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Topping the White House’s New Online Petition Site? Marijuana Legalization

Sep. 24, 2011 3:45pm Madeleine Morgenstern

Topping the White Houses New Online Petition Site? Marijuana Legalization Everyone probably should have seen this coming.

Earlier this month, The Blaze reported on the White House’s new “We the People” tool, which allows people to create their own online petitions on any issue they choose.

If a petition garners 5,000 signatures within 30 days, the White House promises lawmakers will automatically review it and the Obama administration will issue an official response on the subject.

The site went live Thursday. The first petition to cross the 5,000 signature threshold? One advocating for marijuana legalization.

“Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol? If not, please explain why you feel that the continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?” the petition reads.

By midday Saturday, the petition had reached nearly 30,000 signatures and was the most popular petition on the site.

Three similar petitions, which have also broken the 5,000 signature barrier, advocate for marijuana legalization as well.

The second most popular petition is one that calls for abolishing the Transportation Security Administration and instead using its “monstrous budget” to fund “more sophisticated, less intrusive counter-terrorism intelligence.

Other top petitions include removing the words “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance and the words “In God We Trust” from U.S. currency. The Pledge of Allegiance petition stood at more than 10,000 signatures Saturday, and the currency petition had more than 7,000.

The administration has yet to issue a response to any of the petitions.

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drmda
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:43pm
Petition to keep “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance.
http://wh.gov/4lA

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Donttredonme
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:39pm
anyone against legalizing pot is against freedom and the constitution

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- Faith1029
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:52pm
  OMG!!!!! This is too unbelievable to even comment!!
  
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- Mr.Fitnah
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:54pm
  Legalize it and restart the hemp industry as well well can have renewable fuel from hemp diesel, paper and fabric made in America. That’s jobs and taxes
  
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- Donttredonme
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:54pm
  how am I a liar?
  
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- YesNdeedie
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:03pm
  You’ve apparently had one to many doobies I see.
  
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- Donttredonme
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:06pm
  a. the original Aramaic recipe for the holy anointing oil contained Cannabis…IN THE BIBLE
  b. We legalized it during WW2 for hemp production…almost if not all allied parachutes were made from cannabis fiber
  c. find me in the constitution where it says the Feds have the right to regulate individual consumption…and if you do find it..please don’t complain if obama bans trans fats national.
  
  sigh*…..I could go on forever as to why you need to shut up about weed
  
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- HellPhish89
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:09pm
  i wouldnt go that far but the whole idea of being an American is the the ability to choose for ones self (see: personal responsibility). if you decide to smoke weed (which is safer than tobacco and alcohol), so be it. and i have never smoked in my life.
  
  it is NOT up to the govt to say “we know whats good for you.”
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:19pm
  What a joke. Only I’m not laughing.
  
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- Donttredonme
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:22pm
  if you are just gonna say somthing stupid like “this is a joke” and not debunk anything i said (which is still all true and available for people who know how to read) than such you just sound like a dumb hick
  
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- voice in the wild
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:22pm
  I agree on the freedom issue , it should be an adults choice, as is alcohol. Our jails and prisons are full of people that just wanted to munch out on some Dorito’s and Pepsi.. :)
  
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- avenger
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:25pm
  what ? you think we do not have enough dopers/morons in the USA..
  
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- tedwoodshed
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:43pm
  Well, if you are not going to enforce the law (federal government not going after the states legalizing it) they should be able to get more tax dollars for it.
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:55pm
  -donttread
  
  Pipe down there sparky, wasn’t talking about you. By the way…
  
  “than such you just sound like a dumb hick”
  
  You’re right. I can’t read. Not that quote at least. But this dumb hick only knows English grammar.
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:05pm
  Might be just a little bit too inflamatory but no-knock warrants and property forfeiture laws where you still lose your property even if found NOT guilty make me almost comfortable agreeing with this statement.
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:19pm
  I agree !!
  Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. The unalienable or inalienable rights are those human rights which are unconditional and absolute…
  
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- Thevoice
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:26pm
  Here’s the big issue in general. What the “New age progressive communist” is doing through their “Over Regulation” of everything …is to create soft black markets now for the over tax over regulated items. I believe we are a couple years away from seeing a major growth in black market goods and some services. The biggest will probably be in medicines. Followed by alcoholic beverages smokes of all kinds. and any specialized service industry which will be taxed higher in the next year or two by the communists. Fuel and gas stations will be in this group. Home fuels and the delivery system for it will be another. Along with this will come higher crime to steal these higher priced goods …Mark the date and see if this isn’t going to be a growing problem by the time
  Berry Obama leaves the white house…
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:28pm
  I have never drank beer or any other alcoholic beverage. I have never smoked a cigarette, cigar or anything else smoke-able. I have never done any illegal or illicit drug. Heck, I have never even had any pharmaceutical drug prescribed to me by a doctor. It’s about responsibility and discipline. Individual freedom.
  
  Apparently anti-hemp folks have drank the kool-aid provided by MSNBC and other media sites. It’s so sweet, isn’t it? Well, here’s the bitter truth. We liberty supporters want to legalize Hemp, industrial hemp. Yeah, that hemp. The one our Founding Fathers used to create paper with and actually used to pen the Declaration of Independence on. The one the Pilgrims used to create the sails for their ship the Mayflower when sailing to America. The one Americans used to create the rope that hailed their sail boats together. The one that was ordered by law to be grown by land owners in some colonies. The one Americans used for hundreds of years for medicine, paper, clothes, oil, food, etc. Oh, you didn’t know? Well, yeah, apparently you can’t even smoke it. The amount of hemp you would need to actually be able to smoke the darn thing and for it to have some effect on you would have to be the size of a telephone pole. Yep. The US government even ordered Americans during World War 2 to grow hemp in order to keep up with our industrial demand during the war. They even made a video for us common folk!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne9UF-pFhJY
  
  [continued...]
  
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- 82dAirborne
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:29pm
  I think treating pot and the use of it should be treated the same as alcohol.
  
