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Originally posted by 00SVT:
Originally posted by Rickson:
Now... having said that: There's a tasty Camel Light calling my name. Be right back. 
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Originally posted by Rickson:
It can not be like alcohol. Good thing none of you are doing anything about this. Other than chating about this being legalised.
Please give more detail about how this can and will be used.
Many folks have already laid out ideas and ways that, with some work, it could work. Why can't it be like alcohol? They're extremely similar in what they provide for the user. Forget for a minute that marijuana is "illegal"... I think that might be where you're tripping on this. "Weed is illegal, alcohol is legal, they can't be the same." Let that go. I can probably guess some of the reasons, though:
Alcohol doesn't affect bystanders like secondhand smoke does.
Marijuana smoking in designated bars or in your own home. Will people break the law and smoke outside in public? Sure they will, just like people that sit in the park and knock down a 40 or a pint.
Marijuana smoking leads to harder drug use. We can't protect the kids if we make it legal.
I dont buy the "gateway drug" argument. First time I got drunk (Bud Dry... f**k it, I'll date myself ) I was 15. Tried marijuana when I was 18 in college. I've probably smoked about 75 times since then (I'm 31 now)... maybe once a month or so in college, and I haven't had any in about 3 years now. I have never, NOT ONCE, had the desire to try anything harder (LSD, mushrooms, heroin, ecstasy, etc.), and I have many friends who are in the same boat. You either want to try the harder stuff or you don't. Hell, alcohol is the real gateway drug. First time I smoked weed I was drunk off of my ass. 
People will just grow their own, so the government won't make any tax money on it.
This is going to happen regardless. Look at the people homebrewing their beer. Where the difficult part comes in is setting up the system to legitimately sell it. I don't think that's a huge sticking point, though. They did it 70 years ago when they repealed the Prohibition Laws... most people can't fathom having to bootleg alcohol 'cause it's been legal for as long as they know. Why couldn't marijuana be any different?
Bottom line is, we could argue this all year. One side of the argument sees a bunch of dirty, lazy, falafel-eating Deadheads that just want to get high all day on legal pot. The other side sees a bunch of militant nerds that want to harsh their buzz and create a conformist America. It'll never change.
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Originally posted by NO 4 EVR:
Originally posted by 00SVT:
Originally posted by Rickson:
Now... having said that: There's a tasty Camel Light calling my name. Be right back.
Oh hellls yeah! back in 5!
Darn, I'm a noob, managed to somehow include my sig in my quote....
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You didn't close the quote.
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Originally posted by 00SVT:
Originally posted by Rickson:
It can not be like alcohol. Good thing none of you are doing anything about this. Other than chating about this being legalised.
Please give more detail about how this can and will be used.
Many folks have already laid out ideas and ways that, with some work, it could work. Why can't it be like alcohol? They're extremely similar in what they provide for the user. Forget for a minute that marijuana is "illegal"... I think that might be where you're tripping on this. "Weed is illegal, alcohol is legal, they can't be the same." Let that go. I can probably guess some of the reasons, though:
Alcohol doesn't affect bystanders like secondhand smoke does.
Marijuana smoking in designated bars or in your own home. Will people break the law and smoke outside in public? Sure they will, just like people that sit in the park and knock down a 40 or a pint.
Alcohol is self controlled.
weed is airborne and affects everyone.
The only thing i thought of. Is in a pack of weed that you would buy. Throw in filtration straw. So when you exhale the filters in the straw would remove its toxic agents.
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Originally posted by Rickson:
Alcohol is self controlled.
weed is airborne and affects everyone.
How many times do i have to ask you the same question? If it were illegal to smoke in the streets, just like it is to drink alcohol - then what's the problem!? If you can only smoke in your house, or in a bar, then how is it gonna hurt anyone? If you don't belong in the WEED BAR then GTFO!
People already break the law and smoke outside all over the place.
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Originally posted by TGO:
Originally posted by Rickson:
Alcohol is self controlled.
weed is airborne and affects everyone.
How many times do i have to ask you the same question? If it were illegal to smoke in the streets, just like it is to drink alcohol - then what's the problem!? If you can only smoke in your house, or in a bar, then how is it gonna hurt anyone? If you don't belong in the WEED BAR then GTFO!
People already break the law and smoke outside all over the place.
What he said, there are a lot of places you can't smoke cigs and I think the same would hold true for weed (there are quite a few places you can't drink either, but that is another story).
2nd hand weed smoke isn't as harmfull as cig smoke nor does it make your clothes stink nearly as bad as cigs do. I sold my last two cars having smoked (weed) in them, but you couldn't tell. If it was cigs it would be a totally different story.
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