WHen will marijuana be legal in massachusetts?
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HB 2087 proposes rescheduling marijuana under federal law so those states, like Massachusetts, that wish to legalize the medical use of marijuana under state law could do so without federal interference. If approved by Congress, federal prosecution of patients who qualify for medical use under state law would end,and states could actually provide medical marijuana to patients who qualify under state law.
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A little known and forgotten fact: Marijuana wasn't illegal until the 1930's during Prohibition when booze was made illegal.\n\nBooze kills brain cells, where grass only puts them to sleep for awhile and relaxes the person.\n\nI say if she isn't pushing this onto others, then it should be her choice.  Only advise her that if she has too much in her possession,and gets caught is is still illegal.
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it will probably never be legal because of people like some of your previous responders. it is not addictive (unlike alcohol or nicotine) and has been proven to NOT cause lung cancer AND as someone already said, you CAN'T overdose on it. As someone else already said, though, unless the government can control it (and oil companies can profit from it) they will keep relying on uninformed sheep like the prvious posters to vote for "law and order" candidates who imprison people (and sieze their property before they stand trial), to keep us "safe" from the "devil weed"\nprison building is big business and inmates are basically slave labor for locals around the prison.
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Afraid not. If you travel south to Ohio it is decriminalized to an extent. But state and more importantly federal law prohibits growing a controlled substance.
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There is no standard time of punishment for marijuana arrests. It is case per case, depends on whether someone is caught for the reason of possession or sale or manufacture.
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a type of marijuana-it's illegal!
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There are at least 20 states where it is still legal (mostly in the South).  So in order to answer your question we'd need to know where you lived.
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Federally it is illegal everywhere in the US. Medical Marijuana growing only works for as long as it doesn't attract the FBI or DEA's attention. Only local police won't bother you if that state has medical marijuana laws. \n\nAs to Arkansas, I really don't know. I don't see anything about them at NORML
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I don't think so.  there's too many people and businesses that would oppose it.  However, I do think that medicinal progress and industrial use of hemp will make small progress over the next 100 years, useage of herb for recreational purposes won't be legal and probably shouldn't be.
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legalize it!! and i will advertise it!!
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i can answer that in one simple word....MONEY...the government makes way too much money off of marijuana busts to make it legal...i know its fucked up but thats just the way it is.. marijuana is the only harmless drug on "Schedule I" (others include: LSD, opiads, methanphetamines...etc. (look it up). \n\nschedule I means....supposedly: "it has no medicinal purpose at all"... so therefore there can not be any government funded research on the subject to advocate its' legalization...\n\ni could go on forever on this debate but its tiresome to type that much, i really wish it was legal as i'm a "fan" of it...lol....\n\ncontact me if you care to hear anymore of my opinion...
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I think it should be legal...well it already is in some states. But just think how much money the US can make off of selling that stuff. Perhaps the president might be able to get out of his trillion dollar debt. Alochol is worse than weed. If they want to make something illegal that should be it.
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it is illegal because it has to many uses and is far cheaper than what is currently available and so the big company's never want it to become legal but here is the real info.\nWhy is Marijuana Illegal\n\nMany people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of process involving scientific, medical, and government hearings; that it was to protect the citizens from what was determined to be a dangerous drug.\n\nThe actual story shows a much different picture. Those who voted on the legal fate of this plant never had the facts, but were dependent on information supplied by those who had a specific agenda to deceive lawmakers. You'll see below that the very first federal vote to prohibit marijuana was based entirely on a documented lie on the floor of the Senate.\n\nYou'll also see that the history of marijuana's criminalization is filled with:\n\n    * Racism\n    * Fear\n    * Protection of Corporate Profits\n    * Yellow Journalism\n    * Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators\n    * Personal Career Advancement and Greed\n\nThese are the actual reasons marijuana is illegal.\n\nA picture named leaf.gif Background\n\nFor most of human history, marijuana has been completely legal. It's not a recently discovered plant, nor is it a long-standing law. Marijuana has been illegal for less than 1% of the time that it's been in use. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a boy.\n\nThe marijuana (hemp) plant, of course, has an incredible number of uses. The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, and over the centuries the plant was used for food, incense, cloth, rope, and much more. This adds to some of the confusion over its introduction in the United States, as the plant was well known from the early 1600's, but did not reach public awareness as a recreational drug until the early 1900's.\n\nAmerica's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.\n\nThe United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.\n\nThe Mexican Connection\n\nIn the early 1900s, the western states developed significant tensions regarding the influx of Mexican-Americans. The revolution in Mexico in 1910 spilled over the border, with General Pershing's army clashing with bandit Pancho Villa. Later in that decade, bad feelings developed between the small farmer and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Then, the depression came and increased tensions, as jobs and welfare resources became scarce.\n\nOne of the "differences" seized upon during this time was the fact that many Mexicans smoked marijuana and had brought the plant with them.\n\nHowever, the first state law outlawing marijuana did so not because of Mexicans using the drug. Oddly enough, it was because of Mormons using it. Mormons who traveled to Mexico in 1910 came back to Salt Lake City with marijuana. The church was not pleased and ruled against use of the drug. Since the state of Utah automatically enshrined church doctrine into law, the first state marijuana prohibition was established in 1915. (Today, Senator Orrin Hatch serves as the prohibition arm of this heavily church-influenced state.)\n\nOther states quickly followed suit with marijuana prohibition laws, inclu
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As to marijuana contact NORML  www.norml.org\n\nAs to other drugs the organizations are pretty much laying low at least until Bush is out of office.  Do a search for drug legalization and see what comes up.
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As far as i know: Canada, The Netherlands and Spain. It will be legal in South Africa as of December the 1st.
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No.   Federal Law prohibits states to legalize pot (and other substances)
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I don't know but asking the question 150 times\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result;_ylt=AmRKGsI3J2ONF6Q_sTee.kIezKIX?p=legalize+pot\n\nWill not help you get the answer.