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Marijuana Resolve Decriminalization Action Alert - VT Senate

Authored by: MRVT on Monday, February 20 2012 @ 02:11 AM GMT+4

Senator Jeanette White will be our guest on the Marijuana Resolve Show circa week of March 5th. The senator will update us about how decriminalization is faring across the aisle in the senate.

Marijuana Resolve Decriminalization Action Alert

Authored by: babalu on Monday, February 20 2012 @ 02:21 PM GMT+4

I hope it passes - and in terms of medical use, I think
there's room to expand conditions for which use is
appropriate.

Marijuana Resolve Decriminalization Action Alert

Authored by: MRVT on Wednesday, February 22 2012 @ 03:33 PM GMT+4

The revision of the current medical marijuana law to include more conditions probably is not something you’ll see in the current session (or any way soon).

Hence, there is an even greater need to decriminalize personal use and possession marijuana to help protect all adult marijuana consumers.

It would be a tragedy if marijuana would become available only as a prescription. Medical marijuana people are the smallest percentage of the total adult marijuana consumers (less than 10%).

MARIJUANA USERS CAN BE PRODUCTIVE

Authored by: MRVT on Friday, February 24 2012 @ 02:59 PM GMT+4

Re: "Don't be fooled by marijuana claims," Feb. 11.

I take great offence to the statement that marijuana use essentially turns people into useless and unmotivated human beings. I have been a marijuana user for many years, and I graduated from high school with a Double Dogwood ( a diploma for English and French ), and even went on to university, from which I graduated with distinction.

I am now a "thinking, productive, contributing member" of society with a well respected position in my field, and I am not alone. I know many marijuana users who have excellent jobs - from business managers to captains and computer techs - and who are active and functioning in their community. These are not "low achievers."

I would venture a guess that the writer interacts with many successful and capable people on a regular basis who, unknown to him, are occasional or even regular marijuana users. I will agree that the use of marijuana can become a problem for some people, particularly youth, but I find that those are people who may have had underlying issues to begin with.

If we were to decriminalize and regulate the use of marijuana, we could, as we have done with alcohol and tobacco, limit the use to those over a certain age. I impatiently wait for the day that people open their eyes and their minds to see that the current system ( as with the failed abolition of alcohol ) is absolutely not working.

Erin Cunningham

Victoria, B.C.
The Times Colonist is an English-language daily newspaper in Victoria, British Columbia
http://www.timescolonist.com/Marijuana+users+productive/6148939/story.html

Marijuana Resolve Decriminalization Action Alert-For our NH Friends

Authored by: MRVT on Friday, February 24 2012 @ 03:24 PM GMT+4

http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/bill_status/bill_docket.aspx?lsr=2231&sy=2012&sortoption=&txtsessionyear=2012&txtbillnumber=hb1705&q=1

Members of the NH House Criminal Justice Committee heard testimony on Thursday, January 25, in favor of House Bill 1705, which seeks to allow adults age 21 or over to use marijuana legally in their home. The measure also seeks to establish a regulated cannabis market governing the wholesale production and sale of marijuana. Non-commercial transactions involving less than one ounce of cannabis would not be subject to state taxation or regulation under the measure.

(Submitted by Joe Bushey)