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Should marijuana be legal?

Legalize it?

  • Yes, recreational marijuana should be legal

    Votes: 63 85.1%
  • Only medicinal marijuana should be allowed

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • No, don't do it.

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • Justin Bieber looks just like Miley Cyrus

    Votes: 4 5.4%

  • Total voters
    74
I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?

Yes, it should be legal. It is likely that most of us know someone directly or indirectly that uses it. If it remains illegal, it fuels the violence in Mexico, and criminalizes a substantial portion of the US population. If it becomes legal, people will flock to buy it (even if it costs more) because it is legal. I do think, however, it should be regulated and controlled. That means a reliable means to test for it at traffic stops, taxed to generate income, suitable ages for consumption, etc. Additionally, a public service campaign to sway public opinion against it should be generated just like there is for alcohol and tobacco.
 
My serious pot-smoking days are behind me but...now and then....do you know if there are any cafes where you can smoke it socially? I went with my best friend to Amsterdam about 15 years ago and we met all sorts of interesting people who were amenable to conversation. If there are such things, I think I'll take a trip to CO this summer and recreate some.

I asked the same thing when I was there.

No, it's only meant to be consumed in the privacy of your own home for the time being. I'm pretty sure the cafe's are coming though, just need to take things one step at a time. Colorado is kind of the national experiment right now. Once people realize that the world isn't going to end just because a few people are smoking out, the laws will relax more and more. It's only a matter of time.
 
Yes, it should be legal. It is likely that most of us know someone directly or indirectly that uses it. If it remains illegal, it fuels the violence in Mexico, and criminalizes a substantial portion of the US population. If it becomes legal, people will flock to buy it (even if it costs more) because it is legal. I do think, however, it should be regulated and controlled. That means a reliable means to test for it at traffic stops, taxed to generate income, suitable ages for consumption, etc. Additionally, a public service campaign to sway public opinion against it should be generated just like there is for alcohol and tobacco.

The difference in quality between the legal stuff and the illegal stuff they import by the brick from Mexico is staggering. It's worth paying the premium.

I doubt you can even find illegal Mexican weed in Colorado anymore.
 
I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?
No! Only in those states where it is legal to use hard drugs and automatic weapons:shoot:
 
The difference in quality between the legal stuff and the illegal stuff they import by the brick from Mexico is staggering. It's worth paying the premium.

I doubt you can even find illegal Mexican weed in Colorado anymore.

I don't use it, I don't advocate it's use. I've had several friends reach their rock bottom lows either directly from it's use or indirectly from moving on to harder things. I think it's a menace to society mostly. That being said, I don't think anyone else can say more about alcohol.

To your point, I have never met someone that does cocaine, and only met someone that did crack (with the exception of the homeless) once. I have heard that marijuana is the backbone of the Mexican drug trade. If this is true, anyone that buys marijuana illegally is contributing to hundreds of deaths indirectly in Mexico. Let's kill two birds with one stone and legalize it. Marijuana smokers here can legally practice their vice, and Mexican cartels take a hit (pun intended).
 
The difference in quality between the legal stuff and the illegal stuff they import by the brick from Mexico is staggering. It's worth paying the premium.

I doubt you can even find illegal Mexican weed in Colorado anymore.

It sounds like the difference between good whiskey and corn squeezin's.
 
I would support the legalization for medical use.

Also for recreational use, but only if use disqualified the user from welfare, Medicaid and there were extra penalties for crimes committed by users under the influence and crimes committed to support a drug habit.

Do you support doing that for cigarettes and alcohol?
 
That's a really gross oversimplification of the issue.
Well...they do. They can make laws about what you can and can't put into your body.
"It's a plant, therefore people should not be arrested for owning it because it's plant" isn't sound logic and it isn't going to persuade the opposition.
Good for you and those seven people. I'm for marijuana legalization too, I'm just pointing out that your logic is unsound and it won't convince any "statist" to change their views.
Sorry for informing you that your justification for your opinion is just bloody awful.

Are you serious right now? You're complaining about my arguments when you have posted absolutely zero?

All 6 posts you've made in this thread have been whining at me or someone else. I know you're new here, but every single post does not need to be a fully laid out explanation of someone's beliefs. It's also ok to just state your opinion, and wait if someone disagrees, then begin a debate. You for some reason decided to skip the debate phase and go straight to the whining.

