Hemp 4 Victory: Saving our evironment and our economy

The Issue

With our country at it's worst state in years, our nations GDP on the rise, the fiscal debt becoming larger, and the job markets crash, isn't it time for change. Our government would save nearly $13 billion a year on decriminalization of marijuana alone, add the $40 billion in lost tax revenue, the created jobs, and other revenues from legalization and taxation, and you're looking at over $100 billion dollars a year in lost revenue. In just 10 years we could eliminate 1/8 of our nations over $8 trillion debt. When the people who are growing and selling marijuana illegally, are the ones who don't want the laws to change, then there's obviously an issue. Boost the job market, fix the economy, and save the environment, all with the legalization of a single plant: MARIJUANA  

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Sean CrystalPetition StarterWhat do you want to know? I'm 21 and have lived my entire life in SouthEast Idaho. I began questioning our government and where we're headed while I was still fairly young. I decided when I was 13 to pick up on what would become possibly the most contreversial topic of my time: Marijuana. It is through my learnings that I decided to go my own way. I dropped out of High School when I was around 15, since then I have been through the system, created a website, gotten out of the system, been overseas (vacation), quit smoking cigarettes, got my GED, and am now preparing for college. Now if marijuana were so harmful to society why have I had the oppurtunities to do what I've done, coming from a low-income family. It certainly wasn't from selling or growing marijuana or making other illicit drugs. It was from determination. I wanted to prove that a daily marijuana smoker can have just as good of a life as a non-smoker. Time and money management is what achieved these things.
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The Issue

With our country at it's worst state in years, our nations GDP on the rise, the fiscal debt becoming larger, and the job markets crash, isn't it time for change. Our government would save nearly $13 billion a year on decriminalization of marijuana alone, add the $40 billion in lost tax revenue, the created jobs, and other revenues from legalization and taxation, and you're looking at over $100 billion dollars a year in lost revenue. In just 10 years we could eliminate 1/8 of our nations over $8 trillion debt. When the people who are growing and selling marijuana illegally, are the ones who don't want the laws to change, then there's obviously an issue. Boost the job market, fix the economy, and save the environment, all with the legalization of a single plant: MARIJUANA  

avatar of the starter
Sean CrystalPetition StarterWhat do you want to know? I'm 21 and have lived my entire life in SouthEast Idaho. I began questioning our government and where we're headed while I was still fairly young. I decided when I was 13 to pick up on what would become possibly the most contreversial topic of my time: Marijuana. It is through my learnings that I decided to go my own way. I dropped out of High School when I was around 15, since then I have been through the system, created a website, gotten out of the system, been overseas (vacation), quit smoking cigarettes, got my GED, and am now preparing for college. Now if marijuana were so harmful to society why have I had the oppurtunities to do what I've done, coming from a low-income family. It certainly wasn't from selling or growing marijuana or making other illicit drugs. It was from determination. I wanted to prove that a daily marijuana smoker can have just as good of a life as a non-smoker. Time and money management is what achieved these things.

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Petition created on August 20, 2009