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Saturday 26 May RNW - NEWS AND ANALYSIS FROM THE NETHERLANDS IN 10 LANGUAGES, WORLDWIDE 24/7 ON RADIO, TV AND ONLINE
Anonymous 5 December 2009 - 5:06pm / USA
Well this is so obvious...everyone wants to protect people from dangerous people. Drugs make people more dangerous (or sloppy), but it depends what you are doing. Many people are smart enough to drink/smoke when they are relaxing, NOT WORKING. USA tried to stop drinking too, for those reasons. Black marketing, killings, and political corruption sky rocketed. It's what movies are made of. It made the USA less safe. So government was forced to make the terrible drug alcohol legal. Now the EXACT same thing has happened with marijuana. Everyone knows marijuana is far safer, even at 50x the strengths from the 60's. It has never killed compared to millions killed by alcohol overdose since the dawn of time. in fact it has been far less studied than alcohol due to taboo/prejudice, most of this comes from corrupt socio-political power houses like governments and paper/alcohol busiensses already legal. Marijuana now has been found to kill small cell carcenoma's, lesson pain for some, increase hunger for those wasting away by disease. It is folly, foolishness to keep it illegal at all. These governmen'ts inlcuding Netherlands, are making money from keeping it that way. USA spends billions, and wastes 75% of it's arrests on people with marijuana. While murdererd and rapists don't get the police attention they really deserve. Thus the place is less safe. One death from marijuana due to law enforcement is far too many for the simplicity of this psycotropic yet physically a nuisance drug. There have been many innocent people killed in the cross fire from a plant that can grow next to your flowers and with no processing whatsoever provide a recreational or medicinal use. YOU CAN"T STOP MAN...GIVE UP YOU FOOLS>. We must legalize since we are letting our children use herion and other hard drugs. Netherlands is so close yet so far. The USA will lead the path to legalization. Many states it's already decrimanlized to hold an ounce and you get charged 40 euros for fine...right NOW..that is how it is where I live. To grow it, even one gram, is a FELONY? that makes no sense....and it cannot stand. American's don't care anymore about pot. If your a dr. or pilot you can be stoned cold drunk today..and YES, I WOULD MUCH RATHER HAVE MY DR. OR PILOT STONED than drunk...if it happens anyway, why keep a False LAW, against the people's will and totally ineffective in place? You don't. you treat it just like alcohol and move on to keeping ecstacy, mdma, herione and cocaine off the streets. USA will is leading the way...AS USUAL in freedom and people's rights. FIRST TO women vote, FIRST TO women driving, while our slavery record was terrible...we STOPPED IT...we will legalize marijuana and then what? we'll take your tourists thank you very much. We have plenty of cops to put them in jail when they act up .... Except we all know, (UNLESS your uneducated, or prejudice (most common) due to emotional or religious views.

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