Let me know when you decide to come up with an independent thought.

It's true, but opium and coca leaves are also plants.

Then again I say.... God made marijuana, so how can it possibly be bad? That would be like saying God made a mistake or something.

And? How does that change anything I said?
 
I guess I can't answer the poll because, since I live in Colorado, it IS legal.
 
I guess I can't answer the poll because, since I live in Colorado, it IS legal.

perhaps you could answer whether you agree or not with the current legislation
 
I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?

Yes, yes and yes. Why? Responsible adults should be able to make their own decisions. We decide about smoking and drinking alcohol, so why not weed?
 
Are you serious right now? You're complaining about my arguments when you have posted absolutely zero?

All 6 posts you've made in this thread have been whining at me or someone else. I know you're new here, but every single post does not need to be a fully laid out explanation of someone's beliefs. It's also ok to just state your opinion, and wait if someone disagrees, then begin a debate. You for some reason decided to skip the debate phase and go straight to the whining.

Let me know when you decide to come up with an independent thought.
Dude, calm your ****. You posted "yes" in your first response in your thread. That is an opinion. You then posted "locking someone in a cage for owning a plant is absurd and has absolutely no place in a free society.". I interpreted that as some sort of libertarian-hippie-**** justification for your opinion because it seems to go beyond a simple "yes". I'm not whining, I'm trying to help you and the fact that I'm new here doesn't change that. If you're going to not take my advice and continue to accuse me of not being able to come up with independent thoughts (which was completely unwarranted), then I guess I'm done here.
 
Dude, calm your ****. You posted "yes" in your first response in your thread. That is an opinion. You then posted "locking someone in a cage for owning a plant is absurd and has absolutely no place in a free society.". I interpreted that as some sort of libertarian-hippie-**** justification for your opinion because it seems to go beyond a simple "yes". I'm not whining, I'm trying to help you and the fact that I'm new here doesn't change that. If you're going to not take my advice and continue to accuse me of not being able to come up with independent thoughts (which was completely unwarranted), then I guess I'm done here.

If you can't come up with your own arguments and just have to whine like a bitch, then you really are done here. Bye.
 
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Living in Colorado I can say that it should be legal everywhere. I have seen almost no change in anything here other than the quality of the weed is much better.
That is the biggest fear of the law enforcement establishment, IMO.
 
Sorry, I'm Libertarian.

Blasting your mind with alcohol, or drugs, or dating abusive women, is really your own prerogative. it is not the place of government to protect us from ourselves, and any notion that it is, ignores all the areas where it blatantly doesn't. I have read case after case of police gathering a small army, invading a couple's home, shooting the family dog, murdering the occupants, dragging people out of their beds, by the hair, curb stomping citizens ALL TO FIND OUT IT WASN'T EVEN THE "perpetrator". While the "police state" is another topic, the crux of the matter is that a person sitting in their living room, on their own property is no threat to anyone, nor violating the constitutional rights of anyone outside of their property. That is not something society needs protection from.

I don't do drugs personally, but frankly, I don't care if the entire country did drugs. Just so long as I can get my strawberry shake when I go to buy it. In fact, if the cashier is high out of their mind, I don't even care, just so long as he takes my money, washes his hands, and hands me my shake. What else matters? Who knows what that man is going through? Maybe his parents traumatized him all his life, and he married a woman that abuses him nightly and the drugs helps him cope in society like a mellow human being. While people sit in judgement of others, they frankly have no idea what a person goes through. It is also not the place of one human to tell another human how to live, nor cope with their issues. As long as that man doesn't violate my constitutional freedoms, he could be blasted out of his mind on drugs.

It irks me to no end when people sit in judgement, and pretend to be holier than thou. I don't drink, curse, smoke, or even take aspirin. I'm as pretty straight edge as they come, but I will not judge a person because they do drugs. Not everyone has my strength.
 
Living in Colorado I can say that it should be legal everywhere. I have seen almost no change in anything here other than the quality of the weed is much better.

Yeah man, a most excellent post....
 
I don't use it myself but I am in the process of propagating some cuttings to raise my six plants to help out a friend who needs it for medical purposes. Dispensaries are kind of expensive.
I keep a couple of grams in my liquor cabinet so when I have guests over I can offer them a beer, a cocktail or a hit.
We are quite civilized here in Colorado.
 
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