Make Your Vote Count ( ripped off from http://www.rollitup.org/marijuana-news-around-globe/146338-voice-your-opinion-marijuana-re.html )
Voice Your Opinion! Marijuana Re-Legalization Coming in 1st in 2nd Obama Poll
December 31, 2008 at 00:07:12
by Bruce Cain
What is more important, right now, is to get as many votes on “Re-Legalization” as possible. Here is how you can efficiently register your recommendation for Obama to Re-Legalize Marijuana.
(1) First goto
http://change.gov/
(2) Click on “Open for Questions: Round two”
(3) Click on “Open for Questions” link on new webpage.
(4) Click on “View Questions”
(5) Type “marijuana” in “Search questions” field and click
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Mar…81230-709.html
Note: The following statistics were collected 12/30/2008 at 3:00 PM EST. This is important to know as the polling is continuing till at least 12/31/2008. At that time 44,298 people have submitted 36,864 questions and cast 1,962,040 votes.
I visited Obama’s www.change.gov website to see if Marijuana Re-Legalization was leading again, as it came in first in during the first poll. At first I was disappointed because the first Re-Legalization question was ranked 26th of 36,864 questions. Still not bad. And the leading scoring question was a good one at that:
“I’m concerned about the banks who received tax payers money and have had no
accountability. Will this be corrected after President elect Obama is in
office?”
The leading question (above) below got 9,862 Yes and 600 no votes
But I then typed “marijuana” in “Search questions” field and clicked to find that 1,071 questions had been submitted regarding Marijuana Legalization. In other words a little less than 3 percent of the questions were focused on Re-Legalizing Marijuana.
And as I went down the list of “Marijuana” questions I noticed that many had overwhelming percentages in favor of Re-Legalization and many had “yes” responses of over 2,000. So there is little doubt that, in aggregate, Marijuana Re-Legalization is destined to come in first place in the second Obama poll. In fact I believe there is more support for Legalization in the 2nd poll than in the first. But Obama’s website does not have the tools available to quantify this.
The only unfortunate aspect of the Marijuana questions is that they invariably insist on taxing and regulating it, which I believe to be a very bad idea. This “legalize and tax” model appears to be an instilled “Pavlovian” response of far too many Marijuana Re-Legalization advocates.
Still, it is great to see such support for Marijuana Re-Legalization. Perhaps this second poll will convince Obama that saying “No” to Re-Legalization is just going to seriously “piss off” the American People?
I would highly recommend that my readers consider the MERP Model for Re-Legalization over any “legalize and tax” model. The following links will provide all the background you need to understand the MERP Model that I had authored around 2000.
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Marijuana: Past, Present and Future from Bruce Cain on Vimeo.
http://www.vimeo.com/2056650
Why Lou Dobbs Should Support Marijuana Legalization
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VKf5YfQb7s&
The MERP Project
The Marijuana Re-Legalization Policy (MRP) Project
http://www.newagecitizen.com/ReLegalization01.htm
http://www.newagecitizen.com/editori…rijuana_re.htm
Bruce W. Cain Discusses the MERP Model, for Marijuana Relegalization, with “Sense and Sensimilla”
http://senseandsensi.libsyn.com/inde…post_id=270029
“The people of this country want marijuana decriminalization, when will marijuana be decriminalized?
Why continue to spend billions of dollars to prohibit marijuana when evidence shows that the war on drugs is, as you said, “an utter failure”?”
Free your mind, Guantanamo
“Why do you believe that marijuana should not be legalized? How is the prohibition of Marijuana any different than the prohibition of alcohol? 100,000 Americans die every year due to alcohol but none to Marijuana”
James, CA
“Will you consider legalizing cannabis/marijuana/hemp so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it, and create millions of new jobs and create a multi-billion dollar industry right here in the U.S.?”
DJ C, Chicago, IL
“Mr. Obama, please stand by your statement regarding not prosecuting medical marijuana patients in states that already have laws in place. Instruct the DEA to focus on meth problems, and illegal possession of prescription drugs such as Oxycontin.”
Jeanne, California
“Will you consider legalizing marijuana so that the government can regulate it, tax it, put age limits on it and create millions of new jobs.”
David, Chicago
“Will the US legalize marijuana to bankrupt drug cartels in Mexico, help Mexico fight them and diminish drug distribution in the US by gangs? Marijuana as taxable commodity could support programs for drug users to quit and to fight harder drug traffic”
Nantzin, Lakewood, CA
“When can we change direction on the failed war on drugs. Marijuana laws are more harmful to people and families than the drug itself.”
Debbie -
“Will the Obama administration relax the federal rules concerning serious, scientific research into medicinal uses for marijuana and any associated long-term effects? How?”
Rex, Austin, TX - Additional Issues View response Post a response
“The ‘War on Drugs’ is ineffective-billions of dollars are put into the criminalization of people using/selling a drug has positive side effects. Legalization of marijuana could bring our nation out of it’s economic crisis with proper taxing and laws.”
bri, martha’s vineyard
“Will you consider the legalization of marijuana both to provide revenue and alleviate the completely out of control prison population in this country?”
John H., Fletcher, Oh. - Economy View response Post a response