Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Reader: Free the pot smokers. It’s the right thing to do.
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:38 AM
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when will this useless debate stop? people can grow their own-goverrnment can't tax that...it's also big business for law enforcement-people will be out of jobs if they can't capture and detain people for selling and/or growing it...it's big business for the corporations that provide the jail and prison institutions and their supplies that house these offenders...government couldn't give away money to the reform programs that try or attempt to get people sober...it's all about making money and yes, they make more money by keeping it illegal.
Everyone should watch the movie "AKA Tommy Chong". Tommy did 9 months in prison for selling bongs on the internet, and was the victim of FBI entrapment. If he hadn't taken a plea bargain, they were going to charge his wife and son. Even if you are anti-marijuana, you should be offended by how this case was manipulated.
When I was a carpenter, I was injured on the job when the blade of a recipricating saw broke off and struck me in the eye. The blade caused a laceration to which a specialist had to put me under for surgery to actually stitch the gash on my eyeball closed. I was prescribed 6 different eye drops, most of which were to keep the pressure and swelling in my eye low. These drops caused terrible stomach aches as well as other digestive problems that sometimes outweighed the pain in my eye. As an alternative I smoked marijuana which as we all know eases pressure in the eyes and is one of the reasons persons suffering glaucoma are so fond of medicinal marijuana. The marijuana I smoked as an alternative to the eyedrops not only eased the pain at a more effective rate, but also relieved the digestive problems I was receiving due to the eye drops. On a side note marijuana does not kill hundreds of thousands of people each year like say...alchohol or tobacco. Who might I add are the people that are funding campaigns to keep marijuana illegal alongside of any business that will be threatened by hemp products.