  But strangely enough every WWII chute I have ever seen (many in person) were chiefly constructed of silk or a silk cotton combination.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:29pm
  THIS plant called HEMP or cannabis kept the U.S. and its people INDEPENDENT. It kept America off of foreign energy and resources. It kept Americans free from money hungry pharmaceutical companies and off drugs. It kept Americans free from ailments and from being destitute of basic needs like clothes and useful utensils like paper and rope. Heck, even HENRY FORD’s company tampered with the power of HEMP and made an automobile to run on hemp oil. But this was when natural plants and resources were protected by our Government because they were created by God for our benefit and use. When inventions, discoveries and entrepreneurship was encouraged, praised and admired by the American people. When being able to sustain yourself off the fruit of your land was admonished and expected. When the Government and the people understood individual freedom and responsibility. When private property and personal privacy were cherished and secured. When, in America, Americans actually made things, well, for America and Americans. When local produce, goods and services were kept local and made, by hand, on private land, through hard work and sold in America for Americans. When dependency on foreign goods or other services and needs were unheard of.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:30pm
  Yes, I know, there was no Nanny state back then. It’s a sad reality, they had way too much freedom. Oh, the tragedy. Individuals were actually responsible for their own actions, yep, even for their own health and safety. Imagine that. I know, the insanity of these free people.
  
  How do we undue the brainwashing and propaganda of our communist public schools and leftist media? I recommend rinsing off your brain first of the things taught to you by them since an early age and, get this, then thinking for yourself. Genius, isn’t it?
  
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- betterthantv
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:34pm
  @DONTTREAD You are absolutely correct! It is beyond ridiculous that we keep putting people in jail for this.
  
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- Airb0rne4325
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:03pm
  THC, the opium for the masses and they will have “amotivational syndrome” living off of welfare and elect anyone and everyone that will give them more “free” stuff. Just about the same thing that brings down most of the democracy’s in the history of the world.
  
  “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.” ‘Alexander Fraser Tyler,’The Decline and Fall of the Athenian Republic’.
  
  Those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it and all that jazz.
  
  I say this with the full knowledge that the US is a Republic and not a Democracy, but the Senators and the Congresspersons are elected in a Democratic form and that is what is leading the the demise because they control the flow of money via the Treasury and the Fed.
  
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- average_man
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:39pm
  any kind of drugs are for losers(alcohol & tobacco included) remember it is a gateway drug….after pot let’s legalize meth, then let’s legalize heroine, crack cocaine, etc. Where does it stop? Isn’t society crumbling fast enough already?
  
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- 82dAirborne
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 8:08pm
  Just what the heck is a “gateway drug?” Weak people are going to be weak. Period. Nothing you or I can do to change that. Do you really want to base the law of the land on the weakest among us? While the drug gangs get richer every hour? Prohibition did not work and the current drug laws don’t either.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:06pm
  I liked that The Blaze put Sean Penn’s photo next to the dope leaf on the main page.
  
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- Phoenixsoulfire
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:35pm
  I believe in to make it legal but what bothers me is what the other top ones removing under God and In God We Trust.
  
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:53pm
  if they don’t legalize marijuana, they need to ban alcohol again.
  
  average_man… you are too silly… it’s a shame you have been brainwashed into giving up all control over yourself… :(
  
  once they legalize crack, you HAVE to start doing it, don’t you? … man that is a shame… so sad..
  
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- jb.kibs
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:56pm
  let me state a simple fact.
  
  jumping out of a plane, parachuting onto a mountain and snowboarding down is perfectly legal.
  
  ok? you understand this right? good. NOW..
  
  I HAVE NOT AND NEVER WILL TRY THAT.
  
  just saying… just because something is legal, doesn’t mean EVERYONE is just going to do it…
  guns are legal, i know A LOT of people who don’t own one or shoot one. sad as it is.. it’s true.
  so how does this logic work that, as soon as you legalize drugs, EVERYONE is going to be wasted?!
  please, pray tell, answer that simple question.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:07pm
  Something all of you are forgeting about the difference between alcohol and pot… you can have a drink and not get drunk but you will get high when you smoke some pot. Alcohol in moderation is OK but with pot there is no moderation… you will get high every time. That’s a big difference. Cigarettes may be harmful to smoke but you can’t get high or drunk on them and your driving won’t be affected or your personality won’t change.
  
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- colt1860
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:28pm
  @the-monk There’s something you’re forgetting also. Alcohol has killed way more people than marijuana ever will. Drunk driving, over indulgence, brain damage, liver problems, injuries caused by stupidity, domestic violence, assaults or violent confrontations, wife beating, child abuse, killing innocent bystanders while DWI, resisting police orders, a culture of revelry and partying wild, talking without any sense, disturbing the public and disturbing the peace, going bankrupt, losing one’s job, losing ones wife or family, etc. I can go on and on. All caused or influenced under the consumption of Alcohol.
  
  There’s two types of hemp plants. Industrial hemp and the one the media and politicians like to force down our little brains. Industrial hemp will never cause any damage. Read my previous posts. Labeling the two classifications of hemp together is a smokescreen to not legalize industrial hemp.
  
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- Libertarian
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:29pm
  This is a topic conservatives veer from consistency, the constitution, liberty and government intrusion into our lives.
  
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- robstoddard
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:34pm
  I agree. No matter how bad it is for you, this particular drug does not cause the society any problems in the manner that other substances do. Alcohol, when consumed, causes people to lose judgement skills in such a way that they’re liable to drive to a store to buy more. With pot, the user will wait until sober to acquire more. It really doesn’t do the society any harm, aside from the individual who decides to take it.
  
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- mrbuff1959
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:47am
  Donttredonme…Amen. I have your 6 24 , 7
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:08am
  MrMagoo
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:49pm
  liar
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  Excellent choice of “word”.
  
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- thepatriotdave
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:10am
  “Isn’t it time to legalize and regulate marijuana in a manner similar to alcohol?”
  ========================================================
  NO…. and Hell No!
  
  America is in Dire Need of a Hero…
  Mine is Allen West!
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:39am
  Whether or not its legal, I am tired of subsidizing its use. As a condition for getting a government check, people should be subject to random drug testing.
  
