Rollingstone's article "bush's war on Pot"

[Atit]

for once rollingstone magazine has gone back to its roots and featured an article of substancee, "Bush's war on Pot" in their newest issue. i don't know if the readers of this website have read it, or bothered to pick up a Rollingstone Magazine, seeing as how of late it hasn't been worth reading. The article disscusses in more depth some issues that were brought to my attention originally by local North Carolinan media. the federal government has cut funding on money intended to stop hard drug trafficers and users and are incouraging harsher punishment of pot smokers and dealers. this isn't just happening in N.C but arond the country. local N.C officials aren't very happy with the federal government, they say that this takes the focus away from what they think is important, getting hard drugs off the street. locally there has been a large growth of methlabs.

the supreme court rulled in June that feds can crack down on medical marijuanna users and sellers, even in states where medical marijuanna is legal. the government now spends around 4 billion a year arresting and prosecuting marijuanna crimes, more than it spends on treating addiction for all drugs. the arrests are up almost everywhere, yet the Nationa Affairs Director for Drug Policy Alliance says that not only has nothing imporoved but the use of marijuanna and especially harder drugs is actually up from where it was 4 years ago. yet the federal government is trying to get schools to do drug tests on their students, athletes or not. they are now looking to do roadside testing. this testing would indicate wether a person has smoked pot in the previous week of the drug test.

ATit, a.k.a Kerouac&Dylan

[Glorious Amok]

as i understand it, and i might be mistaken here...

but as long as you're not driving, killing, stealing, or otherwise publicly making a huge ass of yourself whilst under the influence, the actual TAKING of drugs is not against the law. traffiking, and posession, i get. but ingestion? this, as i thought i understood, is not a crime, even if it seems that both aforementioned criminal activities likely took place in order for the 3rd to occur.

someone wanna rectify me here?

[Atit]

i'm not sure, i should check that out...either way, i still don't understand...why spend all that money on pot and not on harder drugs, i mean if your going to spend any money on it at all? why would they want to do that?