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im surprised anyone here is for keeping it illegal. kind of disappointed. :( maybe shocked! :eek:
legalize it and legalize it today!!!
button basher: i believe the laws in UK are slightly more lax than in the US. A few of the states still have more strict policies than the ones in china. oh we can do so much better than this..
BTW proof, i like your optimistic attitude! Keep hope alive. It's only a matter of time :D
Maybe I'm not in the majority here, but if the only way to legalize it would be for the gov't to tax it, I would pay the tax. As long as it was a fair tax and the money would be spent well. I think with the right regulations, it could work FOR our country. It shouldn't be legal for anyone under 21 (sorry!), should be tax free for medicinal users, covered by health insurance for medicinal users. Ppl should be able to grow their own but the gov't should be able to tax it if ppl want to sell what they grow. There could be guidelines set so that commercial growers wouldn't be able to sell shitty weed. Just like alchohol, there's crappy Keystone beer and then there's high priced champagne- you'd get what you paid for. LEGALIZE IT!!!
all'z u gotta do iz think bout the fact that alcohol iz legal an look how fucked u can get on it. drunk ppl cause fightz an break shit, pot smokerz juss wanna chill an put there mind at ease. Potent herbz an leavez cood ease the world...
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pot can be a gateway drug. i said can. it was for me. i wanted something bigger, better, stronger, weirder after i got stoned.
a bit like alcohol can be a gateway to smoking cigarettes and gambling addiction if you walk into a pub for a beer. :)
alcohol is legal but weed isnt!Quote:
Originally Posted by KillaBuzz
alcohol, does all kinda shit that weed has never and probably wont do.
Have you ever heard of car crashes or deaths from weed?
I havent but you hear about nearly every day on ppl who drink.
drinking is bad, except on special accasions(SP). like new years, and parties and shit, ya know. but weed, you can smoke all day everyday. :o Thats cool.
i think that they should legalize weed, and have higher restrictions on alcohol.
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Fuck im high right now :D
i love weed!
right on :DQuote:
Originally Posted by never 2 much
OH>>>So many things to reply to, I wish I hadn't had to go to work...
Okies, here I go...
Firstly, there is a MAJOR difference between LEGALISE and DECRIMINALISE - I would prefer the latter - that way, it would be confined to private homes and bars - like in Amsterdam.
Imotep, cannabis is NOT a gateway drug - you are the gateway (no disrespect), it is within your own psyche to seek a bigger hit. I know people who have smoked dope for many many years, and have no desire to try anything harder (I'm talking folks who have smoked it since they were 16, and are now 70). It's like alcohol - if you are of the persuasion that you want a bigger hit, you'll get it.
Cannabis is not physically addictive,, but it may be psychologically addictive - two very different issues.
You compare the quality of today's tobacco with tobacco that was produced in (for example) the 40's, and you will find that the level of 'foriegn' additives are of a much higher degree - why?...economics.
Because cannabis stays in the system longer, when are you going to smoke it?
It's not like alcohol, where you can have a couple of pints the night before, and be 'reasonably' sober before going to work the next day. With the drug testing that will become COMPULSORY in every work place and school, due to pressure from the insurance companies, even more restrictions to your enjoyment of the herb will be apparent.
I would want my pilot to be COMPLETELY straight, thank you very much...you all know yourselves, how easy it is for your mind to wander off sometimes...would you want your pilot to drift off into la-la-land, or start zoning out to all the pretty flashing lights on his dash-board? lol
Listen, I'm one of the biggest championers of weed, I got a major bollocking from CH4 for suggesting that everyone should spend a year getting stoned, once they turned 18..lol...I just thought that it would chill people the fuck out, and in time start solving this ridiculous mess that the world is in...a little niave, perhaps, but the sentiment was sound...grrr..I got banned from thier site lmfaooo
Look at it this way:
What obstacles do you face, as a toker, right now?
Ya gotta be a bit sneaky sometimes, or you gotta hide away somewhere where noone will see you...is that such a major bind?
It hasn't stopped us so far...
What benefits will legalising weed bring to you?
Maybe you wont have to sneak around, maybe you wont have to hide away...so fucking what? When you look at all the negative things that would come from legalising it....is it really worth it?
I honestly don't think so....leave it the way it is, I say
Just my opinion :)
Oh, and one more thing.
The only reason that cannabis was made illegal, was because of the cotton industry.
Hemp is a far superiour material to cotton, and is cheaper to manufacture...but because the cotton industry kicked up such as fuss (ie, the big fat cats of the day stood to lose loads of money) they banned it.
Queen Victoria was a toker, and even decreed that farmers that had land over a certain acreage, must devote a percentage of that land to cultivating cannabis...
..course, when she died, the rest is history...
i wont quibble over the definition of "gateway drug".
im driving right now so i shouldnt even be posting.
Sorry Imotep, I didn't mean to offend you - I'm in a proper bad mood today, and the cry of 'gateway drug' (usually bleated out by anti-cannabis campaigners) really fucks me off ;)
I know peeps that think that smoking is disgusting, and yet they smoke grass (with no tobacco in it), and have no desire to take any other drug.
The thing is - if one is of a tendacy to try for bigger and harder hits, it doesn't matter what they start with, they'll move on anyways.
Ie, lager shandy leads to bottle of beer, leads to shot of whiskey, leads to bottle of whiskey - someone offers them a ciggie, which leads to a joint, and on to cocaine, leads to heroin...etc etc - it's a part of who they are - genetic, almost.
Talk to most alcoholics, and you'll find that their parents were alcoholics, and their granbdparents before them.
And it's not just drugs..we can see this pattern in all walks of life..
A karter moves onto saloon car racing, then stock cars, then rallying, then formula ! etc...it's the inbuilt need for bigger harder faster more...
Oh, and drive safe, dude...:)