Do You Think Pot Should Be Legal?


Do You Think Pot Should Be Legal?  

410 members have voted

  1. 1. Do You Think Pot Should Be Legal?

    • Yes, but I've never tried it
      62
    • Yes, and I've tried it before
      160
    • No, and I've never tried it
      132
    • No, but I've tried it before
      56


Recommended Posts

Alcoholic drinks is actually healthy if you drink in the proper proportions. One beer a day provides a vast amount of antioxidants and that helps to keep the arteries elasticity. Marijuana or other drugs like lsd, crack/cocain etc. are damaging no matter how much you consume.

Not only that but you can only drink alcoholic drinks within a building like a bar. It's illegal to drink on the streets. Legal pot? People would be in the streets stoned as hell it would be annoying. It's not fair to compare alcohol to pot because the outcome of legal pot would be very different from alcohol.

586299118[/snapback]

Actually, if you'd go educate yourself, you'd see pot has many positive qualities, such as making the lungs or lung tissue expand, to make breathing easier for people, especially asthmatics, who are prescribed pot sometimes. It can also help increase appetite, aid insomniacs and so forth. Consuming marijuana after cooking it into foods has virtually NO negative effects, and smoking has little outside of the fact that you're smoking something, an action never good for the lungs.

No, it shouldn't be made legal. I've never done it, never have and never will. I just don't see the point. It's already okay for people with certain diseases to use it for medical purposes, and that's good enough.

I prefer natural highs/adrenaline rushes/whatever you want to call them. I find it silly that people waste their money on feeling good. It's like wasting money on sex, when you can get it for free.

Agreed.

586298931[/snapback]

Do you pay for movies? Music? Good food? There are so many things we as a society buy solely for enjoyment, that saying pot is bad because of that is just ridiculous.

Raum: Seriously, the day you have a parent who is totally screwed because pot and who almost destroyed his loved ones because his pot addiction please, come here and tell me pot is that wonderful  :crazy:

586299400[/snapback]

The day you can show me a leaf with the power to ruin a family, let me know. Otherwise, follish old me will keep blaming the actual person, but then again that's pretty illogical, isn't it? Holding the person accountable for their actions instead of the drug, who would of thought of that.

Oh, and I've actually seen pot bring families closer together, if you want to argue about family life.

You're weak and pathetic if you need drugs or alcohol to enjoy life. I say nay!

586299555[/snapback]

And it's DAMN pathetic all the people that still think everyone who enjoys buds, NEEDS it to enjoy life. I'm sober right now, and I'm very much enjoying my dinner and my music. I don't need to be high to enjoy these things, tool.

What would you do if your 5 year old child was using marijuana? Would you say 'atta boy! Just like your old man!' If it doesn't harm you then they should be able to have it right?

586299725[/snapback]

Using your logic....

Driving a car doesn't harm you, so why not let a 5 year old drive?

Having sex doesn't harm you, so why not prostitute your 5 year old?

Watching porn doesn't harm you, so why not show it to your 5 year old?

Just because something is relatively safe, doesn't mean I'd condone it's use by everyone.

To the ones that smoke/support it

Why legalize it?What would it change for you?

586299774[/snapback]

Wouldn't have to worry about getting searched with **** on me. Would have marijuana bars, which I've always wanted to have. Could walk around and smoke with less fear. I could buy pot from a store possibly, which would give me a greater chance of getting safe **** instead of stuff that's laced. Etc...

One more thing that I hate about pot/weed/joint is that those lazy zombies get extremely hungry afterward, and then they make a big mess in the kitchen afterward from all the food remains. I also hate about the fact that they create smokes all over the house. What's worse. those faggies put my cat inside a box and pouring smoke into it and making fun of my cat. Those sick minded people in University of Michigan is enough said for my decision against it. They pretty much can do all kinds of stupidest thing once they are high.

I personally believe pot has changed them from good to worse. I know one engineering student who go from above 3.5 down to merely 2.5 because of pot. Not to mention the pot money he has to work for. He is becoming a slave of pot even though he denies it. He says pot only emotionally addictive, but his actions tell otherwise. Why else he is smoking pot more than he attend classes?

I am moving out away from these broken bums in upcoming August. They vowed to me they will change, and up to this date, they still have troubles keeping their promises. Who are you going to trust? A person with clear mind or a person with lazy brain dead from weed?

586300253[/snapback]

Again, it's incredibly elementary logic to blame weed for a persons actions. They are making the concious decision every day to throw their money away at pot when they're tight on cash, etc. It doesn't make anyone who touches it a lethargic devil, like some would have you believe.

