Police Officers Do You Agree Or Disagree With Medical Marijuana Laws?
I am only asking for opinions from police, but if you are not an officer your opinion is valid also. I am only curious about opinions, and why you are for or against medical cannabis please no insults.
I was a police officer near New Orleans from 05 to 06. Now I’m a 35M in Army Intelligence (8 years total service). Marijuana laws are total B.S. if you ask me. I’ll cut and paste my answer from a similar question…..
Drug dealers, DEA agents, corrupt politicians and top cartel members might agree with the laws, but I don’t.
The Constitution was written on hemp. The first American law concerning marijuana was written at Jamestown in 1619, mandating the growth of Indian hemp! By 1730 most of the colonies had similar laws.
Our founding fathers farmed hemp for its oils, fiber, its many medicinal uses and its pleasures as recorded in George Washington’s diary, August 7, 1765: ” began to separate the male from the female hemp at Do — rather too late.” This is a practice related to drug potency and not fiber culture!
Thomas Jefferson, when an ambassador to France, smuggled the finest hemp seeds from Asia (hemp’s origin) to cultivate here in Virginia! He also wrote about the advantages of hemp over tobacco, in use, labor and for the sake of the land.
Prohibition against Marijuana was surrounded by racism and fear mongering.
The reason why the government will fight tooth and nail is that the war on drugs is profitable for them. We fund the war on drugs with 40,000,000,000$ a year and top politicians make more in kickbacks.
People can argue all they want on how taxing it’s cultivation would save us money, it doesn’t matter. The fat cats in Washington could care less.
Is it bad? No more than the water we drink laden with Fluoride, the forced immunizations we give our children, trans fats, booze, cigarettes, and on and on and on……..
The main thing is that we are supposed to be a free and sovereign nation. That’s probably the strongest argument for the legalisation. Let people make their own decisions.
Honestly, I think anybody who takes a look at the hypocrisy that’s beginning to start with state and federal marijuana laws will agree that the laws need changing. The problem is that our government is so intent on continuing the “drug war” that’s gone on for a million years and has never done any good that it’s going to be tough for the law on a federal level to even admit that marijuana HAS medical value (even though tons of studies have already proven just that). Something definitely needs to change. I’ve seen that medical marijuana helps people with actual illnesses deal with their pain, nausea, etc.
I have a better question. If Cannabis is a schedule 1 drug, meaning it has NO medicinal value (I congratulate the Supreme Court on their newly found medical expertise), how can THC pills, which are schedule 3 drugs (meaining you can get a prescription for them from your doctor) both be legally and logically consistent at the same time? How can I get a prescription for THC from my doctor if that is the principal ingredient of a substance that has been classified as schedule 1?