Marijuana

[falconsfan14]

Magister, i too know how you feel, my dad is a coke addict and he comes home stumbling around yelling sometimes even hitting, its a scary site indeed. But, they chose to live their lives that way, and they pay the consiquinces, like my father for instance. He cant sleep, breath into his nose, smell anything, hardly see, and has random mood swings because of coke, and he also smokes. In my fathers eyes, it doesnt even matter anymore, he says his life is so messed up now that he doesnt even care. Without realising that he is hurting everybody around him mentally and physically. Im up for the legalization of drugs, but people MUST be aware of the consiquinces. Not by stupid lectures at school, but by parents talking to their kids, and so on, freewill, thats what it is.

[Skull-King]

In this country, we are all subject to our own actions via choice. We can do anything we choose to if not caught. All things are an influence which spark the next action. Seeing some person eat a sandwhich by a water founatin my inspire someone to actually try to become the proponent to a massive movement of "justice".
My point is; it is someones choice to use drugs. However it's aftereffects are extremly hazardous. Each harmful drug impares the users judgment and (can) inevidably kills them, someone else or (can) hurts a loved one to the extent of suicide or homicide. For these reasons, I belive that no drug, not even the enigmatic mary jane should be leagalized.
EVER.
The only excuse is herbal therapy. This is, of course, my opinion. If anyone criticises me about it, thats on you.
Fight the subject, not the speaker.

[jewpinthethird]

I agree with it being legalized, but I don't agree with the use of it by the youth of America. Marijuana is a lot better on the environment than cotton, and more durable. I'm looking forward to a greener earth more than a cheap high.

Not "Marijuana", Hemp. Both are products of the same plant, marijuana is the common name for the Buds and leaves, hemp is the common name for all other parts of the Cannabis plant. During WWII, hemp was legalized.

[xp_guardian]

the difference between smoking cigarettes and smoking weed:

smoking cigarettes: long term affects. smoking them may not affect you now but the do affect you in the long run. also smoking cigs doesnt harm people people around you (except for second hand smoke.)

marijuana: does not have as severe long term affect but rather has severe "now" affects. when you smoke weed, you get high. which, in turn, decreases your sense of judgement and could result in the death of an innocent. And to me, knowing that you killed someone because you were stupid and got high just to be cool is by far the worst long term damage that could be done to yourself.

so no, i dont think it should be legal

[falconsfan14]

the difference between smoking cigarettes and smoking weed:

smoking cigarettes: long term affects. smoking them may not affect you now but the do affect you in the long run. also smoking cigs doesnt harm people people around you (except for second hand smoke.)

marijuana: does have as severe long term affect but rather has severe "now" affects. when you smoke weed, you get high. which, in turn, decreases your sense of judgement and could result in the death of an innocent. And to me, knowing that you killed someone because you were stupid and got high just to be cool is by far the worst long term damage that could be done to yourself.

so no, i dont think it should be legal

Fixed.

Marijuana does have long term affects. It does damage your lungs, just not as much as ciggarettes do. Try to convince us why weed doesnt have long term affects, when infact you said yourself that it could have long term affects.

[Meteor858]

Boo after affects

screw weed i dont really care if its legal or not just as long as im not the one smoking it! duh

well anyways heres a little jingle for ya:

I love weed i love weed weed is good so DRINK a lot of it! Oh look the car, it wants to give.... me..... a...... hug!

Come here little ill be your friend !!!



Moral: weed is stupid although it is fun watching people after they smoked it..

What happened to little jimmy?

he and the car became best friends of the grave, together say sat in the junkyard having a nasty orgy with a bunch of old tape recorders


ha ha ha

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[ToshX]

In this country, we are all subject to our own actions via choice. We can do anything we choose to if not caught.

You can do that in every country, now, can't you?

[british_bmx2005]

HappyHippy123 wrote:

....if you're not harming anyone else around you, then it should be legal.

You are still harming people around you. If either they are smoking or not, you are still blowing smoke into the atmosphere where people breathe.

