Tomorrow’s Sunday New York Times’ editorial calling for an end to cannabis prohibition in America, affirms in my mind, after nearly twenty four years publicly advocating for cannabis law reforms at NORML, the end of cannabis prohibition in our nation is nearly upon the rest of the country (beyond Colorado and Washington State, where cannabis is taxed and regulated like alcohol products for responsible adult use). This is the same editorial board and opinions page that would with great frequency in the 1980s/90s publish some of the most stridently pro-cannabis prohibition editorials and columns found anywhere in the world, let alone from the urbane and ‘liberal’ New York Times, led by ardent cannabis foe, former editor and columnist A.M. Rosenthal.
Also included, informative editorial writing and excellent up-to-date map of all of the variations on cannabis law reform that have happened at the state level, putting evermore upward political pressure on the federal government to both end cannabis prohibition and severely down schedule the herbal drug.
Lastly, the dramatic change in Americans’ public attitude in favor of ending cannabis prohibition is well documented here.
A great sign of the times…the multidimensional pro-reform editorial ends with this nod to cannabis culture: On Monday at 4:20 p.m. Eastern Time, Andrew Rosenthal, the editorial page editor, will be taking questions about marijuana legalization at facebook.com/nytimes.
Andrew Rosenthal…the son of A.M. Rosenthal.
Times in America regarding cannabis have changed, and, accordingly, so too has the New York Times.
I remember when the Germans, East Germans and West Germans, tore down the wall that had divided that country for so long. Brick by brick we are tearing down a wall here, too.
I’ve been waiting for 44 years for public opinion to catch up with me!
Wow!! the NY times. It’s getting harder and harder to hide the facts.
My son has a severe epilepsy, he start at1 year 8 months,now he is 30 and still with seizures, no verbal, mental retardation, no communication due to the medication, he needs the cannabis oil soon, I ask for him and another families who are suffering for this situation
Is the ny times that powerful? THE WEED TRAIN KEEPS ROLLING ON!
Whatever it takes to just get this plant legal for weed’s sake.
It should be a choice for the individual. Available for use you have Alcohol, Script drugs, Synthetics, Cigars {Havanas, excluded for political reasons}, every single different type of tobacco, they’re chemicals really, Clove cigs., Chewing tobacco, RUSH!, Poppers, Inhalants, Sugar, Corn syrup, GMOs, think about some of the foods that are available, whats in your US Inspected food, is it really healthy? That is available, if you ever had any of these and then smoke a joint, what is the healthy choice, now you have none. That goes for all the players in this game of life. It’s a leaf from a plant, grown from mother earths soil. All natural high. Cannabis makes sense. Legalize this so the insanity can stop, make it legal like cigarettes and alcohol, so this can be over already, it’s a choice. If you don’t want to use it, you don’t HAVE to. Tobacco is not even tobacco, it’s chemicals, and in the “old days” {before 1964} less than 50 years ago was promoted by doctors and presidents {actors at the time} saying how healthy it was to breath the tobacco smoke deeply into your lungs. They’ve changed there stance on smoking cigarettes, now they say they cause cancer, it’s about time they change there opinion of cannabis. Freedom of Choice, NO! I think the best reply is why are all these things a choice but not cannabis? The reason Cannabis would be a gateway drug is that your local drug dealer, begs you to buy the harder drugs {more ca$h for them}, which would not happen if legal.
I am a 75 year old elder living with excruciating pain 24/7. I have never tried pot or any illegal drug. I am surprised that more attention isn’t given to possible pain relief for seniors since so many of us are keeping the drug companies going with pain pills of some sort. A day without pain would be something to look forward to.
It’s a leaf from a plant, grown from mother earths soil. All natural high. – See more at: http://blog.norml.org/2014/07/26/new-york-times-end-prohibition-again/comment-page-1/#comment-660215
About frigging time.
legalize freedom! Alcohol kills marijuana doesn’t
Finally, some of the barriers in pot legalization are coming to an end. After going to Denver for a vacation recently in my opinion legalization is going very well. Most of the people I talked to told me they didnt smoke it due to their employers stance but if I wanted it I could by it right over there. I have been waiting 41 years for legalization and cant wait till it happens in Texas also. Thanks NORML for your perserverance.
