The Life and Times of Bryan Sr. and Family

I am going to try to counter arguments made in favor of legalizing marijuana as a means to fight against the use of riskier drugs that was posted in an article in the Detroit Free Press. The article actually is a compilation of letters that were sent in and posted on their site. I will respond through this post to the letters in italics. I will only address the first letter in this  [ Read More ]

This is a guest post from Kyle. There have been comments in this thread about the Libertarian Party; some of those comments were that Libertarians were for the legalization of marijuana. I asked Kyle to write a post about this subject since I know that he very knowledgeable about the Libertarian Platform. Minimum Government, Maximum Freedom.  This is the mantra of the Libertarian Party.  Every smoke shop or psychedelic store I’ve  [ Read More ]

I was browsing some various web sites searching for arguments supporting the legalization of marijuana.  I came across the site, Legalization of Marijuana where i found a chart, Annual American Deaths Caused by Drugs. This chart gave a number of various substances and items that are said to have caused death. Marijuana had a big fat 0 (zero) next to it. The article sites the source: United States Government, National Institute on  [ Read More ]

If you are joining the great discussion we have been having about Legalizing Marijuana you can start with the first post  and then follow to the second post. I started this series discussing the negative affects that I have personally witnessed while working in law enforcement for 28 years. I then moved into some of the arguments that come into play saying that marijuana should be legalized and taxed to  [ Read More ]

A quick recap of the first post that I made entitled, Legalize Marijuana stated the effects that I have personally dealt with during my law enforcement career. I briefly discussed how marijuana negatively affects a person’s body. I knew that I would be talking about the potential tax revenue from legalizing marijuana. Since I have received several comments about the potential revenue that the legalization of marijuana would bring in, I will  [ Read More ]