Marijuana- Should it be Illegal?Follow

My opinion is that legalizing weed nationwide is far far in the future.

It's big business "on both sides". Think of how much of the system now is dedicated to the interdiction of drugs and then the subsequent incarceration of those arrested.

The drug companies and doctors would oppose from a "self medicating" standpoint and if weed was legalized who would need prozac?

Think of how much money is generated in the economy between the drug dealers, and the enforcement agencies.

My personal belief is that prohibition proved that the government can't stop the people from getting what they want. The organized crime that came out of that era is still with us today. It was big business then and is now.

Lol, some of you are forgetting the biggest factor of why weed wouldn't be legalized. Big Money, the people who pay political leaders to vote to their advantage. The biggest opposition of them all is Phillip Morris. If weed was legalized, the cig indstry would end up a thing of the past. Lets face it I would rather inhale my 3 1/2 foot chamber filled with seed and stem smoke before I smoke another cig.(For those of you who don't know, seeds and stems are harsh to smoke. Sometimes you get them in the bowl and don't realize it til you burn it.) Think of how much money they would lose. In turn the politicians who are paid well to be a puppet would also lose out in the end.

As for taxing it, very unlikely. You can't tax anything that grows in your backyard. With that being said, sure make a tax but I'll only need my handy dandy seed bag.(A a hefty gallon bag filled 1/2 way.) So, right there explains the taxing problem they would have.

Weed, got to love it. Gateway drug? Some say yes and some say no. I 'm sitting on the no side. Lets face the music people, peer pressure is the gateway drug. Weed, I smoke alot of it but friends are what made me do alot more than weed. Lets just say I have done drugs that you never heard about. Mostly due to friends obtaining it and than explaining to me how it affected than.

Lets face it, the crime rates would be low if weed was legalized. The system works towards punishing the user more so than the supplier. The judicial system is putting people who arent hurting anyone in jail because of political greed and big tobacco. Like hemp, the well known miracle plant, so many wonderful things have come out of hemp but because of political puppets, cotton and wood are used instead of a planet friendly weed.

Funny fyi ****. If I killed someone I could get out in 3 years. But if I had 2 ounces on me, which isnt all to uncommon for me, I would be sent to jail/prison for a longer sentence. I believe it would be about 20-40+ years. That seems far in my eyes, not.



edit: I hope the avid weed users saw my thread before it went sub default. It was filled with some good links to the cheapest prices for space case products

Edited, Wed Nov 17 10:33:55 2004 by AsylumMonkey

Someone please link some research that proves conclusively that smoking Weed is less likely to damage your health than smoking cigs.

Seriously if you smoke a joint most of it is tabacco, with a few extra random chemicals thrown in, and just for the record extra chemicals = bad.

I don't have any problems with legalising weed but don't lie and say it's healthy in some way because blatently, it is not.

The only ammendment to the above statement is the possible use in the treatment of MS.

WTF kind of joints are you smoking? Oh god, joints usually tend to be rolled up by the user. The user usually tends to fill the joint up with freshly ground MJ. Where the hell do you get tobacco? Cannibus sativa is a weed. As for weed isn't safer than cigs. ********* I am calling ********* cigs are known to contain cyanide and literally 1000s of other chemicals. Weed is almost 100% natural, except for the ocasional spraying down or lacing of. If I were you, I would go find the kid that beat you on your bag. If I found tobacco in my bag, I would of found my money back in my wallet real quick.


LMAO TOBACCO LMAO

Well that does seem true. Reading up on bongs has shown me that some of the bad stuff is filtered, but not all. You still have the risk of getting Cancer, fatter, and dumber .

It's just not for me is all. You guys smoke what you want. I still don't think it should be legal. read my above post for my reasoning..

This is not the post you were looking for..

Edited, Wed Nov 17 11:18:19 2004 by Jute

Hmm...well, I live in a city where pot is decriminalized. It's is impossible to get busted for marijuana in San Francisco and the surrounding areas.

There is no slippery slope, no massive downslide of the population's productivity or morals. Smokers run the gamut of homeless to bilionaire and just about 90% of the people here will at least smoke a joint out of politeness.

The sky has not fallen and it's been like this here for at least 30 years.

Kind of backwards, they would lose more money from the cig industry not buying their vote. Weed cant be taxed. You can't tax anything natural and unprocessed. Cigs is processed product, hence able to be taxed. God, some people should atleast read up on stuff before they post. So far we have joints contain tobacco. Weed can be taxed. Honestly, if I were you people I would shoot myself out of ignorance. Anyway, if they did find some way to tax it, its legal so I'll be growing 100's of plants the next day.

Edit: analogy: Taxing weed is like taxing tomatoes.

Edited, Wed Nov 17 11:58:23 2004 by AsylumMonkey

keep in mind that in those thousands of years, the social use of the plant has pretty much Always been condemned by the governmemt and society and it's users have always been shunned as low-lives and vagrants.

It has never been accepted.

If they legalize the rape wounds of mother earth would heal a little better. Hemp is wonderful, and weed is pretty damn good too. If I could only go back to just smoking weed, I would be so happy. Is it a gateway drug? Hmmm. I used to smoke weed, loved it, kept it under control. Then one day I got tired of the negative stigma that came with it, and I switched to tobacco, because it's legal. Boy, what a mistake. My chest hurts, and my music doesn't flow right.

Ok there, Sitting Bull. Might want to smoke'um peace pipe a little less before posting.

People don't know that the original diesel engine ran on hempseed oil.

You dum fuuk.

First, I smoke DAILY.

Second, if you actually read up on this **** instead of relying on your hero overacheiving brother or wahtever to supply you with all the answers to life, you'd see that you need to take your head out of your own *** as well.

I said the SOCIAL USE of it has always been condemned by governments in society. SOCIAL USE meaning smoking it to get HIGH. NOT MEDICAL, or CONSTRUCTIVE USES.

Actually it goes back further than you said.. the first evidence of it's use was in Taiwan, for Rope or clothe obviously...

Right before the "AD"s ,groups would smoke and go around raiding and pillaging.... then name of their gang... the Hash Eaters..... and from that I hear is where we get our word Assasin.

But the use of it as a social drug has always been surrounded by condemnatoin. Trust me, it shocked me as well.


My theory on this is that any governemt will realize that smoking the stuff leads usually to questioning things like authority and opression..