whatever on 09 November 2008
| akuma587 said: The most blatant hypocrisy is the fact that alcohol is legal and marijuana isn't. Alcohol causes much more anti-social behavior than marijuana does. Alcohol increases aggression, affects people's driving ability far more than marijuana, it is the primary cause of domestic violence, and in general makes people far more reckless. Not to mention alcohol is terrible for your body, and can actually kill you. It is more or less physically impossible to ingest enough marijuana to kill you, or even the active ingredient, THC, to kill you. Marijuana does some of those things too, but alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana. Anyone who tells you otherwise either hasn't done their homework or hasn't tried marijuana. Occasionally it freaks someone out, but marijuana is not the kind of drug that causes long-term psychological problems. The danger order is as follows: Alcohol>Tobacco>Marijuana. Tobacco has way more long-term health risks than marijuana. So if anything should be illegal, it should be alcohol, not marijuana. |
Plus, marijuana is just a plant. Silly to make a plant illegal just because some people enjoy smoking it.
