Poll: Should Marijuana Be Legal?

[meow mix]

http://www.cnbc.com/id/43510348

The bill by the conservative Paul and liberal Frank would allow states to determine their own marijuana laws —including medical marijuana laws—without federal interference.

But what do you think? Should marijuana be legal in any form? We'd like to hear from you so take our poll.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. YES! For fuckssake!

:smoke:

On edit:
Should Marijuana ever be legal?
No 5%
Yes 91%
For medical reasons only 4%

Total Votes: 40708

*Not a Scientific Survey*

[Rhiannon12866]

29. Should Marijuana ever be legal?

No 5%

Yes 91%

For medical reasons only 4%

Total Votes: 41790

[Wilms]

2. The poll results, so far, are a sight to see. n/t

[defendandprotect]

3. Marijuana and Hemp plants -- natural plants -- should be legal ... how do you make nature "illegal"?

Hemp oil would be better to run cars than Ethanol/corn plants --

[AlabamaLibrul]

4. 3am raids with assault rifles, that's how

(it's very persuasive to large segments of the population)

[RKP5637]

5. Done and yes. n/t

[azurnoir]

6. 91% yes Marijuana shold be legal in all forms

I could think of better reasons to make alcohol illegal but we all know how that worked out

[Webster Green]

7. 40691 votes, 91% say yes.

Yet the government keeps it up with the insane reefer madness bullshit.

Obama has escalated the war on pot since he took office. He is clueless on this issue.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Holder's a train wreck on the issue

:thumbsdown:

[Webster Green]

13. He should have been fired long ago.

Or never appointed. He's utterly useless.

His FBI is raiding anti-war and human rights activists homes and stealing all their computers and papers, the ATF is running guns to Mexico, the DEA is smuggling drugs (as always), harassing medical cannabis patients, stealing their medicine and shutting down their dispensaries. :mad:

[Dennis Donovan]

15. You put it MUCH better than I could've!

He might as well be afraid of marble tits and calico cats (like his not-immediate predecessor, Ashcroft).

As John Wilkes Booth said when he stared at his paralyzed hands, "Useless... useless."

[Exilednight]

33. It's his boss that sets the priorities. n/t

[Mnemosyne]

9. Of course. K&R n/t

[Uben]

10. Yes, but you should only be able to smoke it if you are alone......

.....or with somebody.

[Upton]

11. Yes...95% agree with legalization in one form or another..

of course the powers that be don't give a fuck either..

[endless october]

12. voted yes, nt.

[Harry J Asslinger]

14. An overwhelming yes, and yet...

This is what Congressman Lamar Smith said in relation to HR 2306, which he said his committee would not hear.

“Marijuana use and distribution is prohibited under federal law because it has a high potential for abuse and does not have an accepted medical use in the U.S.,” said Smith, who is also a Republican from Texas. “The Food and Drug Administration has not approved smoked marijuana for any condition or disease.”

"Decriminalizing marijuana will only lead to millions more Americans becoming addicted to drugs and greater profits for drug cartels who fund violence along the U.S.-Mexico border," he said. "Allowing states to determine their own marijuana policy flies in the face of Supreme Court precedent."

He has also pretty much sealed off any means of communication with him after HR 2306 supporters contacted him by every means possible.

[Dennis Donovan]

16. Best. Anti-Pot-Prohibition. Username.EVER!!!!!

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[Harry J Asslinger]

22. Thanks!

:D

[Dennis Donovan]

19. ...and that translates to + profits for Big Pharm.

Check Smith's donations... betcha tons of $$$ from Big Pharma (hi Billy Tauzin!)

[Harry J Asslinger]

46. All that money

Is the greatest obstacle legalization faces. The money predicated on prohibition and its continuance is enormous and grows by the day. But there are cracks in prohibition's wall, and all that money won't safeguard it from the inevitable fall.

[Throd]

17. Yes

[RainDog]

18. k&r n/t

[quakerboy]

20. they are going to ask the internet whether it thinks marijuana should be legal?

Might as well ask a tea party convention if Regan was a good president. Seriously.