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- ArmedPrincess
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 4:01am
  In my humble opinion this is a true non-issue, wait ten years and you won’t have the votes to keep it illegal.
  
  I don’t do drugs, or alcohol, I do Liberty. I am also not a hypocrite about only wanting to keep the liberties I want. I believe in Freedom & Liberty for all. This does illustrate one of the major problems in our political discourse. You have the Progressive Left & The Neo-Con right trying to force us into one of two camps, either progressive styled communism or neo-con sudo religious fascism, & both sides think their way is the only way for everyone. Both sides are just as guilty in believing they have the one righteous path, & feel completely justified forcing everyone else down it. I think everyone should be able to decide for themselves, and be allowed the right to reap what they sow. In my opinion in the end everyone has to stand before their creator and be judged, besides “Judge not, lest ye been judged” a pretty smart guy said that I think.
  
  If God hates Pot, does he love barley & hops?
  
  Why don’t you take a look at the comparison of adults who go from using Marijuana to hard drugs between the USA & The Netherlands(don’t say Holland, that is just a province). All the usage numbers are round about the same, except fewer teens use it over there, except for the category stated above.
  
  For Liberty,
  Ron Paul 2012!
  
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- sabrinacle
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 4:33am
  I agree. But there are silly people out there who have never smoked marijuana and they think its like heroin because they were raised on propaganda. It is no different then wine or beer and should be regulated and taxed. Imagine states getting that tax revenue instead of Mexican drug lords…or is 30,000 people killed for these drug wars not enough for people to have a heart yet? How many thousands more need to die before you get it through your alcohol and tobacco soaked brains that keeping it illegal just gives money to criminals…and has NEVER stopped pot from being popular
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 6:54am
  I saw a movie on NetFlix that said if hemp was allowed to grow for actually using as hemp, it would put the marijuana trade out of business. If you grow it to smoke it, you have to “sex” them getting rid of the males so it DOES give a high. If there are fields of males, the polen would be everywhere and there would be no female plants that make the high.
  
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- loriann12
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:01am
  That movie was called Hemp Revolution. There is also True Tale of American Marijuana, High, How Weed Won the West, Hempsters, The Union. Weed got illegalized (if that’s a word, no coffee yet) because of racist policies. Mostly it was smoked by blacks and Mexicans, and the white democrats couldn’t have that. So they made it illegal. They couldn’t regulate it, because it’s a weed and will grow anywhere. Individuals could grow it in their back yard if it was legal.
  
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- Cindeelou
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:42am
  Haha….legalize drug’s , cocaine candy canes too and heroin gumball’s….you freak’s just need to deal with life’s issues….get a damn job too
  
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- Cindeelou
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:44am
  Haha….legalize drug’s , cocaine candy canes too and heroin gumball’s….you freak‘s just need to deal with life’s issues….get a damn job too
  
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- FrankSpeak
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:19am
  The point is that Obama is using this issue to garner the ‘young vote’ which he’ll probably lose otherwise. He’s not doing this because it’s right, he is doing it for power!
  
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- Joyce61
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:49am
  absolutly but leave the gov out of it
  
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- LiveFromHell666
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 10:50am
  There are foods you put in your body necessary for life
  There are drugs you put in your body which alter the process of life
  Pot falls into the drug category
  all drugs are poisons and without regulations can kill or long term or permanently disable
  To keep the mind clear and unaltered it is best not to use pot
  I know some will argue alcohol is the same but
  why does your head hurt about 1 day after a night of drinking
  pot is not that easy it can remain in your system and affect your mind for months or years.
  
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- Inbred Jed
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:34am
  I agree, I am facing 31 years in prison for 12 plants grown for medicinal use. I am in severe pain have not sold a flake, had a job as a systems engineer for 11 years and I am going to lose everything. Marijuana laws destroy more lives than marijuana.
  
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- Deuteronomy22
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:04pm
  Thanks for the link. I signed.
  
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- Deuteronomy22
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:14pm
  “I know some will argue alcohol is the same but
  why does your head hurt about 1 day after a night of drinking
  pot is not that easy it can remain in your system and affect your mind for months or years.”_______________________________________________________
  I guess this idiot never heard of chirrhosis of the liver. Pot smoked through a vaporizor is literally 100% free of physically harmful effects.
  
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- right
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:21pm
  your statement, “against the constitution” is technically accurate… the founding fathers, however, would have fully supported STATE-regulation of mind-altering substances
  
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- rixida
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:46pm
  I completly agree about the mary jane but as for the other 2 issues, if God is taken off or out of everything, the USA will pay a price. God will see to it.
  
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- conservative510
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:02pm
  People who have never smoked weed should chill. People have this preconception of people who smoke it. They don’t know who it really affects you. I do it. And it is so much better than alcohol! It also helps with my asthma and my anxiety. It helps many people with many things. Seriously! I don’t do it at work. So, it doesn’t affect my job. I’m a successful, productive person. I’m married and we recently bought a house. It helps me relax and deal with stress. It makes me a little droopy when I do it. But so what? I’m not going to hurt anyone on it. It doesn’t make people aggressive. I think it’s stupid to waste money trying to stop when it’s EVERYWHERE. Anyone who wants to do it, does it, legal or not. It’s a complete waste of resources and money. Make it legal and tax it!!! If you’ve never done it, don’t assume you know what it like!
  
