See other Editorial Articles
Title: Drug czar: There are no good reasons to legalize marijuana (Here's the truth we all know)
Source:
[None]
URL Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/ ... reasons-to-legalize-marijuana/
Published: May 2, 2012
Author: Eric W. Dolan
Post Date: 2012-05-02 23:52:50 by tom007
Keywords: None
Views: 464
Comments: 14
Drug czar: There are no good reasons to legalize marijuana By Eric W. Dolan Wednesday, May 2, 2012 17:13 EDT Print Gil Kerlikowske official portrait Topics: center for american progress ♦ R. Gil Kerlikowske ♦ reasons to legalize marijuana R. Gil Kerlikowske, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, on Tuesday denied there was any reason the United States should regulate marijuana the same way it regulates alcohol. “There are no good reasons to legalize marijuana,” he said at an event hosted by the Center for American Progress. “I often hear about tax, regulate and control as an answer,” Kerlikowske continued. “And then I look at prescription drugs — which as I mentioned take over fifteen thousand lives a year, let alone the number of people who come into emergency departments and the number of people that are treated — and prescription drugs are already taxed, are already regulated, are already controlled and we do a very poor job of keeping them out of the hands of abusers and young people.” “So I don’t see that we would do a very good job with a substance that can easily evade the tax scheme because it doesn’t take rocket science to grow marijuana.” Residents of Colorado and Washington will vote on a ballot initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in November. A similar ballot initiative failed in California in 2010. Watch video, clipped by the Marijuana Policy Project, below:
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: All (#0)
Where to start? I guess if 5000 deaths were to pot each year, he might have a point. The Pill Mills exist because, usually, the regulators want them to. And make a collossial amount of money. Gil is correct. Those who have a vested interest in maintaining the Schedule 1 status of cannabis could never be trusted to implement and run a successful program which by design would cripple their gravy train. His comment is an indictment of the bureaucracy he serves. On the other hand, those of us who actively support legalization of cannabis have workable plans which would benefit the citizenry as well as the tax coffers. ‘Gentlemen, if you’ve ever thought about it, the quality of a man’s life is directly proportionate to his commitment to excellence.’ ~Vince Lombardi
LEAP.cc bump
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson This is one of many issues that reveals the fault lines of curruption in the Obama Administration. Obama's people have been undermining state's rights on cannabis since he took office. This is one main reason he ain't getting my support this time. What?????? Ferret, say it aint so???? Good heavens what is this world coming to? Nothing is sacred anymore.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice...
You still have that bike you had twelve years ago, or therebouts????
I have several very nice old racing and touring bicycles. The oldest on I have I've had the longest I bought in 1973 for 425.00. It is a Windsor Professional. Is my predilection for hanging on to bicycles what you make reference to? I don't collect political baggage like I do bicycles. Well, the motor bike I recall is the one you use to post on Freak Republic many years ago. Back when photos first starting being posted. My olde dialup took forever to print.
It was probably that machine or my Austro Daimler Superleicht, a champagne colored machine with cromed lugs and fork crown made in Austria probably. I still have that one too. my favorite these days is my Ferrari red Cinelli Super Corsa made in 1988 with a campy Chorus groupo. It is a nice bike worth more then some people's cars. ;-) (I bought the AD in 1980.) I was just over at the Free Republic perusing their anti-Romney diatribes. Sure seems like yesterday when i was a member then an irritating returning bannee JohnRob especially loves to hate. I don't think the GOP is ever going to forgive the Free republic on their anti-Romney stand this year. The smell of conservative fratricide hangs in the air this year like the scent of napalm did in the air of Vietnam in the late 1960s. your tag graphic...funny :)
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
gee, then this video must be fake I suppose from the comments section: In 2003 the federal government awarded theDepartment of Health and Human Services a patent on marijauna. Google: Department of Health and Human Services patent #6,630,507, “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants. Though to the government, marijauna is still a schedule I narcotic with NO MEDICAL USE. I've met several members of LEAP at events over the years. They are honest men taking a courageous stand. I respect their integrity and appreciate that they are willing to stand with us on this issue. ‘Gentlemen, if you’ve ever thought about it, the quality of a man’s life is directly proportionate to his commitment to excellence.’ ~Vince Lombardi
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
#2. To: tom007 (#0)
Kerlikowske: “So I don’t see that we would do a very good job with a substance that can easily evade the tax scheme because it doesn’t take rocket science to grow marijuana.”
#3. To: Buzzard (#2)
#4. To: tom007 (#1)
#5. To: Ferret (#4)
This is one main reason he ain't getting my support this time.
#6. To: Cynicom (#5)
(Edited)
#7. To: Ferret (#6)
#8. To: Cynicom (#7)
(Edited)
#9. To: Ferret (#8)
#10. To: Cynicom (#9)
(Edited)
#11. To: Cynicom (#9)
#12. To: Ferret (#6)
#13. To: tom007 (#0)
~ the truth will set ya free, but only after it pisses ya off ~
#14. To: Lod (#3)
LEAP.cc bump
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest