Last week, state Senator from Montgomery County Daylin Leach announced his intentions to file legislation that would legalize the adult use of marijuana, in a way similar to the laws recently approved in Colorado and Washington.
“I acknowledge that it may take a while, but like same-sex marriage,” stated Sen. Leach, “this will inevitably happen. Demographics and exposure will in time defeat irrational fears, old wives tales and bad science. This bill furthers the discussion, which hastens the day.”
This legislation, if approved, would help halt the arrest of thousands of Pennsylvanians annually. Since 2006, 24,685 arrests were made for just marijuana possession at a cost of over 300 million dollars to the state’s taxpayers.
“It is time for Pennsylvania to be a leader in jettisoning this modern-day prohibition, and ending a policy that has been so destructive, costly, and anti-scientific,” Sen. Leach declared.
Pennsylvania has long been considered a bellwether state, so to see the issue at least being entertained in the state legislature can only be a positive sign of things to come. Let’s hope other elected officials in Pennsylvania join with state Senator Leach to support these sensible reforms.
If NORML’s Take Action Center is anything to go by, the citizens of the Keystone State want it. In just the first 24 hours of going live, Pennsylvanians sent over 900 emails and letters to their elected officials urging them to support this legislation.
If you live in Pennsylvania and want to join in the call for marijuana legalization, simply click here and you can easily send a prewritten email or letter to your elected officials telling them it is time to support legislation to legalize and regulate marijuana, not criminalize it.
PENNSYLVANIANS: Click here to contact your representatives in favor of this bill today!
Don’t live in Pennsylvania? There is already marijuana reform legislation filed in ten other states, with many more sure to follow in the coming days. Be sure to keep checking NORML’s Take Action Center to see if your state is one of them and to contact your officials!
Together, we can NORMLIZE CONGRESS. Together, we will legalize marijuana.
The bud is rolling down a slope that is getting steeper by the day! We will soon see prohibition end……….
Please look up US Patent 6630507 titled “Cannabinoids as antioxidants and neuroprotectants” which is assigned to The United States of America, as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services.
With this patent on the books the government can no longer say it is bad and evil; now if the government tries to tell us that it is bad, we know it is not the truth…
I wish there was more I could do to assist in making this happen.
“…destructive, costly, and anti-scientific.”
“…defeat irrational fears, old wives tales and bad science.”
This guy tells it like it is.
When the Republicans start crafting bills like this, we’ll know the time for change has come. Perhaps numbers like the $325 million wasted on pointless government spending will provide an incentive.
If marijuana is medically legal in the capital of these United States, then why isn’t it medically legal for all of us?
If this were brought to the attention of educational institutions like Penn State there would be a much higher awareness of what is happening in PA right now. The NORML website does have speakers that you can invite to give talks at college campuses or elsewhere but last I checked it wasn’t free. Are there any alternatives? I know there is a NORML chapter in Philadelphia but that isn’t where I live…
make it legal pennsylvania were going to star wars.
I live in PA, not in his county but I WILL vote for him in 2014 if I see Leach on ballot. I never thought I’d see anything about PA on Norml. I thought Corbett would go on a ruination spree and basically stink up Pennsylvania. We have to take the power from him.
VOTE IN EVEN # YEARS!!! 2014,2016,2018,2020…
Take some puffs and keep this up. We’re toppling a 70 year propaganda campaign that originally said that Marihuana had it’s roots in hell, no medical value and’ll cause you to kill and various other BULLSHIT.
Juanita, Great idea. Contact the NORML closest to you and help them set up speaking engagements like the ones you mentioned. Most local chapters that don’t have to spend to much on travel will most likely send a speaker if you ask them.
write some editorials all. Also, email reps. Juniata, why not bring in someone like Judge Napolitano? Maybe Gary Johnson?
I just signed a fucking email for pennsylvanians only and it went to a fucking guy who lives in my town and now knows where I live. Thanks a bunch. I’m never signing anything again, that’s if I’m free to express my opion next time
[Editor’s note: Elected policy makers don’t turn in their constituents who lobby them to end cannabis prohibition. There is no logical reason why you should be paranoid about doing what it actually takes to reform the laws — being politically active.
Lastly, elected officials often tell NORML’s lobbyists that they will not support law reforms unless they hear from more of their constituents who want it too.
Cannabis consumers and activists can’t contact their elected officials enough on this important subject matter!]
Good for you PA. Don’t whimp out like Oregon did.
Awesome! Now that we’re surrounded maybe New york will hop on the bandwagon.
Yeah, and the reaction to that was in Tuesday, January 8th’s Lancaster County newspaper. The local politicians pooh-poohed it. A few, however, did say that they would consider voting for a medical marijuana bill. Professor G. Terry Madonna, a political pollster, said that although the public supported medical marijuana with an 80% approval rating, they did not support outright legalization in the state. Outright legalization was low. I want to say 3%, but I don’t have the article in front of me.
Can we get polls for outright legalization in Pennsylvania that are a true indicator of public opinion on outright legalization in the state? The average of a group of polls instead of just this one that Professor Madonna was using. I don’t think the article mentioned where Dr. Madonna got his percentage.
I did the Action Center thing, but I already know the politicians who claim to represent me will not be voting for it. They won’t be voting for MMJ is PA either.
One is going to have to throw better polling data at them, and you’re going to have to give them data and statistics that includes how much the state could realize in savings and how much estimated revenue it stands to realize.
As I have ranted in the past, Pennsylvania is a corrupt state, with the marijuana distribution routes having been long established. The people who are currently making money off it illegally do not appear to want to come forward to make money off it legally. They’re either not going to come out of the closet before it is safe, or they’re not afraid of the big bad federal government monster but rather are afraid of the legal competition, probably put a lot of Mexican cartel distribution channels out of business.
The states need the jobs and the money.
Keep running the economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
St Nick, if you don’t tell your reps what you want, how will they know? Of course, they don’t want to have to listen to people from CA, which would be a waster of theirs and your time, they need to know you live in their district or they have no reason to listen to you.
Jesus, sorry. The guy lives down my block and I wasn’t expecting it to go to him. The thought of not smoking at all since it’s illegal and no more freedom to go through my guys? Yeah, I was nervous. Oh, plus I have paranoid schizophrenia. Sorry.
Anyway, I don’t feel bad from it. I’m just glad you said what you said instead of just ignoring it. Sorry for spewing negative bs… I will not do that again. Easily done.
There is only one way to stimulate this extremely sluggish economy,guaranteed,and we all know what that is. Scientists know it, economists know it, doctors know it, and everyone on the street knows it, even a large number of politicians know it(but they won’t admit it.
Then can someone Please tell me why we still live by these harmful laws established by fear and greed. We really don’t need someone telling us what is good, and what is not, when it comes cannabis and hemp,the evidence and science speaks for itself.
It’s time for politicians to s@@t and get off the pot.
St. Nick, don’t worry about it. We all have plenty to be worried about when certain folks don’t play fair and aren’t required to.
But yeah, we have got to move forward and not let fear get in the way of making our mark and fixing this mess.
I just want to like this a couple hundred thousand times.
@ the oracle: write some editorials! The same thing happened in the daily news of Huntingdon, Pa. We have 80% support for medical and the local politicians kept saying there was no support for the bill. Recreational support is somewhere between 33-40% i believe, nowhere near 3%! We need to be louder, they cant hear us or they would be supporting it in the media!
