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I most deffinitly think it shuold be legalized but heavily regulated,taxed, and whatever else they can think of....
it's not a gateway drug if you care about yourself and know the hazards of everything else.. I've been smoking for awhile now, I have been around ALOT of other drugs in my young life, and have done a few but I've never blown anything up my nose or injected myself w/anything, because if your stupid enough to not see or hear about how drugs can f..k up you life these days, than you deserve to be on the bottom of the food chain......
I have recently quit smoking because it does make you lazy, it does make you content with doing nothing with your life..and you can easily waste away all your $$$$$ money on it..but i still support it.....
I have known Geniouses who smoke and morons who don't touch drugs and if you can't control yourself than maybe you need help somewhere else....
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Originally posted by ASSVT:
Originally posted by SKWAT:
If we legalize MJ, then we MUST eliminate socialist programs such as unemployment. If people want to [censored] themselves up, fine. But that better not have any effect on me or other hardworking people. I will be damned if I am going to pay a [censored] load of taxes to take care of a bunch of unemployable worthless pot heads.
New Theory: Democrats plan to regain power in America! legalize MJ. More pot heads = more democrats = democrat in White House. 
In case you havev't noticed anyone who wants to [censored] themselves up on drugs can. It was a lot easier for me to get just about any type of drug when going to high school than it was to get ciggarettes or alcohol.
Fact is we have thousands of people in this country serving time for minor pot offences. I beleive last time I checked it costs 30k+ a year to house each inmate. That is a lot of money that could be spent on better things.
Face it people the war on drugs will never win. We have been spending BILLIONS a year to try and stop it. Yet all that money and man power has done just about nothing in the big picture to even slow it down.
man i haven't even had to post on this thread,because someone else keeps saying it for me...well said!!!!!!!!
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Originally posted by Kremithefrog:
Something called morals.
Kremi - I am sorry, kid, I know it might be not a nice move, but what about doing 120 mph - how moral is that? What I am saying here is that morals could be hardly applied to Mary Jay - morals of our society are mostly traditional and largely based on Old/New Testament - nothing there mentions Mary Jay. Now, if we apply the term "moral" to laws, regulations or ordinances - then how is doing 120 is any better than puffin' da joint?
P.S. JFYI - I am not a pothead and don't even remember when I touched this shite last. Besides, munchies are bad and unhealthy
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If MJ is a gateway drug then so is caffine. That gateway drug excuse is some played out BS. If there is one argument to leagalizing weed it's this. Look what prohibition did to this country and look what happened when it was repealed. As of right now the weed you smoke is unregulated and unsafe. Legalize it regulate it and tax it.
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Originally posted by fingas:
The problem we have today is too many people want the government to requlate everything unpleasant so they donot have to take responsibility for their actions or those of their friends and family.
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Originally posted by SKWAT:
More pot heads = more democrats = democrat in White House.
If my memory serves me right, GWB was the one who sniffed coke....
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Originally posted by JaTo:
Originally posted by sigma:
And this differs from alcohol... How?
Because the cat is out of the bag with alcohol. There's nothing that can be done to put it back in, apart from educating Americans how to drink more responsibly.
In short, two potential wrongs don't make a potential right, even if one is considered legal and the other isn't.
Originally posted by sigma:
People [censored] up their lives, their familes lives, and other families every single day under the influence of alcohol.
So why not legalize yet ANOTHER way to [censored] a persons life up, right? 
Come on. The perception of the situation isn't equal and IT NEVER WILL BE. Alcohol will NEVER be judged 1/10th as dangerous as pot, regardless of statistics. There's a popular culture barrier that will ALWAYS prevent this.
Originally posted by sigma:
People would not smoke more if was legal.
BS. The legality of certain activities keeps many people from "testing" boundaries. I myself question certain people's almost blind devotion to staying within the "letter of the law" as much as possible, but it doesn't change the fact that once the legal and social stigma is gone or lessened from this addictive substance, it merely opens the door to much more rampant use and ALSO abuse.
Originally posted by sigma:
If people want to smoke marijuana now, they do; if they don't, they don't, simple as that. You won't find many people who don't smoke marijuana just because it's illegal.
I disagree.
Originally posted by sigma:
If anything, taxing it would make it much more expensive and price it out of the hands of some young people who can afford it now
In that case, it would need to be double that of cigarettes, which then puts us BACK in the same situation; kids growing their own or obtaining it illegaly...
I can't think of ONE good thing that comes from the use of drugs. Sure, they are a blast while your body holds up, but you pay the piper sooner or later...
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Originally posted by ASSVT:
Originally posted by SKWAT:
If we legalize MJ, then we MUST eliminate socialist programs such as unemployment. If people want to [censored] themselves up, fine. But that better not have any effect on me or other hardworking people. I will be damned if I am going to pay a [censored] load of taxes to take care of a bunch of unemployable worthless pot heads.
New Theory: Democrats plan to regain power in America! legalize MJ. More pot heads = more democrats = democrat in White House.
In case you havev't noticed anyone who wants to [censored] themselves up on drugs can. It was a lot easier for me to get just about any type of drug when going to high school than it was to get ciggarettes or alcohol.
Fact is we have thousands of people in this country serving time for minor pot offences. I beleive last time I checked it costs 30k+ a year to house each inmate. That is a lot of money that could be spent on better things.
Face it people the war on drugs will never win. We have been spending BILLIONS a year to try and stop it. Yet all that money and man power has done just about nothing in the big picture to even slow it down.
So we should give in and make marijuana readily available to anyone who can afford it? It's not so much the pot that I'm worried about, it's the fact that pot is a gateway drug. If everyone starts smoking pot, the sooner or later, most of those people are going to want to step it up a notch and try other drugs. So when everyone moves on to heroin, should we just legalize it because it takes too much effort to control it? Yeah, pot seems harmless when you're watching Cheech and Chong or Half Baked, but in real life, it can easily consume a person.
Legalization shouldn't be an economic issue. It should stay illegal to keep people from f*cking themselves up. I will agree that I think that it should be decriminalized like it is in Canada, because sending someone to prison for three years for having a ounce on them is stupid.
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Basically it boils down to moderation and good parenting, the two characteristics that are completely absent in US society and therefore the cause of far too many problems.
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