At least what age should one be to consume cannabis?
* 21 years of age.
* 19 years of age.
* 18 years of age.
* 17 years of age.
* 16 years of age.
* 14 years of age.
* 13 years of age.
* 12 years of age.
* Any age is fine.
* None of the above.
Ron
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At least what age should one be to consume cannabis?
* 21 years of age.
* 19 years of age.
* 18 years of age.
* 17 years of age.
* 16 years of age.
* 14 years of age.
* 13 years of age.
* 12 years of age.
* Any age is fine.
* None of the above.
Ron
18.
I've, actually, been thinking about this. Setting an age-limit would be age-descrimination. I think we should make our own choice and reap our own benefits/consequences in the coming generations. That's the only way we will know how it works. No human has ever been studied for long-term effects of Cannibus. I'd still stick with 18 to give our brains enough time to develop on their own.
Ya' know, I'm gonna continue this conversation on my own and say...
What if, one day, we find out that it makes our learning process faster?
I can't imagine anyone refuting that point, for the lack of evidence points just as much in that direction as it does the other way.
beachguy...ya' crazy...we should have to be at least 30 because that's when we get the steepest drop in Melatonin levels. Or maybe 60, because that's when we'll need it the most.
I think the legalization age should be 6-months, or whenever we discontinue breastfeeding.
It really depends on the individual, since different people mature at different rates. I don't think the government ought to be enforcing a rule that says everybody who is 17 years and 364 days old is too immature, but on their 18th birthday suddenly they can handle it.
Althought I can see pros and cons for a set age limit, I think that 17 is a good medium. At 17 I think the majority should be mature enough to handle the responsibilities of smoking. Age limit would not really prevent 'under-age' smoking, since most anyone can obtain anything regardless of age.
16 to consume, but 18 to buy. Same as tobacco in some states.
It depends if you're talking in legal terms or not. Actually, it doesn't really depend on that at all. But I don't think that the government should dictate what people can or can not put in to their own bodies. I personally think that, in an ideal society, there wouldn't be age restrictions for anything and that people take responsibility for their own actions.
In the case of minors, however, I think it should be up to their parent/guardian (i'm speaking hypothetically, of cours and assuming that, in this scenario, Cannabis is legal) to decide.
Or like alcohol in civilized countries, with your parents at any age. Moderation can only be taught by experience and example. Perhaps not smoking for health reasons, but in special treats like baked goods during holidays.
Doctor G
;) I voted but I will keep my opinion to myself on this one...... :(
yes
18 is ok!
18 in legal terms
I think that passit 420 is right on it smoke weed forever
I voted 18, but i think that it shouldnt be sold in shops - just able to grow. Of course, paraphernalia (sp?) would be sold everywhere. Then if it was legalised, cafes would have to be made legal aswell - which is only a good thing. Think about it, would you rather go out and get pissed (and probably in a fight) on a friday night or sit in a cafe with yer mates, passing round a J and having a laugh? In that respect, there would be a lot less violence on the streets aswell so the cops - useless as they are lol - could concentrate on catching the REAL criminals, not the laid back stoners that are too damn monged out to even fight back lol. Rant over.
Legal terms havn't ment alot to me for a while. So save your breath becuase people will just do what they want anyways.
i say 17
i was one of the few that voted "none of the above"
think about it guys. if weed were legal to 18+ or whatever, what about the kids that can handle it maturely at age 14 or whatever?
wouldnt they be in the same position we're in now? i know that most posters here are probably pretty mature with it and dont need the government to regulate what they do with their bodies, so why should some genius kid who's fourteen be denied what we fight for?
has parenting become that much of a novelty?
do you really want the goevernment to be able to swoop in and snatch your kid away from you over "just a little pot"?
throw your ass in jail or fine you while your kids writes letters from a foster home?
we should be able to spend five minutes every other week to sit down and discuss issues like this with our kids. if we cant find that kind of time, what kind of parents would we be?
im sorry to babble, but honestly i think if there are "age restrictions", then it'd be the same as college kids getting their hands on alcohol. you wait and wait and finally when you get the freedom, you go crazy with it...most often the first time being able to do whatever you want.
thinka bout it...
Personally, I was 18 when I tried pot for the first time. I'm 20 now; I felt then and continue to feel that it happened at just the perfect time in my life.
Just having graduated from high school, I was ripe for new experience, anxious about the future and confused about the state of my life. Basically searching for I-didn't-know-what, and trying to figure what life is all about.