I think that if it is going to be illegal, the penalties should not be more severe than the effects of the drugs are on your body over a long period of time.

The penalties should not change because it doesn't matter whether you've had them with you for 5 seconds or 5 hours or 5 days, you are still being charged with position of drugs.

[altrock182182]

I think Marijuana is controlled by the government solely because it gets you high- the government rightly or wrongly restrains us from getting things that make people temporarily feel really good. In the long run it probably won't help you at all, but if you feel kinda down, marijuna could replace all these highly addictive and high-cost medications for bipolar, depression, and other emotional disorders. I take Paxil, and when I'm on it I feel normal ,but when I get off it I feel worse than when I wasn't taking it at all, whereas when I smoke weed I feel great for longer than my pills last, and I don't get withdrawl symptoms when I don't smoke. As an added bonus I don't have to take Ibuprofin all the time either, I have a bad back that hurts like hell al the time-when im high I don't feel it at all. I can see, however, how it could be abused and it probably shouldn't be distributed to kids, so I say just make it so you have to have a dealer's license like Cigarettes and Alcohol, just make it just like any other over-the-counter drug. ---also, with this cigarette vs marijuana thing, which is moer damaging-cigarettes are, no doub tabout it, marijuana hurts you long-term too, but if cigs are legal why not weed if it doesn't do as much damage?

[esupin]

Legalizing marijuana will not stop kids from abusing them. Drinking and smoking are legalized, yet you see many underage kids drinking or getting cigarettes from someone who can legally buy them.

[B3NJ1]

HappyHippy123 wrote:

....if you're not harming anyone else around you, then it should be legal.

You are still harming people around you. If either they are smoking or not, you are still blowing smoke into the atmosphere where people breathe.

And having a fire in your backyard is any different? If marijuana was legalized, we would have two kind of users. Responsible users who use it during stress, depression (death in family, use your imagination) and then we have junkies who just get constantly stoned for no real reason. As altrock said, why shouldn't this be a replacement for some of the depression medicines? Of course, if it was, how much was taken would have to be decided so you don't go to school high.

overall, marijuana should be legalized.

[gardyloo]

If you are going to outlaw marijuana because it has long term effects that aren't good for your body, you might as well outlaw cigarettes, alcohol, automobiles, etc.
If you are going to outlaw marijuana because it is psychoactive and horrible things happen when abused then that is alright for the time being. You have to also remember that drug stores are making cold medicine under the counter now, so this isn't the only thing that is being controlled because people aren't smart enough to use in moderation.
I am totally for the legalization of marijuana/cannibis, not because it can give you a cheap high, but because it is a lot better for the environment than cotton. It uses less water and it is a lot more durable.
Remember: no matter what you smoke it is NEVER good for your lungs. ANYTHING you smoke will always have carbon, and it can not be avoided. If you want to smoke, do it when you are alone. Use a water pipe or filter, it is a lot better for you. Always use in moderation, if you fuck up and die that's your own fault, and that is why it is not legalized as of yet.

[MalReynolds]

If you need to mellow out, there are plenty of OTC pills that you can take that'll have pretty much the same effect... If you could get your hands on any kind of muscle relaxent (Percogezic, Percoset) then you'll be off... But, Hemp is another story. Yes, I believe that we should use hemp as much as possible, considering I went to my little sister's school library and they had a book with the pros and cons of the legalization of MJ... Hemp is the strongest case it has going for it.

If it were legalized, it would also be standardized... A lot of the time you get weed, you're not getting the straight plant, you're getting a lot of other stuff cut in, which helps cause a high and addiction to the substance... When standardized, people who regularly smoked would not get the same high, but I suppose you would get a high non-the-less. Anywhom, I'm off to watch porn.

Mal

[Chocoborider29]

legalize it. who cares? we legalized gays. It couldn't screw us up any more. (shaww, who wants to move out of america w/ me and go to Ireland?)

~~Micah-D2~~