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- Mark Twain.
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:26pm
  your right on the money, i think as much of the right who wants to control my life as i do the left, ENEMIES OF FREEDOM. that being said they will never legalize pot, the war on drugs is the key stone in militarizing our police & bring America into a police State , just look at the overwhelming swat raids bring deadly force against any who get in there way (routinely killing innocence bystanders )
  
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- zman173rd
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:41pm
  (I don’t know@ DONTREDONME “anyone against legalizing pot is against freedom and the constitution”. Wierd argument because neither is Heroine, Meth or any other drug in the constitution. Why do WE the People need the police to protect us from ourselves? Because we’re only human. .my wife and I go back and forth on this issue. She believes it will reduce gangs and increase tax revenues. I say it will increase gangs when consumption increases. It’s not like making a stil for liquor in your backyard. It starts with weed and then the simple minded ones want something more,…potent? You will want it laced with herion. Been there done that. There are a lot of different types of “CANNIBIS” out there. Will this get rid of Crack, Meth and so on? This will only Dumb us and Numb us. Why do you suppose the feds will accept this issue. This in no way will make us a better country. It will make us more subserviant to the ones in power to give or take away. “Vote for them and they will outlaw your right to get high!!!” the handwriting is on the wall. why my posts end up on the last page sorry)
  
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- burx1990
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:52pm
  life, liberty, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
  
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- TPartyXpress
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:22pm
  burx1990 – Another braindamaged doper, I see. You want the Socialist Usurper to have free reign over America. Suck on a stick of dynamic, dummy.
  
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- bombshelterbob
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 3:29pm
  Dopers, a commie president, and the keystone cops for a congress! WE ARE SO SCREWED!!!!!
  
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- pennswoods
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 3:42pm
  I agree. let’s legalize pot and collect the taxes on it. On the other I hand don’t want habitual weed smokers having the governemt pay their medical bills after smoking 30 years of smoking weed daily. No matter what you say, our lungs were not designed to inhale any kind of smoke. When I look at the culture weed prodices, everything from moronic rappers to half wit stoners who are are burned out and are incapable of functioning in the work force I wonder where the USA will be in relation to countries like China in a few years where a strong work ethic is resurfacing. I have seen these kids who at 20 live for weed and have no other meaning in their lost lives but getting high. That will also be the price of legalization just as alcoholism was and is the price of prohibition AND it’s legalization.
  
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- FlamingFartSyndrome
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 5:08pm
  The lumber and coal companies will go out of business the day we allow our farmer’s to produce hemp. Hemp not only can be used for medicinal and clothing purposes, thats not what our government aka our special interests are afraid of hemp and do all they can to not allow our universities not to study the crop. Hemp is earth’s number one biomass resource, which can be turned into methane, methanol, gasoline, comparable to the cost of petroleum, and burns clean.
  
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- Blazer123
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 5:36pm
  I am a Christian, Republican, disabled veteran who would like to be able to use cannabis legally in the privacy of my own home.
  
  I’m a productive member of society with chronic pain that is treated more effectively and safely with cannabis than with the legal opiates that are prescribed for me.
  
  The violence on the U.S. Mexico border is largely a result of drug trafficking and we could put these cartels out of business and create American jobs by legalizing cannabis.
  
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- Chris G
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:19pm
  That’s a fair way of putting it, Don’t.
  
  The people who insist on continuing the illegal Drug War continuously ignore the 9th & 10th Amendments to the Constitution, which keeps the decisions of criminalizing or re-legalizing in-State marijuana use, possession, manufacturing, etc. in the hands of the STATES or the PEOPLE. When further pressed about it, they either don’t want to discuss it any further or they come up w/ the notion that “federal law out ranks State laws”, which itself is nonsense ‘cuz the Constitution doesn’t give the feds the power to regulate anything & everything they see fit.
  
  The States should be free to punish marijuana users as severely as they so desire — which also means they should be left alone to make it completely legal again IF that is what the People want in their State.
  
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- LiveFromHell666
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:22pm
  @Deuteronomy22
  You are a sucker of course Obummer wants it legal who has he been courting to
  YOUNG DUMB SKULLS FULL OF MUSH !!!!! he wants you dumb so you can
  easily be herded to his way of thinking.
  Sure you get diseases from drinking but I was refering to the occasional drinkers
  but you potheads don’t stop. Do you burn one upon waking or before going to work
  if you work. BELIEVE ME pot has long lasting effects it will leave your system
  about 3 years. While that pot is in your system your judgement will be altered
  I guess I know why you signed the petition. You belong with Obummer
  
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- cccambron
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 7:59pm
  well they outlawed weed in the depression to get the mexicains out they outlawed opium to get rid of the chinese in cali they did not do it for any other reason than they could not get taxes on it and the last time i checked this is a free kinda country what you do in your own home has nothing to do with the goverment they control to much anyway how bout they protect the borders and fix the economy thats what people shound worry about try reading up on history before talking bout anything!
  
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- cccambron
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:01pm
  that was not for you but to all the fools who have there head in the sand hit wrong button sorry
  
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- Bill Rowland
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:23pm
  I though those were strange looking bushes in the rose garden. Was that Moochelle I saw out trimming the buds on those plants?
  
  OMG – Psalm 109:8
  
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- LiveFromHell666
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 9:40pm
  Before you sign anything that has to do with this government
  “READ THE FINE PRINT”
  
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- mlsmith1964
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:43am
  I’m with you, FREE the WEED, unlock the product potential for hemp and tell the government to get the hell out of your living room!
  
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- scarebear83
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:46am
  Anyone who is all for the legalizing of weed here’s some questions you need to ask:
  Is today’s weed the same stuff they smoked back in the 60′s? -No. The THC level is much higher thus causing more mental problems than people think.
  Is weed addictive? -Yes. People who say they can stop stop smoking anytime they want have yet to do so and repeated use develops a dependency in which off of it can cause one to be irritable.
  Can you get a contact high from beer? -No. While I don’t support alcohol at least when one is sitting next to a person drinking you won’t get contact drunk. However sitting next to a person smoking weed can in fact cause a contact high.
  Will legalizing it bring down crime rates? No. Cartels won’t simply pack up and go home, they’ll find some other venture to use to kill and steal.
  For those who haven’t seen what pot can do to people I suggest taking another look. It should not be glorified nor should it be allowed to be legal for recreational use. It IS a dangerous drug and I ask that people do more research than reading pro marijuana websites that distort the truth or make it sound like it’s harmless. One more question to ask yourselves, if pot isn’t all that bad then why are the Netherlands now (or soon) prohibiting tourists from using pot in their coffee shops? They wouldn’t do such if pot was such an awesome drug right? There must be some type of problem…
  
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- SpankDaMonkey
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:36am
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  Remember kids: Dope will get you thru times of no money.
  Better than, Money will get you thru times of no Dope.
  
