Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

Started by long pig38 pagesPoll

M A R I J U A N A

Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

Do you think Cannabis should be made legal?

If yes, Why?
If no, Why?

I feel it should be legalized with the same restraint as alcohol, but with the legal age dropped to 18. (the distinction made for the benefit of our US audience members)

My reasons for such restraint are that it does impair ablilities. Not in the same way alcohol does, but nonetheless, it does impair some abilities. Most people can't go to work smashed out of their mind on liquor, why not stipulate you can't go to work while high as a kite? I don't see a problem with recreational use, though.

Furthermore, I don't think anyone would want to beat their spouse while high, a common and disastrous side effect of alcoholism. Hell, I don't think most people would even feel like getting off their ass, finding the keys, and driving while high, so for most cases, driving while high is moot. However, I feel the same restraint extended to alcohol is sufficient for the control of legalized marijuana.

Legalize it and tax it. With it legalized the retards who smoke it will be able to get more of it easier, then die faster. So everyone benefits.

Seems to me it falls in to line with extending freedom to those who don't have it.... Works for neocons too!

yes, but I'd make a law to sell it to ppl from 24 years up 😬

Of course it should be legalised. In an ideal world all drugs would be, even more so drugs that grow naturally here. Bit stupid to make nature illegal.

Originally posted by KidRock
Legalize it and tax it. With it legalized the retards who smoke it will be able to get more of it easier, then die faster. So everyone benefits.

Wanna take a guess at how many people marijuana has killed when compared to................any drug?

I'm sure it really will be quite hilarious.

-AC

3,498?

3,498 people over....................................all time, isn't a bad record considering the death toll of tobacco and alcohol.

Which are of course, both legal.

THEN take into account that marijuana is natural and it has proven to have positive effects. You don't HAVE to smoke it. You won't die from eating marijuana baked into cakes.

KidRock obviously wants it legalised and taxed so that his boy can make money off it. Which is of course one of the reasons it's illegal, because anyone can grow it.

-AC

I once te spaghetti with marijuana, I thought it was oregano 😮

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Of course it should be legalised. In an ideal world all drugs would be, even more so drugs that grow naturally here. Bit stupid to make nature illegal.

Wanna take a guess at how many people marijuana has killed when compared to................any drug?

I'm sure it really will be quite hilarious.

-AC

Now now, I think he's just referring to how many people have caught cancer from smoking it 😆

Funny point you bring up.... I wonder how many years of recorded usage Cannabis has under its belt....

Apoplexy: Concisely, an alcohol overdose.
Research assignment: Finding a recorded instance of someone overdosing on Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) -- I may have the name of that chemical spelled wrong. Mild irritations have been recorded, but can be explained by the fact that users were, in fact, lighting something on fire and sucking on it. Simply an effect of foreign inhalation.

Withdrawal: Mild to moderate, non life-threatening withdrawal symptoms occur after daily use in some users. These may last for 1-6 weeks after cessation of use and can include anxiety, anhedonia (reduced experience of pleasure), headaches, general unease/discomfort, difficulty sleeping, and a desire to smoke pot. Severity of symptoms is related to frequency of use and individual sensitivity. Slight loss of appetite, finding non-stoned life a bit dull, increased boredom. Alcohol, however, leads to a chemical dependence, hence bringing with it much more serious withdrawal symptoms.... depression, violent sickness, the whole nine yards.

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Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
why not?

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
3,498 people over....................................all time, isn't a bad record considering the death toll of tobacco and alcohol.

Which are of course, both legal.

THEN take into account that marijuana is natural and it has proven to have positive effects. You don't HAVE to smoke it. You won't die from eating marijuana baked into cakes.

KidRock obviously wants it legalised and taxed so that his boy can make money off it. Which is of course one of the reasons it's illegal, because anyone can grow it.

-AC

Actually, I was just shitting, I just spouted out a random number, I think the actual number is closer to zero.

Like... zero itself?

no one has ever died from pot. ever.

its impossible to OD from it.

People may have died while they were on pot but pot itself has never killed anyone in the history of mankind.

Originally posted by long pig
no one has ever died from pot. ever.

its impossible to OD from it.

People may have died while they were on pot but pot itself has never killed anyone in the history of mankind.

I don't know the actual fatal dose... care to look it up?

Originally posted by BackFire
Actually, I was just shitting, I just spouted out a random number, I think the actual number is closer to zero.

I am aware.

3,498 is still more than ample to prove my point, which was what I pointed out.

-AC

I think the empirical evidence against the harmfulness of Marijuana has been pounded well enough, now let's get to the spiteful rhetoric!!

Well, what ive read, theyve gave rats 50x the normal dose of a human and the rat didnt die, they upped the dose until the rat finally went to sleep. Woke up the next day like nothing happend.

So unless you're smoking 5 or 6 pound joints, you'll be ok.

Side Note: This was in a brittish science magazine, where its less of a problem to test marijuana.
In the U.S the only people who can test it are people from the DEA or related.

Also, why would the DEA make a positive report on marijuana, since its their main cash cow legalizing it would bankrupt them?

Originally posted by KidRock
Legalize it and tax it. With it legalized the retards who smoke it will be able to get more of it easier, then die faster. So everyone benefits.

wow, this has to be the STUPIDEST thing you have ever typed kidrock.
just so you know, pot doesnt kill, but the crack you're smoking does.

Yes its should, if we want to take drugs nobody should be able to stop us, this country is a "free" country, so why is everything illigal?