on june 17, 1971, president nixon told congress that "if we cannot destroy the drug menace in america, then it will surely destroy us." after forty years of trying to destroy "the drug menace in america" we still *haven't* been able to destroy it and it still *hasn't* destroyed us. four decades is long enough to realize that on this important issue president nixon was wrong! all actions taken as a result of his invalid and paranoid assumptions (e.g. the federal marijuana prohibition) should be ended immediately! it makes no sense for taxpayers to fund the federal marijuana prohibition when it *doesn't* prevent people from using marijuana and it *does* make criminals incredibly wealthy and incite the mexican drug cartels to murder thousands of people every year. we need legal adult marijuana sales in supermarkets, gas stations and pharmacies for exactly the same reason that we need legal alcohol and tobacco sales - to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children. marijuana must be made legal to sell to adults everywhere that alcohol and tobacco are sold.

this could lead to a chemical romance with designer drugs,

jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. none of us would want our child thrown in jail with the sexual predators over marijuana. none of us would want to see an older family member’s home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants for their aches and pains. it’s time to stop putting our own family members in jail over marijuana. the current proposal before congresss, bill hr 2306, will remove marijuana from the list of federally controlled substances while allowing states to decide how they will regulate it. email your congressperson and senators at http://www.usa.gov/contact/elected.shtml and ask them to sign on as a co-sponsor of hr 2306. for more info, here’s the usa today article http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/06/ron-paul-barney-frank-marijuana-/1

check out this video lindy's no knock raids http://biggovernment.com/reasontv/2011/06/19/no-knock-raid-a-song-about-the-drug-wars-deadliest-tactic/