Unfortunately, people make too many assumptions on how I feel about the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana does not need to be legalized because it tells our youth that it’s okay to do one more drug. So instead of saying it’s okay to drink, we are also saying it’s okay to drink and smoke pot. Why would we want to add-on another drug? We can’t make alcohol illegal; it’s just way too late for that now. If it wasn’t and we could switch the two drugs then I would actually support that idea. Let’s face it, the addicts are the ones that get behind the wheels of a car and run over a family. The two drugs together are much more deadly than each one separately. But, if we want less deaths, and less problems with addiction we can not say “Hey kids, while you’re drinking go ahead and fire up a joint too.”
Being an addict, I’ll be the first one to say that we’ve screwed it up for all of the “normal people” in the world. We are the ones that run over people, hurt others and generally do bad things because we drink and use too many drugs. But, that’s the way of the world. Sometimes the bad apples ruin it for everyone else. I guess you could say the same for the health care industry. If it wasn’t for those people who got sick all of the time then it would be cheaper for the rest of us.
I am also firmly against putting “most” people in jail for selling drugs. The judges need to send people to rehab and not prison. Just because I don’t think we need to add another drug to the “OK LIST”, doesn’t mean I feel people should be put in prison for selling drugs. Each case needs to be evaluated separately and fairly.
Another crappy article. I actually feel as though I’m less intelligent after reading it. Maybe I need to smoke another bowl, just to clear my mind.
Cannabis isn’t addictive, the only reason people go into treatment is because it’s deciding between that and jail time. Really intelligent statements, who helped you write this article, your grandmother?
Jack,
I don’t even think you read my article. I know that it was hard for me to read or comprehend a lot of material when I was stoned.
that’s odd, because I find myself more immersed in what I’m reading when I am stoned. The only things I have trouble reading are things that just aren’t that interesting to begin with, in which case, it would be the exact same if I weren’t stoned.
I also like to write when I am stoned. I find myself very inspired and the ideas just flow right out of me.
I also don’t drink, because personally, I don’t like substances which make me feel inebriated. I prefer my senses to be sharpened, not dulled. Marijuana sharpens my senses. The only thing that get’s dulled is a false sense of ego
Wow, admin. I am disappointed by your display of immaturity. That comment was very judgemental. See the above comment referring to ego.
Bizzle,
Why was it judgmental? I was referring to myself. It didn’t say that he had problems reading stoned, I said that I had problems doing it.
That is highly suspect, because your “Jail Time” entry had no mention of difficulty reading while stoned, yet your (sarcastic?) comment came immediately after stating “I don’t think you even read my article.”
Either way, I very sincerely hope that you read the post I made here: http://saynotopot.com/family-of-the-addict/positives/comment-page-1/#comment-396
In the text box it had proper formatting, but the paragraphs lost all indentation. I can resubmit it with spaces between the paragraphs, if that helps.
Whats Up Everyone, looks like alot of stuff going on around here, thank goodness it is written down so everyone will be able to read on what was said the day before.
So it’s not OK to tell our children that using a 100% natural medicine is fine, but it’s OK to tell them to take their 2 pills of Adderall a day while mixing that with the multitude of HIGHLY dangerous drugs pushed out by the government and pharm companies?
God, I hope you don’t have any kids… I’m sure if you do they’ll end up on things much worse than pot.
Marijuana is a gateway drug…..Because its illegal
If the underground market was not in control, this drug that is such high demand would no longer be a gateway drug. If you make people get weed though a dealer who deals other drugs, the buyer is exposed to the hard drug and that much closer to buying it. The article mentions that its too late to make alcohol illegal, but really alcohol was in too high demand to make it illegal. We see the same exact problem happening with marijuana that we did with the alcohol prohibition which gives the underground market more money and power.
This site is a bunch of ****. Kids are the ones getting arrested for this in the first place. If you Prohibit this your only making it easier to get for kids. If you regulate sale and put an age limit people it will make it much harder for kids to get. Im fifteen and currently Weed is much easier to get then Cigarettes and booze.
If you make this legal for some and put an age limit it will help everyone.
Shouldn’t it be our parent’s jobs to teach us what is right and what is wrong? My parents have taught me to do thorough research before I jump into anything. Thus, I don’t drink or smoke cigarettes.
I think the main issue that is not allowing cannabis to be legalized is the whole “if we legalize cannabis people will think the government is ok’ing cannabis.”
