Legalize Marijuana?

[bobandtorey]

 

Off the Record | 4131 | 2012-01-27

 

attorney Matthew Abel. He's launching a statewide petition drive to legalize marijuana. With John Lindstrom, Bill Ballenger and Rick Pluta.

 

http://www.wkar.org/offtherecord/program/4131/

 

 

about 14:20 into it

[bobandtorey]

Cox pot admission should spark reform

 

 

January 28, 2012 at 1:00 am

 

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120128/OPINION01/201280314/Editorial-quick-hits-Dump-parking-bill?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

 

 

So Mike Cox smoked pot when he was in college? That gives the former attorney general, who made the admission during a forum on legalizing marijuana at Wayne State University on Friday, something in common with most men his age who attended college. The widespread recreational use of marijuana at one time or another by people across the demographic spectrum should provide an opening for a serious discussion of a petition drive to legalize pot.

 

It would be a fine time for leaving entrenched positions and examining the cost/benefit ratio of continuing the futile war on marijuana. At the very least it should move the needle on revising this state's confusing legislation on medical marijuana.

[Croppled1]

We know over 50% of americans have used cannabis at least once in their life . It is mind boggling laws with penalties as harsh as they are exist including denying medical access ever were passed in the first place . Random drug testing pretty much only exists at the blue collar level reflecting class privilage . 80 years ago Congress made a terrible mistake legislating a moral ideal thus creating a artificial crime both Jefferson and LIncoln warned about. .