First off to the OP, do you think you can possibly write like a human being please? Your posts are way more than a pain in the ass to read and it lends nothing to the credibility of your posts if you can not even compose a simple sentence.
Second there is a big difference between decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana. Decriminalizing would only allow possession of small amounts for personal consumption and the not for profit transfer of small amounts. Read Barny Frank's proposed bill
HR 5843 It would not allow for the cultivation or sale of cannabis. This is a serious flaw. First it sets a trap situation. "Ok you can smoke it but don't grow any or try to buy it" This also means the gangs and drug cartels that are making money hand over fist from the cannabis trade would have an incentive to continue doing so. Sure there are honest local growers even in the draconian state I live in but it's not always possible to buy from them all the time. If it were legalized this would not be an issue.
Legalization means the complete removal from CSA scheduling just like alcohol and tobacco are not on the list now. That would make cannabis just like any other crop in America. Nobody telling people they can't grow their own tomatoes. Most people don't grow their own tomatoes just like most people would not grow their own pot. This is where the government would get it's slice from in the form of taxes.
FATBOY I'd like to know where you got the idea that you can not sell tobacco from. Sure you can you just need to follow federal, state and any local laws. I find no reference to any laws saying you can not grow and sell tobacco without proper permits and paying taxes on it. Just like any other legal product available in the U.S. Your fears there are totally unwarranted.
In some states growing a few plants is not a felony. Lying about a condition to a doctor to fraudulently obtain a med pot card on the other hand IS a felony. So for some people in some states they would be better off risking growing a few plants than committing fraud as you suggest they do.
Now I really hate to tell you this but no matter what you think about how safe you are under you states medical MJ laws if you are growing or selling pot your committing a felony under federal law and we all know the feds have so far had no problem busting dispensaries operating legally under state law. Ed Rosenthal was very lucky in that he got a sympathetic federal judge when it came time to sentencing. Just Ask Ed. So as far as your situation is concerned decriminalization would change nothing. It would still be illegal to grow even with a med card just like it is now.
The feds might not be cracking down on people growing med pot for their own use but that does not mean they can't and life as a convicted felon can be read hard for average people such as you and me.
Federal rescheduling of cannabis from schedule I to one of the lower schedules, which is basically what you are advocating, would be a step in the right direction BUT it would still leave the FDA/DEA in charge of regulation. I don't know about you bro but that's NOT what I want. Hell as it is now the FDA is trying to keep marijuana on schedule I but allow synthetic versions of cannabinoids/cannabinols like Marinol and Cesamet which are schedule III and II respectively. No No No...legalization is the ONlY answer.
Oh and BTW you guys talking about "tossing seeds"...DON'T!!! More good indoor weed gets ruined by stray wild male plants than the DEA. It's not only a bad idea for that reason alone but it will not achieve what you want anyway. Want proof? From NORML's website
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]98 Percent Of All Domestically Eradicated Marijuana Is "Ditchweed," DEA Admits[/FONT] they are already spending most of their eradication efforts (and your tax dollars) pulling up the remnants from when it was legal to grow hemp in the U.S. It would only take a season or three for the best seeds on the planet to be producing nothing more than low quality ditchweed.
Legalize and you open a $113 billion dollar a year industry to the American economy that would generate some $30 billion in tax revenue per year. It would also save the taxpayers over $10 billion a year we spend now on arresting, prosecuting and jailing marijuana users.
As far as the rest of the war on drugs? I don't think coke, meth, heroin...should be legal either BUT we spend billions a year on this "war" and we all know there is no way to "win" it. I don't know what the answer is but if they can't keep drugs out of prisons (and they can't) then there is NO WAY they can keep them out of the general population of the U.S. All we're doing is making gangs/drug cartels/criminals rich while wasting taxpayer money fighting ghosts.
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