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‘Real News From the Blaze’: Marijuana — Legalize It?

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  • Cole
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:56pm

    Surprised how many people on the blaze are in support of the legalization of marijuana. As a former user and current drinker I can freely admit that alcohol is a far worse drug hands down. I can drink a bottle of whiskey and not remember a thing, get angry, even violent and yet I’m as soft spoken and peaceful as ever sober. Yet when I did use marijuana I remembered everything, would kill myself to avoid conflict and only gained weight from the sweats I ate. I was a harm to no one, Including myself. Yet this drug is in the same league as cocaine, heroine, and meth. All of which destroy more lives in a year then marijuana ever has.

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    • Awakening Day
      Posted on February 10, 2012 at 1:53am

      Marijuana was legal in the 1930′s. George Washington’s main Cash crop was Hemp. Legalize freedom. Besides a really useful God given drug hemp was used to make fiberglass bodies for automobiles that Henry ford demonstrated you could take a sledge hammer to it and the sledge hammer just bounces back. They didn’t ban it until 1955. Do some research people. Get the federal government out of regulating plants and substances and let the states do it. People can choose where to live. It’s not a drug war in Mexico by the way. Its a civil war. The Gov doesn’t want you to know it. And it’s dangerous. If they weren‘t selling drugs they’d be robbing banks. When Mexico was colonized they lumped a bunch of different ethnic tribes together and put certain families in the police and government. The only solution in Mexico is to let it natural break into free and separate States along the natural tribal lines or you need a fascist dictator powerful enough to control everyone.

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  • Libertyluvnmomma
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:23pm

    the real question is about “legalizing drugs”
    It is about recognizing the right and lefts desire to legislate morality. Never works.

    In addition, the black market is a very dangerous place for anyone. Kids, addicts- WHOEVER.. One can grow marijuana in their backyard that is why politicians know they can’t tax it.

    But if addicts had to come up with the money to get heroin chances of robbing a pharmacy is slim. (With beefed up security.)Unlike showing up at a house with a gun and kids live next door and one dies due to a stray bullet….as long as it isn’t your kid, right? Just the poor black, white, hispanic etc.
    Neighborhoods were not design for illicit black market items. Our Founding fathers KNEW this.

    The black market in the end is the real issue. It’s never the drugs, prostitute or anything money can buy, because it will and can be bought.
    End Ron Paul’s mischaracterization of drug legalization because this is his argument too.
    Use your critical thinking skills people. This is just like the Catholics keeping the Gov. OUT. It IS NOT ABOUT BIRTH CONTROL.

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  • efialtis
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:20pm

    If it has legitimate medical properties and purposes, then I don’t have a problem with regulating it like any other drug. But the question then becomes… if it is the THC, why would someone have to “smoke it”, why not extract or synthesize the THC and use that as a pharmaceutical?
    I don’t think we should just “legalize” it… look at smoking and alcohol… both legal and both cause thousands of deaths a year… do we really need to add to the “body count”?

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    • Bub47
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 5:06pm

      You wouldn‘t add to the body count as there probably wouldn’t be very many additional users over how many use Marajuana now. You would simply lower the criminal connection. Also I have heard anecdote that it was the alcohol industry that made sure that Marajuana remained illegal as it was a very inexpensive alternative.

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  • Just in time
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:26pm

    How about just decriminalize it. Or better yet lets vote on it

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  • bigorangemo
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:01pm

    marijuana THC is even listed as a schedule 1 which is worse than cocaine schedule 2. that sounds like the federal govt right there. during artime it was illegal to not grow it if you were a farmer. hemp for victory. view it at youtube or free download

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  • BobKlein
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:42am

    In our local paper this week we had an article from our local drug enforcement agency about medical marijuana use. Apparently it is a Federal crime to possess a firearm and a permit to have medical marijuana and you will be prosecuted accordingly. This to me is a set up by the gov against law abiding citizens. How can they give you a privilege and then take away a right. This is an attack on the individual and our rights. I live in Michigan and I am beginning to fear this state.

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  • Duddio
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:47am

    I was mindlessly against the legalization of cannabis for most of my life, until I began researching America’s experiment with Prohibition. I can’t see any reason why alcohol is legal while marijuana is illegal. We are funding our own invasion on the southern border, and giving incentive to the ruthless cartels that are taking over Mexico. This is a money and control issue, plain and simple. The drug war gives the government power to invade people’s private lives and keeps a simple-to-grow and administer pain reliever out of the hands of the common folk. Big Pharma and Government Progressives don’t want the competition.

