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Everstar said:
Jackson50 said:
There are a couple of reasons why tobacco is not prohibited and marijuana is. One, tobacco is an important agricultural product in the US-especially the Southern states. The US produces the 4th largest amount of tobacco in the world. If you propose the prohibition of tobacco, you will have alienated large segment of the nation. No politician is willing to accept the risk. Second, marijuana is perceived to have a stronger psychoactive effect than tobacco.
Do I agree with the prohibition of marijuana?
No, I believe it should be legalized and regulated.

 

 What dose that mean?

 

It means you can get high off of pot, but not cigarettes.

And that's the reason they are illegal. In the bible, it's a sin to put your mind in a state where you are not in control. When the Christian's got a hold of government, they made sure all the sinful stuff was made illegal. Same with Alcohol for a time.

The odd thing is they realized how much worse it was to have alcohol illegal so they reversed it, but are too stupid to see the same applies to all drugs.



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TheRealMafoo said:
Everstar said:
Jackson50 said:
There are a couple of reasons why tobacco is not prohibited and marijuana is. One, tobacco is an important agricultural product in the US-especially the Southern states. The US produces the 4th largest amount of tobacco in the world. If you propose the prohibition of tobacco, you will have alienated large segment of the nation. No politician is willing to accept the risk. Second, marijuana is perceived to have a stronger psychoactive effect than tobacco.
Do I agree with the prohibition of marijuana?
No, I believe it should be legalized and regulated.

 

 What dose that mean?

 

It means you can get high off of pot, but not cigarettes.

And that's the reason they are illegal. In the bible, it's a sin to put your mind in a state where you are not in control. When the Christian's got a hold of government, they made sure all the sinful stuff was made illegal. Same with Alcohol for a time.

The odd thing is they realized how much worse it was to have alcohol illegal so they reversed it, but are too stupid to see the same applies to all drugs.

 

 

Ok thanks. Now whis alcohol legal then becuase imo alcohol makes you much more impared then getting "high"



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Everstar said:

Ok thanks. Now whis alcohol legal then becuase imo alcohol makes you much more impared then getting "high"

 

Because there is enough money behind it, and people were dying left and right when it was illegal (like they do with drugs every day).

Watch this, it's very insightful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEyKAzXqVkA

 



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^ i gtg but ill watch it when i get back on.



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TheRealMafoo said:It means you can get high off of pot, but not cigarettes.

And that's the reason they are illegal. In the bible, it's a sin to put your mind in a state where you are not in control. When the Christian's got a hold of government, they made sure all the sinful stuff was made illegal. Same with Alcohol for a time.

The odd thing is they realized how much worse it was to have alcohol illegal so they reversed it, but are too stupid to see the same applies to all drugs.

The Christians do not share the blame for this-at least, not the lion's share. Some of the most ardent opponents of drugs were Henry Anslinger and Richard Nixon. Anslinger and Nixon are not people I would associate with "the Christians."

 



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.



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If you vaporize both tobacco and marijuana to get rid of the smoke, which one is worse for you? I haven't heard of anybody vaporizing tobacco before, but I'm sure somebody does it.



The Ghost of RubangB said:
If you vaporize both tobacco and marijuana to get rid of the smoke, which one is worse for you? I haven't heard of anybody vaporizing tobacco before, but I'm sure somebody does it.

Part of the reason tobacco is so bad is because of everything else they put in cigarettes, chewing tobacco, etc.  Some of the varieties that you can roll yourself aren't as bad, but there is still strong evidence that it is pretty carcinogenic.  There isn't much conclusive proof that marijuana is carcinogenic, and some evidence has shown that it probably disrupts as many cancerous cells as it creates.

But I think what you are suggesting would be a really good study, although I still beleive tobacco would be the loser.

 



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson