Marijuana

[Steven]

People who smoke marijuana give me free loot in wildy so I have no problem with them.

[Pink]

9/10s of the people on this topic that said "legalize marijuana" have never smoked it in their lives.

[Evan]

For all the kids who got trolled by reilly, go watch the union on youtube so you can spit back information and sound smart as **** about bud.

 

Smoking pot gave me something to do for a while, since I'm only 18 I couldn't say "I smoke pot for my health" and since I'm not one to go and flaunt I wouldn't say "Oh it helps me relax and relieves me stress." Reality was I was a bored teenager who got high put his ipod on and spaced out, or just talked to friends and had some really fun memories.

 

It's not a gateway drug in my opinion, you can be a little ass kid drink apple juice on a day to day basis and say "ohh I loved to drink apple juice so now that's why I drink alcohol." Doesn't work that way, the desire to use more intense and harder "drugs" is all on the person and the amount of pressure or curiosity he has to go and take the next step. Educate before you medicate is what a lot of us say around here.

 

I'm not saying I want the government to make it 100% legal for recreational use because there will be a high rate of teens who don't want to do anything but sit around and smoke bud. They will think they are getting **** done but believe me, I have had friends who went out to California for college and come home due to dropping out because they just wanted to chill smoke bud and hang with whoever. Now the kid who had a job making decent money while in college is at home in his mom and dads house working only 15 hours a week making ****. When you smoke bud daily, you think about it a lot and yeah it can get in the way of things.

 

The government should at least 100% legalize the ability to grow 'Industrial Hemp,' I think it's only legal to grow it in a few states in the midwest of the U.S. You can't smoke Ind Hemp, yet our economy would boom. You can create so many natural fibers, bio fuels, clothing, paper, even use the seeds to make a type of skim milk or even consume the seeds. Would solve some of this debt as well solve a lot of problems and create solutions for natural fuels, as well as solutions for the energy crisis or even provide clothing for the needy people.

[Dirty Wobble]

If u smoke weed you go to hell and god will rape you.

[I R Jaketard]

I don't have anything against marijuanna, however I don't like the crowd. All of the pot smokers I know are cocky, annoying and arrogant.

[Kris]

If you're not smoking, you're missing out alot of the world. It's there for a reason.

If you've never done it before you really can't say anything about it imo. You don't know how you will feel after you've used it.

 

A while ago I watched a documentary called : The Union. It's a great docu and I would suggest you guys watching it.

 

Off topic : Shrooms are the best trips ever this is the only "drug" I would suggest that everyone should try it.

[Lawson]

Just read Evans reply, He hit it in one.

[Iraqi Mage]

I used to smoke almost everyday but I quit just over a year ago. Personally I don't care. Plus if it was legal all my cousins would be out of jobs! :P

[AndyIbeat]

I pretty much do smoke it everyday, however I don't flaunt it or try to make a big deal out of it, I just enjoy smoking in my own spare time, kicking back and not having a care in the world.

[Reilly]

Lol, everyone who disagrees with the gateway theory is taking the theory completely out of context. I agree, weed as a drug, in and of itself isn't going to get you into harder substances BUT it does increase the likelihood of being introduced to new substances. As you form relationships with chronic marijuana users new social and environmental possibilities open up which previously would have been non-existent; anyone who actually smokes weed will agree with me. However I still believe (esp. as a libertarian) that this theory is completely irrelevant in terms of legalization. This is just another attempt by neo-conservative pricks to keep marijuana illegal, and at the same time gives stupid teenagers with no self-control justification for their own stupidity. Just another way of shifting the burden of responsibility from the users to the drug.

 

Ultimately, no drug is inherently bad. It's our relationship with the drugs that truly determine the impact they'll play on both a micro and macro scale.

[Ragee]

It should be ILLEGAL or else it will make every person look like a jack ass saying drugs are bad and make kids not listen to thier parents, if it does become legal witch it will eventually i think it needs to come out slow, kind of like your gayness

[Luke L]

Weed is bad for you, good thing it's illegal!

[Aidan]

Weed isn't for me but I don't hold anything against people who smoke it.

[Luke L]

Lol, everyone who disagrees with the gateway theory is taking the theory completely out of context. I agree, weed as a drug, in and of itself isn't going to get you into harder substances BUT it does increase the likelihood of being introduced to new substances. As you form relationships with chronic marijuana users new social and environmental possibilities open up which previously would have been non-existent; anyone who actually smokes weed will agree with me. However I still believe (esp. as a libertarian) that this theory is completely irrelevant in terms of legalization. This is just another attempt by neo-conservative pricks to keep marijuana illegal, and at the same time gives stupid teenagers with no self-control justification for their own stupidity. Just another way of shifting the burden of responsibility from the users to the drug.

