Having an ounce or less is no longer illegal in Massachusetts. Passed by a large margin.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/massachusetts_results/
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/ma_question2/
Damn, I should move to Massachusetts...though employers still probably drug test.
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
| 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.
| akuma587 said: Damn, I should move to Massachusetts...though employers still probably drug test. |
Only the larger companies, like just about anywhere. Small to mid-sized companies can't afford it.
Its not that big of a deal, I haven't smoked in probably four months since there is a decent chance I'll be working for the government this summer. Though I must say marijuana is much easier to deal with than alcohol, since the next day you wake up and are just fine. I am usually incredible productive the day after I have smoked.
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
| Everstar said: Why cant this be legal in the US they have chewing tobacco and Cigarettes both of whitch harm the body more then weed dose so why not have it legal? Your thoughts? |
Because smoking a cigarette or chewing tobacco doesn't impair your abilities. Weed does.
| whatever said: Having an ounce or less is no longer illegal in Massachusetts. Passed by a large margin. http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/massachusetts_results/ http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/ma_question2/ |
As great as that sounds, you are jumping the gun there. These results aren't official yet so it hasn't technically passed yet, though it looks like it will.
Again as has been discussed before It shall be !!decriminilized!! for possessing under an ounce, not legalised! big differance. It's still illeagal, they just aren't gonna give you a felony and throw you in jail (mandatory sentance) for it.
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison
"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself
WessleWoggle said:
Weed does not impair anything if you're a regular smoker. It actually makes me better at some video games because I can relax and think. It allows me to to think more freely and non judgementally. But it does impair my math... It destroyed the math part of my brain, now I hate math and am in deep shit without a calculator. |
It impairs your perception among other things, and that's why you think you're better at the video game. Thousands of studies have been done, and they all say that weed slows down your reaction time and impairs your abilities. The only ones that say otherwise are stoners....
Getting drunk makes me smarter, stronger, and faster. I've run on roofs drunk that I couldn't even walk on sober. I think I should start a thread about jumping off roofs at some point.
At any rate, I personally believe that it all has to do with the interests of our government and/or powerful lobyists. The prohibition of alcohol was just to disasterous and the government probably doesn't believe that it has oppressed us enough to consider trying that one again. Eventually we could get to that point thanks to people like MADD and sobriety activists in general.
Marijuana however was much easier to outlaw, because at the time there wasn't as much use among the common person / resistance to it at the time. I think it's wholly obvious that Marijuana's fate was sealed by big corporations who had friends in the government that personaly stood to lose a hell of a lot of business when the new patent was granted for a great hemp processing machine just months before the illegalization.
I also wonder if furthermore it's too lucrative of a comodity to our government as illegal, as opposed to what they could get from legalizing then taxing it.
In my personal opinion the main reason why drugs and marijuana (I don't consider it the same as the common reference to "drugs" in the illicit sense) are outlawed and theres a whole big to do about it, is because governments use it for under the table arms sales. Drug trade is an extremely effective medium for this, it keeps a lot of money off the books and in general is an underground market all of its own, that would be incredibly hard to keep track of and regulate. I think one BIG concern of our government in the Vietnam War was the fear of losing our (unmentioned) poppy fields in Cambodia and Thailand.
"Let justice be done though the heavens fall." - Jim Garrison
"Ask not your horse, if ye should ride into battle" - myself
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