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  1. yankee phil says:

    The feds will never never never allow marijuana to be legalized because too many federal level officials are making money on the illegal sales of it, just as cocaine is controlled by organized crime and the intelligence community, so is marijuana, and the loss of this bribery revenue would cause a giant rift in law enforcement between those who are on the take and those who are not(the lower ranks). Even at the state level you see the corrupt politicians(locals usually know who they are) are always against legalization, its just simple economics for most of them, taking their cue from federal level corruption , everyone wanting a piece of the pie. Remember with taxation , the money generated by marijuana sales would go back to the people and establish the product as beneficial to society as well as and perhaps most importantly end the supply connection to hard drugs and remove marijuana users exposure to the criminal drug market where they are led into stronger(heavier) drug use. There is more salesmanship than you would imagine being employed in the illegal drug market. As drinkers are encouraged by the barroom mentality to drink more than the other guy to establish an illusion of strength , so is it with the hard drugs, being the adventurer or the "big spender" (perhaps the latter being the greater status symbol)through the use of harder and higher quantities of expensive drugs. The loss of marijuana to this business as a soft introductory drug, one that people are not afraid to try for its limited druglike effect, would damage the sales of other drug products they market enormously, eliminating a vast resource of black money used for bribery in other organized crime businesses and political influence pedaling. No friends , legalizing marijuana threatens the American way of life (as it has become) and the economic impact of the loss of the illegal drug revenue would bankrupt most Government officials and police departments, not to mention how many people the maffia would have to lay off, all of the good paying jobs would simply disappear.

  2. Spot on phil. Even in my small town in NY i see the "authories" looking the other way.

  3. Patti Jo Edwards says:

    In a country that is going broke, it is unconscionable that those who should be protecting our constitutional right for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness would spend so much of our tax money to infringe on our rights. At the very least, shouldn't the Feds be taxing us on our growing, sales and use? Oh, that's right, there is a huge profit made from the War on Drugs. Prohibition is profitable. From prisons to police to the black market, a few are becoming very very wealthy.

  4. Phil is exactly right. The war on drugs has made our politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, and authorities filthy rich. There is no way that drug legalization will ever make it past the feds. Bank on it…

  5. Hi phil,

    Actually, I think the feds will eventually let marijuana through. Not only that, I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to tax it and make a huge profit.

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