Good article. This is what I left at the AJC articles on this: “Let’s stop talking in code, okay? – FBI statistics show 80 percent of all illegal drug transactions are of marijuana. And marijuana, different from hard drugs, leaves behind NON PSYCHOACTIVE trace metabolites that remain in the body for up to a month. The ONLY thing they cause are false “positives” on drug tests. So what we’re really talking about is marijuana testing for employees that consume it at home on the weekends. Science, and widespread experience, have shown marijuana is not addictive and is FAR less harmful than alcohol. Yet, Deal wants to add further bogus punishment of good citizens who choose near harmless marijuana. This is insanity – especially in our current times when we see the monstrously destructive fraud of marijuana prohibition is crumbling, nationwide – as polls show most Americans want it to. Instead of punishing marijuana consumers, we should pat them on the back for making the safer, wiser choice over beer, wine and other spirits.
Glad to see he’s focussing on the really important stuff when we are on pretty much every ‘worst’ list there is. In fact, we top the lists, typically. More worst practices.
I hope he is the last of the “Good Old Boys” to get elected in this state. Lets elect Curt Thompson into the Governors chair. He has the backbone to stand up and propose a comprehensive medical marijuana bill, not to mention legalization and taxation of the WHOLE plant. He has my vote
I agree! If the elected officials would get those blinders off that make them so narrow minded and get the big picture of what our state wants and needs both economically and judicially would be a breath of fresh air to everyone. Be the first southern state to approve recreational marijuana use and tax it and be done with it!! It’s coming like it or not so lets capitalize on it rather than making more idiotic policies that will only hurt more good people!!
Deal shows his true colors here. After a weepy, sympathetic act in signing into law legalized cannabis oil for a limited number of medical conditions, he failed to provide any legalization fro actually obtaining that oil. In short, it was a feel-good law that does nothing, it was merely a ploy to garner sympathy from the vast majority of Georgia voters who favor legalization. We spoke out against this, in no uncertain terms, in the newsletter of the Temple of Ankh’n’Abis/Church of the Sacred Herb (see our page on Facebook to read it.) What Deal, and others like him, fail to see is that prohibition is an oppression of FREEDOM OF RELIGION for those of us (of any faith) who see the Sacred Herb as exactly that: sacred. A sacrament, which offers not only a myriad of health benefits but also inspiration, creativity, and a connection with whatever you may consider Divine.
