It’s time for the US to set a new international agenda on cannabis policy, so that we here in Norway can get a more modern and sensible debate as well!

Nearly three-quarters-of-a-century after it was made illegal; half-a-century after it was proven to be practically harmless - why is it still a crime to possess and smoke marijuana?

Here is a list of ten famous people who died as a result of nicotine abuse:

Humphrey Bogart Edward R. Murrow Nat King Cole George Harrison John Huston Noel Coward Betty Grable Walt Disney Gary Cooper Peter Jennings

Here is another list. Ten famous people who died from alcoholism:

Billie Holiday Jack Kerouac Truman Capote Lorenz Hart Veronica Lake Bix Beiderbecke Montgomery Clift Dylan Thomas John Barrymore Errol Flynn

Now I’m going to ask you to name for me one celebrity who has died from too much grass.

Go on, I’m waiting.

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Tom Degan Goshen, NY

THANK GOD.. FINALLY MAYBE RELIEF WILL BE HERE. THESE CHEMO TREATMENTS ARE KILLING MY BODY AND MY NERVOUS SYSTEM, THE NAUSEA AND SEVERE PAIN IN MY BONES IS UNBEARABLE AT TIMES AND CANNABIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT HELPS BOTH OF THESE ISSUES OUT. BUT THE FEAR OF BEING ARRESTED OVER POSSESSING A PLANT IS JUST AS STRESSFUL AS THE CHEMO TREATMENTS THEMSELVES….. SO PLEASE WISCONSIN….. LEAGALIZE, DONT CRITICIZE….. GO WISCONSIN

To begin with, the Badger State’s current controlled-substance statutes are barbaric! I’m thankful that both the Wisconsin State Journal and the Badger Herald have come out in favor of a more sane drug policy. It is also true that lessening the severity of Wisconsin’s anti-marijuana statutes would merely be a useful first step toward… you guessed it, LEGALIZATION. Realistically, there should be no penalties at all for responsible adult use of cannabis. Marijuana is probably the most benign substance to ever be criminalized by a government.

In the 1920’s, America engaged in a particularly disastrous effort to regulate the production, distribution and consumption of alcoholic beverages. Prohibition fomented bloody turf wars between organized criminal gangs, which rushed to fill the lucrative illicit demand. Organized crime flourished and became an ever more entrenched phenomenon in the US. Prohibition’s spectacularly negative impact should serve as a warning that supposedly well-meaning efforts to control the use of a substance often have dire repercussions.

In the case of marijuana prohibition, those repercussions include the allocation of precious taxpayer dollars to persecute harmless pot smokers. The suppression of a medicine widely recognized for its use in treating serious ailments is another negative result. I certainly hope that a majority have come to their senses up there, on Capitol Square! Pass Assembly Bill 554, ASAP! NOW really is the time for Wisconsin to join the twenty-first century on the issue of Medical Marijuana!

I’ll smoke to that.

You bunch of potheads are pitiful. “WAH WAH we want to smoke weed but are afraid of the big bad government wolf.” Go sit and smoke your pot. Waste away your miserable, wussy lives.

California has already moved “Forwad” with Oaksterdam University with Quality Training for the Cannabis Industry America’s first cannabis college was founded in 2007 to provide students with the highest quality training for the cannabis industry. Our faculty is comprised of the most recognized names in the California cannabis legalization movement.

California has already moved “Forward” with Oaksterdam University with Quality Training for the Cannabis Industry America’s first cannabis college was founded in 2007 to provide students with the highest quality training for the cannabis industry. Our faculty is comprised of the most recognized names in the California cannabis legalization movement.

To the Dissenting Editor,

The very reason they have a department of philosophy on your campus: the very reason, perhaps the single most important reason is for us to learn to question our assumptions. And so many of our assumptions have been proven egregiously wrong. (And unfortunately over time many have suffered and died as a result). Your positioned is hopelessly, Platonic, essentialistic. 2000+ years of Platonism, and 150 years without Darwinism* is enough already. Enough.

If there are essential patterns then they are distribution curves mapping an ever changing genome, and a ever changing, often toxic - to a variable extent environment. And what these distribution curves tell us is that 5-10% of people/students/the readership… do not, can not conform to your Platonic, and perforce parochial claim of some ideal - an idyll. In another comment to this paper I tried to render a primitive/primer on the problematical nature of the anatomy of the brain which directly relates to the use of all the agents at issue. Philosophy, at its worst has been said to be just a footnote to Plato. At its best it is just the opposite - a reasoned and reasonable query and re-query of assumption, presumptions, including Plao’s.