 

Ultimately, no drug is inherently bad. It's our relationship with the drugs that truly determine the impact they'll play on both a micro and macro scale.

 

Thought most of it was a pretty smart response, until I got to the last part.

 

I agree with everything you said, up until you put the emphasis completely on the user. I like to emphasize the user over the drug, but to say "no drug is inherently bad" is ******* retarded. I would like to know your definition of "bad". Our body was meant to breathe air, I can't imagine how inhaling smoke, and burning hot plant matter into our lungs could be "good" for them. Or other hard drugs that make you lose your teeth, and all the other horrible things the chemicals do to your body.

 

Don't even try to say that the drug itself is fine because that is just plain ignorant.

[Drysoda]

I don't have problems with people that smoke it. But I think it should remain illegal.

[Fatall]

Making one side-affected drug legal will make more people try it. Once they have tried it and see that it's okay they will move on to one of the more dangerous substances. Illegal.

[Reilly]

Lol, everyone who disagrees with the gateway theory is taking the theory completely out of context. I agree, weed as a drug, in and of itself isn't going to get you into harder substances BUT it does increase the likelihood of being introduced to new substances. As you form relationships with chronic marijuana users new social and environmental possibilities open up which previously would have been non-existent; anyone who actually smokes weed will agree with me. However I still believe (esp. as a libertarian) that this theory is completely irrelevant in terms of legalization. This is just another attempt by neo-conservative pricks to keep marijuana illegal, and at the same time gives stupid teenagers with no self-control justification for their own stupidity. Just another way of shifting the burden of responsibility from the users to the drug.

 

Ultimately, no drug is inherently bad. It's our relationship with the drugs that truly determine the impact they'll play on both a micro and macro scale.

 

Thought most of it was a pretty smart response, until I got to the last part.

 

I agree with everything you said, up until you put the emphasis completely on the user. I like to emphasize the user over the drug, but to say "no drug is inherently bad" is ******* retarded. I would like to know your definition of "bad". Our body was meant to breathe air, I can't imagine how inhaling smoke, and burning hot plant matter into our lungs could be "good" for them. Or other hard drugs that make you lose your teeth, and all the other horrible things the chemicals do to your body.

 

Don't even try to say that the drug itself is fine because that is just plain ignorant.

It's not ignorant at all, I just don't think you comprehend what I'm trying to say. You can use any hard drug; heroine, meth, crack, molly, etc. and the impact it will have on you almost entirely depends on your relationship with the drug. Sure, smoking crack isn't good for you, but the consequential impact it'll have on your biological structure is almost non-existent if you do it on an irregular basis. I'm not in favor of chronic use of any drugs, which is why the emphasis is on the user. If you believe taking any hard drug once will SERIOUSLY impact your life than you're the ignorant one.

[MajicProdigy]

I would agree that pot is less dangerous than alcohol. But thats not saying much cause alcohol is terrible for you (unless in moderation, but who does that?). But any smoke in your lungs is not good for you. I would agree that vaporizers would be safe and I would vote for medical marijuana. As for full legalization... Society is not ready for it yet.

[Wallace]

there is no negative effects to weed other then putting a small strain on your lungs for a small period of time. legalize =]

[Reilly]

I would agree that pot is less dangerous than alcohol. But thats not saying much cause alcohol is terrible for you (unless in moderation, but who does that?). But any smoke in your lungs is not good for you. I would agree that vaporizers would be safe and I would vote for medical marijuana. As for full legalization... Society is not ready for it yet.

Sorry, I'm having trouble understanding someone as stupid as yourself. Why exactly should an individual not have the right to smoke their lungs out, and why should society have to 'be ready' for something as insignificant as marijuana use? Everyone who's against the legalization of marijuana is ignorant, biased and probably grew up in a white, christian, conservative home where they were told all their lives "IT'S BAD DON'T DO IT!!@#!"

[konka]

Amsterdam is living proof Marijuana is harmless & should not be illegal.

[XtraLame]

canada is proof that when a nation smokes pot, they become everyone's best friend and gain the best rep :D also we have the best actuaries, so somehow we can be stoned as **** and still be the best at math!

[w4u]

pot is addicting

 

i laugh at anybody who tells me otherwise and will proceed to destroy them with my knowledge in this subject. Pot is addicting. Technically, you can overdose on pot but its a ridiculous amount that it's physically impossible to smoke all of that amount in 15 min span. Also, pot is damaging to your brain, contrary to popular opinion.

 

Pot does not cause lung cancer but does decrease lung capacity simply because you are inhaling burning substances which damage the cells of the lungs.

