a serious look at marijuana prohibition so I bring up this post.
In my life school and the media have fed me lies about marijuana, they say it's a horrible evil drug, "one joint is as bad for you as 4 cigarettes", and so much more ignorant crap.
Are you for the decriminalization of pot (not legalization) but decriminalization?
As of right now, it's easier for me to go buy a bag of weed than it is to obtain tobacco or alcohol. Whenever you prohibit something (alcohol is another example) you're turning control of the market to dealers, and dealers do not card you. Regulation is obviously better than prohibition.
And then in my school I'm told marijuana is a horrible drug that can do so much damage to you. Well, what happens when kids go and try pot and realize it's not this horrible, demonic drug? Then they may go try methanphetamine or opium not knowing those substances are very addictive and bad for you because they've been told lies about marijuana. Now we have more hardcore drug users.
Marijuana is a safe drug. You can not overdose from it, it is impossible. You do not suffer withdraws from not having marijuana and the damage on the lungs isn't much of a problem. If you've seen some of Above the Influences commercials they try to tell you one joint is as bad as four cigarettes. What they don't tell you is it's the rolling paper, specifically the glue on the paper that has bad toxins. Marijuana along is less damaging than tobacco and has less carcinogens (cancer causing).
No one has EVER died from marijuana use.
Annual drug deaths per year:
Tobacco: 450,000+
Alcohol: 100,000+
Aspirin: 1,000+
Caffeine: 5,000+
Legal drug use: 27,000+
Illicit (illegal) drug use: 5,200+
Marijuana: Zero
Lets talk for a second about why marijuana was even made illegal.
You might assume marijuana was made illegal after the brilliant US Government did advanced testing over it or heard valid testimony, sorry but no.
In 1937, Harry J. Aslinger went in front of the U.S. Congress and said:
"There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others"
"...the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."
"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."
"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
OH and we can't leave out Aslingers personal theory.
"In the year 1090, there was founded in Persia the religious and military order of the Assassins, whose history is one of cruelty, barbarity, and murder, and for good reason: the members were confirmed users of hashish, or marihuana, and it is from the Arabs' 'hashashin' that we have the English word 'assassin."
Marijuana usage has been dated back to as early as 8000BC and has been illegal for less than 1% of the time it's been used.
In Amsterdam where marijuana is legal they have 40% less marijuana usage than the USA.
In states with medical marijuana laws enacted teenage marijuana usage has gone DOWN. For all of you who say it's legalization or decriminalization would lead to more usage.
As a matter of fact, it was illegal NOT to grow marijuana if you were a farmer in the US from the late 1700's to the late 1800's. At that time marijuana was used for clothes, food and much more as it can still be used today.
Hemp is a form of marijuana with low potency THC so you can't get high from it.
One acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of tree pulp. This pulp can be used for making paper. So save trees, use hemp.
The Declaration of Independence is a piece of marijuana.
Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by Thomas Jefferson at Monticello.
"Some of my finest hours have been spent on the back of my veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as the eye can see."-Thomas Jefferson, 1781
""Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere." -President George Washington, 1794"
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
Marijuana has been proven to be less intoxicating than alcohol, yet alcohol is legal and marijuana is not.
Marijuana can be used to make fuel, just like corn. Except corn is a plant that rapes the soil, it produces very little fuel at a costly price, opposed to marijuana which is exceptionally easier to grow and bears much more of a result.
Let's take a look at the Gateway Theory. If you try marijuana you'll most likely try harder drugs. Bull according to the U.S. National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (which measures patters and frequency of self-reported drug use among Americans) the majority of people who smoked pot did not go on to harder drugs. - http://www.rand.org/news/press.02/gateway.html
"Statistically, for every 104 Americans who have tried marijuana, there is only one regular user of cocaine, and less than one user of heroin," St. Pierre said. "For the overwhelming majority of marijuana smokers, pot is clearly a 'terminus' rather than a gateway."
Let's take a looksie at the Above the Influence commercials.
Notice they manipulate the human mind by filling it with guilt. Their commercials aren't fact based, just little videos of people who feel depressed or sad that they or a relative did marijuana, there's never any explanation. It's more like subliminal messaging than fact based truths.
Well, lets here some other opinions.
Aka- Snort It
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