If it wasn’t for all of the greed in our Government, it would be legal already! It is still going to be long battle.
Recreational Cannabis is the pursuit of happiness and health!
On a medicinal note one thing that needs to be stressed more is how some states who are currently allowing or beginning medicinal marijuana have qualifying conditions being made by politicians,it should be top priority that these decisions on what conditions qualify are being made by medical professionals.
Has 60 minutes done a peace on colorado ?
Recreational laws will solve all current problems and restrictions with medicinal laws.American Recreational Marijuana must be given to the people to have the right and choice for responsible adult consumption from coast to coast.
This is such truly great news !!! Marijuana should have been legal all along. This is such wonderful news today, thank you all who fought the good fight.
Im a huge fan of this actical . Lets just pray this actical changes the minds of some of the ignorant people in our society. Wish I could help with a donation but money is tight. Best of luck .
Dan
This is nothing less than an editorial epiphany. I’ll bet A.M. Rosenthal is spinning in his grave, and the folks at the DEA and ONDCP must be reeling.
It would certainly be time to stop taking away American’s freedom and lives, just for using a harmless herb!
Thanks A.M.!!! Agreed, the time is NOW!
As America’s workforce, and economy continues to suffer at the expense of foolish govt policy, the time has come to eliminate one more component that helps to fuel violence. We are wasting resources with the fake War on Drugs and losing tax dollars.
I wonder if these guys have been visiting the NORML website.
I need to find a doctor who will prescribe medical marijuana for chronic back and shoulder pain
One really has to wonder what the hell it’s going to take to get America’s politicians on board with ending prohibition. Just how far are their heads stuck up their a$$es anyway? People like Chris Christie, in particular, comes to mind when I make that statement. I salute those few politicians that have managed to see the forest in spite of the trees blocking it like Mason Tvert! He is an example of a fine American who is also a politician. I wish I could say that about more of them…
I’m still blinking and trying to assimilate what I’ve just read … shocking … it shan’t be long now for good sense to prevail across this nation. I’m barely able to wrap my mind around it but I think this qualifies as a miracle and a testament to the staying power and persistence of NORML and all the other pro-cannabis organizations everywhere.
@claudia – Why haven’t you tried marijuana? Millions of us have tried it and it works quite well for many of us. At age 75, I wouldn’t recommend that you continue waiting for our govt to finally do the right thing and legalize it.
Thanks to the oil I am skin cancer free, no longer obese, and no longer a diabetic. Lied to for 50 years, It’s about time. How can laws that were based on lies still exist?
Legalize marijuana NOW! Why, I’ve been smoking pot for 35 years now, law or no law. With all of the money that is to be made from this, I still can’t believe that all politicians everywhere haven’t jumped onboard; after all, isn’t that what they care about the most?!!
The NYTimes has made a paradigm shift on the war on drugs. This is truly monumental. We have entered the climax of our American Prohibition Tragedy, and it’s going to last right through November.
Here is what I wrote on part 1 of the series, “Repeal Prohibition,”
“Marijuana and hemp prohibition are tied to border security, health care costs, renewable cellulosic products, fuel, shelter, food, creating jobs without “spending a dime,” and the prison-military-industrial complex. The Department of Health and Human Services patents and prohibits. They take children into state custody if parents claim marijuana posession. The same Department owns patent 3380507 for “cannabinoids as neuro-protectants.” Tax drugs and regulate; Spend the revenue to educate. Thank you New York Times. I would love a story on timber and petrochemical patents Koch Industries purchased from Dupont in 2004 competing with an open domestic industrial hemp market.”
This is education. This is the point of no return for prohibition. As Don B. states above, the Times is in defiance of the ONDCP and DEA. The stakes are high. And so are we.
I wonder how much influence the story over the root cause of child drug war refugees had on this editorial decision?
Think of what this means for the legislation we have riding in the Senate right now! It’s almost safe to say that the Times may not have made this editorial shift if they didn’t believe that the DEA was going to get smacked in the wallet with what’s pending in the Senate. All the Senate needed was a little push, but damn NY! Way to knock’m down the aisle!
