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Should marijuana be legalized?

Should we legalize pot?


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it's no more dnagerous than alcohol, less so, probably. i've never met a mean pot-head. ;-)

I agree that pot is no more dangerous than alchohol.
I think that having one legal dangerous drug is enough.
There is room for compromise maybe.
A relatively low thc content bud or hash may be an answer.
 
:rofl he was going to get schizophrenia anyway! Marijuana does not cause it, but can bring it out sooner in someone. So he smoked pot and beat his wife...it is not funny but I keep laughing. the person who wrote this has obviously never smoked. It makes you introverted and peaceful not aggressive! That person had issues to begin with.

YES it should be legal but not for medicinal purposes. There are other drugs with less side effects. Once a marijuana breathalyzer is developed the government will capitalize on it, I assume that is how they plan on paying back all the $$$ they spent.

Anyone who says it should not be legal is not considering that:
-marijuana makes you passive/alcohol makes you aggressive
-marijuana is not physically addictive/alcohol is
-marijuana makes you drive slower and be more cautious/alcohol makes you reckless (not that you should be on the road while intoxicated)
-marijuana is a bronchial dilator, and does not cause lung cancer. In fact, cannibinoids (sp?) actually have cancer fighting properties- I can back this up with medical studies of anyone wants.../alcohol kills your liver

Not that I advocate smoking it, but it is a given if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be too. But it opens your mind (brain circuit 5 I believe as opposed to alcohols #2) which is dangerous for the government. Open minded people are harder to manipulate.
marijuana can be addictive to people who have addicitive tendencies, just like anything else. it should be legal, but i wouldn't discount some of the problems it can cause.
 
I disagree. I've been smoking over fifty years and I never met anyone it has killed. The dea lies and even says that it is addictive. That's total bull.

Water is more dangerous than pot. A contestent recently died from water intoxication.

I get a kick out of the lies the media tells about it. They often say that so and so was smoking marijuana during a crime but fail to mention that so and so was drunk out of their minds, too. They blame the pot and disregard more abusive drugs.
Sure, there is a lot of demonising going on in the media, but pot is actually addictive, just as sugar is. It does cause withdrawal symptoms ranging from craving and mood swings to disorientation.
 
:rofl he was going to get schizophrenia anyway! Marijuana does not cause it, but can bring it out sooner in someone. So he smoked pot and beat his wife...it is not funny but I keep laughing. the person who wrote this has obviously never smoked. It makes you introverted and peaceful not aggressive! That person had issues to begin with.

YES it should be legal but not for medicinal purposes. There are other drugs with less side effects. Once a marijuana breathalyzer is developed the government will capitalize on it, I assume that is how they plan on paying back all the $$$ they spent.

Anyone who says it should not be legal is not considering that:
-marijuana makes you passive/alcohol makes you aggressive
-marijuana is not physically addictive/alcohol is
-marijuana makes you drive slower and be more cautious/alcohol makes you reckless (not that you should be on the road while intoxicated)
-marijuana is a bronchial dilator, and does not cause lung cancer. In fact, cannibinoids (sp?) actually have cancer fighting properties- I can back this up with medical studies of anyone wants.../alcohol kills your liver

Not that I advocate smoking it, but it is a given if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be too. But it opens your mind (brain circuit 5 I believe as opposed to alcohols #2) which is dangerous for the government. Open minded people are harder to manipulate.