    I don’t know what S.E. has been smoking, her arguments were not reasoned, but reactionary. All she could do was spit sarcasm at every fact that Buck tried to bring to the table. I am impressed that no commenters have taken up her side yet. I’m sure there will be some, like I used to. We are in a sad place where we can’t think rationally on this issue. It is emotional and hyperbolic.

    And no, I don’t smoke pot.

    Rev. R

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    • dennisbk77
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:16am

      cupp is an idiot . i cant stand someone who is uneducated talking over the smart one. your right its big pharma lining the pockets of the pimps in dc. cause they know if you could take one thing like cannabis and do away with alot of your scrips for meds bye bye cash . look at the model for why the gov says it is illegal 1 it has no medicinal value 2 has high potential for abuse. ok now ask yourself those questions about alcohol and cigs. hey they dont have no med value but there legal. and buy the way if gov dont alow research on it how can they be experts on the subject.lol..back in nixons day he had his boys do research on it and they came back and told him weed was good and he dismissed it. it is sad to know that good honest people gets into alot of trouble for a plant that is imposable to harm you. people we all know . brothers sisters cousins moms dads the whole shabang and we know there not crimanals.

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  • PhoenixThunder
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:44am

    SE CUPP: you really like that tenth amendment….
    Response: Yeah i like all of them…

    Sorry but Cupp here is supporting an untenable position, defending the illegality of marijuana, all the credible arguments against legalization can also be said of alcohol and some are stronger against cigarettes, but is she for making them illegal, no she is just defending the status quo, no thought about the other panelists arguments that legalization would help our border and force the cartels out of business the same way ending prohibition cut off the mobs money supply, I am sorry but trying to argue that marijuana is more dangerous, or “the science is unsettled” is difficult at best since the effects have been studied in earnest since the 60′s and no effective scientific case against it has been presented…. i guess that makes the science unsettled… cause she does not have the evidence she needs to back up her argument hence it could be dangerous because “the science is unsettled” this seems an intellectually dishonest way to make an argument…. But if you want to make all proponents of legalization seem crazy i guess that is what you have to go to.

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  • Carol1955
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:25am

    About a year ago we went to Glenwood Springs in Colorado. It was amazing to see probably 30 medical marijuana “clinics” in a relatively small town. Most claimed to have a doctor on site and that “walk ins were welcome”. But what was more interesting to me was to read the local paper where employers were lamenting how they had employees they suspected of being high but the employees were insisting that it was residual effects from smoking on their own time. I don’t think you can test for it like alcohol, it remains in the system too long. No one talks about the hassles of employing a user. Could you test someone and not hire them simply because they were a user, if it were legal? What if you really didn’t want to hire a user, would you be sued for discrimination? Just wondering.

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    • robstoddard
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 11:45am

      Actually, most marijuana tests are for a metabolite of THC which resides in the body for weeks after the fact, however, the police have a simple urinalysis that can detect whether the person suspected is high at that moment. There is a test, it’s just got to be used.

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  • THX-1138
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:14am

    Her Cupp runeth under.

    Sweetheart, it doesn’t matter how dangerous weed is; it is, and I want to be clear here, NONE OF YOUR %*$&^ BUSINESS what people do UNLESS it violates SOMEONE ELSES RIGHTS.

    Don’t like it? Don’t smoke it. Just keep your hands off my Freedoms.

    End of discussion.

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  • Alastair
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 9:00am

    More Americans have died because of the US Federal Government criminalizing marijuana than would have ever died as a result of using it. Look at one of the main reasons our boarder is having so much trouble…

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  • ARMED AND READY
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 6:29am

    For those of us who think they know about cannabis here is the the U.S. patent on cannabis ( http://uspatent6630507.com ). I use to take 5 – 6 vicodin a day along with untold amounts of booze to control the pain in my lower back for 4 years. I convert to medical marijuana , no more addiction , no assualt on my liver from the pills and booze , no vicodin rage….. As long as you medicate at home there no evil to this plant , it is here for a reason use it .

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    • BuggiOlleo
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 10:39am

      Then all that pain was in your head..result=fake pain….Nice try dude…everyone has pain..including listening to your BS..Go get an Obozo chiropractor..if you wanna blaze a doob..Smoke up!..Don’t care..just remember to be hired by the rest of your dysfunctional horde..one slip up due to any intoxicant on many jobs could cost lives…we all mostly adults..smoke up..just don’t gimme your crappy line about pain and squeeze nincommipoop! Kiddie toys aside–grow a set and grow up..

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    • HarleyBarley
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 7:16pm

      I hope for your sake BuggiOlleo, you are never in pain because the statement made is not all in his head! May I suggest you take a look at all the studies done on the effects of THC on Neuropathic pain.

