Comments on: Florida Ag Boss: Marijuana Won’t Be Coming To A Field Near You

By: Joey

Joey — Sun, 18 May 2014 18:38:41 +0000

@Gembeaux. I’m not advocating the recreational use of marijuana. I certainly agree that abuse of marijuana can make you dumb, especially if you’re already stupid like the people that Noexcuse mentioned, Not that a correctional institution is a worty litmus for an experimental hypothesis. The point I’m making is that if someone is ill or has a terminal disease there is no harm in letting them use marijuana. Also if someone wants to enjoy marijuana recreationally, why stop them? Or try? Marijuana is abundant throughout the U.S. and billions and billions of tax dollars worth of drug wars later, it still can’t even be kept out of prisons or military bases. How about legalizing it, controlling it like alcohol, taxing it (I guess), and make it a profitable industry instead of a black market that apparently isn’t going away? Stop wasting tax dollars, give people the right to be goofy stoners if they choose, and most importantly let ill people use it if they claim it helps them feel better. Is synthetic narcotics really better for ill people than marijuana? Land of the free right……..?

By: Nonsmoker

Nonsmoker — Sun, 18 May 2014 12:41:45 +0000

Ok I am a nonsmokers never cared for it much I understand that it has many short term good benefits and if used properly long term benefits .I also feel that this is just another way our government is using to control us I also feel that the way they are setting this up for producing it makes me wonder if he doesn’t have someone all set up to grow and is helping them control the market.

By: Dennis HE Wiggins

Dennis HE Wiggins — Sun, 18 May 2014 02:08:00 +0000

For those who doubt the medicinal-function of marijuana, take a few minutes and google “cannabis” and “cancer.” Once you have read the volumes of literature on that topic, enter “cannabis oil” and “patent.” Since I know most people won’t take the time to do it, let me help you out a little – the federal government owns the patent on cannabis oil and lists in its patent description several of the KNOWN, EFFECTIVE uses for cannabis oil.

So, on the one hand they want to ban it, but on the other they want to monopolize – and by doing so, keep others from – the ability to produce an effective medicine from it. All the while the Big Pharm industry is rolling in the dough through medicines that often times cause more harm than good. Marijuana for drug use = not good. Marijuana for purely medicinal use = a gift from God!

By: Robert

Robert — Sat, 17 May 2014 16:18:55 +0000

Let’s look at marijuana In a different way forget about the medical use that it can and will save lives and no one has ever died for overdosing on pot.

Marijuana is illegal for no reason and you can ruin your life by getting arrested and have a drug record attached to you for life. you can spen 20 years in prison minimum mandatory centence.
Prohibition is much more dangerous than marijuana ever will be.
With out looking at the good marijuana can do. Just looking at the total failure of prohibition and how it ruine more lives than marijuana ever will.
That alone is a reason to change the laws and legalize marijuana.

By: knowa

knowa — Sat, 17 May 2014 15:36:00 +0000

As politician begin to admit that they have been mislead and institutionally lied to as a nation. That we have allowed, the prohibition industry profiteers to hijack our natural common law right for their gain. Today scientific fact is over shadowing the hysteria and misinformation of our government Lies, And these same politician now realize there is far more money in legal pot than there will ever be in the law enforcement of cannabis with out the ruination and destruction caused by prohibition.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 17 May 2014 12:35:30 +0000

With all of the broad based efforts to restrict, tax and do away with the use of tobacco products you would think that those same people would be against marijuana as well but they aren’t. It doesn’t make sense to me, marijuana is just as likely to cause cancer as tobacco, yet it is touted by the left as a miracle drug. The world has gone crazy.

By: mnon

mnon — Sat, 17 May 2014 10:35:26 +0000

Everyone can really say what they want, recent poll studies all over the U.S. show Americans are ready for marijuana legalization. No matter if you like it or not we are on the dawn of a new age for our nation. Just in industrial uses alone marijuana/hemp cultivation should be made legal on a larger scale. Medically it is proven in so many medical studies in noted medical journals by world professional scientists and doctors to have more beneficial properties that outweigh any “negative” side effects. As for listening to a bunch of cons say they can’t study because of marijuana use… sounds like an excuse, I’m sure they have excuses for being where they are in life too. For every con with a marijuana excuse there are 10000 pot users out there making it in the world, they are your musicians, artists, doctors, scientists, writers, plenty of marijuana users are fully functional and make a whole lot more money than most of us sitting on here debating.

By: Gembeaux

Gembeaux — Sat, 17 May 2014 00:54:08 +0000

@Joey ~ Belladona, Deadly Nightshade, and hemlock, not to mention many other deadly plants, also grow from God’s good earth, and many have useful medicinal purposes, but recreation isn’t one of those purposes. (Try it and see for yourself. )

I am all for medicines that alleviate suffering, and I believe that marijuana contains some compounds that may do just that, but I have to agree with @No Excuses. I’ve seen the results of chronic pot smoking in many. Even those who function well enough after many years are doing just that – doing only “well enough”, not reaching the potential (or serving society) in ways that they might have otherwise.

@ME ~ I had to laugh when you said the DEA is out of touch with the pulse of the nation. The so-called “pulse of the nation”, those things that are popular for a while, have included such temporary and poorly founded trends as Justin Bieber, beany babies, Yugos, and Shake Weights. =o)

By: OldMan

OldMan — Fri, 16 May 2014 21:21:11 +0000

Not saying its alright to sit around and smoke pot all day, but whats wrong with sitting down after your work day and enjoying a few puff’s to relax.

Same thing as those that stop by the quickmart every afternoon on their way home and grab their 12/24 pack of beer. I’m sure they don’t drink all day at work but enjoy a little relaxation when they get home.

Some of us don’t like the taste of beer may enjoy the other, BUT will go to jail if caught.
You enjoy your’s, why cant I Enjoy Mine ?

By: No Excuses

No Excuses — Fri, 16 May 2014 19:21:06 +0000

@ duh: I work in an educational environment in a prison. I can tell you from their ability to perform who my pot smokers were, and who my white collar guys are. In fact, THEY will tell you that they can’t learn because they “Smoked too much pot when they were younger”. In addition, I don’t have to smoke it or try it to know it’s bad for me. I am intelligent enough to read research studies. These studies do mention the beneficial effects of pot for “some” medical patients, but certainly not enough to legalize it for more than that. You seem to think that God condones the use of pot since he created it. Well, he created rattlesnakes too, but I would not want to experiment with the venom!

I vote NO TO POT.