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      <![CDATA[I would like to think that police would be able to focus more of their efforts on real crime when marijuana is legalized. However, solving a murder or rape does not pay for police to keep their jobs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why is it that in our society everything that people do purely for their private pleasure ,someone else wants to equate  with immorality and punish it ? As if there were something wrong with pleasure,something dirty about feeling good. What a miserable way to go through life.
        
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      <![CDATA["its not what drugs you are strung out on. So much as whose"- Todd Snider.
        
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      <![CDATA[veritas, how many brilliant alcoholics do you know?<br>
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it's like anything else you do too much of. except the other stuff is legal.
        
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      <![CDATA[I am willing to bet that people you called "dumber than a grade schooler" at age 40 are pretty much dumb on their own right. It's a pretty safe bet that smoking a joint did NOT decrease their intellect.<br>
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Oh that's right, I forgot about "This is your brain on drugs" PSAs from the 80s.
        
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      <![CDATA[veritas, then let's outlaw alcohol. It causes far far more damage than marijuana ever has, or ever will.
        
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      <![CDATA[Steve Cohen is such an idiot. Of course smoking marijuana leads to other drugs.
        
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      <![CDATA[I do agree with the congressman, but let us not forget that smoking a joint is much the same as smoking a cigarette when it comes to all of the nasty, harmful chemicals. <br>
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Decriminalize it.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree with Cohen and am proud he has the balls to say the obvious, even in spite of how politically polarizing this issue is.  But isn't it the job of the legislative branch to make the laws, not question the FBI director about whether or not they make sense?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[tonygottlieb]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Industrial hemp has the potential of lifting our state out of its budget shortfall with its excellent purported viabile use as an ethanol base along with its many co-products. <br>
The irrational fear over problems created through legal but regulated marijuana use,  now have the potential to bankrupt our state.<br>
"Nothing is harder to explain than the glaringly obvious to those who have already decided they do not believe it."
        
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    <author><![CDATA[olemiss]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[He's 60 years old, which means he came of age in the 1960s and 1970s. Of course, he probably smoked pot.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Morris]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Has Steve Cohen ever smoked marijuana? And, does he currently smoke marijuana as a Member of Congress?
        
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      <![CDATA[And that's why he's my congressman...
        
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Way to stick it to 'em Steve.<br>
Milk is indeed the gateway. My godfather died with a gin and milk in his hand--if only his mama had never given him that first glass.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[bryanepis]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Marijuana is less addictive than caffeine (according to a NIDA study), and tobacco is more addictive than heroin (according to a NIDA study). Marijuana has never killed anyone (Muller admits this) while tobacco kills over 400,000 people per year.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Wintermute]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Absolutely one of the very finest hours in Steve's career.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[porky2]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Fantastic! Cohen has obviously done his homework as opposed to just blindly believing whatever lie is fed to him about marijuana.
        
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