Ham Like Spam
This may not work this time around, who knows. It’s possible, it might take State’s around us to legalize first, before PA joins along. We won’t know, until those times come. They are coming, no matter what the negative minded people want to think. Marijuana will be legal here in PA, probably before 2020.
2014 or 2015 is when I am guessing. I am guessing it’s going to be when we have elections for a new Governor. People need to start realizing that marijuana Prohibition is ending. This has come up, because some people in PA just want to try to stay ahead.
The End is really near, the End Of The World, in a matter a speaking. One of the largest & large scale wars is near to an end. What’s the Drug Lords to do, when there’s no longer a war to be waged? Then what!?
Supply and demand is around 50 / 50. Closer to 50% already comes from within the US. Means the other 50% is brought across the boarders.
They’ll be able to legally sell it, and then charge extra for imported, just like Beer.
E-Mails these people, just like above, and then spread this. You want action, that’s the best way to do it. I posted this on a few places, including Twitter, and Facebook. The more we all do this, the more people that there will be pushing for it being legal here in Pennsylvania.
I am about to post this one other place, as I haven’t yet. I posted a journal on Inkbunny, and will soon post one on Fur Affinity too. Two furry groups. With help, it just may pass this time around, instead of waiting for the next Governor that happens to come by.
been there. done that. now prefer the social engineering approach to implement legalization. recommend holding back on infusing the market with capital to produce and innovate new products for consumers, thus a trickle of new jobs is not created. job stagnation should persist, and be adjusted for the attrition from mortality. that can prolong the sorry economic state, even make is worse to keep running the economy into the ground until cannabis is legalized.
They only way they will do it is if you leave them no choice.
Leave them no choice.
Denny the government’s ban on _Cannabis_ and marijuana is the main way people learn to be criminals. The shadows, edges of our society is where most illegal things like “drug dealing” goes on. The lack of responibility and need to compete for profit turn what could have been normal people into animals. The our government is causing this by abdicting their responsibilities of their leadership positions. Our leaders have lead us down a very dark path here; they throw out their responibilities and all this teaches kids growing up to do the same. Just talk your way of the things you screw up and pay no mind to all the wreckage you cause.
So happy this regressive style of thinking is being attacked from so many sides now.
34 days since legalization in Washington. No deaths, no killings, no mass psychosis, no Druids, just peace.
Just a bunch of neutered cops looking for donuts …
The anti maraj industry makes too much money. The prison industrial complex would lose half of its prisoners. Its just business.
I just cant see how drinking yourself till you pass out or make an ass out of yourself can be legal but smoking a little bit of mary jane, which makes you happy, hungry, creative ect., after a long week of work isn’t. Its a plant not a drug!
The time has come, no more lies about bogus effects of WEED!! ALCOHOL is 1000 Times more dangerous than ANY weed Ever Will Be !!
Prohabition Does NOT WORK, Legalize it, Regulate it, TAX IT, and Let the People have what they want!! Watch the teenage weed useage drop off to lowest levels ever, once there is no more “WOW factor” involved anymore.
GOV Corbitt, needs to be voted out of office, since he has no plans on seeing what the people want, only his dumb ideas from Years Gone by…
Time to get some new blood in the Office, someone with a Positive Note on Weed Legalization..
I was truthfull getting ready to move to Colorado! I sure hope I dont have to after all.. I will vote for any and ALL who are PRO Weed Legalization..
It’s not just PA, the WHOLE Country NEEDS this !! The Taxes alone can fund so many helpful and needed projects and also create thousands upon thousands of JOBS in the process !!
Let’s get with it people, we are ALL Very Intelligent, we can do this TOGETHER !!
LEGALIZE IT ! TAX IT !! Let the POLICE focus on Real Crimes and Criminals !!
So many PRO’s and not enough skin on my finger tips ! LOL 🙂
John V…
Well said Sen. Leach ! He has probably guaranteed a long term political career with this stance.
As more and more states change it is unlikely that Obama and his drugs Tsar can do anything about it. If it had just been Washington and Colorado then I am sure the feds would have had a go at overturning things but I feel things have now reached a critical level and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. I can’t wait to see what the coming days will bring.
It is time that NORML and MPP invest their time and donations into PA. We are have had bills introduced on previous occasions but never get their support because we are not California.
That this happening in PA is absolutely fantastic … and if you think about it, the amount of progress made already on Cannabis legaliization, all around us … is even more unbelievable. And now it’s just starting in PA … KUDOs to all political leadres that have the GUTS to truely represent their consituents on this … THIS IS ONE FREEDOM WE ALL NEED TO HAVE … AND WE MUST BE RESPONSIBLE ABOUT and WITH IT … Just my 2 cents :^)
St. Nick : I have coined a phrase “Cannabis Prohibition Has Been a Masterpiece in the Art of Brainwashing”. You are living proof. I used to be just like you. Then I got busted one day minding my own business. And I’m a white guy! Not supposed to happen to us, right? Well then I started making pro legalization videos and posting them on YouTube. Emailed all my family and friends, may of whom are school teachers. Most of them freaked out and cut me out of their lives. I lost a lot of work too as people who used to hire me and my band for special events no longer call.
So I have sacrificed a lot for fucking wimps like you. Now get the fuck off your ass and start banging on your neighbors doors you fucking crybaby!!!!!!!
I just want to say that this is great. If we all sign the petition it will help them push it through. So tell your friends and family. Get every one involved you know that would support it. Make your voice heard.
Dave. I can not agree more. That’s just about all I have to say there. It is time to start taking responsibility for a more correct system.
Even if that means less corruption.
I think getting a NORML College chapter started at each of the 19 Penn State Campuses and Penn College of Technology would be a great way to educate people and help gain support. It appears it is acceptable to form student organizations for the discussion of political issues and debates. http://studentaffairs.psu.edu/organizationrules/
@mark The ending of your rant was uncalled for. Cool you’re pro legalization but your methods resulted in loss of work and a missed opportunity for a real conversation about marijuana with family/friends. You went about it the wrong way just like everyone else in the world. Way to be a hypocrite. 🙂
Drunks kill. Potheads love.
Well it”s about time. Although the gov. is an ass we need to keep pushing them, they will come around . very happy jage.
LIBERTY……….the Liberty Ball is here in Pa the 2nd state to enter the union. And great news for the east coast
<3….way more important things to worry bout then a plant..
Liberty bell……………..LIBERTY
It is time for a 1 million person march to the mall in Wash DC on 4/20/2013 and for all of us to light up at once @ 4:20 p.m. sending a giant smoke signal to Mr. Obama and congress they will not be able to ignore !
Where are you NORML ??? now is the time to assemble and put an end to the wrecking of peoples lives from this unconstitutional prohibition…
I will continue to send out this message everyday asking for 999,999 other people to join me !!!!!!
Johnny938
Apparantly you did not pass basic vocabulary in school.
A hyprocrite says 1 thing and does another.
I put my CAREER and FAMILY on the line to start a conversation about overturning an unjust law. What part of that is hypocritical?
You dont like my delivery? TOUGH SHIT!!! Nice guys have ALWAYS finished last in the war on pot smokers.
