u gotta face the facts weed is harmless.
There is absolutly no fact in that statement. ANY non biased medical study, done by any CREDIBLE group will tell you that it has real side effects like most things.. Not even to compare it to narcotics. Lung cancer is a real side effect. It's not just the chemicals in tobacco that cause it. Marijuana side effects speed up the heart, blood and breathing rate. The body is taxed more and this speeds up the aging process just like methamphetamines do. Harmless? Hardly.. Again, it's nothing if compared to chemical drugs, but when you inhale anything burnt, you're going to get side effects.
i agree even wen its legalized there could still be problems with ppl but thats where education comes in.
Whats the lesson learned? Smoke pot responsibly? Come on.It's smoked to get high.. Some people do it to "relax" it's a great way to avoid actually dealing with problems. That can be the lesson learned
whats the difference between weed being legal than alcohol? alcohol is taxed and ppl buy it y wouldnt ppl that want weed?
Alcohol is here to stay regardless of what the government does. Abolishing things in this day and age will forever be harder then allowing it into the system. Again. growing your own pot and drying it is far from rocket science. I've done it enough to know that. The whole point is, if people can do it themselves, they sure aren't going to pay $10 for a pack of pot.
legalizing marijuana can cut crime down cuz it would be easy to get and not risk years in prison trying to get it illegally and so on.
Legalizing car theft would also cut down or crime.
you said ppl dont worry about having a little weed on them and same with cops not worrying about it. your completely wrong.
Opinion based on where I live. I apologize for the generalization.
ive been arrested for about a gram of weed and its not fun.
Being arrested for something illegal isn't supposed to be fun, though. It doesn't matter if you think it should be legal.. If it ain't you're gonna be in trouble.
We are filling up jails and sending harmless perfectly fine successful people to jail for no reason.
See above response. Look being in denial about it being illegal or making a judgement in your mind that the law is unfair DOESN'T mean that it is a petty law. You break the law, you go to jail. Laws are in place for the greater good, they aren't designed for our individual convenience.
People dont drive reckless when they smoke
Funny you say that. In Canada 1 in 3 impaired drivers in 2006 were found to be under the influence of pot along with their booze. On it's own.. Well, I know enough people that thought it was hilarious that when they were driving high that they were driving half the speed limit.. Seems harmless.. Merge onto a highway going 30mph in traffic going 65mph and tell me what happens.
Alertness, the ability to concentrate, coordination, and reaction time. These effects can last up to 24 hours after smoking marijuana. Marijuana use can make it difficult to judge distances and react to signals and sounds on the road.
but one of the reasons they dont legalize is cause there is no way to tell on the spot if someone is high and driving.
Consider this. NOBODY of sound mind will deny that the COMBINATION of pot and alcohol increases the effects of both. So, how can anyone make a sound judgement on how much pot vs. alcohol they can consume? You can't. The legal alcohol limit becomes meaningless. So, are we supposed to legalize it and say "Figure it out later". If we did there would be NO way of being able to tell people what they can consume and be safe to drive.
I enjoy pot once in a while.. I do it accepting the legal concequence. Thats life.
I must ssay, I'm rather enjoying the debate. NO OFFENCE EVER INTENDED
first things first. the person that said smoking marijuana doesnt lead to an athletic figure or w/e u said. The most athletic ppl i know most playing D1 sports smoke marijuana almost regularly. also i guarantee you most professional athletes smoke marijuana, mike vick, ricky williams and a shit load of other ones and i can guarantee that. i for one thing am in shape and have played sports all my life and for the past 3 years on my high school lax team (im now in college) i smoked marijuana regularly during the season and had no problems. i also had the chance to play in one of the top 10 D3 lax teams in the nation, but of course i wasnt the smartest in school.
broooo, i think ur just straight up against marijuana. drinking one beer is worse than smoking one joint put it that way. this is also an article from webmd stating its not linked to lung cancer..
http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer and i dont understand when your so against it, alcohol is so much worse for you. there are no recorded deaths of marijuana yet thousands of ppl die each year from alcohol, prescription drugs, even caffeine! exercising also speeds up ur heart rate and breathing rate, its good for you. marijuana just stimulates brain cells and actually kills cancerous ones. how can u say its harmful because ur breathing in something burnt..yes it is in a way but than again i can walk outside and breath in the air which is soooo polluted and can have more effects on me than marijuana.
