Nice headline, subby.

yeah but its not the loud mouthed ones with radio shows or political office

Never understood why we let anyone tell us what plants we can use for our own personal use.

Hey Unkle Sam;
Stay out of our bedrooms, lungs and bellies.
Stick with defending our boarders, you know, like you were created to do in the first place.

Hey DEA;
You're farking fired!

GAT_00: Really? A majority? I would have never called that.

I can't recall you position on this, so I'll just leave this here.

And yet, if you ask congress... the grand total of people supporting this... you'd be lucky to find 3.

Gallup: Majority of Americans now favor legalizing marijuana. That's a record high

And then tax the ever loving crap out of it. For craps sake, if you can sell cigarettes and booze why the hell can't you sell pot? It's stupid and huge waste of tax payer resources to keep this illegal.

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I don't smoke pot, but I don't have a problem with people who do.

Every time I get encouraged about MJ legalization the public goes and votes about it. I'm hopeful, but not as much as I used to be. California's prop being defeated and no real effort for 2012 makes me sad for my state... though it's not like it matters, for all practical purposes we do have legal weed in CA...

Suck it, Nazi control freaks! As soon as the mean-spirited Reagan generation succumbs to cirrhosis and lung cancer, we'll finally have legal pot...

Not sure how I feel about this. I mean, cannabis makes black people go crazy. Wasn't that the original reason? Plus, cannabis makes everybody else (presumably not black people) lazy and pacifist, which would be bad news for us when the communists invade.

Doesn't matter. Most Californians supported legalizing it, and that measure still failed. Pot heads don't vote and young people do it in few numbers.

jake3988: And yet, if you ask congress... the grand total of people supporting this... you'd be lucky to find 3.

Exactly. So what are we going to do about it?! Oh right, nothing.

/I almost wrote a harshly worded letter, that was close.

StoneColdAtheist: GAT_00: Really? A majority? I would have never called that.

I can't recall you position on this, so I'll just leave this here.
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A majority is 50%+1. Margin of error could certainly put this into the majority, but with no indication of rounding or how the actual votes in the poll went down, it is presumptuous to call this a majority.

/Now if you want to call it a plurality, you won't get any arguments.

FerneJohn: Doesn't matter. Most Californians supported legalizing it, and that measure still failed. Pot heads don't vote and young people do it in few numbers.

Hey, man, I resent the generalization. This pothead voted.

I dont smoke but I say legalize it. Still enjoy watching "Marijuana: A Chronic History" on the History channel the anti MJ people look like uptight fools

The margin of error in the poll is the same size as the difference between the yeas and the nays, so it might still not be a majority.

peppersnail: Plus, cannabis makes everybody else (presumably not black people) lazy and pacifist, which would be bad news for us when the communists invade.

One of my favorite questions is: "What would the world be like if Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin were pot-smoking slackers?"

I think the authoritarian bastards hate pot because it knocks your thought processes out of the usual rut and makes people see the inherent absurdity in organized religion and all the jingoistic crap that keeps governments in power...

indarwinsshadow: I don't smoke pot, but I don't have a problem with people who do.

Notheads unite!

FerneJohn: Doesn't matter. Most Californians supported legalizing it, and that measure still failed. Pot heads don't vote and young people do it in few numbers.

That was also on an off year election.

peppersnail: Not sure how I feel about this. I mean, cannabis makes black people go crazy. Wasn't that the original reason?

Now that, my friends, is pure comedy.

I honestly think the reason why MJ is still illegal is because there's too much greed money involved. To quote Eminem, "You better believe someone's paying the Pied Piper." There really is no reason to keep it illegal anymore, though. It's a lot less addictive to virtually non-addicting as compared to alcohol and tobacco, and there are less health concerns. I believe business should still be able to fire you if you come into work stoned, but that's an insurance issue, not a legal one.As it stands, though, the legalization of merryjewanna remains a pipe dream.

SnakeLee: 84% of people thought marijuana should be illegal in 1970? Really?

Maybe a backlash against the hippie counterculture?

