$113 billion is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S., and because of the prohibition *every* dollar of it goes straight into the hands of criminals. Far from preventing people from using marijuana, the prohibition instead creates zero legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand.

According to the ONDCP, two-thirds of the Mexican drug cartel’s money comes from selling marijuana in the U.S., and they protect this cash flow by brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering thousands of innocent people.

If we can STOP people using marijuana then we need to do so now, but if we can’t then we need to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. One way or the other, we have to force the cartels out of the marijuana market and eliminate their highly lucrative marijuana incomes – no business can withstand the loss of two-thirds of its revenue!

To date, the cartels have amassed more than 100,000 “foot soldiers” and operate in 230 U.S. cities, and the longer they’re able to exploit the prohibition the more powerful they’ll get and the more our own personal security is put in jeopardy.

Posted by Jillian Galloway | 3:00 pm on August 30, 2010.

PROOFREAD YOUR SHIT

THIS IS UNREADABLE

Posted by alex | 6:23 pm on September 2, 2010.

Shut the hell up and pass the duchy B!

Posted by ElPavoReal | 6:44 pm on September 2, 2010.

As a gay myself, I am deeply offended that you wrote “the ads are supporting passage of Proposition 19 in California, which would force married homosexual couples to smoke marijuana while limiting increases on their property taxes”—only to rescind it moments later, revealing the passage to be nothing but a cruel joke. My boyfriend and I were all ready to get married in Canada, move to California, and vote YES on said fictional proposition post haste. Or maybe stay in Canada where people are less pretentious. We’ll see. Anyway, in future, please refrain from so cruelly teasing LGBT couples who only wanna get our munchies on. And keep our property taxes down. Thank you.

Posted by Scott | 8:16 pm on September 2, 2010.

Tax it, regulate it, good-bye National Debt.

“The only way I’ll pee in a cup is if Nancy Reagan drinks it up.”

Posted by Cache | 5:15 am on September 3, 2010.

With a Bachelor’s degree in English, one would think Mr. Dunaway would know that “it’s” is short for “it is.” He should be using the possessive pronoun “its” nearly every time instead. Shameful that he doesn’t know the difference between it’s and its.

Posted by Butch | 9:16 am on September 3, 2010.

Being as we can’t outlaw stupidity drugs laws are the next best thing! BTW the national debt in in the trillions of dollars now so no you cannot just tax drugs and make the debt go away. Were these pot heads born this dumb or did they have to work at it?

Posted by Paul | 9:22 am on September 3, 2010.

Actually I think it’s more shameful — or rather pathetic — when commenters waste their time singling out typos. I see little errors on just about every site I read and instead of mocking the writer, I acknowledge that in Internet publishing most journalists have to write a lot of content very quickly and copy editors are in short supply.

That said, I’m always receptive to someone pointing out where corrections are needed. I’m just not particularly fond of being told I’m a lousy writer because I hastily made a common error.

I believe I got all the offensive instances — if I missed any, please send them to editor@adotas.com.

Posted by Gavin Dunaway | 9:25 am on September 3, 2010.

There’s a newsgroup the contributor should read:

alt.possessive.its.has.no.apostrophe

Help your readers out: punctuate properly.

Posted by Gary | 9:27 am on September 3, 2010.

It is obvious Facebook is biased on this group, there are at least 120 other users on facebook with a pot leaf as there persona picture and so far well they have not been taken down, so it is pretty simple to see this is an isolated incident. sue the facebastards.

Posted by FreshMeatz | 10:26 am on September 3, 2010.

I had no problem understanding the article. A reasonably intelligent reader can understand what a sentence means, regardless of the use of its or it’s. So to all you complainers shut up and realize you cannot force your morals on all of us.

Posted by Steve | 12:53 pm on September 3, 2010.

Gavin Dunaway Must be high while writing this. This is less than high school level grammar. “Sheeesh,” what a crappy writer. Nearly unreadable. Just thank your God for the inventor of spell check, or else I bet none of this would be readable at all.

Posted by Mike Hunt | 4:52 pm on September 3, 2010.

Good article, thanks for the comments I peeed a little laughing.

Posted by Miggy420 | 4:55 pm on September 3, 2010.

How do you spell ‘anal retentive’?

Posted by Wesley | 5:06 pm on September 3, 2010.

@Mike – you sbhouldn’t pick on the grammatical errors of others unless you are perfect. Capitalisation of “Must” in the middle of a sentence – this is not German – in English we reserve capitals for words at the beginning of sentences, not in the middle. Double-quoting “Sheesh” is inappropriate – double-quotes are reserved for reportage of speech. “or else I bet none of this would be readable at all” – is just a really badly worded sentence; ‘otherwise’ would be preferable to “or else” and you mixed both present and future tense with “I bet” (present tense) followed by “would be” (future tense).
Don’t pick on other people’s writing unless yours is perfect…
Now children – stop bickering and focus on the content, not the form.

Posted by Brandt Dainow | 3:14 am on September 8, 2010.

This reads like the ramblings of a man high as a kite.

Posted by Jay | 8:50 am on September 13, 2010.

Brilliant and funny.. Shame it reveals what a totalitarian ad regime Facebook has become.

Posted by Robert | 8:35 pm on September 26, 2010.