Quote Originally Posted by newactivist
That may be true Dutch Masta, but what's your point? Whether you look at it smoked recreationally, industrial hemp or medically the laws need to change. Ooh, just because people smoke it for recreation it means....? The evil weed with junky smokers? Reefer madness? Terrible people who light up for fun, aren't we? Does this make us or the plant wrong or evil? Apparently it does in your eyes.

I smoke weed, at least usually, for recreation. At the moment I quit to concentrate on other things but I will probably come back to it. I am not stupid and highly successful. I do not drink, smoke cigarettes and have only rarely used any other drug. As for the DEA, well fuck them. They do not create the law, we do. When we put it to a referendum at the federal level and it becomes law guess what? The DEA will be forced to uphold the law because that is their job.

Are you a cop?
I don't deny the laws need to be changed. I think they are so far off from even a remotely intelligent attempt of controlling a society, its not even funny. I deny that there is any possibility of these changes, and I don't think anyone here realizes truly what a stretch it is for anything to change on a national level. Majority rules in our organized world, and the majority still does not want marijuana to be legalized. Allthough the last few decades, slowly but surely outlooks on the drug/substance use (or more specifically, alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use) have began to gain an acceptance, as any parent with a child over the age of 16 at this day and age should be well aware of: the inevitability of the exposure to these substances. From there, and after the user decides to try these substances, comes any possible outcome from: occasional use, to frequent use, to dependance or addiction, or in a lot of cases substance progression. While most of us can safely stay at the occasional or frequent use level with no problems, not everyone has this ability, and this is where any concern comes from. I always prefer to consider alcohol and tobacco in with things like marijuana, coke, and heroin because they are still at heart, drugs. They just arent called drugs because they are legal, but they are the real "gateway drug".

The problem is, the drug trade "industry" is simply too large to be stopped by any possible means.. and thats the only thing the government is focusing on. That is, adressing a problem they have created themselves. The very outlawing of substances (from alcohol, to tobacco, to weed, to coke, to heroin) is what adds to all of the history of use of all these substances. Its only human nature that one wishes to feel inebriated and have that desire to escape from the world type feeling, since it helps millions get by with the hardships of life. But the laws have unfortunately convinced the rest of the world that all of that is wrong and should not be completely available to us, which eventually lead to an enormous, unstopable industry of alcohol industries, tobacco industires, and a never ending drug trade, where marijuana is readily supplied and available to every high school throughout the world, making it widely available, desireable, and beneficial to all. Which is why its also important to understand that if something as desireable as marijuana were made legal, corperations would simply eventually just take over it like they have with alcohol and tobacco.