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Title: Next State to Legalize Marijuana
Post by: Townhallsavoy on April 05, 2013, 07:26:30 PM
http://blog.norml.org/2013/04/05/bill-to-legalize-and-regulate-marijuana-introduced-in-alabama/

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Many traditionally write off the Southern United States as an area dead to cannabis law reform, but one Representative is behind a new effort that can change all of that.

This week, Rep. Patricia Todd (D-Birmingham) has introduced House Bill 550, the Alabama Cannabis and Hemp Reform Act of 2013. This measure would legalize the possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and the cultivation of up to 12 mature marijuana plants by those over the age of 21. It would also authorize the Department of Revenue to establish marijuana retail outlets. You can read the full text of the measure here.

As many of you have seen, yesterday, Pew Research released new polling data that revealed, for the first time in data from a US based polling firm, that Americans support legalizing marijuana by over 50%. The survey found that 52% support legalization and only 45% were opposed. This is no longer just an issue relegated to states such as those on the West Coast and Colorado, traditionally considered bastions of marijuana law reform, this support is now nationwide.

As it very well should be, marijuana prohibition is a failed policy that squanders hundreds of millions of tax dollars a year, inversely affects society’s underprivileged, violates civil liberties, and fuels a violent, criminal black market responsible for countless deaths on our border as well as our local communities.

If states such as the traditionally conservative Alabama are beginning the discussion around alternatives to our failed prohibition of marijuana, the collapse of the drug war machine and its war on a green plant cannot be too far behind.

ALABAMA: If you live in Alabama click here to easily write your Representative and urge him or her to support this legislation!

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Title: Re: Next State to Legalize Marijuana
Post by: bottomfeeder on April 05, 2013, 10:32:25 PM
Oh lawd the bible-thumpers.
Title: Re: Next State to Legalize Marijuana
Post by: AUownsU on April 06, 2013, 08:58:24 AM
Oh lawd the bible-thumpers.
Yea, they certainly kept the lottery out. Hopefully though a grass roots effort will spread throughout the state and for once Alabama can join the 21st century. Btw, 12 fuck plants per person.

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Title: Re: Next State to Legalize Marijuana
Post by: bottomfeeder on April 06, 2013, 09:42:37 AM
Yea, they certainly kept the lottery out. Hopefully though a grass roots effort will spread throughout the state and for once Alabama can join the 21st century. Btw, 12 fuck plants per person.

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Let me know how that works out for you, because plane tickets to Colorado are nonrefundable.
Title: Re: Next State to Legalize Marijuana
Post by: chityeah on April 06, 2013, 04:17:55 PM
I still ain't moving back to that shit hole state.