It only makes sense! With the GOP refusing to feed the poor, house the homeless, create jobs for the unemployed, cutting Social Security & milk to Headstart’s children AND refusing to pay taxes on their insanely greedy incomes—Taxing weed will give USA an income to take care of her own & the immigrants too!!! It will also keep a generation of kids out of jail for smoking pot!!
The dominos are falling so quickly now. I was heartened to see the overwhelmingly positive response to the NYT article, no just from young potheads but from people of all ages and professional levels. the few that positioned themselves against legalization mostly held up the same old stale arguments or had an “I know this one person who…” type of anecdotal argument. I think it will only be a couple of years now before it becomes legal in a state within driving distance of me, maybe even in my own police state of Ohio!
In fact, I think WHEN it becomes legalized, we should allow all those with simple possession convictions to have those convictions erased from their records. give people back their civil rights.
I say forget the high cost of dispensers! I myself have grown no more than 3 plants at a time and had enough left over to give over two hundred people with close to an once. I say people can grow it them selfs if they only knew how easy it really is.
Larry
Finally we are becoming smart on this issue. Why is the greatest herb ever made by God not legal, whether medical ,commercial or industrial applications,its uses are endless. To think we still incarcerate people over this health herb, is it because so many people throughout history have not been killed by this herb….sounds stupid doesn’t it. Look if this had anything to do with our health and well being as experts against state,then fast food and sugar products would have been illegal eons ago. Whats not dangerous if abused,drink a bottle of soy sauce and you will have some problem,drink 10 glasses of water and you could have a serious problem. One is not supposed to be stupid about limiting his comsumption. Smoke to much and you simply go to sleep and have a wonderful relaxing slumber….hmmm, some side effect.
I am 61 years old and have chornic back pain and both feet burning nuerophty I pray every night that GOD will help me ease my pain and let me enjoy what life I have left. Please let this come true that I can smoke marijuana and live life with a smile and laugh again…..
WHAT, pray tell, will we do to/with/for those poor individuals SO terminally & tragically addicted to this evil weed (THANK YOU, brothers DICK Nix On & William “Rudolph the Pulp Pirate” Hurtz!)? I am SO concerned that the DEA will have little or nothing to do if they can no longer engage in true domestic terrorism – seizing property & ruining the lives of countless families & individuals… Hmm, MAYbe repurpose them into a (at least tacitly) legitimate law (sic) enforcement agency: protecting our borders. Let’s see if they can pull THAT off without morphing into the ski mask-wearing, Kevlar-enshrouded thugs they’ve become. After all, we’ve already paid THEIR price of admission…
Time to buy those pot stocks…..hemp, mjna, cbis, phot to name a few….Rob lawrence
Let common sense prevail
As soon as the government gets out of the way, things will be fine…
Well, I had almost mercifully forgotten who A. M. Rosenthal was, fortunately we still have Ed (ask Ed) Rosenthal, guru of ganja.
Big Pharma is going to have a stroke, and raise conniptions when they lose market share for their toxic potions that will be rendered redundant with un-patentable, non-toxic weed.
Thank you NORML for your tenacity. May your fame be heroic in the history books!
I have been a supporter of NORML since 1970. I have lived to see the Day!
I would just like to tell my story. I am a retired Police officer 48, who spent my entire adult age from 18 in Law Enforcement. I also worked Undercover Narcotics for 18 years. I am one of the ones who was made to believe that Cannabis would lead you to harder drugs. I never tried it until I was 47,Yes One year ago.
I was shot in the line of duty and have had over 16 operation on head back leg and hand.5 on my back.I have dealt with pain that would make you vomit. I was on everything from Morphine Methadone and Oxycodone, all at the same time.Nothing worked anymore and I was at wits end. I have 2 small sons who I am a single father and both my sons are sports freaks and I coach them and their teams.
Long and short of the story. I tried Marijuana last summer. Yes I was scared, IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE GOOD. I AM NOW A FATHER WHO IS NOT JUST EXISTING BUT NOW LIVING. DO I still have pain? OMG yes but I can live again without being committed to doctors. I no longer spend my time with the anxiety of running out of meds on a weekend,holiday,or whenever the MD decides to take off,I was also in a National Renown Spinal Center so i was not at a pill mill,
I love my life now,I am not so Isolated,I have friends again,and mostly I SEE A FUTURE as a Man now that I am happy to look in the mirror.
