Could Legalization of Marijuana Be in Texas's Future?

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Smoking cigs is worse health wise, but  it's legal, being drunk is just as bad as being stone and alcohol is legal, so why legalizing weed is a bad thing in comparison. I also feel that the crime rate will reduce if this would happen in Texas.

I find that this whole matter of the legalization of marijuana funny as hell, and I am also confused by some of the comments from people who think legal weed would destroy this state.  I can tell you from personal experience that anyone I have ever met who is against the use of marijuana is someone who has never tried it, does not associate with anyone who does use marijuana, and only has comments based on all the political and false commercials of what marijuana does to a person.  I have been in a room full of people who are stoned or high if you will, on marijuana and I have been in a room full of drunk people and I much prefer to party with stone people than drunks. Alcohol destroys more lives in so many ways each year than marijuana ever has, we know this by the fact that there are no documented cases in where marijuana was the cause.  I have never seen someone stone start a fight, I have never seen someone stone puke all over the place, I have never seen a stone person have an accident driving, ( this may be because most of the time someone who is stone does not want to go drive a car).  Marijuana has a relaxing effect not only on the brain but also on the body, and once you reach that good comfortable feeling, driving is just not one of the things you want to do.  But if you do find that you have to drive.  I have also been witness to being in the car with many stone people and nearly every time we were always in the slow lane going maybe 45 to 47 miles an hour.  So you fools who have come on here and thought legalization of marijuana is wrong for Texas, then I have only one thing to say to you, you are idiots.  You might take the time to read and consider history, long before we invaded this land we now call America, Indians were here and smoked marijuana in their peace pipes every day.  I ask you, how many really old Indians have you seen walking with a cane, or slumped over unable to stand because of back problems.  How many of them have you seen with any of all the other diseases whites, black, and all other nationalities suffer from.  I have an Indian friend who lives on a reservation in Oklahoma and they allow the smoking and growing of marijuana,  Some of the old people on this reservation are 95 to 104 and act and move around as if they were only sixty or sixty five.  and you idiots also have to consider all the research that has been done over the past twenty years that support the fact that marijuana is a pain reliever, and even a cure for some ailments. So if you don't want Texas to legalize marijuana, then when they do you can move to a state where it is still illegal.  But be warned, eventually every state will legalize marijuana because of its ability to stimulate the economy, think about that. 

The worst thing that Texas could ever do is legalize that evil weed! Isn't driving in our state dangerous enough without having to worry if the person, driving in front of you is stoned and with his reactions slowed down to begin with he stops suddenly and causes an accident?  Do we want Texas to become a hippie wasteland like Colorado?

Take a listen to Afroman's "Because I got High" then tell me if legalization of pot is a good thing?

Seeking man's wisdom about marijuana, and reject the knowledge of God. "God's truth about marijuana" jesusworksministry.org

texans aren't fat and lazy enough already, legalizing mj is a good idea.

The entire state is controlled by corrupt  lawyers and corrupt politicians  ...  Lawyers make millions defending  average  citizens POM  charges each year, millions and millions.  Most cases  never  see the inside of a court room.  They are plea bargained out with cash payments to the courts and to the lawyers. It is a HUGE racket of asset forfeiture  the crooked courts and crooked judges and crooked DA’s and crooked  lawyers  CA$H cow.  All these brand new privately owned jails  and  detention  centers  depend on this corrupt crooked  despicable situation of marijuana  probation to keep the jails full and the  CA$H  cow  of asset forfeiture  flowing.  

The only way we will see legalized  hemp and marijuana in Texas is the day when all these corrupt politicians, lawyers, judges and the powerful people who secretly run this state  somehow find a way  to CASH  in a vastly greater way  and amount than they are doing  by  keep hemp and marijuana illegal.  They will never ever  do it for the good of the people, or because it is the RIGHT thing to do.

Isn't Texas the state that is threatening to send a teen to prison for life for making pot brownies? 

@DonkeyHotay  Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their but.

You have no citizen initiative process in Texas. Therefore, all of this is up to politicians. Good luck expecting them to behave like real human beings.

Tax and regulate it like alcohol...

