Comments on: 2007 Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Marijuana Stats

By: wiiam

wiiam — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:54:29 +0000

Ron Paul 2012

By: Vietvet

Vietvet — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:55:18 +0000

I as many of you have used pot on and off for most of my life. I find no problem with it other than the fact that it is against the law. Somehow I have managed to never get busted although have come very close several times. I have to say though that I have known people that could not smoke pot as it completely debilitated them. That is maybe two out of hundreds of people I have smoked with in my life. I have as many stopped pot on many an occasion, primarily for employment reasons with no withdrawal symptoms at all. I did not smoke for about eight years as I worked in a casino where random drug testing is frequent and the pay good so could not take the chance. After leaving the industry I smoked for about a year and enjoyed it very much. I have since quit again as I am seeking employment where drug testing is the norm. It is a shame that I am not allowed the one vice I enjoy as I do not smoke cigs, drink alcohol, or do any other illicit drugs, or even chase wild women any more. I am sure I do not have to explain that it is about big business not the danger of the drug. The government could care less if smoking one joint would kill you. It is about the money. The money in the hands of the alcohol co. Can’t raise hemp in America as it would destroy the cotton industry and the foresting for paper manufacture. and the biggest of all the Pharm industry as many Pharmaceutical products are manufactured from the hemp plant at a much safer (natural) and more economically feasible means than what they use (synthetic production). I just hope I live to see the day that I can legally buy and smoke some pot without looking over my shoulder or worrying about losing my job. Hang in there folks we all know we are right. I do have to add though that I do know that while it is relaxing and enjoyable it does make you temporarily stupid, or as the old timers said all muddled up. Like anything, food, alcohol, sex, fast cars, or money it can be abused. A little common sense and it is a great thing. GOD given, he says so, he also explains about the abuse issue.

By: WAMarley

WAMarley — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:02:30 +0000

This is simply Law Enforcement skewing the statistical data to fit their needs.
If you don’t think that it’s a concious and deliberate act you believe in the tooth fairy !
Judges forcing people into treatment is nothing more than his or her opinion being forced down the throats of the general public. That behavior or act is called indoctrination, something Communism uses with great success !

The problem is:
Bill Mahar is right; we live in a country where the populous is too uneducated to make a sane and rational decision !
Maybe Obama might want to reform education next, after a good Health Care Law with a strong Public Option !
He might want to atart in South Carolina and Mississippi. I believe that they are rated 49 & 50 educationally. A glaring statistic isn’t it. Says a lot about people like Haley Barber and Governor (gone hiking on the Appalachian trail) Sanford. Says a lot about the people too ! I’ll bet that the rain never hits them in the eyes !

By: tealyo

tealyo — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:47:35 +0000

lagalize the shit out of it!!! save us all the trouble. haha

By: John

John — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:21:55 +0000

I had to go to rehab to get my job back after I fail a drug test. It was not that I was hooked on marijuana, because for me marijuana is very easy to put down. But it was for a company policy that made me go to rehab, in-order to get my job back. This may be the reason there is a large jump in visits to a rehab for marijuana use, just to get a job back.

By: JohnA

JohnA — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:04:56 +0000

Thank you Russ, after your post I looked into it alot further. You have a wonderful wealth of helpful knowledge. Please understand I meant no disrespect. Keep blazin you audio stash I’m a daily listener.

By: Russ Belville

Russ Belville — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 17:35:39 +0000

JohnA, I’m just reporting what California NORML’s Dale Gieringer sent to me once when I used those quotes:

This quote is apocryphal. According to Michael Aldrich, it was begun many years ago by Ron Siegel, based on a story told him by a musician. Michael had Markus Storz check up on it at the Hohner company museum in Germany. Turns out that Hohner didn’t start selling harmonicas in the US until after Lincoln was dead, years later. Sorry to bust this great story, too bad it isn’t true!

“Prohibition. . . goes beyond the bound of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded” -Abraham Lincoln

This quote is also apocryphal. It was invented by Georgia anti-prohibitionists long after Lincoln’s death to stir up support among blacks.

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/lincoln.htm

It was investigated by a Lincoln scholar at the request of Ollie Steinberg of the Minnesota Grassroots party. Like Mark, he found no record of any speech by Lincoln on the alleged date (Dec 18, 1840).

I’ve been told that according to the Home Book of Quotations (16th edition), it was fabricated in the 1880s – apparently by anti-Prohibitionists in Atlanta courting the Negro vote. Lincoln was well-known for his temperance sympathies. According to Herbert Asbury’s “The Great Illusion,” he authored a dry law modeled on the Maine law, which was rejected by Illinois voters in a special referendum on June 4, 1855. He was also alleged to have authored and signed a total abstinence pledge in 1846. According to temperance authorities, Lincoln was reluctant to sign the 1862 whiskey tax that helped fund the Civil War, on grounds it would condone the liquor trade. According to a temperance leader who spoke with him on the day of his assassination, Lincoln predicted that the next great question after slavery would be abolition of the traffic in legalized liquor.

By: CKDK29

CKDK29 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:13:37 +0000

ppl go to change.org obama has a petion and needs 3000 signatures for him to bring this issue up and go further LETS DO IT PPLE under care2.com

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 19:05:47 +0000

people go to change.org Obama has a petion and needs 3000 signatures for him to go further with this issue c’omon we can do it im tired of not bein able to find it or where do i go next to get it? I want it as easy as cigs i mean c’mon pple its a plant and so is tobacco lets do it

By: Mikmo6

Mikmo6 — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:06:23 +0000

Quite a vicious cycle there, eh? BTW Russ, great graphs, dude! I remember signing up for MJ rehab about 12 years ago out of pressure by the law, only to end up not going, when I realized I didn’t have to. I don’t guess there’s any stat category for that though, heh-heh