Legalization of Marijuana
 

Hello my fellow Graalians. I know this topic is taboo to most of you are below the legal smoking age, for cigars and cigarettes is 18. But, what are your views on the legalization of marijuana?

I for one support the matter as national legalization approaches. I live in a neighborhood of the "rebel" college types, and they make use of the drug constantly I support the legalization of marijuana and the end of herb prohibition because I believe it is less harmful then alcohol. Although, like alcohol, it impairs motor skills, but it deals with depression and anxiety, and other medical conditions such as glaucoma and various types of cancer after chemotherapy. Alcohol does not have any use except its current status of being abused. Also, around the country, the crime rate will go down, most felonies are drug related, so if we decriminalize this drug nationally and federally, dealers won't have anything to smuggle anymore, and smoking "pot" will be not stereotyped as it is now. Users of the drug are stereotyped as the kids in college that slack in school, and all they care about is toking, eating and being lazy. It is a fact that Marijuana increases work ethic, because of the happy feeling it leaves. Marijuana is labeled as an anti depressant. I did my research about this and read you would have to smoke around 15,000 "joints" or marijuana in rolling paper, in 20 minutes to overdose. It is possible but very unlikely to overdoes on this drug. So that's my view on it. I hope I have changed some peoples views. Thank you! and I would love to hear your opinions, arguments and supportment!

I think the 20's are an example why it should be legal.

Isn't there already a thread on this?

I support the legalization of marijuana and still think most of your points are ridiculous.

A dead one, but who cares? It makes you look badass to talk about drugs. Cuz i smokin da yolo 420 swag weed *****!!!!

yes.

I think this topic is taboo, since most players are of such a young age. However, I'll still put in my two cents.

There is nothing wrong with Marijuana, as a plant. I think your argument about abuse is wrong. Anyone can abuse and get addicted to anything, given the right circumstances. Even I had a relationship with marijuana. The social circumstances I found myself in were negative. For me, my addictive "use" was based on escaping reality. My grades slipped, I started staying up past 3am reasons of the culture, and just didn't care about anything. Especially the things that mattered.

Now, after saying that, I must say that prohibition is wrong. I believe that the government chooses to keep it illegal because it is easy to grow. You don't see people growing tobacco in their houses. They cannot tax what isn't being sold. So, if it was legalized, you would have a federal profit and strong army of underground growers that would "abuse" the terms of the law. Even if the government sells plants with no seeds, plants still exist out there under all of our noses.

Now, the positive arguments are good, but I think the majority of people would simply abuse marijuana for the sake of ability. For at least a few years. It still destroys brain cells, has similar tar effects to smoking cigarettes, and will be abused. However, people have a right to choose what natural substances they want to use. And I agree, alcohol is ten times worse than marijuana. But that doesn't mean that marijuana should be welcomed with open arms. It's still detrimental to the young and immature of our society.

It's just another type of cigarette to me and should be treated as such.

I think if it gets legalized in US it will help stop the flow of money currently going to extremely violent drug cartels in Mexico (not to mention all the shady dealers currently selling it), and that countries that are "in bed" with the USA will get to be more lax about it and even legalize it as well.

Hopefully the feds will back off of Washington and Colorado and let the effects of legalization speak for itself.

weed is bad 4 u

I don't really care if it's legalised or not. I just hope they put restrictions on its use in public, I don't want to be inhaling someone else's fumes unwillingly. I have the same view on cigarettes too.

It has been proven that if you don't smoke it hardcore, it can have positive affects, so yes I agree.

I thought cigs give you lung cancer

Pot cures cancer... Case closed

They do, that's why i'd rather not be around people who smoke em.

Quick lesson:
Cigarettes have cyanide in them. Cyanide can be used in pill form, you bite into it and it kills you.

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except i'll disagree with treating it as a cig. it has a stronger effect than that, but alcohol is much worse and society hasn't exactly collapsed just yet.

also, weed is overrated

Weed will become just as bad as cigarettes, big companies will produce it, put in those chemicals, and use their cash to get lobbyists to make sure they get what they want.

