Severability / Legalize Marijuana...
Severability / Legalize Marijuana...
The Issue
Title 21 of the United States Code (USC), Subdivision I, Part A, Section 801 of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has a paragraph entitled Severability. In this paragraph it states that if any provision of Title 21 of the USC is "...invalid or unenforceable...[it may be] severed from this title..." Obviously, with all the medical research, we know that Marijuana having no medicinal value is invalid. And if it were enforceable, we wouldn't lose countless lives and dollars, and have overcrowded prisons, only to have a substantial supply still on the streets after 72 years of prohibition. If it were enforceable, billions of U.S. dollars wouldn't make its way to Mexican and Canadian cartels. The Drug War doesn't prevent drugs from entering our country, the selling or consumption of drugs. It doesn't stop the rising crime rate associated with drug trafficking, nor stop children from acquiring them. This war has continued for over 70 years, and not a single one of its objectives have been accomplished. If we can agree that it has been unenforceable, and if marijuana were legalized and taxed (sales tax only, it is NOT a sin), medicinal or otherwise, then that money would all go back into local communities and effectively lower the crime rates there and abroad as well. I am urging the new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama, and every government official to find that all sections of Title 21 pertaining to Marijuana be found invalid and unenforceable, and thereby removed, or severed, from the USC.
The Issue
Title 21 of the United States Code (USC), Subdivision I, Part A, Section 801 of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) has a paragraph entitled Severability. In this paragraph it states that if any provision of Title 21 of the USC is "...invalid or unenforceable...[it may be] severed from this title..." Obviously, with all the medical research, we know that Marijuana having no medicinal value is invalid. And if it were enforceable, we wouldn't lose countless lives and dollars, and have overcrowded prisons, only to have a substantial supply still on the streets after 72 years of prohibition. If it were enforceable, billions of U.S. dollars wouldn't make its way to Mexican and Canadian cartels. The Drug War doesn't prevent drugs from entering our country, the selling or consumption of drugs. It doesn't stop the rising crime rate associated with drug trafficking, nor stop children from acquiring them. This war has continued for over 70 years, and not a single one of its objectives have been accomplished. If we can agree that it has been unenforceable, and if marijuana were legalized and taxed (sales tax only, it is NOT a sin), medicinal or otherwise, then that money would all go back into local communities and effectively lower the crime rates there and abroad as well. I am urging the new director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, Gil Kerlikowske, President Obama, and every government official to find that all sections of Title 21 pertaining to Marijuana be found invalid and unenforceable, and thereby removed, or severed, from the USC.
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Petition created on April 24, 2009