Someone I know has MS and grows their own bud.
The pot has a very beneficial effect ,it reduces the symptoms of the MS considerably.
Pot has some good points but allowing the strong bud to be legal is simply wrong..like only allowing alchohol to be sold as absinthe.
 
angry- fact is people are going to smoke whether or not it's legal. And we are going to continue to pay over 30k per prisoner in tax dollars to jail people that are only hurting themselves (dealers included! Buyers do it to themselves)

Legalizing it would:

-Make us a TON of money. The government could tax the $h!+ out of it and the lazy pot heads could make up for their lack of income tax.
-Eliminate it from being a gateway drug. It is ONLY a gateway drug BECAUSE it is illegal. Think about it.
-Save us a ton of money. Who wants to put potheads in jail? Just let them hang out on their couches. They aren't causing many problems, except perhaps starting chaos in their video games

Come on people, this is beneficial to ALL, smokers and non. :doh
 
It can bring on depression and make people delusional.
If you have been smoking it for fifty years and you have never met a 'pot head' then you couldnt have been looking.
You dont die of an overdose and it doesnt usually make people violent but its still a nasty drug

How do you know? Have you ever tried it? Being broke depresses me. "dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." (furry freak brothers)
 
If and only if it is then stringently taxed and regulated.

Cannabis should be available in pharmacies, behind the counter. It should be illegal for sale to minors, illegal to advertise, and there should be strict laws governing public consumption and/or intoxication. Much the same way that tobacco and other drugs should be handled. Tax monies should go healthcare and rehabilitation programs.
 
angry- fact is people are going to smoke whether or not it's legal. And we are going to continue to pay over 30k per prisoner in tax dollars to jail people that are only hurting themselves (dealers included! Buyers do it to themselves)

Legalizing it would:

-Make us a TON of money. The government could tax the $h!+ out of it and the lazy pot heads could make up for their lack of income tax.
-Eliminate it from being a gateway drug. It is ONLY a gateway drug BECAUSE it is illegal. Think about it.
-Save us a ton of money. Who wants to put potheads in jail? Just let them hang out on their couches. They aren't causing many problems, except perhaps starting chaos in their video games

Come on people, this is beneficial to ALL, smokers and non. :doh

You have a point but making it legal because some people are going to do it anyway is not really a reason to legitimise it
.If legitimising pot brings about a huge rise in mental illness then your argument falls apart. It is known that pot exacerbates depression and makes people delusional if taken in extreme.
Alchohol doing the same is no reason legalise another dangerous drug.
I dont know about the USA but in Europe we have all but made tobacco illegal to be smoked in public places because it is dangerous drug.
 
How do you know? Have you ever tried it? Being broke depresses me. "dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." (furry freak brothers)

I have smoked it and eaten it. I have known a lot of people that have been tokers.
A few have been losers that smoked dope and some have smoked dope then become losers.
Ive never met a toker who didnt become agitated if they couldnt get a spliff but somehow they reckoned that pot wasnt addictive.
All of the people that I have known that had been a toker for a long time have been just as much a loser as drunkards..they just didnt realise it.
 
For people who say ALL drugs should be legal.. I tend to agree that the drug war is a bad idea. But does this include Rohypnol and other so-called "date rape drugs"? Does this include tranquilizers or anesthetics such as chloroform that could be used as a weapon? Does this include antibiotics that produce drug-resistant disease strains when taken unnecessarily? Does this include chemical weapons or other substances used in their development? :mrgreen:
 
For people who say ALL drugs should be legal.. I tend to agree that the drug war is a bad idea. But does this include Rohypnol and other so-called "date rape drugs"?

Like other hard drugs, I would require that people purchasing them present photo ID and sign for the dosage and quantity they receive. I'm on "date rape drugs" right now; I have to take enough "date rape drugs" in a month to sneaky Pete an entire college campus just to keep myself out of trouble. I get these drugs on no more authority than my own signature plus my doctor's.

How much more dangerous would it be, really, if the doctor's signature were not required? It isn't hard to fake my symptoms, and I got prescribed my drugs on my first visit to a nurse practitioner.

Does this include tranquilizers or anesthetics such as chloroform that could be used as a weapon?

Ten dollars in nickels and a two dollar pair of pantyhose will do the same thing cheaper.

Does this include antibiotics that produce drug-resistant disease strains when taken unnecessarily?

Doctors prescribe these unnecessarily all the time. Status quo.

