In response to the Sunday commentary, "High-risk proposal": Cannabis prohibitionist, Dr. R.J. Petrella, echoed the prohibitionist government's lies, half-truths and propaganda right on queue but added enough additional discredited claims to make one believe that re-legalizing the plant equates to the end of the world. I'd like to say Colorado voters heard it all before and voted, but Dr. Pertella went over the top in a way that is just plain preposterous. One example is his rants about cannabis and cancer, which is interesting since cannabis has never caused a single case of cancer in more than 5,000 years of documented use. Compare that to cigarettes, which kill more than 1,000 Americans daily. A sane or moral argument to continue punishing responsible adults who choose to use the relatively safe, God-given plant simply doesn't exist. Stan White Dillon, Colo. [end]
DENVER - Nearly 60 million Americans may wake up Nov. 9 to find voters in their states have abolished long-standing marijuana prohibitions, a three-fold expansion for legal cannabis across the country. Another 24 million Americans could find themselves in states with newly legal medical marijuana use, a smaller but still significant expansion of legalized pot around the United States. Already, half of the states permit some form of medical marijuana use, and more than half of all Americans live in a state that has approved medical marijuana. [continues 55 words]
Krieger helped lead the way to legalization of medical marijuana To lose his legacy in a haze of legalized pot would be an injustice. Not that Grant Krieger isn't feeling lost enough these days, some seven years after he abandoned his crusade to use and supply medicinal marijuana, as a real and effective treatment for conditions like the multiple sclerosis he's battled for decades. "I could be better, and I could be worse, but I'm just so frustrated at the way things ended," says Krieger, from his home in Calgary. "I'm just a hermit now." Obviously he has the right to feel he didn't go far enough - but for those on the outside, including journalists who watched Krieger deliberately disobey the law in order to force Canada to reassess it's stance on marijuana, it's what the man started that should make him proud. [continues 581 words]
With regard to the legalizing of pot in our country. Will the Canadian government create a sub province where there is no smoking, no drinking and no drugging, and therefore no BS that goes with all that. I know we need money, but why don't we cut to the chase and have, ideally, no smoking, no drinking, no drugging, no Internet until after 40, no texting and no money. Sounds like peace. When I run for prime minister, that's the way it's got to be. I know, I know I won't get any votes. Oh well. More and more we humans as a species cannot handle the technological wonders the good Lord blesses us with. Oh ya, and bring back the Bible! David Gillard (Gotta ban dancing, too.) [end]
Support for weed legalization in the US recently hit an all-time high, but looking at the industry, it's been a long time coming. Sixty-percent of Americans - up from 35% in 2005 - now support legalization, according to a Gallup poll from Wednesday. In addition, legal marijuana is on the ballot in five states in November, support among likely voters is well above 50% in in California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada. Arizona, the fifth state with recreational marijuana appearing on the ballot, is polling at around 50% in support of legalizing. [continues 905 words]