Legalizing Pot?
No, not yet.. But Oakland residents have voted to raise the taxes on medical marijuana by 1500 percent… It’s expected to bring an additional $300,000 to the city.
It sucks that only people who are “sick” will be taxed so high on this.. But, maybe when they see how much money weed brings in, they’ll legalize it.
Jul 22, 2009 |
olivia ur hot u like video game u dont act like all dat and u smoke weed ur the perfect girl
CANT LEGEALIZE WEED, ALL THE WEED DEALERS WIL MOVE TA CRACK METH HOP OPIUM YAY FO DOE.
I think pot should have the same rules and regulations as alcohol; you must be 21+ and avoid operating machinery while under the influence. I don’t think people should be put to jail simply for smoking pot, save prison space for the real criminals..
Save society and imprison Michael Phelps for his marijuana use like everyone else! If we don’t, I’m sure he’ll gateway into harder drugs any day now, the go-nowhere-loser! He’s a criminal just like a majority of college students are that we need to save by sending them to prison instead of school! We NEED to do this to protect ourselves from teh marihuana!
Truely disappointing to see this. A big turn off for me personally.
since some are bringing valid points to the arguement, I have to state that yes The state of Cali is bringing in a sum to the tune of around 14 mil a year from the stores that have med mary available. If legalized it would bring in an estimated 10 billion a year. Not including creating new jobs for farmers, Making use of hemp into oil, paper, clothes etc. Saving trees. Crime rates would lower. Because criminal organizations thrive off the fact that its not legal. But regulate it people. No one under the age of 21. No impaired driving or operating machinery. The key point is This is still our choice. I choose what I put into my body, and so do you.
Among individuals who appear to be “mentally well,” heavy use of marijuana may predispose them to develop schizoprehenia and other “psychoses,” new research suggests.
Among 92 patients, ages 18 to 65 years, who suffered a first episode of functional psychotic illness, more than half said they smoked marijuana daily or nearly every day and most of these individuals (66%) had no pre-existing signs of abnormal neurological development that would put them at risk for psychosis.
They had no family history of psychosis; they had been doing well academically; they had a group of friends and as such were not socially isolated; and they had good muscle coordination, Dr. Miguel Ruiz-Veguilla, of the Institute of Neurosciences of the University of Granada, Spain, and co-investigators explain in the latest issue of the journal Schizophrenia Research.
The remaining 43% of the study subjects with a first psychotic episode did have signs of abnormal neurological development that increased their risk of psychosis, such as a family history of psychosis and trouble in the social and academic worlds.
The new and most interesting study finding, wrote the researchers, is that mentally healthy adults who smoke marijuana daily or nearly every day may experience psychotic symptoms, while not having any of the risk factors for these symptoms.
This study, Veguilla further explained, suggests patients with poor social and academic adjustment before the onset of illness “do not need an environmental factor in order to develop psychosis.”
“While people with good social and academic adjustment before the onset of psychosis illness - defined as having more than five friends; good academic function; good motor coordination and sensory integration; and no family history of psychosis - need a strong environmental factor, such as smoking cannabis every day, to develop psychosis.
That’s how the vocal minority (Warpublicans) want it Olivia- make the poor pay, the sick foot the bill. Because do you understand how horrific their lifestyle will be if they have to live off of only $2 million instead of $4 million a year? How can they be expected to DO that? Seriously?
Of course you should greatly tax and then bill the poor and uninsured for thousands. Then, following our perfect health system, we ruin their credit, insuring they remain unable to contribute to society and stay poor, unemployed and uninsured- while the rest of the people in the nation pay for the bills they couldn’t with higher premiums and medical costs.
It’s the “Duh”merican way, using the “logic” of the “right”!
sorry for a comment cut and pasted from countless others but your sexy self gingerly smelling a beautiful weed plant is quite a lovely image, olivia. you make aots [for me at least]
High taxes on pot. High taxes on smokes. People won’t care untill they start “high taxing” Zanax and Soma’s. What’s next? Pizza???
God, you have no idea how hot that picture is.
OAKSTERDAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You don’t smoke pot Olivia, or at least you don’t admit it or claim you do. I’ve heard you say you don’t on multiple occasions on TV.
Its already basically legal in Massachusetts. There’s a $100 fine for being caught, and most municipalities are not enforcing that because it costs more than $100 to bring people up on charges in court. I went into Worcester this weekend and saw 3 people just walking down the street smoking weed.
The state has a $100 fine for anything under an ounce. But, the towns also have the right to fine you on top of that. Some are in the works for as much as $400. Still better than jail time.
weed makes everything better. it makes shitty movies, better it makes music sound better and it makes sex feel better so u cant loose
Government is your drug.
