top 10 reasons not to legalize weed in the US

[Dick Justice]

I've been a frequent smoker for years and years, and I haven't any noticable experienced lung impairment yet. However, I smoke good, clean weed from an acrylic bong with a steel screen. Sucking any kind of smoke into your lungs isn't good for you, but anybody knows that there's a big difference between pot and tobacco.

And there's also a big difference between passing out from the smoke of a huge house fire and inhaling a joint.

I'm not saying there's no lung damage at all, I'm just saying it's pretty insubstantial.

I'm still saving up for a vaporizer, though.

[NextGen]

Are you kidding? Weed would be way less expensive, even with significant taxes, if it could be mass produced and taxed like tobacco is.

You thought cigarette taxes helped our economy. Marijuana would give us gold frikkin curbs.

yeah, i know it would be less....but taxes is giving to the govt, and they would probably spend it on defense, weapons, armed forces, etc., not something positive like NASA, so they can find out how to get us the fuck off the planet. Or, they could use it for medical research. If we put enought ime and effort into medecine rather than governing other third world countries and stupid bush shit, we might have a cure for the common cold at least, instead of being able to launch a missile halfway around the world and hit a fly in the ass. I think i would like legalization, but i know i would be screwed everytime i got pulled over, and that is a big setback. anyways....peace

you have issues

[NextGen]

3) its an intoxicating substance and could increse accidents on the road

2) it is a carcinogin, it is bad for your lungs, legal weed means more smoking, means more lung diseases

3) its addictive, metaly, but still addictive, and mental adictions are the hardest to break

4) it can cause development problems in younger smokers


theres many reasons...

There's many reasons after that post to put my fist in your face. Those are reasons if your a NAZI soccer Mom.

[NextGen]

all high all the time.

Your an idiot

[NowhereMan]

yeah, i know it would be less....but taxes is giving to the govt, and they would probably spend it on defense, weapons, armed forces, etc., not something positive like NASA, so they can find out how to get us the fuck off the planet. Or, they could use it for medical research. If we put enought ime and effort into medecine rather than governing other third world countries and stupid bush shit, we might have a cure for the common cold at least, instead of being able to launch a missile halfway around the world and hit a fly in the ass. I think i would like legalization, but i know i would be screwed everytime i got pulled over, and that is a big setback. anyways....peace

so your saying so you can drive stoned ,we medical users should be jialed for using our one medicine that helps,without bad ass side effects?

think about it.

[NowhereMan]

drinking and ciggs are bad too, but ciggarettes dont change the way you see or function physicaly so they arent a danger to others, and drinking is legal because they tried to outlaw it and the prohibition was so corrupt it failed, they are both too deeply rooted in the worlds culture to be outlawed

but ciggarettes dont change the way you see or function physicaly so they arent a danger to others
wtf



man they are the worst
where you learn that cigs dont hurt you?
thats just so silly.
weed makes you out of breath when running,?
then dont smoke,or dont run,but dont say weed is bad for everyone cuase you have lousy lung capacity
hell i smoke two packs a cigs a day and all the weed i feel like
and my lungs are in great shape,shocks the docs in fact
used to have spots on my lungs,layed off cigs some and stepped up the weed smoking and now i dont have spots,so.,
BULLSHIT to you
cigs are by far the most deadly thing legal next to booze,

[Nullific]

The pyschoactive effects of the drug don't matter much. I think we can all agree that marijuana and even "hard" drugs don't impair you as much as alcohol.

Prohibition only has a modest impact on drug consumption, and most of this is just casual consumption...it does little to stop the would be drug abusers. Just as most people who use alcohol only do so casually, there are even a good number of heroin "users" who would not necassarily be classified as "addicts". This said, the people who are constatly on drugs probably wouldn't be too worried about driving under the influence anyways. The fact that the substance is illegal may even encourage the user to drive under its influence since they have already broken the law.

Go to a library or book store and find Drug War Crimes: The Consequences of Prohibition by Jeffrey Miron, it doesnt take long to read and explains the externalities caused by prohibition and how legalization would likely be better than decriminalization.