U.S. teens smoke more marijuana, but back off other drugs -survey

[RainDog]

31. It would be so much better

imo, it would be so much better to approach this issue within the realms of reality.

The American people want marijuana legalized. The more people learn about the history of prohibition of marijuana, and the positive medical benefits for some, the more people want to stop putting people into jail over possession or sale of the same - and this still happens. People are serving prison sentences for simple possession because of three strikes laws. For possession of something safer than an aspirin.

For a long time now more than 70% of the American population has supported legal medical cannabis. Across all demographic categories, political beliefs, religious beliefs... what issue gets this sort of overwhelming support in spite of decades of misleading propaganda? Not too many. And this year a majority indicated they favored complete legality for cannabis.

The govt. offices tasked with creating policy do themselves no favors to continue reefer madness talk because they undermine people's faith in their trustworthiness on other topics too.

The insistence that cannabis is a schedule I, with no medical value, is preposterous. This should change immediately because it's such an obvious lie. But it's a lie that creates jobs for those who want to control adult behavior and use teenagers as an excuse.