People who think it should be illegial are often times grossly misinformed about the dangers of it. With all the anti-drug commercials with OBVIOUS lies, it´s tough for people to know the truth.

If we went the route they did in Denver (to make pot eaqual legally to alcohol) we would have a much better chance to make changes.

What better place than here, what better time than now. I wholeheartedly believe if people smoked pot instead of getting drunk all the time, the world would be a MUCH better place.

Agree

The voters of california and many other states have spoken. It’s time the feds focus OUR TAX DOLLARS on violent crime, not medical marijuana users!!!

weed is awesome

people should just deal with weed ( in every aspect of it) straight up.

as much as I like the ocassional reefer buzz and feel that it should be legalized to some extent, at least decriminalized, what is happening in california is really insane and threatens to screw it all up for the people that really need it.

I like medicinal coke.

What a waste of time and money…
The War on Drugs is lost.
It’s in it’s last throes.

there is more important things in life to worry about than people smoking pot, us govt please realize this very soon………

Hey I’m from one of them “M” states back east. This is fantastic news. Marijuana is not the question, folks, it is the ANSWER.
When used properly it is a gift from Mother Nature to soothe the ravages of Father Time.
Peace begins with a toke.

Hey I’m from one of those “M” states back east. This is fantastic news. Marijuana is not the question, folks, it is the ANSWER.
When used properly it is a gift from Mother Nature to soothe the ravages of Father Time.
Peace begins with a toke.

Hey I’m from one of those “M” states back east. This is fantastic news. Marijuana is not the question, folks, it is the ANSWER.
When used properly it is a gift from Mother Nature to soothe the ravages of Father Time.
Peace begins with a toke.

Buy a keg and watch everyone get drunk, puke and fight and then crash their cars on the way home. Buy an ozone and watch everyone mellow out, listen to music and eat all your munchies. Really now, who can argue that marijuana is more dangerous or harmful than alcohol? And don’t even get me started on those legal wonderdrugs like Oxycontin, Xanax, Lortabs, or Seconals. Government by and for the people is neither. While growing up in the sixties I had this insane notion that reality would finally sink in and pot would be legalized, but now I realize that what makes sense to your average person never makes sense to the powers that be. I will continue to be a criminal and consume mass quantities of Kentucky Skunk all the while presenting myself as a consummate professional at home and work and understanding that it has never hampered my abilities to learn, think, or reason. Hell I was stoned almost every day in High School and scored over 700 on my SAT! The most dangerous thing it can do is get me busted by archaic laws enacted by imbeciles. That and turn violent offenders loose on the streets to make room for someone who tried to grow a plant in their closet.

I left a word out there. 720 math, 600 verbal. And I haven’t had anything this morning but three cups of coffee.

all hail mary fukkin jane! she is the plant that could save our planet! she is the most efficient way to produce food, fuel and fiber, replenish soil nutrients, and make us well ( physically and in the head). she can cloth us, feed us AND house us. and provide a great after-dinner smoke! look to Holland for sound and rational hemp advice, they been doin it there for almost 40 yrs, and: no drug crime, no spread of disease thru sharing of cantaminated products, teenage use is much lower than in u.s. we could also relieve our prisons of almost half their load of non-violent offenders! win-win!

Smoking weed is evil. If you smoke weed one time you will be hopelessly addicted to smack the rest of your life. Burn in hell weed smokers. Listen to what the great Nancy Reagan told you in the 80s and just say no. The O’Reilly has spoken. I’m off to sexually harass some interns.

Of course every pothead is going to want marijuana legalized so they can smoke their shit in peace. That is no reason to legalize something. However, after the study that Bill Clinton’s drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey ordered in 1998, I believe (Rolling Stone did an amazing article on it), illustrated that not only is marijuana the best medicine available for AIDS wasting, cancer patients, glaucoma, etc, but the whole “gateway drug theory” is bullshit. The study showed that our brains have the same reaction to pot as they do to smoking a cigarette, having sex or eating a chocolate bar, it’s the desire for more. Hence, marijuana is no more addicting than eating a chocolate bar or getting laid.
The study went on to show that the only reason why marijuana is a “gateway drug” is because it is illegal, hence people have to go through drug dealers who generally deal in harder substances as well, exposing the purchaser to other more damaging drugs. Of course McCaffrey ignored the research and continued to call marijuana “Cheech and Chong medicine.”
We need to give up the charade that marijuana is this awful, destructive drug. The benefits society can have from the plant are countless let alone the taxes that can be made off the sale of the product much like alcohol and cigarettes. Why spend upwards of $50 billion per year investigating, arresting, trying and jailing marijuana offenders, when you can regulate it tax it and make money from it? Even moreso, for the millions of people suffering from AIDS, cancer and other terrible illnesses, it’s time we let those people all across this country get the relief from pain they deserve. To not do so would be inhumane.