[Bluenorthwest]

35. In what way is 'the internet' a group with affinity? Seems to me

the web is filled with all sorts of people, not a single party, or a segment of a party. Hard to see how 'internet users' are a political block with similar thoughts and philosophies. Seriously. I mean, DU and FR are both WWW. How are they the same?

[Warren Stupidity]

41. internet users have the intellectual capacity to use the internet

which does rule out a large segment of the population.

[Hippo_Tron]

52. Yes the internet does have representation from all sorts of people

But that doesn't mean that they are represented in proportion to the population at large.

[madokie]

21. You got it, here is the results as of right now

Should Marijuana ever be legal?
No
5%
Yes
91%
For medical reasons only
4%
Total Votes: 40959

[MagickMuffin]

23. I would like to vote more than but once, but that would be wrong

Should Marijuana ever be legal?

No............5%

Yes...........91%

For medical reasons only...............4%

Total Votes: 40998

Not a Scientific Survey

[RainDog]

24. Lamar Smith (R-TX) contact info

I found this via the fb page of ANOTHER Lamar Smith (poor guy to share a name with this douchebag) - people on fb think it's the representative. lol.

HR2306 - Lamar Smith is holding this nation hostage. Tell him to stop.

here is the asshole's unavailable web page:

http://lamarsmith.house.gov/

more contact info:

Washington, DC Office

2409 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515
ph: 202-225-4236
fax: [phone]
8:30 am- 6:00 pm EST

San Antonio District Office

1100 NE Loop 410, Suite 640 San Antonio, TX 78209
ph: 210-821-5024
fax: [phone]
8:00 am- 5:00 pm M-F

Kerrville District Office

301 Junction Highway, Suite 346C Kerrville, TX 78029
ph: 830-896-0154
fax: [phone]
8:00 am- 12:00 pm M-Th

Austin District Office

3532 Bee Cave Road, Suite 100 Austin, TX 78746
ph: 512-306-0439
fax: [phone]
8:00 am-1:00 pm M-Th

[peace frog]

25. Of course. DUH!

Voted it up.

[spanone]

26. yes. reefer madness has gone on waaaay too long.

[SnoopDog]

27. I think we should outlaw all plants...

[Faux pas]

28. Hell to the Yes! Since there are no jobs and education is in the dumper

Big Bro better come up with something to sooth the masses and dull the madness. Something that big pharma can't touch that isn't going to kill everybody. It's the very LEAST they can do.

[peopleb4money]

30. Not only should it be legal, but it should be mandatory for all politicians to smoke it

[joshcryer]

31. That'd get us out of the wars real damn quick!

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Taitertots]

32. Full legalization and no taxation is the only acceptable outcome

I refuse to endorse another regressive tax. The last thing we need is taking more from the poor to pay for the rich.

[madokie]

34. I noticed the results are still the same this morning

percentage wise that is. The number of votes has increased since I voted last night though but not by much.

[Bluenorthwest]

36. Like Marriage equality, the only ones still opposing legalization

are sanctimonious religious twits. Remove their inappropriate to politics blather about liturgical nonsense and they have no argument. Facts never serve them. They are vicious people who are willing to let the ill suffer for the sake of some ideology. The end.

[JNelson6563]

37. I agree.

Like the poor, the sanctimonious and self-righteous will always be with us.

Julie

[Bluenorthwest]

39. They can be with us, but they do not need to be in charge.

It really is that simple.

[JNelson6563]

42. Agreed but I won't mind if they left either.

:toast:

[DainBramaged]

38. I defer to this thread I started in April

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x933861

If you smoke a joint a day for the rest of your life, it is not equivalent to smoking a pack of cigarettes a day. Pot will not make you steal to maintain your habit. Pot will not make you angry and violent. Pot will make you hungry. Pot will do more for you than any of the myriad number of drugs made available at great expense to calm your nerves and anxiety at life.


And it's 100% natural.

Pot, it's good for you. Why are we still even debating this?

[Warren Stupidity]

40. we can't have a legalize pot right fucking now thread without

a vast CONCERN over the difficulty of field tests for driving under the influence of pot, despite the facts that:
1) there is no fucking evidence at all that pot smoking is a significant factor in automobile accidents;
2) we have exactly the same (non) problem with hundreds of BIG PHARMA drugs and nobody is have a massive cow nativity event over that.

