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Topic: pot decriminalized possibility
yellowrose10's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:12 PM


or I'm just grumpy laugh


well gte ya some pot it will mellow ya out :wink:

laugh laugh laugh

flowerforyou flowerforyou


laugh I'll pass laugh

adj4u's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:16 PM



or I'm just grumpy laugh


well gte ya some pot it will mellow ya out :wink:

laugh laugh laugh

flowerforyou flowerforyou


laugh I'll pass laugh


make sure there is no oncoming traffic :wink:


FearandLoathing's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:18 PM


really the reason why its illegal is because blacks were smoking it, the government want to control and lock up people. to whom every disagrees with me look it up.


actually it was illegals from mexico

if you look it up you will find this out

and the way it became illegal in the first place was they made a tax stamp for it

then never issued any of them thus prohibiting the sale of it

this was just after the fed rsrv was in powered

is there a link ?????? you tell me

maybe i am over thinking it


Been awhile since I read it, but I was pretty sure it was based more towards mexicans than blacks...pretty sure blacks were targeted with cocaine.

Either way it really is just a theory, the tax stamp was a joke...did you know that is still around in some states? I actually mustered up enough courage to try and get one in Utah, amazingly I actually got it.laugh

supermike48's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:20 PM
i think i seen that on the history channel.

adj4u's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:22 PM
A little history - Marijuana started to come into the United States in the 1920s along with Mexican immigrants. These immigrants grew marijuana which cause some concern among people in the vicinity of where they worked. This is why some of the first anti-marijuana laws, occurred in, places, such as Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Michigan.

Marijuana Tax StampIn the early 1930s, when the Great Depression hit, people started to fear these Mexican immigrants to the point people actually tried to get them to go back to Mexico. Mexican immigrants were thought to be undercutting Americans for jobs, plus it was widely thought that these people were taking marijuana, into town on the weekends, and introducing the population to marijuana convincing people to try it. The average American in the 30's felt these drug users were the reason for many of the criminal problems in their cities. Even researchers, who were rational about most things thought marijuana use, was a very serious problem back then.


http://www.herbalsmokecafe.com/marijuana-tax-stamps.html

FearandLoathing's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:25 PM

i think i seen that on the history channel.


Again, it is a theory.

supermike48's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:25 PM
anyone every seen reefermadness. its tells of how weed leads to murder, which really fair from the truth

adj4u's photo
Wed 07/15/09 05:28 PM
THE MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937

Full Text of the Marihuana Tax Act as passed in 1937

Introduction (in italics) by David Solomon

The popular and therapeutic uses of hemp preparations are not categorically prohibited by the provisions of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. The apparent purpose of the Act is to levy a token tax of approximately one dollar on all buyers, sellers, importers, growers, physicians, veterinarians, and any other persons who deal in marijuana commercially, prescribe it professionally, or possess it............

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/mjtaxact.htm


warmachine's photo
Wed 07/15/09 09:25 PM
It's really quite simple.

We have an inordinate budget shortfall across both state and federal lines. Legalizing marijuana along a recreational use would offer up one taxable line, but theres more. It would open up the industrial hemp market. Plastics, clothing, other textiles. As a country whose industrial base is being shipped far and wide, the legalization could reopen markets to americans for americans that hasn't been seen since Nafta.

Farmers would have an instant cash crop.

Products made from hemp would be biodegradeble, making the greenies happy.

There are alot of people who given the option would toke the weed rather than booze, but regardless there will always be a segment of people who seek to manipulate themselves chemically.
Would you rather face a pliant, munchy motivated pothead or a unpredictable drunk?

Regardless of all that info, I'm of the opinion that government should stay the hell out of my house. If I'm not hurting anyone or myself, then government should go away. Besides, they've been neglecting their Constitutional duties anyway.

adj4u's photo
Thu 07/16/09 12:03 AM

It's really quite simple.

We have an inordinate budget shortfall across both state and federal lines. Legalizing marijuana along a recreational use would offer up one taxable line, but theres more. It would open up the industrial hemp market. Plastics, clothing, other textiles. As a country whose industrial base is being shipped far and wide, the legalization could reopen markets to americans for americans that hasn't been seen since Nafta.

Farmers would have an instant cash crop.

Products made from hemp would be biodegradeble, making the greenies happy.

There are alot of people who given the option would toke the weed rather than booze, but regardless there will always be a segment of people who seek to manipulate themselves chemically.
Would you rather face a pliant, munchy motivated pothead or a unpredictable drunk?

Regardless of all that info, I'm of the opinion that government should stay the hell out of my house. If I'm not hurting anyone or myself, then government should go away. Besides, they've been neglecting their Constitutional duties anyway.



check the correlation of when the federal reserve was established and the beginning of major liberty injustices perpatrated by the federal government in the name os safety --- thus the roll of mommy and daddy being reversed and instead of the people beng the parent of govt the govt became the parent of the people


just a thought

but hey

what do i know

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warmachine's photo
Thu 07/16/09 12:09 AM


It's really quite simple.

We have an inordinate budget shortfall across both state and federal lines. Legalizing marijuana along a recreational use would offer up one taxable line, but theres more. It would open up the industrial hemp market. Plastics, clothing, other textiles. As a country whose industrial base is being shipped far and wide, the legalization could reopen markets to americans for americans that hasn't been seen since Nafta.

Farmers would have an instant cash crop.

Products made from hemp would be biodegradeble, making the greenies happy.

There are alot of people who given the option would toke the weed rather than booze, but regardless there will always be a segment of people who seek to manipulate themselves chemically.
Would you rather face a pliant, munchy motivated pothead or a unpredictable drunk?

Regardless of all that info, I'm of the opinion that government should stay the hell out of my house. If I'm not hurting anyone or myself, then government should go away. Besides, they've been neglecting their Constitutional duties anyway.



check the correlation of when the federal reserve was established and the beginning of major liberty injustices perpatrated by the federal government in the name os safety --- thus the roll of mommy and daddy being reversed and instead of the people beng the parent of govt the govt became the parent of the people


just a thought

but hey

what do i know

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smokin drinker

earthytaurus76's photo
Thu 07/16/09 12:11 AM
I likes dem french fried taters mmmmm hmmmm.

Moondark's photo
Thu 07/16/09 01:30 AM
I will never use it. But I agree that it should be decriminalized.

handyhippie65's photo
Sun 07/19/09 11:08 PM
i saw this and almost cried.biggrin the only laws i break, are the pot laws,:angel: and i would be so happy not to have my own government think i am the enemy! being an outlaw is much better in theory!:thumbsup:

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