To paraphrase Yogi Berra, it’s almost deja vu all over again. It’s almost 1923, when NY told the feds they were going to quit helping the feds arrest bootleggers. (They never did arrest drinkers).

In a few years cannabis will be fully legal to smoke. Then we must make it legal to grow, transport, store and sell. Gotta legalize to take out the profit-driven violence. Until then California will have St.Valentine’s Day massacres as violent criminals rip off each other.

For the past 30 years + they have been saying to legal pot it’s the best thing to do. As far as being a drug, isn’t nicotine a drug, isn’t alchol a drug and let’s not forget all those wonderful man made drugs (vicodine, codine, oxi-contant) those do far more damage to the brain and the internal organs than pot will ever do. Hopefully pot’s time is going to come and finally get legalized and taxed just like everything else, the way it is suppose to be this way taxes don’t need to be raised all the time and we will finally have money to better our childens education, infrastructors of states and pay off the tremendous deficit this current administration to leaving for our children to deal with

I went to the Event they are talking about on the first page of the article and it was an awesome Event. It is called the “Doesha Cup”

marijuana is not a crime, the laws prohibiting it are a crime. a crime rooted in some very racist lies.

War – what is it good for? absolutely nothing.

“An unjust law is no law at all”
St. Augustine & MLK

I think the vast majority of people misunderstand the real reason why pot is illegal. It’s kept illegal to help create the massive flows of untraceable, unregulated, untaxed, ‘illegal’ drug money that form a substantial portion of the world economy today. The ‘powers that be’ can redirect this untrackable money into whatever they want…and the ‘intelligence’ agencies have been big players in this for a long time. It’s been well documented that the CIA actually ran cocaine into this country in the 80s. Why do you think there’s been no serious effort to even slow, much less stop the cultivation of opium in Afghanistan? Unfortunately, if we totally legalized drugs tomorrow, the stock market would probably collapse…but it’s going to do that soon enough anyway (thanks George) so…what the hell! Legalize it…but don’t you criticize it…yeah, yeah…

The war on drug is one of the monumental failure of the US.

The story I had always heard was when Dow Chemical invented nylon, they wanted to corner the rope market by making hemp illegal, thus forcing rope manufacterers to switch to nylon.

that and to increase the market for cotton. Clothes and paper used to be made from hemp.

It also had an added benefit, since it was mainly latinos and blacks that smoked the hallucinogenic version of it, making it illegal gave them a way to oppress and incarcerate those populations.

Leave my weed alone!

No really, I’m a CA patient, I love my club, but ever since the raid last month their supply has been fucking awful. I’d go so far as to say they’re selling street grade crap in a cute looking bottle. Damn shame.

Wow Jed, finally something we can agree upon. Pot laws are intended to be selectively enforced upon minorities. Being a clean-cut white male I have had quarter pounds of the stuff confiscated from me with no charges brought! It’s just a way to give Big Brother power over anyone or anything he chooses. The number one cash crop in America is illegal! Can we all agree the war on drugs is an abysmal failure?

It is a sad commentary on our modern society that punishment and incarceration are the way to illicit desired behaviour. In the old days it would have been nipped in the bud at an early age by teaching the kids appropiately ( one viewing of nanny 911 or super nanny will tell you it’s the parents that screw the kids up and need to be educated in parenting). Not saying herb is bad, like almost anything else, it is not the plant that is the problem, it is the underlying nature of the person consuming it. It is amazing how many people use alcohol as an excuse for immoral or illegal behaviour. Now there is a gateway drug if I’ve ever seen one. Many of my old highschool friends never smoked reefer, but got hooked on coke or crank after trying it while disinhibited by alcohol. Mostly girls that couldn’t get off the stuff when they realized it was a problem. Well, I guess the war on drugs will fix all that(yea right!!).

