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November 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Is N.O.R.M.L. (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) still around? If not, these two state initiatives should resurrect the group.
My recollection may be fuzzy, but as I remember it, marijuana was criminalized not long after Prohibition (of booze) was repealed, and one person who once worked for Prohibition, a Harry Anslinger, was largely responsible for whipping up support for banning pot, and he got a top position in the anti-pot bureaucracy, whatever it was called then. Marijuana, hash, cannabis extract were all legal before then. And the only people who testified in Congress against the ban were pigeon-growers, who said that the hemp seeds gave pigeons healthy feathers, are something like that. (As I say, I’m going strictly from memory on this, so some researcher may correct me. And no, I wasn’t alive then.)
Anyway, the point is that this criminalization of pot was rather arbitrary and had no solid scientific evidence to justify it. And look how many lives have been seriously messed up, not by the use of hemp, but by the arrest and imprisonment for growing or using it.
Hemp fibers were long used to make strong ropes, and it’s my understanding that in the early 20th century a private citizen could go to a pharmacist and buy cannabis extract. Yet look at the criminal activities that have been spawned by the pot prohibition today!
But what does “tightly regulated” mean? Does that mean you can’t grow your own? If so, you’ll be forced to buy what’s on the market, to be legal, and the growers and marketers may charge exorbitant prices, not to mention the taxes on the product. So you still wind up busting those growers for personal use, it would seem. And that’s not a very good law, if that’s what is meant by “tightly regulated.” A half-assed reform isn’t much to crow about.
Remove the ban on pot. Okay, don’t let kiddies get hold of it, and prohibit driving while high (though I’d still trust a hashed-up dude behind the wheel more than a staggering drunk). And inspect the commercial product for purity.
Other than that, I worry about how the politicians would view “tightly regulated.”
Source Article from http://www.nationofchange.org/members-congress-implore-feds-back-down-marijuana-prosecution-1353341582
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