Marijuana- Should it be Illegal?Follow

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Well dynastey, I notice you have resorted to name calling when you can't come up with solid evidence to support your anti-cannabis beliefs.

It is not addictive. You drink alcohol, which is.

It doesn't influence obnoxious behavior, alcohol does.

One cannot overdose on it. Alcohol poisoning, puking, and hangovers are commonplace with alcohol.

You are more cautious when you drive under the influence of MJ, while alcohol makes you retarded. True story told a thousand times by different people: I was drunk, and I ran through a stop sign. I was high, and I stopped at the stop sign and waited for it to turn green. Sure weed does alter perception. It makes you more cautious. A study was done in another country on the effects of weed and alcohol while driving. Both groups had slower reaction times, but the group that used marijuana drove slower, because they knew they were high. The people who drank alcohol didn't realize how drunk they were and ran over the pedestians(cones).

Edited, Thu Nov 18 18:27:21 2004 by laviont

Laviont, I did not answer those two guys' post because it just started to become a matter of personal insults. I explained to them what I thought about their attitude and past experiences with weed, let's just leave it that. They're idiots.



I never said weed was addicite. I consider as a gateway to other drugs because it has been a gateway for myself. Most people here, myself included, will voice their opinions about marijuana almost solely based on their experiences. This is why you will always have some people say weed is not a gateway drugs (because they have not tried other drugs) and some people are going to be saying weed is a gateway drug. This is why this issue is so controversial.

You are right about alcohol being much more destructive to the body than weed. I remember seeing a study of a person drinking everyday for four years and a person smoking weed everyday for nine years. The alcoholic, of course, had massive health problems while the pothead ended up with a little bit of brain damage. Nothing too serious though, just a noticeable decrease in reation time and a very limited attention span when not under the influence of weed. It still shows weed will **** you up no matter what.



No offense dude, but driving under the influence of MJ or alcohol is just stupid. You should not do neither because you are not sober, therefore you should not be driving.

Ever drive home from a restraunt after gorging yourself the max?
or drive after eating like 5 packs of Smarties?
or drive after drinking mad coffee?

You did, however answer "our posts." Again it was with adolescent name calling. Again your responses are without quantitative medical research and illogical.

I am not stating an opinion, I just cited one instance of marijuana not being a gateway drug. The gateway theory was started in the early 1950's by Federal Bureau of Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger. Then he was saying that marijuana led to people becoming murderers. When that fallacy went arry, he changed the theory to heroin. Here we are today, half a century later, with that gateway theory being a bulwark of marijuana prohibition.

Survey data indicates that heroin and cocaine users generally use marijuana first, and that people who try pot are much more likely than people who don't to try other drugs. Using a mathematical model incorporating data from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, the RAND researchers found that a general predisposition to use drugs, combined with a four-year lag between access to marijuana and access to other illegal intoxicants, was enough to account for these patterns.

Short version: Marijuana is used first because it is available first. The people who are predisposed to use drugs and have the opportunity to use drugs are more likely than others to use both marijuana and other drugs.

Its not a matter of gateway, but a matter of convienience. That is not my opinion. That is the opinion of several doctors and researchers who have the time, resources, and data to back what they say. Not the extremely biased opinion of one who cites a single happenstance as his only proof.

Kthxbye.

Edited, Thu Nov 18 19:11:17 2004 by renirs

To Kelvyquayo:

All the substances that you showed do not impair someone's state of mind. Maybe coffee being the only who could get you wired, the rest would only make your body feel a little bit uncomfortable. Weed/Alcohol impairs your ability to think straight, so don't drive under the influence.

To Zadiel:

Drop the ******* karma ********* I never complained about anyone rating me down because I'm not scared to voice my opinions and bias no matter how much I offend people. Now quit sucking to the folks of the Asylum in order to get scholar. ******* mooch.

To Renirs:

Look at my last post. All my views toward marijuana come from personal experience. Same for you. Now don't try to throw statistical ******** to justify yourself. Weed is a drug, period.

To spons:

Hypocritical? I am only one of the few here who are against legalizing marijuana because I wholeheartedly agree the condescending view society has imposed on it. If you are a pothead, you are a failure. If you smoke weed, you're different from the rest of the population. If you legalize weed, then there will be the sober folks and the non sober folks. We don't need anymore division in this ******* morally retarded country at this time, so legalizing weed would be stupider than ever. Maybe in a distant future, but I will have no part of it.

Please, read my previous posts. I only got addicted to crack/cocaine because I was a stupid rich kid, with a lot of money and lot of time on his hands. That's not weakness, that's pure ignorance and irresponsibility. Something that I regret.

Maybe you didnt see my previous post. Your almost at the point that you rate sub-default. At that point the filter makes you not exist

Weed is a drug, in the same sense as caffeine is a drug, except weed is not addictive, and instead of speeding you up, it usually slows you down. Of course that's the effects of the stronger indica types which are more popular than the sativa variety right now.

The same way twinkies, chocolate, and sex are addictive.

So Weed is addictive. so is alchol. Should that be illegal? There should be some restrictions of it jus as there is with beer and hard liquor. Yes i believe it should be legalized. But 18+ like any other "drug".

drunk is very uncorrdinating. Ive been both too. I cant drive yet but i can imagine. (yeh im 15 ive expirimented). Drunk would seem alot harder.

it is near impossible to overdose on shrooms. the only worry is that your trip may be uncomfortably intense.

I jokinly asked someone, a few years back. Have you ever done Coke?

He replied, yeah. It turns out, he had done, acid, weed and coke. I then asked him if he had done heroin, and he said, NO! What, am I stupid?

Almost fell of my seat laughing.

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