I live in the south,with a backward GOV. who puts more energy on putting more guns in COLLEGES<CHURCHES<SPORTING EVENTS<COURTHOUSES<oh and the airport, It has start with someone stepping up and passing a National Federal Law to repeal the war on Marijuana. Their response is" we dont want kids to get to it" Are they kidding,when I worked Undercover I cant tell you how many lives i messed up by doing my job. That part of my career I would take back to use more discretion. God Speed, and Keep it going,although still illegal I tell everyone and anyone who will listen my story and how it changed my life.
CORRUPTION AND CROOKS THIEVES AND POLITICIANS
There is nothing quite like an idea whose time has come–and hung around for two generations.
The California marijuana vote of the 1970’s — had its vote held up in Orange County and then the vote failed as it was leading it was called out by CBS at the time.
Now its time to win the public relations war.
@Eric … the real reason weed is illegal is that so many big businesses would lose money overnight. Hemp can be used to make clothing, textiles, building materials, petroleum products, etc, etc, etc…. not to mention all of the medicines that cannabis could replace… hundreds of billions of $$$ hang in the balance. The answer is… if there were no greed, we’d all have weed…. LOL but seriously, rich people would lose money… thats why its such a battle ….
Great news – I am sure full legalisation (allowing states to set their own regulations) will be done by the next presidential election. You now have the support of the press and the public and I can see no way any politician can go against that (well not without loosing their office and public support anyway).
Passage of Medical Marijuana laws have proven that Marijuana has medical use, it’s also helped show that America didn’t fall down around our ears from it’s use. At the same time, many who are helped by it tell their family members and friends, that may have been against it before, that it isn’t the devil and they see it hasn’t turned them into some type of crazed zombie.
Though I don’t agree it should just be lowered in tier in the controlled drug act, but given the same standing as alcohol is in subtitle E of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
We the people are heard finally and are being appeased by the richest blood sucking authorities on earth, some of our nations control freaks at the top. The peasant, poor real people have persuaded the evil doers to give us a break. How will they fuck it up because of their greed? Greed always messes with nature, please take a break for your own good and ours, Cannabis is natures best healing of man kind you filthy rich low life.Cannabis heals!m
it is about time we ended this failed policy of prohibition. And stop wasting my hard earned tax dollars.
Replacing prohibition with regulation? Hmmm.
If a person owns their own body, they “regulate” it, not a bureaucrat.
Having to acquire “permission” to use, grow or possess a plant is still an authoritarian based concept. Free people don’t require “permission” to own themselves.
im a disable vet in ohio and in pain and sick to my stomic 24 7 all the va wants to do is give me more pills or therapy that dosnt work I told them that ive tried pot and it works but I cant buy it or ill go to jail or pay a fine just not right
Wow, imagine the dad AM Rosenthal the foe of cannabis legalization. Then there is the son, Andrew Rosenthal, the pro-cannabis son.
@ Ray; My understanding is the Veterans Administration has “appealed their stance and the VA does recommend Medical MJ for US Vets! I think you should contact your local Representative via e-mail form on webpage:
Write: Hello is Medical Marijuana approved by the Veterans Administration ? or call them
Marijuana is excellent for “tummy problems”!
In the meantime try “Peppermint or Spearmint Tea; loose or tea bags; drink daily w/milk.
(Mints aids digestion; Marijuana is “a mint!)
I am sure that Harry Anslinger himself must have some pro-cannabis descendants.
think about who wanted it to be a class three drug but tricky dicky and nobody has had the balls to change it ,
we all remember what happened to his butt all he did should have been tossed right out the door and start over interesting thought ?
@ Rick: “burning feet can sometimes be a sign “a deficiency of Vitamin B2 Riboflavin; Milk has Riboflavin Vitamin B2; buy Riboflavin @ pharmacy or with M.D. Script.
@ Nancy; see a “Naturopathic Physician
@ other “shoulder pain helped w Vitamin B6.”
(Vitamins are “over-the-counter items). Anne
So in the end, what this all boils down to is GREED. Why, that’s the American way! Hundreds of billions of dollars that evil, mega- corporations would stand to loose if marijuana were legalized. Relax fellas – just buy some stock in cannabis – you’ll be fine! It is the will of the American people!
