Comment posted Legalize Weed by Just a dude.

@Pitufa

I’m not even going to address your statement about rather living life on drugs. I completely disagree but I believe a person has the right to put drugs into their body. If they can live with the consequences (the consequences are different for every person so don’t get my wrong, I’m not saying using drugs is bad for everyone) then more power to them.

But addiction is certainly not a mindset. It’s a brain disease that is more likely to be developed if you have family history of brain diseases, not just addiction. If you’re open minded enough to look into ideas that differ from your own that are actually from reputable sources and not just your own mind’s rhetoric look into this article on addiction published by the American Psychiatric Association:

http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/1/2/190

Just a dude also commented

• I don’t think many of you understand what addiction is. Addiction is a disease that makes you crave and go to great lengths to do anything that will alter your mood. It’s not specific to drugs, it effects every area of your life if you’re an addict. Alcoholism is nothing more than another word for addiction, because any alcoholic will have the same problem with any other drug. You can become addicted to marijuana, I lived that. A life where I couldn’t function with or without drugs. I was out of control. I smoked and smoked and smoked until there was nothing left, a quarter a day. I dropped acid nonstop. I was rolling on X all the time. I lost control of my life completely. A lot of you say, you have to moderate your using, addicts can’t do that with any drug, whether it’s one that causes physical dependency like cocaine or opiates, or a relatively safe one like marijuana or LSD.

  However, I do agree with most of you that it should be legal. It should be a person’s choice, not the governments. If you want to **** up your life and smoke weed so be it, or more likely than not if you’re just a normal person you’ll enjoy marijuana every now and then and have no problems at all with it.

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  @Grebo

  That’s a curious statement. Morality is a very broad term. It applies to every decision we make. If I have no moral issues with murder or rape should I legally be allowed to engage in both of those activities? The only society that doesn’t legislate morality is a society of anarchy and that’s not really much of a society anyways. Every law enforces a principle of some moral code in one way or another. I think a better criterion for what a government shouldn’t be able to legislate is anything that doesn’t harm, inhibit, or directly interfere with the lives of others. I think that’s a moral code we can all agree on

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  @Genetics says
  I like how you don’t cite any source for that completely outrageous claim. I can cite a source that says otherwise

  http://focus.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/1/2/190

  Here’s an excerpt from the article published by the American Psychiatric Association, a very reliable and reputable source on all mental disorders and diseases.

  “Not only does acute drug use modify brain function in critical ways, but prolonged drug use causes pervasive changes in brain function that persist long after the individual stops taking the drug. Significant effects of chronic use have been identified for many drugs at all levels: molecular, cellular, structural, and functional (6, 7). The addicted brain is distinctly different from the nonaddicted brain, as manifested by changes in brain metabolic activity, receptor availability, gene expression, and responsiveness to environmental cues. Some of these long-lasting brain changes are idiosyncratic to specific drugs, whereas others are common to many different drugs (6–9). The common brain effects of addicting substances suggest common brain mechanisms underlying all addictions (5, 7, 9, 10).”

  And here’s all the articles and studies cited in that excerpt.

  #5 G. F. Koob, Trends Pharmacol. Sci. 13, 177 (1992); G. F. Koob et al., Semin. Neurosci. 6, 221 (1994)[Medline]
  #6 S. E. Hyman, Neuron 16, 901 (1996); E. J. Nestler, ibid., p. 897; W. P. Melega et al., Behav. Brain Res. 84, 259 (1997); J. Ortiz et al., Synapse 21, 289 (1995); N. D. Volkow et al., Am. J. Psychiatry 147, 719 (1990).[Medline]
  #7 E. J. Nestler et al., Mol. Psychiatry 1, 190 (1996); D. W. Self and E. J. Nestler, Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 18, 463 (1995)[Medline]
  #8 E. J. Nestler, J. Neurosci. 12, 2439 (1992); T. E. Robinson and K. C. Berridge, Brain Res. Rev. 18, 247 (1993); R. Z. Terwilliger et al., Brain Res. 548, 100 (1991)[Medline]
  #9 G. F. Koob, Neuron 16, 893 (1996)[Medline]
  #10 A. I. Leshner, Hospital Practice: A Special Report (McGraw-Hill, Minneapolis, MN, 1997)

  Can someone find a legit study, article or publication stating something else?

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  @Joe-1234

  You really don’t know much about the nature of addiction or drugs in general do you? I want to start out by addressing your “fact” that marijuana is the only drug that grows from a seed out of the ground. Ever heard of datura (a delirient)? Peyote cactus (a psychedelic)? Morning glory (another psychedelic)? Phalaris grass (another psychedelic)? Kava? Tobacco? Or perhaps Poppies (opium)? Not to mention Salvia (psychedelic)? Some of those drugs are relatively safe, like morning glory, peyote or salvia. Other can kill your ass, like poppies, tobacco and datura. Just because it’s natural doesn’t make it safe and good for you

  Also saying that someone has no willpower because that can’t quit drugs is ludicrous. Addiction is a psychological disorder that causes a person to crave having an altered mood or state of mind at all times. Being effected by it is like having OCD, bipolar, depression or ADHD. It’s something that takes control of your life and **** s**t up. Your average person can quit drugs easily, but an addict can’t control their drug use, whether it’s alcohol, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA, heroin or DMT, or even some DXM. It’s something a person needs outside help with.

  You clearly need to do some research on drugs and drug addiction before making ridiculously wrong statements like your comment on here again

• Parents Needing Help
  I’m sick of people saying weed should be legal universally for medical reasons. There are plenty of drugs legal for medical reasons that are controlled outside of people using it medicinally. I do believe it should be legal both medically and recreationally, however stating that it’s medical benefits as a reason it should be legal for recreational use is a terrible argument. Also in most states outside of California (California’s medical marijuana is a joke, almost anyone can get it) that have medical weed legalized it takes a serious condition to be prescribed it. Should opiate based pain pills be legal for recreational use just because they have medical benefits? Hell no, they should be legal for recreational use because it’s a matter of personal freedom over what you can and can’t put in your own body. So come up with a better argument for legalizing marijuana than saying it has medical benefits. Heroin has medical benefits too, it’s the most powerful pain killer known to man, however should it be legal because of this? Just like with heroin’s weaker counterpart, opiate pills, it should be legal because the decision to use drugs should be up to the individual not society
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  Another thing I’d like to note that’s kind of off topic but in response to other comments on here is on the whole notion that marijuana couldn’t be taxed if it was legalized because people could grow it and sell it on their own. Well first of all that’s a really dumb thing to say. It’s just about as easy to make alcohol in your home as it is to cultivate marijuana. However it is illegal to make alcohol in your home without a permit, it’s also even more illegal to sell homemade alcohol. If marijuana was legalized I’m sure it’d be treated similar to alcohol, if not more stringently. So people would still be getting arrested for slinging weed and/or growing it.

  Also, why the hell would you want to buy some weed grown in some dudes basement illegally when you could roll up to a store and buy weed grown by legit corporations and companies. Those companies would probably grow weed better than you could ever imagine. Botanists working on cultivating the ultimate marijuana plant, and the company mass producing it. That would make it both cheaper and more potent than the weed grown in some dude’s basement

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