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Your views on marijuana and drugs

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rykerr1

The Great Gublet
I personally would never do drugs, I don't like the possible negative side effects and I would not want to take anything that could possibly be addicting. Also, I believe that drugs such as marijuana kill brain cells over time, and I value my brain, thank you very much (that is more my opinion than fact though).

But the fact that I don't do drugs doesn't mean that others shouldn't be able to.... I am fine with other people doing drugs as long as they don't try to make me do them. I also hate that my tax money is wasted on "drug wars", I think we should legalize marijuana and tax the hell out of it. That way, it is good for everyone, including those who aren't smoking it =)
 
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Mankanshoku Mako

Well-Known Member
Butterfly said:
Somethign to remember though, is that the "war on drugs" is partially to remove the crime associated with them, such as stealing and murdering for a drug.
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Absolutely not. The "war on drugs" does the exact opposite. Making drugs illegal is what causes these crimes in the first place, so ending the war on drugs and legalizing all substances would cease all crime releated to them.
rykerr1 said:
I think we should legalize marijuana and tax the hell out of it. That way, it is good for everyone, including those who aren't smoking it =)
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No we shouldn't. If the black market is selling marjuana for significantly less than the white market people will continue to go to the black market, making legalizing it completely pointless.
 
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yoursavior

Calm Mind
Honestly, the prices of marijuana would most likely correlate with the prices of tobacco, as the current price on the "black" market is mostly inflated from middle men involved and the dangers associated with growing/selling it. High taxation (like 40-50%) would likely keep the price around the current "black" market prices and normal taxes would have the prices dropping rapidly. It's happening in California right now.
 
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Arpeggio

Member
I'm against drugs.

This also makes me a hypocrite in a way. I've smoked meth since I was 14. I'm actually doing outpatient rehab right now, I've been sober for two weeks, after slipping up from near a year and a half of being completely clean.

I'm an addict, what can I say? I want to be clean, but it's more than just wanting to, it's physically being addicted as well. Anyone who knows addiction knows what I'm saying.

Weed is nothing, and it literally has zero effect on me other than dry mouth and turning me into a total grouch, and if people want to smoke it, fine, just do it safely like with alcohol and etc.

But serious drugs such as heroin, meth, cocaine, I would never want those legalized. Meth has caused a great deal of problems, mentally and physically. I suffer from bad anxiety and OCD (problems I never had before), and lost my liver due to severe damage and cirrhosis. If I want to keep this new liver, then I have to stay sober, there is no other option.

So yeah, these drugs shouldn't be legal, in my opinion.

[[ I haven't slept in 24 hours, sorry for any typos or grammar mistakes. ]]
 
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GhostAnime

Searching for her...
Blue Ralts said:
No we shouldn't. If the black market is selling marjuana for significantly less than the white market people will continue to go to the black market, making legalizing it completely pointless.
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They sure don't seem to be doing this for cigarettes.
 
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Grassette

Treehugger
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FiremanLV5

Well-Known Member
A friend of mine's mum has actually been advised by her doctor to smoke marijuana to ease the pain of her terminal condition. I can't remember what she has, I think it's cancer, not sure though.
 
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Razor Shiftry

Cynthia = Porn Star
I believe Marijuana can also be used in the treatment for a Glaucoma of the eye.

Anyways, my opinion is that Weed and Shrooms should be legalized. Why? Shrooms, apart from being a hallucinogenic, is safer to the body than aspirin, virtually no chance of death, no chance of addiction, no harm to the body and the chemicals and naturally broken down.

As for weed, its a "safe" recreational drug like Alcohol which in moderation is fine. If legalized, there'd be no crime because of it, it can be more regulated, taxed and by that, it wouldn't be such a taboo, and its problems and limitations can be more openly discussed and talked about so people know the dangers.
 
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ChedWick

Well-Known Member
Blue Ralts said:
No we shouldn't. If the black market is selling marjuana for significantly less than the white market people will continue to go to the black market, making legalizing it completely pointless.
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Except you are forgetting the convenience of being able to go to a store and buy a pack of pre-rolled joints or a perfectly measured bag of marijuana at a consistent price. Not to mention with home grown pot the mass market for drugs revolving around blood and violence will drop. This drop will most likely result in a smaller black market and by extension harder to find black market drugs. Sure you will have those peaceful people growing it in their basements but we have that with alcohol and tobacco but the masses that drink and smoke give most of their business to the regulated stuff, marijuana would likely be no different.
 
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Vermehlo_Steele

Grand Arbiter II
ChedWick said:
Except you are forgetting the convenience of being able to go to a store and buy a pack of pre-rolled joints or a perfectly measured bag of marijuana at a consistent price. Not to mention with home grown pot the mass market for drugs revolving around blood and violence will drop. This drop will most likely result in a smaller black market and by extension harder to find black market drugs. Sure you will have those peaceful people growing it in their basements but we have that with alcohol and tobacco but the masses that drink and smoke give most of their business to the regulated stuff, marijuana would likely be no different.
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Well said. I would rather deal with those I trust and pay a possibly higher but certain price for a decent product than the alternative.

In 2001, the Portuguese decriminalized (different to legalize) all formerly illicit drugs. If you were found to possess small amounts of drugs, you were sent to a panel wherein they would judge the best way to deal with you, as opposed to a ticket to the slammer. This decriminalization came with increased drug treatment services nation wide. However, drug traffickers and dealers are still dealt with by jail time and variable fines. The result was fewer people addicted to drugs, less violence about drugs, fewer cases of HIV infections, fewer drug based crimes and deaths attributable to heroin and comparable drugs decreased.

Obviously, the USA couldn't enact the same thing and call it a day, but a similar approach may very well work in a country where brute power via laws hasn't done anything to curb US drug problems and the WoD is highly expensive for little, if any results yielded.

Many of you suspect that more liberal drug laws are required, here's the evidence. Look to Portugal. Also, fear mongers like BlueRalts are wrong, the black market wouldn't out-perform the legit market.

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meteor64

Show Me Ya Noobs
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Ausgirl

Well-Known Member
Evidently you haven't heard of medicinal marijauna.
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Actually I have heard of it and I'm against it cos in many cases people will continue to use marijuana even after their treatment i.e. Melissa Etheridge.
 
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GhostAnime

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And so what if they use it? What will it do to you?
 
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Ausgirl

Well-Known Member
And so what if they use it? What will it do to you?
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Hey I'm not forcing you to agree with me or anything, so there's no need to get all grumpy at me for having an opinion.
 
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meteor64

Show Me Ya Noobs
alishenai said:
Actually I have heard of it and I'm against it cos in many cases people will continue to use marijuana even after their treatment i.e. Melissa Etheridge.
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Statistics? Figures? And one person doesn't constitute a majority.

Hey I'm not forcing you to agree with me or anything, so there's no need to get all grumpy at me for having an opinion.
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He wasn't getting grumpy, he was asking you a question. Chill your beans.
 
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GhostAnime

Searching for her...
Your opinion is pretty much ignorant and biased. Are they an idiot because it's illegal or because it's marijuana?
 
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meteor64

Show Me Ya Noobs
No its not, since you've ignored my question. With statistics its relevant.
 
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