Sooooo, lets see if I have this straight.... under current government policy, harmless LEGAL MEDICAL pot smokers are not allowed to buy guns, but if you are a Mexican drug smuggler murdering your competition, the ATF will give you military weapons at US taxpayer expense?....Do those bozos at the ATF have any idea how much marijuana (not to mention alcohol) the Founding Fathers were using when they created this country? The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper! So were the works of Thomas Paine! The Gutenberg Bible was published on Hemp paper! Everybody grew hemp both for rope and for smoking. Thomas Jefferson grew hemp at Monticello. George Washington grew it at Mt. Vernon. Wealth from hemp production was a key part of building financial independence from Great Britain. Marijuana did not become illegal in the United States until 1930's when alcohol companies lobbied against it to preserve their sales and profits. Wood pulp companies also lobbied against hemp paper and so did manufacturers of competing forms of rope, using the propaganda image of illicit purposes of marijuana to destroy their competition. Government bans marijuana because liquor and tobacco produced in large factories can be counted and taxed, but marijuana growing in the back yard cannot!....The fact is that there is no link between marijuana and violent crime. Quite the contrary, as George Carlin so eloquently put it, "Marijuana swept the neighborhood, and gang fighting went away! Kids went from making zip guns to hash pipes in shop class!"...I think that given its prevalence in colonial times, had there been a reason to deny second amendment rights to marijuana users, it would have been in the Constitution! What we have here are more bureaucrats seeking to justify their continued high salaries my telling the rest of us how to live our lives.....
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