Regarding this concern, I believe that if we are properly educated on the drug, we will realize that it is not a harmful drug if used in moderation. I firmly believe that the government should have no say in what I do to myself, but we have strayed so far away from a non-intrusive government, we can’t live by this theory. Also, because alcohol (a truly harmful drug if abused [which is easier to do than with cannabis]) and tobacco are already legal, I don’t think that you can use the above theory. Why alcohol and tobacco and not cannabis? There is no good explanation.
People need to make their own decisions for themselves. If the government says “ok, you can have tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis,” people should do their own research and make their own decisions. If you’re 18 or older, you’re an adult that is fully capable of saying yes or no to certain substances.
Where’s the intervention to our REAL ADDICTION, our addiction to WAR??? How many generations are we going to continue telling gateway lies about gateway drugs?? What’s next? A War on Terror? I’m not saying we don’t have a problem with drugs but that doesn’t give our gov’t the right to declare a war on WE THE PEOPLE. Our founding mothers and fathers are rolling in their graves. We’re all working for truth, liberty and the military/prison industrial complex. LET OUR PEOPLE GO! This stuff never made sense to me ever since they first tried to indoctrinate me and fellow classmates when I was a kid. Cannabis should be legalized! What’s stopping us from buying gas and huffing it? Hey, some people do but it’s not going to be made illegal and you won’t have to spend time in jail. It’s sane education not inceration we so desperately need! Didn’t Al Capone teach us anything about the violence prohibition creates? We’re such a culture of idiots, drugs may cause a little violence but not nearly as much as WAR!
why do you keep insinuating other drugs in an argument about legalization over cannabis?
and really? its the drug addicts thatare running people over these days? because i watch the news almost everyday and not in 20 years have i ever seen “guy high on pot killed anybody”
Wow! What a non informative article.
It’s amazing how easy it is to ignore the evidence that clearly states the medical, economic and social impact that prohibition of this plant has had on our culture and the impact that its legalization would have.
Why not make addicts illegal instead? We’d end up with less people in jail and less families getting run over.
Or even better, why don’t we just make running over families illegal?
That way “normal” people are not preemptively punished for a crime that some “addicts” (you do know marijuana is not addictive right?) may or may commit.
Hey “addicts”…stop making excuses for you actions.
Educate yourselves and you may discover that addiction has nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana.
Making a drug legal does not say that it’s ok to do it. It just says that you shouldn’t go to jail for doing it. The government has no right telling adults what they can and can’t do in the privacy of their own home. Legalization is about freedom.
Also, you’re quote about telling kids to “fire up a joint” is very off-base. Who is more likely to sell cannabis to a minor?
A. Drug Dealer
B. Pharmacist
C. Other upstanding citizen who makes a living off selling cannabis legally.
The answer is A, drug dealer. B and C would lose their jobs if anyone found out that they sold cannabis to a minor. So, how is keeping cannabis illegal saving the children? It’s obviously not and society would be able to more easily regulate cannabis once it is legal. Prohibition didn’t work for alcohol and it’s obviously not working for any of the other drugs. End the drug war. Legalize.
K-Stigs,
“The government has no right telling adults what they can and can’t do in the privacy of their own home.”
With that statement you sound like you would prefer if everything was legal.
This website is designed to help alcoholics and addicts. In early recovery we really struggle to stay sober. We are the type of people who make split decisions about using drugs and alcohol. If the marijuana stores start to open-up it is only going to make it harder for us because in a split second we could be purchasing marijuana/alcohol. It’s already hard enough to drive by the liquor stores for most AA members. We don’t need another store that sells drugs.
Finally, I do not believe “most” people should be put in jail for using or selling drugs. Rehab is the answer and not Jail.
Once again the admin has ignored all the facts surrounding marijuana/drug legalization.
Just look at Portugal. They decriminalized the use of ALL drugs and has seen nothing but good from it.
this came from a Time article
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.html?artId=1893946?contType=article?chn=sciHealth
“The question is, does the new policy work? At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to “drug tourists” and exacerbate Portugal’s drug problem; the country had some of the highest levels of hard-drug use in Europe. But the recently released results of a report commissioned by the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, suggest otherwise.
The paper, published by Cato in April, found that in the five years after personal possession was decriminalized, illegal drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections caused by sharing of dirty needles dropped, while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.
“Judging by every metric, decriminalization in Portugal has been a resounding success,” says Glenn Greenwald, an attorney, author and fluent Portuguese speaker, who conducted the research. “It has enabled the Portuguese government to manage and control the drug problem far better than virtually every other Western country does.”