The posts on this page all seem to address the technical/legal end of the question, but what I feel is almost more important than the extent to which one is "mature" and "ready for the responsibilities" of marijuana use (though this too is quite important) is the state of an individual's psychological/spiritual relationship to life, to other people, to one's own existence in the world itself. When we talk about maturity, we mean more than just being considerate of others while stoned or not driving while totally fucked. I'm talking about how much somebody has taken the time to really contemplate life, death, and the purpose of our being here, sharing this earth together. Past a certain age, it is inevitable that all of us start asking such questions... this happens at different times for different people, and so does maturity.
Most of us recognize that smoking pot can be more than just having a laugh with some friends, more than a social drug or a way to relax. Like other psychoactives it can (and should be, sometimes) a mind-blowing, private, consciousness-opening experience that is capable of teaching us much about ourselves, if we are only willing to listen. I feel that marijuana ought to be used for this as much as for social leisure, and that as part of the legalization movement we have to challenge cultural stereotypes about its users that say we are all lazy irresponsible stoners.
A person's experience of marijuana on the whole--what it is, what it is for, what it can do for you--can be incredibly rewarding and liberating if they start at an age when these problems (of self and identity, meaning of life and spirit and of the universe) are already being dealt with seriously. Pot should not be something that we are initially peer-pressured into, and informed of what to expect by a group with a limited cultural mindset. Pot is an experience which precludes definition; it is irrational and individual and we each have to make what we want of it.
We all know that things change dramatically in the post-high school/ college period. We begin to think about the "real world"--what it is and what it should be, and our place in it. This is a good time to try pot if not a little sooner.
At the age of 18, I was a late-comer to marijuana by today's standards. I see now that it was the perfect time for me because of the ideas that had begun to occupy me. For the past year, I'd begun to read the mystics, to discover the irrationality of love, to question my atheism of many years and redefine it as pantheism. I was reading lots of Buddhism. My new best friend was a hippy who challenged my preconceptions about drugs, and I took the plunge. It changed my life, helped me work through many problems, made me feel good about existence. And yet waiting until that point in my life was the best part about it, because only then was I ready for the spiritual substance it provided. Every time I smoked I was in awe, ecstasy; you know what those first few times are like. I waited two or three weeks between each "spiritual occasion" because I was almost scared of the effect it had on me, igniting that spark which was, for me, a glimpse of the infinite.
Well I know not everybody can relate to all of this, because I mean c'mon, "it's just pot." Well yeah. I know.
But that first high, man... I think everybody knows.
We can't trivialize it.
That's why I think it should be tried at an age when we know enough to separate our individuality from the culture. When it won't just be all about getting fucked up. I voted for age 17, when most people have begun to experience enough of life, the good and the bad, to be mature, to know who they are. Or what they're looking for. Or at least to know that they DON'T know.
There's nothing wrong with the recreational experience, but when you realize that there can be more than that, I think THAT'S when you're ready.
;)
there should not be an age limit, start smoking when u feel like it...
ofcourse 6 moths is too young, since I do not belive that such young lungs can handle it, but when a "kid" starts smoking pot should be 100% up to the parents, the government shouldnt intervene or some BS like that.....
besides... its good if the "kids" know pot before they are totally "Free"... cuz like somebody said theyll go crazy...
pot rocks :D
yo thats a hectic question....we as individuals approach life at all differant angles,,there are some kids from 16 who live life like a 21 year old,not cause they choose too,jus because they faced reality sooneR then others where as some 21year olds are as immature as shit...wat im trying to say is if people could appreciate cannabis and not jus smoke to forget,,it would help.plus many kids i know smoke crappy head ach weed and just dont see the light...as for what age is appropriate i would say 18..like that we become responsible for our own actions and theres no one to blame....i dont know..maybe im just wierd:)
i love to grow and i love to smoke...but theres only a few times when i kick back and appreciate the iree way,mostly im so caught up in the shit around me,,i forget why i crush..so for al you crushers out there much respek and lets try educate these kids the right way...thanks for all the help cannabis.com
I agree completely.Quote:
Originally Posted by BluePhoenix
Howdy Ron,
I voted for age 17,because at that age,one can enter military service,with a parental permission..so I reckon that if yer old enuff to fight for yer country,then yer old enuff to toke and drink..but that's only if one were to join the military-otherwise I'd probably vote for 18 or 21.
Have a good one !
Give it you greedy people. why should there be any age limit? thats being greedy. even if we went with the majority and said you had to be 18 i would still be able to man. but you need let everyone smoke it man! not just the chosen ones!
I'm with you on this one Mz K.Quote:
Originally Posted by kiwi
18 + over is great
So, regardless of age, does anyone here have trouble finding weed? Probably not. Prohibition places the distribution in the hands of criminals. But then everyone here can probably get beer, perhaps they should just let people live their lives, as they choose. a crazy idea in the land of the free, huh?
