Marijuana legalization in the CNMI

I want to make it clear that I support the legalization of marijuana and I am supported by two state legislatures, two governors, and the President of the United States himself. Need I say anymore to my critics? The declaration of War on Drugs has served to create more criminals than any single event in the world’s history, surpassing the moonshiners and whiskey runners of Prohibition. The criminalization and War on Drugs gave real value to drugs, creating cartels with leaders of nations and armies to do their bidding to supply the “man-made” drugs that are the real problem, not pot. In fact, I learned during my research in Mexico that the major pot dealers actually started the cartels in Mexico when they stopped running pot and switched to cocaine because of the drug war. Pot is bulky and cheap but the manmade drugs (ice, heroin, and cocaine) are small, which make them easier to smuggle and they are much more expensive—the simple economics of profit driven by supply and demand.

I know some idiot is going to say that God and the church are also against marijuana and but they need to know something. FYI, marijuana is an herb, not a drug, and all of the herb bearing trees and plants were given to us to use by God/nature with only three stipulations: 1. Herbs are to be used only in “moderation” and not as a 24-hour vice for existence which we see in cocaine, ice, and heroin. 2. Herbs are not to be used for spiritual enlightenment for trying to be closer to God and godlike nor to reach some higher state of existence. 3. Manipulating plants to create something stronger—specifically to create junkies, knowing it is deadly if overdosed—is a sin. So, critics, don’t even try to play the holier-than-everyone-else who has smoked pot. In fact, I can say with a great degree of confidence that virtually every family in the CNMI has someone who smokes pot. I’m sure family members don’t hate their family members for smoking pot and the only reason most people reject pot today is because it is illegal. The only people who should be prevented from smoking pot are those people in safety-sensitive jobs because they have the lives of other people in their hands.

It is estimated that drugs are a 30-billion-dollar-a-year industry and we created the industry when we creates laws against drugs instead of creating laws to educate people about drugs. It was bad supply-and-demand economics to try and kill the supply and a worse social decision. We should have been educating on the dangers of manmade drugs. Mankind can never control everything in this world with laws, especially the things that grow freely in the ground. I’m speaking out now because I finally have the official support of two states governments and the proof marijuana can truly help the CNMI economy based on the $527 million that Denver got in one year of sales. I’m writing about this in hopes that we won’t end up dead last again because over a dozen more states are getting ready to legalize. If our competition in Guam or Hawaii beats us to the punch in legalizing pot, it will be futile for us. The early birds gets the worms and the late ones don’t eat. One people for being the first in the Pacific to legalize and thrive economically from the sale of marijuana!

P.S.: Alcohol is more dangerous than pot. Would you rather run into a person or ride in the care with a person who has been drinking or a person who has been smoking pot? Would you rather try to talk to someone who is upset that has been drinking or smoking pot? Your answer is proof: Alcohol is worse and just for added comfort, there are no marijuana-related illnesses known to mankind, unlike alcohol.