49% of California voters back legalizing pot, poll finds
The poll, which surveyed 1,168 likely voters, found that 49% think marijuana use should be made legal, 48% do not and 3% do not know, suggesting that the proponents of the legalization measure will have to wage an expensive and persuasive campaign.
As Barack Hussein Obama and the rest of the democrats and democrat wannabes have shown, it doesn't matter how many people in the United States are for or against any issue, the politicians will always act contrary to the will and the best interests of the people.
"All the polls continue to show that voters remain interested in replacing a failed policy with a more honest, commonsense solution," said Dan Newman, a campaign spokesman.
And all the politicians have continued to show their contempt for the public by promoting and passing dishonest and nonsensical solutions to real and imagined problems.
The original marijuana laws were created based on the same kind of junk science that is in use today by the "Global Warming" junk scientists. By junk science, I mean outright deception and fraud. Today, any reputable (honest) scientist who has studied marijuana knows that occasional marijuana use is less harmful to the individual and society than occasional use of alcohol or tobacco (both of which are legal).
Back in the 1930s when the racist media and the racist politicians passed their insane anti-marijuana laws, very few people smoked marijuana. And of the few that did smoke marijuana, most were minorities. After passage of the anti-marijuana laws, a whole new law enforcement agency, complete with weapons and contempt for the citizens started operation.
Before the anti-marijuana laws, the United States had the smallest number of criminals, the smallest number of prisons and the smallest number of armed thugs watching their citizens of any country on the planet. After the passage and enforcement of the anti-marijuana laws, the United States boasts the largest number of criminals, the largest number of prisons, and the largest number of armed thugs who are above the law and able to destroy citizens lives as well as create contempt for the corrupt government that enforces an irrational law. In fact, with the current budget problems, the government has has chosen to release violent criminals rather than release non-violent marijuana smokers.
Before the anti-marijuana laws, marijuana was grown by small numbers of individual growers or by the individuals who smoked. After passage of the anti-marijuana laws, entire countries (Mexico, Columbia, ...) have devoted their whole economy to growing marijuana. In fact, if you look at the Forbes 500 wealthiest men, you will now find drug lords on that list.
So you don't need to be worried that the government will start taking a rational approach to the drug problem (or any other problem). You can rest assured that the government will continue to create any crisis that it can in their eternal quest to grab more power and to increase the size of government and to oppress the people that they claim to represent.
Actually the original ban had nothing to do with this. It had to do with paper. Everything else was propaganda.
ReplyDeleteThe Rockefellers owned huge tracts of pulp timber, useful mainly to the paper industry. Hemp was a direct competitor that threatened their market. Follow the money.