Ron Paul and Barney Frank to introduce bill to legalize marijuana

[True Earthling]

Wow - hope it gets somewhere...

A group of US representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said Wednesday.

The legislation would limit the federal government's role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, and allow people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal.

The bill, which is expected to be introduced on Thursday by Republican Representative Ron Paul and Democratic Representative Barney Frank, would be the first ever legislation designed to end the federal ban on marijuana.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/lawmakers-introduce-bill-legalize-marijuana-225335489.html

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[TalkingDog]

1. Guess that old saw is true.

Politics makes strange bed fellows.

[donheld]

2. Who needs a job, let's just smoke some weed.

[Capitalocracy]

5. I wonder how many jobs legalizing weed would create.

Hmm...

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Who needs money for infrastructure or health care, let's just piss it away on the DEA.

$40 Billion a year. That's some gravy train!

And a lot of "Jobs", doing essential "work"--

i.e. keeping people from smoking a relatively harmless plant.

[Fly by night]

8. Yes, let's keep prohibition and call it the "Full employment for lawyers and prison guards" Act

Besides, all those folks who are carrying around a felony conviction for marijuana really didn't want to work anyway.

(Wish I had a "sarcasm" thingy for the truly clueless. Seems like it might come in handy here.)

[Rebubula]

9. Or...

...smoke some weed and still have a job.

I have a well paid job (IT of course - the natural career for intelligent stoners) and have been employed fully since highschool (1986) - and smoke pot most every day. Not at work or before work - but after and on the weekends. Just like most people with alcohol.


I am hoping that you just forgot a sarcasm or smiley icon....


If not - fuck you . Too many people that I know, or know of, are languishing in prison or relegated to low paying jobs due to a stupid possession conviction.

For smoking a plant that grows naturally...

[Le Taz Hot]

10. My MM doctor, also a cosmetic surgeon,

started issuing recommendations for MM patients in order to keep his doors open. I was told by the receptionist that, due to a tough economy, business was way down and they were close to going out of business. Then the doctor started issuing the MM recommendations. Not only did they stay in business they added 3 more jobs: 2 NP's and an office clerk.

As one who has smoked for 40 years, I've never had a problem getting or keeping a job, well, except now, with a local 17% unemployment rate and being 56 but that has nothing to do with pot smoking. I ingest pot so my arthritic fingers will work and the cool thing about it? I don't have to buy it.

Really, you do your credibility no favors by perpetuating Reefer Madness-type myths.

[meow mix]

12. ah someone is scared their supply of incarcerated human slaves will dry up

:puke:

[Hugabear]

3. Not going to get my hopes up just yet

It's just too logical. The religious Taliban elements in Congress will fight tooth-and-nail against this.

[apocalypsehow]

4. K & R. n/t.

[Mimosa]

6. Even 'conservatives' usually think the drug war a waste of resources . n/t

[iwishiwas]

11. But.....White House says the war is working – the war on drugs...

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/white-house-urged-by-world-leaders-to-end-the-war-on-drugs.html


White House says the war is working – the war on drugs


.............In 2009, during an online town hall meeting, Obama addressed a popular question regarding the legalization of marijuana. He kept his response short and not-so-sweet for some.

"There was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high, and that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation," the president said to laughter from the crowd. "And I don't know what this says about the online audience.

"The answer is, no, I don't think that is a good strategy to grow our economy," Obama said.

That was a reversal from what candidate Obama said in 2004, when he called the war on drugs "an utter failure," and although he did not believe marijuana should be legalized, he thought it should be decriminalized.

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RELATED:

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-- Tony Pierce
twitter.com/busblog

Photo: Members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy at a news conference in New York on Thursday.

Credit: Stan Honda / AFP-Getty Images

[Mimosa]

16. What a big flip flop.

First, let me say I don't smoke marijuana so there's nothing in this for me.

Legalising marijuana isn't about growing the economy. But I guess the President has bought into the idea that people need to be controlled by fear of jail. Of course that doesn't work.

[slay]

13. Glad they are trying

unfortunately wayyyy too many in congress are OWNED by big pharma - so this will never pass. :(

[lonestarnot]

14. As well as SCOTUS per today's ruling for big pharma.

No surprise there. Fuckers.

[meow mix]

15. theres a few blemishes on that leaf, and a possible pest id check for mite or thrip

damn things

[Taverner]

17. Good. It's about time congress did something positive

HRC and Lily Ledbetter are the only things Congress can claim to have passed that doesn't screw the whole country

[BrklynLiberal]

18. Tallk about "Strange Bedfellows"!!!!