Either way, perhaps we could smoke a bowl and chat about whatever in a civilized, productive way. We may find us humans have alot more in common than our political ideologies might lead us to believe.

I think that it’s just a matter of time before proposition 215 is a nation wide thing. Everyone knows that the benefits outweigh the negatives. Some people think crime will go up but thats total bs, because it will be a business. The more corporate it gets the better i say. The only problem is if the government tries to control it because then they will start taxing it and trying to cash in on a excellent idea that they had been against for a very long time. Fight the Power

I can agree with all that say toke in moderation……I consume alchohol and it eats my insides.I toke and I eat everything inside my home…God Bless and tell the feds not to stress..

Why don’t these hypocrites drop all this medicinal lingo nonsense and call what they’re doing what it is: dealing drugs. Marijuana is a depressant, it makes you stupid and lazy. I know this, you know this, anyone with any level of education knows this.

and yet, alcohol, a much more dangerous depressant that also ruins coordination making it much more dangerous to drive, destroys self control(in some people), leads to violence and the use of harder drugs and consumed in large enough quantities can kill is perfectly legal and not controlled in any way before a person gets addicted or becomes a member of the prison system.
Tobacco, a stimulant that has been found to be extremely addictive as well as damaging to lung tissue and a cause of cancers of the lung, throat, mouth is also legal.
Coffe, another stimulant that has been shown to be damaging to the heart and arteries is also quite legal as well as being very addictive is not only accepted but price gouged in the common custom of drug dealers.

Where is the hypocresy maa’m? could it possibly be you are pointing the finger of evil at others without taking an objective look at the whole issue?

i think pot is a great drug, and i think these medical-marijuana shops are great.

allnyermind, I can personally refute your statements. I am neither dumb nor lazy. I AM Dr. Ralph and besides practicing medicine I volunteer at my church, help feed the homeless, hunt, fish, play football and basketball with my five children while my wife stays at home and raises our family. Leave it to Beaver never had a more idyllic home life but I am addicted to KY skunk buds which I consume every day after work and this practice will continue until the day I die. Unless of course I can get that Thai connection back! I am living in the fifties with the one exception being marijuana instead of a dry martini when I get home. I am a better man for it.

its an eyeopener about what is really going on out in LA with the shops the deal drugs for money no other reason pure greed one of the seven deadly sins repent my brother god sees our motives he sees everyhthing iwas a in denial myself for 23 yrs bud alters your mind and thinking and sugar intake medical mary jane what a joke dress it up all you want it helps no one may god bless you all

Weed is not a “drug” it is a plant that is naturally grown. Sure you can alter it with different lighting and surrounding, but back when this country was formed, it was just naturally grown. It is something that would benefit our whole society if it were legalized. Imagine a world where instead of people drinking and doing idiotic things, they smoked a bowl and enjoyed some good music and good times. Thats a world id like to live in. Power to the Peaceful

when the country was young, it was a law that landowners HAD to grow hemp. I guess it was a way to promote the fiber and to have enough for ropes, clothes etc. While hemp and reefer are quite different, it just goes to show how the PR campaigns have changed the status of the plant.

Too bad the soldier for christ never learned enough about punctuation. homeschooled perhaps?

Solider boy,

God HAS blessed us all….when he gave us this thing called Canabis. Amen, brother.

Medical marijuana is good. It’s gray area legality in CALIF. has quite an affect. Here’s one. Try introducing the “vendor income” in a community property divorce. For all the openness and goodness needed, this is one area where I know first hand the compassionate attitudes end. MMJ ought to come out of the closet and onto the 1040’s. What a boon that would be to the economy and the collective consciousness.

Legalize Marijuana. IMPEACH the illegitimate president, George W. Bush.

Licence and regulate compassion clubs. Fuck the feds and their political prohibitionists. Marijuana is medicine.

420 errday

I wonder if RS will give some space to politicians who actually favor drug legalization. Most of them are in the Libertarian Party. There is also Ron Paul.

Besides California, how is medical marjiuana doing?
Is it going more legal or illegal.
Are cops cracking down or not?

