Marijuana- Should it be Illegal?Follow

The other thing is when rj reynolds get ahold of it your going to get hybrid plants and cigs, up the adictive part of tabacco and the THC, plus all of the bad parts of both.

I don't smoke either type, but with controls I think it should be legalized.

I haven't bothered to read most of this thread, but let met just say this.

Pot should obviously be legal. It's no more dangerous than milk, never mind alchohol or tobacco.

Pot isn't legal because of it's far too east to GROW. Not becuase the government is evil. Not because it's dengerous. Because any moron in the world can plant a pot seed and grow his own. It's about as hard as growing dandelions. There's no indusry that would be benefitted by it's legality, while the alchohol industry would clearly suffer because of it.

It's not going to change anytime soon on a federal level.

ont to mention that the Prison system is profiting HEAVILY off of the somthing like more than half of the prison population being in there for minor drug offences....mostly centering around weed.


That's largely a myth. While there are individual cases of people getting 80 years for having two joints in Texas, most people in prison for drug charges are there for coke or heroin ditribution.

Weed is the getaway drug, trust me. What do people do when they come down of other, harsher drugs? They smoke weed because it is the easiest to find. Also, look at the people who smoke weed. 90% are total ****-ups. You may find a few who are intelligent and smoke in moderation, but the majority abuse the hell out of it making it look bad on everyone else who enjoys it.

I would seriously vote against legalizing weed because it drove me to try other drugs. It wasn't peer-pressure or anything else. I was just bored with the high it induced on my brain so I decided to expand my horizons. Unfortunately, it happens to too many people leading in terrible repurcusions.

<suckup> As usual, Smash touches a very good point. </suckup>

wahtever, stop using it as a scapegoat for your weak will.

Weak will? I would describe more as stupidity, but not weak. I quit a cocaine and crack addiction in a span of two weeks, I am far from being weak.

Anything that ***** your mind up, slows you down, makes you overly analytical, makes you paranoid, makes you depressed, and deteriorates your facial expression should not be legalized.

http://www.mpp.org/arrests/fas61699.html


It's a myth.


According to the 1997 BJS prisoner surveys, 16,435 state prisoners and 8,150 federal prisoners were incarcerated for "marijuana only" offenses. Adjusting for the June 30, 1998 prisoner counts yields estimates of 17,600 state prisoners and 10,000 federal prisoners incarcerated for offenses involving only marijuana, for a total of 27,600 "marijuana only" prisoners.


About a million people a year are busted for possession. Less than one percent of them will evevr do time. The prison system makes its money of black teenager selling coke not middle class white kids smoking pot.

Sugar is the getaway drug, trust me. What do people do when they come down of other, harsher drugs? They eat sugary things because they are the easiest to find. Also, look at the people who eat candy. 90% are total @#%^-ups. You may find a few who are intelligent and eat candy in moderation, but the majority abuse the hell out of it making it look bad on everyone else who enjoys it.

I would seriously vote against legalizing sugar because it drove me to try other drugs. It wasn't peer-pressure or anything else. I was just bored with the high it induced on my brain so I decided to expand my horizons. Unfortunately, it happens to too many people leading in terrible repurcusions.

Just sayin.

HEy Dynastey

Its people like you that make me sick. Stop crying because your will power is as strong as the French when they were invaded by Germany.

When it comes to narcotics and such that are addictive, if you cant quit its because you have a weak *** will power. I am a strong believer in that your will must be as strong as steel. Watch the Usualy Suspects and it shows exactly the point.

Verbal: And then he showed these men of will what will really is.

Verbal: He lets the last Hungarian go, and he goes running. He waits until his wife and kids are in the ground and he goes after the rest of the mob.

He kills their kids, he kills their wives, he kills their parents and their parents' friends. He burns down the houses they grew up in and the stores they work in, he kills people that owe them money. And like that he was gone.

Underground. No one has ever seen him again. He becomes a myth, a spook story that criminals tell their kids at night. "If you rat on your pop, Keyser Soze will get you." And nobody really ever believes.

When I was sixteen I gave up eating meat. Its been 8 years now since I ate any kind of meat what so ever. I dont think about it much. When people ask me why I did it I tell them the same thing everytime.

To prove to myself that I could.

It was not about saving the animals or any BS like that. It wasnt about toxins in the animals or whatever. It was about toning my Will power into a machine of steel.

So blaming your addictive personality on a substance is nothing more than lying to yourself.

Final Fantasy XI had much more of a negative impact on my life than grass ever has.

When I was at the peak of my FFXI-expirience, my grades slipped, I lost interest in nearly everything but FFXI, and it could have been very bad if I didn't realize what was happening sooner.

(as a side note, I will no longer be playing FFXI as of christmas)

Weed has not done anything of that magnitude to my life.

Edited, Wed Nov 17 16:30:12 2004 by AsarathOfWindurst

People keep screaming the weed is the gateway drug, blah blah. I think cigarrettes are the gateway drug. I smoked a cigarrette long before i tried my first joint.

And the thing about people saying joints are more unhealthy than cigarrettes they are sorta right. Sure one joint is far more unhealthy that cigarrettes. But who smokes 20 joints a day?

It's just extremely easy to get coke here and many of the people who do coke are simply looking for some way to get high fairly dramatically, so I would hope that maybe having marijuana being legal may make it more readily available and appealing since coke doesn't exactly seem like the happy fun time drug to be hearing about.