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Delaware Rep. Gerald Hocker (R-Ocean View) on Marijuana Law Reform

By "Radical" Russ Belville on March 12, 2009

I want to thank you for your email but in all honesty after the affects I have seen this drug have on families and how it can lead to more serious drug addictions, I can not support this. I see there are positive points to your request but feel that the negative far outweigh the positive in this case.

Gerald

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I am the producer of The NORML Network, the host of the NORML SHOW LIVE and The NORML Stash Blog, and NORML's Outreach Coordinator. I'm married, live in Portland, Oregon, and I am a registered medical marijuana caregiver in this state. I've worked days as an IT geek and nights as a professional musician. Previously, I have been the host of my own political talk radio show on satellite radio. I've been the High Times "Freedom Fighter of the Month" and I travel across the country to educate people on marijuana reform. I've dedicated my life to bringing an end to adult marijuana prohibition and re-legalizing cannabis hemp, and I'm honored to be chosen by NORML to give voice to the Marijuana Nation and to speak for those who can't speak up.

2 responses to “Delaware Rep. Gerald Hocker (R-Ocean View) on Marijuana Law Reform”

  1. Tim
    Tim
    March 12, 2009 at 7:54 am |

    I would just like to say whenever someone says “in all honesty” or “to be honest” it usually means they are lying!!!! So Rep. Holder, in all honesty, what are your real reasons’ for opposing such a common sense initiative? Worried you wont get re-elected? Well your wrong. Worried it will hurt your image? Well your wrong.. Come on, in all honesty, whats so bad????

  2. Evil Dick
    Evil Dick
    March 12, 2009 at 7:33 am |

    First of all, Rep. Hocker, they are effects, not affects. Now, certainly any reasonable person would agree that having a family torn apart by the imprisonment of one or more members for a cannabis related “crime” is very harmful to our society. However, it is the advocates of legalization who are trying to end this tragedy. But, when a family member becomes more functional, due to the pain relief from responsible use of cannabis, that is beneficial, not harmful. When a family member’s health improves because he or she can eat, in spite of illness or detrimental side-effects of medication, that is a good thing. When a free citizen can sit peacefully with his family, on his back porch, smoking a marijuana cigarette and listening to Pink Floyd without the fear that some jack-booted Nazi thug will kick his door in and shoot him in his bed in the middle of the night, that is a good thing.

    When a free citizen can spend his or her money on some good quality marijuana, rather than having to send it to the government where it will be used to fund operations that oppress the people and threaten the freedom of every citizen, that is a good thing.

    So, Rep. Hocker, the harm that families suffer is not from marijuana, but from laws prohibiting the possession and responsible use of marijuana. Now that these misunderstandings have been cleared up, I’m sure you can see that blanket prohibition of marijuana is an unjustifiable act of oppression by the government. And that this oppression is a grave threat to some of the most fundamental values on which this nation was founded. Therefore, I’m sure you will understand my sincere hope that the voters in your district will remove your sorry ass from office at the next election.

    -ED

    “One of my great joys in life is sitting out on my back porch, smoking a marijuana cigarette while listening to Pink Floyd’s Wish You were Here album.”
    -Abraham Lincoln

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