angrybeaver
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it's no more dnagerous than alcohol, less so, probably. i've never met a mean pot-head. ;-)
marijuana can be addictive to people who have addicitive tendencies, just like anything else. it should be legal, but i wouldn't discount some of the problems it can cause.:rofl he was going to get schizophrenia anyway! Marijuana does not cause it, but can bring it out sooner in someone. So he smoked pot and beat his wife...it is not funny but I keep laughing. the person who wrote this has obviously never smoked. It makes you introverted and peaceful not aggressive! That person had issues to begin with.
YES it should be legal but not for medicinal purposes. There are other drugs with less side effects. Once a marijuana breathalyzer is developed the government will capitalize on it, I assume that is how they plan on paying back all the $$$ they spent.
Anyone who says it should not be legal is not considering that:
-marijuana makes you passive/alcohol makes you aggressive
-marijuana is not physically addictive/alcohol is
-marijuana makes you drive slower and be more cautious/alcohol makes you reckless (not that you should be on the road while intoxicated)
-marijuana is a bronchial dilator, and does not cause lung cancer. In fact, cannibinoids (sp?) actually have cancer fighting properties- I can back this up with medical studies of anyone wants.../alcohol kills your liver
Not that I advocate smoking it, but it is a given if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be too. But it opens your mind (brain circuit 5 I believe as opposed to alcohols #2) which is dangerous for the government. Open minded people are harder to manipulate.
Sure, there is a lot of demonising going on in the media, but pot is actually addictive, just as sugar is. It does cause withdrawal symptoms ranging from craving and mood swings to disorientation.I disagree. I've been smoking over fifty years and I never met anyone it has killed. The dea lies and even says that it is addictive. That's total bull.
Water is more dangerous than pot. A contestent recently died from water intoxication.
I get a kick out of the lies the media tells about it. They often say that so and so was smoking marijuana during a crime but fail to mention that so and so was drunk out of their minds, too. They blame the pot and disregard more abusive drugs.
:rofl he was going to get schizophrenia anyway! Marijuana does not cause it, but can bring it out sooner in someone. So he smoked pot and beat his wife...it is not funny but I keep laughing. the person who wrote this has obviously never smoked. It makes you introverted and peaceful not aggressive! That person had issues to begin with.
YES it should be legal but not for medicinal purposes. There are other drugs with less side effects. Once a marijuana breathalyzer is developed the government will capitalize on it, I assume that is how they plan on paying back all the $$$ they spent.
Anyone who says it should not be legal is not considering that:
-marijuana makes you passive/alcohol makes you aggressive
-marijuana is not physically addictive/alcohol is
-marijuana makes you drive slower and be more cautious/alcohol makes you reckless (not that you should be on the road while intoxicated)
-marijuana is a bronchial dilator, and does not cause lung cancer. In fact, cannibinoids (sp?) actually have cancer fighting properties- I can back this up with medical studies of anyone wants.../alcohol kills your liver
Not that I advocate smoking it, but it is a given if alcohol is legal, marijuana should be too. But it opens your mind (brain circuit 5 I believe as opposed to alcohols #2) which is dangerous for the government. Open minded people are harder to manipulate.
It can bring on depression and make people delusional.
If you have been smoking it for fifty years and you have never met a 'pot head' then you couldnt have been looking.
You dont die of an overdose and it doesnt usually make people violent but its still a nasty drug
angry- fact is people are going to smoke whether or not it's legal. And we are going to continue to pay over 30k per prisoner in tax dollars to jail people that are only hurting themselves (dealers included! Buyers do it to themselves)
Legalizing it would:
-Make us a TON of money. The government could tax the $h!+ out of it and the lazy pot heads could make up for their lack of income tax.
-Eliminate it from being a gateway drug. It is ONLY a gateway drug BECAUSE it is illegal. Think about it.
-Save us a ton of money. Who wants to put potheads in jail? Just let them hang out on their couches. They aren't causing many problems, except perhaps starting chaos in their video games
Come on people, this is beneficial to ALL, smokers and non. :doh
wait a minute, pot induced schizophrenia? what?
