http://www.easternecho.com “So what we get drunk, so what we smoke weed, we’re just havin’ fun and we don’t care who sees!” This is the opening line of the popular song “Young, Wild and Free,” from rappers Wiz Khalifa and Snoop Dogg. en-us Gryphon 2.3.1-dsw (pewabic)/Foundry5 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:01:51 -0500 webmaster@easternecho.com http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3369 Jesus said to do unto others as we would have them to do unto us. None of us would want our child or grandchild thrown in jail with the sexual predators over marijuana. None of us would want to see an older family member’s home confiscated and sold by the police for growing a couple of marijuana plants for their aches and pains. If the people who want to use marijuana could grow a few plants in their own back yards, it would be about as valuable as home-grown tomatoes; it would put the drug gangs out of business and get them out of our neighborhoods. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 09:03:31 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3369 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3373 Great that “Young Wild n Free” was mentioned. This is the young peoples generation song. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:31:48 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3373 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3374 Why is marijuana illegal? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:35:06 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3374 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3376 I’m glad the author looks to Wiz Kalifa as a role model. All I need to know. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:42:23 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3376 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3377 Ryan, seeing you’re a Prohibitionist how would you like to give the rest of us answers to the following questions: #1. Why do you rejoice at the fact that we have all been stripped of our unalienable rights, leaving us totally subordinate to a corporatized, despotic government with a heavily armed and corrupt, militarized police force whose often deadly intrusions into our homes and lives are condoned by an equally corrupt and spineless judiciary? #2. Why do you wish to continue to spend $50 billion a year to prosecute and cage your fellow citizens for choosing substances which are not more dangerous than those of which you yourself probably use and approve of, such as alcohol and tobacco? #3. Do you honestly expect the rest of us to look on passively while you waste another trillion dollars on this ruinously expensive garbage policy? #4. Why are you waging war on your own family, friends and neighbors? #5. Why are you so complacent with the fact that our once ‘proud and free’ nation now has the largest percentage of it’s citizenry incarcerated than any other on the entire planet? #6. Why are you helping to fuel a budget crisis to the point of closing hospitals, schools and libraries? #7. Why do you rejoice at wasting precious resources on prohibition related undercover work while rapists and murderers walk free, while additionally, many cases involving murder and rape do not even get taken to trial because law enforcement priorities are subverted by your beloved failed and dangerous policy? #8. Why are you such a supporter of the ‘prison industrial complex’ to the extent of endangering our nation’s children? #9. Will you graciously applaud when due to your own incipient and authoritarian approach, even your own child is caged and raped? It is estimated that there are over 300,000 instances of prison rape a year.
* 196,000 are estimated to happen to men in prison.
* 123,000 are estimated to happen to men in county jail.
* 40,000 are estimated to be committed against boys in either adult prisons or while in juvenile facilities or lock ups.
* 5000 women are estimated to be raped in prison. #10. And will you also applaud when your own child, due to an unnecessary and counter productive felony conviction, can no longer find employment? Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:11:55 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3377 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3378 I took the time to read your book of questions until I got to number four. It was there that I stopped. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:01:51 -0500 http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/comment/view/3378