Legalization of Marijuana discussion

Just saying; My dad supports me, a hungry teen, pays an extremely over priced rent for this crappy house, pays child support to my mother, has a crappy job, has no college education. He's a coke addict, and further snooping around tells me he smokes pot as well. ><"

I am very sorry you and your family are in this situation.

Even so, it is true that for every person like your dad that manages to make ends meet for himself and his family, there are countless others who in that situation completely fall apart. Some people die, others go in and out of rehab, still others are so addicted they just buuy the junk and the rest of their lives drift away.

The whole reason they wanna make it legal is so they can tax it to make money (and think of the possibilities of that! All them druggies can buy it legally and all the "medical" Marijuana can be taxed too!) Sure it's a battle between "do we need the money?" and "are we more concerned about peoples' health?" But if you're a money hungry state, why the hell not?

Of course there's also the part where people will still sell the stuff under the table to undercut the government's weed. So basically nothing better will come off it besides taxing the honest weed users. I say do whatever the hell you want as long as you don't:

Drive high

come to work/school/ whatever else you do high

Don't go about doing stupid pomegranate while high

But then again, common sense is not so common at all.

I think people still fail to see Legalization is not the way. Depenalization/Decriminalization is.

Of course there's also the part where people will still sell the stuff under the table to undercut the government's weed. So basically nothing better will come off it besides taxing the honest weed users.

When a product goes from the Black Market to an open market, it has a tendency to drop in price. A lot. The only black market that could grow out of a legalization/decriminalization of marijuana would be a retarded age restriction, like 21, or possibly 18.

** smoke weed 420 bong rips 4 lyfe **

People, the point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed isn't about whether drugs are good or bad for you, because there is only one conclusion about that: drugs are bad for you, period. Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, etc, they all damage your health in some degree.

The point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed -IS- if it is good for your country as a whole. The major advantage of legalizing softdrugs is the drop in small crimes. When softdrugs are illegal, like now, they still exist, if you like it or not, and the prices are insane high. Addicts of these softdrugs need to have their "trip" every x time, forcing them to buy the product for insane high prices. And there comes the problem, when you don't have money enough as an addict to buy your "savior product solution", you need to get your money from somewhere else, and in a LOT of cases this results into small crime.

By making the product available in a legal way (not the supermarket off course...), you allow these addicts to get their products for a low price, and keeping them away from forced small crimes. Another positive side effect of distributing these softdrugs in controlled legal central points in cities, is that addicts who want professional help to quit their addiction, can go to the same place and ask for this help if they want to.

Also, never forget, by keeping softdrugs illegal, the problem will -NEVER- go away, -EVER-... The only thing you keep alive with it is the small crime and the illegal drugs traffic circuit, and a lot of desperate drug addicts who can't help themselves most of the time, who stay in this vicious circle of misery...

So yeah, legalize it in a professional way!

People, the point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed isn't about whether drugs are good or bad for you, because there is only one conclusion about that: drugs are bad for you, period. Alcohol, Nicotine, Cannabis, etc, they all damage your health in some degree.

The point of legalizing / decriminalizing weed -IS- if it is good for your country as a whole. The major advantage of legalizing softdrugs is the drop in small crimes. When softdrugs are illegal, like now, they still exist, if you like it or not, and the prices are insane high. Addicts of these softdrugs need to have their "trip" every x time, forcing them to buy the product for insane high prices. And there comes the problem, when you don't have money enough as an addict to buy your "savior product solution", you need to get your money from somewhere else, and in a LOT of cases this results into small crime.

By making the product available in a legal way (not the supermarket off course...), you allow these addicts to get their products for a low price, and keeping them away from forced small crimes. Another positive side effect of distributing these softdrugs in controlled legal central points in cities, is that addicts who want professional help to quit their addiction, can go to the same place and ask for this help if they want to.

Also, never forget, by keeping softdrugs illegal, the problem will -NEVER- go away, -EVER-... The only thing you keep alive with it is the small crime and the illegal drugs traffic circuit, and a lot of desperate drug addicts who can't help themselves most of the time, who stay in this vicious circle of misery...

So yeah, legalize it in a professional way!

Wow, first time I completely agree with you. And that's a lot to say.

People say is there any reason to illegalize it, but really is there any reason to llegalize it? Weed just gives people that "oh yeah i do drugs i'm cool mentality" honestly if you can afford weed why don't you get off your ass and go to the movies or something? Also, really people, you can't just follow the rules? I mean I'm in no way a white knight, but I find smoking/snorting/injecting crap like weed, crack, or meth stupid.

yeah this isn't an argument, just my opinion.

I am against legalization of Marijuana. Smoking Marijuana is as bad as smoking a Cigarette/Cigar, except they're a lot worse. It will cause horrible hallucination, and can drop your IQ level.

This is the general mis-informed. You dont hallucinate.

Legalizing will only make more addicts.
I'm for it though, however, I don't smoke anything and never plan to.
I don't need to smoke something to have fun or feel good, that would make my life seem so boring and uninteresting that I have to go get high just to feel good.
Naturaul Highs are 100% better and never get tiring. Don't need to increase the dosage to get a better high.

You can vouch all you want, heck legalize it. But, hey, people will still call you a pothead. And you'll just be put with all the other druggies.

Toking is actually much safer than drinking in my experiences, drunk people tend to do more dangerous and stupid things and theres a horrible attitude towards alcohol in North America causing people to get hurt/sexually harassed. Laws with enforced with drinking and smoking should be merged for the new Pot laws and everything should be alright in terms of vehicle and second hand smoke, etc.

oh i hope weed never gets legalized. it makes people dumb and lazy. legalize a drug that actually makes people productive and confident, like cocaine.

This is the general mis-informed. You dont hallucinate.

i have to disagree. it impairs vision. i guess it's different for different people but i've tried driving while extremely high and the roads seemed to stretch a lot longer than it was and very curvy where it would normally be straight.

i have to disagree. it impairs vision. i guess it's different for different people but i've tried driving while extremely high and the roads seemed to stretch a lot longer than it was and very curvy where it would normally be straight.

Impaired vision is not the same as hallucination.

How much Marijuana do you need to kill a lab rat?

 Spoiler

20 pounds

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dropped from 20 ft.