convince me that marijuana should be legal.

[DD_Bwest]

1)  "there is no real benefit to it all"  -   This can be said more about prohibition than it can for legalization.   There is no benefit to prohibition.  People are still eating it, smoking it, selling it, growing it, while billions are being wasted.   Not just wasting money, but police resources that could be spent finding abducted woman, or solving cold-cases.   can you tell me one real benefit to prohibition?

2) "All it does is make you a lazy unproductive member of society."   Completely untrue,  While some users waste there lives doing nothing but smoking pot, These people would be wasting there lives doing nothing anyways even if pot wasnt around.   Marijuana is used by a wide array of productive members of society, from scientists, to engineers, so service workers.     The High from marijuana also doesnt necesarrily make someone lazy,  That is heavily dependant upon the strain, Ive had some that make me wanna get moving and have fun.  Great weed for skiing.   Ive also had strains that make me almost fall asleep before im done smoking.  And everything in between.

3)"What good does that do to be high all the time and do nothing in life,but live for that high"   Just because it is legal doesnt mean people are going to be high all the time.  Many other legal substances are used responsibly and unresponsibly by sects from almost every walk of life.

4) " Anybody that wants to use it for medical purposes is just using that as an excuse to get high"   - This is complete and utter bull shit. Myself and many others suffer from daily symptoms that normal pharmaceuticals cant help, or so many side effects there is no point in taking them.  Not only that, they have been shown to work when a wide array of other medications dont.   From reduction in nausea and increasing appetite, pain reduction, seizure prevention, anxiety reduction, sleep inducing .. i could go on..    PLUS alot of medical patients do not use it for the THC, which is the main active compound that gets you high.  They want it for the CBD's and actually dont want the high.

5) "according to my reading,the drug produces anxiety,fear,distrust and panic."   I used to see symptoms like this all the time,  in grade 8.  Thats mostly in new users.  Some users do report feeling like, so they have a simple solution,  Its just not for them like booze isnt for some other people.

6)" It also affects your posture,coordination and reaction time."    posture? weed doesnt effect that.   coordination and reaction time?   My COD k/d ratio begs to differ.  I dominate many friends who dont smoke, and i refuse to play if i havent blazed just before.

7) "It can also cause dellusions and hallucinations"   This has been in debate within the medical community.  A few years ago it was believed that if you have a genetic pre-disposition to psychosis, marijuana may trigger it.  But newer research within the last year says that this may be incorrect.  It does need to be studied more, but that doesnt happen under prohibition.

8)" it can also increase heart rate and cause sleep impairment."    Lots of things can raise heart rate, many of which are legal.   Interesting though is i smoke more weed than any one i know and i have low heart rate and blood pressure.   and sleep impairement?  i know a heck of alot of people that use it to help sleep.

9)"How does all that give you these magical medical benefits."   As mentioned in the last 5 posts, your assumptions are all wrong, the benefits arent magical at all but routed in science.  I think you need to watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta's special on medical marijuana and how he dove into researching the topic a few years ago and completly changed his mind and apolagized for his earlier stance.(he is Pro-medical marijuana now, used to call it nonsense)

10) You come back to saying you dont see a point in legalization.  What is the point in prohibition?  what is it actually doing?   Is it really stopping people from using it?  is it stopping gangsters from making billions?   nope.  Infact millions use it, and its making gangsters even more rich.  and its driven some to find "legal" alternitive highs that are VASTLY more dangerous, both to themselves and others around them.