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- WithOutGodWePerishAsARepublic
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 10:53am
  Take down the don’t thread on me flag as ur symbol … u r no patriot…u don’t understand the Constitution… a nation and Republic w/o laws or moral values is anarchy and will be lost… !!!!!!!!!
  
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- schroeder123
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 11:15am
  Get the people out of prison who have convicted for pot, and put them on the unemployment roll. It’s cheaper.
  Pot is the most over rated weed in the world. It does not make you go crazy or go rob banks. It makes you sleepy and hungry. What a tool for couch potatoes. Eh ? Be Happy and be Free.
  
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- RobertG
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 3:07pm
  A better petition to sign there is the one to petition President Obama to resign the office of the President.
  
  http://wh.gov/gfD
  
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- dthomps6
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 5:15pm
  I’m completely agree with Donttredonme. Freedom isn’t just about stuff you like to do but it also protects what other people like to do even if you don’t like it.
  “It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg” -Jefferson.
  
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- KennyDee
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 6:45pm
  Only the arrogance of man would deem a PLANT illegal.
  
  What we need are more laws that restrict ******** from telling other people how to live their life.
  
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- Onbendedknee
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 7:59pm
  We are upsidedown in this country. We have a President and Attorney General that refuse to enforce laws that don’t agree with and now have the President of the United States promising to Congress review petitions with 5000 signatures. They can’t even come out with a budget, pass bills that put us back to work or put aside their own desires for power for the good of our country. Far too many ‘established’ politicians! Eliminate their endless salaries and benefits and make them work for us. Please pray for our leaders.
  
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- ElPzee
  Posted on September 28, 2011 at 4:33am
  @thepatriotdave
  
  GW would kick you in the nuts. GW grew bud. GW BURNED TREES.
  
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ezeewhiz
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:34pm
Par for the course I say, Acorn doing mullti-registrations helped Obama get elected last time now they are recruiting potheads. I mean we already have illegal immigrants collecting $4 billion plus from the US taxpayers by just filing a tax return in a country they aren’t even a citizen in. Why not pass out 40 ozs and joints at the polls. Thats where this administration is taking us anyway.

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Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:28pm
Why not — the devil in the white house is systematically destroying everything else — this happening will be only a matter of time.

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- Faith1029
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:36pm
  2 Thess 2:9-12 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
  
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- RLTW
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:42pm
  This is nothing but a ploy to stop the bleeding off of independent/ libertarians.
  
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- Old Truckers
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:11pm
  It is obvious that there is a big hullabaloo here over this issue of the health benefits of smoking marijuana.
  
  I think that a good apple pie is better. YUM
  And put some vanilla ice cream on it too. Oh yeah!
  
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drmda
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:28pm
I’ve created a petition to retain or keep the the words “In God We Trust” on our currency. Please go to this URL http://wh.gov/4lm
and sign this petition.
Tell all your friends.

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- BeckJunkii
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:34pm
  Just signed and tweeted your petition!
  
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- beverlee
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:42pm
  I signed. Hopefully others will too!
  
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- dmforman
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:44pm
  I also signed it and also hope that it reaches 5,000 plus quickly!
  
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- drmda
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:02pm
  Thank you Becky and others
  Please also sign the one to keep “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag
  http://wh.gov/4lA
  
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- Prosoldier
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:03pm
  Signed
  
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- mensaman62
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:13pm
  Signed both.
  
  God Bless America and Isreal!
  
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- georgiavietvet
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:23pm
  i would love to sign your petition, but i am unwilling to give the gov’t my e-mail, and particularly the password to my e-mail. its not like they can’t get it, but i am not going to give it to them……………………………………
  
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- Deanna in Missouri
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:51pm
  Signed and sent to everyone in my address book. Thank you!!!
  
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- semi
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:14pm
  Your link takes me to the petition but when scrolling through all of the petitions (i.g., looking for one to sign) it isn’t found.
  
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- semi
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:25pm
  I’ve used the search as well and I still can’t find the petition. I copied and pasted (inserting the period at the end, the name of your petition exactly) but it isn’t made available except from this link you’ve provided in this thread.
  
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- bdwatcher
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 5:09pm
  I signed the petition and tweeted it also. Nice!
  
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truckinwife
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:26pm
This is insane, so the NEED to get stoned over rides the Constitution? So a bunch of “stoners” will vote for Obama, to get high… great, break out the Doritos while your at it too. * face palm*

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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:31pm
  Only 5000 signatures? Great, thats a good one. Come on Obama, write an executive order to legalize marijuana. Lets have all the young adults high and drunk, then you can get re-elected. Anything else you want to do to destroy this country. I believe you are trash.
  
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- AlienEarthling
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:35pm
  Where in the constitution does it say you can’t get high? This is America, people in this country should be able to choose whether they want to or not.
  
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- NHwinter
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:49pm
  Alienearthling – read MTDiamonds post.
  
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- HellPhish89
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:11pm
  uhh.. wut? you do know that alcohol required a constitutional amendment to ban, right? how is a plant any different?
  
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- jessieH
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:18pm
  There is nothing in the Constitution about pot. There is things in the Constitution about freedom.
  
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- TheGreyPiper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:01pm
  How about these neat poppies Uncle Samovir brought me back from Afghanistan?
  
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- betsyross2012
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:19pm
  Just my 2 cents worth: There isn’t any weed or drink STRONG enough to compel anyone to vote for Obama once or twice!!
  This is a liberty issue. Prohibition didn’t work. Prohibition of anything that people want(free market) will create a black market. Empires were made from forbidding alcohol. Same goes for weed. The Mexican drug cartels are thriving due to the criminality of selling/smoking pot. If they legalized heroin, I wouldn’t start shooting up! De-criminalize it. I’d rather our jails and prisons be filled with violent criminals, rapists and pedophiles. This is an adults only activity. Folks that sell weed and smoke a little, uh, no! P.S. this is just another distraction by the way. There are much bigger, pressing issues facing our country. Keep the folks bickering, and Obama can continue dividing and trying to conquer. God help us.
  
