You know... what if we're completely wrong?

[anarkin]

Wouldn't be the first thing I was wrong about, and it wouldn't stop me from smoking either. Given the choice of getting wasted, doing something stupid that could land you in jail, the hospital or the morgue and waking up feeling like shit the next day regardless OR getting really stoned, passing out on a couch and waking up after getting a nice long sleep... Either way it's slowly killing you, but even non-drug users get 24 hours closer to death every single day.

[BillDavis]

If weed is wrong, then I don't want to be right, knaamsayin'?

[TickyTacky]

I thought about this the other day...and I think I've realized why the double standard. First off, many people before smoking weed tend to believe the propaganda and lies. And second, being high is completely different from being drunk.

The first can be easily remedied by just trying it and realizing being high is fun. However, the second is more damaging to something like weed's reputation. For example, drugs and drug usage are typically associated with the high they bring and, for the most part, looked down upon by the oh-so common mantra of "you don't need to be high to have fun" or some bullshit. Now...you, being an educated smoker (and probably a user of other drugs), realize that smoking is chemically different than drinking, but that pleasure from the consumption of said drug is still the overall end result. So, to the smoking community, it certainly seems hypocritical that marijuana can get blamed for being a "gateway drug" and "harmful" when alcohol is equally guilty, if not more so.

I think in the end people will realize it just gets you high. Big fucking deal. It's like no one makes a big deal about drinking...and I get way more fucked up when I drink. It's the 21st century, it's about damn time we stop being such prudes about smoking some dank bud.

[Proshoes]

Legalize? I'm not sure I want it to be legal. I mean, do you really want some kids smoking some bud and acting like idiots. Yeah not before 18 years old...right...like it works with alcohol.

[FreakinA]

I dont care if they ever fully legalize it, I would just like it to be more decriminalized so if I did get caught its nothing, much like parts of canada and denver.

[SugarSpots]

Well, when you compare alcohol vs pot. You can look at the social problems caused by the two. Alcohol increases domestic violence, public disturbances, ect... Stoners are too lazy for any of those shenanigans, and are typically just really mellow people. Alcohol makes people stupid in very dangerous ways.

In terms of health, lets take alcohol and tobacco related deaths vs marijuana. Tobacco kills more than aids, car accidents, and all other drugs combined. Marijuana- 0.

Just looking at those 2 things makes it pretty clear. In the 1920's they called marijuana a deadly and extremely addictive narcotic. It's all propaganda that has been allowed to live on for decades. The government has gained power by driving fear into people who don't understand. Probably the most used tactic in politics in all of history.

Saying that though, while legalization would be nice, I agree with FreakinA

[{H.E.M.P}b.Free]

Ha ha! That's an interesting idea, even if it's just one of those entertaining things that you come up with when high.

The fact is that Marijuana has incredible medical applications.

Besides... When has prohibition of *ANYTHING* EVER turned out to be right?

[nerdboytoker]

I would stake my reputation and life on the fact that no, we're not wrong.

the more I learn about the cannabis plant (hemp/cannabis) the more I realize we're just harming ourselves by keeping it illegal.

Read 'The Emporer Wears no Clothes' and you'll see what I'm talking about.

if hemp remained legal The cotton industry, the logging industry, The oil industry, and many other currently necessary industries would have been shut down due to their archaic and harmful practices.

The medical world would be changed if it were legal (for the better)

and our prisons would be filled with the murderers and rapists that belong there and not on the streets since pot related offenders are taking their cells.

we're right, they're wrong.

ps. read my sig

[Stew11]

Originally Posted by Proshoes

Legalize? I'm not sure I want it to be legal. I mean, do you really want some kids smoking some bud and acting like idiots. Yeah not before 18 years old...right...like it works with alcohol.

like prohibition works either? In highschool it was always easier to get drugs than alcohol b/c with alcohol at least u had to know someone who was 21, but with weed u just had to know someone who smokes

[Cannabis Corpse]

Originally Posted by ynotle

http://forum.grasscity.com/recreatio...rd-jacked.html

^^ this is one of the reasons why bud should be legal.
If people want to do it, they should bo able to do it without getting involved in criminal activity and/or getting arrested, regardless of the health consequences. Kinda like booze and ciggies.

this is true. if p0t was legal then there wouldn't' be such violence and gang activity.