Marijuana Legalization; where do you stand?

[Xen]

thats not a reason, the people that die in drug realated killings are drug addicts that shouldnt even be in our country anyways, good riddence

[wyn1370]

Originally posted by Xen
thats not a reason, the people that die in drug realated killings are drug addicts that shouldnt even be in our country anyways, good riddence

did you really just say that? or do your fingers work independently of your brain.
try picking up a newspaper or turning on the news instead of reality tv shows.

[Xen]

lol ppl killed in drug related events .... so what? If you want to make the country a better place, how about a BAN on handguns. ????? that would save more lives and would be EASIER to do.

[bunkermaster10]

J's

I think marijuana should be legal. We wouldn't have to spend so much money to bust all this guys trying to smuggle this stuff in. We can spend that money for like cancer organizations and other health orgnaizations in the world. It would cause less problems also, because people wouldn't be getting arrested and getting charged for smoking 24/7. I know at my school probably about 60% or more kids have smoked or do smoke all the time. And its not a big deal, they still act the same and don't change at all.

[langrage]

I'll jump in before the thread police get involved.

We could always legalize marijuana and just band THC. The marijuana plant could be used to hemp products which could easily become the third worlds cotton. Then again we could legalize THC as well to be used in medical fields. O wait we already did that in some states since it does seem to help some medical conditions. It should be the same with marijuana as it is with Prozac. If you have a prescription you can use it, if you don't you get to go to the big house. I do admit that no one ever over dosed on marijuana like you could do on alcohol, rubber cement, paint and other household products. (Yes alcohol is a household product in my house ) The problem is it impairs judgment and if every one that smoked pot could promise me that you would only do it in your house and hurt no one than it would be ok. That isn't going to happen. My first apartment went up in flames because the girl that lived under me was smoking pot at home and left the roach on the bed. Suddenly her impaired judgment cost me, luckily only property damage and not my life since I was awake.

[TransMan]

Originally posted by Xen
lol ppl killed in drug related events .... so what? If you want to make the country a better place, how about a BAN on handguns. ????? that would save more lives and would be EASIER to do.

What about all the innocent people that get killed because of this. Kids getting shot by a Cop shooting at a drug dealer or the other way around?? If it was legal then it would be sold in stores and these dealers would be forced to get a real job because they cant compete.

And Thordic why would you want to go into a hash bar if u didnt want to get high isnt that the point?? Its like these retarded peopel wanting to ban smoking in bars because they dont want to breath second hand smoke. If they are so worried about it they can sit at home and get drunk.

[Xen]

there are no innocents.... and most of things your are talking about the drug dealers dont just sell weed, they sell a lot of other drugs that still would be sold. Its not helping the problem to apease (sp) the druggies, its just making it worse.


Drugs do NO GOOD thus shoudlnt be leaglized

[langrage]

Transman-

What about all the innocent people that get killed because of this. Kids getting shot by a Cop shooting at a drug dealer or the other way around??

If the police accidentally shoot someone which does happen time to time it is an accident. If a drug dealer shoots and kills some one he is a criminal and should be arrested, shot or what ever else may come. The are dealing drugs which is breaking the law, once the start shooting than they are just adding to the rap sheet.

First off I am not retarded and don't like all the second hand smoke in bars and restaurants. To this day I have yet to hear about someone dying because they sat next to someone eating or drinking. There are hundreds of studies about second hand smoke, I can send you links if you like. Also not everyone in a bar is there to get drunk, we do have people called Designated drivers. The don't drink at the bar.

Basically drug use impairs people.

[JEDI]

The fact remains, that Pot is illegal, while there are several other "drugs" which remain legal. Theres no REASON to legalize pot any more than theres a reason to ban cigarettes. Its all a matter of preference. Its a fairly accurate statement to say, your average pot smoking teen or who ever, isnt causing himself or any one else, that much damage.

It was almost the luck of the draw that marijuans is illegal, while tobacco remains legal. Theres no logical reason. If the Government deems something illegal, a whole world of issues come along with it. Marijuana related crime is a direct result of the laws banning it. I guarantee no one gets killed every time I smoke a joint. No violent crime was commited when it was bought. You can trace the dime bag back through how ever many people, and it still caused no trouble.