"Could" Legalization of Marijuana Be in Texas's Future? Clearly a rhetorical question, to which the only reasonable answer - unless you are on Big Pharma produced legal, potentially fatal, prescription meds - is Yes! In spite of 70 years of a war on a plant, and $1 TRILLION dollars in taxpayer spending, people have figured out that a plant that has a lower lethal dose than water should not be illegal. With Texas surrounded by states that will legalize in a few years if they haven't already, and Mexico as a source of low grade but cheap weed, they will have no choice. 

My question is, since TX seems to be so big on individual rights and doing what you want as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, what is the problem? People are going to smoke the ganja, just like they drank during Prohibition, so why waste police time and taxpayer money fighting the inevitable? On top of that, the Feds are agin it, so shouldn't they be for it just in principle?

In Kalifornia, the Bill of Rights are numbered, 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10. In Texass, the Bil of Rights are numbered 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2.

The real gateway drug is alcohol with tobacco second...they used all the negative evidence found with these two drugs and applied their attributes to pot to further their evil cause...reefer madness...

It is time to ship these robber politicians and their minions back to the robber  baron police states whence they came from. No more property taxes, no more $500 traffic tickets, no more murder by cops, no more theft of land from families, and no more drug war bs! We had no real problems before these monkeys took over and their anti pot and anti hippie Illuminati has to go now! Vote out incumbents, religious nuts, and people on agendas that do not put Texas first! Thieves are stealing the state blind while these buffoons chase kids down for smoking a joint behind the barn! Send them all back to Washington and leave us alone. We do not need them anymore!

trust this hippie idea will be crushed by Texans - thin edge of the wedge here lads - need to start gaoling users - we have the technology - we need more money and prisons to teach these scofflaws the true value of freedom and liberty.  There is no other solution - look at the places where pot is legal - Holland - Kanada and North Korea - countries of crime and filth with no hope.  Let us increase enforcement to rid the state of this deadly scourge! Amerika MUST remain free of these fatal fantasies - we already have some problems with the bevy of legal drugs including the more benign ones like alcohol and tobacco - do we need more?  I think the consensus is no and can be seen from the majority of informed commenters .

Great article btw..don't let that fool get on your nerves. Texas is too conservative to legalize this harmless plant. Proof of this is how one Texas resident is facing 5 years to life for hash brownies, only in Texas would this happen. I have been a TDCJ officer for over ten years and you never hear about the people who are sentenced to 10 or more years for cannabis. Ill never forget this one 19 year old inmate who is serving a 30 year sentence for marijuana. I read their travel cards every time they move between units or are released and what almost made me quit is when a two time child molester in the same cell block as that 19 year old was released time served on a 12 year stint. I cant even describe how i felt that day...it is so messed up, only if the public knew.

I'll know I live in a truly free country when I can legally ride from one coast to the other with a pistol in one pocket and a bag of marijuana in the other.

meanwhile, somewhere else in texas: Teen Faces Life Sentence for Baking Pot Brownies http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/teen-faces-life-sentence-pot-brownies-23808314

As a person living with chronic pain from spinal arthritis and systemic lupus, an autoimmune disorder, I would love the option to try cannabinoids as an alternative or adjunct to opioid medications. Decriminalization is not good enough. Why should a person be fined for possession of a legitimately prescribed medicine for a documented condition? Why should we not welcome a relatively safe alternative to opiates which produce tolerance and require escalating doses? For that matter, there is no legitimate reason to consider possession or use of marijuana illegal while permitting alcohol and tobacco. 

As a Texas Ex-Pat, I read this with interest. Maybe I will be able to return to my home state rather than move to a more enlightened state. As a current resident of the State of Kansas, I have to argue that the bills that were introduced to the Kansas Legislature, who, like Texas, must approve the change, rather than leaving it to a public vote, are now "stuck" in committee by committee chairs who refuse to allow the bills an initial reading. I always laugh when others hold up Kansas as an example, when the reality is that Kansas has had this bill offered 6 times in the past 6 years and it never gets out of committee. Texas will have legalized marijuana (medical or recreational) long before Kansas gets it head out of its collective ass and brings legalization about. The sad thing is that legalization of marijuana and hemp could save this state (and many others). I wish you well in the fight to legalize marijuana in Texas... I'm moving to Colorado.

