[Editor's note: Wary of voting for a black or a Mormon? Where's a bigot to turn? Probably not in this direction either. Legalizing marijuana just makes too much sense.]
Green Party
Presidential Candidate Roseanne Barr is the first and only candidate
that endorses the immediate legalization of Marijuana. Her campaign has
already been endorsed by NORML (National Organization for the Reform of
Marijuana Laws). In a Barr administration, non-violent offenders of
Marijuana arrests would be released from incarceration immediately.
"The legalization
of marijuana is number one – the end of all Drug Wars," Candidate
Roseanne Barr on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, February 2012.
The War on Drugs
has become a war on those of color as young black men make up most of
those arrested and are meted out much stiffer sentences for non-violent
crimes involving Marijuana. From a recent article from Colorlines.com,
"...close to 87 percent of those arrested for marijuana were black or
Latino, while only 10 percent were white."
One of the biggest
expenditures for the government and the taxpayers is the current Drug
War and working in tandem, the subsidized Prison System. According to
Candidate Barr, the State makes huge profits and those incarcerated are
victims and are used as cheap slave labor by the State and the
Corporations. Protecting victim's rights would be an important part of
the legalization process.
The most recent
news stories indicate that the legalization of Marijuana could save the
United States between $7.7 and $13.7 billion per year. If Marijuana was
legalized, there would be no need to spend the exorbitant sums of money
to enforce the ongoing 60 year prohibition.
"Drug laws need to
be rewritten to make them sane and people based," Candidate Roseanne
Barr on the Wise Women Media Radio Show, March 2012.
See more about NORML at: http://www.norml.org
See more about the Green Party Platform at http://www.gp.org
Visit the campaign website at http://www.
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