I don´t like drugs.
the bay gonna blow trees regardless if its legal or not, its never a drought over here *[sparks blunt]*
They should definitely legalize pot.If it is regulated by the government the drug war would diminish,saving money…and the revenue from sales and taxes of pot would be huge.Makes sense to me!
This is the sexiest picture I have ever seen.
One step closer!
like really olivia????
MUNSKI!!! Firstly, what are you doing with all that herb!? Secondly, why was I not invited!?!?
Okay I live on the east coast can I mail order.
I just wanted to add, it’s your life and you only live once, don’t live in fear of others because behind closed doors they are doing the same damn thing.
Weed is better when it’s cheap and sold by friends not the chemical filled addictive crap the government would probably try to sell to you at a far higher price if it ever did happen. I guarantee if it ever was legalized, you probably wouldn’t even want to smoke it. They would take all the fun out of it.
I would rather there be a bill passed where drug tests didn’t look for marijuana and certain amounts could be carried on persons rather than it be straight up legal and sold by a##holes.
Marijuana is not a drug, it was put here so we could evolve spiritually. And the only people who oppose it’s legalization are the ones who’ve never toked it.
Scientists recently discovered a 2700 year old Mongolian man with 2 pounds of cultivated Mary Jane in his coffin, life wasn’t that tough back then. It’s all about money, power, and control.
Weed lets you see past the B.S and would easily replace most pharmaceuticals who make their money “treating” illnesses, creating customers they don’t intend curing.
That’s why it will NEVER be legalized. 1500%!! for dieing people, seriously??
I am kind of excited if this ever happens. It never will so I refuse to get my hopes up.
Everyone’s so proud of the fact that they smoke pot, like they’re special for doing it. Sorry but you’re not. Just another person to fall victim to peer pressure. I have never smoked it and never will. Go me.
hey ur cool i dont smoke weed…lol
ur a douche bag u probably didn’t have any friends to offer u any..
plus talk about pure-pressure the media said it was bad and ur going with it..loser educate urself weed isnt bad.. cigarettes and alcohols kill people everyday.. go bitch about that…lol
Wow, someones 5. Sounds like your embarrassed. Calling people names because someones against stupidity.
this whole country needs to legalize it …no?
Lovely…..
People are so yuck sometimes.
Kevin’s dressing room, I’m guessing?
If that’s the correct percentage increase, appears to be criminal.
Fifteen hundred percent, the majority of alternative medicine marijuana users are senior’s who simple looking for an alternative to pharmaceuticals.
There just trying to dampen their pain and symptoms. Tax the potheads and put the criminals out of business. If it were my decision, I would put Arnie on a scatterpack warhead and drop it on that piece of shit state. “It’s not a tumor.”
fuck yeah, I’m smoking on some “medical” right now, illegally acquired but acquired. That’s tax dollars missed, what a shame.
***the above statement is a fictional statement, in noway would this individual break the law***
OH by the way, that’s one of the sexiest pictures I’ve ever seen
who shit in your bamboo Panda?
Ok…..
That’s lame.
Mary Jane is the only girl for me.
I don’t do drugs, never have and don’t think too highly of people that do them and would not hire them.
However I don’t see the purpose of pot being illegal.
If they can sell cigarettes and alcohol there is no reason why pot can’t be legal.
I think the taxes might be excessive and it should be taxed at a regular and reasonable rate.
I wonder Miss Munn’s stance on this issue is as a NonSmoker if shes Pro for it for the BENEFIT of mankind (excess of $300k) or if shes Con - if it is legalized would chaos ensue on the planet as the robots enslave us all because we’re too high to flee from their bionic robotic limbs….
I feel it would increase the quality of life (making employees happy, even if it is flipping burgers or like in Half Baked, being a janitor) also keeps so many people who arent bad people out of jail, and the government gets greedy off of it. just have to TRAIN THE PEOPLE NOT to be irresponsible TWEENS yah i said it you 16 year old sluts who ruin MTV and EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS FUCKING PLANET
Wait, I’m sorry.
What?
Please make sense next time.
You went from Olivia’s stance on marijuana, to evil robots, to happy people, to training tweens, and finally to MTV and EVERYTHING ELSE ON THIS FUCKING PLANET.
Yeah…..
Let me get this straight……It’s ok to legalize Pot, but it’s a big No No, for Universal healthcare?!? God America has some real dumbasses.
they’ll learn eventually. hopefully sooner than later!
Potheads are the biggest losers on the planet. I know because I used to be one.
I concur, when I use to smoked pot I had no desire for a future.
Whoa now CodyFritz I was not lazy at all, weed made me zone out to the point that it work would just get done with out me even realizing it. So its good for minute tasks and jobs like assembly line work and shelf stocking, but anything that involves some real thinking in real careers not just jobs your work will hinder when your high. Imagine your lawyer trying to defend you stoned off their ass to the point of no comprehension, would you really want that.
thats you two then, you cant say that all people that smoke are losers because you both were lazy smokers, i smoke and work everyday fine and still strive for goals and to better myself.
