MAPTalk-Digest Monday, December 29 2008 Volume 08 : Number 095
001 Youth express hopes, dreams for the New Year
From: "Herb" <>
002 Will daily pot usage hurt my health?
From: "Herb" <>
003Change.gov questions
From: Allan Erickson <>
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Subj: 001 Youth express hopes, dreams for the New Year
From: "Herb" <>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 07:44:14 -0800
Charles, 23, Redding: Every single one of my friends (college graduates,
grad students and professionals) smokes weed. The "war on marijuana" is
couched in moral/religious terms, with scientific truth discredited or
ignored. Could we stop wasting money policing "morality" like this? (Please
watch the documentary "Grass: History of Marijuana"). And could we repeal
Prop 8 and let gays marry?
http://www.thereporter.com/features/ci_11323707
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Subj: 002 Will daily pot usage hurt my health?
From: "Herb" <>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 07:36:19 -0800
Will daily pot usage hurt my health?
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/expert.q.a/12/29/pot.health.effects.shu
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Subj: 003Change.gov questions
From: Allan Erickson <>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:05:54 -0800
register (its easy!) and vote: http://change.gov/openforquestions.
Currently in the top 20:
3) - 1883 votes - "The Drug War has been an incredibly expensive
failure since it's inception. Meanwhile, millions of our citizens have
been incarcerated for using drugs. I think we need to end this folly.
What do you think, Mr. President?"
5) - 1765 votes - "The people of this country want marijuana
decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized? Why continue
to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows
that the war on drugs is, as you said, "an utter failure"?"
7) - 1473 votes - "Why do you believe that marijuana should not be
legalized? How is the prohibition of Marijuana any different than the
prohibition of alcohol? 100,000 Americans die every year due to alcohol
but none to Marijuana"
12) - 878 votes - "Will you consider legalizing
cannabis/marijuana/hemp so that the government can regulate it, tax it,
put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a
multi-billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?"
15) - 736 votes - "Will the Obama administration relax the federal
rules concerning serious, scientific research into medicinal uses for
marijuana and any associated long-term effects? How?"
16) - 724 votes - "Mr. Obama, please stand by your statement regarding
not prosecuting medical marijuana patients in states that already have
laws in place. Instruct the DEA to focus on meth problems, and illegal
possession of prescription drugs such as Oxycontin."
18) - 716 votes - ""How can you morally justify the prohibition of
marijuana? It is our choice what we put in our bodies and the fact that
the government thinks it can control these choices is an insult not
only to marijuana smokers, but to anyone who values freedom.""
19) - 631 votes - "The 'War on Drugs' is ineffective-billions of
dollars are put into the criminalization of people using/selling a drug
has positive side effects. Legalization of marijuana could bring our
nation out of it's economic crisis with proper taxing and laws."
20) - 633 votes - "Is the legalization and taxation of marijuana being
considered as an option for reducing the astronomical deficit?"
ae
http://morningdonut.blogspot.com/
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