Wow! Yes/no. The issues will never be totally respolved. But the issue is that are the same people that were screaming about the evils of homosexuality are now focusing on the use of pot? What is the next big debate? We have seen tobacco use restricted from nearly all public places (including the town square where I live). We have seen schools deny something as innocuous as ASPRIN because it may be listed as a drug. Pot has been used for decades, even centuries. We HAVE the data to know if it is life threatening or not. Lets get over it and move on to bigger issues, like feeding the hungry, housing for the poor, something actually CONSTRUCTIVE!
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Kiid Wrote:... marijuana should be decriminalized and controlled. politicians will create a whole new arm of the government.
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jimbopdxus Wrote:Wow! Yes/no. The issues will never be totally respolved. But the issue is that are the same people that were screaming about the evils of homosexuality are now focusing on the use of pot? What is the next big debate? We have seen tobacco use restricted from nearly all public places (including the town square where I live). We have seen schools deny something as innocuous as ASPRIN because it may be listed as a drug. Pot has been used for decades, even centuries. We HAVE the data to know if it is life threatening or not. Lets get over it and move on to bigger issues, like feeding the hungry, housing for the poor, something actually CONSTRUCTIVE!
Thanks jim. I think that the governments need to look at the issues world wide and within out own countries. We have so much stuff we can give away. And there are so many people who could do with things we don't need. We waste and waste and waste and we become lazy. We are lazy as human beings. there are people who actually understand hard work and get nothing for it. Most of us are lucky to live in the first world. We don't understand what is actually going on in the rest of the world. We know it's bad but I'm sure it's worse.
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Yes legalize pot, or criminalize tobacco and alcohol one.
Tobacco causes cancer but, it's legal.
Alcohol causes cirrhosis of the liver but, it's legal.
And that doesn't take into account the guy that drives drunk and kills your child, the one that robs you for cigarette money or anything like that. Sure pot might cause some of the same things, but there's no reason to keep it illegal when things that do worse, just on health alone are legal.
I know the risks of smoking tobacco, still gonna smoke, drink now and then too. You really think education matters? Nope, I use what I like because I like it and if it kills me oh well, so can lots of things. What good is living another 10 or 15 years if I can't have a darned thing I enjoy anyway? So tell me it's bad all you want, I like it, I will smoke it, legal or not. If I don't like it I won't smoke it. It's as simple as that, people do what they like doing, laws or not.
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Raccoon Wrote:I'm a heavy drinker and I'm sure I'm more likely to kill myself and others before someone smoking pot is.
^ Why I vote yes. Nobody dies detoxing from weed.
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I used to work as a salaried advisor on the UK Department of Health owned National Help Lines, including the National Drugs Helpline (Now called "Frank").
I must have listened to so many people talking about their concernes for others who used cannabis. What many people don't think of is that once cannabit use becomes a habit and is used at such a rate and quantity that it begins to interfeer with that persons ability to function it isn't just the user who suffers but their family, friends and loved ones.
I spoke to so many concerned people, users and others concerned about a user, all telling me how the person they once knew had turned in a vertual zombie. Sleeping to well after midday and generally dropping out of their own life.
These days Canabis has become subject to selection by growers so that more and more stronger verieties are grown. It's more powerful than it was back in the 60's and 70's.
THC The active compound of cannabis can make emotional issues worse or even cause what is known as Canabis Psychosis.
No, keep it at Class B.
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People are going to acquire the goods they desire.
Basic fact of human civilization. If there is a niche, it will be filled by enterprising individuals. Or, more likely, organised crime (those very same individuals, just, now with lackeys!)
It's all enabled by the human desire to control. Stop trying to control, and you destroy the niche that cartels require to survive. I don't care what your moral stance on drugs is. Morality is inferior in the face of a safer reality, imo.
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Vigilias Wrote:It's more powerful than it was back in the 60's and 70's.
That's actually a reason I'd like to see it decriminalized. Under prohibition (this was true of alcohol as well) the stronger stuff is pushed because it's more addictive and the criminal dealers can charge more so that they get more buck for the risks they take (the risks being the same no matter how strong or weak it is). That is I believe it's stronger today because of prohibition, just like with alcohol. And, of course, criminals can't be regulated, forced to label, or sued.
In addition, decriminalization takes it out of the hands of criminals (just as overturning alcohol prohibition did) which causes the gangs to weaken if not collapse (Al Capone would've just been a pimp no one knew today save alcohol prohibition changed his destiny), and the gangs get as many hooked as possible and as young as possible, so decriminalization would not only take care of the stronger stuff but also see less unethical peddling on kids and others. And it would be much easier to get help without fear of being fired or arrest. That is decriminalization should lead to weaker pot, less use of pot, less addiction, less ill effects of pot, and less kids on pot.
It sure worked out that way in Portugal.
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Vigilias Wrote:It's more powerful than it was back in the 60's and 70's.
Untrue. This was stated in a bias study done buy government. They tested weed from the 60's/70's (that had deteriorated) against there test weed.
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I support legalization. I'm not gonna lie, I enjoy a nice bowl every now and again. Nobody has ever died from weed, and most people I know who smoke are intelligent, and can actually hold a conversation. I live in Massachusetts so where I'm at the marijuana laws are pretty lax, so I feel like legalization is inevitable.
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Marijuana. Legalize It?