Pot should NOT be legalized.

They should even make laws prohibiting Tobacco companies from inserting additives into their cigarettes.

586300604[/snapback]

I agree with the last part, and if pot is ever legal, I'd want strict laws on what can be added to it, like you're talkin about with ciggs.

I find it funny when a Christian says pot is bad. That's like saying God made a mistake. According to The Bible, God created all animals and plants and put them on Earth. The hemp plant has many uses, and one of those uses is to smoke and enjoy the sensations. So to me a christian saying pot is bad is like saying God put everything on earth for us humans to use and enjoy, except for pot. God was wrong to put it here, we know better than him, and we're going to tell you to not use it, despite God having never even implied that.

Seems kind of...out of your place...huh?

Oh, and sorry to take so long ot get back to me thread. Was working a voluntary shift today after I got called in....just like any lazy stoner would. *Lights up a bowl*

Link to comment
Share on other sites

was a post that long really needed?

why does everyone who has to do drugs feel the need they have to brag about it? its something to be ASHAMED of. honestly, nobody even CARES if you smoke. its like me going around announcing, HEY EVERYONE I TOOK A SHOWER TODAY! IM CLEAN! DOESNT THAT MAKE ME COOL?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

FACTS:

1) A person that smokes pot is 104 times more likely to try cocainne.

2) One joint a day for a week is the equiviltent to 1 pack of cigs. a day when it come to the intake of carcinagins and tar. Note: there are over 400 carcinagens in pot.

3) The legal for of Pot is called Marinol and is taken orally in a pill or inhaled, but not smoked. THe FDA does not allow and drug that is smoked (see Morphiene ie. herion).

4) The largest percentage of kids 16-18 that enter rehad. do so because of pot, and not other drugs.

Forgot a big one:

5) The amount of money that could be brought in from the taxation of pot ranged from 15-20 billion. The estimated loss in productivity (citing examples of coutries such as the netherlands) and the increased cost of healthcare and rehabilitation has been estimated at over 100 billion dollars. The "business" of pot legalization does not work.

I just finished my thesis on this very topic and cite 40 different scholarly references.

Edited by betasp
Link to comment
Share on other sites

FACTS:

4) The largest percentage of kids 16-18 that enter rehad. do so because of pot, and not other drugs.

I just finished my thesis on this very topic and cite 40 different scholarly references.

586301061[/snapback]

What percentage of that very group of kids entered rehab voluntarily? Likewise, what percentage of the same group of kids entered rehab against their own will?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

What percentage of that very group of kids entered rehab voluntarily? Likewise, what percentage of the same group of kids entered rehab against there own will?

To be honest, I don't know. The figure came from a survey of kids in rehab. It did not cover how they got there. Since inmates that are incarcerated because of possession make up less that 5 percent federally and less than 10 percent state, I can assume there is a large percentage that is court mandated.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

That is the most flimsy arguement that is so commonly used. People who go onto hader stuff do it because they make a choice.

Yes and it's far easier to "make that choice" for someone who regularly smokes weed or takes shrooms than someone who didn't do either.

They've done one drug. They see that nothing wrong happens so what the heck, they'll try another popular one that their many friends take and seem to enjoy! It's their choice right. :rolleyes:

Link to comment
Share on other sites

FACTS:

1) A person that smokes pot is 104 times more likely to try cocainne.

2) One joint a week is the equiviltent to 1 pack of cigs. a day when it come to the intake of carcinagins and tar. Note: there are over 400 carcinagens in pot.

3) The legal for of Pot is called Marinol and is taken orally in a pill or inhaled, but not smoked. THe FDA does not allow and drug that is smoked (see Morphiene ie. herion).

4) The largest percentage of kids 16-18 that enter rehad. do so because of pot, and not other drugs.

I just finished my thesis on this very topic and cite 40 different scholarly references.

586301061[/snapback]

1) How do you set a standard for likeliness to try cocaine?

2) One joint one week = 1 PACK of cigs? Where's your source. And plus most carcinogens in marijuana are due to the resin produced and there are ways to lower it.

My take, It would be fine legalized, just set an age limit.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Pot will never be legal, because the gov't makes more money off of the illegal drug trade than they ever would off of pot pack taxes. :]

Remember, everytime you buy a blunt, the White House pays its cable bill!

...yes, yes, I know. For some of you, the White House is paid waaaay in advance. :p

Link to comment
Share on other sites

1) How do you set a standard for likeliness to try cocaine?

2) One joint one week = 1 PACK of cigs?  Where's your source.  And plus most carcinogens in marijuana are due to the resin produced and there are ways to lower it.

