Carlos Santana Tells Obama to Legalize Pot

until YOU'VE smoked pot for yourself & decide it's not for you? then SHUT the hell up about it. otherwise? leave the rest of the world alone. simple. end of story.

government needs to not get their dirty hands involved with trying to make a buck off pot. stick to the real problems of today, would ya?

food for thought: maybe what some of you people NEED is to burn a big fattie & chill the hell out.

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no guy anyone who smokes because of a lifestyle is an idiot I do it because its fun just like people get drunk and kill their liver every weekend. And people that do do it as a lifestyle are probably already on other shit so ur wrong lol sry. making it legal will just make it safe thats it so relax.

let marijuana grow with all the other plants and weeds as god intended!!!!!!!!!

there are so many financial benefits by legalizing marijuana-let's stop the horrible waste of tax money on court time,manpower,aircraft fuel,automobile fuel and the list goes on on putting non violent criminals away over a god created plant intended to be used freely on weaving material,oils,and medicine.there is so many good-law abiding-hard working people winding up with police-having their houses broke into by police only to find that these people do not do any drugs onle because some seed was brought onto their property by weather,birds animals and so forth-what a nightmare!!!!!!! i am not a user but i know that by legalizing and decriminalizing marijuana there sure would be less heartache over a god created plant that was created to grow with all the other weeds and plants.there also would not be so much money being wasted needlessly and the money from legalizing would be beneficial in so many ways-hey maybe it ought to be used to help people instead of hurting people!!!!!!!!

It's not legality it's morality. I know. Parents & authority & your friends & girlfrinds, even your dog, wife, husband normally typicals have that anti-dope gene that reject people that do dope. You're a dope! Repuation, reputation! Nothing great ever came from smoking dope & try to get a job when your boss knows you smack the joint!!

yes, there will be abuse of pot jus like people abuse beer, liquor, gambling, presricptions, fast food, and many other things that are legal but they all have retrictions and codes they must follow and anyone with a corrupt value system will violate these limitaions placed forth. But also being consequences for these infractions results in a majorority conforming to these set guidlines. marijuauna is a valuable resourse its already being used in medical trials for various reasons. Its also being used to make textiles and other useful items. Legalizing marijuana under some reasonable guidlines should seriously be considered due to to the considerably large demographic for the product that it could indeed be a thriving market to add to our strugguling economy.

legalize and decriminalize!!!!!!!!!!!lets get our country out of recession. it the alcohol that is bad! Peopeple die from alcohol poisoning and people DONT die from pot! Legalize!

Pot should be legal. Wouldn't it be better to let pot be legal, and have a job? what are you going to eat when all the american spending dollars are going to other countrys for pot already? Take your head out of the sand. Pot is much safer than alchol. Of course it should be regulated.

YES! Carlos is right on all counts. This country has had its collective head in the sand for too long. Decriminalize NOW!

I watched a documentary on drugs in Amsterdam. What I found most fascinating is the drug abuse rate DID NOT CLIMB when drugs were legalized. 10% of the population appears to be drug addicts regardless of laws, the rest? Casual users or non-users (regardless of the law).

The problem Amsterdam faced is that every drug addict across Europe flocked to Amsterdam so they wouldn't be arrested for a drug addiction they had in the first place.

Instead of incarcerating these people (and throwing good money after bad), they received help to quit.They received clean needles so they wouldn't spread diseases. They weren't made into criminals because they have an addiction. They were actually offered help. Makes very good sense to me and in the longrun, helps saves billions of dollars and lives.

And to all those "Reefer Madness" idiots ... I smoked my way to a 3.9 GPA in college.

I'm not addicted ... can take it or leave it, but if given the choice of a joint or a drink, I'd take the joint.

Besides, people are ALREADY smoking it if they're going to, so why not let our country make the bucks off of it to pay off the trillions our GRANDCHILDREN will still be paying if we don't do something.

We could also stop a lot of the drug wars and murders over territories, at least as far as pot is concerned. We could turn those drug pushers into rich CEOS (who are only more corrupt than our current CEO's because it's an illegal substance they'r selling).

Of course, I guess we could just tax morons to death ... that would solve a lot of problems too.

I hate to break y'all's sterotypes on weed but ... I've known doctors, lawyers, CEO's, Respiratory Therapists. and even a cop or two who puff occasionally. Oh yeah, that's right, we have a President who's puffed too. Yeah, it really ruined HIS life didn't it?

Most of the people who so vehemently oppose pot should try it sometime. Oh yeah, that's right they can't/won't, it's illegal and they think it'll lead to heroin use (easier to quit heroin than cigarettes or alcohol ... if you don't believe me on the cigarette thing, attend any AA or NA meeting sometime).