Dude wtf???
*This website is designed to help alcoholics and addicts. In early recovery we really struggle to stay sober. We are the type of people who make split decisions about using drugs and alcohol. If the marijuana stores start to open-up it is only going to make it harder for us because in a split second we could be purchasing marijuana/alcohol.*
That is the lamest excuse in the world for keeping marijuana illegal.
It should remain illegal because you have no self control.
FAIL!!!
EPIC FAIL
niteowl,
I’m glad you did not leave out any of the statistics from Portugal:
“while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.”
This is what I do not like and I am not surprised to see. It looks like the number of people with addiction problems could be increasing. Sure crime is lower sense you can no longer get arrested for drugs. Go figure… Remember they are talking about the number of people. Alcoholics and addicts are going to use/get drugs regardless if they are legal or illegal. So, now they’ve made easier for people like me to get what I wanted. I do not like that idea. This plan is only reducing the number of “normal” people doing drugs, not the addicts.
Being an addict, I am glad that laws made it more difficult for me to get drugs. If everything would have been legal when I was growing up, then I would be dead right now.
However; I am definitely for sending people to rehab and not prison for drug abuse. It looks like they are doing that in Portugal which is what we should be doing here in the United States. I’m for rehab and not Jail. But, I never want to see a marijuana/cocaine/heroin store in my neighborhood.
Man you just don’t get it do you.
Drug use didn’t go up.
People came out of the closet and got help.
I swear you are not going to listen to any information that disregards your stance.
You are a tool and someone needs to shut this site down.
The absolute lack of any factual information here is mind boggling.
“‘while the number of people seeking treatment for drug addiction more than doubled.’
This is what I do not like and I am not surprised to see. It looks like the number of people with addiction problems could be increasing.”
Or it could be that decriminalization has allowed people who were afraid of being considered criminals for seeking rehab are now getting the help they need.
You should know better, Admin. If you’ve been to rehab then you know that it takes a great deal of humility to even show up. Is it easier to say you’re a junkie if the society you live in actively seeks to put you in a government cage, or is it easier when the same society extends the hand of understanding?
Secondly, while you may be satisfied with the way laws keep you safe from yourself, there are those of us who do not want the unsolicited “help.”
I want you to very seriously consider and respond to the following:
Currently I buy all of my marijuana from a taxed (sales and now business tax) dispensary with convenient hours and a safe location. There are guards and customer service representatives to ensure my comfort and safety. I can even sign up for acupuncture, massage, and counseling while I shop.
But across the country, people who would love the same safe access to this safe and effective plant are being forced to deal with gangs, cartels, and shady characters of every sort. They’re chased down and forced into government cages for using a shrub.
By your own admission, you would rather subject millions of responsible drug users to the dark alleys and ghettos of our cities because you don’t have the self control to drive past a “marijuana store.”
Are you even remotely capable of owning the argument you’re setting forth?
crasher,
I’m glad you have your marijuana shop around the corner from your house. I do not want one near me. I think you are going to find out there are a lot of other people who feel the same way.
I am not concerned with people who do not have addiction problems. This website is designed to help people with addiction problems. Go to an AA meeting and ask the attendees if they want a marijuana store in their neighborhood. Aren’t the addicts the ones that should decide since we are the ones with the problem? Aren’t we the ones that have survived addiction and can look back with the correct perspective on the subject?
LOL so wait, you were an admitted drug addict!? Fail.
A correct perspective? Because you can’t control yourself around weed, we should all have to suffer? What happened to majority rules with minority rights? Tell me, do you think we should ban everything that has the potential to be addicting to some people?
‘Aren’t the addicts the ones that should decide since we are the ones with the problem? ‘
No.
The general public should vote for each community.
Using your argument. Obese people can petition to ban fast food restaurants because they can’t resist the temptation of a burger.
I can’t drink alcohol. I love alcohol, but drinking it could send me to the hospital so I choose not to drink it. I don’t expect the rest of my community to stop drinking alcohol just because I can’t.
Your whole argument is flawed.
Everyone has a temptation for something that is either bad for them or dangerous.
It is up to each individual person to accept responsibility for his/her actions and stop looking to the government to solve your problems for you.
Admin-
Check your premises. A predication of your argument is that all drug users become addicts.
This is entirely false.
I’m sure you’re well aware of behavioral patterns and genetic inheritance that contribute to a person’s drive towards addiction. after all, you mentioned in a previous comment that you hold a four year degree in Psychology.
