barfolemew
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barfolemew said:Do people think this substance should be legalized for acces by the general public? If it was regulated by the government(like alcohol) a lot of tax revinues could be earned.
Yes it should be legalized but I do not agree that everybody must get stoned and I do not think it should be for medical reasons only so I can not vote in the poll.barfolemew said:Do people think this substance should be legalized for acces by the general public? If it was regulated by the government(like alcohol) a lot of tax revinues could be earned.
barfolemew said:Hmmmm, I did not mean to infer that "all people have to get high". I was just throwing in that song lyric. I apologize for any poor wording in the poll, I was trying to offer a choice that included recreational use.
galenrox said:lol, I'm almost always here and I'm almost always at least somewhat stoned!
But in reference to what I rpomised Deegan, kid's listen up, up with hope, down with dope!
Hoot said:I voted that pot should be legalized. It's insane the money we've wasted fighting a war that we can never win.
My only problem with legalization, is allowing the government to take control...a sure recipe for screwing things up.
earthworm said:All citizens in a real USA should be able to slowly commit suicide, and legally !
This is what I think of marijuana use , drinking, and smoking, all a slow suicide... But it matters not what I think..
None of these are good; but what is far worse is someone placing themselves over others and dictating what they can and cannot do !!!
This is a form of repression and does not belong.. similar to prohibition...
Is this what we want ?
It is what we have !
barfolemew said:Do people think this substance should be legalized for acces by the general public? If it was regulated by the government(like alcohol) a lot of tax revinues could be earned.
Korimyr the Rat said:You can grow your own tobacco and distill your own booze, too. Most people choose to pay the heavily tax-inflated prices for brand-name cigarettes and liquor..
jamesrage said:Most people do not have the knowledge or know how to make their own whiskey and most smokers like those little filters and the cured tobacco.
Now if cigarette companies started manufacturing packs of joints already de-seeded and de-stemmed for a really cheap price they could eventually remove the product out of the hands of the individuals and into the hands of businesses and government.People are suckers for conviniance and cheap prices.
jamesrage said::twocents: I do not want something made legal that eventually I the tax payer will have to support with my tax dollars becasue junky claiming to be in serious pain wants medical marijuana.Hell my tax dollars already help pay for abortion,moochers on corporate and individual welfare.There is proably a whole **** load of other absurd things that I the tax payer has to pay for.I do not want marijuana to be legal because some moron junky claims that only medical marijunana can help him deal with his pain.
I do not want my tax dollars being used so some junky can get high.I do not want my tax dollars being used to treat some of the junkies pretending to have a illness.I do not want my tax dollars being burned up dealing with some of the potential problems that might occur.
jamesrage said::twocents: I do not want something made legal that eventually I the tax payer will have to support with my tax dollars becasue junky claiming to be in serious pain wants medical marijuana.Hell my tax dollars already help pay for abortion,moochers on corporate and individual welfare.There is proably a whole **** load of other absurd things that I the tax payer has to pay for.I do not want marijuana to be legal because some moron junky claims that only medical marijunana can help him deal with his pain.
I do not want my tax dollars being used so some junky can get high.I do not want my tax dollars being used to treat some of the junkies pretending to have a illness.I do not want my tax dollars being burned up dealing with some of the potential problems that might occur.
Kandahar said:If marijuana were completely legal for any reason, your tax dollars wouldn't be spent on medicinal marijuana any more than they're spent on over-the-counter aspirin.
MrFungus420 said:So, you don't have a problem with billions upon billions of tax-dollars being wasted annually on the drug war? Wouldn't it make more sense for the government to make money through taxation?
More to the point, why do you think that you would know better than someone's physician what should or should not be prescribed to treat them?
Marijuana is illegal, yet synthetically made THC is available for presciption. Marijuana is classified as having no medicinal value, yet synthetically made THC is a recognized medicine. I guess the sesame oil in which the synthetic version is suspended gives it medicinal value. That is ignoring the 400 plus other compounds (cannibinoids) in marijuana, at least 60 of which may have therapeutic uses. The government, with it's usual brilliance, only makes the psychotropic compound available.
