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Chris Christie To Overturn Marijuana Legalization
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“AT A TOWN Hall meeting in New Hampshire last night, Republican presidential candidate Chris Christie had a message for recreational marijuana users: enjoy it while it lasts, kids.
“I believe it should still be illegal,” he said. “If you’re getting high in Colorado today, enjoy it until January 2017, because I will enforce the federal laws against marijuana as President of the United States.””*
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“Federalism on Drugs: Marijuana Legalization is Changing the Political Landscape”
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Keesha M. Middlemass, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
“Federalism on Drugs: Marijuana Legalization is Changing the Political Landscape”
Is Marijuana Legalization Working? | msnbc
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Donald Trump Wants To Legalize Marijuana
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Is Marijuana Legalization a Huge Win for Civilization? With Jason Silva.
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Transcript – Well I think that what’s happening now is a transformational moment here in American culture. I think the fact that the majority of Americans now support marijuana legalization is a huge win for civilization, for mankind, I mean for American society. It’s like not just for the sort of limitless medicinal potential that cannabis has. You know cannabinoids have been shown now to even like shrink tumors. I mean it’s an unbelievably therapeutically active substance. But also for the simple issue of cognitive liberty, right. Sort of a country that is founded on the principles of free thought and the idea that everybody should be able to think what they want to think and do what they want to do as long as they’re not hurting anybody else. And this is, you know, nowhere more exemplified than in the right to choose a marijuana joint over a martini if that’s what floats your boat. Also, marijuana consciousness as Rich Doyle writes is extraordinarily sensitive to the initial rhetorical conditions. You know, Leary’s ubiquitous set and setting to the point that there is no drug by itself. There is the context in which the drug is taken. And so when you change the cultural context in which people are able to have marijuana you change the particular flavor of marijuana consciousness.
You start eliminating the association with criminality and the paranoia and the fear of getting caught and instead you create a canvas where people can smoke a joint before going to a boutique movie theater to have a very increased cinematic immersion. Or you can create spaces where people can maybe vaporize some cannabis before going and listening to a symphony orchestra. Or maybe they can go on these beautiful sort of guided marijuana hikes where the set and setting would be curated for a particular marijuana flavor. I mean it’s almost like the notion being that intention, you know, you change the intention, you change the stage and that intention could actually transform the subjective experience that people have when they participate in the use of cannabis. And, you know, it’s just very exciting because I think that we’re going to see new forms of entertainment, new forms of sort of – new cultural spaces for people to partake in what they’ve been doing for hundreds of thousands of years which is altering our consciousness whether it’s through external technologies or internal technologies. I mean mindfulness, meditation, rave concerts, you know, Burning Man, theater. [transcript truncated]
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10 Benefits Of Marijuana Legalization
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It’s amazing how a simple little plant can cause so much drama, controversy, and chaos. What is interesting is that marijuana is one of the most natural plants in our world, but it is very illegal in many parts of the world. While the plant, which consists of THC, can make you high and feel a euphoric-like feeling, there have also been studies on the incredible benefits of marijuana. States like Colorado and Washington have recently made the plant legal, and they are experiencing benefits such as a drop in crime rates, and the taxes imposed on marijuana sales have helped local economies.
First off, marijuana has been researched extensively by medical experts, and it is concluded that the plant can not only help with easing pain (especially if you are dealing with cancer), but it can also help with regenerated and revamping your cells and make your body stronger in fighting against illnesses and diseases. Given that marijuana has flexibility in its consumption, such as you can smoke or eat it in food, one doesn’t have to worry much about the lung issues that would come with smoking.
Also, it seems that governments are wasting money trying to regulate and bust people for either smoking or growing marijuana, when it’s a fairly harmless plant. How much of the people’s tax dollars are dedicated to arresting pot smokers who are doing nothing more than smoking a joint and playing video games? Countless programs that could better benefit society have gotten their funding cut or bypassed completely in favor of prohibiting marijuana use and manufacturing. There would be a significant drop in the amount of people being incarcerated and law enforcement can put more focus on the crimes that need to be taken care of immediately instead of being postponed for jailing a pothead.
If that wasn’t crazy enough, you can also turn marijuana into usable products with hemp. You can make plastics, medication, paper, and more with hemp. It seems that if hemp became the big thing to use instead of paper, it would be more environmentally friendly and perhaps we could even save a few more trees. Could it be that corporations have a hand in regulating marijuana because it could put them out of business?
If marijuana was legalized, the government could benefit from the taxes from the sales, and it would also eliminate a drug for the cartels to take over. Drug cartels are making massive amounts of money from marijuana being illegal. Legalizing the plant would almost eliminate drug cartels as it would take away one of their biggest money makers. Instead of the money going into the pockets of people who are working illegal drug rings, the money could be going back into the government. People who were afraid of breaking the law would be more apt to giving marijuana a try, and honestly, people would probably chill out more. Maybe there wouldn’t be so much anger, anxiety, or pain anymore, and we can all finally hold hands and unite as the human race.
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