Mark, I started standing up & speaking out for, re-legalization in 1975 @ the age of 18. I was ignored & had people turn their backs on me. My family thought I was crazy when all I could see was the founding principals of America being made a mockery of. I applaud you for your outspoken manner, their is not enough of us getting off our asses and doing the hard work to end these lies. I have been @ this now for 37 years , & I’m ready for another 37 if need be. The truth must be realized.
Hello,
It’s time to sue the State of California for “Affordable Marijuana Medicine”.
I spent $3,651.00 in 2010 on weed and pipe devices. Then, $6,310 in 2011, and 3,170. in 2012. I smoke 1-1/4 oz. a month, on average, from (6) double-perc bongs which are kept clean in rotation.
Most recently, the local delivery collective has made the Blunt-E® available in a two-pen case with extra mouthpieces, and USB/AC chargers, for $90. The pens produce a full (choke-able) hit of vapor. They use Blunt-E proprietary glucose/tHc cartridges, or can be filled with PureGold (90+% tHc). The vapor pens lessen mucous when used in the morning and evening, instead of bong-smoke. Two hits of tHc vapor starts the day, instead of a lung full of smoke and reeking of it. Another company, makes the PureGold® 1/2 gram oil caplets that retail for $45. a 1/2 gram. Filling the pen takes two caps. That’s $90.00 for (1) gram of tHc oil.
In 1936, you could buy a (1) gallon from McKesson Chemical, in San Francisco, for less than that.
It seems like the MJ Collectives have found themselves on firmer footing (helped locally by Dr. Bob Filner [aka, Gutz]), now how about looking after the patients who depend on MJ for relief and can’t afford the healthier alternative available from modern-day conveniences. The patients who PURCHASE the meds can’t afford $340.00 ounces of weed and $90.00 grams of tHc. It can be subsidized by the industry or 3rd party entrepreneurs.
Stand Up and Say Something.
Sue the State of California for fair-marijuana (product) pricing! NOW!
HydraGlide: It may be legal before any legislation gets passed, and when its legal, all prices will drop.
I never thought in a million years that PA would be the third state to try to do this.
Win or lose in the next election, this is huge!
It may take two or three elections, but this will evenually happen in PA.
There is no stopping it now!
Screw u emmma w.
this “plant” will help alot of people with pain, anger problems etc.
so put that in your pipe and smoke it emma w
I was reading an article that had the pros and cons on marijuana. It said that the cons were it is addictive. FALSE!!! I smoked marijuana everyday for 2 years. I got a new job so I had to stop. I haven’t smoked in a year and a half now and I don’t or never had cravings for it. It also said it is a gateway drug. It is only a gateway drug because when people get weed from a drug dealer that drug dealer also has other things. If the government would legalize it then people would only be seeing and buying weed. It is a plant for crying out loud. Alcohol is by far worse than weed. Time to legalize it!!
They love to say it’s a gateway drug. Hell, cough syrup could probably be labeled a gateway drug. Fact is, booze or cigarettes are probably bigger gateway drugs than anything else.
oh please, i have heard this time and time and time about this state called pa i have lived here for 36 year, they always sayt hey will thy always promise they will and they never do.
our farmers out here are some of the best in the nation they could use the revenue. get control of it out of the hands of criminals put it in the hands of good people who wont lace your bag with horse tranquilizers or whatever.
i don’t do it in this state have not since i was 15.
but instead the let companies poison our public water so they can have jobs….(it’s called fracking)
i suffer from chronic pain.
the only thing that will get it passed in this sate is if you can show the got here how much more money they can pocket.
the whole system out ehre is corrupt
so i am tired of hearing these false promises and false lies from them.
i want the hell out of this state.
my spinal cord is split from c2 to t1 and l3 to to l5 and l3 though l5 means that i have trouble walking and that sitting hurts the hell out of me.
i ahd three docs in the past year tell me to move to a green state.
well how the hell can i afford to do that my county has over 25% unemployment rate.
i hate it here and i hate the lies they pass.
this wont happen and i am sick of them lying about.
techinically it should already be legal because they passed the bill over to the healt department to enact.
they refuse to vote and only make false promises they evil evil evil people who only care about the money they put in their pockets and how they can rape and ruin the land and water and country side to make more money that the politicians can slip in their pockets. check their emails if you don’t believe me. look at their history
call anonymous in on it who cares lies lies lies.
dont fall for their lies.
and yes it does help with mood stabilization yes it helps it pain.
but don’t believe for one second. they are liers and will say anything.
sick of hearing about it.
sincerely
hopegiven up
oh and anyone here on this page don’t believe them
there is no such thing as same sex marriage
half the counties here do not even recognize the federal laws regarding glbt issues.
they call you a fag to your face and get away with it. *coughs i know some in the county seat who have done that to me*
and i am not even a guy that’s how they choose to percieve me.
so don’t fall for the lies
pa still has doma and fundi conversion camps (that put me in the nut ward 3 times.)
they still openly attack glbt people and they get aaway withit.
so, avoid this state like the plague.
i hate this state they lie make false promises torure you so i want the hell out of here.
i can not live the last of my days dying from renal fialure becuase my kidneys can not even handle asprin and my liver is so damaged from the other meds i can not even take tylenol.
but hey i can sure as hell eat a cookie.
god i hate this evil state.
i want out. tired of their lies.
don’t believe this for one second
look at their history.
Our gov’t is just too stubborn to admit they were wrong in not legalizing it when they ended prohibition. They take years, decades, and in this case almost 100 years (and still counting) to admit they were wrong. It is nonsensical to keep it illegal! I don’t understand how they can’t see the money they will make and save if it were legal. Regulate it just like alcohol.
Lanna is a quack job. Person’s insane. PA rules, Legalize Marijuana, and stay in school because science’s cool!
Only reason it is a gateway drug is because who you get it from usually has access to many other substances as well.
I hope they pass it soon. I hope every state does. Especially Ohio where I live. But until then I can go to my Steelers game and enjoy some good herb in the process!!! Monday night under the lights smoking some sour diesel… Hell yeah. That will be most spectacular. Good luck PA.
Im tired of all this talk just do it already!!! I smoke every day and Im not stopping for nobody!!! not my job or anybody else!!! HURRY!!!
Just been busted in pa at a traffic stop. Had more than personal use. I know my fault right. But that’s not the shocking part. The shocking part was to find out that no matter how cooperative you are with them there are only two things the drug cops really interested in…Names and assets. Being that I smoke regularly I had trouble remembering names and was up front with them about that so we went on to assets. After about twenty minutes of negotiation the drug cop says to me “I feel like a used car salesman”. His words not mine. We got to the point though which was for 25k, a few cars and the rest of the pot they had not found my girl could go home unscathed and I would get a favorable bail letter to face 71/2 years at a later date pending an actual plea bargain. Now I have no animosity towards the cop, he knows what he is doing is ineffective as a deterrent but treated me with as much respect as he could afford at the time while still doing his job. What leaves me with a sick feeling and I believe he had the same sick feeling in him for some time was that with that process of seizing assets to fund anti-drug squads there is the overt and unmistakable conflict of interest that has now been institutionalized in the Criminal (justice) System. The very people who are tasked with stamping out illegal drug commerce are now profiting from it. This is madness. I will say that I am grateful that they did not handcuff me and my girlfriend and through us in the river like the truly corrupt cops in Miami 20yrs ago.