Does this include chemical weapons or other substances used in their development? :mrgreen:

Governments shouldn't be allowed to own chemical weapons. As far as "substances used in their development", I could easily kill a small town for a couple hundred dollars and I am a caveman compared to some of my friends. There's no way to control this.
 
I don't smoke it but once upon a time I did. Yes, they should legalize it but with restrictions. I know some are going, "Say what"?!!!

I think it should be used in the privacy of a dwelling (house, apt, whatever) and not out while driving. My reason for this is I was an insurance agent for 25 yrs. and young drivers were shown to have less reactive time in accidents and also other drivers.

Now, I am not going to go looking for a link.

It should still be considered "Driving under the influence" if pulled over and they find out your higher than a kite. I say keep that ticket as a way to insure responsibility when under the influence.

I am sure any reasonable person would agree with this idea.
 
The fact is, people are going to do it either way and we are spending a ton of money putting people behind bars (which corrupts people more) for doing something that is only going to hurt themselves. We could be MAKING money on something people are already doing instead of spending it! HELLO!!!! Liberals- this means legalizing pot and social liberation. Republicans- it is good for the economy, and we all know you know economics like no others...
This is something both parties should be uniting on!

As for the addiction issue...so is coffee. Let's make that illegal, and HEY chocolate while we are at it (especially considering if you eat enough chocolate it has an effect similar to THC- but you would have to eat like 40lbs) It is addictive, yes, but PSYCHOLOGICALLY. Which means it is all in your HEAD. Don't drink alcohal when you are a big time alcoholic and that can KILL you it is so physically addictive. Drink too much, that'll kill you as well. But hey, alcohol is way more harmless than pot.

Look, if you don't think alcohol should be legal, fine. But if you are ranting about something like marijuana being legal and you think alcohol should be...I have no respect for that because that is just ridiculous!

Anything not used in moderation (or sometimes used at all) can cause mental illness. The REAL issue with legalizing marijuana is the idiots that would smoke around kids and not realize that this type of second hand smoke would do more than just cause lung irritation- it would get them high. But again these are the same idiots that would do it anyway.

Legalizing it would not cause more potheads, those who smoke will continue to but contribute to their country through taxation everytime they do...and those who did not like it before will still dislike marijuana. So if they are going to do it anyway why not save some money and capitalize on it???? :confused:
 
You have a point but making it legal because some people are going to do it anyway is not really a reason to legitimise it
It's not just some people, but masses of them.
That's not a sufficient reason on its own, but it adds impact to the points raised, most importantly regarding the cost of policing versus the income from taxation.
.If legitimising pot brings about a huge rise in mental illness then your argument falls apart. It is known that pot exacerbates depression and makes people delusional if taken in extreme.
I doesn't.
The negative impact in triggering or amplifying mental health problems is marginal and mostly concerning adolescent users who should be excluded from sales licensing, same as with alcohol.

Alchohol doing the same is no reason legalise another dangerous drug.
I dont know about the USA but in Europe we have all but made tobacco illegal to be smoked in public places because it is dangerous drug.
The health risks of regular marijuana consumption are considerably lower than of alcohol and tobacco, and consumption in public could be equally restricted as for tobacco.
 
For people who say ALL drugs should be legal.. I tend to agree that the drug war is a bad idea. But does this include Rohypnol and other so-called "date rape drugs"? Does this include tranquilizers or anesthetics such as chloroform that could be used as a weapon? Does this include antibiotics that produce drug-resistant disease strains when taken unnecessarily? Does this include chemical weapons or other substances used in their development? :mrgreen:

Should authorities have the power to search and arrest you for possessing drugs? If so, this pushes the entities behind closed doors where the regulators are the price setters. Ha! How well is this working?

The solution is definitely not creating criminals.
 
It's not just some people, but masses of them.
That's not a sufficient reason on its own, but it adds impact to the points raised, most importantly regarding the cost of policing versus the income from taxation.
I doesn't.
The negative impact in triggering or amplifying mental health problems is marginal and mostly concerning adolescent users who should be excluded from sales licensing, same as with alcohol.

