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Desertghost said:
Screamapillar said:

1) Government prohibitions don't work. They never, ever have. It just encourages black markets, which lead to crime.

2) Alcohol kills people, not marijuana. So why is alcohol legal?

3) If it's the government's role to stop us from doing stupid things, why are McDonald's and Taco Bell allowed to sell us fatty foods that cause us to be an obese society?  Obesity is much more harmful than marijuana.

4) If we need more tax revenue (which we do), why not legalize marijuana, and tax and regulate it just like cigarettes and alcohol?


In my country people die and accidentally kill while driving under the effects of marijuana all the time...

By your logic if I ever meet a serial killer that only kills men, I should tell him he is a hypocrite and that he should also kill women.

Just because we are legally allowed to do a couple of dangerous stuff, doesn't mean we should fight to do all the hazardous things we can think of, because doing just a couple is stupid. Right?

Drunk driving is harmful to others hence why it is illegal. Driving under the influence of drugs is a separate crime in the U.S. - but where as alcohol can be "drinked responsibly" according to the United States government - they tell us that weed cannot and should be a crime. But the fact is that people are still harming themselves drinking "responsibly". Alcohol is harmful  to your heart. kidney, liver and brain. Marijuana is not. You can not overdose on Marijuana; it hasn't killed anyone in the history of the world and unlike tobacco- it isn't assoiciated with a hundred different forms of cancer. It simply isn't hazardous. It's very straight forward. Marijuana is the least harmful drug among the three - it actually has a plethora of medical uses- and yet it is the one that is illegal.



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oldschoolfool said:

I know there's a marijuana thread,but I wanted to debate this specific topic. If the mods close this thread,then I'll understand. So,why should marijuana be legal. There's no real benifit 2 it at all. All it does is make you a lazy unproductive member of society. What good does that do to be high all the time and do nothing in life,but live for that high. Anybody that wants to use it for medical purposes is just using that as an excuse to get high. according to my reading,the drug produces anxiety,fear,distrust and panic. It also affects your posture,coordination and reaction time. It can also cause dellusions and hallucinations. it can also increase heart rate and cause sleep impairment. How does all that give you these magical medical benefits. I just don't understand what's so great about this so-called magical drug. For the record,I don't understand the point of booze and tobacco,but those things are legal. Why make just another bad thing for you,legal. It benifits no one. If I had my way,booze and tobacco would be outlawed. There's no benefit in any of these things. 


Well I think your post is based on personal opinions and readings based on no scientific study. That it makes you lazy, sure, do you also know some of the most successful people on the planet have admited to having smoked weed at some point on their life, even on a daily basis, President Obama is one example. No benefit to society, from 2010-2011 close to 70million people die in mexico alone because of the drug war, did you know having weed illegal accounts for about 40% of the cartels paychecks. No medical benefit, the Medical and scientific  associations of America would like to disagree. Do you at least know of all the products that can be made trough hemp and how it would help to reduce pollution? I would recommend you add a book called The Emperor Wears No Clothes to your reading if you would like to find out more. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin also used to smoke weed, i guess you consider them lazy unproductive members of society too. "Some of my finest hours have been spent on my back veranda, smoking hemp and observing as far as my eye can see." - Thomas Jefferson.



I think it should be illegal just cause too many annoying people handout papers to make it legal



                  

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Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I think it should be illegal just cause too many annoying people handout papers to make it legal

That would mean what you hate will continue.



The effects of weed could lead that even the ugliest girl you wouldn't bang looks slightly bangable.. It removers bounderies.. You should he convinced by my single argument..



 

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chocoloco said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I think it should be illegal just cause too many annoying people handout papers to make it legal

That would mean what you hate will continue.

Yea but if it gets legalized, they will find something new to get legalized and continue to handout more papers...



                  

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AnthonyW86 said:
oldschoolfool said:

For the record,I don't understand the point of booze and tobacco,but those things are legal. Why make just another bad thing for you,legal. It benifits no one. If I had my way,booze and tobacco would be outlawed. There's no benefit in any of these things. 

Well if they would ban booze and tobacco i would agree with you. But since that is never going to happen and because marijuana is much less damaging than alcohol and actually healthier to smoke than tobacco there is no reason to keep it banned.

If you're still wondering why it should be legal, just look why they turned back the ban of alcohol in the U.S. a hundred years ago. Keeping something like this illegal simply means much more crime and illegal trade.

 

Surprisingly alcohol is still banned in many communities, especially in Alaska. It's still not working.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20130903/perils-prohibition-alaskas-failed-war-booze

You don't solve substance abuse by banning the substance. Definitely not with ones so easily grown or made.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
chocoloco said:
Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
I think it should be illegal just cause too many annoying people handout papers to make it legal

That would mean what you hate will continue.

Yea but if it gets legalized, they will find something new to get legalized and continue to handout more papers...

Ironically a person against legalizaion is practically handing out online papers that always have more people giving reason it should be legal rather than not be. The thread backfires and always has more support for legalization.



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ChristianTheAtheist said:

 

Great video actually full of stuff I did not even know on medical marijuana and cool considering these people in the video live in the Springs like me. The growers look like they grow just outside of the Springs.