Why cannabis SHOULDN'T be legalized

It's not like it's hard for me to get weed as it is... that's why I'm all for it being legal. It would be easier to get and less expensive. And all the money from it wouldn't go to smugglers and dealers.

Just look at what's been done to tobacco, through lawsuits. Most packs I buy have an "Information for Smokers" leaflet in it, with quit hotlines and techniques, etc. That could be done for weed also, through sales taxes. As it now stands, if you have a weed problem, the only "treatment" you're likely to get is jail or probation. I don't think it's even a question if it should be legalized... and I say why on my site\/

you guys make some really good points, and i think its cool to find people like you that are actually serious and know your facts enough to prove people wrong or right.

in my opinion, i think in about 10-20, maybe 30 years tops, when EVERYONE in the gov is more from our own generation-ish is when the leagalization of marijuana will be considered much more seriouslly and much more thuroghlly.. i wish i could spell.

anyways, i think weed should be leagalized for all of the same reasons as everyone else in here... the only thing i worry about are that there are some people out there that when they get high, they are just plain stupid... i dont mean, annoying stupid.. like stupid to where they do stupid things and get themselves and everyone around them in trouble... but hell,theyre still not as bad as drunks... at least they have some mind control left if theyll just sit n chill for a minute.... if everyone would just chill out and stuff and be at peace with one another, i think the leagalization of weed would be pretty easy to come by... but that sounds liek a pretty far fetched dream to me, what do you think? haha

i think the main problem is stubborn people. the people im mainly talking about right now is the vast majority of the people against pot: those who have never smoked it. they take in everything that the gov and other non-pot smokers exagerate and think that pot is nothing but a horrible,permanantly mind altering, hunger-inducing stupid persons drug. if those people would smoke a bowl with a good pot smoking friend of theirs( seriouslly, almost ANYONE has at least one friend who smokes pot... ), they would most likeley be for it, or at least not against it, from that point on.

in the end, or in awhile, there will be too many people with pot smoking it or possesing it or whatever for it to even be possible to afford keeping it illeagal.

im not sure, but some of that might of been kind of nonsence, but alot of it made sence haha.. anyway... good posts everyone else lol

Respect those that do and those that don't, after all it is a choice,I can understand the anti-smoking lobby simply on the basis that smoking anything is BAD for you.

It's my choice to continue doing something I know is illegal and most probably damaging my lungs, I know the risks and I know the benifits.

Alcohol related deaths in Australia = 7,000 / annum.
Cannabis related deaths in Australia = 0 / annum.

It is definetly in the United states best interest to legalize bud. I mean think about it, all the money used on DEA and drug offenders in jail would be used for other tthings. They would impose an excise tax on it much like tobacco and alcohol products hwich owuld also help raise money. I still am shocked that cannabis is illegal and i dont see how it is beneficial to the government or the population at all

The DEA would have to downsize, and they don't want to do that. The prison system would end up with unused buildings and unemployed guards, and they don't want that. And the puritanical conservatives, who now rule the country, don't want anything to do with drugs, sex, homosexuality, stem cells, abortion, and so on. While you or I might say that smoking a joint in your own home is a victimless crime, the puritans would say that's not true, and that you are the victim, and must be protected from yourself. Whether you like it or not.

It's sort of funny to see the conservative base deal with this issue, because normally conservatives want less/smaller government, but when it comes to these issues they want more government, lots more government. Which is hypocrisy, of course, and I love calling them on it.

It's sort of funny to see the conservative base deal with this issue, because normally conservatives want less/smaller government, but when it comes to these issues they want more government, lots more government. Which is hypocrisy, of course, and I love calling them on it.[/QUOTE]

quoted for the mother fucking truth, i have nothign against republicans or evenconservatives, just hypocritical ones


EDIT: i fucked up quoting jammista my bad

I hope they don't legalize it, I'd have to get a real job.

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Originally Posted by Pride

I thought I stated that I'm not for keeping it illegal.. But not sure if I'm totally for legalizing it. But I'm really more on the legalize it side.
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IN other words, you're riding the fence? What a supreme lack of balls. Not to mention a lack the extreme lack of Truth. Your friends "Addicted" to weed eh? Has he ever sucked some dick for a bowl? He could quit, he's just being a bitch/ doesn't want to.

heck...organized crime has a strong incentive to keep it illegal...they too would have to find other ways to make money if pot were legalized...

it's like seeing the casino lobby getting congress to ban internet poker and gambling...they are opposed to anyone else making money in their core business, but are happy to let people lose money in their casinos....