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Online Voters Favor Legalization of Marijuana
Posted by CN Staff on August 23, 2002 at 07:46:52 PT
By Kevin Hall
Source: Georgetown News
Dude. Sixty-three percent of the 205 votes cast in a news-graphic.com poll favored some form of legalized marijuana, with 44 percent wanting it without restrictions and 19 percent for medical use only. Thirty-seven percent did not think it should be legalized at all.“I just think it isn’t worth all the regulations and very well may be less harmful than alcohol,” wrote Pam Miller on the Sound Off page. “Too many people use it to deny them the use in a free society.”
J. Jones agreed.“Marijuana is less harmful and addictive than tobacco,” Jones wrote. “It is less physically damaging than liquor. These are results shown by countless studies the U.S. government doesn’t want anyone to hear about.”Other countries have reported on marijuana’s uses in treating depression, anxiety disorders and pain relief for cancer patients and the terminally ill, Jones wrote.“All we are doing by keeping marijuana illegal is creating a black market full of crime and violence where other, actually harmful, drugs such as heroin and cocaine are distributed,” Jones continued. “We are denying our own economy millions of dollars in taxes and sales, giving it to the local crack dealers instead.”The medical benefits make marijuana worth legalizing, wrote Charles Bacon. “I have glaucoma, and I visit my sister in San Francisco, and I’m thinking of moving there to ease my pain,” he wrote.It’s not worth the risk, wrote Mendy Boehm.“Aren’t there enough illegal and prescription narcotics that are killing our youth already out there?” she asked. “Why in the world would we want to legalize another drug and condone the use of it? Just another way that we are giving in and conforming with society when we should be living not of worldly things.”Marijuana “ruins people’s lives,” wrote Chauncey Mason. “We shouldn’t just go off letting it all of a sudden be a legal plant. People plant it sneakingly enough, so why let now whoever wants to, plant it?”People favoring the legalization may have toked up once too often, wrote Hazel Sowers.“Enough brains burned up already,” she wrote. “The ones that want marijuana legalized are at least halfway there.”This week’s poll question is as follows: Should the Georgetown City Council have imposed a six-month moratorium on residential annexation? a) yes, the city’s rapid growth needs to be contained; b) yes, but only if a cost study on growth is held; c) no; d) other.Source: Georgetown News-Graphic (KY)Author: Kevin HallPublished: Friday, August 23, 2002 Website: http://www.news-graphic.com/Contact: http://www.news-graphic.com/soundoffCannabisNews - Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml
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Comment #3 posted by kanabys on August 23, 2002 at 11:23:55 PT
What????
Marijuana “ruins people’s lives,” wrote Chauncey Mason.Uh, NO! Prohibition ruins lives, B*tch!
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Comment #2 posted by st1r_dude on August 23, 2002 at 09:11:19 PT
amen, sister
"Just another way that we are giving in and conforming with society when we should be living not of worldly things.”not of worldly things...hey, that sounds like bad religion to me...thanks to my casual reading and numerous posts from others, i think in genesis it says for us humans to take the plants of the earth and use them as we wish...isn't cannabis a plant ?maroooooons - we're surrounded by morons - fortunately, some very keen people are fighting the battle against the war on some plants, and we're going to win...momentum for our cause is building fast, and the derivative of this momentum with respect to time (dM/dt) is still quite positive, hee hee...we can all make a positive contribution to this change everyday.hey, it's fryday and i'm happy despite the idiocy surrounding me. st1d for good.
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on August 23, 2002 at 09:02:53 PT
Off Topic from Snipped Paper
What are they going to do make Khat Teams?U.S. Seizures of Narcotic Shrub on the Rise 
By Donna Leinwand, USA TODAY
Khat, a narcotic leaf that has long been popular in East Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula, is becoming increasingly prevalent in the USA, largely because of an influx of immigrants from nations such as Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials say.
In 2001, U.S. Customs officials seized an unprecedented 82,000 pounds, more than double the amount seized five years earlier.
Khat seizures still don't compare with those of far more popular drugs such as marijuana. Customs officials seized about 1.5 million pounds of marijuana in 2001.
For the most part, the use of khat (pronounced COT) is limited to East African immigrant communities, but Internet chat sites used by teens and young adults indicate that interest in the leaf is spreading.
Those who chew the khat shrub's leaves and twigs typically become chatty and euphoric. When the drug wears off, they feel mildly depressed. The leaves contain cathine and cathinone, which mimic the effects of amphetamines. A synthetic version of the drug, called methcathinone, is produced in clandestine U.S. labs and is sold as an alternative to methamphetamine. It's made from ephedrine or pseudoephedrine, a chemical found in decongestants.
Khat is legal in much of Europe and East Africa and on the Arabian Peninsula. In the United States, however, it is classified as a highly controlled ''Schedule 1'' drug, as is heroin.
Khat branches, sold in bundles, cost $15 to $60 and are sold discretely in some stores and restaurants in Washington, D.C., New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas and elsewhere that cater to people from East Africa and the Middle East. The bundles also are sold through informal distribution networks among Somali, Kenyan and Yemeni immigrants.
The shrub is most potent right after it is harvested. Smugglers try to keep khat fresh by wrapping it in bundles of banana leaves. Khat generally is smuggled in luggage on aircraft and in overnight express mail packages, or it is hidden in vegetable crates and shipped in air cargo.
Complete Article: http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20020823/4387623s.htm
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