We have to stop this madness and it is madness as in the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. My entire life the penalties have gotten stiffer and the potency and supply has gotten greater & greater. I’m 48 now, how much longer will people have to suffer to have their choice of naturally occurring homeopathic herbs that are scientifically proven to treat a wide range of ailments with minimal side effects. Please help me and everyone else in my position or one like it by supporting regulation of prohibition. Before judging me for taking part in a criminal business transaction remember there is no legal option in this (police) state.
Sincerely, “7yrs BadLuck Joe”
Why can’t the federal government pull their heads out of their asses and realize how much easier it would be to stop wasting billions of dollars a year locking people up for cannabis and start making billions on tax dollars. Not to mention all of the anti-cannabis and anti-drug campaigns and commercials they waste our money on.
For a country that is in so much debt and can’t reach a budget. Wouldn’t a multi-billion (some economists say upwards of a 500 billion dollar swing every year)
Wake up! Think of all of the products, new businesses, and jobs that could be created!
Hemp and Marijuana could save this country! I am not an Obama fan, but I pray he does something on a federal level during this term.
The problem is we are preaching to the choir here. How can we get the message out to average thinking people who’s only connection to the pot scene is their wasted tax dollars. If they understood the true ramifications and costs to them I believe things would change quickly or at least faster than molasses outside today. Anyone have any suggestions?
The prohibition on cannabis is just another way of infringing on our constitutional rights.
The people of Pa and the rest of America have already spoken. End the prohibition.
Most of the people who smoke it, will continue.
I just read the book called
“Marijuana is safer, so why are we driving people to drink”
It is the best information on Marijuana VS Alcohol that I have ever read, and I have been reading and studying everything I can find since 1967.
I do not drink alcoholic beverages.
“Alcohol makes me crazy.”
I have not used alcohol or cannabis in 24 years.
After spending about 3 years reading about cannabis on the internet, and reading about the medical benefits, and seeing it become legal in some states, my curiosity got the best of me.
I started smoking cannabis again about 14 months ago.
Wahoo, I really like this stuff.
No adverse affects, what so ever.
Last summer I smoked from 2 to 5 times a day
for 30 days straight. I stopped for two weeks, no problems.
I do not know why our Government is so afraid of cannabis.
The problems with alcohol have been well studied, and they are not good.
To each his own.
Me, I’m gonna have another toke.
Buy the way, I’m 61 years young.
Contact your local represenative and let them know how you feel.
Peace and Love
Hey Joe Busted, Read the book in my last post, it will give you a lot of ways to contact those that can make a difference.
medical marajuna should be legalized for personal use in back injurys and noroperthy and other ijurys please legalize it it doesnt hurt no one thank you i support marajuna nation
First, marijuana as a medicinal plant – I could probably say that because it has some chemical content in it, that it does serve up some uses for people with certain psychiatric and physical ailments. I know from personal use it is a good sleep aid 🙂
That’s when I quit. Couldn’t see myself spending all that money on a sleep aid. However, when compared to alcohol, caffeine, aspirin and a host of other legal drugs, including but not limited to nicotine – marijuana is a godsend.
For instance, a non-narcotic drug treatment for ADHD, (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder) and OD (Oppositional Defiance) in adults and children (over the age of 11).
A child younger than this can go in and purchase a Monster Drink fraught with caffeine and latter can complaint about a racing heart. Go figure!
Never seen the Jekel and Hide personality disorder in anyone smoking weed, like you do with alcohol. In fact, people seem to be more passive the more they smoke hemp.
On the legal side or better yet on the industrious side – this nation needs new industry. A new tax base. This new tax base will serve a dual purpose. One it increases tax revenue and two it cuts costs, in many areas:
Law enforcement, court proceedings and incarceration. The senator mentioned 300 million dollars just to enforce the law – does it include the costs of going to court to prosecute and then incarcerate. What about probation or parole? There’s expenses there, too.
If given a choice between legalization of pot and alcohol – I would vote for marijuana without a doubt. I fortunately do not do either drug. But I rather see an idiot on weed, than a drunk behind a wheel of a car.
“Idiot on Weed” one of the stigma attached to the smoking of a plant grown in the wild. Actually, I have seen men working quite well after smoking weed, than they could without it. So, the other end of the spectrum – increased work productivity.
Once, a government sponsored activity on black dock workers, which inevitably trickled into white society – was the use of cocaine to improve work productivity – a major failure that produced nothing more than a society strung out on drugs. A dilemma which persists even in to today.
Why didn’t they try weed is my question? Would of worked, I’m sure of it!
Next, and more important than all the rest – legalizing pot and licensing pot growers that are true citizens of this country – you will take the lifeblood out of drug cartels. Marijuana sales subsidize the illegal trafficking of other hard drugs like cocaine and heroin.
Without marijuana sales it is not lucrative to smuggle and sell any other drug. Take the pot out of the hands of thugs and put it back in the kitchen where it belongs.
This country has expended millions of dollars eradicating weed from our country side, since 1940, the advent of forestry. It now time for them to make millions and save millions on legalization of “Mafu” (spanish for grass).
🙂
Tiene Mafu? Got Pot? 🙂
Well, as overjoyed as I’d be to see PA do something that didn’t suck for once, I kind of have my doubts. PA is always dragging its damn feet when it comes to adopting progressive measures. I don’t think that’s the constituency, I think it’s politicians not wanting to rock the boat. Then again it wasn’t that long ago that syringes become available in pharmacies without prescriptions, we have Philadelphia with its more or less decriminalized weed, and I know there’s a lot of support, even among middle aged individuals, for marijuana law reform around these parts. Actually a lot of it is for drug law reform in general as people recognize that the whole damn war on drugs is a damned joke and just serves to sweep an issue that will never, ever go away under the rug, but marijuana legalization has the most support.
So therefore idk, maybe. Who knows. I mean, it’ll happen eventually, information is far too freely available these days to keep people scared and in the dark enough about the issue for them to allow this sick ‘war’ to continue, I’m just not so sure if we’ll be one of the forerunners. Don’t get me wrong, I’d be overjoyed about that; it will be a glorious day when I can walk down my alley on a warm summer night and see people sitting on their porches having a few joints with their beers. That’s just the way it should be; the image seems so right in my head. It’s just that I’m reluctant to get terribly excited at this point, as the chance for that to lead to disappointment is still far too high.
Oh, and guys, I just wanted to point something out; I’ve noticed that a large portion of people’s responses are essentially listing reasons why marijuana shouldn’t be illegal or the various positive uses it has…you’re kinda preaching to the choir here. This is the NORML website. We probably wouldn’t all be here if we weren’t already full aware of the vast array of reasons that the prohibition of marijuana is a lunatic pursuit fueled by greed, fear, and intolerance. There’s nobody here to convince, we already know.
Plus, even assuming someone did come here undecided about marijuana legalization, NORML has already quite wisely provided a copious amount of evidence as to why laws regarding cannabis should be, no, need to be reformed. That’s what a large portion of those links up there at the top of the page are designed to do; inform people. Nobody is going to be down here in the comment section paging through the comments in an attempt to decide how they feel about the topic.
