That's great that people will be able to smoke marijuana in their front yards, but what about people who are renters? It appears they have no legal place to smoke, unless they have an obliging friend that owns their home.
It is nonsensical that people will be prohibited from smoking in all parks. I can, perhaps, see this if it is a small, densely used, city park. But what about parks that have many acres of land and it is possible to be far away and out of sight of anyone?
Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms, even to the smoker. It is absurd to maintain this level of hysteria over second-hand, marijuana smoke, which has zero effect on people, unless you are in a small, enclosed space, like a closet or a car.
Marijuana is not tobacco. Tobacco directly causes the deaths of more than 100,000 people each year, in the U.S. alone. - NO ONE has ever died from consuming marijuana in all of recorded history.
The country's leading researcher of marijuana and lung disease, UCLA's Dr. Donald Tashkin, conducted investigations over 30 years, initially believing there must be a causal relationship. But he finally concluded that smoking marijuana does NOT cause cancer or ANY other serious disease.
Tashkin said: "We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even some suggestion of a protective effect."
Clearly, marijuana smoke is less harmful than the smoke from a campfire. These restrictions are ridiculous and put many Arizonans in the position of being "criminals" even after marijuana legalization. - Let's fix this injustice ASAP!
>>>"Lisa James... called the passage of 207 a "deceit-propelled marijuana measure" claiming an "unelected group of wealthy marijuana insiders wrote the rules for their new industry and almost single-handedly financed the proposition with one goal in mind; they get rich while Arizonans pay the price."
The usual prohibitionist lies. - There was ZERO deception, of course. -- Marijuana reform has been almost exclusively a grass-roots movement for decades. It is only in the last few years that growers have jumped on the band-wagon.
It is the counter-productive prohibition that puts marijuana into children's hands, in their schools, parks and playgrounds. Legal, licensed vendors don't sell to minors. - Research has shown teen marijuana use has FALLEN in all the states that have legalized marijuana.
There is no "price" that Arizonans have to pay for re-legalizing marijuana. - Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms. Every person who choose near harmless marijuana over addictive, very harmful alcohol, improves their health tremendously - as well as the lives of their family and community.
Wow. - The prohibitionists are addicted to criminalizing good citizens who prefer near harmless marijuana over addictive, very harmful alcohol. -- Such ugly bigotry.
Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms. -- Smart employers of the future will prefer their employees consume near harmless marijuana, rather than addictive, very harmful, violence inducing, traffic carnage fueling, hangover-producing alcohol.
End the fraudulent, federal, marijuana prohibition with two clicks!
Only in your warped, myopia. - But most importantly, marijuana reform is NOT about the growers and sellers. It's about freeing consumers - period. - When you lose track of that truth, you become just another prohibitionist.
Logic dictates the end-game of marijuana sales will be marijuana sold wherever beer and wine are, probably behind the counter next to the Marlboroughs. The different forms the "industry" takes until that day are insignificant and irrelevant. - Consumer freedom trumps everything.
>>>"In this proposed there are just to many rules to be written to know what you are voting for. This is a power grab by a few and Law enforcement to keep the current in place with a layover of new prohibition. "
Simply nonsense. I have been to Washington state, which is easily the worst legalization, and would be worse than Arizona's. - Consumers there are THRILLED with their new freedom and certainly don't feel they have another prohibition. - They are changing the worst parts and will soon have legal home grows. - Marijuana reform is about ending the war on consumers - period. - The temporary growing arrangements are unimportant, and will evolve rapidly into a national market after legalization.
@carpet bager - Your posts were somewhat convoluted. - Are you saying you would prefer the present prohibition over some specific form of legalization you apparently have some problem with? - Sorry, but that doesn't make sense. - Please clarify.
The big "problem" some are having with medical marijuana is some people will use it "recreationally." This is better called "personal" use. Apparently, creative professions benefit from some cannabis inspiration.
Science, and widespread experience, have shown marijuana is not addictive and has no significant harms for adults. No one has ever died from consuming marijuana. In that respect, it's safer than aspirin, coffee and peanuts!
Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska have already crossed over from the chaos to enlightenment, forming the four Free States. Their skies haven't fallen. - California and some others will join them in November. That will bring the collapse of the crumbling fraud of federal marijuana prohibition, as soon as 2017.
Polls show a growing majority of Americans want to end the insane war on marijuana consumers. - The sooner all accept this reality and stop the destructive witch-hunt, the less pain (and expense) there will be.
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It is nonsensical that people will be prohibited from smoking in all parks. I can, perhaps, see this if it is a small, densely used, city park. But what about parks that have many acres of land and it is possible to be far away and out of sight of anyone?
Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms, even to the smoker. It is absurd to maintain this level of hysteria over second-hand, marijuana smoke, which has zero effect on people, unless you are in a small, enclosed space, like a closet or a car.
Marijuana is not tobacco. Tobacco directly causes the deaths of more than 100,000 people each year, in the U.S. alone. - NO ONE has ever died from consuming marijuana in all of recorded history.
The country's leading researcher of marijuana and lung disease, UCLA's Dr. Donald Tashkin, conducted investigations over 30 years, initially believing there must be a causal relationship. But he finally concluded that smoking marijuana does NOT cause cancer or ANY other serious disease.
Tashkin said: "We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use. What we found instead was no association at all, and even some suggestion of a protective effect."
Clearly, marijuana smoke is less harmful than the smoke from a campfire. These restrictions are ridiculous and put many Arizonans in the position of being "criminals" even after marijuana legalization. - Let's fix this injustice ASAP!
>>>"Lisa James... called the passage of 207 a "deceit-propelled marijuana measure" claiming an "unelected group of wealthy marijuana insiders wrote the rules for their new industry and almost single-handedly financed the proposition with one goal in mind; they get rich while Arizonans pay the price."
The usual prohibitionist lies. - There was ZERO deception, of course. -- Marijuana reform has been almost exclusively a grass-roots movement for decades. It is only in the last few years that growers have jumped on the band-wagon.
It is the counter-productive prohibition that puts marijuana into children's hands, in their schools, parks and playgrounds. Legal, licensed vendors don't sell to minors. - Research has shown teen marijuana use has FALLEN in all the states that have legalized marijuana.
There is no "price" that Arizonans have to pay for re-legalizing marijuana. - Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms. Every person who choose near harmless marijuana over addictive, very harmful alcohol, improves their health tremendously - as well as the lives of their family and community.
Science and widespread experience have shown marijuana has no significant harms. -- Smart employers of the future will prefer their employees consume near harmless marijuana, rather than addictive, very harmful, violence inducing, traffic carnage fueling, hangover-producing alcohol.
End the fraudulent, federal, marijuana prohibition with two clicks!
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Only in your warped, myopia. - But most importantly, marijuana reform is NOT about the growers and sellers. It's about freeing consumers - period. - When you lose track of that truth, you become just another prohibitionist.
Logic dictates the end-game of marijuana sales will be marijuana sold wherever beer and wine are, probably behind the counter next to the Marlboroughs. The different forms the "industry" takes until that day are insignificant and irrelevant. - Consumer freedom trumps everything.
Simply nonsense. I have been to Washington state, which is easily the worst legalization, and would be worse than Arizona's. - Consumers there are THRILLED with their new freedom and certainly don't feel they have another prohibition. - They are changing the worst parts and will soon have legal home grows. - Marijuana reform is about ending the war on consumers - period. - The temporary growing arrangements are unimportant, and will evolve rapidly into a national market after legalization.
Science, and widespread experience, have shown marijuana is not addictive and has no significant harms for adults. No one has ever died from consuming marijuana. In that respect, it's safer than aspirin, coffee and peanuts!
Colorado, Washington, Oregon, and Alaska have already crossed over from the chaos to enlightenment, forming the four Free States. Their skies haven't fallen. - California and some others will join them in November. That will bring the collapse of the crumbling fraud of federal marijuana prohibition, as soon as 2017.
Polls show a growing majority of Americans want to end the insane war on marijuana consumers. - The sooner all accept this reality and stop the destructive witch-hunt, the less pain (and expense) there will be.