darkSpyro

stance on legalization of marijuana?

and why?

I have no idea why they even made it illegal in the first place.

Not only does it have important medical purposes, but it's literally the only drug that doesn't destroy your body. It's just addictive and warps your personality.

I don't even do drugs and I know this.

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I have no idea why they even made it illegal in the first place.

Not only does it have important medical purposes, but it's literally the only drug that doesn't destroy your body. It's just addictive and warps your personality.

I don't even do drugs and I know this.

counterpoint: people who 420 blaze it are not in 100% control of their body and are a threat to society

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I have no idea why they even made it illegal in the first place.

Not only does it have important medical purposes, but it's literally the only drug that doesn't destroy your body. It's just addictive and warps your personality.

I don't even do drugs and I know this.

counterpoint: people who 420 blaze it are not in 100% control of their body and are a threat to society

**** you're right

the memes must be stopped

The medical purposes should at least allow some usage of it. I have relatives who are at a point of pain morphine and other stuff just stopped working, but you'll definately get arrested in Brazil for just trying to make medicine out of marijuana. I haven't done a lot of research in the subject except for that part so I won't say legalize everything without actually knowing the impact, but hey, at least give ONE instance where it's fine because it'd help out a lot.

That said,people will call slippery slope on allowing medicine, because how dare you choose just half of a controversial topic.

It's a hallucinogenic and it messes with the neurons in your brain. I don't care if people argue that it's weaker than most other drugs along with the LEGAL tobacco and alcohol. But it doesn't matter because it's been legalized in a few states and I'm sure more will follow. As long as people keep it away from me I don't care unless they're getting behind the wheel. >.>

People should have freedom to do whatever they want to their own bodies. Public sector interfering with basic human right of freedom to live a life of relative and philosophical free will should not be accepted. All drugs should be legal so they could be exploited in the point of view of business and therefore create jobs and economical wealth for all the mankind. Irrational regulations are the way to certain demise of the world as we know it.

But what do I know? Everything in human existence is eventually relative, overly attached to the values and therefore meaningless and whatever we decide, the existence will go on. I just value free life for every one of us, regardless of arguably stupid definitions such as nationalities and whatnot.

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People should have freedom to do whatever they want to their own bodies. Public sector interfering with basic human right of freedom to live a life of relative and philosophical free will should not be accepted. All drugs should be legal so they could be exploited in the point of view of business and therefore create jobs and economical wealth for all the mankind. Irrational regulations are the way to certain demise of the world as we know it.

...I feel like this is a sophisticated way of saying "Legalize everything and let natural selection take its course."

Honestly if they should ban any drug it really should be cigarettes. Chewable tabacco is acceptable.

Not only does it severly hurt you, but it also harms others AROUND YOU with second hand smoking. There is nothing that makes me more mad than seeing someone smoking in public. Especially with children nearby

Besides, it wouldn't hurt the industry. Cigarette producers still have tabbacco and nictoine, which is pretty much half of the chewable tabacco process. It just might take a while to redo their factories.

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People should have freedom to do whatever they want to their own bodies. Public sector interfering with basic human right of freedom to live a life of relative and philosophical free will should not be accepted. All drugs should be legal so they could be exploited in the point of view of business and therefore create jobs and economical wealth for all the mankind. Irrational regulations are the way to certain demise of the world as we know it.

...I feel like this is a sophisticated way of saying "Legalize everything and let natural selection take its course."

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Geddit? Cuz the ones who use will become absuers and die of overdoses so the only ones left on earth would be the people who don't like the drugs. ;>.>

If one wants to put it in that gloomy fashion, that is what I tried to say. I just think that people should decide by own personal empirical tests to determine moral things for themselves rather than be restricted by the “higher order”, even though that higher order eventually is a group of people distressed about the perpetuity of our species. I have become cold person, I admit that and if my opinions seem too harsh and unjust once in a while, one should not give that much of value upon them. But there you are anyways…

It should be legalized everywhere. For medicinal use it does help with the pain and nausea associated with terminal illness.

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Heck legalize it even for recreational purposes. I see nothing wrong with marijuana. I know of not one person that got violent, mean or aggressive after smoking it. They pretty much relax and get the munchies. So yea legalize marijuana and enjoy the munchies.

In terms of controlled medical use, I see it as fine, though this doesn't mean lighting up every night because you have "glaucoma".

Otherwise, I don't see much need for it to be legal. It may be better than other drugs but that doesn't mean it's good and needed. It still can be addictive, it smells horribly leaving a smell in everything you own, and is mind-numbing and causes hallucinations. It's inevitably going to end up the next thing to get a movement to try and stop people from doing while driving like drinking and texting as I highly doubt it does anything good for your motor skills much less ability to concentrate.

It doesn't make sense for tobacco to be legal but not marijuana. Legalize but regulate it.

Doing so will also get rid of stupid prison sentences for something as simple as possessing it, and could cut some profits out of gangs that rely on drugs for cash (though a good few have moved from pot as a primary source of income).

On the subject on marijuana, lived with a guy who smoked it. Despite the door to his room being closed, the smell was still so strong I could smell it in my room and it made my eyes water. Closing my door too helped, but not entirely. Worst part was he did it like all the time, so I highly doubt it was for anything medical. Was kinda happy when he moved out a few weeks after I'd moved in.

