Is Marijuana a sacred herb? Why are people afraid of it?

[Victor Forsythe]

Oye Como Va: Carlos Santana wants Obama to legalize pot

"Lord knows you got to change" your mind about marijuana, Mr. President.
That's what legendary rock star Carlos Santana is basically saying.
"President Barack Obama brushed off a question about legalizing marijuana in his online town hall last month, but
guitar god Carlos Santana says he wishes he would seriously consider
it," the Associated Press reports.
"Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in
teachers and in education," Santana told the AP. "You will see a
transformation in America."
More from the article:
During his online town hall on March 26, Obama fielded a
question about whether legalization of the illicit drug would help pull
the nation out of recession. Obama said he didn't think it was good
economic policy, and also joked: "I don't know what this says about the
online audience."
But Santana said making pot legal is "really way overdue, like the prohibition with the alcohol and stuff like that.
"I really believe that as soon as we legalize and decriminalize
marijuana we can actually afford a really good governor who won't keep
taking money away from education and from teachers and send him back to
Hollywood where he can do 'D' movies and we can get an 'A' governor,"
referring to former movie action hero and California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger.

[Ron Tocknell]

Fair point Jeanne. If we're going to name it according to its uses, then we should add that it's also a fuel, a food, paper, fibre, oil, plastic. medicine........ you're right. It's a plant... and, through no fault of its own, a fugitive.

[Dee Peterson]

Amen to that! I don't partake of the plant, but definitely believe it needs to be legalized!!!!

Victor Forsythe said:

leehoward said:

yes, its time,

I guess Obama didn't get it...the number one question concerning americans...when you going to stop making smoking a joint or ingesting thc a crime? What it showed me, was how many people are in fact smoking out there, just below the radar screen.


We just bailed out the real criminals- the great wall street swindle of 08

give us a damn break...

marijuana and its cousin, hemp, are some of the most useful plants on the planet

we could make industrial hemp legal ( arnie had the chance and bowed to popularity- he's an actor after all...), and whole communities could reap the financial benefits...paper, nuts, foods, oil , fuel to run our cars, clothing fabric, tents for people to live in, homes could be built from it...oh, and we wouldn't have to keep tearing forests down, either for newspapers or paper.

and then there's

marijuana, god's wonder herb

helps control anger
makes you eat better
makes you a better person
makes you more creative
keeps paranoia at bay
eases one's mind
great for sex
for dancing
for painting
for loving
for creating
gets you closer to the plant kingdom; thus god
makes you happy
a better lover to your loved ones
makes you healthier than cigarrettes, debt, fast cars, and booze
causes one to deliberate
to solve
to control one's emotions...to slow down and give...


plus illegal marijuana is california's number one cash crop-obviously many are using it...


c'mon...people !

capitalism has failed us
the american diet has failed us
our thinking has failed us
our financial systems have failed us
psychology has failed us
pharmaceuticals are failing us
guns are failing us
our leaders have failed us
congress is a failure

our families have been ripped apart
divorce is now the norm
happiness has been hijacked
like this country has been

at least let us have our balms and survival herbs...

it'll raise money for the states
send arnie back to hollywood
raise money for localities-for school
for playgrounds


keep money local, instead of sending it to china.

- a concerned human

Well this of course would be ideal and sane. My question is:
How can a Country that ignores the basic question is: is this about justice or about power?

Do some people fear what they dont understand?

A plant that makes a chemical very similar to one already in your brain, that this chemical can really make you think about things like winning the hearts and minds of gooks that we were bombing and poisoning left and right.
I blame this highly noxious weed of making me see Vietnam in this light instead of some alcoholic stupor which led to
the early demise of some of my more gung-ho classmates in 1967-68.
There were others, high on religion, like Rev. Billy Graham would wonder aloud to the world from a stadium with Dick Nixon, how we could possibly lose against Godless communists!

(I tell people, "We still ended up winning cause Nikki has a factory there and quite a few other companies that require very cheap labor. Like China only more competitive!)

