Originally posted by FlyattractorCigs? Many people wouldn't be able to crap otherwise.
[b]You guys are still lucky you can actually still smoke in your own homes and apartments. [/B]
Originally posted by SurturHis ways are mysterious like that.
No they will legalize it in my state last because even though God isn't real that doesn't prevent him from hating me.
Originally posted by Flyattractor
[color=limegreen][b]And for me and a lot of my friends most of the fun was the THRILL of doing something Bad or Risky.
You mean when you were like 14 or something?
Now all we are left with is the health risks. [/B]
Yeah, but those risks are no worse then the health risks of items I can go legally purchase at 7-11 right now.
Just to illustrate another problem: you can still legally be fired from a job if you test positive for marijuana on a drug test. Why? Because apparently since weed is not 100% legal on a federal level they can do that.
Why do I get the feeling this is what people are going to try to do? "Legalize" it, but then still try to f*ck people over for using it.
Originally posted by EmperordmbWeed = irresponsible hippie drug --> no respect for authority, end of society as we know it.
Because a lot of people really hate weed for some irrational reason.
greatest generation >>>>> irresponsible hippies.
Alcho/Cigs >>>>> reefer
So shall it be written. So shall it be done.
A major benefit I see is, undercutting a primary funding source of criminal enterprises. It'll be a harder for criminal organizations if they don't have such a widely accepted funding source shoved into their lap.
Also, the lumping in pot with other, actually-dangerous drugs make people underestimate the risk of those.
A major benefit I see is not throwing people in jail and ruining their lives for something as relatively harmless as smoking weed, as well as not wasting 20 billion dollars of tax payer money per year to do so.
If the consequences of the law are far more dangerous than the reason the law was made, it's shitty, unjust, oppressive, and a complete waste of time and resources. Add that to the fact that it's an incredibly ineffective law at what it's trying to accomplish, and that law is complete shit.
Though come to think of it, marijuana wasn't even criminalized in the US due to concern for peoples well being. It was criminalized so the US government could throw Mexicans out of the country during the Great Depression. Even the creation of that law was completely and utterly ****ed up and built around oppression and lies.
The criminalization of marijuana is only maintained through completely deceitful propaganda (For example: In middle school gym, we were required to watch an anti-drug PSA that said "just one hit of marijuana can kill you"😉, an unfair social stigma built upon that propaganda, ignorance also due to said propaganda, and lobbyists who oppose legalization on the grounds of money rather than morality or concern for health (the biggest lobbyists against marijuana being Alcohol, Tobacco, and Pharmaceutical companies).
So really, the criminalization of marijuana only exists because of certain people's agendas that are completely unconcerned with morality or health, getting much of its support through ignorance propaganda and lobbying, and only serving to oppress people, waste government resources, and creating far more problems than it solved (if it really solved any problems to begin with).
And that is why I believe criminalization of marijuana is a completely ****ed up thing that should not exist in modern times. Unfortunately it does however, so props to Oregon's state government for discontinuing that bullshit in their state. 👆
Yes, go watch Reefer Madness. I know some will say "oh well that is really old" but the point is even then they KNEW what they were saying was bullshit and still spouted it anyways. Then they wonder why so many kids turned to harder drugs? Well if you flat out lie to us about how harmful weed is then how can they know you aren't lying about how bad other drugs are?
Anyone ever watch VH-1's special "The Drug Years" ? It really does a good job of capturing both the positives and the negatives of drug use and goes on to show why certain drugs began to become popular, etc. Before that special I didn't know how much heroin soldiers were doing in Vietnam. Nearly 50% of soldiers admitted to using heroin at least once during their service and something like 20% of soldiers can back addicted to heroin. They were also shipping back heroin from Vietnam in the body bags of soldiers, wtf?