no way about joy–she's not mellow enough. i bet whoopi is stoned everyday to deal with all the screeching.

@weezy: whoopi is taking hits on her bong during commercial breaks.

Smokers unite!

I am SO there.

Get over it America, everybody smokes pot.

I don't care if you smoke weed, its just that nasty cartel that's cutting peoples heads off, south of the border, I'm against beheading people.

No mirsada, not everyone smokes pot…were not all stupid.

I don't have anything against cancer patients or any responsible adult who chooses to smoke pot. That being said everyone doesn't smoke pot I certainly don't. There are many Americans who choose not to do drugs.

This topic usually gets me in trouble. Pass.

Y'all just waited until Nancy Reagan got too old to whoop your sorry behinds before fessing up.

CHICKENS.

;-)

hey "jossip" you should link this story (the rich users) with the photos of the Mexican drug war (the poor victims)

Well Rhonda, legalizing would put the murderous cartels out of busines the way the end of alchohol prohibition put so many murderous mobsters out of business.
I live near the border in south texas and I see those poor mexican victims of our coutry's "war on drugs" first hand.
So yeah kinky, but instead, why don't we link our government officials to pictures of what their irrational, propaganda-based fear of weed is doing to those poor victims of their failure of a drug war.

Anthony

I wish that were true. I think these cartels are dealing in more than pot. Cocaine, heroin, probably even human sex trade. I wish it were as easy as legalizing pot, I am no expert, but I don't think it puts them out of business. I've seen the pictures and that mess is gonna spill over anytime, BIGTIME! Take Care

Do a bit of research Rhonda, I've done plenty on the subject and it pretty much really IS that easy. Why? Because pot is the most profitable thing these cartels have going for them. If it were legalized, it would cut out their profits BIGTIME. Without that money they have much less power and ability to bribe and corrupt local law enforcement, government officials and etc. This, in turn would make it so much easier to fight them and take them out ENTIRELY.
As I said before, I LIVE right next to it, and I can tell you it's already here - including the corruption of local US governemnt officials & etc. You'd be shocked if you only knew just how rampant the corruption in our own country over this has been over the years.

Anthony,

Chill, I have friends growing the stuff in Cali. I don't know nothing about cartels. If it's that easy, lets do it. Corruption in this country, I'm shocked :) If Sam does make it legal its only so they can tax it. I'm just horrified about what's happening in Mexico, with the beheadings. Drugs seem to bring violence right behind it. So your saying, pot is the biggest money maker for the cartels and they just say ok, its alright if you start producing their product. Make it legal and the violence goes away?

It's hard to chill when it's practically happening in your own back yard. What you see in those pictures is nothing compared to what we see here with our own eyes - to people we know in our community.
The cartels would not be happy AT ALL about legalizing, which is why they give our corrupt government incentive (again, it's all about the $$$) to keep it illigal. Violence will never go away as long as it is part of human nature, but by reducing the $$$, power and influence these guys have, it would help the situation tremendously.
Plus, it would be a GREAT idea to tax it! Billions ($7.7 billion in 2006 alone) a year are spent fighting marijuanna, so our country would save on that as well as ease the over-crowding in our prisons.
As for drug induced violence in general: I see FAR worse from a drunk than I have EVER seen from some lazy-a** stoner. While alchohol can be addictive and can result in alchohol overdose poisoning, scientific studies have shown that pot is non-addictive and is pretty much IMPOSSIBLE to overdose on (you'd practically have to smoke more than your body weight's worth within an hour).
I'm curious as to what you would suggest as a solution to the current problem. I'm curious to know whether you even know the history of why pot was made illegal in the first place. Did you know it had much more to do with justifying discrimination against minorities than anything else? Yup, the propaganda back then was that it would make black men rape white women and makes hispanic people criminally insane.

Anthony, no, I've smoked pot and got lazy and went to sleep. I don't know anything about the history of pot. You totally lost me with the "it's all about the minorities" I don't have a solution, but I do know if we stop using their dope, they got no power at ALL! I have friends that would hate that. The border is no joke and I'm sorry your so close to it.

LOL, okay sorry, my last sentence was worded to be a shocker to get you curious about the subject. Sadly, a little research shows that it's no joke.
The history channel recently had a really great series on the insane, racist, and scientifically unfounded propoganda films by the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in the 1930-1940s used to convince the public to support the illigalization of cannabis. I'm sure the series is available on youtube through a quick google search.
This touches a little on the FBN propoganda films:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.....ted_States

Hi Anthony,

I will check those u-tubes out. If they are anything like the videos put out by dear old uncle sam about sex and vd and gi-joes, I can just imagine, those things are pretty comical. Are you for the legalization of all drugs or just pot? I know we have to do something about the border situation, my biggest fear is that the corruption goes all the way to the top, sort of married to the mob. Its hard to know who the "good guys" are these days. Are you pro or con on the border fence?

so if pot makes black men rape white women and hispanics criminally insane, what did it do to white people? :) lol

Hey there Rhonda. I'm just for the legalization of cannabis. I would like to see the resources that are wasted on fighting weed to be utilized to eliminating the REAL (scientifically proven) dangerous substances like cocaine and heroine.
The corruption does go pretty high up, but it's the campaign of misinformation from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics that STILL influences some of the more "well-meaning" government officials to justify their ignorant stance on the subject (even in the presence of scientific data and independent studies that have proven the FBN wrong). The propaganda we Americans have grown up with is so strong that some of us have an intense and irrational fear and hatred of cannabis without even really understanding why.
I personally don't care much for weed OR alcohol, but I do know that the prohibition of them is far more dangerous to society than the substances themselves. And physically, I think weed is far less harmful than alcohol.
As for the border fence - I have mixed feelings. I think it should be determined by geography and accessibility of border guards. It's mostly the safety of the illegal aliens I am concerned about. There are stretches of land where land owners and vigilantes take it upon themselves to invoke the castle law to kill trespassers - I wouldn't mind a fence in those areas to keep illegals out of danger, but I feel that the less fence, the better. I would much rather there be MUCH stricter penalties for those that choose to employ the illegals. If they weren't employing them, those people wouldn't be risking their lives to come here for the work. Again, we can thank government corruption for the fact that those that employ undocumented workers only get a minor slap on the wrist if they are caught.

Oh hey Rhonda, I just came across this rather entertaining TIME.com article on the subject that I thought you might enjoy:

"Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense"
http://www.time.com/time/natio.....21,00.html