My life almost ended in 2000 due to alcoholism. At that time, I’d already decided that cannabis was Hippie Shit (much like Rolling Stone magazine, heh.)
Strange but true: marijuana helps control the pain from the peripheral neuropathy created by that 20-year booze binge. It works against depression as well and I never feel guilty about the side effects or the illegality.
RS still sucks, though.

In loving memory of charlietwoowlskahuna, smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em.

Yeah I like the comment on Dr. Ron Paul. Ron who? Where the fuck has Rolling Stoned been? He was on the cover of High Times about 25 years ago with a big interview and entered the mainstream consciousness as the only pro-pot candidate. At least mainstream to the millions of left handed cigarette aficionados. He votes along no party lines, has been a practicing obstetrician delivering thousands of babies, and is a U.S. Congressman who voluntarily gave up his seat because of the opposition he faced from everyone in Washington! This is a good thing… He returned to politics as U.S. Congressman and is against the IRS, government intrusion into our lives, draconian drug laws, and believes in states rights! How about that California and your medical marijuana?

jonny12

the only thing that annoys me is why do potheads like to name the stuff? what makes it so funny? it seems like high school stuff to me. i guess maybe if i was stoned i would know?

THIS MOVEMENT IS TOO BIG TO STOP!!!

DAMNNNN RIGHT!

stop arresting repsonsible pot smokers now! it’s time to stop wasting our taxpayer dollars on a drug war the american people can ill afford and for the most part don’t agree with.

Nice article.

i love weed

It’s obvious that alcohol and other legal substances are much more detrimental than pot. A couple of months ago a radio station hosted a contest to see who could drink the most water, a woman died, not the first time that’s happened. I’ve smoked for more than 15 years, starting at age 14. Life was nuts weed kept me sane although I abused it heavily. No way was it healthy and positive to get stoned every day in high school, the mind is too young, it develops to fast. I went back to school after working for a few years and earned an engineering degree. Guaranteed my grades would have been better without so much weed around (better grades who cares right…). The legality of it does not matter, nobody really knows how society would change if pot was legalized. Do you really want the government to control your stash? Would they use the revenue responsibly? Yeah right… Unfortunately sitting in a high school class room these days doesn’t do much good for a lot of people. The bottom line is; educate your children because the system doesn’t work very well, do a lot more than smoke weed with your life, if for no other reason, because you can. EDUCATION is the key to making good decisions, EDUCATE YOURSELF DON’T BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT…

think about it…

“Unfortunately, if we totally legalized drugs tomorrow, the stock market would probably collapse…”

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What the fuck are you talking about? Please tell me how legalized drugs are going to cause the stock market to collaps? Let’s see…the New York stock exchange was founded in 1792, the first drug laws in the U.S were passed in the 1930’s, seems like the stock market survived over 130 years with legalized drugs.

As a resident and a medical user.whats goin on in LA is insane.Doctor’s, club owners and growers are getting rich.It is cheaper to buy on the streets legalize and taxize The Feds waste millions persecuting medical marijuana.My medical pot costs 20x more than my opiates !!

Dr. Ralph- I never thought I would agree with you after reading some of your other posts. But, I have to say: Well said. Especially, the bit about the war on drugs being an abysmal failure.

I think that to really get this to work we need to see more societies becoming like the one in the article, like they said, washington doesn’t think highly of california but if more and more places started to have shops like these open up it would completely change then entire situation, also, if people really would like to see it legalized then people need form more organizations for it and have lobbyists in washington. Other drug companies like pfizer ..etc have them if there were lobbyists for medical-marijuana then legalization would become more of a reality

Herb the gift, from the Earth,
and what’s from the earth is of the greatest worth.
So before you knock it, try it first.
and you’ll see it’s a blessing and it’s not a curse.
-ben harper

Legalize!

Famous last words; “I control the drug, it does not control me”.

Oh, yeah! Dream On….

so which issue of rolling stone was this in? who was on the cover?

who knows which issue this article was in? who was on the cover? been looking for it.

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Americans owe, doesn’t owe Vietnam veterans an apology

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Americans owe, doesn’t owe Vietnam veterans an apology

Vulgar language during primetime TV is, is not okay

People should be allowed to go naked in certain recreational areas only

Uniforms should be, should not be required in public schools

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