Prez Hopeful Mike Gravel Wants to Legalize It;- THIS IS GREAT NEWS!!

May 26th, 2007 by radical Priest

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Mike GravelFormer Alaskan senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel would legalize all illicit drugs. Unlike his fellow candidates, Gravel has officially gone on record supporting the taxation and regulation of marijuana. In an interview with OpEd.com, Gravel stated:

"First of all, I think we ought to stop the prohibition of marijuana and let marijuana be sold in liquor stores. You get a much bigger high off of drinking a fifth of scotch than you would off a couple of packs of marijuana. That’s why it should be legalized. Now the regulation and legalization of hard drugs is a whole other matter. What we have to do is stop criminalizing this whole drug problem, the addiction problem. This is a public health problem. It’s not a criminal problem. We need to identify these drug users so that they can get their drugs by prescription from a doctor. They are thereby registered, so that we can begin to monitor these people and help them to get off of drugs. That’s not what happens today. What happens today is you’re thrown in jail. Half the people in jail have a drug problem, and we don’t address that at all. It’s a health issue and we don’t look at it for what it is. This whole War on Drugs is a hoax we spend 50 to 70 billion dollars a year on, and it’s no more effective than prohibition was against alcohol back in the 1920s. All it does is criminalize a major segment of our population and cause another major segment to break the law and lose respect for the law, because it is just a bad law. I would do away with the prohibition that we have in respect to marijuana, and bring the regulation of hard drugs."

In the "Issues" section of Gravel's website, he furthers explains:

"We are losing an entire generation of young men and women to our prisons. Our nation’s ineffective and wasteful War on Drugs plays a major role in this. We must place a greater emphasis on rehabilitation and prevention. We must de-criminalize minor drug offenses and increase the availability and visibility of substance abuse treatment and prevention in our communities as well as in jails and prisons."

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I'm clean.

Submitted on May 27th, 2007 by Rydax
I've never done any illegal drugs(and don't want to), I don't smoke, and I very rarely even drink yet I fully support Mike's stance on the drug issue.  Why is someone who uses crack a dangerous criminal?  How can lump them in with people who commmit murder or armed robbery and the like?  That just doesn't make any sense.  Sure if they are robbing people to pay for their habit then they do need to serve a penance for that act but we must also treat the cause of the crime.  If we just throw them in jail for three years without any treatment they will still do the same thing, or maybe worse after being hardend by the horrible conditions in our prisons.  We need to make up our minds as a country.  Is it a criminal issue or a health issue?  Sure if it's some random stranger people might not care but if it's a loved one I'm willing to bet they'd rather have them go to rehab than to jail.

Save, Save, Save

Submitted on May 27th, 2007 by radical Priest

Just imagine the profits from sales and the taxes from selling to millions of users countrywide, ( yea YOU ) and the saved money from not wasting millions of police hours chasing users and sellers and the court time wasted sentencing them, the public defenders millions of hours per year representing them and the money spent on jails filled with herb smokers. Tobbacco ought to be outlawed. Never heard of a guy getting cancer from weed.

So there's a lot of money to be made, a lot of money to be saved.

Add that to the money saved NOT blowing the shit out of innocent countries, the lives saved of young people being blown to bits for nothing and there's a lot saved in lives, bombs, bullets and tanks, veteran benefits and hospitals filled with injured G.I.s.

Right there the guy has saved money, and lives, made money and friends and reduced our hospital populations and our jail populations.

Sounds pretty smart to me !

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Radical Priest,
Reverend Michael Valentine Goldsun
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I'm not a user but

Submitted on May 26th, 2007 by jeffhaley
Just imagine if we could legalize and then fair tax all drug sales! Medicare and Social Security would easily be saved, with money left over for a little something called Universal Health Care.