There are many, many good reasons to legalize marijuana. First, of course, is because it is the right thing to do. In a democracy, it is the government’s job to do the will of the people. Since the people don’t agree on shit, it’s probably best for the government to just focus on fixing the
Jose Guerena with wife and children
potholes, paying the teachers and the cops, and making sure nobody cheats at the lottery.
I’m not just in favor of separation of church and state, I am in favor of separation between culture and state. Why does the President of the United States throw out the 1st baseball and roll Easter eggs on the White House lawn? It is not the job of the state to decide which sports and holidays are important, whether or not we become a nation of potheads, or any cultural matter at all. That’s up to the collective will of individual people, it is an expression of democracy in its purest form, and government should stay the hell out.
Then there are all the hempster arguments: cloth, clothes, biomass, vegetable oil, nice crunchy seeds for your salad.
Then there is the pharmaceutical argument. Now, I know a lot of potheads who claim that it’s a cure for damned near everything. I’ll leave the final decisions up to doctors and scientists, but I know it sure as hell reduces stress, and that can cause a reduction in a lot of other problems, too.
Then there is the fundraiser argument. Now, do the math. Legalizing and taxing marijuana is not going to raise enough revenue to keep the U.S. government afloat, but it would be in the plus column. Also, a hell of a lot of money would be saved.
Mostly, though, if it were legal, swat teams from 4 different departments would have had no excuse to burst into Jose Guereno’s house yesterday in Pima County, Arizona, at 9:30 in the morning, and shoot him 70 times.
(p.s. they didn’t even find any pot)
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There’s more to this story. I don’t know what… someone gave a false tip, he knew something, organized crime inside law enforcement ???
I’m sure there’s much, much more to this story. But nothing that could possibly exonerate the police.
This a tragedy, an over reaction on the part of law enforcement. who knows the truth behind what happened, probably never will. However, Prescription drugs, opiates, narcotics, sedatives, etc. kill more people and ruin more families than marijuana or even ‘illegal street drugs’ do. ‘Pain clinics, especially in Florida, funded by the pharmaceutical companies and allowed to operate by our pharmaceutical owned Governor freely and easily ‘diagnose’ pain, prescribe tons of narcotics, etc. which are then re-sold as a source of income, or used excessively resulting in disabilities or deaths….and you (we) are all paying for these meds through insurance premiums, medicare and medicaid, pharmaceutical benevolence programs, SSI and SSDI and Social Security. Shut down the ‘pain clinics’, monitor narcotic, opiate prescriptions via computer programs already operational in many states, stop the ‘war on drugs’ which spends billions on trying…and failing…to enforce drug use, targets the sickly who need medical care and treatment, and enriches the many massive law enforcement organizations. I guess the ‘war on drugs’ and prisons are such big job-creators and sources of income that they are now ‘too big to (let) fail’….
Mother. Fuckers.