Thanks Babs, I know the feeling of being Busy . I run my own constrution company and working on opening a hydro store , so spare time is something I dont have alot of. But I said I would help with this and I'm here to the end . LOL if it passes I will be moving to NC .
Check this out:
A couple of days ago on tax day many Americans took part in a tea bag campaign. Many were protesting taxes, which had they looked past right wing propaganda and lies, they would have figured out that 95% of wage earners had actually been given a tax break since the first of April. Thank you President Obama. What is disturbing is that the right wing, special interest controlled media such as the local WLOS have failed to pick up on a different “protest” of those of us who are proud and supporting members of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform Of Marijuana Laws. Allen St Pierre delivered a Mock check in the amount of 14 billion dollars to the Treasury. That 14 billion dollars is the amount of taxes that could be collected if cannabis were legal for adult consumption. Yet even though there is overwhelming evidence that cannabis is neither the gateway drug nor nearly as addictive as coffee, the special interests from the Prison Industrial Komplex to the pulpit continue to promote prohibition. Considering that all the war on drugs has accomplished is the waste of over one trillion tax dollars, over 20 million non violent drug users incarcerated and enabled the drug cartels to amass wealth and weapons from their trade to destabilize Mexico and possibly pose a threat to us.
Of course the 14 billion dollars that could be collected by our government are only one aspect of this. If cannabis were legal - as it should be - OUR Nation would also save an estimated 25 billion annually on criminal justice savings. Currently the US makes up slightly less than 5% of the world’s population, yet we have the sorry distinction of having over 25% of the world’s prison population. Close to half of those are locked up for non violent, victimless possession only charges, yet those elected to serve US, THE PEOPLE continue to pander to the special interests. Currently there are over 2.4 million human beings incarcerated in the US, which is fewer people locked up here than in Communist China with over 4 times our population.
Whether independent, democrat or republican party affiliation, this issue transcends party politics. This is still OUR Nation those in Congress and the People’s House were elected to serve. Let US pay the taxes on cannabis and stop feeding the greedy and insatiable beast called the Prison Industrial Complex!
After 37 years of miserable failure, fear mongering and lies to “prosecute” the war on drugs and the even longer war on cannabis (1914 or 1937, take your pick when this insanity started) it is time for those in government to admit that this folly can not and will never work. The time to legalize cannabis is now and we the voters will be watching. It is no longer viable to continue this failure at our expense, while simultaneously ignoring the potential in tax revenue, not to mention the fact that legalizing drug use will put a severe dampener into the insane amounts of money and US made weapons that fuel the war on our southern border. Arturo Sarukhan, the Mexican Ambassador was asked by Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation (CBS Sunday April 12, 2009) whether marijuana should be legalized to eliminate one item from the drug cartels’ goods. While neither endorsing nor denying legalization he did make the point that both using and producing Nations need to address this openly and based on fact. Ambassador Sarukhan made the point that addressing this based on fact would benefit both Nations.
How much longer will Congress continue this insane and never ending nonsense that only benefits special Interests, such as GEO corporation which rakes in obscene profits by locking up people for something most of the country believe shouldn’t be a crime in the first place. How much longer will Congress attempt to legislate so-called “moral standards” when the entire process of running our country is nothing more than an immoral failure by those currently and previously charged with administering our affairs as a Nation!
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