You should point out that legalization will help reduce the cross-border trafficking of pot. Right now, all this pot money is getting into the hands of the criminal underworld, where it eventually leads to people dying, government being corrupted, and widespread violence in northern Mexican border cities.

For all we know, drug money is involved in the murders in Juarez. It might be involved in the gangster takeover of small cities, leading to widespread homicide.

If we legalize, regulate, and reduce all this doper culture, we'll start to see what pot really is. It's a drug that gives you mild hallucinations and makes you hungry. It's the least harmful of all the recreational drugs, though it tends to make people lazy and stunts emotional development if overused.

Pot is a public health problem. It's a mental health problem. It's an addiction problem. BUT instead of really dealing with these problems, all we do make fun of stoners, and then send some dopers and drug dealers to prison.

This is absurd.

I'm glad that some people in AZ are cool and standing up for what's right. You're to be commeded.

I wish you all were near the protest against 1070 and the police state it's going to create for brown people in AZ.

Marijuana was first criminalized because people believed it was a demon drug from Mexico. Because Mexicans smoked it, they assumed it was "corrupting". The first anti-pot laws were founded on racism against migrant workers.

Now anti-pot laws victimize brown and black people.

Economic processes such as the looted financial institutions now invested in over a thousand TRILLION dollars of ficticious capital REQUIRE the black market money to show any liquidity on their double set of books.
Without the War on Drugs and the attendant 'black' capital it brings to these laundering houses, they would burn like dry straw in the ensuing discovery of this looting.
Plant this herb everywhere and overwhelm the system as they will never 'grant' any threat to their critical income source.
We must take what we want and not wait for them to shoot themselves.

there is NO WAY the criminal system will decriminalize this incredibly crucial black market, and powerful political tool of predicted and historically failed prohibition.
Save your seeds.
Plant everywhere during the rainy seasons and keep on doing it. All the energy wasted in demonstrations should be used to cultivate as a method of bring down the system.
Which is what it would do when the laundered capital dries up, exposing the entire house of criminality to the match. It wont take much.
Remember Shay's Rebellion! and the Bill of Rights!