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  • mlsmith1964
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:25am

    S.E. Cupp is an idiot about marijuana. Big pharma goes nuts at the thought of growing your own pain reliever, anti depressant, sleep med…etc ad nauseum……The laws regarding cannibis and hemp are outrageously stupid and need to be abolished.

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    • japplebee
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 8:46am

      I’m in agreement. She seemed to have a larger than normal emotional reaction to, what seemed to me, logical arguments.

      Bottom line its your body you get to decide what happens to it or what you put into it. weather that be a intravenous bleach injection( extreme i know but your choice), weed, or a simple cigarette.

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  • theKIDSdontSTANDaCHANCE
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 2:14am

    No no no, we must keep it illegal! I mean come on! How on earth are our kids going to get a hold of it if it is legal and regulated/taxed/(must be 21 to purchase), and the profits of selling it off the streets for the huge profit margin are cut off!? It needs to stay illegal! That only makes sense! Right!?……..Ok, listen, no more sarcasm, I am a recent college graduate, yeah, trust me, worst $50+grand I have in debt to my 22 year old dumb a$$ in my life, I‘m sure I’m not worth listening to. None the less, whether you are a concerned parent, or even just an undecided individual on this issue, keep this in mind….IT IS MUCH EASIER TO ACQUIRE AN ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE THAN A LEGAL ONE. In other words, in my own experience as a kid (in which I imagine the majority of this site would still consider me to be) a substance that is against the law, but in such a high demand, finds it’s way through the cracks, very easily and, will therefore be exposed to him/her before/if not more rapidly, just because of easy accessibility, literally, you have no idea how many people do smoke this herb, I’m not saying that it is a bad thing/good thing, I’m just saying that it is everywhere, and do not be surprised if your kids come across it before you do, for it is so accessible as it is now than it would ever be if it were to be regulated. Food for thought. REGULATE IT, just like ALCOHOL.

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    • MyzPhoenyx
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 3:04am

      That’s been my stance for a while. There is this joke picture going around the internet. A list of items that are responsible for deaths… marijuana was at the bottom with 0 while peanuts has something like 100 deaths / year attributed to them. It says, “Marijuana, safer than peanuts.”
      It’s kind of sad to think about. Alcohol Prohibition saw a marked rise in illegal activity surrounding it. I don’t understand how people really thought that the Marijuana Prohibition would work out any differently. I mean we have cartels that are murdering people that even look like they’re going to try to get in their way, yet our government still says that this drug is far too dangerous to be legal. I say it’s far more dangerous to keep it illegal. They would rather waste blood and money fighting a “war” that still sees us with porous borders that seem to be far more of an attraction to the criminal element surrounding it than any kind of deterrent, when they could be generating income for the government that they claim that they need so badly by legalization and taxation of a quarterly renewable resource that isn‘t limited to it’s THC content.
      But hey, that’s just my opinion. I know some won’t agree with me, but that’s the joy of America. We’re allowed to disagree out loud. :)

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  • MyzPhoenyx
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:59am

    When I look at the list of dangers associated with so many of today’s legal pharmaceuticals, I cringe. I was diagnosed with bi-polar disorder a number of years ago. So they put me on a drug cocktail that drove my blood pressure up through the roof along with a whole host of other issues that needed to be controlled via some other pharmaceutical means which caused other issues… yeah, the cycle is horrible. Even when I came off of those meds, I still have high blood pressure and other issues. And every one of the doctors that I’ve had looks at my med list and just shakes their head. “If marijuana were legal, I’d recommend that to you. It doesn‘t have any of the side effects that these other’s have and is far less toxic on the body. Not to mention it wouldn’t cost you your life savings.”
    My look in response… O.o I mean, seriously? Oh yeah. They prescribe it in some countries to control bi-polar disorder.
    Again… O.o But I thought that when you used marijuana it created extra receptors in your brain which can cause other emotional and mental issues…
    Do your receptors function properly?
    Ummm.. no.
    …..
    But … oh wait… other narcotics do the same thing, only those are far more toxic on the rest of the body than THC..
    Nothing like Doctors giving you a nice moral dilemma.. especially when most of the meds don’t work. So for now, I’ll stick with my, “You are an adult and responsible for your own actions” mantra. No heart attack, no jail

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  • WeDontNeedNoSteenkinBadges10
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 1:53am

    ” ‘Real News From the Blaze’: Marijuana — Legalize It?”