We are all diffrent. We all grow and develope at diffrent rates. So by putting an age limit on it, we are only limiting our selves. I say that most people 17 and older are experienced with life, enough to the point where they have to decide what they want in life. I mean at this point, we get bombarded with questions anymore. Do we want to join the military, go to collage, go to trade school, go straight to work, or just be a lazy ass bum. We are surrounded by choices, and recognized as adults in many societies. Yet as adults we are forbidden to smoke. At 17 we can join the military with perental signing, at 18 we can buy tobacco, and vote, and at 21 we can drink. Isn't it time we esstablish one age where we are concidered adults, instead of Dickjockying around? i say that 18 should be the age we are concidered adults, thats whats accepted in society today, and thats what most people really start to mature. Do i think it will end crime completely? No, there is no way we can end crime, but if we asstablish a tax on it, like tobacco, limit the amount we have in our posession, we can use the money from the tax alone to pay for the war on drugs. This will pay for the "war on drugs" by full, and will be able to get better programs asstablished in our elementry and highschools, to better educate the youth of the next generations. Telling them the dangers of the harder drugs, and get rid of all of the bullshit. Kids dont like bullshit, they want the truth right up front. And the programs that are going on today, are just a waste of money. By telling kids all these myths and lies about Marijuana, when they find out the truth later on in life, they are going to be less likely to beleive what you say. So i say 1. we get rid of the bullshit in school; 2. get a better program going to educate kids about the dangers of drugs, the actual facts about them, and teach them that moderation is ok, as long as if you can control yourself; 3. learn by experience, live and let live. Meaning, most 'stoners' today, arent lazy, broke, worthless people. They make every level of society. Not just one group; 4. Esstablish one age where we are concidered adults; 5. Legalize the growing of hemp, the one without THC, for growing as a cash crop, alternate fuel sorce, alternate for cotton; 6. legalize marijuana for recreational use.
I feel that after saying this, that alot of people will agree with me, Legalize it, and get a better education behind the youth of the next generations. We all know that the marijuana prohibation isnt working, so instead of having our kids, be doing it, getting caught, sent away from us, and have us get arrested for smoking, and sent to jail. why not tell the kids, what exactly it does to your mind, body, and soul. whether harmfull or for the better, give it to them straight up. not just about marijuana, but about all drugs, leave no myths out there for those kids to pick up on, because once a kid starts picking up on those things being myths, then he/she starts thinking that everything youve told them about that is a lie. And i also feel the only way we can get anything done is to go and do something about it, revolt, riot, boycot, whatever, just protest till we get the nation behind us, so lets spread the word, and this upcoming April 20th, lets have a nationwide smokeup! because sitting on here does nothing, but have us complain to each other, noone but ourselves is reading this stuff, lets get the word out there. and i will start an additional post about the smoke up.
18 + over is great
I don't think there should be an age limit per say. Depression is most common among teenagers. There should be a waiver, after the parents talk with the kid, and feel he is responsible and mature enough, they go to city hall, and sign a waiver, and have it notirized by somebody there. Then, the kid gets a license to buy/grow and consume it.
any age is fine 8-) smoke a reefer and be happy fuckers
hiya Ron,
like nic i voted for none of the above, also like bluephoenix and ermitonto, it is 100% up to the parents or guardians.
no government on earth has the right to tell an adult what to eat, drink, smoke, wear or say.
i have had the honor to attend native american church services where peyote is ingested. there were many people there all sizes and races, some had children, the children were given peyote that was first chewed by the parents.
it was one of the most spiritual events of my long life, in the morning everyone was related and knew it.
mitaoyate
hempity
And these are exactly some of the DUMB ASS actions that keeps weed illegal!Quote:
Originally Posted by hempity
If they allow it, they should legalize it for everyone, but raise the driving age to 18, to keep younger people from getting too stoned, then driving dumb.
i only drive dumb when im boozed
totally agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Torog
none of those ages i started smokin weed at the age of 10 and been smokin since
I was 8 or 9 when I first tried it, I think its totally individual, I really was never a kid, even as a youngster I thought and acted as an adult, I know thats strange, but I was never one to do stupid and foolish things, or get myself into situations I couldent handle, so for me it was fine, like I say I think its individual.
you should be able to decide at any age when u wanna smoke
having on limits on sumthing as good as cannibas is just plain wack
later
I voted for 21 becouse thats the age you gota drink but I think the drinking age should be 18 and the smokin age 18 but that would never happen