freegreen4everyone

Why doesnt the govt just send out a ballot to all registered voters with 2 options. legalize weed, or not.


Its simple and would end all the bs for once. 51% says yes, its legal. 49% say yes, its not.


I cant understand why for the life of me we as a nation and community allow this blatant propaganda to be spoon feed to us for decades. Smoke cancer causing ciggs and a plant that has no KNOWN long term side effects illeage. How do you make nature illeagle?

Am I alone in this thinking?

runamukk

because the government is corrupt. There are people within the government that that profit when pharmaceutical sale go up, when prisons are well populated and alcohol/tobacco sales are strong (Cindy Mccain). Others just cater to the ignorant voters that are two old to change their minds regardless of what the science says. Nobody wants to admit they have been wrong for 50 years.

Colemanw

The biggest issue. I know my folks would fight tooth and nail to the bitter end just to avoid being wrong, no matter how wrong they are. And as long as they are in the corrupted little political seat of power our efforts to get a VOTE will be strangled in sub-committee after sub-committee.

The strategy to fight this? Wait for them die, or get to old to be in office. We're getting closer everyday.

claygooding

The strategy to fight this? Wait for them die, or get to old to be in office. We're getting closer everyday.[/quote]

There are only a few of the die hard anti-drug senators in there now,and the people you are waiting to die,never will. Because what is holding up legalization is MONEY. Money being spent to buy anti-drug support and paying senators and representatives to bind up any legalization bills,in committee,instead of allowing them to come up for debate,where we could see exactly who the anti-drug coalitionist are and who is getting the pay.
The money is being spent by the alcohol lobby and the pharmaceutical lobby,alcohol pays because they don't want the competition for Americas way to unwind after a stressful day,and the pharmaceutical lobby because of all the patented medicines they sell that will be replaced by a safer medicine that they can't manufacture.
It's all about the money,and until we can make America see that,without going through congress,the issue of a vote will never happen.
And,the private prison owners are probably lobbying against legalizing any
drugs,because they would lose prisoners and therefore money,since their biggest group of detainees are drug criminals.

TheMeatball

Because that's not the way the US government works.

The reason we elect representatives is because it's not feasible to have the entire voting population deciding every issue, all the time. Unfortunately the representatives don't represent their constituents completely for a number of reasons (some of which are horseshit, some of which are fair), and we end up in situations like this.

claygooding

PS. As someone said in an earlier post,the only verbal opposition to legalization is being done by people that make their living because drugs are illegal. And if drugs are legalized,
they have to find some other way to earn a living.

Buzzby

Didn't you ever have a class on the government of the United States? There is no provision in the United States Constitution for ballot initiatives.

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mrsuperstereo

there should be an option to take issues likethis directly to the public.

if there's enough evidence that a law is unjust, the public should be able to vote it away.

idk how we would do it, but perhaps it could be something congress initiates?

Buzzby

It would take a constitutional amendment. It would have to be ratified by the legislatures of three-quarters of the states before it would take effect.

MrIMStoned

It's feasible in Canada. Canada has had 3 referendums; to outlaw alcohol (51% Yes), to allow conscripts (65% yes), to introduce new constitutional amendments (55% No).

If there was no more debate and the referendum solved it forever than I wouldn't want it to happen.

It only takes 1% to send you teetotaling home.

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