My take, It would be fine legalized, just set an age limit.

586301086[/snapback]

1) you survey those people who have tried pot and then compare the numbers to those who have tried pot and cocaine.

2)National Institue of Drug Abuse, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Clinical Phamacology, International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Pharmacology Review all cited that data.

But I did make a correction... thanks for the follwoup

"According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), someone who smokes five joints per week may be taking in as many cancer-causing chemicals as someone who smokes a full pack of cigarettes per day. Smoking one marijuana cigarette deposits about four times as much tar into the lungs as a filtered tobacco cigarette."

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Pot will never be legal, because the gov't makes more money off of the illegal drug trade than they ever would off of pot pack taxes. :]

Remember, everytime you buy a blunt, the White House pays its cable bill!

...yes, yes, I know. For some of you, the White House is paid waaaay in advance. :p

586301103[/snapback]

Yea from all the massive drug raids where they take all the money and fine everyones lives away.

I wonder what they do with all that dope after they lock it up in the evidence room?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Pot will never be legal, because the gov't makes more money off of the illegal drug trade than they ever would off of pot pack taxes. :]

Please clarify...

Link to comment
Share on other sites

was a post that long really needed?

why does everyone who has to do drugs feel the need they have to brag about it? its something to be ASHAMED of. honestly, nobody even CARES if you smoke. its like me going around announcing, HEY EVERYONE I TOOK A SHOWER TODAY! IM CLEAN! DOESNT THAT MAKE ME COOL?

586301058[/snapback]

Ummm, that's like going into the mac forum and bitching about people talking about macs. This is a thread about pot, I'm a pot user advocating it's use in a thread filled with arguements against it, where I can use first-hand experiences to debate points given. Why wouldn't I talk about my pot usage? Pfft.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Better for you than tobacco or alcohol long-term. Google some studies on it, specifically The Jamacia Study, and etc... They 100% prove that the long-term effects are very little.

Pot does less damage to the body than most over-the-counter drugs. We take all this horrible man-made crap every day, and they won't let us smoke the plants God gave us. WTF is wrong with this society?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

No, I don't believe it should be legal. Just because 'a lot' of people do it does not mean that it is ok. Pot has more carcinogens than around 100 cigarettes [if my old report serves me correctly], regardless of who is smoking. Just because people do it does not mean that it should be controlled and be turned into our (any) society as acceptable. Its a dangerous substance that only needs to be controlled by not being legal.

The only use I see marijuana using is for terminall ill patients. In this case, its just as useful as any other pain reliever.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We take all this horrible man-made crap every day, and they won't let us smoke the plants God gave us.

586301310[/snapback]

It would have been better saying a natural product, rather than implying that God meant people for to smoke it... and that's overlooking whether "God" even exists.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Granted it isn't healthy for one to smoke it (damage to the lungs), there is no real issue with smoking it responsibly. Anyone using blanket statements to state that it makes people lazy/unproductive/dumb/slow/etc... are just plain ignorant.

Those who are trying to justify their points, be it in favor of legalizing or not, by trying to show they can type better than others on the board have issues.

Now for those who speak down on it and how it doesn't make you creative, they've just not had the same experience with it. I know I can write songs when I'm sober and they aren't bad, but sometimes when I'm high I can right some real beautiful melodies.

To each his own. Let them legalize it or not. Either way I'm going to continue smoking it and so are all the other smokers out there. Legalizing it would just allow those who are trying to enjoy it freedom from any trouble with the law.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I just finished my thesis on this very topic and cite 40 different scholarly references.

586301061[/snapback]

and that makes you right?

i saw an anti-drug ad on television, it was primarily against pot and stated that one joint is just as bad as 4 cigarettes. yet the government allows people to buy as many packs of cigarettes per day as they want. to me that doesn't make sense, if they want pot to be illegal, all cigarettes and alcohol should be illegal as well. it makes no sense to me to ban one substance but allow those others to be legal. for the guy stating that marijuana addiction tears apart families... that's quite possible, but so does alcohol addiction, and it's a lot easier to get alcohol, even if you are underage.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If one is of legal age, nobody should tell me what I can and cannot to with/to my body. If I want to smoke, drink, or commit suicide, as long as I am not hurting someone else and doing it in my own home, the gov't should not be able to stop me. it is my right to do with my life as I see fit. If I want to do coke, hash, LSD, whatever... it is my life, nobody else's.

Granted, I don't do drugs, but I will not take away a person's right to do with their life as they want, as long as they are of legal age.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This topic is now closed to further replies.
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.