How do you know? Have you ever tried it? Being broke depresses me. "dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope." (furry freak brothers)
For people who say ALL drugs should be legal.. I tend to agree that the drug war is a bad idea. But does this include Rohypnol and other so-called "date rape drugs"?
Does this include tranquilizers or anesthetics such as chloroform that could be used as a weapon?
Does this include antibiotics that produce drug-resistant disease strains when taken unnecessarily?
Does this include chemical weapons or other substances used in their development? :mrgreen:
It's not just some people, but masses of them.You have a point but making it legal because some people are going to do it anyway is not really a reason to legitimise it
I doesn't..If legitimising pot brings about a huge rise in mental illness then your argument falls apart. It is known that pot exacerbates depression and makes people delusional if taken in extreme.
The health risks of regular marijuana consumption are considerably lower than of alcohol and tobacco, and consumption in public could be equally restricted as for tobacco.Alchohol doing the same is no reason legalise another dangerous drug.
I dont know about the USA but in Europe we have all but made tobacco illegal to be smoked in public places because it is dangerous drug.
For people who say ALL drugs should be legal.. I tend to agree that the drug war is a bad idea. But does this include Rohypnol and other so-called "date rape drugs"? Does this include tranquilizers or anesthetics such as chloroform that could be used as a weapon? Does this include antibiotics that produce drug-resistant disease strains when taken unnecessarily? Does this include chemical weapons or other substances used in their development? :mrgreen:
It's not just some people, but masses of them.
That's not a sufficient reason on its own, but it adds impact to the points raised, most importantly regarding the cost of policing versus the income from taxation.
I doesn't.
The negative impact in triggering or amplifying mental health problems is marginal and mostly concerning adolescent users who should be excluded from sales licensing, same as with alcohol.
The health risks of regular marijuana consumption are considerably lower than of alcohol and tobacco, and consumption in public could be equally restricted as for tobacco.
Of course. There's no (good) reason not to.
Should authorities have the power to search and arrest you for possessing drugs? If so, this pushes the entities behind closed doors where the regulators are the price setters. Ha! How well is this working?
The solution is definitely not creating criminals.
We should ban cigarettes and alcohol, not legalize marijuana. All 3 of them should have the exact same status in my opinion.
Nope, I purposefully excluded this misinterpretation of my argument. It's right there in the text you quoted;Masses of people exceed the speed limit in their cars ,according to your logic we should abandon speed limits on roads.
Can you back this claim up, I have not read about this.Amplifying mental health problems are not marginal, they are a serious consequence for many pot smokers.
We have enough problems with alchohol.
The high strength bud thats around is dangerous to mental health.
I've met a few people that have been damaged by smoking dope.
I favor a policy where possession is legal but use is illegal (though certainly a misdemeanor). It's not safe to have heroin addicts shooting up on the street or driving automobiles any more than it is having people walk around drunk. But I'm fine with recreational use in the privacy of your own home. Even if it kills you.
I don't know if this should cover date-rape drugs or the other things I mentioned. If a rapist goes into a bar with a baggy full of Rohypnol in his pocket it makes a dangerous environment. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. It is significantly easier to drop a pill into a woman's drink unnoticed than it is to bash her with a sock full of nickels.
How'd that work out the last time we tried it?
We should ban cigarettes and alcohol, not legalize marijuana. All 3 of them should have the exact same status in my opinion.
So, you mean to say use in public should be prohibited?I favor a policy where possession is legal but use is illegal (though certainly a misdemeanor). It's not safe to have heroin addicts shooting up on the street or driving automobiles any more than it is having people walk around drunk. But I'm fine with recreational use in the privacy of your own home. Even if it kills you.
The risk and danger is there, whether it's legal or not, one cannot search everybody who enters a bar.I don't know if this should cover date-rape drugs or the other things I mentioned. If a rapist goes into a bar with a baggy full of Rohypnol in his pocket it makes a dangerous environment. I haven't made up my mind on that one yet. It is significantly easier to drop a pill into a woman's drink unnoticed than it is to bash her with a sock full of nickels.
he got scizophrenia from using pot
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