Should Marijuana be legalized for medical purposes/recreation?

[WicKeD_WaYz]

I haven't ignored anything about addictiveness. I think its propaganda that says weed is not addictive but if it is or isn't does not change my argument in the least.

Its not propaganda but a proven fact that Marijuana is not addicting on a physical level. But it probably is on a different level though, like people might think they need to smoke, but not smoking doesnt give you withdrawels or any side effects.

[PsychoBaller]

It is quite mentally addictive though... so im told.

But of the many reasons stated... I agree that the gov. is just missing out on money from it.

Nonetheless... California and i believe NY have polices (among other states) for medical marijuana.

[magnj]

First of al lwhoever bad mouthed Kai from PBN on the first page...:slap: Kai is the man. Listen to him...he is wise...thank you.

Ok, We have had this discussion at lunch in school many times. Generally we come to these conclusions. Pot is not as harmful as Alchohol. Alchohol makes people violent and routy, Marijuana makes people calm and peacful. Not one time under the influence have I ever felt like i needed to fight some one or start screaming loudly. Second of all, in the state that our country is in, it would be wise to legalize and tax marijuana. Honestly, if I knew that money was going to national debt, or somehting along those lines. I'd have no problem paying a 15% tax. Pot is a gateway drug, yes. But those who are responsible make good decisions not to do other drugs. Personaly, I don't even see marijuana as a drug, at least not on the same level as anything else. I'm just going to stop because I didn't read all of this but I'm sure theres like 30 posts just like mine.

Yes, it should be legalized. With restrictions, tax, heavier fines for illegal selling and growing.

[Jakedubbleya]

Should Marijuana be legalized for medical purposes/recreation?

as a former weed smoker with many friends that still smoke more than a coal factory...

no, bleepin, way.

[Army]

as a former weed smoker with many friends that still smoke more than a coal factory...

no, bleepin, way.

:rofl:

[kramer]

as a former weed smoker with many friends that still smoke more than a coal factory...

no, bleepin, way.

yeah - its alot better to drink some beers and shoot people right?


BTW - LOVE the new sticky-ed thread here on good old AO - WOW - didnt know war could be so fun!!!When are pics of dead Iraqi children gonna be put up?




man this board is going to hell.

[Alpha]

With respect, that sticky is to honor a man who fights for you to say what you just said.

YEs, marijuna should be legalized.

The way I see it is this..

You can drink and drink and drink, and your liver turns into a raisin and you die.
You can smoke and smoke and smoke cigs, and your lungs turn into big raisins and you die.

You can smoke weed... You can still get lung cancer from too much, but you can't OD on weed.

Weed is not a drug. No more of a drug then tobacco, and no more of a drug then alcohol. The only reason its illegal is because of some politicians way back when, and their motive wasn't to save america from reefer madness, it was to make more money.

US should make a certain amount of weed legal, then grow it, and sell it themselves, keepign the benefits to profit the government. Imported weed will cost WAY too much, and dometic weed would be cheap. Imported weed will be illegal, and dealign weed yourself would be illegal.

Same rules as alcohol. Same age limit, and smoking and driving is a nono.

Free the plant

[magnj]

Weed is not a drug.

Free the plant

True words of a stoner

Beer =

Tree = :rofl:

see the difference there

[Alpha]

Hey im not THAT bad.. I want a military career, I can't afford to get caught.

Occasional toker is more like it.

[tropical_fishy]

does anyone know when and why marijuana was made illegal in the first place?

it's rather interesting. i was watching a show about it on the discovery channel a few years ago. marijuanna was the government's solution to a bigger problem, Mexicans.
no, really. during the depression the mexicans were coming into the country doing work for less money than the american citizens were willing to. the government saw this and needed to put a stop to it, they needed a reason to deport all of these mexicans. the one thing that almost all of the mexicans had in common was this euphoria enducing plant that they brought with them, marijuana. so, the gov. launched a major PR campaign against marijuana and got laws passed making it illegal. then they simply deported any mexicans caught in posession of the drug.

Hearst was actually huge when it came to making marijuana into this huge threat to American society, but I don't think that really has much to do with the current debate over legalization.