I know people thing it would be fine if regulated, but I don't really see a good system getting properly set-up and enforced by the government that people would actually follow. Sure, it may not lead everyone to start smoking it, but I do see it still ending up a problem where people who do think it's fine to do it constantly and not care leading to a rise in accidents from people driving or just people showing up to work/school while high.

I don't really agree with tobacco either for those who bring up that point. Smoking harms people around you and yourself, then chewing tobacco is actually worse for you than cigarettes. There are groups trying to stop smoking and hopefully it'll succeed with tobacco not being an issue in time.

pretty dank

Brain scans

I don't think you should be able to smoke it or be under the influence in public. Do whatever you want in your own house, though.

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Brain scans

The brain on the left looks like its had enough of the marijuana, it seems so sad it actually looks like a fairly shoddy pumpkin carving.

Oh, and I don't really mind if marijuana is legalized or not as long as its kept the hell away from me. Its already annoying enough having to deal with underage smokers in my school and passive smoking in general(tobacco should be banned, but the nation would go "GIVE MEH OUR TOOBaCOO BaCK" instead because they're mostly addicted). If marijuana was legalised for medical purposes though, I would be fine with it.

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I have no idea why they even made it illegal in the first place.

Not only does it have important medical purposes, but it's literally the only drug that doesn't destroy your body. It's just addictive and warps your personality.

I don't even do drugs and I know this.

how DOESN'T it destroy your body? i think onset neurological disorders are as bad as body wrecking gets, no point in having limbs if you can't touch them

yes please for the love of ****ing god legalize it
i don't care if its only for medical purposes or if its gonna be sold like any other item we NEED IT

#1 reason it is the one true cure for cancer and so many other things and the only reason it isn't legalized yet for is because of how much money comes out of chemo therapy and other harmful ****
it doesn't completely wreck your body and it's not even dangerous. i can't even imagine why people say how its "DANGEROUS" when alcohol and tobacco are 10000x more dangerous than it.
it can also be used for paper can you imagine how many trees we wouldn't have to cut down if it were used for paper??? UGH

aside from being useful for medical reasons, cops kill people over weed all the time and use it as an excuse to search people (especially black people). it's stupid to kill people over a plant

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I have no idea why they even made it illegal in the first place.

Not only does it have important medical purposes, but it's literally the only drug that doesn't destroy your body. It's just addictive and warps your personality.

I don't even do drugs and I know this.

how DOESN'T it destroy your body? i think onset neurological disorders are as bad as body wrecking gets, no point in having limbs if you can't touch them

I apologize for that everyone. I over blew what I said. What I was basically trying to say that weed, out of all the drugs, is the one that can do the less damage towards your body.

http://www.webmd.com/news/brea...safe-web?page=1
http://www.nap.edu/read/9586/chapter/10
http://www.drugabuse.gov/publi...ork-social-life (this one has links you can click through on the left)

Here some information about weed. There are other websites I found, such as a drug-free website but the name escapes me. It had no sources, and I looked up some of their claims but couldn't find anything about it. Again though, while doing this research I do apologize for what I said a bit earlier.

So yes, weed DOES damage your body. It even has second hand smoking, depending on how you smoke it. Something that I hate more than anything. While it's true that weed does cause neurological problems, almost all reliable sites that I have found state that even though this conclusion is drawn, the testing for it is so small and limited that there are still debates over it. But all have said that weed just slows down your brain processes: the blood travels less to the brain which causes memory loss and alters your frontal lobe to make odd/poor choices.

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It's a hallucinogenic and it messes with the neurons in your brain. I don't care if people argue that it's weaker than most other drugs along with the LEGAL tobacco and alcohol. But it doesn't matter because it's been legalized in a few states and I'm sure more will follow. As long as people keep it away from me I don't care unless they're getting behind the wheel. >.>

if your weed is hallucinogenic then it's probably laced with something else but okay

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It's a hallucinogenic and it messes with the neurons in your brain. I don't care if people argue that it's weaker than most other drugs along with the LEGAL tobacco and alcohol. But it doesn't matter because it's been legalized in a few states and I'm sure more will follow. As long as people keep it away from me I don't care unless they're getting behind the wheel. >.>

if your weed is hallucinogenic then it's probably laced with something else but okay

THC is a mild hallucinogen. It's not as noteworthy as the manufactured types (which I won't name on this site because that's extremely inappropriate) because it's usually prescribed at such small doses patients don't experience psychotropic effects.

Also, it's a gateway drug. And gateway drugs are NO GOOD. <.<

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It's a hallucinogenic and it messes with the neurons in your brain. I don't care if people argue that it's weaker than most other drugs along with the LEGAL tobacco and alcohol. But it doesn't matter because it's been legalized in a few states and I'm sure more will follow. As long as people keep it away from me I don't care unless they're getting behind the wheel. >.>

if your weed is hallucinogenic then it's probably laced with something else but okay

THC is a mild hallucinogen. It's not as noteworthy as the manufactured types (which I won't name on this site because that's extremely inappropriate) because it's usually prescribed at such small doses patients don't experience psychotropic effects.

Also, it's a gateway drug. And gateway drugs are NO GOOD. <.<

most over-the-counter antihistamines contain a "mild hallucinogen" by that standard, benadryl especially.