Why marijuana shouldnt be legalized

well i think the reason it shouldnt be legalized is b/c do u really dont want to get up when ur stoned the only time u really think about getting up is to go get so food do u really think ur going t owant to get up for school or work no ur going to sit their and think whats one more day of work then u dont got a job but u still got to pay bills u cant pay them when u have no money they take everything frome u now u live on the streets just b-c of one thing or u could be like a few smart people i know and get high and still b/able to do things :stoned:

[B]hey they are their killing the old and making the young look to old its all got to do w/money

it would have to be decriminalized before it was legalized. The politicians wont go near drug reform, and no one is gonna petition or lobby for reform on the for it to be decriminalized. Bill maher put it best.........the stoner movement isnt gonna go anywhere. why? cause to many stoners are involved. Eventually people will get tired of seeing millions of peoples lives getting affected over some half-assed marijuana arrest.

it's a very good example of how negativity spreads like wildfire, while positivity requires long and drawn out hard work.


sure, take the EASY way out, line your pockets with oil, lumber, and pharmacutical drugs, but that's a terribal path, one which leads swiftly to destruction.

Tobacco never has had a HIGH, if anything tobacco calms you.

I would humbly suggest that we are missing the point of marijuana prohibition in this thread. Just follow the money. Who profits from prohibition? Let's just call them the Drug War profiteers. This would be local police departments who get federal grants for drug enforcement efforts, and who can fund their department through [unconstitutional] confiscated property from drug busts. These profiteers would also include government functionaries whose careers depend upon prohibition, such as the DEA,ONDP, FBI and their para-military units that track down MJ users,sellers, growers, even critically-ill users. Then of course their are the politicians who have made a grandstanding career out of the Drug War, too many to mention here. Finally, there is international organized crime that would stand to lose considerably if MJ where suddenly allowed to be grown and sold legally. So put the profiteers together: police, federal government, organized crime. What a happy troika!

Put simply, not a f**king chance in hell that MJ will be legal in my lifetime.

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Originally Posted by passionate grower

I would humbly suggest that we are missing the point of marijuana prohibition in this thread. Just follow the money. Who profits from prohibition? Let's just call them the Drug War profiteers. This would be local police departments who get federal grants for drug enforcement efforts, and who can fund their department through [unconstitutional] confiscated property from drug busts. These profiteers would also include government functionaries whose careers depend upon prohibition, such as the DEA,ONDP, FBI and their para-military units that track down MJ users,sellers, growers, even critically-ill users. Then of course their are the politicians who have made a grandstanding career out of the Drug War, too many to mention here. Finally, there is international organized crime that would stand to lose considerably if MJ where suddenly allowed to be grown and sold legally. So put the profiteers together: police, federal government, organized crime. What a happy troika!

Put simply, not a f**king chance in hell that MJ will be legal in my lifetime.

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and FUCK YOU for not offering your life in honnor of the plant, by defending your rights to use.

believe me, if i ever get busted, you'll know it. i wont go down for pot, not alive.

I can't believe that this discussion is actually happening. People have their lives ruined everyday by marijuana prohibition. Check out
"New Reports All Agree: Marijuana Prohibition
is an Expensive Failure
Three Nobel Laureates, American Enterprise Institute,
others call for a new approach" at http://mpp.org/reports/index.html
to end the taxation debate.
Another thing is that all of you at cannabis.com can grow your own, no problem, but that does not account for all those not on cannabis.com that have no experience growing, but still smoke as much as they can.

How can this debate even be happening, I watched my grandfather die slowly and eventual what killed him was starvation because he couldn't remember how to swallow food because of Alzheimerâ??s. The new Times magazine has an article stating that cannabis can stop the progression of Alzheimerâ??s. How can anyone be so greedy that they want to be able to smoke for themselves (in the closet, no offence to homosexuals), but be all right with the criminality of cannabis that basically led to my grandfathersâ?? horrible death? This can go for any medical condition cannabis helps: aids, cancer, MS, glaucoma, epilepsy, ect.

How can anyone say that cannabis should not be fully legalized if only to save the lives of so many people who, without this sacred medicine would die or have a life not worth living? Our government will never legalize marijuana, but as long as I am alive, cannabis will not reach 100 years of prohibition. Citizens will rise up and through citizen initiatives (done in Med MJ states already) cannabis will become legal to whatever level each city or state wants it.

Chris

Yep thanks Chris! Good vibes! And you are true, more and more we see some positive thing, breakthrough and more...Many voters will realise it, and politicians, one of the most influent of all the profiters, will legalize for votes...The inevident will become evident, it's the purpous of our being, to eludes mysteries so we can evolve...Evolution is more attractive than money, to many eyes...

passionate grower is right -the so called "drug war" is an industry. too many other industries have too much to lose. it doesnt matter who you vote for, because all politicians are pussy sellouts getting fucked in the a$$ by big corporations. Sad but true -this country is not controlled by the people anymore-its controlled by big tobacco, big pharma, the food industry,andthe petroleum industry.