Marijuana Legalization. Yay Or Nay.

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by tatsxxx11
My husband travels to England frequently and thinks it's a most beautiful country, especially the countryside! And the people so kind and courteous too! Some parts of America are hot but we do have our cold spots too! That's neat that you might come to visit some day!

That's right! We have everything..............from snowy lands, to hot deserts, and everything in between! Not a surprise seeing how big a country we are!

Whenever my aunt comes to visit us from England..........she disappears, and we go looking for her and find her in the backyard, sitting in the sun. We ask her what she's doing, and she says, *Using my chance in years to soak up in the sun*

Guess we take the sun forgranted here? England is definitely beautiful..........beautiful, green, the air is fresh. I guess I can say I dislike London then........, because I did like the rest of the country that I saw. Oh.....I just don't like the dark clouds. It makes me sad and feeling gloomy inside.

[carole]

PCB we seem to be a bit of topic here, but what the heck, I reckon every country has its own particular beauty, America has some of the most beautiful scenery, and exciting places to visit, but then so does England and Scotland, wonderful scenery there too, not to mention the very scenic New Zealand, Gini can testify to that eh Gini?

Here in NZ we are a mixture , a bit of european, a bit americanised, and of course pure kiwi, well so I am told by my scottish relatives.

I guess we all find different things beautiful, some prefer rugged wilderness, others concrete jungles, or mountains and lakes, the later being my favourite.

Whatever the case the old pot is bound to be smoked in all these beautiful countries , more's the pity, just had to put that in so we are back on topic lol.!!!!!!!

[2kitties]

I've never been to NZ, but in my imagination, it's the most beautiful. I would also love to see thailand. I understand it is also stunning.

I visited Australia and loved the variety of climate and terrain.

The thing I think is most attractive to me about Europe in general, is the history. That is the one thing we really don't have here in America- no castles or ancient ruins, etc. We only have a few hundred years.

[Kfamr]

Coming from one of the Drug Fact handouts i've gotten in Health class...

Marijuana (Hash , hash oil)
Respiratory prob. (much faster than cig.) High tar, High heat,
More cancer causing chemicals, no filter.
Fat-Soluble-Stored in brain and reproductive organs.
Affects sperm & causes more chromosome breaks.
Laziness with goals set aside. Mental burnout.
THC = Psychoactive (mind altering) ingredient.

[Twisterdog]

Wow, this thread got REALLY off-topic! And no one can yell at me for it this time!

Originally posted by 2kitties
And if you really want to get this party started... I'll tell you what else I think.

I believe they should legalize prostitution. It is a victimless crime, my friends. Properly regulated and health inspected- as in Nevada, the taxes alone could buy computers for public schools all over the nation.

Amen! Never quite understood why sex between two consenting adults can possibly be called illegal. So one party gives the other party a fifty dollar bill. So what? Who does that harm? What if one party instead gives the other party an expensive dinner and a bottle of wine? Hmmmm .....

Twisterdog, you're my hero.

LOL ... well, that's a first! Thanks, you're mine, too.

I was in Switzerland, and in the parks there, they were all over the place and couldn't even stand up, that's real progress.

And this is different from the USA, how exactly? I see addicts all over public places in the USA. However, I see crack and heroine addicts, mostly. I don't really see too many people in a park who have smoked so much pot they can't stand up. And it's quite illegal here to do drugs, yet it obviously hasn't stopped these folks, has it? Legal or illegal, people WILL drink, they WILL do drugs.

[mugsy]

And how many of those people got started taking drugs because it was a thrill to do something illegal and ended up hooked?

I don't believe smoking pot is addictive (unlike alcohol or cigarettes), and I don't think that it does the damage that either of the afore mentioned addictions does either. I guess I feel that because it's illegal that people just assume that it is worse than something that is legal. I am not stupid enough to believe that there won't be adverse effects, because I know that whenever you put smoke in your body it will do something negative, but, as long as it is a consenting adult, they should be able to abuse their own body as they see fit.

Jackie, I will have to disagree with you on one point (the other point I agree with 100%), I don't believe that it is pot that is making those people in Switzerland act like that. I dare say it is the harder nastier drugs like heroin or crack, or coke, or crystal meth.

A side note here. My sister used to be a foster parent for drug addicted babies (and in fact ended up adopting a meth baby) and never once did she have a baby that was born addicted to pot. She did, however, have a lot of fetal alcohol babies and the alcohol is legal......hmmmm......

[jackiesdaisy1935]

This is my last post on this subject but I believe that many, not all people who start with Pot graduate when it's not enough, to Cocaine, etc. etc. I think this would be a better world without all this junk. People would have clear minds and maybe children and pets would not be abused as much as they are now.
Just this ole lady's opinion.
Jackie

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by jackiesdaisy1935
and pets would not be abused as much as they are now.

I think it's unfair and a little mean to suggest that people who smoke pot abuse their pets.

[RICHARD]

I just heard a story about POT killing a man.

Apparently the young man had some kind of mechanical problem with his car. A police car
pulled up behind to see what the problem was.

The man panicked and swallowed the marijuana he had and choked to death....


Well,
It really wasn't the pot that killed him.
It was the plastic bag.

I'm waiting for the lawsuit against the manufacturers of plastic bags

[2kitties]

rofl.

[mugsy]

Jackie, I agree that the world would be better without all the crap, but I would put cigarettes and alcohol in there too, however, it isn't going to happen, so I do believe that the taxes raised by legal sales of pot could go to educate people on the dangers of smoking period.


Richard....you're too funny. Mike decided that we need to develop a digestable form of plastic. Wanna start???

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by jackiesdaisy1935
This is my last post on this subject but I believe that many, not all people who start with Pot graduate when it's not enough, to Cocaine, etc. etc. I think this would be a better world without all this junk. People would have clear minds and maybe children and pets would not be abused as much as they are now.
Just this ole lady's opinion.
Jackie

I totally agree with you. I think we need to keep this junk out of our country.

[RICHARD]

Originally posted by mugsy



Richard....you're too funny. Mike decided that we need to develop a digestable form of plastic. Wanna start???

what are we gonna do with see-thru veggie burgers?

[2kitties]

Originally posted by mugsy
Jackie, I agree that the world would be better without all the crap, but I would put cigarettes and alcohol in there too, however, it isn't going to happen, so I do believe that the taxes raised by legal sales of pot could go to educate people on the dangers of smoking period.

I disagree with you just a little. I enjoy wine with my dinner or a nice martini or a beer with my pizza. It DOES NOT mean I'm going to get lazy and move into a crack house. I pay taxes, go to work, exercise daily and manage to remain a contributing member of society---all the while enjoying a drink when I want to.

[anna_66]

Originally posted by WolfChan
Actually, cigarettes are MUCH MUCH MUCH worse for you than marijuana. I always found that kind of ironic...

I don't understand that comment. I could smoke a whole carton of cigarettes in one sitting and it wouldn't mess with my motorskills like Marijuana does.

Now, having said that....
I don't understand why they don't legalize it. It's no worse than alcohol, I don't think you could die from Marijuana poisioning, but you can die from alcohol poising.
So I guess my vote is Yay.