The health risks of regular marijuana consumption are considerably lower than of alcohol and tobacco, and consumption in public could be equally restricted as for tobacco.

Masses of people exceed the speed limit in their cars ,according to your logic we should abandon speed limits on roads.
Amplifying mental health problems are not marginal, they are a serious consequence for many pot smokers.
 
Should authorities have the power to search and arrest you for possessing drugs? If so, this pushes the entities behind closed doors where the regulators are the price setters. Ha! How well is this working?

The solution is definitely not creating criminals.

I favor a policy where possession is legal but use is illegal (though certainly a misdemeanor). It's not safe to have heroin addicts shooting up on the street or driving automobiles any more than it is having people walk around drunk. But I'm fine with recreational use in the privacy of your own home. Even if it kills you.

I don't know if this should cover date-rape drugs or the other things I mentioned. If a rapist goes into a bar with a baggy full of Rohypnol in his pocket it makes a dangerous environment. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. It is significantly easier to drop a pill into a woman's drink unnoticed than it is to bash her with a sock full of nickels.

We should ban cigarettes and alcohol, not legalize marijuana. All 3 of them should have the exact same status in my opinion.

How'd that work out the last time we tried it?
 
Masses of people exceed the speed limit in their cars ,according to your logic we should abandon speed limits on roads.
Nope, I purposefully excluded this misinterpretation of my argument. It's right there in the text you quoted;
"That's not a sufficient reason on its own, but it adds ..."
Amplifying mental health problems are not marginal, they are a serious consequence for many pot smokers.
Can you back this claim up, I have not read about this.
How large and significant is the group of people for whom mental health problems are a consequence of pot-smoking?
 
We have enough problems with alchohol.
The high strength bud thats around is dangerous to mental health.
I've met a few people that have been damaged by smoking dope.

So what? Who are you to stop me from smoking marijuana? If I want to take the risk it should be my choice.
 
I favor a policy where possession is legal but use is illegal (though certainly a misdemeanor). It's not safe to have heroin addicts shooting up on the street or driving automobiles any more than it is having people walk around drunk. But I'm fine with recreational use in the privacy of your own home. Even if it kills you.

I don't know if this should cover date-rape drugs or the other things I mentioned. If a rapist goes into a bar with a baggy full of Rohypnol in his pocket it makes a dangerous environment. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. It is significantly easier to drop a pill into a woman's drink unnoticed than it is to bash her with a sock full of nickels.



How'd that work out the last time we tried it?

All of this is demonstrably false. Portugal has decriminalize ALL drug USE and they haven't experienced any increases in crime which can attributed to the legal usage of drugs.
 
We should ban cigarettes and alcohol, not legalize marijuana. All 3 of them should have the exact same status in my opinion.

And just who the hell are you? You going to come to my house and take the booze out of my fridge? You going to come over and take the weed out of my pocket? If you're not willing to do something yourself then you shouldn't be asking the government to do it for you. Keep you BS morality to yourself, please.
 
I favor a policy where possession is legal but use is illegal (though certainly a misdemeanor). It's not safe to have heroin addicts shooting up on the street or driving automobiles any more than it is having people walk around drunk. But I'm fine with recreational use in the privacy of your own home. Even if it kills you.
So, you mean to say use in public should be prohibited?
I can go along with this, and of course the same restrictions concerning driving, handling machinery etc. as with alcohol should apply.

I don't know if this should cover date-rape drugs or the other things I mentioned. If a rapist goes into a bar with a baggy full of Rohypnol in his pocket it makes a dangerous environment. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. It is significantly easier to drop a pill into a woman's drink unnoticed than it is to bash her with a sock full of nickels.
The risk and danger is there, whether it's legal or not, one cannot search everybody who enters a bar.
The manufacturer's response to this is that the original brand has a strong colouring agent and will turn a drink blue, it's the illegally produced stuff which is of concern.
 
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