So consider this the obligatory idiocy.

[Capitalocracy]

43. I'd be willing to accept not allowing driving while stoned

It may not have the same data backing it that drunk driving has, but I'm willing on principal to accept a ban on driving under the influence of basically any mind-altering substance, especially if it's politically convenient for ending the horrible police state and mass imprisonment that come with our drug policy.

But yes, the (current) lack of a marijuana field test is just as stupid a reason for making marijuana illegal as claims that some people abuse welfare would be for getting rid of social safety nets.

[RainDog]

44. more than 42k votes - still at 91% for full legalization

politicians should at least respond to the will of the people even if they don't lead the way in better govt and laws.

[1monster]

45. WOW!

Should Marijuana ever be legal?

No: 5%

Yes: 91%

For medical reasons only: 4%

Total Votes: 42397

[Grrrfun]

47. Poll massage

from the comments there, it looks like cnbc subtracted about 40% of the Yes replies for a while until people started pointing it out..

typical big$$$ response. keep feet in lead block forever, move civilization backwards if possible...

[RainDog]

55. a couple of people commented on that at the site

Shaymobry | Jun 23, 2011 04:33 PM ET
I like how the totals only equal up to 54%. Scared of change are we, NBC?
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FightForYourRight | Jun 23, 2011 04:47 PM ET
Hmm something fishy is going on here... the poll went from 87% YES to 47% YES in an hour. Stop messing with the numbers, CNBC, it's time the for the truth to come out about marijuana prohibition!

...freeradical | Jun 23, 2011 04:56 PM ET
All those who (still) favor prohibition, welcome to 2011, dinosaurs. Better get educated before you start parroting propaganda. Those who learn the history of the drug war learn that it started in overt racism, and that tradition continues today, incarcerating vastly greater percentages of minority races. If you are for the drug war, you are a racist, drug pusher, cop, politician, prison worker, pee-tester, etc...

Love the note at the bottom:
"Not a Scientific Survey
Results may not total 100% due to rounding"
You don't say? It only adds up to 53% on my screen, so that is pretty far from 100%. My guess is the server got flooded when this poll was posted on social network sites.

Luckily I looked at the poll awhile ago and it looked like this:
No: 8%
Yes: 86%
Medical only: 8%
So that's a bit more accurate.

Psychologist | Jun 23, 2011 05:46 PM ET
No
3%
Yes
47%
For medical reasons only
3%
Total Votes: 32605


Has this just been rigged so "Yes" cant go above 50%?

It was on 95% yes at one point.
The public want this, why deny them the right.

anyway, the poll got the numbers back - probably did get swamped with votes - this is how lopsided this issue really is - the only people who want to keep the status quo are authoritarians and the businesses that don't want competition - and the politicians they've got in their pockets.

No
5%
Yes
91%
For medical reasons only
4%
Total Votes: 43181

[WillyT]

48. Done !!! - K & R !!!

:kick:

[dana_b]

49. that says a lot

about how backwards our government can be.

[slay]

50. Yes - absolutely. Poll so far - 43,000 responses = 91% YES - 95% if you count medical

only responses too. To have alcohol and tobacco legal while marijuana -which actually has some benefits illegal is hypocritical, wrong, and immoral.

[Shagbark Hickory]

51. PRactically already is compared to some countries.

Vietnam for instance. Possession of a little MJ there could get you 45 years in prison.

[Incitatus]

53. Well....

of course it should

[Philippine expat]

54. I have no qualms with legalization

as long as it is tightly controlled and highly taxed

[RainDog]

56. i.e. treated like tobacco products n/t

[RainDog]

57. Still going Sunday afternoon

Should Marijuana ever be legal?
No
5%
Yes
91%
For medical reasons only
4%
Total Votes: 44069

[RainDog]

58. still going at 45k plus votes...

Should Marijuana ever be legal?
No
5%
Yes
91%
For medical reasons only
4%
Total Votes: 45441

[hifiguy]

59. Yes. Definitely.

HELL YES!!