The problem is that as it stands literally EVERY article is basically only ~10% comments regarding the story itself and ~90% people listing arguments directed at nobody in particular. That’s really frustrating, and I honestly kind of wish that the site would moderate them out. I want to know people’s thoughts on/other information about the topic, but that’s almost impossible when said items are buried under a mess of unrelated comments.
Of course I’m not sure why I bother saying anything. If most people leaving these things actually stopped to read anyone else’s comments in the first place they’d likely realize on their own how unnecessary doing so was.
Pennsylvania sure could use the money.
Governor Tom Corbett is really fucking things up.
I just hope that Senator Daylin Leach’s bill has all the expert testimony to counter the prohibitionist arguments. Counter the Gateway Theory, Hurts Children, and every other prohibitionist arguments and give expert testimony on applying the revenues to build infrastructure instead of raising prices on gas stations (which saves on what it costs you to fill your tank) and save the pensions and schools and give tax breaks to attract and spur business for more jobs, etc.
If you don’t have that, you’ll have editors and opinion leaders and other old crows spewing the usually lies. I don’t what them to be cawing about anything negative to cannabis in the papers and on tv. The editors and opinion leaders should take their positions based on the facts of the pro-cannabis expert testimony. Leach is on the Judiciary Committee, and he wants to move it forward, unlike that screwing Senator Pat Vance gave us. You’re up against prohibitionist republicans, true believers that it’s the devil’s weed, good people for the most part who’ve fallen for the lies. You need to make a re-education campaign to address their fears, mistaken and outdated notions, replace Just Say No with a Colorado style slogan. Regulate and Educate. Strict Regulation, Fund Education.
Look! Pay attention! I’m telling you how to orchestrate legalization in Pennsylvania. It could happen. The state really needs the money.
Do I really need to think of everything? Really?
Have the big city papers on board. Their editors will have to editorialize to get the smaller papers that fuck up and stick to the prohibitionist shit to reconsider and then publish in favor of cannabis legalization.
Once you’ve created the echo chamber, just shut up prohibitionists, they’re going for the money.
See what you can do with this. I contributed to Barry Busch directly way back when, sent the check to his cause. Rest his soul. Years later came the PA MMJ bill. I’ve opened up my wallet in the past for MMJ in other states, and I will contribute to the cause in Pennsylvania, too. They don’t call it the Keystone State for nothing. Which state will be the state that makes the feds tip in our favor?
Dear God,
Let the Bellwether State ring loud and true. May everyone be allowed to partake in Cannabis. for whatever ails them, be it physical, mental or emotional pain.
Thanks very much,
We need to coordinate as Pennsylvanians NOW in an effort to raise awareness among our State senators and representatives. If Corbett is DEFINITELY going to veto, the only way we win is with a majority vote in the senate and the house to overturn Corbett’s veto.
We can do this by drafting a petition with tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of signatures. It would have to express that a vote upholding Corbett’s veto would mean EVERY person that signed the said petition would vote against that said Rep or Senator. While we may not have the money to buy the corrupt politicians here, we DO have the pull to threaten their job security if they don’t uphold our will.
If PA does legalize Marijuana it will be a start on better things to come but PA never creates sensible laws if I really wanted to be the president of united states I’d lift this gun law they just passed and legalize cannabis for medical and personal use everyone deserves to live happy and would decrease the amount of alcohol related violence or mischief would you rather be stoned and just eat sleep and chill or get shitfaced and piss everywhere throw up and in some cases create violence legalize it keep the hard drugs made in labs illegal
It’s great to see someone “Daylin Leach” knows what to do. But what the people need to know that he doesn’t address is that Marijuana is less harmless than a glass of drinking water. There is an hour and fourty minute documentary called The Union: The Business Behind Getting High and it shows you all of the nonsense that’s been fed to everyone about how “Marijuana is possibly the worst drug known to man” and “that it’s a gateway drug to harder drugs” those are the words from our late president Regan. Such bull… The movie also goes on to show you that Marijuana is the most beneficial flower ever and it contains more than 60 therapeutic compounds that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments that aids hundreds of ailments that plague society.
That would literally put every pharmaceutical company out of business. If you cant sleep? smoke pot. If you suffer from depression or get stressed out? Smoke pot. If you have cancer? Smoke pot. If you suffer from anorexia? Smoke pot. If you suffer from Asthma, Glaucoma, Tumors, Nausea, AIDS, Sea Sickness, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Body Pain, Muscle Spams, Arthritis, Herpes, Cystic Fibrosis, Rheumatism, Lung Cancer, Emphysema, Headaches and Migraines, Alzheimer’s smoke pot. I can seriously keep going on…. You’ll possibly never have to pop another pill again, and who knows what types of side effects come with those pills. Example. HEY, I cant sleep. Let’s get Lunesta. GREAT I have depression and thoughts of suicide BUT at least I can sleep… Wow. Society is really blind.
Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people a year, about 75,000 people die a year from alcohol… The number of people that died from Marijuana, 0. That’s right. NOT ONE account of death EVER from Marijuana. Tobacco Should be a Schedule 1 Narcotic, Not Marijuana. I am a fellow pot smoker and I honestly do it because my job has excessive amounts of stress. So I come home and smoke a little and all that stress from that days work just melts away and I feel great. Don’t have a care in the world what just possibly happened at work that day. Plus I suffer from color blindness and Marijuana also aids in that too. First hand account here on that study, I visit my Doc once every two months and get a color blind test and every test I do better. Beat that shit! I smoke because it makes me a better person. PERIOD.
It’s great to see someone “Daylin Leach” knows what to do. But what the people need to know that he doesn’t address is that Marijuana less harmless than a glass of drinking water. There is an hour and fourty minute documentary called The Union: The Business Behind Getting High and it shows you all of the nonsense that’s been fed to everyone about how “Marijuana is possibly the worst drug known to man” and “that it’s a gateway drug to harder drugs” those are the words from our late president Regan. Such bull… The movie also goes on to show you that Marijuana is the most beneficial flower ever and it contains more than 60 therapeutic compounds that are healing agents in medical and herbal treatments that aids hundreds of ailments that plague society.
That would literally put every pharmaceutical company out of business. If you cant sleep? smoke pot. If you suffer from depression or get stressed out? Smoke pot. If you have cancer? Smoke pot. If you suffer from anorexia? Smoke pot. If you suffer from Asthma, Glaucoma, Tumors, Nausea, AIDS, Sea Sickness, Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Body Pain, Muscle Spams, Arthritis, Herpes, Cystic Fibrosis, Rheumatism, Lung Cancer, Emphysema, Headaches and Migraines, Alzheimer’s smoke pot. I can seriously keep going on…. You’ll possibly never have to pop another pill again, and who knows what types of side effects come with those pills. Example. HEY, I cant sleep. Let’s get Lunesta. GREAT I have depression and thoughts of suicide BUT at least I can sleep… Wow. Society is really blind.
Tobacco kills more than 400,000 people a year, about 75,000 people die a year from alcohol… The number of people that died from Marijuana, 0. That’s right. NOT ONE account of death EVER from Marijuana. Tobacco Should be a Schedule 1 Narcotic, Not Marijuana. I am a fellow pot smoker and I honestly do it because my job has excessive amounts of stress. So I come home and smoke a little and all that stress from that days work just melts away and I feel great. Don’t have a care in the world what just possibly happened at work that day. Plus I suffer from color blindness and Marijuana also aids in that too. First hand account here on that study, I visit my Doc once every two months and get a color blind test and every test I do better. Beat that shit! I smoke because it makes me a better person. PERIOD.
