Here’s a List of 45 Municipal Leaders Who Are Fighting Against Marijuana Legalization (None from Tucson Thus Far)

1. Why would anybody from Tucson oppose it? That’s are #1 source of jobs and economic prosperity in the valley.

   I know I know marijuana is harmless. Why are they called potheads?

2. What nonsense! Ground up marijuana soaked in a solvent like White Lightning and then boiled in a rice cooker is THE CURE FOR CANCER. Watch “Run From The Cure” on YouTube. It’s called hash oil. One drop taken like cough syrup twice a day brings on perfect health. On drop on the skin makes removes any troubled areas. So . . . by a show of hands . . . who wants to vote to make the cure for cancer illegal? Anyone? Anyone? What do we have now? We pay a fortune to be turned into victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki! What nonsense!

3. So that Voters can be adequately informed if the efforts to legalize the use of Marijuana for recreational purposes is on the Ballot, a list of Politicians and Educators who support this effort here in Tucson/Pima County should be published as well!!; including City/County Officials, School Board Members, and School/College/University Administrative Officials.

   Through Artificial Selection Experiments, strains of Marijuana have been developed by the Marijuana Drug Industry that substantially increase the potency of the Drug. As such, its’ use poses serious potential consequences.The Marijuana of today is NOT like the Marijuana used in the 70’s and 80’s.

   While this Drug is effective in treating some medical conditions; Muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, Nausea from cancer chemotherapy, Poor appetite and weight loss caused by chronic illness, such as HIV, or nerve pain, Seizure disorders, and Crohn’s disease, its’ use for Medical purpose should be supported by Scientific evidence and regulated by the FDA; closely monitored by the tending Physician and State Department of Health..

   The major consumers of this Drug, if legalized for so-called recreational purposes, will be the younger generation; destroying the very fabric/future of our Democracy.

   This Drug should NOT be legalized for recreational purposes!!!

4. Reader, what studies support your ridiculous statements about MJ? IF you are right, why wouldn’t the medical society bring this to light. Unfortunately, there is no “magic bullet” for cancer. We have enough problems with alcohol, why add more drugs? My cousin smoked MJ all his adult life, now he can’t take care of himself, nor can he stop smoking it. He’s completely addicted.

5. How many lives ruined by smoking MJ vs lives ruined by legal problems from MJ. Decriminalize it. Stop feeding the prison system with non violent smokers. Jim Kelly – your cousin probably did more than MJ – and would have done it regardless. Drink your martini and forget about it.

6. Well at least folks know who not to vote for in the next cycle. If they took the same stand against cigarettes and alcohol then they wouldn’t be hypocrites. I bet half of them make money with prohibition and will say or do anything to keep their cash flow!

7. Marijuana was outlawed for two major reasons. The first was because “All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy. The second was the fear that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana – exactly the opposite of the modern “gateway” nonsense.

   Only one MD testified at the hearings for the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. The representative of the American Medical Association said there was no evidence that marijuana was a dangerous drug and no reason for the law. He pointed out that it was used in hundreds of common medicines at the time, with no significant problems. In response, the committee told him that, if he wasn’t going to cooperate, he should shut up and leave.

   The only other “expert” to testify was James C. Munch, a psychologist. His sole claim to fame was that he had injected marijuana directly into the brains of 300 dogs and two of them died. When they asked him what he concluded from this, he said he didn’t know what to conclude because he wasn’t a dog psychologist. Mr. Munch also testified in court, under oath, that marijuana could make your fangs grow six inches long and drip with blood. He also said that, when he tried it, it turned him into a bat. He then described how he flew around the room for two hours.

   Mr. Munch was the only “expert” in the US who thought marijuana should be illegal, so they appointed him US Official Expert on marijuana, where he served and guided policy for 25 years.

   If you read the transcripts of the hearings, one question is asked more than any other: “What is this stuff?” It is quite apparent that Congress didn’t even know what they were voting on. The law was shoved through by a small group of lunatics with no real awareness by anyone else of what was happening.

   See http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm for an entertaining short history of the marijuana laws.
   See http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm for the complete transcripts of the hearings for the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937.

