Will they legalize marijuana?

Probably because getting arrested IS something to worry about. Not to mention the BILLIONS of tax payer dollars our country is wasting trying to stop the exchange of a simple plant....

No one is even sure why it's illegal in the first place. Rumors range from cotton and oil tycoons lobbying to make hemp illegal, to mass hysteria over alleged "hashish crazed Negros lusting after young white women" around the turn of the 20th century. I actually heard an interesting story that tied the two together.... Apparently the oil and cotton tycoons were in it with the newspaper moguls, who staked a claim in the forestry and paper industries, a direct competitor of hemp as well. Apparently they spread the whole crazed negro story via their own papers, which turned the public against the plant. But no one will really know.

 

It's sad that making marijuana legal could solve CA's money problems, if you see what I'm saying...

Don't worry! I was joking around with the last post.

I'm not attacking anybody and I don't feel attacked.

You're coming up with excellent points that I'd never think of!

 

Those aren't the ONLY reasons why it's illegal though. Those are simply conspiracies brought on by cannabis users in the United States.

 

please dont get us started on "reefer madness" lol i dont even want to waste my time talking about that

 

you had to do it...

 

Have a good evening gentlemen.

 

So many posts here to qoute but won't...........How many people are dying from people having their head up their ass texting or talking on the phone while driving when sober? How big a dent in the stupid ass border war smuggling shit would legalizing make? How many livers are torched by smoking pot? How much easier is it to just stop smoking pot than just to stop drinking? Much easier I'd bet. If there's something to tax that generally would keep people at home and off the streets and not thinking about violence then why wouldn't the government back it? You wouldn't have to commit crimes to get it, you could grow your own. Comparisons to alcohol are not ever gonna be apples to apples so might as well give up on that. Not necessarily condoning it but there are way worse things going on that need to be policed than pot. It's a gift from nature not something man cooked up. Alcohol sterilizes wounds so it has medical benefit just as pot has it's medical benefits, another dead argument. It doesn't lead people to harder drugs any more than alcohol would or does, yet another dead argument. You could legalize it and do the same thing as with alcohol...do as much as you want at home or designated areas but if you are out of control in public, you go to jail. You'd need a license to sell it, yet more money for the government. All the negative aspects referenced in this thread can be said about many other things going on that are causing worse problems that get none of the overzealous negative attention that pot does, how bout we throw concern those directions? As with any topic, the opinions one way or the other and the "reasoning" behind them and the argument about the pros and cons could go on and on so post on.................

 

I'm not proud that my town, Garberville was featured in the Marijuana Inc. documentary. But it is the sole reason why so many people around here can afford tricked out lifted turbo diesels. I would personally rather see the economic benefits surrounding mj go to Americans. It deters international drug trafficking to a degree and takes a small bit of profit away from the Mexican Drug Cartel.

 

x2- tax like tobacco, treat it the same as alcohol, dont do it at work and make the consequences hellish.

 

Link, schmink. Smoking is unhealthy, period. Doesn't matter what it is. But, apparently the dope has made you too lazy to do even the most cursory of Googling, so here you are. (this is meant as tongue-in-cheek humor, not to be an ass) Food for thought.

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/effects.-Lya.htm
http://www.drugabuse.gov/Infofacts/marijuana.html
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/phd641/
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/evidence99/marijuana/Health_1.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090615095940.htm

To make life more "interesting," page 2 of the google results lists positive aspects... go figure!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070417193338.htm
http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20060523/pot-smoking-not-linked-to-lung-cancer
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Psychiatry/Addictions/8096
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/c...sk_Factors_for_Non-Small_Cell_Lung_Cancer.asp

I think that I'd rather err on the side of caution, however. We know smoking tobacco is bad. What makes anyone think that marijuana, another plant, is safe?

 

So let's say it gets legalized, how many of your jobs would still fire you if they found out that you used it? I know mine would. It would still be somewhat regulated by proffessions.

 

I think Pot will be legal within the next 5-10 years

 

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That a boy Mike! You tell them how it is!

 

Yes, but the only way financial salvation will come our way is if they have the foresight to enact a snack tax too!

 

Our government is fucking up this country way worse than any pot smoking is so how bout all the righteousness spouters go crusade about all the corruption and internal terrorism going on on that front and then if pot smoking ever gets near the top of the list of what's fucking up this country the worst then the "horrors" of what smoking pot causes to the country can be dealt with sensibly.

 

Quick friendly reminder that politics/rants about the gov't aren't welcome, nor the point of this thread.

So save yourself and the mods the time and don't bother.

 

Vaporizer FTW