Prohibition cost billions,legalization could earn billions.
yeah right, prefile, does not mean legal. doesn’t mean it will get voted on, it will just end up swept under the rug. over 50% of the peopee here want it but Governor Corbett has sworn to veto anything to do with it.it’s not going to happen.
this has happened almost every year for the past 5 years and they always ignore it.
i expect it to just get swept under the rug again.
norml sho look back on pa’s history and do a documentary and find out why it keeps failing to make it to a vote.
norml should^ look into doing a documentary on why the bill keeps failing in pa to get to a vote.
The current Governor here in PA will probably Vito any attempt at legalizing Pot. I can not guarantee this, but it is possible the next Governor will pass an initiative such as this.
It’s possible, he’ll announce this straight away too.
It’s also possible, PA will wait till most the other States around it legalizes, before they join them. Hopefully I am wrong on some of my assumptions.
I dont think this will pass this time maybe next session.This is a corrupt state.A judge locking up young man just so he could get a kick back. Pa State troopers beating a young man motorists from.new york state very severely. Gov.Corbett wont go for it Reefer madness
Govenor tom corbet has sworn to veto any bill regarding it that comes across his desk time and time again.
and not even next term.
this has been supposed to have come up for public vote each year for over the past 5+ some years
nothing -personal..wait yeah it is personal. i am leaving PA. i hate it here.
All the politicians here are corrupt, and each has their own littl eways of getting perks. or money in their pocket.
heck i was kicked off the medical buss comapny we apealed with a judge we won, but guess what the director of transportation said they do not need to listen to the judge.
guess who owns the only buss comapny here? the director of transportation.
our tap warer has barium, and a bunch of other mining fluids, only i can not get the epa to come out ant test my water since i do not own my home. the crap put me into acute renal failure in just a few months.
they are scared that if word gets out about the water or whatever then people might sue martin shale or haliburton.
and they should.
they are killing people **(^*&^*’s
i hate it here.
and i hate the fact that every time some politician says they are going to pass a bill or bring it up that norml seems to think it’snewsworthy.
well it’s not it’s a big crock of lies.
i hate this place.
my doctors tell me to move green because if i do i could live another ten years or more. otherwise i am stuck here taking the only meds they can prescribe me that are making my kidneys bleed and shutting down my liver.
when instead i could eat a cookie. hell they can not even prescribe me the pill form because the pill company erefuses to see any reseach other then for anoexia (guess what have anorexia/bulemia and they still wont.)
PA sucks if you can avoid it at all costs.
Dave: You are correct but it is worse. It costs about $120 a day to house a prisoner. Big prison construction and Correction officer unions fuel the anti weed movement. There is big money at work and politics follows the money.
dear richard, you are 100% right.
i don’t think people belong in prisons for non violent crimes.
or for getting help with their chemo or pain.
it’s not fair.
and our Governor in the state of pa well he is evil, in my opinion. Okay maybe not evil, he just likes the money to slush into his pockets.
i got a fine because i called 911 to have them send an ambulance to get my partner to the hospital, instead they sent the state polie who fined us left her here to bleed with a three inch cut down ehr arm from a broken dish in the sink and they fine us, send me away for 24 hours and didn’t even offer to get her to the hospital. they left her here to die.
that’s wrong.
i ahve lived in this state for 30 years my entire life, and it just keeps getting worse.
if there is anything a gatekeeper cant control, they call it bad,,,gateway drug marijuana?…could be …but way too much other drug money is being lobbied away in d.c….while the control of marijuana has yet to be established..when all of the necessary people find out how to divide the untold billions in revenue , then it will be legal in a heartbeat….lets end all of the STUPIDITY in penna. govt…i suffer from severe arthritis in my back and narcotics are not the answer, really dont wish to go down that road,,,,aint smoked weed in 30 yrs,,but if it could help my back pain id buy it legally if it were offered…i say yes to this!!!!…just how long has it been since georgy bush, and billy clinton lit up?
Prohibition schmohibition
tied of living in chronic and severe debilitating pain, and it’s even worse in the winter. god i just wish they would actually do it this time. I’m so sick of hearing they are going to do it, and then they don’t even bring it up for a vote, or it gets lost. last time it was sent over to the health department. sick of this malarky.
i am tired of suffering needlessly in pain.
all the meds i’ve been on for pain make your kidneys bleed (and you pee blood even over the counter asprin) or they give you liver damage or worse!
the stuff is safer then aspirin or Tylenol. lets get it done, so that other people in this state like me or old white boy up there and the countless others don’t have to suffer anymore.
Saying marijuana is a gateway drug to harder drugs is like saying milk is a gateway to alcoholism stop prohibition
Saying marijuana is a gateway drug to harder drugs is like saying malk is a gateway to alcoholism stop prohibition on this harmless plant
I’ve heard this rag for years in the Keystone state. But to any game there are rules, players and pieces. First off the war cry of the powers is “It’s for the children!” and the peoples war cry is “It’s our God given right as an citizen”. Ya gotta realize that the word ” Marijuana ” is a made up fantasy word like “Hippie” to group and label citizens for due process. Just wrap your mind around that for a second…
I have multiple reasons that I personally need the medical uses of Cannabis (I had my arm severed-restricted with massive head injuries… Lucky me) . So I’m no stranger to the pillars of the court room. To that confection, that certain things cannot happen if the thing you want doesn’t exist. Like “Stop the slaughter of Uni-corn’s” sounds silly, but the same goes for the legalization for marijuana. Let’s just keep these rules in mind.
Let’s go on to the players…
Citizens vs. Politicians.
My fellow citizens of Pennsylvania need to recognize that the people that can walk tall and tip a top hat under a snakes belly is a politician. That’s how low they will go to line their pockets. Why the small rant!? It’s because of the privateering of the prison systems. This state Corbett wants to keep no cell empty, what better way to fill those cells with the easy kill of “Pot Smoking Joe”. I look at this game not as a board game, but more like a card game; dealers choice and the stakes have never been higher! With that in mind, the Politician being the dealer always changing the rules per hand, with the house always wins.
It’s time for a re-deal and a voice to be heard, across the table because once the cards are delt there are no chances to call cheat on the last hand.
RISE UP MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS LET THE VOICES OF THE CITIZENS JOIN IN ONE ON THIS ISSUE SO THAT EVEN THE DEAF AND THICK WILL HEAR!!!
hey talk about the blind , my wife and i suffer from lyme disease,just trying to get a diagnoses for this in PA was an increadible undertaking, we have been told to seek mental help(no lie happened), so we drove to NY state and guess what? the doc told us we have lyme, after having the western blot done to test us(PA uses the eastern blot which is a bull sh*t test, anyway it attacks your joints and causes much pain, which is where marijana comes into play,we use it to help the pain so we can atleast function through the day,I must add that my spouse is Bi Polarand since the introduction of marijuana we have been able to take her off all the prescribed pills that were making her incredaBLY ILL(LOVE THOSE SIDE EFFECTS) THEY SAY IF THE GOOD EFFECTS OUT WEIGHT THE SIDE EFFECTS , THEN IT’S WORTH IT , IS IT REALLY? sorry i am rambling
Ok, So, now what ?? Did he in fact do this ?? I see nothing about this “Monumental Occassion” update anywhere. Does anyone update the website daily ?