smoked to get high. yea who doesnt like getting high but were not hurting anyone in any except for ourselves if u wanna look at it like that and thats for us to make the decision wether to smoke or not. legalizing it oesnt mean the gov't is forcing u to smoke it do wat u want. also no if legalized they need to educate like they do with alcohol ever since health class back in like 5th grade they say alcohol is bad and for adults blah blah blah, atleast tehre educating ppl about it and the same could be done for marijuana but than again everyone is there own person if they wanna smoke marijuana let them there not affecting u in any way.
ppl would buy it trust me. yea ppl can grow there own pot and its not easy trust me i just had 5 plants harvested. ask around ppl want the best bud they can get, governmently grown bud will be the best bud. its hard to grow the top strains and have them yeild well over an ounce and well over 18% THC trust me theres a lot more to it than just planting it and watering it, unless u want shitty ass weed or the chance of ur plant dieing. u also mentioned ppl would rather grow it than spend 10 bucks worth on pot, again if you want to grow decent marijuana atleast you know how much the supplies cost? well over 100 bucks. marijuana is also the largest cash crop in the US!!! LARGEST CASH CROP IN THE US!!!! HELLLOOOOOOO!!!! and im sure its the same for other countries. ppl will buy it and i speak for most marijuana users trust me, medical marijuana patients already buy it through co op stores where its legal they dont buy it off the street.
legalizing car theft will also cut down crime? thats irrelevant. legalizing marijuana will cut down crime! think about how much less shady drug deals going wrong, ppl getting beat, killed for it, etc.
you the one that said getting arrested for a small amount isnt a big deal....it is. "People just need to keep their usage to themselves and be happy with the unwritten law that carrying a couple grams isn't going to be a big deal." you also mentioned that ppl want it legalized just because there selfish, ur completely wrong. HEMP!!! is the root of marijuana, if marijuana was massed produced here in the US u know how helpful that would be for us? in europe they have had a few cars already running on hemp oil!!! we can make clothes and paper out of it! we can use it instead of wasting our natural resources that make up our beautiful earth (which contains wild marijuana...yes god did put it on this earth. there is actual marijuana that grows wild in the mid west called ditch weed. gov't trys to cut them down just because they contain 1-3% of THC lol.
u said its denial and i just want it legal for the response to filling up our jails. its true you just dont wanna believe it. i think your the one in denial. theres plenty of facts online about our jails filling up with non criminals. heres a vid for you....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYpt_H6g_44 also look up LEAP. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. you can learn alot from them and they know it (prohibition doesnt work) better than any of us on these boards.
about the driving thing. there is a bunch of research on it that proves marijuana doesnt effect driving like most ppl think, look it up. and again i think i speak for all users wen i say this but wen i drive high im a lot more cautious and drive almost better than i would sober and my reactions r not slow at all almost normal. when you have to do something serious you can. its almost like this, say your real drunk or even high and something happens and u have to talk to your parents or the cops or something its almost like a buzz kill you feel perfectly sober and can act sober and are completely fine. i never said anything about being drunk and high while driving. "In Canada 1 in 3 impaired drivers in 2006 were found to be under the influence of pot along with their booze." theres no way you can tell that they were high unless they said it, i know ppl that fell asleep in class and teachers thought they were high so they sent them to the nurses office for a drug test and they failed it cuz they smoked over the weekend but were completely sober in class and got suspended for no reason, even though its under the "guidelines" in school i guess its still not fair at all. and no i didnt say legalize it and figure it out later i know for a fact that its one of the reasons its not legal but i do think they should find a way to spot drug test before they make it legal.
im gonna go pack a bowl and relax with my friends not causing harm to anyone and enjoy the beautiful weather cuz i just aced my last final and im done school! hahah
EDIT: its also used for different religions. i thought ppl came here for freedom to practice there religion whether marijuana is legal or not. "The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says that the government cannot 'prohibit the free exercise' of religion, and so marijuana should be legal."