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If possession and/or use of marijuana carried the ...

If possession and/or use of marijuana carried the death penalty, would you continue t

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While I was in Bhutan there was significant illegal trade along the Chinese border for butter tea. This was in despite of the fact that they had harsh penalties. For a further example you can look to Singapore with their draconian drug laws.

For me, as a current smoker, I would quit. No questions asked. So I guess you would see significant curtailment, but still have a drug trade.
 
Yes Sir. My vote is in.

I don't know if I'm brave enough to start a poll on this "loaded" topic. But I sure had no right to hide in your thread either. Won't happen again.

Excon said:
iLOL
Nooooooo! :)
Not thread participation.
The actual poll question. The yes or no portion.


Btw, if you start it, they will come.
And I will answer your poll question.
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Yeah because **** government tyranny.

They'll have to pry my bong from my cold dead hands!

Same with my guns. (actually I don't have any guns yet, I'm just a poor college student :( )
 
Excon said:
This is a hypothetical exercise.

If you do not partake, assume you do.


If possession and/or use of marijuana carried the death penalty, would you continue to partake?

Yes?
No?​


My answer is that I would not chance it. So, no.
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I don't partake now, nor didn't while in college, because it would greatly interfere with my life due to the illegality of it and the implication on background checks.

Similarly, I wouldn't partake in it if it carried the death penalty.

I'd also even be more vehemently opposed to anti-marijuana laws in that case than I am now.

I wouldn't eat vegetables if they carried a penalty of death on them either. There's a lot of things I'd stop doing if the penalty for participating in the activity, or having the stuff necessary to participate, was the death penalty. Doesn't make it right to make the penalty such.
 
Goshin said:
There's some country, I think it is Indonesia?, where they execute you for possessing the tiniest amount of any drug... and still they have druggies and drug dealers.

Addicted is addicted, and there's too much money in dealing it.
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Watch locked up abroad, pretty cool stuff.
They can hang you in Kuwait for possession.

Checking this now, the death penalty for drugs is in a lot of ME countries.

Capital punishment for drug trafficking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
I'd run to Canada and assist refugees fleeing from a US regime tyrannical enough to casually murder citizens for jaywalking.
 
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I'd take up growing and selling. The profit margin would be through the roof.

I guess I'd have to smoke a little with potential customers. Just not those wearing shiny shoes.

When I was 15, there were a couple dudes doing 40 year stretches in the Pen for possession of less than an ounce. Rah-cheer in Texas.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
No - in the last few week across the net the interest and posting of marijuana related questions, debates and articles has skyrocketed . . . and I wouldn't smoke it regardless - I don't like to alter my awareness and sense of self. It only causes problems.
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I would imagine it has been brought to the forefront of people's minds because of recent elections where some form or another of legalization/decriminalization has been passed.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
No - in the last few week across the net the interest and posting of marijuana related questions, debates and articles has skyrocketed . . . and I wouldn't smoke it regardless - I don't like to alter my awareness and sense of self. It only causes problems.
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Your town must have some gooooood weed if it does all that.....
 
Fisher said:
Your town must have some gooooood weed if it does all that.....
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Oh - it doesn't skew anyone's senses? Pray tell why do people want to smoke it so much?
 
Aunt Spiker said:
Oh - it doesn't skew anyone's senses? Pray tell why do people want to smoke it so much?
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Because they think it does. I have a theory that it is the holding it in their lungs for an extended period of time that gives them more of the rush than the weed itself......all theoretical of course as I would never partake in the ways of the wicked people whose self-indulgence contribute to a lawless culture that is destroying my ability to get a slice of the apple pie.
 
Fisher said:
Because they think it does. I have a theory that it is the holding it in their lungs for an extended period of time that gives them more of the rush than the weed itself......all theoretical of course as I would never partake in the ways of the wicked people whose self-indulgence contribute to a lawless culture that is destroying my ability to get a slice of the apple pie.
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My brief experience with it 14 years ago was enough for me never to want to find out anymore about it.

Some people like being high - no matter what the means - and some people don't. LIkewise - some people are probably more sensitive to it and others aren't. Knowing me and how easy it is from me to get tipsy and how quick meds are to rush into effect - I think I'm just overly sensitive to substances in general and thus I tend to avoid everything.
 