Hard to follow an issue as important as this is if you can’t get the info to the people who really need it ! US, The readers 🙂
Does anyone have a link to the video of the bill being introduced yesterday ? Any News clips or anything would be great please post on here or on the NORML site
Thanks guys !!
Johnny V..
HeavenlyHerbalz.com
Sen. Daylin Leach wants to legalize, tax marijuana most likely because he’s already doing it himself. Noway this needs to be legalized. Easier for the under aged to get it. If they do, they need to drug test everyone for every job! I sure wouldn’t want a Dr. per say, or any other professional!!! What’s next, legalizing cocaine & ect.???
To Terri,
Here we go “reefer madness” you are so full of Sh#t your breath shatters to wind. Listen to yourself, for the children boo hoo. But let’s go get a bottle of whiskey or some beers to talk this over puffing a smoke. A Lilly white view I’m sure. Kids will steal the cannabis and go commit rapes and dogs will sleep with cats. But kids never underage drink or swipe money from their moms purse. Let’s get real you probation pusher. Hate to see paper made from hemp or Mexicans rape our daughters in the night. These are the old propaganda that was demonized to help pass stupid laws for stupid people. Dear lord what would we do if kids abused prescription drugs… Oh wait they do . Think about what you clean before you start to clan others doorsteps
@ Terrie you are so wrong Sen.Leach is doing this for a better Pennsylvania and one day a better America
to little to late, if i wait for pennsylvania to pass it for medical or decriminalize it i will be dead.
they have pulled this stunt i can not tell you how many times in the past.
so, i am closing my business and moving my family out of this horrible state.
if i stay it means death by prescription pills, when a cookie would work.
sorry everyone, but i don’t believe everything i read on the internet.
dying in pa.
[Editor’s note: Excellent…and reformers need to support state and federal politicians that support us!]
Just a food for thought. Maybe they don’t want to legalize it yet b/c, CO & WA state are just a test dumbies. too see how it will work out?
http://articles.mcall.com/2013-02-16/news/mc-pc-marijuana-legalization-20130216_1_tommy-guns-marijuana-legalization-bill-illegal-booze
i don’t live here anymore.
it needs to happen im tired of going down for little amounts watching my friends lose their kids go to jail cause of delinquent fines due because of possesion of paraphenlia its bull shit it will only do good things for our country for the debt we are all in it will create jobs and everybodys pockets will get heavier over time its the best idea since sliced bread
Legalization will lower the number of folks in prison, saving tax dollars, while also raising the tax revenue as each purchase will carry some percentage that goes to state gov. Would you rather some one get safe and top quality stuff that raises tax revenue, or have your kid’s trolling in alley’s in the ghetto…there gonna get it one way or the other
I’ll believe it when I see it.
OMG —prisons have folks in there that were caught with a pipe and some “grass”—I bet that most of the legislatures have had a “drink” or two but are we to forget what prohibition was all about and the many lives it took before someone realized that we do have a brain and yes you can drink and yes, unfortunately some people have a problem with alcohol, just like some people have a issue with gambling—do the math and create an atmosphere of common sense with the medical use of cannabis–we are losing farms in Pa at an alarming rate–give the farmers the right to grow hemp–let’s step up to the plate and put the drama aside and open a vigorous discussion on the issue–“Let’s get it off the street and into a license establishment!!
it will not happen in this state until there is a federal ruling.
otherwise like every single time before they will just side line it ignore it and forget about it, shuffle it under the carpet.
it was supposed to be up for vote more then a handful of times and it gets forgotten.
if it wasn’t for the kick-back money it would be legal in a heartbeat…much better than booze……and that also is a reason to keep it illegal
Everyone knows today that through regulation, decriminalization, through control they can make millions if not billions.
this state is backwards.
i have no idea why they would waste such a valuable resource when so many cancer patients suffer, and so many people in chronic pain suffer and so many veterans suffer needlessly.
heck it’s safer then aspirin, Aspirin can kill you. Booze can Kill you.
this will on it’s own taken responsibly will not.
one of the best vegetable on this planet.
how can we make a vegetable, a plant illegal for existing?
i will hold my comments on the states Governor. however i do believe he should be investigated by the police and the IRS.
So how will this affect me if i get hurt at work? or those whom get randomly tested at work? Some of us will still get the bone 🙁
ok so i had to quit for a good job. Not worth the risk of getting hurt. Also i hear they can random urinalysis us but haven’t in years…
I like smoking for several reasons.
1. I’m a vet. It calms me nerves 🙂
2. Not a big fan of drinking. DUI cops are festering around every corner in my town even when you walk home. It makes you feel like garbage the next day or two. but i do enjoy the occasional cold beer.
So if it is legalized then what? Can i still get nailed on a urine sample at work? Just because it’s in my urine doesn’t mean i’m stoned at work…
What do the rest of you think in regards to that?
Yes but it makes you FAT
If it’s ok to close schools and build prisons then it’s ok to legalize marijuana
Once it’s legal, it will create revenue, by taxing it at a fair rate, it will definitely create more jobs, put the farming industry back to work, they in turn will need employees to help with the work, it will help rebuild the “mom & pop” businesses with needing centers to sell it, meanwhile creating taxes at every level that’s FAIR, it will allow agents who are currently used in the drug wars, to be shifted to more serious areas, like illegal gun trafficking, harder drugs on the streets that are actually killing our kids, and it will create not only saved revenue, from less incarcerations, but will also create more room in prisons for more serious offenders WITHOUT the costs of building bigger and more expensive facilities. And in the end, we can, as a country that has an abundance of farm land, possibly become an exporter of a bumper crop of incoming revenue to countries where it’s already legal, but, don’t have the weather or the farm land to grow it for themselves. And lastly, in the medical world, it’s been successful in treating many life threaening diseases and ailments, without ANY of the more serious side effects of certain medicines that are currently legal and on the market APPROVED by the FDA!! This will finally bring about AFFORDABLE medicines AND health insurance rates because the pharmeceutical companies will be FORCED to reduce their rates, just to compete in the fair market place. That, to me anyway, is a TRUE “win\win” for the American people. Aho!!
if you google alcohol deaths vs. marijuana deaths, you will see the numbers. alcohol=thousands, marijuana=0.
While I was fighting breast cancer at the age of 27, it was the only thing that helped me through it much more than the $700 pharm drug I tried. I won the battle!!
As we all know, cigarettes and alcohol are two products that aren’t the healthiest ingredients to use. They are harmful and we keep purchasing. The price gets higher and higher. It’s amazing the money that people pay to poison their bodies. At least with marijuana it’s a natural growing plant with no added poisons such as arsenic. With the use of marijuana, I believe the world would be a better place b/c for many people it’s a great calmer. It’s a natural herb that can help slow down glaucoma, help a person relax who can’t relax, help a person eat who can’t eat, decrease pain. It’s calming so there is less anger and fighting amongst people. It has many great causes and I believe America will be less stressed and society will be calmer and just maybe we will have less fighting etc. It’s called calming down. It’s true, Smoke America, light up and see how calming this wonderful herb can be.
pee tests at work should only apply or be given or demanded if the safety of others is in involved. period.
used to be illegal to pee test at work and schools. we gave that right to privacy up for some reason.
it used to be my body my fluids are my own. period end of story.
yes it does calm nerves and help with ptsd.
i wish the Governor was not such a conservative.
would have passed it but every time it is supposed to go for a vote they ignore it.
i know a lot of cancer and hospice patients who it would ease their suffering.
i know a lot of vets, and people who worked rebuilding things who have ptsd from what we can not will not talk about who it would help.
