DeFcOn

I think that marijuana should be legalized. it is proven that marijuana helps with anorexia and other disorders of that nature. why shouldn't they legalize something for the good of man kind

Spatcher

Um..... have you seen the people who smoke this???

If they legalized it, then people would flock to buy it, giving even more money to the drug dealers (or growers), then people'll want plenty of other drugs legalized....

Fox

Nah the dealers would disappear because they'd be out of a job. It doesn't take a lot to grow marijuana- I'm not speaking from experience, but I've been to europe and they smoke their fair share of it in Amsterdam and in the part of Germany I stayed in.

But to be honest, I don't think it would be a very good idea. Amsterdam is a hellhole, and I think legalized drugs are a part of it. People that do pot get lazy as hell and they don't care about anything else but getting burned again and again. It completely takes away motivation and more than anything else makes the user look and act dumb as hell.

elf

IF they legalized it, they could tax it like cigarettes, they could regulate it and grow it in the U.S. it would be the same as tobacco, in that it would become a huge industry and provide jobs to millions. With a sin tax and regulations in place not only would marijuana be as safe as cigarettes and alcohol, it would be an enormous boost to our economy. On top of that, once it was legalized it would actually rid us of many of the drug lords who make so much of their money by illegally providing this product (and since it is not regulated, they can put anything they want in it, which makes it significantly more dangerous)

Now, the fact that it is as deadly as cigarettes or drinking and they are trying to outlaw both of those...I doubt miss. mary will be legalized any time soon.

yustr

I agreed with you up until here....according to the WHO (thats' the World Health Organization not the greatest rock band ever): "The acute toxicity of cannabis is very low. There are no confirmed cases of human deaths from cannabis poisoning in the world medical literature." So it's not even in the same universe with cig's that kill 500,000 people every year in America alone...

elf

I have heard (now I have heard this from people against pot so it may just be them lying) that 1 joint has as much cancer causing materials as 4 cigarettes...

Obviously it's not going to be as documented as cigarettes because it is illegal.

PurpleSky

It means more money for everybody when it is illegal. Life is a weird place.

Also i do not agree we need to get our brains numbed to be able to keep the peace. We would let god fail if we numb ourselves. God, life, human kind and the nature is great just the way it is. The thing makes you think you would feel better with it is the way of life human beings has chosen. A fifteen year old can not buy cigarettes but they sure can find marijuanna when they wish to, blame the ones who can't (dont want to) stop it. We can't win if we chose the way to lose ( you are impaired when you use marijuanna )

Fox

I think we owe it to ourselves to not do drugs. I see the poorest of the poor and the most screwed up people where I work. It always baffles me to think how a person gets that way, and I'm sure drugs have a place somewhere in there. It's not that hard to pick them out of the crowd. They're usually the ones buying the cigarettes.

elf

I also agree we don't need to numb ourselves to keep the peace, but I see no reason to keep marijuana illegal while alcohol and cigarettes are still legal...

jgvernonco

I had a flashback to the 70's due to the gasoline thread, and now I am doing it again.

It is the will of the people to alter their senses...prohibition proved that.

Legalized and regulated, mj would be more expensive and less available than it is today. Hawaii would have a new industry, South American economies would plummet, and all would be well in the world.

whodat

then of course, we get the creeps spiceing the blunts with all kinds of great chemicals...ground up vicodine, heroine, angel dust and selling them to our kids.

DumberDrummer

would you buy a ciggarette from someone on the street?

I sure wouldn't, I'd buy them at wal-mart or something if I smoked, so I didn't have to worry about people "spiking" them.


While I agree that legalizing MJ may be good for some reasons, I've seen what it does to people first hand. A lot of people at my school are users, at least one that I know of since the 6th grade.

They walk around aimlessly, can't carry on a normal conversation, think everything is funny, get heavily freckled faces, and are just not even capable of thinking clearly.

I'd have to disagree with legalizing it because it "doesn't cause as much damage." It messes with your head really bad, even if it doesn't kill you. And I think it can kill you. Do you think all the users of Marijuana are going to go up to a doctor and say "I have cancer" or get themselves examined and admit that they use it? That's a straight ticket to being busted right there. If we legalize it, we may find out more than we ever want to know about it, and it will end up being something on par with cigarrettes.

if I was forced to choose, I'd rather die then become some bumbling idiot walking around in a stoned stupor all the time.

bry623

Euthenasia would be for the good of mankind, should we legalize that?

I personally don't care if they legalize it or not. Either way it would have no negative impact on me. Besides, it is a naturally growing substance. It would be different if it had to my manufactured like Crystal Meth.

yustr

After they discovered MJ being grown by "primative" tribes in Africa, Carl Sagan once speculated that perhaps MJ was actually the first cultivated crop - not grain.

Here's one for the Oral Roberts: If God created it, how can it be bad?

bry623

God created Katrina, it couldn't be all that bad.

yustr

Apples and oranges friend...

MJ is only "bad" because it isn't a socially acceptable drug in our society. (And every society ever studied has had at least some socially acceptable drugs.) There is nothing inherently bad about it. So in a sense, we've gone against God's will by outlawing it.

Natural disasters can't be viewed as humans doing something contrary to God's will...unless we rebuild in the same spot...or develop a way to defuse them...And most disasters are really only a problem if we're in the way. Mountians are going to crumble into the sea. No prob except if your house starts slipping. Then who's fault is it? Your's or the mountain's?

ebackhus

Yours because you CHOSE to live in front of a mountain.

I recommend you all hit your local library and check out "The Darwin Awards" to see how people have been willfully removing themselves form the genepool.

bry623

So let's say you have a home destroyed in a California earthquake. Is it God's will, or is it your fault because you chose to live within the ring of fire?

MD_Willington

Who do think would grow it...I mean en mass...

Con Agra, ADM all the big guys, hell they would even GE the stuff into super wicked weed, BC bud would be in the "mellow" or "mild" package...

ebackhus

If you believe that God smites those with whom He is displeased, then in your own mind God is at fault. I believe it's your fault because you built in an area that was prone to destruction.