legalizing marijuana | Editorial | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
President Obama–Please say NO to legalizing Marijuana
Posted by Jermayne Myers  November 23, 2012  2:38 am
Tagged DEA, Drug Enforcement Administration, legalizing marijuana, marijuana, President Obama, US Attorney General
Is it just me or does anybody else thinks that it’s a huge mistake for the Obama Administration to back down to the legalization of marijuana?
After voters in Washington and Colorado passed ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana for recreational use and commercial sale, President Obama must do everything within his powers to not let these laws go into effect or risk fueling an extremely dangerous, volatile and deadly $100 billion dollar drug market that would be far more violent then it is now.
Marijuana is still and must remain illegal in the eyes of the federal government, which overrules states’ rights. The Drug Enforcement Administration, The Department of Justice and the US Attorney General must continue to enforce the Controlled Substances Act and hold individuals and businesses accountable for the possession, use, sale and trafficking of marijuana.
I don’t know about you but I am sick and tired of seeing and smelling people smoking marijuana in their homes or in public areas such as schools, parks, playgrounds, workplaces and hospitals. I am extremely against the decriminalization of marijuana or any other “gateway drug” or illegal substances or drug paraphernalia.
We must ask ourselves, do we really want to live in a nation were marijuana is as easily accessible to our kids as simply as going to your neighborhood Wegmans and buying it. Marijuana does not but destroys and shatters everything it comes in contact with! Far too many minds, relationships, friendship, futures, lives, families, neighborhoods and communities have been lost to it.
Legalizing marijuana will do nothing to change or improve this. ……We should never forget that….
I’m tired of seeing and smelling people smoking it in public areas