Things best forgotten.
i have no problem with doctors using it or in general anyone else as long as it is used responsibly.
no toke before work, or when on call you know?
not if lives are n the line.
seriously.
and honestly it would really boost the economy and reduce the cost of court, jail time over a plant. a vegetable.
we are discriminating against an entire plant species for no reason other then someones old black and white out of date inaccurate fear campaign.
sorry but the govt. needs t listen to the people for it is WE THE PEOPLE not the WE THE OVERLORDS.
sorry that’s my opinion. subject to change daily.
I really cannot believe that the government would rather people use narcotics(man made chemicals) instead of a plant that God put on this earth for our use. People don’t overdose on pot but think of how many of our children, friends, and neighbors have died from taking narcotics. When are our leaders going to realize that they need to start protecting us.
I got pulled over in june and had 3grams on me. The cop said he smelled pot but I wasn’t smoking, he took me in Delaware county hospital for a blood test and charged me for a dui. Not because I was driving high or anything but because I had pot in my system for prior use. Now I have to go through the whole dui(pot) ard thing. to make things worse there was no alcohol involved, why because I don’t drink. The cop was irritated because he was trying to get me to admit to alcohol use but I told him I don’t drink repeatedly and he got mad so charged me. I tell you im going through this for no reason. for little 3grams that I even admitted I had in my car. I took my drug alcohol evaluation and did not need ANY treatment classes, thank God because that would’ve been a waste of my time but surely beneficial to them moneywise. Sept 26 is my ard hearing. Im so pissed about this. They want to burn me for a lil 3 grams and because my blood had thc in it. while others are driving drunk and killing people. As soon as im done with this bullshit in Delaware county, im outta here. Its really ridiculous. This whole thing is a money scheme. I cant wait to get the hell out of this bitchass state. I will not recommend anyone to move to Delaware county because of the police harassment and senseless arrests.
im a veteran also with a list of issues, plantar fasciitis, knee problems, anxiety, depression. Lets see what they wanna do with me, a person who served their country but now want to bury me for POT, CMON upper darby police, you guys are lame
With so many money issues today at all levels of society, and an already accepted recreational resource with truly minor negatives, there is no stopping this. It may take time, but things are happening faster than anyone a few years ago thought possible.
it is time to support legislation to legalize it… its not legal but alcohol is and how many people are killing by drinking and driving . poor innocent people…. i am a avid smoker been for many yrs due to my medical issues ,(depression, degenerative disk disease arthritis. drs just want to keep giving me pills all these damn pills are doing is making me sick. they aren’t helping my problems or making me feel any better.. also my mom has cancer and has been getting radiation she needs this too to help her cancer… please ? legalize this for not just medical but recreational as well….
i’m all for legalizing. can you imagine the tax dollars the gov. can make on this. having this avsilable to the public would be a monopoly. especially at the prices if it today compared to 30 years ago. if goverment even charges half of the street value for small quanities this would be the biggest countries money maker yet!
If legalized then they are going to have to establish a toxicity level at work. Smoked pot in early August, took a piss test in Mid September and failed because their permissible level was 10 mg and mine was 16. and they did believe and knew that I was telling the truth that I had not used in over a month but it was in my system and I failed for that job. I tested myself with first check home drug testing kit and passed twice, but the company sent my urine sample to an independent lab and I failed. I could not argue because pot is illegal. Wish they would legalize already.
It is time for Obama to put an end to this injustice.
Alcohol is so bad that it makes people who smoke, act like angels
Comparatively.
I fully support sen. leach in his quest to throw out the antiquated way the government treats people who choose to use marijuana in an adult fashion .
I do not use it but I tried it a few times when I was a kid and I think it was a hell of a lot safer than alcohol, I guess it’s all about money again if they can tax it then it will be legal, we the people know the government doesn’t care about our well being all they care about is the cold cash.
It would be sweet if the links in the article worked. I need this law to pass for my arthritis.
i will believe it if i see it.
they constantly ignore and forget this bill ad ones like it.
it will not pass in this state with our (WE THE PEOPLES) elected officials.
they enjoy to much money going on fancy vacations and blowing fortunes on paintings for their egos from the taxes, and to many people make money off of it being illegal.
so not going to happen and anyone who thinks it will is fooling themselves.
i have a script and that will not help me one bit in the state it is evil, and so are it’s officials they would rather jail a cancer patient, and veteran then give US comfort.
stop fooling yourselves go out and when the time comes to re elect do not vote the same lairs into office.
My son an adult was fined 1,200 dollars when his car was searched and the Ambler,Pa cops found a tiny ten dollar bud of Marijuana.There reason for searching his car, while he was parked outside of his girlfriends house not smoking, was that they saw a pack of cigars.First of all they had no reason to approach the car,he was doing nothing illegal!Then to say aha,I see a pack of cigars,that is a reason for a reasonable search,is also ridiculous.Enough people’s rights have been trampled on, over an herb that is God given and, been used medicinally for thousands of years by our more enlightened ancestors!Re-Legalize Now!
By the way Fix the Links Please so that citizens of Pa can voice there opinion!!Our current governor is a backwards idiot.He doesn’t have a progressive neuron in his small brain.But the fact is, that the GREAT FATHERS of our COUNTRY WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON grew Hemp!I’m sure they grew some Females as well for medicinal use!Sadly our Governor is no WASHINGTON or JEFFERSON,sadly he is a money grubbing,conservative idiot.Let’s vote this money grubbing Evil politician out of office.Support WASHINGTON and JEFFERSON and vote Corbett out of office for the good of the PEOPLE in Pennsylvania! Vote
My wife died after losing her battle with cancer. During her chemo and rad treatment the thousands of dollars spent on legal pharmaceuticals did nothing for her pain or appetite. A small bit of pot consistently improved mood allowed her to eat, improved her mood dramatically, and relieved her pain without rendering her unconscious or incoherent as did her prescribed meds.
As for myself I have used it recreationally my entire adult life. I never realized how much it controlled my own arthritic pain until I recently quit to “clean up” for a new job that requires a urine screen. I now require 1600 – 2000 mg or more of ibuprofen to remain functional. Functional, not pain free.
as usual, PA. will be the last state. they are so slow here.
The Bill or Marijuana is for Doctors Only, they will be able to prescribe and control amounts for patients.
The police will look favorably on chemical DUI and instead of a possession charge the guilty will go immediately into the same system as any other DUI. it is for the revenue.
The main reason marijuana is “better” than booze is because it IS illegal. repealing prohibition was a bad idea.
CBD Thats all they need to know! They are to fixed on the THC of weed that everyone for gets about all the other things it will provide for the people.
help pa legalize sign the potation only a fue hundred more ever one counts over 2000 so pleas for the people that are in need and are being failed bi the medication out for the sizes and spasms fare