U.S. Marijuana Reform Project USMRP.com

A Brief List of People Who Have Smoked Marijuana

Another list of people who have smoked marijuana from AskThemWhy.org

Barack Obama, president-elect. 
Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the U.S. 
John Kerry, U.S. Senator and 2004 Democratic nominee for president. 
John Edwards, multi-millionaire, former U.S. Senator, and 2004 Democratic nominee for vice president. 
Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, 2008 Republican nominee for vice president. 
Stephen King
Rodney Dangerfield
Jon Stewart
Academy-award winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg
Josh Howard, NBA all-star. 
President George W. Bush
New York Governor David Paterson. 
Former Vice President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and Oscar winner Al Gore. 
Former Sen. Bill Bradley, who smoked while playing professional basketball. 
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 
former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich,
former New York Governor George Pataki. 
Billionaire and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Carl Sagan, award-winning author and astronomer
Montel Williams
television writer/producer Aaron Sorkin
Late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould. 
John Wayne
William F. Buckley
Miles Davis
Bill Maher
Tom Brokaw
Harrison Ford
Billionaire tycoon Richard Branson
US Senator from Minnesota Norm Coleman 
Robert Mitchum
children's author Shel Silverstein
Pierce Brosnan
Bill Murray
Louis Armstrong
Jack Black
Dan Aykroyd

Now what if they were treated like this? WARNING: THE FOLLOWING VIDEO IS VERY GRAPHIC AND VERY DISTURBING!! ADULTS ONLY!

Drug Policy Alliance Network Press Release

Following is a Press Release from Drug Policy Alliance Network.

24,000 Low-Level, Nonviolent Drug Offenders Locked Up in Overcrowded State Prisons with Serious Offenders

$1.2 Billion/Year Wasted to House Petty Drug Offenders;Drug Treatment Not Available to Most Behind Bars For Immediate Release: Wednesday, August 5, 2009.Contact: Margaret Dooley-Sammuli 213-291-4190 or Tommy McDonald 510-229-5215 SACRAMENTO – Yesterday’s federal three-judge panel ruling on prison overcrowding prompted calls from prison reform advocates to restore California’s prisons to their original purpose: to hold accountable and to rehabilitate people who have committed serious offenses, not petty ones. “It’s long past due for California to get smart on crime, and that means being more discerning about who is sent to state prison,” said Margaret Dooley-Sammuli, deputy state director for the Drug Policy Alliance in Southern California. “There are far too many low-level, nonviolent drug offenders in state prison, many of whom have treatable addictive or mental illness and who could be better managed at the county level, whether through treatment, probation, or a combination of those.” On Tuesday, a federal three-judge panel ruled that California must reduce the size of its state prison population by 40,000 inmates over two years. Matthew Cate, head of the corrections agency, told reporters yesterday that the state’s current plan would slim the population by 37,000. Legislators have promised to approve their own plan in August to cut prison spending by $1.2 billion. According to the Legislative Analyst’s Office, one year of incarceration costs $49,000 per inmate – or $1.2 billion for 24,000 inmates. “California’s budget and prison overcrowding crises are inextricably linked – and so are their solutions,” said Daniel Abrahamson, legal director for the Drug Policy Alliance. “We must spend our limited criminal justice resources more wisely, as experts have been recommending for decades. That means more diversion of nonviolent drug offenders, more recidivism-reduction programming, including drug treatment, and more sensible parole policies – especially for drug-addicted parolees.” The Drug Policy Alliance sponsored a November 2008 ballot measure designed to address these crises. Proposition 5, the Nonviolent Offender Rehabilitation Act, would have cut the prison and parole populations; reduced recidivism through programming, good time credits and re-entry support; and, according to the LAO, slashed prison spending by a net $2.5 billion. Prop. 5 failed after opponents spent nearly $3.5 million on advertising. Advocates called on Sacramento to revisit the expert-recommended proposals that would have become law under Prop. 5.