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ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:24pm
Free munchies for everyone lol

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ocean1994
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:23pm
in god i trust! wow if we repeal trusting god, we have no reason to exist.

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ICANHANDLETHETRUTH
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:22pm
LOL now we can call him OBONGA LMFAO

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- Tonto Lebowski
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:43pm
  Obongo is Obama’s older brother in Africa. I just finished his book today.
  
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flyoverbob
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:18pm
LMAo ,Brian you need to feed your brain cell.Folks this is Obamas only hope is to get enough freaks and fringe groups to vote for him.The only problem with this approach is,they wont take the hassle of voting.

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- biohazard23
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:29pm
  No they won’t because they’ll be too busy waiting for the Domino’s guy to show up with their extra cheesy pizza and wings.
  
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- betsyross2012
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:24pm
  please read my post! No weed could make me vote for him, trust me!! I pretty sure that torture would have to be used!! Most young voters who would vote for him, would do so anyway. Please make note of Gary Johnson….would they vote for him just ’cause he’s smoked? Not a strong reason to vote for anyone! Wow!
  
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SPOOKYDOOD
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:18pm
This is an age old topic. I still love the question, “If marijuana and alcohol were both discovered today, do you think they would still be regulated the same way?” Of course they would not be, people in general make WAY to big a deal out of this. There have been 0 recorded deaths related to the use of marijuana, can you say that about any other intoxicating substance out there that is legal? If it was regulated the same way alcohol is then I don’t see any problem with it.

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- Faith1029
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:40pm
  Many years ago a person I knew who used Marijuana one night, looked in the mirror and shot himself in the head, dead. What’s next after this? Legalize heroin, meth, crack? Just what we need, more people walking around stoned. Will the kids be able to buy it at Wal Mart? This country is done!!!
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:52pm
  It’s o.k. to smoke too, but how many die of it? Do you think dragging anything into your lungs is good for them? Do you think it too may cause lung, lip, throat or esophagial cancer? Are we stupid enough to play Russian roulette with it?
  
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- Prosoldier
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:27pm
  Make sure you post “facts” accurately. There weren’t direct deaths listed (like overdose) where the drug itself killed the USER. Now go recheck the facts and see how many other types of deaths occurred due to marijuana use (ie. cancer, vehicular accidents, fires, suicides, etc.) and THEN also check to see how many people started off using just marijuana and when the tolerance grew and the desired “feeling” could no longer be achieved so easily, they moved on to bigger better things like heroine, meth, etc.. Tally the deaths from those who “moved on” next, but to be completely fair, dig a little deeper and only use the number of those deaths suffered by or caused by people who “started out” on weed.
  
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- Drakkhanlord
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:15pm
  your friend had more problems than weed … give up the rest of the story, relationship problems , no job , etc etc ..dont pull that BS end result.
  
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- mrbuff1959
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:13am
  Faith1029 you have never worked in the real world have you…
  
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- mrbuff1959
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 1:34am
  You may come to my house anytime. I aprciate your intalect. Every one i have ever known that is against weed has been a allcoholic.
  
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- Faith1029
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:21pm
  MRBUFF1059: Yes, I worked for 35 years.
  
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American Pride
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:18pm
Finally! Obama is finally getting something right. As a conservative libertarian, I applaud this effort!!!!

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- RepubliCorp
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:04pm
  If I smoke enough pot will I become a Paulbot?
  
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pwatkins
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:16pm
Let’s put a petition for impeachment hearings on that site, bet that will move to number one on the list fast, but like all other petitions to the WH it will be ignored. Obama’a motto: “It’s not what you want for your country, but what your country wants for you.”

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- Paleo Archer
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:23pm
  I’ll sign it…
  
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- brucefon
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 11:15am
  PWatkins, is the petition up yet?
  
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- betsyross2012
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 12:31pm
  where do I sign?
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:13pm
My online petition would be for his immediate resignation. I know I can get the signatures for that!

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- Enough is Enough__Oath_Keeper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:52pm
  LOL, I love it!!!
  
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- Jenny Lind
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:08pm
  You betcha!
  
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- eyestoseeearstohear
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:17pm
  I’m all in for that, KICKAGRANDMA!
  
  Both Feet – Lock, Stock and a COUPLE OF BARRELS, Kit & Kaboodle!
  
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- drmda
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:37pm
  Create it for us, then I’ll sign it.
  
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TheGreyPiper
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:13pm
Jedi, you think they aren’t already? I wouldn’t go so far as to say I support legalization, but I don’t have any strong opposition to it. Let me make a couple points though, on topics the “pros” usually raise in their favor. 1) Even in the petition it raises the specious “.. continued criminalization of cannabis will achieve the results in the future that it has never achieved in the past?” This is just an absurd non sequiter. I doubt there is any law which has completely eradicated its subject. You could make the same argument regarding murder and bank robbery. 2) The idea that legalization will be a magic tax source. How? Are you going to restrict sales to only lawful retailers like 7-11 and Walmart? Why, I’m sure there will be NO off-the-books dealing, will there? Haha. What sort of criminal code will you establish to prevent untaxed sales? Gee, sounds like right back where we are now. 3) It will reduce gang/drug violence. Yeah, not much. The bad guys don’t traffick dope and kill each other because they are enthusiastic advocates of personal liberty. It’s because it’s illegal, and therefore highly profitable. You’ll still have the gangs and the violence. They’ll just be moving different product.

OK potheads? Those are all stupid arguments, and if you yokels weren’t such stupid ffkkng stoners you’d have figured that out long ago. Hey, just trying to help.

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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:56pm
  I’m sure there will be NO off-the-books dealing, will there? Haha. What sort of criminal code will you establish to prevent untaxed sales?
  