[InfinatyBPS]

Originally posted by Thordic
Don't use bad logic to support your arguement.

Using alcohol as an excuse is akin to saying "But mom, Johnny's mom lets HIM play with fireworks, why can't I!?"

No one said alcohol was good for you. It just happens to be legal, so deal with it.

The good thing about alcohol is you can go into a bar and NOT drink. You can't go into a hash bar and not get high. Theres no such thing as second-hand drunkenness.

But in any case, I would like to see ONE reason why it should be legalized.

A real reason, please. Not "But everyone does it!" or "But alcohol is worse and its legal!" or "Its a waste of money to keep it illegal!"

Those are NOT valid reasons to make it legal, please. You are just making yourselves sound like children.

Hmm, not valid reasons to make it legal? Where are the valid reasons to make it illegal? You gave no reasons to say why its illegal. How about this, I'll tell you why its illegal, because lumber industries found that hemp was a much better source for paper, cloth, rope, and many other things that would make them lose money. Hmmm, good reason to be illegal isn't it? Greed. How about instead of telling me to think of reasons why it should be legal, tell me a valid reason why it should be illegal. How about that? And don't come with me with, "its illegal because its illegal" or "we don't need another drug out there".

Don't you people think its strange, how everytime someone tries to put marijuana in a good light, or show the government a new finding about marijuana, they just shoot it down and say that marijuana is bad and they leave it at that? The DEA refuse to reschedual marijuana, and they are always denying that marijuana has any medical use, when it has been proven to have many. Why is it that the government is constantly avoiding discussion of marijuana? Don't you ever wonder, why the government is trying to hard to keep it an evil thing that only the low lifes of the world use? What kind of government is this that people are lied to and being brainwashed into beleiving things that are untrue? You think the reefer madness type of thing would be thought of as a joke by now, but the US government hasn't changed its views all that much.

Also if you would have read the link you would have seen that Marijuana was made illegal through deception, it was made illegal because people didn't know what it was, if they would have used the name Hemp or Cannabis, it wouldn't be likely to have been made illegal.

[langrage]

JEDI

I invite you to come to Texas. We can take you across the borders were you can see hundreds of shallow graves and in some cases just spots were drug related deaths have occurred. The weird thing about a drug death is the dealer usually finds it fit to kill not only the person that betrayed them but the whole family. It really pretty sad if you ask me. A father shuttles dope to make money so he can feed his family. A couple of bags come up missing or are miscounted and the next thing you know the family is gone. The desperate work that the father has taken to make sure his family has a future has now just been erased because of drugs. Mean while some person in Omaha is telling his friends how cool the colors are and eats a pizza while smoking pot.

[Xen]

making stuff out of hemp and lettign you smoke weed are 2 totaly different things you cant use that as a reason to leaglize it

[InfinatyBPS]

Originally posted by Xen
there is no benifits to leaglize it... so why bother, its just another thing making people even more stupid and retarded than they are now. It just gives another thing for lowlife, trailor trash kids something to do. Yes all pot smokers are trailor trash scumbags imo.

Hmm, if there are no benifits to legalize it and you are just worried about people acting stupid then I guess alcohol should be made illegal shouldn't it? But OH NO!!! Alcohol is part of American life, and everyone loves haveing alcohol poisoning and hang overs and a reason to become violent, so I guess thats not gonna happen And as for the trailor trash comment, I think you need to rethink what you said, I have met many people who are well educated and make far more money than you and/or your parents and you know what, they just happen to smoke marijuana... but yep, they're trailer trash. Where do people get oppinions like this? I think its another little brainwashing thing that the government has been doing for about 70 years. Suddenly people are trash and scumbags of the world for smoking a plant? Wow, thats amazing.

[InfinatyBPS]

Originally posted by Xen
lol ppl killed in drug related events .... so what? If you want to make the country a better place, how about a BAN on handguns. ????? that would save more lives and would be EASIER to do.

It seems you would be happier living in a communist country, mabe you should go visit one just to try it out, becuase that seems what you want America to become...

[Xen]

yep they are, try taking alcohol out of our economy... see how F'ed up we will be, drugs is just teenage garbage. dont make me call the DEA on you and have them arrest you for your stash