It should be like Holland, where you can carry some quantity with you, legaly. Wouldn’t have that much traffic, and the world would be a calmer and less stressful place =p
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
Jacob, marijuana does not cause people to harm themselves or others, it’s more of a calming drug.
alemao_8 wrote:
It should be like Holland, where you can carry some quantity with you, legaly. Wouldn’t have that much traffic, and the world would be a calmer and less stressful place =p
I agree, but what about people who think that marijuana is as mind altering as alcohal?
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Legalize it! Tax benefits, end to violence, less filtered into kids, government distribution and potency control, the list goes on.
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Jacob, marijuana does not cause people to harm themselves or others, it’s more of a calming drug.
it can too, i had a friend in the process of “being calm” and he fell into a bon fire.
Rowass, Gone wrote:
Legalize it! Tax benefits, end to violence, less filtered into kids, government distribution and potency control, the list goes on.
Agreed. The price of marijuana would drop so much from the legalization of the drug that the taxes added to the prices of it will just even it back to what it was before so there wont be a dramatic increase of the price.
LHLord… wrote:
alemao_8 wrote:
It should be like Holland, where you can carry some quantity with you, legaly. Wouldn’t have that much traffic, and the world would be a calmer and less stressful place =p
I agree, but what about people who think that marijuana is as mind altering as alcohal?
Go on national tv =p
Marihuana is a calming drug, not like ex or cocaine, that makes you nervous and agitated. People should now that. That’s why I wrote: a calmer and less stressful world.
;]
jacobingram wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Jacob, marijuana does not cause people to harm themselves or others, it’s more of a calming drug.
it can too, i had a friend in the process of “being calm” and he fell into a bon fire.
I wouldn’t blame that on marijuana, I would just blame that on your friends maladroitness.
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
There is a difference between legalizing it and decriminalizing it. I think we as tax payers spend way too much money in arresting, prosecuting and keeping locked up someone for just merely smoking a joint.
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
It will save a lot of wasted time and money for the DEA so that they can be worried about more important things, and it will help the economy from the tax.
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
And its proved to kill brain cells, and it also causes people to be incredibly hungry which will only increase our nations obesity issues. The cons of marijuana out weigh its pros
i dont smoke, but if tobacco and alcohol are, weed is basically a combination of the two and is a lot more healthy than they are, so why not?
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
It will save a lot of wasted time and money for the DEA so that they can be worried about more important things, and it will help the economy from the tax.
stopping enforcement on something that has been a long term battle would make the governmant look week, like it’s just giving up.
jacobingram wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
And its proved to kill brain cells, and it also causes people to be incredibly hungry which will only increase our nations obesity issues. The cons of marijuana out weigh its pros
I would rather people be smoking marijuana legally than sniffing air duster or huffing gas, which is so much more dangerous and bad for your brain that marijuana is. Legalizing/Decriminalizing marijuana would just lower the usage of other more harmful drugs.
jacobingram wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Marijuana is no worse than alcohol, I don’t see any reason why you would think it’s not okay to smoke it, as long as the government doesn’t fill it with nicotine and other toxins.
it’s just another pointless health hazard. and just because it is “no worse than alcohol”, doesn’t make it beneficial in any way…
And its proved to kill brain cells, and it also causes people to be incredibly hungry which will only increase our nations obesity issues. The cons of marijuana out weigh its pros
actually no… it is proven to NOT kill brain cells, but it can cause certain kinds if cancer and other health hazards.
i do see from the side that your coming from and i will say that if marijuana were to be legalized then it needs to at least be set an age limit, like alcohol.
Just about every legal drug you could find in a pharmacy is proven to cause cancer.
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Just about every legal drug you could find in a pharmacy is proven to cause cancer.
only with long term and unrecommended use.
jacobingram wrote:
i do see from the side that your coming from and i will say that if marijuana were to be legalized then it needs to at least be set an age limit, like alcohol.
Of course there would be an age limit, that’s evident.
miss_alyse wrote:
jacobingram wrote:
I personally think its a terrible idea (wait for the boo’s) it alters the mind and causes the person using it to (sometimes) perform actions that will harm them or others. Also, if they legalize it the users may lose that thrill (or fun) for using something legal and move on to more dangerous drugs. But doesnt matter, really, what i or others think cause people will continue to use it legal or not.
very much agreed! i think it would be an extremely bad idea to legalize the drug because that basically means the government is saying it is okay, when it’s not!
Cigarets are worst then weed. It’s easier to drop weed than cigarets.
