Why cannabis SHOULDN'T be legalized

[LaidZeppelin]

weed used to be legal in the states it was used in jazz clubs in new york and noone had any problem, it was first made illegal when californians and arizonians wanteds to get rid of the mexicans..politicians used marijuana prohibition as a way to send the mexicans back home since they were the predominant growers.....history channle has a GREAT doc on marijuana legalization history...when you see how rascist the origins of the policies are its a real shame... I encourage everyone to watch this DOC its called "hooked:illegal drugs" they pretty much have a doc for every major drug. The last line in the doc is "many states are realizing that the cost of prohibition are greater than the cost of the drug itself" or something like that. Every other drug talks about the dangers and drain on society but the history of marijuana pretty much leaves every one who watches it scratching there head going, wait why is this illegal again. REally an awesome unbiased DOC look it up!

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LaidZeppelin Reviewed by LaidZeppelin on 04-26-2007. Why cannabis SHOULDN'T be legalized I have a friend who likes to smoke up but actually he hates the living shit out of weed and thinks its ruining the world (he continues to smoke cause he's addicted). I decided to post his opinions but mine as well. Anyway, we already have tobacco and alcohol problems in this country. Why should we legalize another drug? This country is well known for being stupid with drugs and abusing drugs. Do we really need another drug to legalize? Freedom of choice? It's gonna cost this country a lot Rating: 5

[LaidZeppelin]

Final note: I saw a stat that said 40% of americans have used marijuana, and if you look at alot of those ballot initiatives in states to legalize they always come around 40%...which could possibly mean that the 60% that voted it down have never used it, are probably influenced by propaganda since they dont really know what it effects are...so the people against it are the people who dont know shit about it. I truly believe that their are alot of pot smokers like me who are educated and have done the research and have come to logical conclusion that no, it should not be illegal...its not just a "well, i wanna get high so make it legal"

[HookaHitter]

Good to see younger people stand up for this, Vote Vote Vote my young friend! Get involved guys its the only way we can mke a change.

40% is low, you have to remember that many people, I would say 20-30% more smoke, but cant say they do. Its the fact that anything can show up and bite you in the butt, they have too much to loose for taking a poll or standing up for it! So they keep thier mouth shut! With that in mind, people should stop the stupid brainwashing and start reading and finding out the truth.

Its so bad that even the word "Marijuana" is like you just said F--K in church! Its a talking point, no one will talk about! In my town they would stone me if i said "what about marijuana reform" , yes stone me and not the good kind of stoned! We are talking about 70 years of marijuana brainwashing so its going to take time! I wont see marijuana reform in my life but I bet you younger folks will! Could still happen but we need to elect a weed friendly president and local officals too.

keep the faith and stay safe out there!

[LaidZeppelin]

Well what makes it really hard is that when candidates come out they are either extreme libertarians so that the general public views them as unelectable...it is very rare to see a good moderate candidate say he/she is for legalization or even decriminalization and still get elected by all those soccer moms. Its a suicide mission for politicians it seems.

[LaidZeppelin]

do you think a teenager would pay 30$ for a beer....when the markup on a consumer good is so high kids will not want to buy it.....the weed market is at equilibrium, people are willing to pay large amount because that is the only way to get it....i believe that if you look at the economics of it high school kids would buy less marijuana because of the enormous price discrimination that would be involved if it were legalized. The penalties should focus on sales not use...if you sell weed to kids then you SHOULD go to jail.

[suhl]

i dont know if i already responded to that but just about every one of your reasons is fucking terrible and so full of holes if there is any substance to it at all. there is no argument for keeping it illegal other than it gets you high, feel free to list another and ill explain to you why you are wrong, and the argument for making it legal has far, far more to it than hey man ill be able to go to the store and get weed.

