those state-run programs use (or should use) FDA-approved medicine and have nothing to do with the current federal laws prohibiting marijuana use in general nor with disbanding drug cartels and so on….

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The cartels murdered more than 6,000 people last year and more than 2,300 so far this year, while marijuana has never killed a single person in the history of man.

Our *only* protection against the cartels is to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults. We have a choice to make, either allow bars to legally sell marijuana to adults or watch in terror as the cartels conduct their business in our neighborhoods.

Tell your legislators what you decide.

End the Prohibition!!

Let Grandma smoke marijuana
Happy alone in her garden.
Let Grandma smoke marijuana
Peacefully live in the jungle.

She’s happy and free
Living in her means.
Don’t need your medicare candy.

Like Prozac(R) and Lexaprol(R)
Turn Grandma into a zombie.
Some Zoloft(R)and Rapiflux(R)
Pushed by the medicare lobby.

Get liver disease
For enourmous medical fees.
Instead of smoking a weed.

The Cartels in Mexico
Want Grandma to pay to be happy.
With violence and gun control
Profits go out of the country.

She’s happy and free
Living in her means.
Don’t need your medicare candy.

Oh Grandma
Oh Grandma

She’s happy and free

Let Grandma smoke marijuana
Happy alone in her garden.
Let Grandma smoke marijuana
Peacefully live in the jungle.

She’s happy and free
Living in her means.
Don’t need your medicare candy.

Oh Grandma
Oh Grandma
Grandma

That boy is probably right. It’s certainly not going to happen in the next couple of years. With the exception of one Zogby poll, national polls have been showing the percentage of American adults who support legalization is in the low to mid forties. There was a recent Zogby poll where 52% of those surveyed said they support legalization, but several other polls before and since have put support in the low to mid forties.

Before it gets legalized, we’re going to have to see polls coming back consistently showing support for legalization is well over 50%. The older voters who actually exercise their right to vote even in mid term election tend to be strongly opposed to legalization. Politicians know this. They know that much of the support for legalization comes from young people who usually are not very good about showing up to vote on election days. Lawmakers will be looking for a fair amount of support from older voters, and well over 50% support from voters as a whole. They aren’t going to all start jumping on the legalization bandwagon until they see a political advantage in doing so. I’m sure there are a lot of politicians who favor legalization who won’t say so publicly because they worry about political consequences, but that will change as the years go on and support for legalization grows.

I am convinced marijuana legalization is inevitable, but it might take twenty years. It could happen a lot sooner. My bet is it happens some time in the Twenties as by then if trends continue we should see over 60% support for legalization and most of the old lawmakers who came of age before marijuana became popular will be gone by 2020. In the next decade we’ll probably see more and more politicians coming out for legalization, more states passing laws allowing medical marijuana and more states decriminalizing simple possession of small amounts for personal use. We’ll see attempts to get international conventions and treaties amended to allow countries to legalize without violating international law. We might see Canada and/or some other countries legalize. We might even do it here but it would be toward the end of the next decade. Right now there just isn’t enough support and the most powerful federal law makers tend to be old guys who came of age before marijuana became popular and thus for the most part are strongly opposed to legalization. They’d never even let it come to a vote.

Well, wake up people because there is a majority of people who feel marijuana should be legalized at the federal level, but the need to group and gather to promote ending prohibition seems impossible with the type of government we have. If you feel marijuana should be legalize write to your legislators. they probably won’t respond back, but they will figure out that people feel it is something that is past over-due, that is ending marijuana prohibition.

Did you even know our own American Government has a patent on marijuana… that is the cannabinoids.
US Patent # 6630507.

Be a responsible citizen and educate yourself if the government won’t.