As a nation we have the choice between either spending $20,000 a year to lock up a marijuana user or collecting sales tax on the individual's purchase of this widely used, relatively safe product. To collect taxes from the grow-your-own community, we could consider a $100 per year permit for a dozen plants.
It's time to put the criminal drug dealers out of business and let ordinary Americans grow a little marijuana in their own back yards.

There is no other reason for marijuana to be illegal except the funding enjoyed by the legal sector, and the profits made by the pharmaceutical, alcohol, and tobacco industries which grossly contribute to political interests. Its as simple as that, America is being ran by lairs and cheaters, and its all funded by the hard working everyday American citizens. The people are being screwed, their lives ruined by DEA agents which are being paid by tax dollars (your own money) to ruin your life. So in a sense, were paying them to ruin our lives and take everything away from us.

Im a DEA goon and this is where I stand.
God didnt make weed, the devil did.
He made all the plants that make people high.

Pot is a gateway drug because I said so.

I am well into my fifties now and I am too stubborn to admit that all these years the hippies have been right and that I should have never listened to Elvis because I thought it would get me laid.

My job id much easier when I get to F with pot heads..especially the colored ones...

When I bring them back to the jail I dont get nearly as many weird looks as when I bring in the rich white boys...Besides, they have been educated more on their rights which makes my job harder too...so I bust the kids who I know wont give me any or much trouble...
Im simple like that.

I also havent ever been assaulted a super-hero on Meth. So I dont have any reason to come to terms with the actual differences each drug has.

I lump em all together ya know...Cuz its easier.

I hear some of my co-pigs..Umm fellow officers say that we should really know our enemy. They say that pot has proven itself to be less of a public threat than we once believed and that because of our vigilant fight against marijuana we have let Meth run a muck.

They say that Meth is worth fighting.
That we no longer have to go to Guatemala and Cambodia killing farmers but instead have to go to Connecticut and Washington to fight Pharmers.

I even heard this freaky scientist say that human beings have and always will try to achieve an altered state of perception and that getting rid of plant based drugs will not get rid of that desire...
That even if we fought Meth to oblivion someone would come up wit some other nasty concoction made from god-knows what chemicals and that allowing pot to be the publics no 1 choice is not only worth trying at this point but has been proven to aliviate...well you know what I mean.

Im a cop thats reluctance to accept the facts and Im even more unwilling to adjust my personal fears so as to better the community I do want to be safer for my children.

(They do love their kids folks...If only they knew their enemy.)