tobacco, alcohol, caffeine and chocolate are much more addictive than marijuana. i've been drinking beer for over 20 years but i'm not addicted. i don't drink everyday but it's been over 20 years and let's not forget that no one has ever died from smoking weed. marijuana doesn't do anything but make your body feel good and your brain feel weird. it's only illegal b/c mexican migrant workers used to smoke it and america used to be a very racist country, so govt's passed laws to lock them up- in fact all drug laws have their roots in racism.

to suggest that a nonviolent person should be locked up with rapists and murderers for committing a victimless crime speaks volumes about your lack of intelligence and empathy. you should probably see a therapist.

Fact is Marijuana prohibition costs US taxpayers nearly $42 billion dollars per year in criminal justice costs and in lost tax revenues

(source: http://www.drugscience.org/Archive/bcr7/Gettman_Marijuana_Arrests_in_the_United_States.pdf)

That study is by Jon B. Gettman. He has a PhD in public policy and regional economic development from George Mason University. I'll believe him saying marijuana arrests cost taxpayers money over anonymous "Observer" on the internet any day. Doctor Gettman actually did a bit of research!

Observer, who are you to say what a 46 year old woman should be doing with her life? If she wants to ride her bike at 2 am and smoke pot, it's up to you? She should be home with her family? Why's that? Cause observer calls the shots? Please.

Legal prescription drugs are coming along great. They make the pharmaceutical and medical industry billions. They also provide lots of work for law enforcement.
As does marijuana. Prison is a huge industry, and many of those incarcerated are non-violent drug offenders. Big money.

Lawrence Rooney is exactly right about it. Marijuana can't kill you. The drug war is a racist war that locks up mostly minorities and helps maintain an underclass.

1) Nobody said she should be in jail with Rapists/Murders. She would not be in jail for possession of weed. Nor should she be. She will get a fine and be sent on her way
2) I agree, Tobacco and alcohol are more addictive then weed and both are serious problems when abused. How tobacco is legal is beyond logic. But, just because they are legal doesn't mean we should legalize another drug. Two wrongs don't make a right.
3) If someone drinks every day, for 20 years, you have an alcohol addiction. I am not talking about the person who drinks occasionally.
4) If you think this woman, should be smoking weed riding her bike around at 2am instead of with her family, then that is your opinion and I am not saying your wrong, but lets just say we have a different set of priorities.
5) So you found a study saying marijuana is perfectly find, and this study just so hapens to on a website called "The Cannibus Rescheduling petition"...thats classic. Here I just used Google/Bing and found a study on the negative impacts of Weed on individuals. http://www.thcdigest.com/category/marijuana-facts/negative-effects-of-marijuana/

Do you have any Kids? lol

But seriously, the possession of weed, for personal use, in your own home should not be a crime. But don't be an idiot, riding a bike high, at 2am and with warrants. Its just common sense, but as you admit yourself, you don't have common sense when high, "it makes your brain feel weird" lol.

"1) Nobody said she should be in jail with Rapists/Murders. She would not be in jail for possession of weed. Nor should she be. She will get a fine and be sent on her way"

Wrong- New Jersey Marijuana Law is pretty clear that this woman could face up to 6 months for simple possession
50 g or less disorderly person 6 mos $ 1,000
More than 50 g felony 1.5 years $ 25,000
Within 1000 feet of a school adds 100 hours of community service, as well as an additional fine.

"2) I agree, Tobacco and alcohol are more addictive...."
lol, not going to respond to this.

"3) If someone drinks every day, for 20 years, you have an alcohol addiction..."

And if said drinker isn't harming others? It's your place to tell them how they ought to live their own life? Do you own other people, or do they own themselves?

"4) If you think... we have a different set of priorities."

We definitely do, observer. I don't make it a priority to philosophize on how other people should live their own lives.

"5) So you found a study..."

Yes, I found a study, by an expert in a related field. Your study that you linked seemed to be penned by a high school student. I could find you many more studies by physicians from John Hopkins medical school, Harvard, etc etc, but I'm sure you wouldn't read them anyway. It seems you're set in your belief that pot is incredibly dangerous.

I don't have kids (yet) When I do, I'll talk to them honestly about Marijuana. I can only hope that if my kid wants to use mind altering substances, he/she will choose the safest and most natural option- Cannabis. Cannabis never had me passed out in a puddle of my own puke. Regrettably, alcohol has. I'd rather have my kid laughing and eating snacks then drunk driving and passing out like a buffoon.

"But seriously, the possession of weed, for personal use, in your own home should not be a crime."
If you had of stopped there, we might have really agreed with each other. I'd go on to say it's madness that it's illegal anywhere.

Just an fyi...the warrants are for possesion with the intent to distribute and prostitution. I'll tell her to stay in your neighborhood, as you feel comfortable with her "peddling" her goods in your town.

Prostitution, another thing that should be legal. In places where it's legal, women are less likely to be raped, murdered, contract HIV, and also make far more money if they choose to sell their own sexuality. Remember Observer, you don't own anyone's body besides yours. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/oct/24/un-report-calls-decriminalizing-prostitution/ this article does a pretty good job of explaining many benefits of decriminalized prostitution.

If someone is drugged or coerced into sex work, or under age, of course that should be illegal. If a woman wants to engage in voluntary sex work, who are you to judge?

(also, sex work should be completely decriminalized for anyone, not just women)

Amen! The citizenry of Palmyra can sleep feeling safer knowing that this woman on a bicycle, who is obviously a terrible threat to public safety, has finally been nabbed. Palmyra is now safe again.

keep up the blinders people...as posted above...the warrants are for possesion with the intent to distribute and prostitution. I'll tell her to stay in your neighborhood, as you feel comfortable with her "peddling" her goods in your town.

*Observer- imagine that? Surprised? no. Traffic tickets? Nope.. Drug dealer/prostitute, yep

You tell em Ed 'NJWeedman' Forchion !!

Hey chris, NJWeedman was acquitted through jury nullification. :]