Should we legalise cannabis?

[Dis]

And I shouldn't need to state again I don't live in a rich neighborhood. While some may consider me rich, I live in a ****ty white trash neighborhood (ie mobile homes). I only have money because I'm very good at handling and making money, and I live a fairly frugal lifestyle. But crime is still a problem where I live. Especially burglary. I do worry about my house getting broken into. The house across the street was burglarized.

Not all of us were born rich As Speer suspects. Lack of money and a ****ty family life was a major reason for me not going to college (no money to live in a dorm- couldn't stand living at home after I turned 18)

To put it bluntly, my childhood sucked ass.

And yes I have smoked pot on occasion. I did enjoy it. But since then I've held jobs that forbid me from smoking pot, so I don't smoke it.

[Whaleboy]

One doesnt need to be rich, confortable and priviliged to be libertarian, idealistic, intelligent and not on the far right. Dissident and myself demonstrate that.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by monolith94
They use it as a result of peer pressure. Crazy kidz!

I'm all for legalization. Marijuana is as much a gateway drug as alcohol is...

"If you people want to legalize cannabis, don't complain about the "evil tobacco corporations"
Yes, because the marijuana makers have SOOO much in common with big tobacco...

Give me a break!

your right, the tobacco corporations are actually a LOT more moral - they put big warning labels on their products, and actually say WHAT'S INSIDE

There is no such thing as "quality control" on illegal drugs.

[Whaleboy]

I have no problem with tobacco companies, no more so than other corporations their size. They are providing a product and are getting paid for it, as is the case for all businesses.

I do not believe in a nanny state, people should be intelligent enough to decide for themselves whether they want to smoke or not, and if they do, then they can go to the tobacco companies, its not like theyre forcing tobacco into the lungs of all of us (passive smoking is a tough one though, I'm tempted to say in the privacy of ones own home, as it is active, and impacts on everyone else).

[Ben Kenobi]

get rid of the supply and there'll be no demand

You've got it backwards... Tackle the demand side, see what happens to the supply. Why do people need to use Marijuana?

Albert don't despair, not everyone is going to be railing against you on this issue.

I don't think we should decriminalise marijuana, especially since the clinical effects do not show a medicinal use for marijuana.

Our government salivates over the tax revenue, so it looks like we will end up with legalisation anyways.

[Dis]

Taking out the supply is unrealistic. Look at the laws of supply and demand. Where there's a will there's a way.

Cutting out the demand is how you eliminate the supply.

Getting people not to want to smoke marijuana could be quite difficult. But it is possible to get people to want to smoke legal marijuana quite easily. As I mentioned before, no one drinks moonshine no matter how cheap it is. Thus eliminating the street dealers that deal marijuana.

[Kuciwalker]

As obiwan said, drug use should be attacked at the demand side. You know what would be really useful? Make the punishment for use community service.

[gsmoove23]

No medicinal use? since when?

How do you tackle the demand for marijuana when it isn't addictive? Are you going to stop teenagers and college kids from getting bored?

[Kuciwalker]

The medicinal use is actually quite small and overplayed. From what I've read, it's just a sort of painkiller for certain diseases.

[gsmoove23]

Its also a very affective appetite stimulant. Very useful for someone like my grandfather undergoing chemo at the moment.

[oedo]

hmmm, I´m not sure if it´s an accident or not: during my youth I suffered an evil plant allergy every spring (don´t know the english word for that, we call it Heuschnupfen).
when I started smoking weed I got rid of this problem. someday it completely disappeared.
now - I don´t smoke at all anymore - I notice, the allergy is reappearing, more and more every year. could be an accident but....

[monolith94]

Oedo, man! Yr avatar is FREAKIN me out man! It's like WHOAH! Hypnosisis effect and my eyes are being sucked into his bulging out eyes man! Blink blink blink! Ahahahaha that's so funny! Whoooah.

[oedo]

thanks. in some rare cases the lines right to the avatar are also worth a look btw.
too bad, there´s a size limit. I could have used this one else.

[monolith94]

I like the B&W one better - more sinister looking. The big yellow blotch in the upper left is really emasculating.

[Sava]

I love the people complaining about "drug use" when talking about marijuana. As if smoking marijuana is worse than getting drunk. Hypocrites!

obiwan: Genesis 1:12 "And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. "

Genesis 1:29 " And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. "

I expected better from you obiwan.