First of all although you might think the richest country in the world could bomb and poison a tiny lil really poor country into submission after 10 years, they just kept refusing to take our orders! Finally though, some troops who began tasting this pretty strong pot over there, decided that the war was a lie and that they weren't going to cooperate any more with this whole totally insane freakshow, the whole thing has led to an epidemic of homeless vets in this country asking for dimes, scueze me, did I say dime? Hell no! Dollars are the dimes of yesteryear!

Anyway, the bottom line is I came to the incredible conclusion that pot makes you think about these things, which might have been good to treat Mr. Graham and might have calmed the idiot down a bit and not make a total foo of himself, at least to me.

Kindof like the fall of building #7 on 9-11. I have to think people that saw that and the people that have since known about this coupled with the living in the ORANGE terror code unabated since 9-11, make me hope that the only cure for this insanity is a pot brownie and a copy of Core of Corruption DVD. As long as those are available, there's hope.

[Colleen O'Rourke]

I wholeheartedly agree that it should be legalized.

[Silja Saareoks]

Funny story:)
About two years ago I was making the peat-bed for the rhododendron plants and needed some more peat for it. There is the area where the peat was collected before, but what is left behind a long time ago close to the place that I live. Then I decided to bring some more peat from there. After I had loaded some bags with the peat into my car and decided to leave, I noticed there was the plant growing on the top of the heap. At first I thought it was some Japanese Maple and decided to dig it up and to take it with me, so I did. After a while I did realize that this is cannabis, but I was already driving and so I did get back home with it. I told about it just to my mother and younger brother. The same day, after pouring out the peat from the bags, ... and there was still not enough peat! I had to go back there, but my heart was beating faster for sure. All I wanted was to leave, but then there was the car (black Mercedes) that has turned to that road too!!! And then, from the car there were coming out... my younger brother with his friend, who's car was it, :-). I had told to my brother (& told him just not to tell anybody about it), that there were two more of these plants, :D!

[Ron Tocknell]

I could use some peat. Where did you say this was?

[Silja Saareoks]

Actually natural peat is too acid, that's why the plants were so small, :-). These plats would be a good material for making a paper, would save some trees. There were some people, who tried to start growing those that are used for that purpose, but did not get the permission. It's illegal in Estonia too. At the time, when my grandmother was young, cannabis plants were grown close to the cabbages, as the cabbage worms don't like this smell. It was also the great material for the rope.
These three plants were growing the whole summer in the greenhouse, with the better soil the became quite huge and had the strong smell. But me personally I'm not using any kind of drugs and neither the alcohol as I feel no need for it.

Ron Tocknell said:

I could use some peat. Where did you say this was?

[HARRY LOCO]

See YOU TUBE the story of RICK SIMPSON ! Free medication again all diseases ? In Holland just a few guys started it up too, after 2 ! weeks they already had results ! ( muscle diseases)

LOVE, Harry

[Glenna]

Well said, Jeanne! I am pretty sure making it illegal is very profitable for a lot of people. It is very sad, as it can be of such benefit, and the down side is pretty narrow if it exists at all.

Jeanne said:

Cannibas is a plant... it is neither inherently good or bad. How we use it... as a sacred tool, a medicine or another excessive indulgence is about us and our volition. ...though I would never call it a drug. It is an herb and does not belong in the same category as white powder or pills.

Ron Tocknell said:

As much as I would agree that there is a lot of hysteria regarding the perceived dangers of marijuana, there is also a lot of overblown beliefs about the benefits of smoking it. It does introduce you to another aspect of yourself and this can, to a degree, expand awareness. But it is neither the devil that its critics claim it to be nor the angel that its advocates claim. It's just a drug that can, if you allow your mind to be open to that, give you a nudge in the right direction.

Government fears about cannabis have nothing to do with the narcotic effects and those who suggest that the government is afraid of everyone becoming enlightened through smoking dope probably has an unrealistic view of the plant's potential in that respect. Governments fear the effect that this economically and ecologically significant plant would have on the major corporations that currently dictate our economy.