  There may be some black market activity, but it won’t take much of a bite out of the tax revenues from legal pot, because it’s an agricultural commodity that’s easy to produce but hard to produce in large quantities without anyone noticing, and if it was legal it could be produced in such large quantities that competition would make the price too low to justify the risk. Do you see many people growing illegal tobacco in their backyard even though the price of cigarettes is almost all tax? Is the liquor industry taking any kind of major hit from the kind of moonshining activities that were so widespread and well-organized during prohibition?
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 5:55pm
  In the interest of saving time and in the hope that thegreypiper might engage some critcal thinking, lets just call this the “moonshine argument”.
  
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- TheGreyPiper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 9:59pm
  Home-grown dope is already a well-established industry. There has never been a well-established, legitimate pot industry, unlike alcohol and tobacco. There is not the equivalence you are reaching for. Further, even making beer at home -which is legal of course- is a rather complex and time consuming operation. Tobacco has a very limited growth range, and likewise, turning a tobacco leaf into a cigar, cigarette, or even chew is also extremely time consuming. Dope is relatively quick and easy to grow.
  
  Again: there just isn’t the equivalence there. Distributing legal pot would be much more like the farmer’s market at the park on weekends, where the locals bring down the corn and pumpkins and tomatoes. I’ll leave it to your imagination how much of those sales actually get recorded for the 1040 or taxed, where sales tax is even levied on food.
  
  Finally, there is already such a strong association of illegality with pot, I doubt any heads will be deterred from dealing between friends to avoid taxes. That would probably get laughed at as much they laugh at the existing laws.
  
  I assume you’ve conceded my other 2 points, thank you.
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 11:39pm
  Ahh yes, the “crystal ball” argument. The other points are just assumptions and fallacies. Boring. I dont really feel like going over **** that is just so easily refutable by empirical evidence. See California and Colorado among other states for more info.
  
  Beyond that, I don’t really have any skin in the game beyond being sick of seeing my tax dollars flushed down the toilet and lives ruined. But continue making your case for the status quo, thank you!
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:18am
  I concede your third point that there will still be gang violence and illegal trade in hard drugs, though I think there’s a chance there might be a slight reduction. I think that marijuana serves as a gateway to experimentation with worse drugs less because it gets you high than because laws against it cause otherwise law abiding people to lose respect for the law and fear the police.
  
  I don’t concede your first ”point,” because I don’t concede that you have one. I don’t believe that laws against marijuana have ever served a necessary or socially useful purpose. I think that they were drafted for only two reasons – to provide something to do for federal cops who were in danger of layoff with the repeal of prohibition, and to protect the oil industry from danger of reduced profits by wiping out industrial hemp growers.
  
  As for the point I chose to dispute, while “there has never been a well-established, legitimate pot industry,” how long do you really think it would take to start one? I guarantee you that the tobacco, alcohol and food industries are prepared to diversify if legalization ever becomes an imminent possibility. They have plenty of land that could be diverted to new purposes. They probably have illegal seed banks somewhere, and they almost certainly have lawyers ready to try to beat the competition to getting trademarks for the drug slang nicknames of popular strains on or before day one.
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:34am
  Breast milk is the real gateway drug. Or is it that first coca cola. Maybe cocoa crispys is the real gateway drug.
  
  And yeah, he’s right the free market never works. lol
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 2:54am
  Yeah, approximately 100% of heroin addicts drank Coca-Cola before they tried smack. Obviously, Coca Cola drinking leads to hard drug use.
  
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flyoverbob
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:10pm
If you want to know how many brain dead unemployed wanna-be hippies watch this site ,they all will chime in

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- TheGreyPiper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:16pm
  Ha yeah, there’s a bunch already; I can’t believe there aren’t at least 2 or 3 alts in the mix taking to themselves!
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:38pm
  I’m sure all the hysterical reefer madnass regurgitators and phony fiscal conservatives who hate things like book learnin, empirical data and liberty will show up, as well.
  
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- smokie
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 3:35pm
  I don’t like pot at all, but I want jeans that last more than two weeks. I’m all for hemp!
  Give the Kentucky farmers the choice to grow hemp, now that their tobacco has been demonized, and we’ll have sturdy cloth.
  
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- Chet Hempstead
  Posted on September 26, 2011 at 4:09am
  Yeah, and if farmers in Iowa, where it used to be one of their main crops, could grow hemp, then people running for President wouldn’t have to pretend that growing so much corn is good. We could drink soda made from yummy sugar instead of nasty corn syrup, and we would eat more cows fed on grass instead of corn, which would be better for us, and better for the environment because the cows wouldn’t fart as much.
  
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tobywil2
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:03pm
How much wealth can the Tyrant extort from the alochol industry to continue the criminalization of marijuana? http://commonsense21c.com/

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majorsco
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:02pm
The last two democratic presidents were confessed users of drugs, at least once. That means they support those producing and selling drugs. I guess the war on drugs falls of deaf ears on democratic administrations. Clinton said he didn’t inhale. He also said he didn’t have sex with Monica Lewinsky. Did he publicly lie once or twice? Who can tell. Obama also admitted using drugs. His policies are also helping the mexican cartels. If drugs are legalized, we’ll have addicts on every street corner, crime will be higher and the mexican drug cartels will want to join labor unions for protection.

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- the hawk
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:09pm
  So was BUSH lets keep it real ! ! !
  
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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:56pm
STiCK your name on the petition,the ATF will be knocking down your door!

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- Enough is Enough__Oath_Keeper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:50pm
  That would be the DEA Jurisdiction.
  
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jedi.kep
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:55pm
Stupid, stupid, stupid. The country has enough drunks on the roads. We don’t need STONED people as well. Common Sense… RIP.

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- N37BU6
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:03pm
  Then put your money where your mouth is and sign a petition to make alcohol illegal.
  
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- Fella
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:11pm
  This is another issue is where everyone gets to see how full of **** the conservatives are about fiscal responsibility and liberty. But lets hash it out once again. Looking forward to seeing all the same stupid arguments against legaliziation that have been refuted over and over again. Carry on.
  
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- qpwillie
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:27pm
  How would legalizing it make it kill more people? I don’t use marijuana but I would venture to say more than half of the adults do. All legalizing it would do is make the people who use it pay taxes on it.
  