Cannabis, the pursuit of happiness
Marijuana law reform is moving in the right direction but it needs to catch like wild fire can some one tell D.C. to wake the fuck up!
As defined by the United States Controlled Substances Act, the following findings are required for drugs to be considered Schedule I:
1) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
2) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
3) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Folks, it’s as simple as 1,2,3 – ANYONE with reasonable intelligence can read the above & can ONLY conclude that Cannabis simply does NOT meet the criteria. That aside, prisons-for-profit, mandatory sentencing & refusal to accept the facts remain as major obstacles with which we must deal…
For and by the people ? Do you really think the fuddy-duddy geezers running the show are going to wake up .
The charade is over. Regulate only to underage. Anything else is going to look foolish. Advise to keep the stuff locked up like parents do and should do alcohol unless it’s needed for medicinal purposes. There are just so many things it’s good for. Also many strains and many differing strengths. Time to let go and share the world properly. It’s a matter of respecting human beings and giving them the dignity to rule their own health and ability heal themselves in the way they feel is best for them. We are our own best Doctor for many things and we know what is helpful and what is harmful. Prohibition of cannabis insinuates otherwise and in that regard is causing a great deal of harm to a great many people.
Is the article’s title supposed to be a double entendre?
It could be interpreted as meaning repeal the second prohibition, i.e. repeal cannabis prohibition like alcohol prohibition. That’s the way I take it.
I’m wondering if it could be understood as The New York Times once again calling for an end to cannabis prohibition.
Is this the very first time The New York Times has called for the feds to end cannabis prohibition?
Is this a First for the NY Times?
Making marijuana a Schedule #1 drug IS the CRIME. Fight this criminal law to the supreme court. There are many medical uses. It was reported to Nixon that it has anti-cancer properties, a report he buried. Treats PTSD, pain, depression and much more. The judicial branch is supposed to oversee the legislative, not rubber stamp criminal legislation!
i will vote for the politicians that end prohibition ,Washington please leave us have the weed. after driving a truck all day i need something other than alcohol and pills to kill the pain. take weed off the schedule one.i guess Ron Paul hears us.all them other assholes can eat shit and die
I did not read the article carefully so I missed the boat on how many states “have medical marijuana CBD or decriminalization;
plus 2 retail shops says 35 states in all…
I did not realize the number was so great yay
Supply and demand will be the next big prob.! Demand is great;supply is not. thanks!
ps I was reading: “Congress has the authority to “reschedule the MJ Herb”; altho’ I think Obama could do if he wanted.
I agree with I am the walrus…anyone can see “Cannabis does not fit the Schedule I criteria”…Schedule I is ridiculous for MJ !
“Don’t step on the Grass Sam…Do not ruin our fair country don’t step on the grass Sam(open the door Hal…open the MJ door Sam)*
*note Sam is slang for Uncle Sam i.e. US Gov.
I can’t imagine sending an loving, patriotic, nonviolent, tax paying person to prison simply for marijuana.
It makes as much sense as sending a person who drinks wine to prison. (unless they drove a motor vehicle afterwards and killed someone)
Do the judges who send these caring people to prison watch out for them?
Make sure that while they serve time for their heinous crime that no harm comes to them?
That they are not in fear of the violent criminals who do belong there?
When will we the people take back our rights?
Throughout history,there has always been some bunch of ASS HOLES trying to dictate to the rest of the population how they should live,what is ok by the laws they some way get into place,how much you should follow their way of life,sorry the US is full of those kind of idots,and we have to try and seek a way of life that we want,that is suitable to each of us as we try to pursue happiness with a will of our fucking own,prohibition has never worked and I am so glad the general public has won this fight ,FUCK ALL THOSE THAT TRY AND REGULATE US! May they all eat shit and die!
Lawinforcment wants the dough Ray ME
My post on “the History.”