Right now the problem with the criminalization of pot is that we've stuffed our prisons full of nonviolent drug offenders, and as a result, we're running out of room in prisons. The fact that a NONVIOLENT drug offender can end up in prison for life seems wrong to me. Yeah, it's against the law-- but I'd rather have stoners out on the streets on parole than rapists and murderers, personally.

I've never smoked pot, so I can't say whether driving under the influence is better with alcohol or pot, but I don't think legalizing pot will make usage more prevelent. Maybe more widely accepted, but I don't think MORE people will use pot just because it's legal. And if the rate of people using pot stays the same, then the amount of people driving under the influence. I can't find any stats to back that up, but I'll gladly admit i'm wrong if someone can find some to disprove it.

[Alpha]

I'll talk about the dui.. I've smoked adn drank.. Wha tI can telly ou is that I have much more control when high then drunk. When your drunk you get sloppy and clumsy. When I'm high I really don't feel like going out. I just want to chill. Maybe go out for food.

Another heap to the pile of BS on why weed is illegal is hemp.. Hemp is not marijuana. YOu can't smoke hemp. You get a headache. You can use hemp for so many different things. At one point is was a law somewhere that all farms HAD to grow at least some hemp. I forgot the tv show I watched, but somethign to do with a new age manufacturing process. Nylon maybe? Well soem new fabric was comming out, and the people who were controlling the new fabric started the reefer madness propeganda, and made hemp and weed the same thing. Now everyone hated hemp, and the hemp industry failed, and it became illegal.

HEmp has a thousand and one uses from oil (rockafella(sp) didnt help the illegalization either) to fabric to paper.

Weed is not illegal becuase you can get high off it.

[NoForts4Me]

I've never been a pot head, but I've also never seen it do anyone any good. Many have gone on to heavier stuff, and most who quit said they wished they had never started. Neither getting high or drunk are cool in my book...they both lead to bad things. I do agree that sentencing laws are way out of line when someone caught with a joint goes to jail longer than some sick child molester.

BTW - LOVE the new sticky-ed thread here on good old AO - WOW - didnt know war could be so fun!!!When are pics of dead Iraqi children gonna be put up?

man this board is going to hell.

While you have the right to be an idiot, you need to remember that those men and women fighting are the reason you have that right. If you don't like the war, fine, start your own thread about that, but don't hate on the ones doing their duty and protecting our freedoms.

[Lohman446]

yeah - its alot better to drink some beers and shoot people right?


BTW - LOVE the new sticky-ed thread here on good old AO - WOW - didnt know war could be so fun!!!When are pics of dead Iraqi children gonna be put up?




man this board is going to hell.

Hey... you can disagree with the politics of war all you want, and I fully respect that view. But that thread is to honor one of our members, who volunteered to serve this country, to defend the rights you have. Now those rights may be eroded, and his purpose used for something yo do not agree with that. But that thread is not about those rights, it is not about the politics surrounding war, it is about the sacrifice one of the board members made for the rest of us.

They don't have the appropriate smiley for what I think of your post

[drg]

1. Unfortunately, hemp and marijuana ARE the same plant. They are both the same species, cannabis sativa (not all marijuana is indica). What you mean is that industrial strains don't have a whole lot of THC content, which is true. But there's not much that can be done to regulate that and there's no way to say that in the middle of an industrial hemp field you might not have a bunch of high-potency plants -- there'd just be no way to know. Of course industrial hemp generally all gets fertilized and full of seeds, so that's somewhat of a deterrent to drug production in an industrial setting.

2. Isn't it a bit pretentious to assume that kramer is from the US? This is an international board, is it not? It's quite possible that the person in question is NOT fighting for him in ANY way, ideologically AND nationalistically.

[InfinatyBPS]

weed can cause lung cancer... any smoke inhalation, whether it be burning wood, smoking, or anything else CAN cause cancer. Weed should nto be legalized because the current consumptino rates are so high that people will no be able to follow the limits that would be set. People would come to work high and not do a good job, roads would be full of high people driving 0_0 and the weed industry woudl grow to the point where there will be weed commercials on TV.

If people want to get high and drive they can get high and drive right now, its not going to be any more easier or legal to get high and drive, and I'd also much rather be in a car with a high person driving like 10 miles under the speed limit, stopping at green lights, rather than a raging drunk blacking out every minute or so and hitting things.