Originally posted by Sara luvs her Tinky
I vote NAY!

I know from personal experience that pot turns you into the biggest bum! And we need to be stimulating people to be smarter and brighter rather than stoned and dumber.

I have heard studies say that smoking one blunt of pot is equivelant to smoking one pack of cigarettes and one hit off of a bong is equal to smoking five packs. You have to consider when people smoke pot it isn't filtered and they hold the smoke in longer for a better high.

Annnnnddddd (on my soapbox now) pot is the biggest gateway drug. People act like pot is so innocent (and so it may seem) so when people start smoking pot and realize how fun it is they want to branch out and see how much "fun" the other drugs are.

I wouldn't want to compare cigarettes to pot really because cigarettes don't effect you the way pot does...
I agree! Why would anyone want to be high? It makes you feel and act stupid and it is more harmful than cigarettes. Imagine the chemicals that the manufacturers would put in pot! After all, the government has already said that the chemicals added to cigarettes are A OK for us in that they still allow them to be added, even though we all know how harmful they are. I know tobacco alone is bad, but the chemicals just increase the danger. Funny how they have outlawed other dangerous chemicals that cause cancer and other diseases, but those weren’t huge $ producers like cigarettes.

Pot fries your brain and I know many people who smoke it regularly. They are almost all fried and/or useless. Occasional use isn’t likely to cause much harm, but regular use can be devastating. My own sister is an excellent example. Her brain is fried. She makes the dumb blondes in the dumb blonde jokes look smart (she was an honor student) and she smoked pot every day for YEARS (she quit about 4 yrs ago and nothing has come back yet). She made nothing of her life and has nothing to her name to this day. Pot is a motivation zapper.

So why not legalize? If people want to be stupid and fry themselves then let them right? Well, we have a lot of laws to keep people from harming themselves. Helmet laws, and seatbelt laws. It’s illegal to attempt suicide in most states, which is a good law. It helps people get the help they need; if they attempt it, they’re taken into custody and taken for help.

Legalize it for medical use? Absolutely. If someone has cancer or aids or another devastating disease and pot can help them in any way, then certainly. This is the only way I could ever imagine legalizing pot.

Society has already given kids the green light on so many things, lets not take it another step.