@Made: You are referring to the 16 states that have legalized medical marijuana. This is not the same as making it legal across the board. And this is only 16 of the 50 states, a clear minority. So the black market profit motive still exists on a grand scale, in all 50 states.

Growing reefer is not an accepted use of the public lands, including the National Forests. If they want to grow it, they need to use their own property for such things.

Man is great, god is not...Man made beer, god made pot......or is it the other way around

Opium is all natural too...so is cocoa, peyotee, shrooms, etc...

Re-legalize it. It's an all-natural product! Making it legal takes the black market profit out of the hands of the drug cartels and the politicians.

~declassify it as a schedule 1 narcotic, legalize it, then tax it and let it be the medicinal herb that it is...

"they think they are going 100 miles per hour and are standing still, then that leads to more potent drugs. Wait until you are hit by someone driving and high on pot then you wont think it is so great."

But if they think they are going 100 when standing still... how much of a threat would their driving be? I mean, using that logic, they would be in park and NOT driving. just sayin...

Pretty odd how the pot user is blamed for supplying the cartels with money,yet our leaders have no problem supplying our enemies with weapons....and money.

oldtimer,
Where did you see all of that?

Are you sure that it is pot that causes people to go a hundred miles an hour?Maybe it was something else.

Must be the same majority that want Walker to get recalled

woodchuck...I question if the majority want it legalized. I'll concead that the squeky wheel majority want it leagalized but that is not the majority even if they sound like it.

oldtimer, you are so out of touch it's actually funny.

Sounds like a great plan. Lets legalize pot and allow RJ Reynolds and Bristol Meyers, etc... impose their already existing patents. Then we can tax the s*** out of it so all the potheads can now spend 10x the amount of money on their dope than what they currently spend. Then we can turn people who are caught dealing or in possession illegally over to both the ATF and the IRS on federal charges vs. current state ones. Even the most brain dead pothead is going to see this as a pretty sweat deal.

And the old "gateway drug" propaganda ? Ask any heroin or meth user, they'll tell you it was the FDA approved Vicadin and percocet in their grandmother's medicine cabinet that started them on the hard drug road.

Time to legalize and tax marijuana.

oldtimer, I think you are nuts! You obviously have never seen someone high on pot. I've been a personal user since I was 14 beacause a drunk driver hit our car and broke both my legs, my foot, and my ankle. Have steel rods, screws, and pins now and have to deal with lots of pain. I am not going a 100 miles per hour and niether is anybody else I know. Maybe they need to make alcohol illegal again since that seems to cause more damage and someone needs to take that bottle out of your hand as well.

Did you ever see someone high on pot?
I thought that Archie Bunker was dead.

you guys are nuts, ever see someone high on pot?
they think they are going 100 miles per hour and are standing still, then that leads to more potent drugs. Wait until you are hit by someone driving and high on pot then you wont think it is so great.

Wait.........what?

End the war on drugs, and save the lives of youth now killing each other over drug turf wars.

Prohibition works about as well for marijuana as it did for alcohol. The majority want it legalized. It's just a matter of time.

'Police have eradicated about 80,000 marijuana plants in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest over the last two years'

I wonder how much TAX PAYER money that costs?? Where's the outcry for this?? And yet marijuana is still readily available. Those 80k plants took nothing out of the market. Growers grow 160k plants because the market needs 80k and they assume 80k will be 'eradicated'.

Regulate the industry and you won't have to worry about these grow operations. There are responsible american adults out there who want to have the legal option to choose marijuna. There are responsible american adults out there who want to be part of an industry that could generate millions of dollars annually to the local and state coffers as well as employ thousands of people. We NEED to end the hypocrisy.