I dont understand why this is acceptable? So drug users want to make this legal. Doesnt make sense. I can understand for medical reason but thats it. If you need to take drugs in order to cope with your life then your just pathetic and weak, plain and simple. Now go ahead and reply with some lame bullshit and call me names or make up some excuse.
All I’m gonna say is its no different than getting drunk.
That is all
who asked you
if that is all you had to say, you should of kept it to yourself. i can smoke and drive fine, however i cant drink and drive at all. that is just one of many examples.
I don’t smoke…at ALL! Ever! And I think it should be legal. I’ve had friends die with alcohol in a car….but never one smoking..hrmmm. Smokers generally don’t feel like leaving the couch, which makes the roads much safer.
i mean sure a wino is pathetic. does that mean people should be getting thrown in jail over alcohol? why not? then why a drug that is relatively benign in comparaison like thc?
if you dont undertand why this is accdeptable then youve never bothered to educate yourself on what pot and its effects actually are. if youre that vehemently against pot, then you should think alcohol and tobacco should be illegal too. but you probably dont because you are ignorant, and think “drugs” are what your mom and dad and the guest officer in your suburban health class told you.
no need to insult that, though it is sad that people who have such little to zero information feel the need to speak up vehemently as though they have a clue what theyre talking about…
PandaFiend - Let’s say the plant IS evil. Explain to me how it is that throwing any non-violent person that uses it (medically or not) into prison for years is beneficial to society. Well over half of your friends/family/acquaintances have tried marijuana in the U.S. - are you seriously an advocate of imprisoning over half the U.S. population? The U.S. already has *the worlds largest prison population* thanks to the wonderful war on drugs.
“Land of the Free”? Not anymore. The U.S. even beats out China for imprisoning *non-violent* citizens… And China has four times the population of the U.S.. Why? Because of people like you that wants to turn a medical issue over to law enforcement, government, courts, and prisons without addressing the issue constructively at all.
But have fun with your shallow and simplistic good/evil dogma.
12 years military service for this country, now a disabled veteran. Which would you rather do: start sucking down physically-addicting opiate-based medications loaded with APAP for pain control and deal with guaranteed dependence issues… or use an organically grown non-physically addicting plant?
It’s my medical care, my health, and my decision. Not yours or the governments to control. And on top of that you want to say I’m a criminal? Go to hell.
lol long winded and ranty sure, but hardly nonsensical. obviously just rubbed you the wrong way, but id like to see you explain how im wrong.
Your use of “vehemently” twice was incredibly unnecessary. It’s like you were trying to say ” Hey, I smoke pot, and look at all the big words I can use. Like vehemently”
And for your- um “rant”, well that was little too long winded and a bit nonsensical.
But ho what hey.
What do I know?
Right?
RIGHT?!
marijuana prohibition is unenforceable period. legalize it now and tax it appropriately, instead of assuring the police and organized crime stay well funded to run in circles.
if you like to get drunk and you disagree then you are a hypocrite.
simple fact.
noone ever asks why so many fewer people smoke pot in places like amsterdam than the us. because they deal with reality, not blatant hysteria and false propaganda that makes kids inclined to ignore real dangers.
along with religion, this is the last subject we are simply not allowed to have a reasoned conversation about in north america…
You should totally open up a Pie store franchise in Oakland right next door to all the green cross places.Its a millon dollar idea. Think of everyone with the munches!!!!
That is an awesome idea!!!! If you put pot in the pie, would that make people buy more?
It gives a whole new meaning to Pot-Pies huh?!?!
Legalization of marijuana is Fail. America should at least wait till a few more countries go first, and I mean real countries like Russia, England or China. Cause that’s all we need as another stereotype.
Duuuuuuuude!
hiiiiiiiiii!!!
Wait, pot is illegal? Good thing I only smoke weed
allegedly
hahahaha
Sounds like things are moving in the right direction….
If alcohol is legal, there’s absolutely no reason marijuana shouldn’t be as well. And I don’t drink or smoke.
Alcohol and marijuana do not have the same effects on a person. They have nothing to do with one another, and the idea “X is legal so Y should also be legal” is a complete fallacy.
Alcohol and cigarettes should be illegal, but the problem is that they both have already been legal for too long. Thats why prohibition didn’t work in the 20’s.
Exactly, not the same effects. Weed doesn’t cause me to swerve around the road while driving, but alcohol does…Whats worse? BTW just an example…I don’t drink
Legalizing pot wouldn’t bring in extra money because nobody is going to pay a per-ounce fee and tax on it when they could get it under-the-table for less.