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As with teenagers since I was one,anything my parents were against,was my banner. Anything that made you stand beyond the crowd,to be different,had more allure than the common things everyone else was doing.
Add that to the fact that drug dealers don't check ID's,just the money ,and drug control is in the hands of the ones that have them,not in any government agency.
The continued war on drugs does nothing but hurt our nation,and stops nothing.
The federal government and the state governments can't even stop drugs in their prisons ,so what is the next step?
Shall we drop our sham of being a democracy ? Since a majority of Americans believe that the war on drugs is a failure,including our legislature,why are we continuing funding this failed policy?
We are reducing services for medicare,trimming our budget on government programs such as food stamps,and yet we increase the spending on something that isn't working.
Write your elected idiots and remind them that their next election is just around the corner.

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By: Dan Spelzmann

Supporters of an initiative that would legalize marijuana in California say they have collected enough signatures to ensure that it will be on the November 2010 ballot.

The petition drive, which was run by a professional signature-gathering firm, collected more than 680,000 signatures, 57% more than the 433,971 valid signatures needed to put it on the ballot, said Richard Lee, the measure’s main proponent.

“It was so easy to get them,” Lee said. “People were so eager to sign.”

The initiative would also allow cities and counties to adopt their own laws to allow marijuana to be grown and sold, and the localities could impose taxes on any aspect of marijuana production and sales. It would make it legal for adults over 21 years old to possess up to an ounce of marijuana and to grow it in a 25-square-foot area for personal use.

It is one of four initiatives circulating that aim to legalize marijuana use.

Lee, who owns Coffeeshop Blue Sky, Oaksterdam University and other pot-related businesses, said he has spent at least $1.1 million so far to put the measure before California voters. He said he expects the campaign to cost between $7 million and $20 million, depending on how much opponents spend. He said he hopes to raise most of that from marijuana legalization supporters across the country and he has already set up an Internet fundraising operation.

“We feel like we’ve done our part,” he said.

Polls have shown that a majority of California voters support legalization. A Field Poll taken in mid-April found that 56% of voters in the state and 60% in Los Angeles County want to make legalize and tax pot as a way to help solve the state’s fiscal crisis. In October, a poll taken by a nonpartisan firm for the Marijuana Policy Project found 54% support in the county.

A poll taken for the initiative’s proponents by EMC Research, an opinion research firm in Seattle, found that 51% of likely voters supported it based on language similar to what will be on the ballot, but support increased to 54% when they were read a more general synopsis.

Some marijuana legalization advocates initially criticized Lee for moving forward with his measure, arguing that they would have a better chance in 2012, a presidential election year.

“I think things have turned our way so much that we have a good chance of winning without having to wait to 2012,” Lee said. “This is the time to bring up the issue and talk about it. Who knows what will be going on in 2012?”

Lee said that the increasing acceptance of medical marijuana has changed the political dynamic. Since the Obama administration announced it would not prosecute medical marijuana providers or users who follow state law, hundreds of dispensaries have opened in California.

“Medical marijuana in California has been accepted as legalization in some ways by a lot of the population,” he said, noting the widespread awareness that it is easy to get a doctor’s recommendation to use it. “To me this is codifying what it happening.”

Lee said he did not think that the backlash against dispensaries, which in many cases have flouted local laws by opening in neighborhoods, would have much effect on his campaign. “It’s tough to say whether it’s more good or bad,” he said. “On one hand, you have your bad apples, on the other hand, it shows the need for better regulation.”

– John Hoeffel

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This ties in with the video post here, but since this is text, I created a new post, here is the video link;
http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/11644360/gonew/1#UNREAD

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/11/cannabis.kid/
Marijuana Mom and the Cannabis Kid

a Veta, Colorado (CNN) — The crop has been harvested, and Diane Irwin's secret technique paid off.

“Every morning I would go out and talk to my girls,” she said, “pray over them and ask them to provide good medicine.”

Her “girls” are marijuana plants destined for her son Jason's medical marijuana dispensary in Denver. At 48, she has just wrapped up her first season as a pot farmer. Her 62 plants yielded 13 pounds.

Irwin spent most of her life as a hairdresser and salon owner in a Denver suburb.

“I was into makeup and high-heeled shoes and fancy clothes and working — a lot,” she said. “I sold my salon and moved down to the country. I wanted a change of pace.”

