Pat Robertson: Decriminalize Marijuana (Yes, THAT Pat Robertson)

There is a lot of interesting comments on here about marijuana. I don't smoke...never have. I have a brother that was a drug smuggler for years and finally got caught and spent 10/ys in federal prison...where he belonged. My out look on this subject is, people spend years for smoking pot and getting caught with a certain amount. We as tax payers are going broke paying for these people in jail, when I think they could have taken a course on marijuana like one is forced to do on alcohol.I did a little research on the marijuana vs alcohol, and the out come was that alcohol is far worse than marijuana. Why don't we outlaw alcohol since it is the biggest drug going...but it is legal! I have no problem with marijuana being used for medical purposes. I would hate to think if I ever had cancer and the only relief I could get would to have some marijuana cookies so I would not be so sick. Then on the other hand, I owuld hate to see marijuana legalized because we don't need any more drunks or potheads on the road to kill my family. I just don't get why someone has to put this stuff in their body in the first place.

What he says is the truth! The punishments for marijuana is way out of proportion with the offense. I just dont understand how this kind of punishment for smoking is still in effect. The justice system needs to have a complete makeover in this area. If everyone that smoked it would just stand together something could be done. But, as long as the system is making it the worst thing to do there can be no change.
I prefer to smoke than to drink alcohol. I feel that the alcohol is the worst of the two. The only reason that marijuana isnt legal is because of the liquor industry and the goverments inability to make money off it.
The marijuana smokers need to stand together and stop the harassment of people who would like their freedom to pursue happiness left alone.

INSANITY: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results! Example; Alcohol probition then Cannabis prohibition.

We must legalize and tax marijuana throughout the United States, to ignore the social and political nightmare our war on drugs has unfortunately evolved to only compounds this dilema. Medical marijuana is here to stay, and theres a worthwhile use for it, unfortunately some people will manipulate the system to benefit there own needs, and I truly believe that this problem will resolve itself with total legalization, and decriminalization.
Monitoring the cultivation and distribution of marijuana is certainly no more challenging then the distribution of gasoline, cigarettes, or state lotteries. Taxation and decriminalization means balancing a budget and taking the profits away from cartels and into our communities. Danny Marcus

Try to stop the weed is like time before d happen with alchol and cigarrete, only to lose time and money. who want to smoke go to smoke any way. dont care 10 ,o 20 years in jail they go to smoke.

These crazy minimum sentencing laws were enacted during the Newtie years during the 90's. I remember hearing one repuke congressman actually making the simpleminded statement that if we built enough prisons we could lock up all the felons and crime would go away. That simpleton (his name escapes me) is the attorney general of Florida today.

As for pat, I'm not surprised at anything that comes out of his alcoholic mouth.

decriminalize pot, then make sure no one can use that as a reason for having committed a crime. Now you read junk where a defense attorney wants his murdering client forgiven or a lighter sentence because he was on drugs and didn't know what he was doing. Let people use what they will, but do not let them use it as an excuse for illigal behavior.

I hate that it has to be someone from the Christian Coalition to finally make some sense on a very important issue. Some people that have been caught using, raising, or selling MJ has drawn stiffer sentences that some that have killed people. And believe it or not, a lot of our worst crimes have been drug wars. Dicrimininalize pot, and we won't have our people getting murdered so the Drug Lords can get their product across the borders. There will no longer be a market for the out of the country product when everyone that uses pot can go pick it from their legal back yard garden.
Do not get me wrong, I do not use drugs of any kind, nor do I smoke anything, but we have filled our prisons with people that do. Guess who has to pay to feed them? The rest of us that are not locked up. Pat, I don't listen to you very much, but this time you said something worth listening to.

I am soon to be 58 and my husband an I both sometime smoke. He started like at 15 and we have raised a family. Neither son smoke now,one never did and the other smoked all the time and just up and stopped 6 months ago. Never smoked in front of them nor talked about it as they grew up. Pot is not even in the same family as things like meth. Pot smokers I have known keep it to themselfs and don't do those other true drugs. I also ran my own business and never had a problem with it. I know so many that only smoke it and none of the other real drugs. Give me a pothead anyday of the week over a drug addict or drunk! So fining and putting them in jail as we really need that space for all the evil people I read about everyday.

Its pretty cool he would realize that man did not make marijuana. Pills kill far more daily than mere "weed" sharing ways of hemp as manna. The Constitution is written on hemp and can and shall take the place of all tree products since the trees are the source of life in water and oxygen. That said, laws in the nation have changed, yet why is it that such ways as beer and marijuana have been deemed ok when used by adults since time began until the last century? Profit in punishing must stop as Mr. Robertson mentioned, thankyou for your support.