3 Reasons to Legalize Pot Now! - Democratic Underground

Truth2Tell

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Wed Apr-21-10 03:18 AM
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3 Reasons to Legalize Pot Now!

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harry_pothead

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Wed Apr-21-10 03:36 AM
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1. K and fucking R.

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j420norcal

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Wed Apr-21-10 05:18 AM
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2. You're a day late

Happy belated 420

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Truth2Tell

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Wed Apr-21-10 12:05 PM
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6. It was still 420 in Hawaii when I posted.

:hi:

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zeemike

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Wed Apr-21-10 08:42 AM
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3. The number one reason why it will not be.

Too much money at stake.
Billions going to law enforcement and billions being made in private prisons....they do not want to have that tit taken away from them.

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Wed Apr-21-10 10:53 AM
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4. Don't forget, when we decriminalized pot, we must do the same for hemp

It can make clothing and rope, harming the cotton & synthetic textile industries. It can make paper, harming the logging industry. It can make oils for paints and varnishes, and potentially make biofuels, harming not only BigOil but BigAgri business. And people self-medicating from pot will harm the pharma and alcohol industries.

Too much lobbyist money, and thus power, in D.C. to let the American people have what they want.

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asdjrocky

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Wed Apr-21-10 11:31 AM
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5. Very good point.

Hemp can save the world.

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truedelphi

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Wed Apr-21-10 08:56 PM
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7. Sadly so much truth in that.

The seizures, with the assets sold off then going to "discretionary funding" for police departments and County officials. Also, the complete buy-outs by Mexican Drug cartels of banks in the USA.

The cartels clean up one family member, that person then puts on his best clothes and buys a big suburban mansion and a bank near by. then comes the control of the politicians who are running for local and state offices.

One reason that no one connected with Wall Street wants any transparency of what the banking business is all about is so much of the banking these days is laundered monies.

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zeemike

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Thu Apr-22-10 12:15 AM
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8. yep... legalizing drugs would blow that gig too.

but that is the natural flow in organized crime...to become businessmen.

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