Marijuana Legalization. Yay Or Nay.

[2kitties]

you can't die from marijuana poisoning and you can't OD on pot.

[Aspen and Misty]

NAY! It ruins families- Mine one of them.

[Logan]

I have no idea what Marijuana costs, but I can imagine that the expense, alone, could devastate some families. That aside from the fact htat someone is using an illegal substance.

[2kitties]

Pot costs about $40 for a bag (at least back when I was in school and knew about this stuff)- a fraction of what crystal meth, coc and heronine and crank cost. It's often considered a poor man's drug of choice.
My feeling is that pot nor alcohol nor anything else destroys a family. People destroy families. Guns don't kill people- people kill people (although I don't own nor do I want to own a gun. )
As a society, we simply need to learn to be more responsible for our own actions. We should be able to enjoy things in our lives without losing control. We are a society of blame and we need to accept responsibility for ourselves.

[lbaker]

Marijuana is not illegal in The Netherlands and the Dutch people are not "potheads" or bums or lazy or fall down in parks. Amsterdam is one of the most beautiful, well maintained and safest cities I've ever been to. There is very little crime. The Dutch simply have a long history of tolerance and acceptance. They are hard working and friendly & a lot of us could learn a lot with some of the open-mindedness the Dutch people are known for.

[aly]

NAY!

Originally posted by popcornbird
Marijuana? Yuck! May it remain illegal for as long as this world exists. Personally, I think smoking/alcohol should be banned too. Would save so many lives. Maybe its just me, but I cannot stand this stuff! Bleh! Anything that is addictive and very harmful for a person's health, should be banned, in my opinion. Smoking, marijuana, alcohol, they're all killers.

I agree!

I try not to stereotype, but ... all the people i know who smoke marijuana are very lazy and are doing very bad in school. It just seems to make you not care about things. I think that commercial with the toddler by the pool is VERY true and has a very powerful message.

[Relentless]

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...

Of course you are going to get the occasional person who just sits on his ass all day smoking pot and eating chips, Propaganda wants you to believe everyone turns out like that, but most people just smoke it like someone drinks a glass of wine with dinner. and cigarettes are way worse, they say in a commercial that one joint has three times as many chemicals as one cigarette, now while thats probably true, notice it doesn't say HARMful chemicals, granted breathing in smoke is not good for you no matter how you look at it, it can be beneficial, it can be entertaining and it can be used as a means to relax. And they did a recent study on Marijuana being a gateway drug, its not, most of my friends smoke pot and do nothing else as far as illegal drugs. And one hit off a bong is like smoking five packs? Thats just ridiculous.....

[Relentless]

Originally posted by aly
NAY!



I agree!

I try not to stereotype, but ... all the people i know who smoke marijuana are very lazy and are doing very bad in school. It just seems to make you not care about things. I think that commercial with the toddler by the pool is VERY true and has a very powerful message.

My friend Jon smokes more pot than anyone I know and he maintains a 3.9 GPA. And if that commercial is very true then crapping makes babies drown too like I stated in my first post.

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by aly
NAY! I think that commercial with the toddler by the pool is VERY true and has a very powerful message.

Ok, so playing devil's advocate here:

With this commercial and thinking, what's next......banning pools and ornamental ponds in homes with toddlers?? Seems like a locked gate around the pool would be a better idea.

I suffer from asthma now because my mom decided to smoke three packs of cigs a day while I was growing up. Not right, but perfectly legal.

Most people I know can't smoke an eighth of pot a day ($40), but I know dozens of people who smoke three packs of cigs a day which run at least $5 a pack.

That seems way more financially devestating than pot.

[Relentless]

Originally posted by dukedogsmom
I say no. It's very dangerous and addictive. It causes you to hallucinate and use poor judgement. It's a lot more dangerous that cigarettes or alcohol and we should continue to fight the war against drugs. Would you rather it be like a park I saw on tv? If I'm not mistaken, it was in England. All the addicts were there and free needles were handed out. Isn't that nice?

It doesn't cause you to hallucinate, I know this from personal experience.

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by Relentless
It doesn't cause you to hallucinate, I know this from personal experience.

Although, if you get stuff that's laced with something, it can have this effect. I've heard of pot laced with PCP that can work as a halluciogen (sp).

Of course, that's very rare.....

[aly]

Originally posted by Cheshirekatt


With this commercial and thinking, what's next......banning pools and ornamental ponds in homes with toddlers?? Seems like a locked gate around the pool would be a better idea.

I don't understand at all how that even relates to what I said.

[RICHARD]

and to add to the mix...


the chems in ciggies are ADDED to the tobacco.

Pot's all natural.

I have yet to see an emphysema patient that claims his illness is due to pot smoke.

I have seen people addicted to ciggies smoke WHILE THEY ARE HOOKED UP TO AN O2 TANK!!


If you have a pool, smoke pot and the kid goes belly up.......well you'll just have to go to jail.....Kinda like leaving a kid to bake inside a car.......but since people can't drive a pool around I find the car thing (altho both are just as bad) more irresponsible.


For a while the key phrases were, "Let's go get stupid" or "Where can I get some stupidity?"
There's a little truth to that, how else could you eat a whole bag of Doritos at one sitting?

Relentless,

About your friend, what a shame......

If he stopped smoking he MIGHT have a 4.0 GPA.

[Cheshirekatt]

Originally posted by aly
I don't understand at all how that even relates to what I said.

Well, it was a total stretch! lololol

Basically my point was this:

The commercial is saying that if you smoke pot and have a toddler and have a pool, your toddler can drown.

Well, duh......close to a thousand kids drown in pools and ornamental ponds a year and I don't really think all the parents were smoking pot.

People like to think that 'banning' something will cure the problem, like BSL.
Pit bulls kills people so ban the pit bulls. We all know this isn't the solution. With thinking like this, then pretty soon they will want to ban everything that could possibly harm someone and that's just silly.

Did that make any sense, or am I just rambling??

lolololol

[aly]

What I took from the commercial:

Smoking pot can cause you to be distracted and not care about your responsibilities. While you're busy "just chillin", the child you're watching can get into trouble.

Of course, many things can make you become distracted from babysitting, not just pot. However, I still took it as a powerful message.