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Post by Foamy Dog on Feb 15, 2003 5:50:40 GMT -5
I thought I would start this one out with the old basic question:
Marijuana: Should it be legal?
Why or why not?
Why is alcohol legal if marijuana is not? Alcohol can be quite addictive and quite a health risk. Is is more or less so that marijuana?
Dive in!
--FD
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Post by MO on Feb 15, 2003 6:32:45 GMT -5
oh my! The difference is, you can have a glass of wine without the intention of getting high. You can throw back a few cold ones while you are eating crabs, without trying to catch a buzz.
I don't smoke pot (these days) but I do think the government should butt out. If some people want to do it, that should be their choice.
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Post by Foamy Dog on Feb 15, 2003 6:50:13 GMT -5
Good one! ;D I'll be honset and say like you, "I don't smoke pot (these days)" and since the statue (sp?) of limitations has long passed for me I'll go on and say that when I was much younger . . . Wait a minute, what exactly are the statue (sp?) of limitations on this? Anyway, I agree. As far as I know, it's not as dangerous in the long term as alcohol to my knowledge though the only long term effect that I know of is the loss of short term memory (I guess that is better than liver damage and addiction.) Now, what were we talking about??   --FD |
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Post by MO on Feb 15, 2003 7:57:58 GMT -5
If someone wants to grow a 'lil grass in their own back yard, for personal use, I don't think the feds or the state should have anything to say about it!
I guess I'd have to move the old pinto! Just kidding!
The drug and booze comapanies have a strong enough lobby that they will keep out any competition on ways to get high!
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Post by Peanut on Feb 15, 2003 13:33:54 GMT -5
I have never tried marijuana and i dont plan on experimenting any time soon. Marijuana is illegal, and yet smoking is legal. THIS IS STUPID. I dont know the exact side effects of marijuana but it still is smoke inhaled into your lungs - meaning you can risk lung and heart problems and in extreme cases, blood clots. Therefore making it dangerous and therefore it should be illegal (like cigarettes). As for booze, i, for once, agree with mo, all in moderation. A glass of wine WITH dinner, can thin out the blood, reducing the risk of early heart attacks. A beer after a long days work, only puts you to sleep faster, haha. Alcohol is something that can actually be enjoyed and not be harmful, if enjoyed responably (sp?). Marijuana, like all drugs, including cigarettes, has no resonable good side effects, except that marijuana can numb out pain, not stop it, only numb it out for patients suffering from certain diseases.
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Post by garrett7855 on May 26, 2003 19:00:25 GMT -5
Well, back in the good old days , when I used to fool around with that stuff, you know before the statute of limitations , I'd have said, "Yeah Dude, it oughta be legal, man." Now that I'm a lot older and (hopefully) wiser, I think I'd have to say, "Yeah, Dude, it ought to be legal, man." BUT, not for the same reasons. Its use should be regulated the way alcohol and tobacco are regulated (theoretically, anyway). My personal experience tells me that its effects are far and away less harmful than alcohol, and in spite of the ignorance of some, it does have some beneficial uses. As to how it compares with the possible damage caused by tobacco use, I never met anyone who could smoke enough of it and stay concious long enough to have a lot of harmful effect there. But the main reason for legalisation as far as I'm concerned is the concept of control of the substance. There are tremendous quantities entering the country illegally all the time. It generates no revenue and keeps our penal system overloaded with cases that could be better dealt with by other means. The only time a pot smoker should be in jail is when he's done something comparable to what any idiot who abuses alcohol has done (DUI, OUI whatever they call it where you are). And think of all the taxes the liberals could generate off the back of it!!  |
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Post by USA50 on Aug 26, 2003 8:24:31 GMT -5
Think of all the money we could divert from foolishly (failingly) chasing nonsense drug crimes and devote to Homeland Security and violent crimes.
Oh, I forgot, police and Homeland Security are funded by......NO!...TAXES!!! And those soft-on-crime Lbrals want to spend it all on......NO!.....CRIME!!!
And george has cut funding for police, fire departments, and instituted Gary Hart's Homeland Security Dept idea only after 9/11 forced him to. Good. Taxes be bad, taxes be Lbral. george is our saviour.
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Post by lordjulius7 on Aug 26, 2003 20:36:44 GMT -5
Hey, USA50, if you hadn't noticed, we were all agreeing that pot should be legal. Never the less, thanks for another unsupported and irrelevent rant!
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Post by USA50 on Aug 27, 2003 9:18:29 GMT -5
Hey, lord (anyone who's a lord has gotta be right, right?),
My reply was not irrelevant...it spoke to the advantages of legallizing MaryJane. And the comment on taxes was extremely relevant to an advantage. And the added sly remarks on taxes were directed at conservatives whose name appears in the Site title.
My 'supportability' was in the context of the above.
My jibe at george was just for fun - although it remains a highly serious issue. george loves to protect us from the international pot conspiracy, while he does nothing like what he said to protect us from a real international terrorist conspiracy.
george weaves a tangled web (often irrelevant and unsupportabe)....I just try to untangle it, and use you guys to do it.
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Post by magpie on Dec 16, 2003 0:29:01 GMT -5
other than smoking it at work or around machenary or when driveing im all for it ;D
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Post by Angmar on Jan 29, 2004 23:59:57 GMT -5
In my opinion, trying to restrict marijuana is a waste of time and money. People should be instructed that, if they must use it, they should do so in the privacy and comfort of their home. . .
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Post by ItWillNeverWork on Feb 23, 2004 19:30:36 GMT -5
We agree on one thing at least ang
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Post by Ted on Feb 25, 2004 17:47:29 GMT -5
In my opinion, trying to restrict marijuana is a waste of time and money. People should be instructed that, if they must use it, they should do so in the privacy and comfort of their home. . . Yea I agree, but I think there should be better ways to restrict driving under the influence (but then that could be said for alcohol too, lol). |
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Post by Chelle on Mar 18, 2004 22:18:33 GMT -5
I think marijuana should be legalized. It just doesn't make any sense to me to have (imo) a much more addictive 'drug' (alcohol) completely legal, while marijuana remains illegal.
Personally, I don't much care for the stuff (I'm old now.. so there ya go. lol) but if someone chooses to toke up at home, let them.
Government control over what's good and/or bad for us, has gotten way out of hand.
Alcohol is legal, and millions of people CHOOSE to abuse it. It's like anything else, really. It boils down to personal responsibility and consequences for your actions.
Chelle
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Post by MO on Mar 18, 2004 22:33:29 GMT -5
I have no problem with some of the socially liberal ideas like legalization of drugs, as long as personal responsibility is in the equation. Often the same folks who talk about it not hurting anyone will scream for socialized medicine out of the other side of their hypocritical mouth. If we're screaming down an unstoppable path to socialized medicine, then everything anyone does IS my business! If we can cut some folks off the government teat, spend less on social programs and really be a country of personal responsibility, drug legalization would be fine.
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