Assembly Bill 390 to benefit economy
As the World Burns
Soheil Rezaee
Issue date: 3/2/09 Section: Features
If one were to look into the history of the prohibition of marijuana, one would realize that this war on drugs has been a lie from the beginning. Marijuana was tolerated in America until the 1930s, when an opportunist politician named Harry Anslinger waged a crusade using racist propaganda and demonization of entertainment figures.
Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City, fought back by commissioning the first real study of marijuana with the LaGuardia Committee. However, the war has continued ever since.
We have just ended an eight-year error and it's time to make the needed progression into a better society. It is ridiculous to continue prohibiting marijuana when leading intellectuals and Nobel Prize-winning economists have argued the futility of such policy.
If Assembly Bill 390 doesn't pass, we will know that promise of change was just a dream.
Hence, all we can do is sit back and watch the world burn. And no, you won't get high off the fumes.
Fiorello LaGuardia, mayor of New York City, fought back by commissioning the first real study of marijuana with the LaGuardia Committee. However, the war has continued ever since.
We have just ended an eight-year error and it's time to make the needed progression into a better society. It is ridiculous to continue prohibiting marijuana when leading intellectuals and Nobel Prize-winning economists have argued the futility of such policy.
If Assembly Bill 390 doesn't pass, we will know that promise of change was just a dream.
Hence, all we can do is sit back and watch the world burn. And no, you won't get high off the fumes.
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Jose
posted 3/02/09 @ 3:47 PM PST
Prohibition may be harmful to society at large, but it has been very profitable to certain special interests such as lawyers. One big problem is most politicians are lawyers. (Continued…)
K
posted 3/02/09 @ 11:02 PM PST
MARIJUANA GROWS UP TO 20 FEET A YEAR...REDUCE GLOBAL WARMING...REDUCE GLOBAL DISEASE THROUGH INCREASED OXYGEN...WHILE CONSUMING CO2...GROW WEED EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!
elias
posted 3/03/09 @ 5:17 PM PST
i am a ptient and i think its great that this law may pass and yes grow weed everywhere
Matt
posted 3/07/09 @ 11:31 PM PST
I agree, legalise weed, grow it everywhere. It will make a huge profit for the government (about $40 billion pear year) and it will make everyone happy! I hope they pass this bill and I hope Australia follows the example. (Continued…)
jesus
posted 3/09/09 @ 5:45 PM PST
GOD DAMN HIPPIES jk
Barrett Archer
posted 3/16/09 @ 4:42 AM PST
It's time to end the foolishness of prohibition. Make California strong again!
Zach
posted 3/24/09 @ 3:43 AM PST
The federal government should realize that the war on marijuana, that they've been waging for decades, has accomplished nothing but spending billions of dollars on pointless incarcerations, that if reversed could generate billions of dollars and jobs that this country is in serious need of, to get us out of the huge economic slump that our own government got us into. (Continued…)
stony delany
posted 7/03/09 @ 9:19 PM PST
the age should be 18... but it would still a HUGE leap forward
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