I honestly expect someone with a degree in such a relevant field to know that there are a host of reasons that drive people to addiction. It doesn’t take a pipe in your hand to be an addict, it could be any number of substance or experience that hooks someone that is already “wired” for addiction.
We could try to systematically illegalize every substance and material that presents a problem. Unfortunately that would logically conclude with the elimination of everything anyone has ever been addicted to, so we’d lose the internet (too much porn and e-gambling,) drug stores (no-doz, cough syrup, allergy medications) coffee shops, bars, the list is extensive and intentionally ridiculous to drive my point across.
We regulate and control the sale of alcohol, completely aware of the fact that some people may drive drunk, beat their wives, neglect their responsibilities, and slowly drink themselves to death.
We regulate and control the sale of tobacco products, completely aware of the fact that they are a proven link to cancer, heart disease, fetal complications, vascular problems, emphysema, tooth loss, and so on. (which is hysterical because every AA member I’ve ever met smokes.)
We regulate and control the sale of pharmaceuticals, where products ranging from Viagra to Xanax get abused by people as old as 70 and as young as 15. Side effects may include everything from priapism (3 hour erections) to death.
Yet we know people can drink responsibly. We respect the desire of the man or woman who wants a glass of wine, a beer, or a cocktail now and again. These responsible people could be said to be the majority of alcohol users.
We know people can smoke a cigar here and there. We respect the desire of the man or women to smoke tobacco, with its host of problems. Not everyone uses tobacco, not everyone gets addicted to it, and you can get it almost everywhere you go!
We know that people can be given medications, and take them simply as prescribed by their doctors. The majority of patients can use medication responsibly.
How is this possible? How can all these people exist, if everyone that uses a potentially addictive substance gets addicted? You should see the problem now.
Not everyone becomes an addict, and we honor the wishes of responsible users. We allow the majority their choices at the cost of the minority.
So I contend no! this isn’t a decision you deserve to make as an “addict.” I refuse to allow your bad choices and personality disorder keep me and million others from the reasonable regulation and decriminalization of marijuana.
You’re the minority. The expression of the cost of personal choice.
For decades, good people have been thrown in government cages and had their lives ruined because of a misguided war against drugs. we have sacrificed enough as a minority fighting for recognition as safe and responsible marijuana users.
Why should smoking marijuana, a plant proven less dangerous than alcohol, earn me a metal cage in a government facility? So you, as an “addict” can be kept safe from yourself?
Admin, stop saying no to pot.
Say no to government cages for responsible users.
Say yes to personal accountability.
Say yes to responsibility.
Say yes to decriminalization, regulation, and safe access.
crasher,
Did you ever think that maybe the laws are to protect you from addicts? Do you want me to drink a 12 pack and then stop by the marijuana store and fire up a joint? Maybe after doing so I’ll accidentally run over someone you love.
The laws are there to protect the majority. It’s obvious, that’s why the government doesn’t really care too much for addicts. They lock us up and instead of sending us to rehab. And of course I don’t think everyone who uses drugs is going to become an addict.
All of the non-addicts (the majority) should be thankful that Marijuana is not legal.
Once again, you’re suggesting that it makes more sense that I should get put in a government cage for being able to responsibly smoke marijuana, just so you can be kept safe from yourself.
I should be thankful for mandatory minimum sentences, billions of federal dollars wasted on a failed war on drugs, and a social stigma attached to drug use…
Gee, thanks.
I think I’ll take my chances with the marijuana stores and people like you being the tiny minority on the road.
crasher,
I’ve stated many times that I do not believe in putting anyone in jail for drug use. I even stated it in the article that you are replying to right now.
Also, you mentioned: “a social stigma attached to drug use…”
Is a close family member or friend giving you a hard time about your drug use?
Admin-
No. My wife and family aren’t giving me a hard time about my drug use. They’re more than capable of letting me know if I go overboard, And that hasn’t been an issue.
The social stigma is when people confuse a responsible user like me for an addict like you. That people consider my lifestyle suspect because people like you can’t demonstrate self control.
That social stigma.
Of course, you’ll reply I’m clearly in denial, that the devil weed has hooked my feeble brain, and that I’ll say anything just so long as I can get my fix.
Admin, I respect that you’ve allowed me and others to propose our opinions on your site. That’s already more than the politicians allow us. Clearly we are at a fundamental difference of opinion that won’t change overnight.