If I could change it, weed would be ok, cigarets wouldn’t.
true, and with all the teens and adults already using marijuana illegaly, as soon as its legalized there would be a major increase in the use and in cases of cancer.
miss_alyse wrote:
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Just about every legal drug you could find in a pharmacy is proven to cause cancer.
only with long term and unrecommended use.
Same as marijuana..
i dont see how either is easier then the other, both are major addictions
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Jacob, marijuana does not cause people to harm themselves or others, it’s more of a calming drug.
also calling back to this, i said that sometimes it did not all the time
After having had some work experiance on a psychiatric ward, it seems pretty clear that there is a link between smoking marijuana and mental health problems. Every schizophrenic I met was a heavy user of marijuana.
A few side notes:
Marijuana is not a physically addictive drug, unlike the nicotine found in cigarettes.
Marijuana is known to make some people very paranoid, although most people feel calm.
legalize the hell out if it, and all drugs while your at it…
Paranoia isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can make you more aware. :P
A lot of you are missing the point. The government has no right to tell us that we cant do drugs that alter our minds if we so choose.
Snar wrote:
A lot of you are missing the point. The government has no right to tell us that we cant do drugs that alter our minds if we so choose.
You make a fair point. Although you could also say the government has no right to ban euthanasia (assisted suicide).
It can be argued that, if we legalise one drug we should legalise them all really. One obvious benefit would be that it would crush the black market drug trade.
And there is a risk of legalisation too. Not everyone knows the risks of the drugs they are taking. I doubt many people here on this page even know why it is banned (it has nothing to do with addiction).
I DO believe the government has no right to ban euthanasia and I DO think all drugs should be legal.
Dr. Qwerty wrote:
Paranoia isn’t necessarily a bad thing, it can make you more aware. :P
Awareness to the point of paranoia isn’t necessarily a good thing either.
Snar wrote:
A lot of you are missing the point. The government has no right to tell us that we cant do drugs that alter our minds if we so choose.
that is the best offense to get it legalized, because it is true, the government should not be able to take rights away from americans only protect them. This argument is very much like when the gov. tried to make alcohol illegal.
jacobingram wrote:
Snar wrote:
A lot of you are missing the point. The government has no right to tell us that we cant do drugs that alter our minds if we so choose.
that is the best offense to get it legalized, because it is true, the government should not be able to take rights away from americans only protect them. This argument is very much like when the gov. tried to make alcohol illegal.
Not alike, its the same. Just as the government has no right to deny you alchohol, it has no right to deny you drugs.
not intirely, drugs like coke, ex, and more serious do not need to be legalized at all
jacobingram wrote:
not intirely, drugs like coke, ex, and more serious do not need to be legalized at all
Thats your opinion, I feel that they do. If someone whats do to that, they have every right to in my opinion. Do they have the right to go out and drive? No, but neither do people who have been drinking.
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Thanks for all the replies! Your feedback is great!
Marijuana should be legalized because it hasn’t been proven to be any more harmful to your body than over the counter drugs - with long term use of course. I don’t think drugs like cocaine, X, heroin, etc. should be legalized because it is proven to be harmful to your mind and body.
Heres another topic:
Weed and pregnancy.
Do you think it is safe for a woman to smoke marijuana while pregnant? Any proven harmful effects to child? I have heard it causes ADD and ADHD later on in the child’s life. Is this true? I personally quit smoking the day I found out I was pregnant, when I was only 4 weeks along. I took all my prenatal vitamins and every other precaution I could, and I went to all my doctor appointments once a month. The first 3 months of pregnancy I was sick almost every day and lost 15 lbs. I also had severe mood swings and irritability the whole time due to the combination of my boyfriend losing his job, me being laid off, and not smoking. When I was 26 weeks along, I had to have an emergency c section and my son was born 14 weeks premature at 13.5″ long from head to toe and 1 lb 15 oz for unknown reasons. He spent the next 3 months in the hospital… now he’s home and healthy. I can’t help but wonder if I had not stopped smoking when I found out I was pregnant if I would have been as stressed and if I would have had a healthier, less miserable beginning of the pregnancy. What do you think?
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Well I sure would like for the government to wake up and see the positive aspects of it!…..but as we all can see there are a lot of greedy CLOSE MINDED individuals in powerful places so I doubt it will become legal anytime soon ……….plus I think the TRUE DRUG KINGPINS are in league with said powerful people …..so AT THE END is all about MONEY and MORAL PERCEPTION ……….as for my personal opinion I think WEED is a good drug to have in parties but when it becomes addictive it can sure become a hellhole just like alcohol……plus once you have a HORRENDOUS EXPERIENCE with it you might as well stop cause you start getting more paranoid and start having less fun !!
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