Brian O’Dea, author of HIGH: Confessions of an International Drug Smuggler, discusses the need to legalize marijuana as a way to reduce the violence and control the criminal element.
Medical Marijuana is advancing in Illinois. Check out the latest story from NY Times: SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — The... Read More »
Kansas appeals court addresses medical marijuana issue for travelers March 15. By TONY RIZZO. The Kansas City Star.... Read More »
Foxborough Needs to Establish Medical Marijuana District Following AG's Ruling “Unless somebody can articulate something specific I think... Read More »
marijuana laws are more harmful than the drug itself
@cinesimonj ….(4)….Research? I have done the research, I LIVED IT. So next time don’t assume that I was jumping to conclusions. Like I said, expierences the violence 1st hand from the users, but not much from the dealers. And I know how they think, they know what they are doing, they just don’t care…there is a BIG difference.
@cinesimonj …..(3)… just because you were some “higher-class” drug user that doesn’t change the facts because you were surrounded by a different class of people. Besides, apart from the violence that I have seen come with drugs & Alcohol, there is an underline prininciple above all that that nobody understands…That is why can’t people just have sober thoughts? Why does everyone want to get high or intoxicated, human beings were not suppose to live this way. Its an Unnatural State of mind.
@cinesimonj …….Simple Truth is if WE DIDN’T Have Drugs & Alcohol in this world we wouldn’t need cops, and you want to Legalize it because you think you can regulate it. I scoff at the idea, how do you regulate crack-cocaine? Or parties drugs like MDMA or ecstacy, its pure junk, thats why it is such a good high. They actually put holes in your brain (E & MDMA). Your just condoning it and saying that drug use is okay. Not matter how you try to tamper it down……
@cinesimonj Well if you really were a Junkie, then I doubt you were in the narrows when you were “hooked on heroin”, probably already came from a middle class family before you became a Junkie, but I KNOW from personal expierence that YES they are criminals and violent. They are called “Tweakers” because they tweak out, crackheads are the worst but heroin junkies can get paranoid and aggressive too. I have been attacked by them so so many times……….
@andy77718 “Legalizing drugs wont stop organized crime & gangs. why can’t people understand that?”
This is just more proof you have no intention of bothering to understand what it is we’re saying.
@andy77718 The vast majority of violence comes from dealers, kiddo.
I take it your consultation of reality doesn’t include the police, various government studies going back years(state and fed), every scientific study on the drug war, etc .
No, for you apparently, ‘reality’ comes from the gut.
LONG LIVE TRUTHINESS!
Though sad you right wingers seem to think your gut is more important than reality, and your righteousness destroys lives more than any one drug addict, it can be entertaining…
@andy77718 More nonsense.
Since when has Heroin produced aggression and paranoia?
I was a junkie, hooked on heroin for 6 years. Apart from buying the drug, I didn’t commit one crime.
The vast majority of drug users are middle class, and do not steal to get their drugs – they just ruin theirs and their families lives.
Your apparent desperation to shield yourself from reality will apparently have you believe whatever you’re told by prohibitionists, as long as it suits your bizarre righteousness.
@andy77718
If ‘bleeding heart’ means based in reality, then sure – cal it what you like.
Anyone claiming that all drug addicts are criminals because they have top commit crime to get their drugs, is someone who has never bothered to take a look at the issue.
Try to grow up a bit, and instead of childish name-calling and believing your silly assumptions are real, maybe study a bit.
Of course, for some Americans, leaning is apparently just too darn liberal.
LONG LIVE TRUTHINESS, right kiddo?
@Etanracnisid ……”innocent Drug addicts” that are merely victims of drug addiction, that is the bleeding Heart attitude people like Brian Odea would have you believe, they really are criminal. They know perfectly well what they are doing when they commit crimes to fuel their addiction, they jut don’t care, theres a difference. They steal, rob, commit break-Ins, and get violent for no reason other then the fact that they have an IRRATION MIND. I say it again, they are not innocent in any way.
@Etanracnisid Ask yourelf this: Is Alcohol still not one of the greatet evils in the world today? legal or illegal, it is still a dangerous substance that fuels aggression and stupidity. Look at all the Disorder that alcohol cause, ever go down town on a Friday night and see all the disorderly behaviour it causes even from normal decent people. As for hard drugs such as Crack & Heroin, it’s the same thing, its FACT that thee drugs cause Aggresion & Paranoia, Drug addicts are not these………..
@andy77718 With your mindset we should make alcohol illegal, and put alcoholics in jail too ( after all you said addicts are criminals )…wile giving real criminals more revenue to create more violence. Then we can spend billions more fighting alcohol prohibition. All the wile ruining our economy even further and destroying civilization as we know it.
you dont have to legalize it but i dont want to go to jail anymore damn it!
Free Marc Emery
@Whyisthat101 I wasn’t talking about Marijuana, I was talking about Hard Drugs, like Crack-cocaine, Heroin, and Methemphetamine are where the REAL Source of Violence. All you “Legalize Drugs” people out there just are not listening, it’s like you don’t understand reality. The Real Violence is coming from drug addicts themselves, the majority of violence in the Drug Trade is coming from Drug addicts and Junkies who have an irrational mindset. Drug Addicts are not ”poor victims, they are CRIMINAL
@andy77718 Keeping marijuana illegal will only continue the money making racket of the drug lords who use that money to fund other criminal activity and perpetuate grotesque and violent crimes such as arms dealing and prostitution.
Folks, if you think Legalizing drugs will stop Organized Crime, your wrong. They have their in hands in all sorts Criminal Activities, examples: Home-Invasions, contract killing, child pornography, prostitution, rackateering, extortion, illegal gambling, human trafficking ( And I don’t mean just prostitution when I say that) and all sorts of Fraud. Legalizing drugs wont stop organized crime & gangs. why can’t people understand that?
@alex4527 Read my last postings one more time and look closely at what I said, it doesn’t matter that they may be a “victim” to a drug addiction, they still cause more damage in society then any rational or white-collar criminal. Just re-read everything I said below before you give me a response. Truth is of we didn’t have drugs or Alcohol in this world AT ALL, we really wouldn’t need cops.
@andy77718 Your a fucking idiot, have you ever seen anybody hooked on a drug? Do you think it feels good to know that your life is totally controlled by crack?
@Alxscode OMG not relaxation and pleasure!… As a far right conservative I believe your relaxation and pleasure time should be regulated so that you only are allowed relaxation and pleasure between 3pm – 4pm in the afternoon… Whats that, those times don’t work for you? Oh well that’s the time between my daily tea time and nap.
They steal, rob, cheat, and get violent either to support their habbit or they do it because their minds are completelt IRRATIONAL and just plain insane. Iv personally been a victim of an attack by a Crack addict, he didnt think twice to try to kill me and he didnt care.
Did he seriously just say we should Legalize ALL Drugs, thats just plain stupid!! Yeah let just legalize Crack-Cocaine AND just see the Violence that comes with it, Junkies and Crackheads that wouldn’t think twice to break your neck over nothing!! Drig addicts are CRIMINALS NOT VICTIMS!!
He was at school today he was speaking to us
the dea is profitable and pot can’t be patented. thats all it is really.
i saw him today at my school 😀
real cool
well spoken person