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To a certain degree, being decriminalized would mean it would basically be legal..Quote:
Originally Posted by dejayou30
But I dont know if it will ever happen, since the concept of drug dealing is realistically impossible to stop, and any major efforts would only worsen everything if you were to actually take a few bong hits, sit back, and think about it all.
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Originally Posted by Monkey4Sale
shhh. that tax was meant by the government to be low so that marijuana proprietors would go the government to get a stamp for their buds to be legal, when at the same time they were arrested for not having that stamp, but having reefer. it was a dirty trick. but if that tax was high, then reefer dealers wouldn't go through the govt at all, so the govt couldn't incriminate or fine as many people. so you see, marijuana tax is certainly an issue-always has been
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Originally Posted by ibreakthings
I can't really speak for ibreakthings but weed definitely would not fizzle out in its novelty and appeal if it were legalized. you can look at several old world cultures that had religion-infused lifestyles that had cannabis use deeply integrated within. no social stigmas were attached to it and no laws were there to prohibit it. always they were unique and close-knit. with pot a part of life, it brought people together, and everyone knows what I'm talking about. I think joints should be passed around the dinner table sort of like a dessert blunt to promote family solidarity. nothing makes people tighter, and it would relieve a lot of racial and other bias in this country if it were legal. IBREAKTHINGS if you require hiding something in order to feel gratified, maybe you should take up incest
if we legalized then $ would go into worthwhile things like education instead of donut hungry cops buying bmws and then going to europe to smoke pot with their $
Old world cultures are nothing like the society we have today, and can't be compared in any way.. today, we can't even use alcohol (our legal intoxicant) responsibly, as we can see how many deaths result from drunk driving each day. Teenagers these days want to do drugs, drink, have sex, and party.. and do things they aren't supposed to do. The appeal of something that you are not supposed to do is always there, since the beginning of time. Thats not to say that legalizing marijuana will take away the enjoyment of it, but its something to consider.Quote:
Originally Posted by burnable
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Originally Posted by Dutch Masta
our society today can't be compared to those other cultures because radically different laws govern either. this was my original point, that if we had similar laws to those cultures, they would be much more comparable. of couse we can't use alcohol responsibly enough, because of the nature of the alcohol drug. people tend to feel invincible when they're drunk. they're also not as aware of their level of impairment as a cannabis user, who often feels much more impotent to do anything, and more inclined to revert into a smoky shell, apt to cognizant observation. the intrinsic differences of the two make for lack of frame of reference. If someone needs to be attracted to something clandestine, there's always other illicit drugs that provide more of a recalcitrant appeal.
Alcohol was a staple dating back to colonial times. even kids got drunk; poorer families even fed their kids whiskey to give them energy throughout the day owing to the high concentration of calories. when reefer was becoming popular in the early 20th century, it would have been advantageous if america switched to it as a main source of inebriation, but there was a heavy racial stigma in those days, and weed was associated with minorites. not only did common white america have a disdain for it, but racial propagandists invented myths to scare white people away from weed. my point is this: if white america had seen cannabis for what it was, they wouldn't have been relegated to the reckless effects of alcohol, which prompted dutch master to use reference of america's inability to control themselves with alcohol. I think it might be too late to integrate cannabis as acceptable and innocuous hobby for the majority of the US
This is exactly my stance on it.. that it is too late to properly integrate legal marijuana into today's society. Back then Marijuana was believed to cause "Murder, Insanity, and Death". Then from there, slowly but surely, the widespread misuse of marijuana started and the cops took action against it, and its basically built its way into society as that.Quote:
Originally Posted by burnable
The Marijuana Tax of 1937 was the first step in the outlawing of Marijuana. 1937. THC was later isolated in in 1964. Research on Cannabinoid Receptors was only first being done in the late 1980's and 1990's. What does that tell you? The mere fact that the active ingredient in Cannabis, THC, was found decades after it was made illegal just proves how unjustified the outlawing of Marijuana was, and that there could not have possibly been any legitimate research to back any of it up..
Unfortunately, all of this misinformation resulted in Marijuana getting a bad name. I also think its important to understand how Marijuana use sort of fell in with the Cocaine and Heroin problems that were arising at the same time, which only contributed to the bad names that all illegal drugs had back then. MDMA, was also made illegal based on an experiment which was later revealed to have faulty data.
The only way its going to become legal, is when such a high percentage of people use it, that it just becomes impossible to control. But by that time, it will be much more accepted, so there will be no problems with the transition. Now however, is not the time to legalize Marijuana. Petitions and such to "legalize marijuana" are going to be non effective, since legalizing Marijuana at this current point in time would not result in anything effective, and would be an extremely difficult transition. The only thing you can do is help educate everyone about how virtually harmless marijuana is, introduce everyone to the positive sides of it, and help disprove all of the nonsense that goes around about it.
By legalising hemp, millions of dollars will be poured into research. As it stands now there is limited research on the pain killing effects of hemp on cancer patients. Does anyone know other research projects involving cannabis?
By legalising cannabis,more research into its effects,good or bad, will be available so people can make more informed decisions.In my case, most of the legislation controlling cannabis is based on rubbish. It hasn't caused me to experiment with 'harder' drugs and I have never robbed or harmed anyone to support my habit. If criminal laws are designed to protect the innocent, where are the victims of my 33 year 'crime' wave. The fact is no one has been harmed by my habit.
i heard that the marijuana tax stamp thing was a fucked up thing like the only way to legally get marijuna was to have the stamp first, yet u would have to go ahead and try to get the stamp first which would be incriminating yourself since your admitting u smoke weed without the stamp. plus the government didn't even really have the stamps, they were just tryin to catch people. I caught this on A&E like a month ago.