Look Who’s Speaking Out For Marijuana Reform

[Panich52]

Look Who’s Speaking Out For Marijuana Reform

"Because of conflicting federal and state laws concerning marijuana, we encourage the federal government to remove marijuana from the list of 'Schedule 1' federal controlled substances and to appropriately regulate it, providing a reasoned pathway for future legalization. We believe that the states should be laboratories of democracy on the issue of marijuana, and those states that want to decriminalize it or provide access to medical marijuana should be able to do so. We support policies that will allow more research on marijuana, as well as reforming our laws to allow legal marijuana businesses to exist without uncertainty. And we recognize our current marijuana laws have had an unacceptable disparate impact in terms of arrest rates for African Americans that far outstrip arrest rates for whites, despite similar usage rates." - 2016 Democratic Party Platform[I/]


"[Past marijuana use is] the number one disqualifier for police applicants in Baltimore... We can hold all the job fairs we want in West Baltimore and in East Baltimore, and we can get people to the table to take the test. But when they go to the prescreening interview, and they say they've smoked marijuana above the threshold that was established back in the '70s, they're permanently disqualified. And that's a source of frustration for me." — Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis

[Eleanors38]

1. The WOD: Government program designed specifically for the control of blacks...

and leftist activists. Supported by both parties and minority community leadership, it works as intended. That is all. You are dismissed.

[Panich52]

2. Was part of Nixon's paranoid "counter-attack" against damn hippies

[mitch96]

4. Some other reasons

Was Hemp was threatening the cotton industry back in the '30's . It was less expensive and stronger and Big Cotton would have nothing of it.. Twist some arms in Washington and fund a dying federal agency and "poof"...

http://www.collective-evolution.com/2012/12/05/how-hemp-became-illegal-the-marijuana-link/

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[Panich52]

5. I was talking War on Drugs in 70s ...

Weed prohibition had many factors. Hemp (DuPont & rope), Anslinger's moral & other personal reasons, and racial (assoc w/ black musicians & their supposedly corrupting jazz in speakeasies).

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

3. I'd trust a cop who smokes above a cop who doesn't.

They're more likely to move just a little bit slower during a bust, and they're liable to be less angry...