    What? It’s illegal? I don’t recall where the U.S. Constitution gave this such power to the government. Someone care to quote that passage for us all?
    Which begs the question about illegalities …

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    • bmwrider
      Posted on February 9, 2012 at 4:46pm

      Even if you don’t accept the federal governments marijuana regulation, you surely realize every state has laws against recreational marijuana use?

      Before posting such idiotic comments, please do your research.

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  • JusticeJake
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:30am

    “There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all argument, and which cannot fail to keep man in everlasting ignorance. That principle is condemnation without investigation”.
    Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

    I am a physician, and I can tell you that cannabis is less toxic than aspirin, and far, far less toxic than any of the narcotics out there. I have never done drugs, or been a drinker of alcohol, and in fact I do not drink coffee, or black tea, but I am a supporter of all beneficial herbal medicine as used appropriately. Cannabis does not have to be smoked, it can be used as an herbal tincture, a transdermal cream or butter, or as an essential oil for more exact dosage and application. I agree that this is a constitutional issue, and should be treated as such, but with a dumbed down public it is a much more difficult task than it should be.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W6-VTiOt0

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  • Alexi
    Posted on February 9, 2012 at 12:25am

    Will someone please inform the hostess that in the 1930′s Cannabis was legal and used as a medicine. If someone sends me her mail or email address I will send her a copy of “The emperor wears no clothes” by Jack Herer

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  • InversionTheory
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:46pm

    We have flushed billions, if not trillions, or dollars down a bottomless hole trying to legislate people into behaving according to some people’s morals and the fact of the matter is that you can get any drug you want just about anywhere. The free market is a wonderful thing…without ANY regulation or assistance from the government, cheap illegal drugs can be had on far more street corners that our leaders would ever admit. There is too much easy money to be had in the drug trade so even if you do manage to nail EVERYONE from the lowly street dealers to the kingpin suppliers….in 2 weeks someone else would’ve assumed control of the trade and it would be business as usual. Doesn’t anyone know futility when they see it?

    If I was dictator… I’d let the drug companies establish clinics where users could safely take their drug of choice under medical supervision and make the clinics tax exempt if the profits are used exclusively to fund medical research. Just my 2 cents.

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  • THE HEMPEROR
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:38pm

    A limited government should not be allowed to control what goes in your mouth any more than it should be allowed to control what comes out of your mouth.

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  • richard the lion-hearted
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:35pm

    The government should butt out of personal choices that don’t cause harm to others, violence or victims, it’s not that complicated. I don‘t smoke and don’t care if any adult does as long as it’s not in a room with me, gives me a headache…

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    • richard the lion-hearted
      Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:39pm

      S.E. Cupp sounds like she has a personal agenda by her tone, probably some ex boyfriend who spent her rent money on an ounce of weed, and ate all her bean sprouts and yogurt or something like that…

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  • myway2112
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:26pm

    I might be remissed by some of my colleagues in law enforcement, but I am in favor of legalization of marijuana. I have never worked an accident where marijuana was the primary factor. Ask me how many I have worked where alcohol, (legal) was the cause of the accident. The legalization of marijuana needs to be seriously addressed rather than given the usual lip service. Let me be clear. I do not take drugs of any kind nor would I, however the majority of marijuana smokers whom I have encountered are good decent people who work everyday and pay taxes. I arrest a man for having a marijuana ‘roach’ on him. He will get more time that someone who has committed spousal abuse or a host of other crimes that have a victim. Lets stop sending good folks to jail. Lets save that space for the bad folks. the use of marijuana is a victimless crime where as the criminalization of marijuana makes victims.

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:10pm

    Seems like cupp does a horrible job in every single video. If she wasnt good looking she would be out in a heartbeat. Sexton just killed them with reason

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  • soybomb315
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 11:04pm

    the headline is misleading. the argument is not whether the federal government should legalize it. the argument is whether the federal government should prohibit it….Drugs are nowhere in the constitution – should be an issue for the states to deal with

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  • SpaceRaider
    Posted on February 8, 2012 at 10:54pm

    I’ve never seen anyone hit or abuse anyone after smoking marijuana products. Just the opposite, everyone wants to be friendly and maybe a little hungry. Alcohol, heroin, perscription drugs, and meth on the other hand are drugs that seem to cause rage and irrational thinking. I was the person in charge of detoxing people that had issues with these drugs. Alcohol was definatly the most common, perscription drugs were the next. Never had anyone in for marijuana overdose or detox. Although some detox patients had thc in their systems, it was not the significant issue. I have meet people with MJ scrips that really don’t need them and I have met people that should definatly not have one. However, I’d rather have that legal than MANY perscription drugs or even alcohol.

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