Cannabis is more then an intoxicant and this should be highlighted on our road to freedom. Small farms can grow cannabis (hemp) for many things and will do so better than most other plants out there. We can produce more food per acre, more fiber per acre and more money per acre for small farms then any other crop out there and none of that would require it being sold as an intoxicant to these know nothing fools in government. Cannabis is a gateway but only to introversion and gardening. I have smoked cannabis for nearly 20 years and I have zero shame in that. I love the euphoria of certain strains and the calming properties of others. My one beef with the piece is that it brings up a myth that strains of marijuana are stronger now then they were in the 70's. This just isn't true and you cannot change genetics. One could say that certain strains have been bred to have higher THC levels but the plant itself hasn't changed much only that the quality is more abundant then it was in the 70's.

@bud987566 "BETTER CAWL SAWLL!!!"

Alcohol is AS BAD as marijuana? Or a thousand times worse. When have you heard of a stoned driving death that killed an entire family? Or a subculture of weedo's passed out in the alley? Where are the dangerous consequences of marijuana? Answer: NOWHERE.

@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!!

@rowantom88 Hell Yes!!!! God Bless the Hippies!!!
 

@rowantom88  Perhaps Texas should pass a law criminalizing driving under the influence of drugs.  Oh, wait.....they already did.  Legalizing pot would be akin to the legal ownership of a crow bar.  Yes, bad people can use a crowbar to pry your door open and rob you, but owning and using a crowbar for uses other than committing a crime is legal.  Your argument is the same one used by people afraid of guns.....they want government to take everyone's guns, so they can feel safer. 

@rowantom88 I seriously hope you're being sarcastic, because otherwise I feel really, really sorry for you and I'm very surprised you've survived long enough to figure out how to use a computer. 

@rowantom88 Alcohol is legal. I guarantee alcohol is worse on a person that marijuana. Alcohol intoxication is wayyyyy worse that being high. Especially when you are talking about someone being stoned behind the wheel. I would rather be by someone driving stoned than drunk any day!

@TexasForever Really? It's called a song. LOL

@TexasForever Legalizing that evil weed would be a very bad thing!

@TexasForever And you think drinking is better? I'd rather see a bunch of stoners than a bunch of drunks any day!

@midnightfapper69  There's a simple answer to your issue.....stop paying people NOT to work.  Stop rewarding deadbeats for having kids they know up front they cannot pay for.  Then all those fat and lazy Texans will have to get a job and pay their own way in life. 

@cpringle This has to be a joke right?

@dissturbbed Someone in the legislature has got it in for pot users and has made astounding changes to pot laws with little or no review. This idea that pot is a different drug than the crystals washed off of pot makes it into a different substance is  just cruel. And the fact that cities are making big bank running (clogging) courts with pot users and running up the tab on them to $10,000 for possession of a small amount of pot is evil! There are even two laws on the books! They can choose to write then a traffic ticket or use the court system. They choose the court system. I say get rid of the two choices and bring it to one choice. And Texas needs to have a petition rule also. Not being allowed to submit a petition for a vote is Nazi politics!

@Pat149 You hit the nail on the head

@Pat149  The reason is haters and money...their attitude is screw everyone but us...

Kansas more enlightened than Texas? You lost me right there...

I guess I should back track a little and say that obviously you can have GMO weed, and although there are companies out there doing this, that is not why the quality of cannabis has increased over the years. The quality has increased because bad traits and genetics have been bred out and quality cannabis is much more plentiful then it was in the 70's. Cannabis from Thailand is probably of the exact same quality as it was in the summer of 1975 and has a high concentration of THC. This strain could be crossed with a Colombian or Mexican strain and increase that particular strains levels of THC but the plateau is around 25% and I doubt you will see much higher than that. 

@Bill @rowantom88 Hate the 2 G's------Guns & Grass!

@darrynlyon @rowantom88 Go **** yourself!

@darrynlyon @rowantom88 darry go eat ****!

You sir, or madame are a complete moron. How old are you, 90? Have you the experience to even speak on this particular topic? If you have never smoked marijuana, then why the hell does your opinion matter to anyone other than your cronies at the rest home. Uneducated opinions should be keptin private.

@DonkeyHotay @stevennolin Sounds like you do not understand prohibition. You either pay the black market tax or the government gets their cut. 

No kidding man. That's what I was thinking. This poor fool must have had a serious mind screwing in his upbringing.