Barbecue Bob: Never understood why we let anyone tell us what plants we can use for our own personal use.

Hey Unkle Sam;
Stay out of our bedrooms, lungs and bellies.
Stick with defending our boarders, you know, like you were created to do in the first place.

Hey DEA;
You're farking fired!





What boarders in need of defending may look like.

I wonder if anybody will suddenly become anti-marijuana when Evil Big Tobacco swoops in and takes the industry over.

GoodDoctorB: indarwinsshadow: I don't smoke pot, but I don't have a problem with people who do.

Notheads unite!

I haven't in mumblemumble years, and I probably would not smoke again were it legal. And I strongly support legalization.

It just makes sense.

legalization will be on the ballot in Colorado in 2012. We'll see, it will be a close vote, but my cynicism/pessimism is high. Too damn many small govt, god botherers in this state.

gilgigamesh: tallguywithglasseson: According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, "Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States." The National Survey on Drug Use and Health in 2009 found that "16.7 million Americans aged 12 or older used marijuana at least once in the month prior to being surveyed, an increase over the rates reported in all years between 2002 and 2008."

Well if using it once in the month prior is considered "abuse", then it's not surprising it's "the most commonly abused".

So if I smoke a bowl once a month I am abusing drugs. But if I have a glass of wine with dinner a couple of times a week I am a social drinker. Got it.

This is a misnomer I see in the media CONSTANTLY. Any substance deemed illegal by the federal government is ALWAYS referred to as "abused" instead of "used", no matter how infrequent the usage is. Drives me crazy enough to want to rape a white woman.

gilgigamesh: peppersnail: Not sure how I feel about this. I mean, cannabis makes black people go crazy. Wasn't that the original reason?

And Messicans, yes. Primarily the Messicans, IIRC. Makes em all rapey for the whites women.

It makes white people leave their babbies in tubs to drown. Teevee told me that.

gilgigamesh: So if I smoke a bowl once a month I am abusing drugs. But if I have a glass of wine with dinner a couple of times a week I am a social drinker. Got it.

My grandpa was a Good Ol' Boy from Kentucky. He smoked like a chimney--cigars, cigarettes, pipe tobacco--and even after he had his first two heart attacks and got a dire warning from his doctor, he continued to chew tobacco (Red Man, bleecchhhh). He also drank like a fish and like most people of the Reagan generation, his medicine chest was full of prescription drugs, half of which gave some sort of a buzz. And yet he was a staunch anti-druggie who thought that pot smoking was a greater threat to the world than the Soviet nuclear arsenal. In fact, he pretty much referred to every rock song that came after Buddy Holly as 'pot-rock'. Oh, and he always drove home drunk from the bar, but never got caught because one of his drinking buddies was the local police chief who was too busy busting anybody who looked like a hippie. What a thoroughly clueless generation that was, and the irony is many of them are paying dearly for their addictions to booze and cancer sticks...

Mr. Bungle At Work: peppersnail: Not sure how I feel about this. I mean, cannabis makes black people go crazy. Wasn't that the original reason?

Now that, my friends, is pure comedy.

*bows*

With the kid at a sleep over Saturday night, the lady and I decided to indulge in popcorn with "magic" butter in the safety of our own home. We watched a crappy movie, enjoyed it immensely, joked around a lot, and got frisky. We did not harm anyone. Not sure why nights like that are illegal.

06Wahoo: StoneColdAtheist: GAT_00: Really? A majority? I would have never called that.

I can't recall you position on this, so I'll just leave this here.
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A majority is 50%+1. Margin of error could certainly put this into the majority, but with no indication of rounding or how the actual votes in the poll went down, it is presumptuous to call this a majority.

/Now if you want to call it a plurality, you won't get any arguments.

Yes, but he didn't write "I would have never called it that.", implying he wouldn't have called it a majority. Instead, he wrote "I would have never called that.", implying to me that he was surprised at the result.

But of course, GAT_00 never posts once a thread goes green, so I guess we'll never know...