8. The question of what to do about drugs is not a new one. Over the last 100 years there have been numerous major government commissions around the world that have studied the drug laws and made recommendations for changes. You can find the full text of all of them at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy.

   They all reached remarkably similar conclusions, no matter who did them, or where, or when, or why. They all agreed that the current laws were based on ignorance and nonsense, and that the current policy does more harm than good, no matter what you assume about the dangers of drugs. You don’t have to take my word for that. Read them yourself.

   If you are new to the collection, start with Licit and Illicit Drugs at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/cu/cumenu.htm That is the best overall review of the drug problem ever written. If you only read one book on the subject, make it that one. It will give you a good summary of what you would learn if you read all the other major reports.

   In 1973, President Nixon’s US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse completed the largest study of the drug laws ever done. At the end of their study, they said the real drug problem was not marijuana, or heroin, or cocaine. The real drug problem, they said, was the ignorance of our public officials who keep spouting off with solutions but have never read the most basic research on the subject.

   In a perfect illustration of their point, Nixon refused to read his own commission’s report. The full text can be found at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm

9. It should be obvious to anyone that marijuana is big business. By some estimates, it is about the same size as the beer business, about $100 billion per year. It should also be obvious that it won’t be going away any time soon.

   Therefore, there are only three choices as to who will control the market, make all the rules for production and sales, enforce all the age limits and labeling rules, and spend all the tens of billions that come from the trade. The choices are:

   1) Government, with proper regulations and taxes to address problems.
   2) Private business, with proper regulations and taxes to address problems.
   3) Organized crime, with no regulations or taxes to address problems.

   We have chosen organized crime to have a complete monopoly on the trade. Anyone in favor of the current laws need to explain why they think this gives us the most cost-effective control over any related problems.

10. Everyone talks about the gentle high of marijuana as bad while completely forgetting the “falling down drunk” anesthetic menace of alcohol and the rotting of good health caused by cigarettes! Alcohol kills the drinker as well as those who are on the street as the drinker drives drunk. Cigarettes! A product you can only use once and it immediately self-destructs! What a concept! Any thought of banning marijuana must always be coupled with a total ban of alcohol and a total ban of cigarettes. (1) command that all cigarette companies STOP growing tobacco and start growing Class A marijuana. (2) allow all liquor stores to sell marijuana vapor devices. Done.

11. Here is an interesting experiment to try.

    Contact each of the people in this list. Ask them four simple questions:

    1) When were the currently illegal drugs originally outlawed?

    2) Why were they outlawed?

    3) How many people are killed by drugs in the US in a typical year?

    4) In the past 100 years, there have been numerous major government commissions around the world that have studied the drug laws and made recommendations for changes. Name any three and summarize what they said.

    My bet is that not one of these people on this list will be able to pass a quiz on the subject that is even this simple and basic. The best answer you will get from any of them will be a blank stare.

    Furthermore, when you tell these people that this information is available and tell them where they can find it, they will flatly refuse to read any of it.

    The real drug problem is deliberate ignorance. Anyone can prove it just by questioning any of the people on the list.

12. How many people who don’t smoke weed are going to start just because it becomes legal to do so?

13. MPP’s proposed ballot initiative will stop all Medical Marijuana. Build a Bureaucracy that will insulate the criminal element that have been purveyors of the illegal market. Hire an enforcement police that has as many prison sentences attached for quantities larger than an ounce.

    Could all of these people on the list be against or just against this sham proposal to legalize. By MPP’s efforts we will see a Kemper Marley McCain alcohol dynasty’s being built taking huge amounts off the top for it’s bureau. Let your local politician ask them if they have read the petition and if they agree that it is inline with the true medically needy. duplications of agencies we already have. Nothing more than a market control for a few.

14. if they won’t legalize cannabis than we must insist they make alcohol illegal !!!!!

15. Now there’s a great way to destroy millions of business and jobs. Do you guys ever have brilliant ideas?

16. http://www.mintpressnews.com/new-schools-less-crime-colorado-sees-benefits-of-marijuana-legalization/208751/

    Educate yourselves on this topic people!!

17. Thanks Tucson Weekly for giving voters a list of those who need to be voted OUT of office in their next election. Remember these people are trying to take away YOUR rights! They had NO authority to prohibit it in the first place.

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