n response to Dan Linn, the Executive Director Illinois Chapter National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws (Illinois NORML) and his small statement why it's time to legalize and tax marijuana, let me just say, maybe you are high. It's always about the money for some of you, but what about those of us who are parents, and the most important "thing" to us is our children?
Legalize marijuana so it can be easier for the adults who are users and or dealers, who are already deciding to break the law, to sell or just pass it on to our kids or in some cases their own? This seems inevitable to me.
Please take a look at the big picture. There will be many more broken laws with legalized marijuana, therefore more arrests, prosecutions and imprisonment at the cost of putting children in the middle. How does that benefit anyone?
Maybe Mr. Linn is not a parent. Maybe he, too, just sees dollar signs.
Then what should be legalized next, cocaine? Maybe you should re-think your ideas of how the state of Illinois could collect more tax money for the budget.
Christina Yanecek
Round Lake Beach

Honestly i can see the children, but #1
it's the parents responsibility (stop using the escape goat).

#2 it always leads to other drugs can you prove that?
It's the persons decision to do the substance and
have nothing to blame but them selves.

#3 How would legalization lead to more arrests?
Sure there will be sum adult that will buy the green
for the kids but nonetheless with all the parents
that complain about marijuana use, kids would have a
harder time obtaining the substance.

#4 All drugs should be legalized!
totse.com | American Drug Policy: What's the Real Problem?

Legalize!

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“True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

I used to sit at the store and ask peole to buy me cigs. Thats how i smoked before i was 18. That and stealing from my parents. Legal or not if a kid wants to get some weed hes gonna get it. People just play the kid card because they know everyone will be sympathetic.

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I dont even have any brain damage amage amage.

Check out my journal biatch!
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...tml#post234973

Its easier for most kid to get right now than alcohol. If it was in a store at least it would only be sold to adults instead of some dealer just trying to make a buck.

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I smoke to help me deal with the reality that our government is fucked.

people only play the kid card because they are underinformed. There was an LTE published when they were discussing MMJ in Minnesota that pointed out, what they are saying could happen already is. The fact remains, marijuana is less harmful than tobacco, alcohol, and all the other drugs out there. Legalizing it will not change that fact.

It will not be any worse than alcohol or cigarettes. Just make the legal age to buy weed 21. I think there should be an age limit, simply due to some of the kids maturity and responsibility. No matter if it is legal or illegal, the kids will get it regardless.

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.

I personally,whether i am mad or not is highly debatable lol,believe that they are afraid of independent thinkers which would undermine their control system and cause people to ask them to many questions that they do not want to answer.
Also marijuana makes you care more about issues of justice and also helps to make most people care more about the state of our planet,this is also not something that they want,which is why beer is legal and weed is not,after 10 pints you will not give a shit about the planet or anyone or anything else,not to mention that you will become addicted to beer and have to work all week to buy some more.
So to sum up i think they want to keep people drunk,dumber,careless and working in shit jobs and marijuana would make this much more difficult for them.
This is just my opinion though and i may be completely wrong

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Your kids smoke anyways. The funny thing is this is probably true

Yeah that person is way under informed, the kid card and the gateway argument are pretty lame. Kids will find a way to do what they want to do. HONEST education would go a long way to close the perceived gateway as well. When I was a young stoner I did try other stuff but it was partly because none of the crazy shit i was told that pot would do to me ever happened. so for a kid it's pretty easy to think, "hey, they lied about weed, I bet they lied about acid and speed too!"

The Society for a Drug Free America with their stupid BS commercials does more harm than good.

kids smoke weed anyways you dumb #%#$T^$^ fuck jeez why does everyone play
the kid card? that defeats the whole purpose! Just because you have a kid doesn;t mean
this shit should be illegal!
You can't control your kids! If you could I would be more worried about stopping them from
smoking PCP, but since your on this site I will just let you know weed is easier to get than
alchohol so what does that mean to you?

A new british study says smoking two marijuana
cigarettes are worse than smoking 20 tobacco cigarrettes.

Because it has more cancerogens,

get the fuck outta here.

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