If Rep. Kennedy knows how to stop people using marijuana then he should do it! Because there are millions of people buying marijuana illegally today and when they do they draw drug dealers into our neighborhoods and around our children.

It is reprehensible for Rep. Kennedy to know of some magical way to end illegal marijuana sales and to keep it to himself. And if he thinks that "increased treatment" for marijuana use is going to stop people buying marijuana illegally -- when SEVENTY YEARS of prohibition failed to achieve that -- then he's living in a fantasy world.

The ONLY thing that will end illegal marijuana sales is to legalize marijuana like beer and wine.

American taxpayers are being forced to pay $40 Billion a year for a prohibition that causes 10,000 brutal murders & 800,000 needless arrests each year, but which doesn't even stop CHILDREN from getting marijuana.

After seventy years of prohibition, it's obvious that the federal marijuana prohibition causes FAR more harm than good and must END! Drug Dealers Don't Card, Supermarkets Do.

American taxpayers are being forced to pay $40 Billion a year for a prohibition that causes 10,000 brutal murders & 800,000 needless arrests each year, but which doesn't even stop CHILDREN from getting marijuana.

After seventy years of prohibition, it's obvious that the federal marijuana prohibition causes FAR more harm than good and must END! Drug Dealers Don't Card, Supermarkets Do.

That's right - "that's if you can find one still alive at 38"! Cannabis is safer than alcohol, and if alcohol is legal then so should be its far safer alternative, cannabis.

A lot of the disease, violence and harm currently caused by alcohol could be eliminated by giving people the right to switch to cannabis.

Cannabis has repeatedly been proven to NOT cause cancer, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease, emphysema, or any other significant health issue, and its addiction potential is about on par with coffee.

How were they able to find ANYONE who'd actually consumed cannabis? Cannabis has been illegal for more than 70 years which would make cannabis impossible to get and cannabis users non-existent. Unless they're suggesting that the federal cannabis prohibition DOESN'T WORK?

And if the prohibition doesn't work then why are taxpayers forced to pay $40 Billion a year to fund it and why are we forced to accept the 10,000 brutal murders and 800,000 needless arrests that the prohibition causes each year when it doesn't even stop CHILDREN getting cannabis?

The man who made cannabis illegal said that the cannabis user is "an immoral, vicious, social leper, who cannot escape responsibility for his actions, who must feel the force of swift, impartial punishment". This was Harry Anslinger's SOLE justification for prohibiting cannabis.

Cannabis is FAR safer than alcohol. If YOU don't feel that cannabis users are "immoral, vicious, social lepers" then you don't support the cannabis prohibition.

Mr. LaValley is lucky. I would have used a shotgun.

We need a professional survey undertaken to determine to what extent profits of gas stations, supermarkets, pharmacies and liquor stores will increase by when they're legally allowed to sell marijuana to adults. These corporations should be demanding the right to sell marijuana, not just for the good of their stakeholders, but in order to undermine drug dealers' prices and drive them out of our communities and away from our children!

Marijuana has repeatedly been proven to NOT cause cancer, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease, emphysema, or any other significant health issue, and its addiction potential is about on par with coffee. In all respects, marijuana is far safer than beer and wine and should, at the very least, be controlled by exactly the same laws that we use for alcohol.

Our current marijuana prohibition empowers drug dealers and the Mexican drug cartels by preventing any form of legal competition to their activities. Instead of protecting children from marijuana, these laws create an environment of zero legal supply amidst massive and unrelenting demand and effectively serve to make our children LESS safe. It is *because* of the failings of the prohibition that our children now have easier access to marijuana than to alcohol! Our communities need legal adult marijuana sales for exactly the same reason they need legal alcohol and tobacco sales - to keep unscrupulous black-market criminals out of our neighborhoods and away from our children.

Parents work hard to keep drugs away from their children and they need effective, logic-based laws to help them with this. In order to greatly improve the safety of our children we need legal adult marijuana sales in gas stations and supermarkets at prices too low for drug dealers to match - just as beer and wine are sold today. Our laws should be based on logic, fact and reason, and NOT on ideological positions and unproven assumptions!

Seventy years of prohibition has left us with millions of daily users. The prohibition does NOT stop people using marijuana!

DEA, police chiefs, addiction centers - your unshakable assumption that things would be worse without the prohibition is INVALID. The numbers don't support your claims.

The DEA's own website claims that "with a 95 percent success rate — bolstered by an effective, three-pronged strategy combining education/prevention, enforcement, and treatment — we shouldn’t give up now". How DARE you say that every nonsmoker refrains due to the prohibition!

The vast majority of the millions of people not smoking in this country do so for just one reason - they don't WANT to smoke! It has NOTHING to do with your ineffective and bloody prohibition. They don't want to smoke, they wouldn't want to smoke if it were legal, and you have NO right claiming that they would smoke if you ended the prohibition.

Ask *your* legislators to sponsor a bill to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults!!

Sounds fair to me too.

Calling her evil belittles her actions. She is either psychopathic or insane, either way she took the life of an innocent 9 yr-old and subjected her to intense terror, for that she deserves the worst we can give her.