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Post by DoomInductor on May 20, 2005 11:35:11 GMT -5
should it be legalized? discuss.
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Post by predalien 64 on May 20, 2005 20:54:46 GMT -5
a'l think about it and right back
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Post by Angus Alien on May 23, 2005 19:46:30 GMT -5
I don't much care one way or the other. I don't smoke, so it has about no meaning to me.
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Post by predalien 64 on May 23, 2005 20:01:59 GMT -5
i guess it fine with me,
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Post by Angus Alien on May 23, 2005 21:17:34 GMT -5
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Post by predalien 64 on May 23, 2005 21:20:34 GMT -5
dito
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Post by ucanda1 on May 25, 2005 21:49:30 GMT -5
I, personally, do not smoke. Give me reasons it should be...I've heard so many of them.
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Post by Angus Alien on May 25, 2005 22:24:24 GMT -5
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Post by DoomInductor on May 28, 2005 23:11:22 GMT -5
If marijuana was legalized, the dollar would go down in value substantially. The biggest reason that that it's not legal is economic.
On the other hand, marijuana has been shown to actually help isolate cancer. It's also usable as a pain reliever, treatment for MS, and several other medicinal uses.
On the third hand, its use as a recreational drug has advantages, as well. It actually makes a driver more cautious, and a better driver. There are no medical problems directly associated with the use of Marijuana.
Personally, I think that Mary Jane should be legalized, but with taxes applied to it, and age restrictions.
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Post by gamerkyle17 on Jun 20, 2005 1:21:05 GMT -5
If Marijuana was legalized the crime rate would obviously go down and the price would go down emmencly so people would not have to do crime to support there drug habbit and I know that sounds bad but marijuana is no worse that alcohol or smoking tabacco and both of those are legal. When it comes to impairing your senses marijuana does not impair your driving as much as alcohol(assuming your BAC is over .04%) or talking on your sell phone. Legalizing marijuana would also free up the millions of hard earned working U.S. citizen tax dollars being spent in courts over trivial marijuana cases every day.
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Post by ucanda1 on Jun 21, 2005 21:30:48 GMT -5
ok, but if the US dollar goes down substantially, that means the European euro goes up or exists as that much higher than the dollar. Our money can then buy less and our chances of rising above the euro are that much depleted. Marijuana would be like coffee. Coffee isnt necessarily evil, it has its advantages, and its disadvantages. But what, may i ask, do you think much of the US money is spent on? Coffee. It does have an addicting quality, but we drink it in huge quantities. Its our weakness economically because it places a dependency upon our economy on those that produce it. should marijuana be legalized here, there would quite possibly be an influx in its users/abusers. Another economic dependency we dont need. Another producer in other nations that can call shots in america. It can be grown personally, yes, but so can other vegetables and herbs and plants. That doesnt mean people do, and if thats the case, where would those tax dollars come from if people grew it themselves?
...continued upon the opposition's rebuttle
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Post by Angus Alien on Jun 22, 2005 21:21:32 GMT -5
Kyle, you just got OWNED!
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Post by predalien 64 on Jun 25, 2005 13:14:07 GMT -5
the ting thet bothers me about when it comes to tobacco and how everyone thet smokes is banded a bad guy. when alcohol is responsible for more accidents and killing then tobacco and e Marijuana put together. the only reason if you ask me why thy are not so hard on drinkers because those senators don't want to get there booze taken away or limited.
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Post by ucanda1 on Jun 30, 2005 18:43:29 GMT -5
I concur. I am not for drinking either, but since you bring up alcohol, i shall argue back in response to your position. We already had our experiments with prohibition in the United States. Because it would still be a legal commodity everywhere else in the world, alcohol prohibition wouldn't necessarily work. It is deeply ingrained in society and the government makes money on taxes. Beer and liquor companies are perhaps the biggest businesses and largest sources of revenue. Look at the commercials on our television during any big sporting event such as the SuperBowl. And, not to mention, the obvious links alcohol has to marketing in the area of sex. It's been long proven, sex sells. If you don't mind some scientific reasons to how alcohol and sex are related...
Testosterone is necessary to initiate sexual attraction, feelings, etc. Males produce testosterone all the time, so theyre already a step ahead. Females, however, do not produce testosterone at close to the levels at which males do. Alcohol heightens testosterone production in both sexes. This increase in testosterone production in females causes them to be more...loose. You see the connection?
Yes, alcohol is related to far more deaths than marijuana and tobacco combined.
No, all people who smoke tobacco or weed aren't bad people.
Yes, alcohol and marijuana have a long history of use and are ingrained into society.
Yes, that doesn't make it right. But consider this:
Alcohol is a drink, and it is much easier to catch someone who is smoking than someone who is drinking. If you smoked even just one cigarrette or one blunt or took one hit, it can be smelled on you, and not simply just your breath. Alcohol can't be detected on your clothes or hair unless you manage to get it on yourself physically.
Does alcohol seem like a commodity that can snuffed through facts alone? No
And if you want to look at the deaths caused by alcohol, then it would only be fair to look at the fires caused by improperly disposed cigarettes and joints. It causes destruction of property, destruction of national property, etc. I assume you're all well aware of the things that precipitate from fires.
No, I do not believe that drinking is a better alternative to smoking, I just don't think it's something that would be possible to prohibit. Regulate further, sure, but not eradicate and prohibit.
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Post by predalien 64 on Jul 2, 2005 11:39:30 GMT -5
good point, especial on the topic "sex sells" if you wur to take a ll sexual content of commercials and shows there would be a grammatic decries in sells especially unman the males sex
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