I hope you live a productive, addiction free life. I respect your wish to do so. However I continue to disagree with every tenet of every argument you propose, and on that note, good day to you.
Crasher.
Crasher,
Thank you for all of your posts, more people should read posts like yours to overcome the emotional stigmas they have regarding marijuana. It’s important to divorce emotional anecdotal evidence with rational thinking in issues like these.
There are more and more people who have never done any drugs, nor intend to do any, that see legalization and responsible regulation as the the obvious choice for the betterment of society.
Just keep on doing what your doing, educating with reason & logic, rather than fear. I’m sure every reasonable person totally agrees with you instead of Admin- whether they actively want marijuana legalized or not.
crasher,
We can agree to disagree.
It is impossible for me to tell who has an addiction problem and who doesn’t. You write really well and appear to have a healthy life from what I can tell. However; I would have be around someone for a long period of time to determine whether he/she needed help.
This is how I can tell whether or not I’m addicted to a substance. Right now, I take 3 different prescribed medicines from my doctor for my bi-polar disorder. If I stay up late (which I do a lot), then I will skip taking my medicine because it makes me too tired the next day. I would have never skipped smoking pot before I went to sleep. Smoking pot was on my mind all day long. It got me high and the medicines that I take make me feel normal and not high.
Right before I went into rehab I used to wake-up in the middle of the night (after sleeping about 4 hours) smoke some more pot and go back to sleep. I smoked all day, every day. I did however wait 1 hour in the morning before I started smoking pot. I used this time to make important phone calls or do anything else that was difficult baked.
Have a nice weekend and thanks for a good discussion.
It’s legal to have pretty much up to 20g in your possession in Alaska, lulz.
ADMIN,
“It is impossible for me to tell who has an addiction problem and who doesn’t. You write really well and appear to have a healthy life from what I can tell. However; I would have be around someone for a long period of time to determine whether he/she needed help.”
Guess what.
It isn’t your job to decide who in America has an addiction.
That is between them and their Dr.
Your whole argument is you don’t want weed legal because you can become addicted to it.
What about people that become addicted to sex or food or video games?
Should we regulate everything that could be addictive? That would be impossible, since you can become addicted to anything.
The better option is to follow Portugal’s example and decriminalize all drugs. Let the Dr’s deal with this health issue, rather than allowing the police to do it.
We are wasting BILLIONS trying to make these people criminals.
The best way to address this problem is to give it over to the Dr’s
All the money that is currently being spent on fighting drugs can easily be funneled into health care instead. Solving both problems at once.
Our society will be richer, safer and healthier if we follow Portugals example and abolish prohibition.
Pretty good article. Cannibis is not a drug it is an herb. Seriously, saying pot is more dangerous and more addictive than cigs alcohol, and other drugs is like saying that federal perscription ocycottin, xanex, and other pills are safe. I believe in my country, but **** the government. I feel no dependance on Marijuana. The reson why I smoke it is because it helps with my asthma. I see what other **** that is legal can do to you. My friend died from side effects on Percocets/Oxycoden, he only took one. This website was probably sponsered by a big tobacco exec., or some rich people that dont want Pot legalized because they make alot of money on pot being prohibited while people suffer. This country has been fed lies on Pot since 1937, but hey, as long as the big business owners and the government can make alot of money out of it being illegal while the minorities, and upper mid, mid., and lower class suffers they dont care. I cant even believe Im taking the time to write a comment. Now excusse me while I smoke a bool….
Where do you get off using the word “addicts” so much ? Can you point me to a reliable source that says marijuana is addictive ?
Also marijuana and alcohol are both very different, let me ask you this,
when has anybody smoked pot and gone home to beat their wife and children ?
when has anybody drank alcohol and gone home to beat their wife and children ?
Every argument I’ve read on this website about legalization is bunk. They have all been debunked. And as was said earlier, get some self control. More families are ruined when their fathers and mothers are arrested for marijuiana possession and incarcerated, lose their jobs, etc. than have EVER been ruined from someone becoming ‘addicted’ to marijuana. That’s a stark fact that I have no evidence to support but anecdotally in my personal experience holds 100% true.
The position you take on this issue, and the method you’re doing it in, makes me think you’re probably also highly religious. Did you find God in rehab?
ADMIN, have fun dying from the prescription meds. You take three different meds already? Imagine 10 years from now. They’ll have you on double the amount. You think that’s good for you?
