in 1996, how many people used marijuana?
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can i ask why it matters?
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April 20th is all about the Senate Bill (S.B.) in California #187, regarding the use and posession of marijuana for medical (and other) purposes. \n\nThe bill got held up in the senate for quite some time and was finally rejected and then the bill was renamed S.B. 420\n\nIn protest, many people smoke.\n\n--- There are other reasons for 4/20.. I guess enough people heard about it and just decided to have an unofficial holiday\n\nBut i thank them.
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I don't think marijuana should have ever been illegal, I think it is just as dangerous as alcohol.  I think the issue was and always will be that alcohol was consumed by "white men" and marijuana was consumed by "Native Americans."  When we took control of what now is the US we shunned all Native culture, and marijuana part of that.  Currently Marlboro cigarettes already owns the rights to produce "joints" should marijuana be legalized.  I think it's about time that people changed their attitudes on this subject.
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Marijuana use is less harmful and risky than the use of alcohol, tobacco, and many nonprescription drugs. It is the safest (currently) illegal drug. Marijuana is much less addictive than tobacco or alcohol. This is one reason why most people that smoked it in the 70's were able to quit easily and not become addicts.\n\n2) Legalization of marijuana would cut down on crime. Because marijuana is illegal, it is difficult to manufacture, and is expensive, so addicts often have to turn to crime to sustain their habit. Legalization would drive the price down and alleviate this problem. Currently, much of the crime that goes on is a result of territory disputes between dealers. Legalization of marijuana would hurt organized crime as a whole. If marijuana was legal, the entire infrastructure of organized crime involved in its manufacturing and distribution would lose any reason for existence because marijuana would be legally produced and sold at a much cheaper price by legitimate companies. Police officers and suspected informants often face retribution by gangs and drug dealers. Legalization of marijuana would simply eliminate the need for dealers and put a stop to all this. Legalization would cut down on corruption in the law enforcement, the government. Officials will no longer be tempted into accepting bribes, and pocketing large amounts of drug money. \n\n3) Legalization would free up resources to fight legitimate crimes. It would end prison overcrowding, as many prisoners are sitting in jails for drug-related convictions. It would free up the court system and the police and allow them to concentrate on other crimes. Fighting marijuana-related "crimes" is costing us tax money. \n\n4) Legalizing marijuana would make it safer for users. One of the main reasons why marijuana is unsafe right now is because it isn't regulated, and its quality isn't monitored by anyone. When people buy marijuana, they don't know for sure what they're getting or where it's been.\n\n5) The government has no right to interfere with people's personal freedom as it is currently doing. Smoking marijuana only has the potential to hurt the health of the user. An individual should have the right to choose to use it. People are allowed to skydive, and drive cars. There are risks in those and many other activities, but the government isn't regulating them. Sure, smoking marijuana does put others at minimal risk through second hand smoke and the user's actions towards others, but this is also valid for alcohol and tobacco. This is why driving while stoned should remain illegal.
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That is exactly it, it comes from years of the govt educating them that it is harmful, but I see more people die every year from alcohol than I EVER will from weed. People just need to be re-educated.......see people like above don't know anything except the negative "pothead" label. They don't realize that there are MILLIONS of marijuana users who are perfectly fine and very much functioning in society everyday. Many very successful people use it and if everything the govt says about it were true, that would not be the case. There will always be those that can't use it, like there are those that cannot handle alcohol, but that does not mean it should be illegal for all. It has it's uses and it is time that people woke up to the fact that it is MUCH less harmful than alcohol, which by the way, can affect a person with just one drink.
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THC Active ingrediant in all marijuana. go to;\nhttp://users.lycaeum.org/~sputnik/Drugs/THC/
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According to the DEA, the drug seizers for marijuana from jan. 05 to sept. 05 was 71.8%. However, I was unable to find arrest rates because most stats are a combination of marijuana, cocaine, heroin, meth, and various other drugs (no seperate numbers).\n\nHmmm. I wonder why?
