how is alcohol legal

[Markass]

Marijuana isn't a damn bit different from alcohol only that it's not toxic to your body, it won't cause you to have violent rage associated with it's use, nor can you overdose on it. If alcohol is legal, marijuana shouldn't be. Marijuana is more natural than alcohol is, and god intended for it to be used, as did he put the compounds for THC inside a plant rather than in several other things that is all put together, creating some kind of foreign substance. People can grow their own pot and not affect another individual by growing it, nor by smoking it.


And to whoever the hell said something about not caring as to it's legality, let's see you say that when you get about a $1,500 dollar fine for having a quarter bag in your pocket while going to a friends house or something. Point is, we shouldn't get in trouble for this, and anyone who smokes it shouldn't feel like you do about it...and many do which is why it's still illegal. I've been busted for having a pipe and rolling papers. 6 months probation + all kinds of bullshit just because I had a pipe in my pocket? I wasn't hurting anybody..We should not be punished for doing something that isn't even a real crime. It's time for change...I don't want to get busted and have some of my life taken away because I have to go to jail for having some reefers on me..

[orangeman]

Alcohol is legal because the government gets taxes off of it.

[Captain Hanks]

I for one choose to smoke herb only and stay away from alcohol just to make a point. People find that ironic telling me that pot is alot worse. I just look at them and smile and load their tiny brains with information that they can't seem to grasp at possibly because to them it seems to good to be true.

[Markass]

I for one choose to smoke herb only and stay away from alcohol just to make a point. People find that ironic telling me that pot is alot worse. I just look at them and smile and load their tiny brains with information that they can't seem to grasp at possibly because to them it seems to good to be true.

That's what I'm talking about. I do the same thing..Hey buddy, you know how you can't even pronounce your own name now because you're too plastered? Well, I've smoked four joints in the past hour and I feel more ready to do anything than I did before I smoked them. I find alcohol to be just as bad as drugs. Drugs are fucking made, not grown...Cannabis is the shit.

[Dizz-Oh!]

The reason pot is the center of MY universe is because it is a personal freedom that is punishable by prison, in the most free country in the world.

Completely legalized cannabis, and it ceases to be the center of my universe, because then it's just another herb in my garden.

In other words, take away my right to free speech, or to own a gun, and those will become the center of my universe. It's all a matter of personal freedom, freedom from fear.

Criminalize basil, and basil becomes the center of my universe. It's just a fuggin plant.

I abused alchohol for years, very dangerously, finally waking up in the psycho ward one Monday morning, having slept for 36 hours straight. BA was 2.7, which is bad for my size.

I can smoke all the ganja I want, and never once lose control. Well, that's not true if I have ice cream in the house.

Anyhow, I still drink socially, once or twice a month, and can shut it off before I start stripping neked and running around trying to start shit on fire.

All plants should be legal for private cultivation. From opium to coca, to mushrooms and yage. If someone wants to grow a ten pounds and give five away to friends, this should be totally legal and non-taxed. The government has been and always will be the enemy of the farmer, especially the self-sufficient farmer. (Oh yer dreamin dizz,)

Whatever. The human mind seeks out altered states from the very begining (kids spinning around dizzy) to provide a dicotomy of waking consciousness. I'm high on life almost all the time, I use weed to get higher. 15 minutes of yogic breathing works sometimes too.

Although I haven't been able to for months, I smoke it everyday. One could even say religiously. Whatever. It's an arrogant
opression my basic human rights, and as long as the pressure is there, I will fight to completely legalize hemp and cannabis. I only hope that for every pot smoker who thinks criminalization is justified, 2700 others can relate to what I'm saying.

[Markass]

stop dissing alcohol just cause buds illegal. some people can handle there alcohol and don't act stupid

Really? I've yet to experience some of those individuals. No matter who I see that's drunk, they're unable to talk, doing something incredibly fucking stupid, or they're picking a fight with someone. When I get stoned out of my mind, I listen to music and eat food. As do most potheads. You're not going to find many alcoholics who like to sit down and be peaceful in any way. Not dissing alcohol nor its users, just simply stating that in the manner that alcohol impairs people, you can't tell me that drunk people aren't going to act stupid. That's what this substance does. I'm sorry to tell you man, but alcohol is deadly to society when someone gets behind the wheel drunk(which happens all the time), and it's also a toxic substance to your body...Is weed? No. Why's it illegal? Because of bureaucratic bullshit. If you're on these boards, apparently you smoke pot. Don't you want to be able to smoke without being a criminal to society?

[jamstigator]

People in my immediate family who have died from alcohol: 3
People in my immediate family who have died from cannabis: 0

Statistically a small sampling, to be sure. And yet...that's good enough for me.

[azure]

were on this earth and so are plants, its outragous for a goverment body to stop us using something that is provided by nature for us to use.

everything is out there in nature, a cure for all diseases, recreational drugs, building materials and so on, it should grow wild and it all did at one time.

look at pharmaceuticals, its all there in nature and alot of cures have been found and put to use, but once goverments found out that within science you can create a synthetic version which you have to take 5x as many of to get the same effect they where on it.

makes me want to be a tribesperson that you see on tv living in the amazon, living there own lives exempt from stupid laws bieng at one with nature.
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[Markass]

The reason pot is the center of MY universe is because it is a personal freedom that is punishable by prison, in the most free country in the world.

Completely legalized cannabis, and it ceases to be the center of my universe, because then it's just another herb in my garden.

In other words, take away my right to free speech, or to own a gun, and those will become the center of my universe. It's all a matter of personal freedom, freedom from fear.

Criminalize basil, and basil becomes the center of my universe. It's just a fuggin plant.

I abused alchohol for years, very dangerously, finally waking up in the psycho ward one Monday morning, having slept for 36 hours straight. BA was 2.7, which is bad for my size.

I can smoke all the ganja I want, and never once lose control. Well, that's not true if I have ice cream in the house.

Anyhow, I still drink socially, once or twice a month, and can shut it off before I start stripping neked and running around trying to start shit on fire.

All plants should be legal for private cultivation. From opium to coca, to mushrooms and yage. If someone wants to grow a ten pounds and give five away to friends, this should be totally legal and non-taxed. The government has been and always will be the enemy of the farmer, especially the self-sufficient farmer. (Oh yer dreamin dizz,)

Whatever. The human mind seeks out altered states from the very begining (kids spinning around dizzy) to provide a dicotomy of waking consciousness. I'm high on life almost all the time, I use weed to get higher. 15 minutes of yogic breathing works sometimes too.

Although I haven't been able to for months, I smoke it everyday. One could even say religiously. Whatever. It's an arrogant
opression my basic human rights, and as long as the pressure is there, I will fight to completely legalize hemp and cannabis. I only hope that for every pot smoker who thinks criminalization is justified, 2700 others can relate to what I'm saying.

An example of what my argument for alcohol vs. weed. Good story, brother.