Yeah I have visited Barack Obama's whitehouse page and I write him an e-mail about legalizing marijuana 2-3 times per week. I have heard that persistance is the only way things get done. I want him to be bombarded with e-mails about legalization of marijuana.
I would hate to see marijuana full-out legalized in one respect. If government schwag became the standard, I'd be kind of sad. And if Phillip Morris got some profits from selling marijuana, I'd be quite pissed off. What I favor is tight, strict government regulation. That means: No advertising of marijuana allowed in any form--no billboards, no television commercials, no pamphlets--nothing. Also, no corporate interest in the hemp industry. Let's keep it small-time. I don't want phillip morris to make money off marijuana, and I don't want any tobacco companies to get involved. I would hope that the government creates some government-run grow operations, kind of like how Oakland commissioned Ed Rosenthal to handle the medical marijuana growing. I would also like to see marijuana taxed to fucking hell, and I would like to see the taxes being put directly back into the system--on things like education, applying excess marijuana taxes to the national debt, etc.... you know, I would be very mad to think that 10 million dollars of marijuana taxes went to some pork barrel spending project like building a polar bear a new cage at the Oregon Zoo. Seriously what the fuck is wrong with our system...
If Barack Obama doesn't legalize marijuana on some level, I will be regretful that my wife and I wasted our votes on him. I think that I'd rather have John McCain in office if Obama doesn't do anything about marijuana.
... i posted a thread about it in this toke-n-talk last night
