A Logical Arguement For The Legalization Of Marijuana

A couple things I'll add, first of all the main reason I'm surprised it's illegal is that as you've said it's no worse then alcohol. Meaning they have a fairly easy way that they could create a new, highly lucrative TAXABLE market. It confuses me whenever the governments don't jump at a chance to make a little cash through new taxes haha.

As far as the addiction aspect to it I mean, I'm not saying being addicted to it is fake, or anything of that nature. But it is not chemically addicting as far as I know, same with alcohol. It's like getting addicted to gambling or sex or any of the other addicting activities. If people don't have it to be addicted to they'll find something else (a lot of the time) as these people have addictive personalities. Again this is not to make light of the situation I'm just saying keeping this one substance off the streets (or trying to) doesn't seem like it'll change anything to me when there are so many other legal; and many other illegal addictive options. Not that people with these personality types would actively search for an addiction, just that people are likely to come upon one or the other eventually regardless.

But yes, in the end I'd say I'm for the legalization of marijuana. Sure put some restrictions on it or whatever, but overall let er fly. I haven't tried it but honestly I want to but probably wouldn't excluding if it became legalized. moreso because I dont want to try badly enough to risk it haha. My home town was basically one big grow op so I'm surprised I haven't tried it at some point or another, but I digress.

Legalize it. Tax it. Save money, make money, let police focus on bigger things, etc.

 

 

 

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Making it legal would be plain stupid.

If you think the majority of anyone that touches that drug takes it right from the properly and naturaly grown plant your really kidding yourself.

First of all, most addicts use *spin*, which is tobacco (so tobacco and pot, not just pot), therefore tobacco would not be worse if they have both lmao.

People rarely smoke untainted pot, most of it has been modified in some fashion and is no where near as healthy or safe as properly natural grown plant.

And chances are if they smoke pot, they smoke tobacco and cigarettes as well (not all but many).

Or at least it seems to be the case here in NSW of AU (and Iv'e lived in many areas all around these types).

So to answer your question, no, because most of them combined something just as if not more dangerous with it's use, therefore it is not more beneficial.

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If it were my call I'd say legalize it and tax the hell out of it. Use the revenue from the tax to clean up other taxes we have to pay or fill in spots in the budget.

Marijuana is no more addictive than cigarettes...I watched my girlfriend quit those, it wasn't pretty. Since the state sells cigarettes and profits from the taxes, why not do it with marijuana also?

The thing with states individually legislating this is that it would get nailed by a line-item on a federal bill; same way seatbelt laws magically appeared in every state for a highway funding bill.

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Chesso if everyone is using tainted weed why not legalize it so there can be regulations placed over the production/sale of it ensuring a certain purity level so that people are, in fact, smoking clean weed? Just food for thought

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Jeigh its addicting. Talk to any long time user of it and they're agree.

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Jeigh mate, we don't even smoke clean tobacco, it's illegal to sell it.

We basically don't have much choice but to buy commercial brands that put all the crap in it. Home grown is illegal to sell (and I assume buy and possess as well) which doesn't have all the added crap (clean I suppose, or natural).

What makes you think they'll be any different with Marijuana lol? They'll probably make ever colour and flavour of the rainbow with it among other things.

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Don't agree with you here. While it's illegal to grow / smoke in India - the laws aren't enforced in the strictest sense. People go about smoking it (and it's derivatives - like the purified oil, i.e. Hashish) and aren't bothered by the law enforcement agencies as long as they aren't being a social nuisance and/or into heavy peddling. Here's something that you may find amusing... one of our Gods (Hinduism) - Shiva - is a pothead. All over our mythology - you find him sitting tight with his band of followers and blowing up chillum after chillum of hash (or charas - as it's known in India).

Kids back home in their teens get plenty of exposure to such stuff - even I did. I was into regular smoking till the end of my college days. When I got into an active work life (after a stretch of 8years of pot/hash smoking).. I gave it up overnight. No hang-ups. No withdrawal-symptoms either. What I haven't been able to stop is smoking cigarettes. I've tried hard over past few years, made several attempts at stopping - but always broke my resolution and relapsed into the smoking spree and couple days/weeks later. In my view cigarettes are a far-worse addictive "drug" that marijuana will ever be.

Lastly, its not marijuana itself that's harmful.. rather the main component, THC (delta 9 - TetraHydroCannabinol) is an actively used compound for alleviating pain in cancer patients. However, when you smoke pot - it's not just the THC that you inhale, but several other harmful chemicals - which do the actual damage. More often you find smokers combining pot and tobacco to make it burn smoother - which in turn makes it even worse. If I'm not mistaken, pot has a higher burning point that tobacco - and that makes tobacco release far more of the harmful chemicals that if you were smoking a plain cigarette.

With more and more research into this topic, new facts are being revealed about the usefulness of marijuana - for example, it's been recently discovered that THC can actually cut down / inhibit the tumour growth by half in lung-cancer patients. Thus scientists are looking into alternative methods of delivering THC (vapourising) to the human body, minus the harmful toxins that you'd inhale through direct smoking.

The whole socio-political norm of treating marijuana as an "illegal drug" was probably based on the fact that marijuana has always been held as the "gateway" to other hard drugs. Recent researches further dispel this myth. Teen marijuana smokers are no more susceptible to other drugs / alcohol abuse that non-smokers.

Dunno when this battle will end - but if something is to be declared banned, it should be cigarettes are alcohol first - which, according to recent re-evaluations are considered far more harmful than even synthetic designer drugs like ecstasy.

 

 

 

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I'm not saying you can't get addicted to marijuana, I'm saying it isn't physically addicting. People get a psychological addiction to the substance often but it's not because of the drug itself but the way they feel on the drug. Plus being able to become addicted to something isn't reason enough to ban it from public use in my opinion. As long as you warn people about it, I don't see a problem. My parents had the common sense to tell me cigarettes were bad and addicting and I haven't tried them as then I was scared and now I just dont want to risk it. Shockingly, like in many cases, we can actually be held responsible for our actions and the actions of our kids. I'm not trying to make light of people who become addicted to things but 99% of people know its a risk when they use various substances so don't act like they are totally innocent. Anyone who willfully uses a drug should be ready for any consequences of that action.

So yes, while possible to become "addicted" to marijuana I don't think that matters. Legalize the ****.

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Of course, the problem is the over-users and abusers that stab people so they can buy a stick (I am not kidding, it happens here every single night on multiple occasions at multiple places).

I don't even need to leave my house to know what goes on, though I must admit alot of dealers got busted on.

And what do you think they sold the most of? Pot of course, but why? because it's cheap.

If I remember right they raided 600+ pot dealers in 1 suburb, heh.

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Thats the problem.
A)People who will go to those lengths will go to them either way, illegal or not
B)If it was legal, the cops could go after the people committing crimes for the drugs rather then worrying about the plethora of weed dealers
C)they could focus on dealers dropping heavier drugs then something alot of middle schoolers use and still turn out fine

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