Jill Stein: Time to empty prisons of non-violent marijuana users

[presence]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/2...rijuana-users/

GREEN PARTY
http://www.jillstein.org/
White House hopeful Jill Stein: Time to empty prisons of non-violent marijuana users

“We need to legalize cannabis,
get the users out of jail,
and start to treat substance abuse and addiction as a public health problem,
not as a criminal act,” she said.

Drug addiction is a medical problem. It’s not a problem of the law.

Ron Paul, GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate, Sep 17, 2007

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[James Madison]

Why does everyone assume that if you smoke a joint every once in a while you're an addict? I guess it fits their narrow worldview.

[torchbearer]

Why does everyone assume that if you smoke a joint every once in a while you're an addict? I guess it fits their narrow worldview.

marijuana is not chemically addictive, like say, cigs or beer.

[James Madison]

marijuana is not chemically addictive, like say, cigs or beer.

Hence one of the many reasons it is illegal. Cigs and booze may ruin your life, but your addiction means lots of $$$ in taxes for the state. Alchys and smokers are easy to control; marijuana users aren't. Besides how many people have the time or training to make their own beer or smokes? Marijuana doesn't require any work; it grows naturally in the wild, and you pick it.

[Dr.3D]

Hence one of the many reasons it is illegal. Cigs and booze may ruin your life, but your addiction means lots of $$$ in taxes for the state. Alchys and smokers are easy to control; marijuana users aren't. Besides how many people have the time or training to make their own beer or smokes? Marijuana doesn't require any work; it grows naturally in the wild, and you pick it.

And that sir is precisely why it is illegal. Since it grows naturally and you can pick it, it is way too easy to avoid being taxed for using it.

[tttppp]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/2...rijuana-users/

GREEN PARTY
http://www.jillstein.org/
White House hopeful Jill Stein: Time to empty prisons of non-violent marijuana users




Ron Paul, GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate, Sep 17, 2007

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That's great, but who gets addicted to marijuana?

[Brett85]

For those who would consider voting for Jill Stein, you should read The New American's profile of her.

"Stein’s January 2012 “Green New Deal for America” manifesto is based upon Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1944 “Second Bill of Rights.” Stein explains: “The Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that recognizes our rights to an economy that serves people. This means that everyone willing and able to work has the right to a job at a living wage. All of us have the right to quality education, health care, utilities, and housing.”

"However, the Green Party platform would undermine U.S. security and sovereignty if its plans were implemented. It calls for dismantling all U.S. nuclear weapons unilaterally, plus international controls: “The U.S. … must allow foreign teams to visit the U.S. for verification purposes at least annually.” The Green Party platform argues that “the U.S. is obligated to render military assistance or service under U.N. command to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions.” The Greens would seek to give up the U.S. veto at the Security Council of the United Nations and “urge our government to sign the International Criminal Court agreement and respect the authority of that institution.” Put simply, the Green Party supports global governance under the United Nations."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews...-for-president

[RabbitMan]

*dances happily as I-502 polling shows it clearly will pass and marijuana will be legal in Washington*

[presence]

For those who would consider voting for Jill Stein, you should read The New American's profile of her.

No doubt she's left wing global-eco-socialist.... politics is about coalitions though.

[matt0611]

No doubt she's left wing global-eco-socialist.... politics is about coalitions though.

She ran for Governor in 2010 here in Massachusetts. Yes, she is definitely a big time eco-socialist, let me tell ya.

[presence]

She ran for Governor in 2010 here in Massachusetts. Yes, she is definitely a big time eco-socialist, let me tell ya.

Call me crazy... but libertarians aside... I'd take an eco-socialist on the short term over the toxic cartel globalist police state $#@! we're spoon fed now. Not that it really matters what any of us would like... we are probably in for another 100 years of republodem puppet tv no matter how you twist it.

[tttppp]

For those who would consider voting for Jill Stein, you should read The New American's profile of her.

"Stein’s January 2012 “Green New Deal for America” manifesto is based upon Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s 1944 “Second Bill of Rights.” Stein explains: “The Green New Deal begins with an Economic Bill of Rights that recognizes our rights to an economy that serves people. This means that everyone willing and able to work has the right to a job at a living wage. All of us have the right to quality education, health care, utilities, and housing.”

"However, the Green Party platform would undermine U.S. security and sovereignty if its plans were implemented. It calls for dismantling all U.S. nuclear weapons unilaterally, plus international controls: “The U.S. … must allow foreign teams to visit the U.S. for verification purposes at least annually.” The Green Party platform argues that “the U.S. is obligated to render military assistance or service under U.N. command to enforce U.N. Security Council resolutions.” The Greens would seek to give up the U.S. veto at the Security Council of the United Nations and “urge our government to sign the International Criminal Court agreement and respect the authority of that institution.” Put simply, the Green Party supports global governance under the United Nations."

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews...-for-president

Sounds like communism. No free market since the government guarantees free education, health care, utilities, housing, jobs, etc. I never thought I could find a worse candidate than Obama or Romney.

[Brett85]

Call me crazy... but libertarians aside... I'd take an eco-socialist on the short term over the toxic cartel globalist police state $#@! we're spoon fed now. Not that it really matters what any of us would like... we are probably in for another 100 years of republodem puppet tv no matter how you twist it.

I don't think it's accurate to say that liberals/Green Party types oppose the Police State. They may oppose the Patriot Act, but they basically support repealing the 2nd amendment. They even support a ban on handguns, not just "assault rifles."

[presence]

I don't think it's accurate to say that liberals/Green Party types oppose the Police State. They may oppose the Patriot Act, but they basically support repealing the 2nd amendment. They even support a ban on handguns, not just "assault rifles."

Though this is true... you are also looking at a group that is radically against the war on drugs, war on terror, and other "civil liberties" issues that make the police state necessary and possible. I doubt the Green Party supports swat team raids of dairy farms.