Anyways, back to the topic of Jail Time. Putting people in jail because they want to enjoy a natural plant is OK? If this is the case, then you don’t understand the role of government in today’s society. The role of government should be to protect our liberties and keep us safe. How is restricting someone from ingesting cannabis in their own home “protecting liberties” or “keeping us safe”?
Putting people in jail for enjoying a plant is the real crime.
To ADMIN’s response to my post on July 22nd at 6:42 pm:
What do you mean by everything? All drugs? Yes, all drugs should be legal to do in the privacy of one’s home.
In response to your “marijuana stores are bad” argument: Why should I suffer because some addict can’t control himself? I shouldn’t. I played by the rules. I’m an upstanding citizen that contributes to society. So why should my ability to enjoy a plant be ruined by some stupid addict that contributes nothing? It shouldn’t. I don’t care about that addict and it’s not the law’s job to either. Addiction is a medical issue, not a law enforcement one. Laws are supposed to be made to protect freedom, not restrict it.
I don’t care whether you don’t want a marijuana shop near you. Who are you to decide how someone makes a living? Stop trying to force people to live the way you want them to live.
I’m down with that. The addiction part isn’t really true but I’m down with the no jail time
I have begun to believe that this site is funded by the US government.
The admin is nothing more than a government tool.
If you’re concerned about our youth, perhaps you should get alcohol outlawed for good this time? That would be a useful fight, although a likely completely unsuccessful one. You see, one drug (alcohol) actually causes harm; people die primarily because of alcohol on a daily basis. People are injured in car crashes daily because of alcohol. Where is the anger against alcohol being legal?
Or cigarettes?
Or the 400 preservatives, steroids, and all the other plain **** put into every bit of our processed food…that is leading to inevitable downfall of our immune systems and survival as a whole?
Where is the outrage?
No, it’s not directed that the things that CAUSE HARM! It’s directed at the basically harmless substance that was initially made illegal because of propaganda, fear, racism (against Mexicans and blacks), corrupt legislators, cotton growers lobbying against it, xenophobia, and blatantly false information. It was never harmful to begin with, it is still not harmful. It has remained illegal because of stupid, ignorant people spreading random propaganda just because they’re paranoid as all get out.
This country was founded on hemp (from the documents, to paying taxes, to trade, to our very first US flag sewed out of hemp). In 1619 it became illegal NOT to grow hemp in Jamestown, Virginia because it was such a vital resource. Each and every family was REQUIRED BY LAW to grow a specific amount of hemp. Connecticut and Massachusetts passed similar laws around that time period.
Until you kindly show me the peer reviewed studies that show both the dangerous short term and (more importantly) long term effects of marijuana, you have nothing but blatant propaganda and paranoia. Fearmongering and nothing more.
And I’d like to mention on that comment that I’ve never touched marijuana, never smoked it (not once), I’ve been around it a number of times and have turned it down every time. Why?
Because I don’t need a drug to “let go” and have a good time. Some people do, or think they do. Others don’t. It’s a personal choice, and one that shouldn’t be determined by some ridiculously ignorant laws based on paranoia and lobbying by pharmacy companies.
[...] Jail Time | Say No To PotIt’s sane education not inceration we so desperately need! Didn’t Al Capone teach us anything about the violence prohibition creates? We’re such a culture of idiots, drugs may cause a little violence but not nearly as much as WAR! … At the time, critics in the poor, socially conservative and largely Catholic nation said decriminalizing drug possession would open the country to “drug tourists” and exacerbate Portugal’s drug problem; the country had some of the highest … [...]
The effectiveness of this article i laughable. How can you even bring alcohol into the subject? If weed were legalized we would save billions of taxpayer money every year AND be able to control who gets it at what age. you can also put driving restrictions on it. it wont really work but if it helps you sleep at night then OK.
Admin, your points are tired and outdated. i think maybe you should do a little more research or talk about something your more familiar with like alcohol.
i dont see any sources. Irrelevant.
Admin, what is wrong with getting high? If its in my spare time, and its in the comfort of my home, who are you to tell me what to do? You have these people convinced that getting high is a bad thing. Sure alcohol is actually bad, but there is nothing wrong with marijuana. Guys, arguing with this guy is going to be like an atheist trying to convince a Christians that their religion is bogus.
The problem with the prohibition of marijuana is that it leads to organised crime, because people are going to smoke it regardless of whether or not it is legal.
Legalization/taxation/regulation is the only good alternative, otherwise people are going to want to do it just because the law says they can’t, and in the process form a market for an underground enterprise based on violence and extortion.