Mike Gravel Wants To Legalize Pot

Mike Gravel, who is running for president of the United States, wants to legalize pot.

I feel that there are many potheads out there who do a disservice to themselves and everyone else who wishes to live in free country when they don't get involved with politics. Sure you can often feel like no matter who you vote for you're going to get screwed, but that's not the case this time. This time Mike Gravel is running. Gravel wants to do the sensible thing and make marijuana legal. He wants to end the prohibition against pot!

A common argument for the legalization of pot: Anyone who has any experience with pot knows that it's far less dangerous and debilitating than alcohol.

While this argument is completely valid in and of itself and is in fact completely true there's a much better argument to be made in my opinion:

Restricting personal civil liberties is wrong.

It's flat out that easy to me. It's absolutely insane that people think it's "OK" for our government to tell us what's OK to put in our body.

If the Government wants to help people with addictions that's fine. But restricting freedoms is another thing entirely. As Mike Gravel says "Addiction is a public health problem not a criminal problem."

When I speak of addiction of course I am speaking about harder drugs like Heroin. Pot is not physically addictive. In fact the legal drugs nicotine and alcohol are both more addictive than pot.

Perhaps I've got off topic a bit (ah but digression can often be quite illuminating.)

My point is Mike Gravel deserves your support if you truly believe in civil liberty! Learn more about Mike Gravel and how you can support him at www.MikeGravel2008.us

Mike Gravel speaks about the Drug War:


Mike Gravel speaking on CNN about various subjects (including drugs.)