What Do the Pro Cannabis Australians Think?

2009.04.03

There is a group in Australia called the A.C.L.R.M. – the Australian Cannabis Law Reform Movement. It is a leaderless movement of citizens who see no harm in allowing people to choose whether or not they use marijuana. If they do choose to use it then they would be able to do so without harassment. They believe that the resources used to catch illegal users could be used to make a better society rather than punishing its citizens for something they regard as harmless.

What the movement is really fighting against is not the actual law, or its reform, what is fighting is the relinquishing of control by an outdated old school mentality that has to feel that it must exercise a strangle hold on its people in order to feel powerful, and then, in their “minds”, safe. If people were allowed to have their freedoms at home, such as the cultivation for personal consumption and not the commercial trafficking of pot, then it would free up a lot of money and manpower that could be applied to other more vital areas than one that has been deemed by many governments to be non- threatening.

Multiple studies have been done that prove that marijuana smokers pose no threat socially; in fact because of using it, they appear to be more docile. It has been classified as a drug for a long time, in order to demonize it so that people would be washed into thinking it had some crazed and uncontrollable power over the user. In fact, any substance, if it abused will produce ill effects on people, whether it be weed, hash, alcohol, or prescription drugs.

Why is it that certain drugs are O.K., even with the horrendous toxic side effects that they have, and something that is purely natural, like marijuana, gets the attention as the “Satan Drug”, that robs the mind and makes you a slave like in that ridiculous unintentional comedy made in the thirties called “Reefer Madness”? All the A.C.L.R.M., the Australian Cannabis Law Reform Movement wants, is to legalize what never should have been criminalized in the first place.

The A.C.L.R.M. believe that the resources devoted to cannabis enforcement can be re-allocated to better areas, and it would save millions in taxpayers money in prison costs for jailed users, cultivators or possessors.
There is no logic to a law that prohibits the use of something like marijuana, in the same way alcohol was prohibited in the United States, so that it can support and nourish an illegal multi – billion dollar trafficking industry. If people were treated as though they were, they were intelligent and not cattle, all of this madness could easily evaporate, allowing enforcement to apply themselves to areas that are much more critical. If the argument by the government is that marijuana destroys the user, then maybe they should look at the outdated mentality that is destroying them.