Spiderchrist
The Unjesus
Definitely make it legal. I love smoking weed, but it has helped anxiety, depression, and countless things in my life. It's more than just the feeling.
No doubt too much will fuck up your abilities, thus why it has always been termed "wasted". However many of my most creative and spontainous moments have occured with a 2-3 toke buzz... not that I promote the idea, it works for me due to being a tad uptight. More sadly many many musicians had openly stated that they created thier best and or most cutting edge material under the influence of something. Definantly not the way to perform at optimum abilities but does at times free the mind of outside stresses that also have their negative effects.
I've had more problems with band member simply being lazy or narrow minded but wont play with a drunk or druggie OR uptight bastard
i agree with this
i'm in america and i smoke weed all the freaking time
but i still don't drink at all, even though my local area just went from being "dry" to being "wet" about 2 or 3 weeks ago meaning it's now a hell of a lot easier for me to get alchohol but i still chose not to cuz alchohol is a hell of a lot more harmfull that weed
but america still considers weed "evil" and alchohol "acceptable" to the point that the folowing scenarion actually happened
celebrity athlete michael phelps drinks so much alchohol that his cause of death is certaintly going to be liver failure, and no one seems to give a shit about that, but then he gets caught smoking weed once, and all of a sudden the american media can't stop talking about it, with every TMZ type show and every freaking magazine purchasable in america are bithching at him for it, and every channel of american television was just "michael phelps smoking weed" non-stop for several months
and nobody seems to care about the fact that he's drinking alchohol so much that he's about to die of liver failure
what's up with the freaky long posts
this thread should have been a poll;
yes, marijuanna should be legalized
no, marijuanna should not be legalized
or
i don't care if marijuanna gets legalized or not
there's a difference between WRITING a song while intoxicated, and SINGING a song while intoxicated
i understand that most of the greatest lyrics in music's history were written when the songwriter was stoned out of his mind, but that's a whole different thing than those bands (i'm not gonna say names) where they did their stage shows while fucked up, getting onstage while stoned is a whole different thing than getting stoned to allieviate writer's block
Marijuana should at least be removed from the schedule I list... Herion is a schedule I for fucks sake. Marijuana shouldn't be classified under the same umbrella as Herion. I fail to understand how Marijuana is a schedule I drug while plants such as Datura and Atropa Belladonna aren't even controlled substances.Datura IS an invasive weed on the other hand so I don't know how well an attempt to control it would work. (The flowers are quite beautiful though)Oops got off topic for a second![]()
i know people that smoke weed everyday
and i know people that use heroin every day
and you're right, they shouldn't be under the same umbrella
they're 2 completely different things
Yeah, they are completely different things bro. The government jvst fails to realize it. The only reason they are both classified as schedule I is because the government bases the classifications on the general premise that they're both drugs, therefore they are both "harmful" and "socially unacceptable". The worst health problem someone could get from daily marijuana usage is slight respiratory problems(If you're smoking an 1/8th a day that is). As opposed to herion which causes withdrawl symptoms, decreased liver functioning, and a slew of other heath problems(Not to mention a powerful physical addiction)
Most likely. Its too bad how much they would probably tax on it though.if marijuanna suddenly became completely legal nationwide, then the DEA would cease to exist because all of america's "drug" problems would then be capable of being handled by local cops
actually
this same idea could be aplied to the Michael Phelps case
he only got caught once
his defense at one point was that the photos of him smoking weed (i think it was a bong) were pics that were taken on the one single day in his entire life that he's ever used marijuanna,
and there's never been anything to refute this claim
he never actually took (let alone failed) any kind THC test
he never appeared to be intoxicated while swimming
there's no way in hell that smoking weed could ever make him swim faster, so he shouldn't have to give back any medals for using "performance enhancing steroids"
if he was using weed on a regular basis, the weed smoking would have actually made his swimming slower, not faster
he's still drinking as much as before, and most people either don't realize or don't care that he's drinking so much that he's about to die of liver failure,
and he still swims faster than any other person that drinks as much as he does
and he's never failed a steroids test
so why not just let the guy smoke weed already?
Most likely. Its too bad how much they would probably tax on it though.
Many cops and DAs are against prohibition, hence LEAP. Looks like the govts are hand-in-fist with organised crime as they all profit. Meanwhile loads of police time and manpower is wasted
In the Netherlands, where soft drugs are tolerated (not legal, but tolerated), almost all customers of the so called coffee shops are people from neighboring countries. Plus, the laxism towards drugs in general in this country make it a perfect place to produce and import hard drugs that will provide for all the networks in Europe (the virtual suppression of all European borders not being of great help to prevent this).
Another question would be if people would still "enjoy" their marijuana if it came from big corporations that would mass produce it.
I also don't believe that the state would gain any kind of substantial benefit out of that. It's peanuts compared to all other forms of taxation.
I believe that legalization will simply shift the trend onto harder drugs. Cocaine has become pretty much mainstream in the last years, so did synthetic drugs. When the consumption of these will become out of control, just like for marijuana now, you would have no choice but legalize those too.
Fuck yeah it should. It would get the jails uncrowded, the government can tax it and make money, and it would create more jobs. It would keep some people from drinking, and could help lessen DUI deaths.