“In the last few years, I discovered that Koch Industries purchased the petrochemical and timber patents from DuPont in 2004 that compete directly with an legal domestic hemp industry. The NYTimes broke the story on the Koch brothers being behind the shutdown. Yet
the hemp research amendment passed the Farm Bill, Ag. Comm. James Comer took the DEA to court and the Kentucky hemp crop is thriving. This article leaves out crucial parts of American history; The first Model T by Henry Ford was fueled and made from hemp, the Hemp for Victory campaign and DEA SOD program.”
Keeping marijuana illegal ranks right up there with putting all of the Japanese-Americans in internment camps during WW2. A big mistake on the part of US government! The sooner they admit that they made a mistake, the better.
When will the Gov re-schedule MJ Herbal Med?
I read Norml filed a lawsuit which went on for over 22 years !
and still the Gov. DEA would not budge…!
I thank Norml for their valiant efforts; the Gov. had a chance to reschedule; they said no
So the People have Spoken in Spokane etc.
“TAX AND REGULATE THE MJ HERB” the folks say!
Legalize across the nationwide board I say !!
“No more time to lose !!” Thank you Norml !!!
“Keep up the good fight…” Anne 1951 USA
@ Julian:
about “DuPont”; and other co.’s; so why doesn’t DuPont get into the Hemp Business worldwide? People do not want synthetic polyester anymore ! I would far prefer to wear natural hemp! so DuPont is wasting time!
Dupont could develop the best mj seed around!
@ Julian
Wikipedia: Koch Industries:
Koch Industries subsidiaries are:
Georgia-Pacific (subsidiary of Koch “Bros”.)
Georgia-Pacific is a paper and pulp company that produces “Brawny” paper towels, “Angel Soft”, “Mardi Gras” napkins and towels, “Quilted Northern” paper towels, “Dixie” paper plates, bowls, napkins and cups, “Sparkle” paper towels, and “Vanity Fair” paper napkins, bowls, plates and tablecloths. The Atlanta-based company has operations in 27 states.[19]
IMAGINE IF ALL THAT “PAPER WAS FROM HEMP ?
Paper and cloth use a lot of “Wood Pulp”;
Trees belong in forests; Hemp in our fields!
so the agricultural commissioner took the DEA to court “and won”! Hemp Hemp Hooray !!
Its sad just because Hearst lumber and the chemical plant dow or dupont or whoever else was responsible for proabiton in the 1st place has et over 70 years of the benifits of hemp for fuel an cuontless oter product undeveloped an all peoples rights for the benefits of this plant anyone still believe its the gateway drug better loo at alchol ist for most houses have someone that has delt with drunks you can’t reason with a drunk ther worse than anyone who smokes some GOD. Given plant that noone who has tried can compare alcohole kills women kids get beet car wrecks health props Dui drunks loose drive privalige they loose jobs families wake up. Compair the 2 and its obvious pot should not be phrhibited when booze is fine and used as a party and advertised as GOOD however I respect individual choice if you drink your choice if you smoke cigs your choice pot should be an individuals choise as well NOone sHOULd be jailed for using this plant with many uses look back do some individual cheking and there should be no doubt phrohibition does not work and makes good people into criminals that’s not only wrong its an insult to peoples freedoms.
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I saw Vikas Baraj and David Firestone on the cable news channels.
David Firestone wrote articles with the titles:
Let the States Decide on Marijuana
and
Timing the Call to Repeal Marijuana
Vikas Baraj wrote:
How the Federal Government Slows Marijuana Research
My ANAL(retentive)SYS
Since my last post I’ve had the chance to de-stress, and have re-read the editorial board’s “Repeal Prohibition, Again.”
The content of the articles was preaching to the choir, same old same old, we heard it all before here in the cannabis community.
While I commend the NYT for changing its tune and making a first on the uptight, broomsticks-up-their-asses-east-coast newspapers in calling for an end to federal legalization–as opposed to namby-pamby calls for decriminalization–I couldn’t find any recommendations to the brain-dead federal politicians as to how they should go about extracting the U.S. from international treaties that prohibitionist politicians time and again have referred to as preventing the U.S. from legalizing cannabis.
I am just so tired of hearing this shit about international treaties preventing legalization.
The NYT needs to advocate the feds ignore the Single Convention on Narcotics of 1960 when it comes to cannabis. The federal government needs to leave it up to the states, needs to amend its language to the SCN of 1960 or just ignore the UN prohibitionist assholes in Vienna who will condemn the U.S. and who have already spoken out against legalization in Colorado, Uruguay and Washington state.
