really it's that kind of ignorance that makes your opinions worthless.

the way you put it

injecting heroin junkie = pot head
crack smoker = stoner
ragin alcoholic = weed smoker

all drugs are not even close to the same.
pot is less harmful to our society than alcohol or sober driving.

 

My position on this is as follows:

I voted NO to legalizing marijuana due to the fact that the people who sell marijuana are making a lot of money on it (due to the fact of its demand and its non-legal status). Anytime a "drug" or product of high demand is harder to find (basic supply and demand of economics) the procucts price will increase.

Now a lot of people will say this is exactly why marijuana should be legalized, to stop the people making all the money off of it so that way they will vanish...not so. If marijuana is legalized, the price of marijuana will drop considerably, making it a possible household product as much as aspirin.

All of the dealers and distributors of marijuana WILL lose money however, once a person is situated to a certain lifestyle (having a good amount of money all the time) they rarely want to give that lifestyle up. Therefore, they will move on to the next illegal prolification available to maintain their economic status.

And I cannot forsee making any other drug illegal. I just wonder why so many people want to disassociate marijuana from other illegal controlled substances. Just becuase it is widely used (meth being the US's #1 used controlled substance) does not legitimize it's legality, medical purposes or otherwise.

 

One does not follow the other.

Here's the difference: Murder and rape automatically include the perp doing something to someone else. IOW, these are activities that by definition take someone else's rights away.

Do you think all or most murders and rapes happen because someone is on drugs? If so, then you must have passed your D.A.R.E. propaganda training with flying colors. People that are going to murder and rape aren't exactly concerned with laws, they are breaking some biggies already. Another fact, if everyone or even a small fraction of people were induced into murder and rape by ingesting drugs, then this world would be seeing 10 or even 1000x more of those a day. There are literally MILLIONS of people that get high EVERY DAY, and all but a small fraction of them do ANYTHING to get noticed.

 

Uhm, ok, but what about this: if it becomes legal, farmers now will have another crop to grow, thus flooding the market with pot. Not only that, the only reason the price is as high as it is now, is because it is illegal: limited crops, lots of money spent hiding, lots of money to protect it, lots of money to get it across the borders, plus lots of money in their pockets to pay for their lifestyle and to justify their risks.

 

ok, so you up the risk for growing pot. When you add risk, you add violence, and people willing to do worse things to get what they want.

so, you're saying if it was cheaper, more people would use? People who choose to use drugs, use drugs. If you make weed so expensive, people turn to alcohol, that will cause much more problems.

so you think once pot is too expensive for dealers to make money on it, you'll have them turn to selling crack? not a good swap.

crack, heroin, meth, all are much more addicting, but you have alot less addicts of those than pot, and it's for a reason. most people like myself, find pot less intoxicating than alcohol. i also don't like to wake up with hangovers or vomiting.

 

marijuana doesnt even contain a chemical that causes addiction, addiction when it comes to pot is all in the mind of the user, the need to get high. tobacco, cocaine, meth, ecstacy, and other hard drugs break down the body when there is an extended break in between doses.

you'd be fiending for some blow for weeks after youve had a coke binge rather than fiending for more weed the day after an ounce to the face

 

puff

 

puff

 

 

pass to Nate

weed isnt that big of a deal, if it was never "banned" everyone who is anti weed, would feel the same way about it as they do about alcohol and tabacco..........

pass back to me homie......*cough*

 

for tc @}~~'~~>>> pass to her first LOL

 

hellz yeah ladies first!

 

I don't and never have smoked it, but I still say legalize it. One because its too impowering. As many have said its all about supply and demand. So the more there is the lower the price would be. Not only that if it was legal grow it yourself. Another reason has also been mentioned. The alcohol thing. I mean how can alcohol be legal with as many deaths, property damage, bodily harm that it has caused.

I can't wait till I see the day when the headline reads "Hit on the head of the Jack Daniels family thwarted, Police say the Jim Beam family was behind it."

Its sad. A guy I used to go to school with got killed a couple weeks ago over drug money. He was shot 13 times...I had a cousin killed over drugs, ran over by a car, knocked him out his shoes...

 

He was being sarcastic.

 

There goes the neighborhood....here comes the Thread Jackers

 

legalize it.. not like they can stop it ;)

 

this is true, why fight what you kno can't be stopped. too much time and too much money has been spent fighting the battle of cannabis, why should the dea keep failing, realize and legalize

 

LOL... C can jack my thread anytime she wants...

 

Thank you Thank you! :D

J -

 

i see all sorts of people smoking weed and driving almost daily as well as know way too many people who do so. ranging in age from 17 to 35.