Aunt Spiker said:
My brief experience with it 14 years ago was enough for me never to want to find out anymore about it.

Some people like being high - no matter what the means - and some people don't. LIkewise - some people are probably more sensitive to it and others aren't. Knowing me and how easy it is from me to get tipsy and how quick meds are to rush into effect - I think I'm just overly sensitive to substances in general and thus I tend to avoid everything.
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Oh I have smoked the whacky weed.....I was being droll. I don't know why it works for people experiencing nausea because the smell alone makes me want to puke. To me it was more a sure I'll take a hit so the stoners don't feel uncomfortable having me around their party thing.
 
If a law like that was enacted we would have bigger problems than just worrying about whether we would still be getting stoned or not.
 
Fisher said:
Because they think it does. I have a theory that it is the holding it in their lungs for an extended period of time that gives them more of the rush than the weed itself......all theoretical of course as I would never partake in the ways of the wicked people whose self-indulgence contribute to a lawless culture that is destroying my ability to get a slice of the apple pie.
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1. THC is real
2. If marijuana was legal to grow then no one would need to buy it from thugs, not that most people buy weed from thugs in the first place.
3. Damn you now I want some apple pie.
 
Goshin said:
There's some country, I think it is Indonesia?, where they execute you for possessing the tiniest amount of any drug... and still they have druggies and drug dealers.

Addicted is addicted, and there's too much money in dealing it.
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The fallacy with your argument is that marijuana is not addictive.
 
The chief question for pot smokers would no doubt be: "How will the death penalty be administered? Because if you plan to make me smoke pot until I die, I'm all in."
 
Yes. Since such punishment would be possible only in some insane totalitarian dictatorship, I would continue smoking it - after securing the position of dictator for myself.
 
no vote
I would never use this poison or any poison, IMO.
Others may, that is their business
IF, I were a user, no, I'd be too busy protesting this insanity..
YES, I think there are extremists who would make drug use a capital crime..
I was much that way at one time...
 
danarhea said:
The fallacy with your argument is that marijuana is not addictive.
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That is debatable...many hold that marijuana use can lead to stronger additive drugs....the line must be drawn, should it not be..
BTW, drugs should be legal, taxed and controlled....then, very likely, NO gun rights for "strong" drug users..
 
Even if the penalty were death, I'd still use it, because it enriches my life. I would simply be more careful, and even more disgusted with the state. Besides, chances are if they're executing pot smokers, they're executing people for a LOT of other reasons as well, in which case it wouldn't matter.

Goshin said:
There's some country, I think it is Indonesia?, where they execute you for possessing the tiniest amount of any drug... and still they have druggies and drug dealers.

Addicted is addicted, and there's too much money in dealing it.
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For most pot users it has nothing to do with addiction, because for most it's really not addictive, just pleasant. I for one use it not just for recreation, but to help against my genetic depression. Horrible depression and substance abuse run in my family, my great uncle drank himself to death. I prefer to use a drug that I can still function on, has no negative long term health effects, and is impossible to OD on.
 
If you lived under the kind of government that passes such laws, you'd have bigger problems than getting a buzz.
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Watch locked up abroad, pretty cool stuff.
They can hang you in Kuwait for possession.

Checking this now, the death penalty for drugs is in a lot of ME countries.

Capital punishment for drug trafficking - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This is somewhat misleading, because no distinction is made between maxmal punishment that is on the books, but rarely or never used, and actual frequent executions.
For example, our ghastly Federal Death Penalty Act of 1994 was never actually implemented in practice, as far as I know.

But, in any case, being listed in the sweet company of cubas and north koreas should give some people pause.
 
If such a tyrannical government were in place I'd see no need to bend a knee. Lock and load. Light'em up.
 
Haven't had the Pleasure- In many years, it was never My addiction of choice, So No- i wouldn't as I don't care for the Drug, however,
Food is also an addiction, but no one is trying to penalize folks for that, ........... So... IMO.. It would just Be '''''' MORE............. Govt. Control Over"
the people.
 
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