I see these pages and see the uses for the hemp plant and how there are species you would need to smoke 50 pounds of to get high, you would pass out of smoke inhalation before then.

Hemp has a lot of uses, but the pages that support it ruin it by having pro marijuana posts and things about using marijuana. Its just sad. They lose all support and credibility when they do that.

I don't think it should be treated like cigs, cigs are addictive and have chemicals that are gonna mess you up. Marijuana is a plant.

It's the best way to sell it. Marijuana still produces tar, which is detrimental to health.

Yeah, but they pack cigarettes with rocket fuel, carbon monoxide, Acetic acids, Stearic acid (candle wax), toilet cleaner, paint, cyanide and way more tar.

Adding chemicals is ******ed. They might. All I was saying is that the tar is harmful, even though marijuana has less of it.

Are you people ****ing stupid?

Marijuana is way more bad than cigarettes.

That is why people eat it or use a vaporizer.

Solely because it is illegal, and if legalized, will be difficult to tax since it is easy to grow.

I find that humorous, as your title is "The Cancer"

dumb ****

Some of you people seem to be completely oblivious of what it does to you and your brain and childishly defend your views with inaccurate points. I know some of you guys feel rebellious and badass being in your 13's, but the fact is, that there is nothing good to it.

Enjoy your problems with your short term memory, psychosis and your weakened body immune system and maybe even a possible heart attack. You ****ed up potheads.

Yes... with no recorded deaths associated with it.

Whereas cigarettes are the single greatest cause of preventable death globally.

From Wikipedia, cigarette negatives:
And then addiction and withdrawal effects are far more severe than cannabis.

Thus, I find it hard to believe your statement of Short term memory vs. Death


I agree with F4P in that its legal status should be similar to cigarettes. It just doesn't make much sense to me otherwise.

It is also kind of embarrassing to have such a racist and xenophobic law still intact in this day and age.

Short term memory loss + bigger risk of cancer + 4 times higher risk of hear attack + weakened immune system + possible psychosis + impairs intelligence of under aged people VS. Possible death

once major companies start growing it like the tobacco industry, and use pesticides and genetically modified plants and apply the chemicals and us chemicals that are addictive so they profit more, and the actual plain plant grown naturally wont satisfy what the body is addicted to, the chemicals the companies will put in it, that means that the whole growing it easily and selling it and it being pure and chemical free will never happen.

in fact, because of the USA not taking out big companies, they have been able to get all sorts of power, did you know you can legally own a life forms genetic code? and that if the pollen from that genetically modified plant goes and contaminates someone elses plant, and the companies agents can check and prove that your plants next generation has that genetic code in it, they can sue you for patent infringement.

this means that big corporations like monsanto can do what ever they want.

if marijuana is legalized, it will just be like more horrible cigarette companies. if you work for those companies, you know what they do, and you dont quit, you deserve to die with the companies, thats why i have no qualms with people that blow up those companies buildings.

racist and xenophobic.....cant tell if you are just a idiot or if you are failing to troll us.

All I see in this thread is a bunch of kids blindly bashing something they know nothing about. Your knowledge of marijuana probably extends to some video you were forced to watch in 5th grade.

or some of us are interested in environmental science and have learned about genetically modified crops, how genetic modification works, have learned how you can make a genetically modified super hemp that contains almost none of the chemical compound that produces the effects of marijuana.

in fact if they had just produced the plant and modified the leaf structure and kept it a secret about what plant it was modified from, patented the genetic code, and then changed its name to something not related to the cannabis plants, then that genetically modified species would be legal and could be used to produce cheap rope, twine, textiles, paper, tissues, pulp, fibers, artificial wood, and more.

Whatever.

Yes, at the time it was quite nice. I wouldn't have eaten it.

also some of us know the effects all of these things have on our bodies, care what we put in it, and wont be such a ignorant waste of resources as to mildly POISON OURSELVES FOR THE SAKE OF A CHEAP THRILL OR A REACTION!!!!

Nothing is wrong with a cheap thrill or reaction. That's what the State Fairs are. Lol.