 

Pot affects your memory.;

 

Pot is less harmful than alcohol; actually "psychoactive shrooms" are less damaging to your body than weed.

 

Substancial pot use over a long span of time can affect your moods greatly. So this does not mean pot is some consequence free drug that you should smoke everyday.

 

Hmm, anybody want to try to dispute any of the points Ive stated?

[CONVlCT]

pot is addicting

 

i laugh at anybody who tells me otherwise and will proceed to destroy them with my knowledge in this subject. Pot is addicting. Technically, you can overdose on pot but its a ridiculous amount that it's physically impossible to smoke all of that amount in 15 min span. Also, pot is damaging to your brain, contrary to popular opinion.

 

Pot does not cause lung cancer but does decrease lung capacity simply because you are inhaling burning substances which damage the cells of the lungs.

 

Pot affects your memory.;

 

Pot is less harmful than alcohol; actually "psychoactive shrooms" are less damaging to your body than weed.

 

Substancial pot use over a long span of time can affect your moods greatly. So this does not mean pot is some consequence free drug that you should smoke everyday.

 

Hmm, anybody want to try to dispute any of the points Ive stated?

 

not necessarily dispute.. but wanted to bring light to the fact that pot maybe considered as "addicting" its far less addicting then alcohol & tobacco. anything can affect your mood overtime, same story with alcohol/tobacco/bad dieting with no excercise. why is only one of these illegal? the least harmful of the bunch to your body ... illegal?

 

we have the right to choose if we want to hurt our bodies with tobacco/alcohol/poor dieting/abusing pills.. (all legal) yet we DO not get the choice to smoke marijuana, which compared to the others has far less damaging side effects. Thats my problem, we are not offered the RIGHT to choose if we want to smoke or not.. yet people are able to go abuse other legalized products. you don't see us outlawing the sales of burgers from BURGERKING.. which I'm sure would be helpful to all of the obese people around the world that will someday die from diabetes or other medical problems associated with obesity. you do not hear about people getting lung cancer from weed, as you do tobacco.. with all those other chemicals packed into one cigarette, I really have no idea how it IS legal.. each smoke is slowly killing your body. & my last and final point... you never here about somebody who has smoked 'too much' pot and came home and beat his wife and kids.. yet on the other hand you hear that quite a lot with alcohol addiction mixed with depression.

 

why is weed illegal? not sure to be honest. but I know im gonna keep smokin :)

[w4u]

pot is addicting

 

i laugh at anybody who tells me otherwise and will proceed to destroy them with my knowledge in this subject. Pot is addicting. Technically, you can overdose on pot but its a ridiculous amount that it's physically impossible to smoke all of that amount in 15 min span. Also, pot is damaging to your brain, contrary to popular opinion.

 

Pot does not cause lung cancer but does decrease lung capacity simply because you are inhaling burning substances which damage the cells of the lungs.

 

Pot affects your memory.;

 

Pot is less harmful than alcohol; actually "psychoactive shrooms" are less damaging to your body than weed.

 

Substancial pot use over a long span of time can affect your moods greatly. So this does not mean pot is some consequence free drug that you should smoke everyday.

 

Hmm, anybody want to try to dispute any of the points Ive stated?

 

not necessarily dispute.. but wanted to bring light to the fact that pot maybe considered as "addicting" its far less addicting then alcohol & tobacco. anything can affect your mood overtime, same story with alcohol/tobacco/bad dieting with no excercise. why is only one of these illegal? the least harmful of the bunch to your body ... illegal?

 

we have the right to choose if we want to hurt our bodies with tobacco/alcohol/poor dieting/abusing pills.. (all legal) yet we DO not get the choice to smoke marijuana, which compared to the others has far less damaging side effects. Thats my problem, we are not offered the RIGHT to choose if we want to smoke or not.. yet people are able to go abuse other legalized products. you don't see us outlawing the sales of burgers from BURGERKING.. which I'm sure would be helpful to all of the obese people around the world that will someday die from diabetes or other medical problems associated with obesity. you do not hear about people getting lung cancer from weed, as you do tobacco.. with all those other chemicals packed into one cigarette, I really have no idea how it IS legal.. each smoke is slowly killing your body. & my last and final point... you never here about somebody who has smoked 'too much' pot and came home and beat his wife and kids.. yet on the other hand you hear that quite a lot with alcohol addiction mixed with depression.

 

why is weed illegal? not sure to be honest. but I know im gonna keep smokin :)

Pot is scientifically proven as being addicting. Dont question me on that lol. Even if its addictive in 8% of populations, it's still addicting. weed is illegal for the wrong reasons, I agree.

 

I'm for pot decriminalization and medical legalization. Im just not one of the blind supports of weed that thinks its not addictive or doesnt have its harmful effects.