USA - Change.gov open for questions and votes!!

[End_the_Prohibition]

This is what we've been waiting for!
We need to get in there and tell the new administration that legalizing marijuana is an important issue to a LOT of people.

we all know the address; change.gov

[Alfa]

Moved from news to here.

[End_the_Prohibition]

There are three legalization questions on change . org.
Now is OUR turn to make sure the Obama team hears our voices!

Goto change . org, click on "ideas" and click on "Top Rated Ideas"
They're currently in 1st, 2nd, and 11th places.


Vote them up and make sure they're the questions that get presented to the new administration:
legalize the medicinal and recreational use of marijuana
end the war on drugs
the war on drugs has failed-decriminalize marijuana

Vote them all up, let them know this is a big deal!!

[TheFamousSpacewhale]

I think the following questions should be submitted one by one seeing as the first ones were completely ignored. Don't give up yet!

http://www.mapinc.org/questions.htm

We spend $50 billion per year trying to eradicate drugs from this country. According to DEA estimates we capture less than 10 percent of all illicit drugs. In this regard, I have a two part question 1) How much do you think it will cost to stop the other ninety percent? 2) Does $50 billion a year for a 90% failure rate seem like a good investment to you?


White people buy most of the illegal drugs in this country. Yet, seventy four percent of those receiving prison sentences for drug possession are African-American and other minorities. Is race a factor in the enforcement of drug laws, and if not, how can we prove that to skeptics?


Has the cost of the War on Drugs in terms of billions of dollars, blighted lives, jammed prisons, intensified racism, needless deaths, loss of freedom etc., produced any significant change in drug availability or perceived patterns of drug use?


If illegal drugs are so obviously harmful to people's health, why is it necessary to put so many American adults in prison to prevent them from using these drugs?


In drug policy discussions we hear a lot about the "message" that certain policies may send to children. What message is sent to inner city children who witness illegal drug sales on their way to school each day?


The modern drug war began in the 1960s, and for thirty five years it has failed to reduce drug access to school-aged children. Which is better for America during the next 35 years, prohibition with continued school-aged access to drugs OR reform policies that ease prohibition but reduce school-age access?


Drug prohibition has been one of the biggest U.S. domestic policy failures of the late twentieth century. Why is a perpetuation of this failure more desirable than serious consideration of alternative policy options?


Why should 270 million citizens continue to pay $50 billion per year to try to change the habits of 20 million people, considering that this policy has not been able to change those habits in 82 years and at a total cost of nearly one trillion dollars?


Even granting these drugs are as harmful as claimed, how does persistence in the policy which created and perpetuates the lucrative criminal markets now supplying them make any sense; especially in light of all the collateral damage done by our (unsuccessful) attempt to control them and the abundant historical record that such markets have never been controlled?


For what other health issues do we use police, prosecutors, and prisons as the primary means of 'helping' a sick person? Isn't that just as silly as using a baseball bat to cure someone of clinical depression? (Smile and get happy or I'll whack you again)

If we could update the statistics that would be great too.