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before 1920 marijuana was extensively grown by the USA and Mexico for the production of fibre.which made a durable material,cheap and it does not scorch,that was used for all the  jeans,ropes,sails for the sailing ships and millions of jute bags that were used by millions of farmers,representing a multimillion dollars business.\n\nafter 1920 with the coming of synthetic materials,which were products of the petrolium business ,which were owned by the families or associates of most of the presidents,\n\nthis competitive comodity could not be allowed to continue to exist,\nand the war on Mariujana was on.\n\nand to this day the USA does not want to return the biggest competitor to their synthetic business\n\nIn Holland and Africa Hemp fibre is making a comeback and the designer pantalons and shirts sell for very high prices because the quality is superior than linnen.\n\nthese fibre plants do not produce drugs to speak of and are worthless for the drug market .it is the fibre that is the value.\n\nand organically speaking it is an exelent plant to recuporate tired soils ,after cattle and corn field have practically destroyed the land,because the plant is deep rooted grows on most altitudes,and breaks open or loosens compacted soils as well as secreting nitrogen
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http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf\n\nHomeland Security Report - Page 7:\n\nIn 2005 the government estimates the following crossed our Southern Boarder:\n\n5.6 to 11.2 million pounds of cocaine.\n\n34.3 to 68.6 million pound of marijuana.\n\n*********************************\n\nFederal Drug "Seizures" on our  Southern Boarder in Fiscal Year 2005:\n\n1,129,275 pounds of cocaine.\n6,866,465 pounds of marijuana\n     16,790 pounds of methamphetamine.\n\n\nAccording to the National Drug Intelligence Center, THE cartels are “the predominant smugglers, transporters, and wholesale distributors of cocaine, marijuana, methamphetamine, and heroin in the United States” and “are expanding their control over the distribution of these drugs in areas long controlled by Colombian and Dominican criminal groups, including areas of New York and Florida.”
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speaking of weed, how much did you smoke to come up with that one
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Sixteen years ago Glaxo-Klein first started it's larger spending on lobbyists to make sure that marijuana was kept illegal in this country.  Why?  Because a study the year before found that smoking just a tiny tiny bit would eradicate a headache within seconds.  Yes.....Seconds.  Marijuana is one of the most efficient pain killers that we have on the planet today and there is test after test after test proving so... And now, between the big four pharm. companies, they spent over 100Million last year alone to get laws passed or trials for medical marijuana overturned.  Pot can help AIDS patients for 20.00 dollars a month more so that someone spending 500 dollars a month on pharm. drugs.  I could go on and on, but you get the picture.  be well, be high, Jack
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Average is around 4.45% but I am sure it has went up since 1994(see link) The highest they recorded when writing article was 6.9%\nhttp://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_info16.shtml\n\nThe strongest pure pot to my knowlegde is 'Northern Lights'
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As of 2000, it's 18,976,457...
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Yes, I think it's now the time for the cotton industry toapologize to the people of the US for bringing forth the political will to criminalize hemp and marijuana. Hemp was a competitor to the dominance of cotton. By twisting hemps cousin cannibus into a demonic substance, capable of causing reefer madness, the cotton industry bullied the population into outlawing a plant that our first president smoked. Lets stop the insanity, decriminalize, or even regulate it.
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People think that meth is the most widely used drug, but it's not.  Meth is only the biggest problem.  Meth hurts and kills people so it's a big deal cause it's a huge epidemic.  BUT the most widely used drug in the US is weed!  You would be really surprised if you really knew who all smokes weed.  Doctors, lawyers, judges, cops...  Lots of professionals, not to mention non professionals.  I knew a guy a long time ago who sold it.  Half of his clients were UW professors.  My friends mom, who is very anti-weed, works at UW hospital and was telling me the other day that after 25 years there she just found out that over half the staff smokes weed!  Including doctors and nurses.  So you see, it is widely used, most people just don't see it.
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i'd say yes. in most of the world and in the US before the 60's, 50%+ of the population smoked. since there are more people outside of the US than in the US, I would say that there are more geniuses smoking than not.
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I thought only California allowed medicinal marijuana use.  Lord knows, it is all over the place in the county where I live, LEGALLY!