While Mom was looking for a midlife career change, her son was building a medical marijuana business, legal in Colorado since 2000. Diane Irwin loaned him $10,000 from the sale of her salon, and he opened Highland Health, a dispensary where patients who have been certified by the state can buy marijuana.

Jason Irwin concedes he began his marijuana enterprise on the wrong side of the law, “just getting cheap pounds and flipping them to my friends,” he said. He was working full time as an arborist and dealing pot on the side when he saw an opportunity to take his business aboveboard.

In 2008, he received state approval to open his dispensary. In March, he got a patient's card, citing chronic pain after a fender-bender. He smokes marijuana often.

The medical marijuana business has boomed in Denver during the past year. Jason Irwin's dispensary was in place early, building clientele long before many of the newcomers arrived.

He has about 200 regular patients, he said, and another 500 who come by from time to time. He employs four “bud tenders” and said he grosses about $5,000 a day.

But it's not always easy to keep the pot in stock. Though the dispensaries are legal in Colorado, the laws are vague about growing cannabis. Legislators want to clarify the regulations, but until then, the dispensaries are getting their marijuana through unconventional routes.

“The connections are underground. They're not mainstream at all,” Jason Irwin said. “We can't call the growers union. There is no such thing.

“Instead of placing your order through a typical system … you get a dude who comes down from the mountains and slaps a duffle bag on your desk. It's full of weed, and he's like 'Here, pick what you want. Do you want any?' And you've got to dig through it, inspect it for yourself, make sure it looks kosher, weigh it, pay thousands of dollars. It's all cash at this point.”

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Jason Irwin wanted to see those thousands of dollars stay in the family instead of going to the mountain dudes. Enter Mom.

“He called me one day and he said, 'Mom, I think we should buy this land' and 'How do you feel about growing medical marijuana?' And I said, 'OK.' It was just a faith thing.”

Jason Irwin bought 37 acres in rural southern Colorado, tucked up against the Greenhorn Mountains. That's where his mom's new life began.

In June, they paid $3,000 for two greenhouses, supplies and marijuana seedlings. Diane Irwin lived in an old camper and tended the plants.

“It was like an Outward Bound course for me,” she said. “Living off the grid, roughing it. We didn't have heat. We didn't have running water. We didn't have electricity most of the time. The batteries were always going dead. The greenhouse blew away a couple of times.”

But at least she had company: First-time marijuana farmers occupy the plots of land on both sides of the Irwin operation. The trio formed an ad hoc collective, helping each other and learning from their mistakes. They spent their days tending to their plants and their evenings grilling food along a nearby river.

One of the trio's concerns was security. Their greenhouses are visible from the road and they worry about being robbed or hassled by police. So far they have had no trouble, but if one grower needs to go into town for supplies, the others keep a watchful eye.

By early November, the plants were ready to harvest. The Irwins filled several SUVs and pickup trucks with their crop and moved to a house they rented in nearby La Veta.

A closet in the house is filled with marijuana that is drying out. The radio is set to NPR as Diane Irwin's fellow farmers trim the stems and leaves off the plants. The leftover twigs are run through a screen to form a powder that is packed by hand to form hashish.

With only a few pounds left to process, Diane Irwin is already looking forward to next year. She hopes to triple their harvest.

“I'm in for the long haul. I really do feel like we're pioneers bringing new life to medical marijuana,” she said.

Diane Irwin got her patient card in May before starting the farm, also citing chronic pain. She rarely uses medical marijuana. Jason Irwin said that until the state better defines its law, he thinks it's wise for everyone in the business to have a patient card in case authorities question them while in possession of marijuana.

Colorado is one of 14 states that has legalized medical marijuana. Federal law still bans its use. But the Justice Department recently announced it would no longer seek to prosecute people using, prescribing or distributing marijuana for medical purposes as long as they're in compliance with local laws.

Jason Irwin wants to expand his operation based on the models of the two businesses he most admires: Whole Foods and Starbucks.

“We hope to develop a business model that proves to be successful, that we can expand upon, hopefully to other states and communities, become like a really reliable consistent supplier of safe, tested cannabis,” he said.

For Diane Irwin, her new life in business with her son hasn't quite set in.

“It wasn't something I ever dreamed I would be involved in, ” she said.

When her son was growing up, she adds, “I used to bust him all the time for marijuana. I used to flush it down the toilet.”

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