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Countrygirl1362
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:54pm
Legalize and taxing it could go a long way to reducing the debt in this country and providing jobs, unclogging the courts and jails for people with possession charges.

That alone in my mind is not cause enough for me to vote for someone that otherwise has had a path of destruction as far as this country is concerned.

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jesuswasgay
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:52pm
You seriously can’t tell me that Jesus wasn’t a hippie. Long ****, beard, sandals. :-) If alcohol is legal, there is absolutely no argument that can be made to keep marijuana illegal.

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- jesuswasgay
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:55pm
  As for the harmful effects of smoking, last time I looked, cigarettes were available at my grocery store.
  
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- truckinwife
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:30pm
  Oh but a joint has MORE tar then a cigerette does…. that blows smoke into your theory…. go fry some more brain cells while your at it too.
  
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- Applehead
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:33pm
  JESUS WAS, Your name is very offensive and should be removed voluntarily!!!!!!!!!!!!! It’s not cool mocking God!!!!! I could careless if you don’t believe God but I don’t want to look at that whenever I post!!! I’m sincerely asking you to please pick another name!!!!!
  
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- flyoverbob
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:42pm
  Lets see so Jesus was a hippie before there were hippies,come on I love it when stoners try to reason
  
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- Obama>Jesus
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 7:05pm
  @Applehead
  So you are trying to limit his freedom of speech? How about he changes his name when every user on this site who has one that mocks our great president changes theirs? He’ll, I’ll do the same!
  
  Don’t like my opinions? Tell me at scott.ian2010@gmail.com and tell me.
  TEA SUCKS
  Obama 2012
  
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- MARCH4HIM
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 12:00am
  TAKING GOD OUT OF THE U,S OF A……….YOUR GETTING PLAYED…..
  
  ‘We the people’ get are rights from “God” …Granted by the Constitution
  
  If you remove GOD …It will automatically void out the Constitution….
  
  Then in the Absence of the Constitution….there will become a void…
  
  What will fill that void…? ……….MAN …
  
  And If …“MAN” (maybe not your guy) …Replaces… the “GOD”..
  “In “…the CONSTITUTION…
  
  It will say “WE THE PEOPLE” …with .”.MAN GIVEN RIGHTS“….
  
  Then “MAN in charge.. will be able to take our ‘RIGHTS” from “we the people“.
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  that’s the BILL OF RIGHTS from ’we the people”
  
  Meaning say goodbye to whatever “RIGHTS…
  MAN in charge…Wants you to have …
  
  And say hay ….to king Georg III
  
  You might not believe in a GOD….but in this case…
  
  It stops the REPUBLIC from being a MONARCHY….
  
  Then “WE THE PEOPLE”… will truly be peasants…
  
  Be careful “we the people”…don’t be played….
  
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brian8793
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:52pm
It should be “In GAURD We Trust.” Not everybody believes in God.

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- TheGreyPiper
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 10:06pm
  Not everyone believes in liberty either, but we got that on the money too, (untrag.
  
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- Applehead
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 6:07am
  Obama>,
  I asked him to please do voluntarily!!! Please reread my post! I might criticize politically but wouldn’t write something religiously offensive attacking or mocking their God!!! If its your opinion that Jesus isn’t God its your choice but to defile his name, which is your right in our great country, isn’t cool and hurtful to Christians!!! Jesus and Father, “Please forgive them bc they know not what they do!!!”
  
  I believe marijuana should be legal! I will make crime go down considerably and maybe they’ll smoke which is a mellower drug than alcohol and violent crimes will go down while junk food sales rise! I’m with Milton Friedman and Ron Paul on this one!
  
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338lapua
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:51pm
People who have nothing better to do than surf the gubbmint website……need to get a life. Take the pink dress off, quit protesting, and for goodness sake, drop the bong!

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brian8793
Posted on September 24, 2011 at 3:50pm
If Obama legalizes marijuana, I will be voting for him again in 2012. It’s a long time overdue for this virtually harmless drug to remain “illegal.”

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- Metalist
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:00pm
  So let me get this straight… you will vote for the Bamster again if he legalizes marijuana? To hell with the economy!! As long as I can have my weed?
  THAT is the attitude that got us into the “crisis” (I hate that word now) we’re in now. Fairness is what will make us all equal…. equally poor and pissed off. And we’ll all have Mussol.. err Obama to thank for it.
  How’s that “hope and change” working for everybody? I’ve had just about enough, personally.
  
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- V-MAN MACE
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:31pm
  This is what “Crisis Capitalists” do.
  
  They try to capitalize off of crisis.
  
  They will not regulate my religion by regulating my communion (marijuana).
  
  VIOLATION!
  
  That’s like trying to regulate Matza.
  
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- brian8793
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 4:31pm
  The point I was making is that Obama is not going to legalize it. It should be left up to the State’s to decide whether or not to prosecute people for this harmless drug/plant/herb/weed/fiber/food/protein/paper/ clothing.etc etc..
  
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- KickinBack
  Posted on September 24, 2011 at 6:31pm
  I agree marijuana is harmless. Except that it causes the munchies which can lead to unhealthy eating habits and costing Americans millions of more dollars in a health care system that Obama has already taken the first step in destroying.
  
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- 1casawizard
  Posted on September 25, 2011 at 8:07pm
  I’m for trying out the legalizing pot idea. That ideas been floating around for at least 45 years. I’m 58. I don’t see anything wrong with it. I don’t smoke or dilute the buds in golden grain and make gallons of hunchpunch for one heck of a party anymore. People experiment with it and when the thrill is gone, it’s gone. I’ve had my fun with the brownies and making hash. I’ve been lucky by not getting caught by the bearintheair. I have noticed that folks who have never tried it mostly have the wrong idea about the people that use it casually or regularly. I am a Vietnam era vet. Coast Guard. The worst thing I’ve seen with it is that it is sometimes sold along with the gamut of other illegal drugs,cars, guns, etc. because it is illegal. I am a conservative and a TEA PARTIER. The people I associate with are like minded and conservative and wish we could clean this government up and have hope for OUR CHILDREN. Let’s put this item on the ballot and let the people speak. Thank You
  
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