Marijuana has many different therapeutic uses. In virtually every case, it is less expensive, and safer, than the medicines now given. So, if you are truly concerned about wasting your taxes, you should be supporting the legalization of medical marijuana.
Treatment of asthma, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, herpes, cystic fibrosis, rheumatism, emphysema, migraines and glaucoma, reduction of tumors, nausea relief, pain relief, stress reduction, antibiotic uses and apetite stimulation are a few of the medicinal uses for marijuana.
Then there are the industrial uses for marijuana, although, hemp is the more accurate term here. Hemp can produce four times the amount of cloth and fiber than cotton does. Hemp requires almost nothing in terms of pesticides and other chemicals, cotton alone uses about 50% of all chemicals used in agriculture. Hemp can also be used to make about four times as much paper, per acre and over a twenty year span (the amount of time for trees planted for that use to mature and be harvested), than trees. It is also a better quality paper and requires less chemical processing than wood pulp does. In addition, using hemp does not produce dioxin, one of the waste products of making paper from trees. One acre of hemp can replace both one acre of cotton and one acre of trees, and produce four times what each acre of cotton and wood produces. This is because the paper and the fiber are produced from different parts of the plant, fiber and cloth from the fibrous outer layers and paper from the pulp interior.
Then there's the seed. Hemp seed oil can replace the toxic, petroleum-based oils used in paints and varnishes. The oil itself is also an excellent lubricating oil. The seed is also a very good food in and of itself. It is very high in proteins and essential fatty acids. Hemp seed can be ground and used like flour and used like soybeans are currently used.
jamesrage said::twocents: I do not want something made legal that eventually I the tax payer will have to support with my tax dollars becasue junky claiming to be in serious pain wants medical marijuana.Hell my tax dollars already help pay for abortion,moochers on corporate and individual welfare.There is proably a whole **** load of other absurd things that I the tax payer has to pay for.I do not want marijuana to be legal because some moron junky claims that only medical marijunana can help him deal with his pain.
I do not want my tax dollars being used so some junky can get high.I do not want my tax dollars being used to treat some of the junkies pretending to have a illness.I do not want my tax dollars being burned up dealing with some of the potential problems that might occur.
new coup for you said:i'm against legalization because i like weed
i feel that if it was legalized it'd probably cost more and be harder to get.
new coup for you said:it's distribution and sale would probably be federally regulated, and the governments pathalogical hatred of weed is so intense i think they'd make prices prohibitively high.
new coup for you said:also they'd probably make an age limit of somthing outrageous like 25. and they'd control production so all the weed would be pathetically weak. so, no, i don't want more expensive harder to get weaker pot.
new coup for you said:now, if someone could convince me that the governement would treat it exactly as they treat cigarettes, in terms of availabillity and taxation, i might join up.
jamesrage said:Marijuana is not the only drug involved in this drug war.
jamesrage said:It would proably make sense to make more money off of taxing drugs instead of fighting drugs.
jamesrage said:But how long will it take for the goverment to be able to tax it?
jamesrage said:Will Phillip Morris have come out with a 20 pack of class A pre-rolled joints
jamesrage said:and perhaps have a Marlboro stoner man as a mascot to accelerate the government's ability to be able to tax the stuff?
jamesrage said:I was a stoner once
jamesrage said:Medical Marijuana is a cover to be able to smoke the **** legally.
jamesrage said:Let the pharmaceutical industry derive different drugs from Marijunana is it actually has any potential legitimate medical uses.
jamesrage said:I was once a pot head,I heard all the arguments from High times magazine and Cannibus times magazine.
jamesrage said:Here click on the "drugs in your head" and watch.It expresses my sentiments exactly.
http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html
jamesrage said:My tax dollars are already spent on abortion.Why wouldn't some junkie claim a illness and that only medical marijunana can help eliminate his pain and then find a way to scam the government to pay for it?
Kandahar said:The government doesn't pay for over-the-counter aspirin, does it? If you don't need a prescription to buy it in the first place, why would marijuana be any different?
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