THANK YOU Mr. Glaskow

Good deal. It can only be a positive except for those caught with it or selling it after 01/01/12. I commend Rep. Cross for sponsoring the legislation. I also commend the Illinois legislature for passing it (I rarely commend the legislature in this state for anything they do).

This kind of heavy-handed sh!t is draconian. Its pure speculation as to the side effects. Alchohol is a much more debilitating than any pot will ever be.

Chief of S.P.D. looking really "fit" for duty.

If anything they should make alchohol illegal that destroys so many lives and families everyday around the world. I really don't care about that synthetic crap. Theres been no long term studies to see the effects. But yes, as Cumbers said the "War on Drugs" has and always will be a failure. At this point a $40 trillion dollar failure. Then again the federal and state gov. are failures as well. Time for a revolution!

The city makes to much money on liquor licenses and DUI's

Synthetic pot- does that give a synthetic high? And as for making booze illegal, it was done once before, back in the 20s. It was called "Prohibition."

Ther are alot of people who just cannot handle drugs or alcohol and they just make things bad for the people who can have a drink now and then or even a smoke. Trying to convince these people is next o impossible and we read about them in the paper every week. Making alcohol illegal is just like gun control, the people who should not have guns will have them.

""It could be a situation like LSD, where you're getting hallucinations 10 years from now," he said."

Why would a publication that is supposed to be 'reputable' print such a speculative statement?

See now if they were smart they would leaglize weed and bring in tens of millions of dollars in taxes and business fees. LKast year Colorado got 23 million dollars from thier madical dispenseries for simply doing nothing. Just think of how much better the country will be when every state can do as they please with pot laws.

Good point Jay-these guys make it up as they go along

Hosey-stick to writing trashy novels and name calling and leave the heavy mental lifting to research scientists

I say legalize Marijuana and Tax it and our State would not be in the mess its in right now due to budget cuts like our local law enforcement officers being laid off or fired due to certain budget cuts with the extra Tax revenue the State Of ILLINOIS would flourish from the extra Tax money if spent right. It would also cut down on crime !!!!

If you were to ask me 10 years ago, "should marijuana be legalized?" I would have given you the whole speech of "opening your mind, freedom" & all that. Now, if you ask me, it needs to be legalized, treated & regulated like alcohol. There is way too much money to be ignored that the state could be making. And law enforcement could be left to focus their energies on the hard line drug issues (cocaine, herion, RX drug abuse, crystal meth). I am not looking for coffee houses to be opening up in strip malls. But if people are already using this, we need to, as a society, allow them to enjoy it while at the same time protecting the general population.

so, instead of making real pot legal, our all-knowing lawmakers are making MORE things illegal.

When are they going to realize that it was their failed prohibition policies that created this problem in the first place? If marijauana was regulated as alcohol is, this product would never even have been created. There would have been no need and no demand. Instead, our lawmakers have decided to take a step backwards and perpetuate the same policies that brought them to this point to begin with.

That right its about the Sythetic Fake Stuff but if the Real Marijuana was Legalized the there would be no need for the Fake Stuff !!!!! Genius !!!!

Tim and RUNXTC know what the real deal is. We are talking about states getting tens of millions of dollars in taxes and so forth and all they have to do is nothing really.

Someone told me just yesterday that smoking pot causes short term memory loss,And something else that i forgot!!!!!!!!!