Other papers will parrot the legalization memes of the NYT, so they should keep beating the drum.
Mayor de Blasio needs to call the dawgz, you know, especially in light of this latest shit Bill Bratton’s dawgz have pulled. I mean, they freakin’ murdered Eric Garner for selling tax-free smokes, ok, albeit cigarettes, but they’ve been racking up marijuana arrests with their stop ‘n frisks, and in part because that pussy Cuomo has one of the most restrictive marijuana laws in the country. Cuomo and Christie ought to get together and rethink what fucks they are, thinking they’ll be restrictive and as prohibitionist as they can on weed because of presidential asperations, with emphasis on the ass-sound of the word. Forget it. There will be no president Christie, no president Cuomo. Period.
So when will de Blasio call off the dawgz? When will District Attorney Kenneth Thompson’s Brooklyn policy go into effect in all of NYC? Mayor de Blasio needs to put up or shut up. Old boss same as the new boss. Do something, de Blasio!
NYT needs to encourage Rhode Island to be the first state on the Least Coast (West Coast rules!) to legalize adult recreational cannabis.
Cannabis prohibition is factually over at the federal level because as New York goes so goes the nation.
Cannabis prohibition is dead. It’s just a matter of how many more lives prohibitionists want to ruin, how much more time and money the prohibitionists want to waste until the politicians get the hell out of the way, grab a flag and run to the front of the crowd and take all the credit for leading the way.
Politicians still wasting time and money suing the Prez. Maybe they can get Ken Starr to give them some tips about how to piss away taxpayer dollars on such bullshit.
Change! Let’s see some of it!
Let me add to my rant that it’s long overdue that the U.S. amend its participation in the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotics to allow for the CIA to oversee its assets trafficking in cocaine like in Iran-Contra, all this other shit they’re into, but not officially. Like the U.S. in in Afghanistan, world’s leader in illegal cannabis and opium poppy production, and the U.S. is having a heroin epidemic. Put 2 and 2 together.
What have you got from Snowden on this?
I agree too prohibiting this herb has wasted so much time !!
Green buds bring me up…
Green buds clear my mind…Get some today !@@
It is simultaneously disturbing and funny to read the comments posted by people on the New York Times website that are against legalization. They’re afraid it’s going to turn our nation into a bunch of dumb potheads but when you read their comments they are truly the ones lacking any real intelligence on this subject. These fools tend to put more faith in an obviously dishonest govt policy than they do in those of us that it actually used it.
I’m so glad these fools are, by far, in the minority!
Oracle, I do believe the main reason the prohibs are still dragging their feet is they haven’t figured out how else to dupe the public out of this much money any other way. That is why they call on the mythical power of non-sense AMEMDMENTS in treaties which mention MARIJUANA/CANNABIS and these Bullshit Lies can and will be AMENDED out of the TREATIES (then the kooks can cry in their spilt milk) and eventually you’ll be able to travel on a plane with your buds.
I live in a state that provides for medical marijuana use and it’s great. I live 25 miles from a state that allows sale to anyone over 21..times there aren’t good because of the state stance on who can grow. You have to keep records, they want statistics and history of your hybrids. Looking for scientific type things here people. Growing for 60 years isn’t scientific enough. You have to show that you’ve been to school as a botanist and have a degree in pot growing. The matter that you’ve grown and sold since 1960 isn’t good enough-besides who wants to tell the state that? There needs to be something other than the state authorizing and controlling my pot. I can grow great pot but not sell it to someone else cause its distributing.
Legislation legalizing pot isn’t working but it’s all we have…do we go on with it or hold strong for something right.
The main reason that weed won’t make it in the next 20 years is the BILLIONS maybe TRILLIONS of dollars that it will cost the huge companies and congressmen in this country that stand to lose who knows how much money on replacement products.Like the OIL industry,cotton for the clothing industry and so many more. I don’t see prohibition on the federal level until these corps stop lining the pockets of the judges and politicans.And they stop taking large amounts of money from the lobbyist for these companies. I don’t think it will happen in the near future.I truly wish it would, lets HOPE supreme court judges can bit my ASS