[18toki]

i belive that any drug is not danjourous as long as yoru resopnsobile enough to use it ...... most people arent

That's one of dangerous thought!
It should be legal for adults(21 years old or older) to use. Not for minors.
In California, it's already legal for medical purposes and it's decriminalized for many years.
When we talk about "Cultivation", it's all whole different story. We are talking about businesses.
They are many business men behind this and saying about "legalization of marijuana". Who to believe, You need to decide.
When you are at home, you are free to smoke unless you keep it a secret.
"It's legal to smoke marijuana at home".
Don't look at "Legalization". Look at "Decrimination". Not same...
There could be racist things behind this US marijuana law, but not now. Most of countries keep it illegal.

[therustylighter]

There's some aspects everyone I think has yet to view; but then again i was lazy and didn't look through the entire post and am belligerent enough to shove my thoughts out here....

There have been proven medicinal purposes behind the Cannabis plant; we don't need to get into that.

Legalization. Taxation. Economic growth.

If you start with the first step of getting it widely seen as a medicinal product (and shit, the only reason it's not legal now is because being seen as having so many choices, 'big company' like Pfizer for instance, would never be able to patent marijuana, thus, no market for the pharmaceutical companies)
you can then get people's opinion to eventually change about how it is viewed as an entire whole.

Thus, we have cultural psychology.

Convince the public of the positives rather than shunning them and shrugging them off as not purposeful; you can then move onto complete legalization.

Legalization should bring on as a controlled substance, just like tobacco and alcohol; clearly for the fact we don't need 8 year olds getting high at their after-school programs. We offer an 18+/21+ law just like the others.

We can take this into an agricultural economic view into retrospect now:

1) Legalizing the herb, gives way to commercializing the herb for paper, the buds itself, and even clothing.
2) Commercializing the herb brings another possible product for the US of A to have under it's agriculture lists;
3) Farms: Farms produce jobs, and will obviously produce the herb.
4) The herb being sold by private companies can unfortunately ween the price a little but creates a more widely available product, safe from toxins, other drugs (crank, cocaine, opium) that can cause you to feel addicted to the herb when it's really the drug residue sometimes found from multi-selling dealers.
5) Profit pulls in taxes, taxes increases the economy.
6) Taxes on >US< THE PEOPLE get reduced because people like us getting busted for a 1/4oz or 1/2 oz, or oz of weed in jail won't apply in a legal world.
7) Jails would see a decline in over-population from marijuana possession.

Thus, we have a plant that can:

1) Replace trees indefinitely for paper
2) Create clothing
3) Create the herb we smoke
4) etc. etc. etc.

When you stare down the route of legalization, it's all about the fear of the public as far back as the propaganda propagated from the nixon years; where they had a psychopath on trial state he was high on marijuana which caused him to go psychotic. ( oh yeah? i just get relaxed and my temper cools off.. possibly the munchies and obviously a feeling of well being.)


so, here is what's stopping it (like said before)

1) General publics mind has been twisted by years of propaganda
2) THE D.E.A., FBI, local law enforecment loses money because of lack of catching the $50k-$100k marijuana busts a year over the border, and the multi-million inside the urban cities through out the US of A.
3) Big Company (like most politicians find their backing from) will ultimately not be able to patent, thus, a single company can't make all the money. They're votes are obviously on a NO to a "miracle drug" which can help with HIV/AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, consistent severe nausea, glaucoma and other forms of cancer.




And there's more, but i'm getting a little buzzed off some YuengLing and i'm losing interest trying to educate

Just a note...

Science has never proven Pot causes cancer. They have shown that Pot has 4x as many carcinogenics as tobacco; BUT. What you oftenly do not read along with that propaganda is that THC; is seen as a natural cancer-inhibitor. an endocannibanoid (that which regulates hunger in the body) at the root, has also been shown to kill cancer cells on contact.

The only possible way of conceiving cancer is the fact that your breathing in hot smoke into your lungs which have and always been meant purely for oxygen.

But, then again, you get a vaporizer and well... No smoke.

(or an iced up bong... hooray!)


Anway, I really hope some of you took the time to really take a look at the real reasons for why this world is the way it is, especially in America.

but if we as the people cannot come together to prove to the world that this is what needs to happen, well, we're stuck in the hole that we're still in today. Smoke on kids!