Age Limit

an age limit for what?

 

age limit for? smoking weed?

 

an age limit for wat??

im in NC to. what part are you in . im in Fuquay 40 minutes from Raleigh

 

This site, and everything smoking weed should only ever be 18+. Under 18, people are too influencial. After 18, most people are mature enough to make their own decisions based on their own knowledge.

 

I think that 18 is a good age limit since thats the crowd who can legally vote on the issues. I dont really think people should get into weed to much earlier than 18 anyways

 

18 when it comes to buying in shops i believe.

 

I think he means for the site. I don\'t see why there should be one on here. I mean reacreational use is illegal for any age, so what\'s it matter if you\'re 6 or 60? But I do like the fact that we do have more mature posters on here than the average site, I guess that could be credited to everyone being of legal age.

Now, if you\'re talking about use in general. I would not want to there to be an age limit, but it\'d be best if there was one. I think wether or not you should be allowed to smoke should be based on some kind of knowledge about the plant. You should know the physical and mental affects before you ever take your first hit. You should be able to justify it in your life... not just some crap like, \"My boy Jake says it fucks you up so I\'m gonna smoke all day!\"

Now, since there\'s no decently realistic way to mandate some kind of marijuana knowledge test. It should just be better left to some random age where other responsibilites and privelages are given to you... 18 works. You\'re a consenting adult, so you should be in charge of what goes in your body and what you do with your time. I think 15 is a good age for a few reasons. It\'s when a lot of users began smoking, it\'s when you are most likely to get introduced to the drug (in High School,) the 15 year old brain is developed enough to comprehend everything involved with smoking the herb, it\'d continue to be an uphill battle for the government to enforce underrage usage laws just like drinking, plus most importantly... it\'s the legal age to be employed in this country; if Mommy and Daddy are paying for your bud, you have no right to smoke.

 

we could argue for a while...
quite a few people under the age of 18 are quite capable of making their own decisions, while many people over the age of 18 are still not capable of doing so

but i get your point... lol

 

I think an age limit on the site is a great idea, though it clearly doesn\'t work all the time; you can tell by the nature of some of the threads that they are written by kids. When I join an 18+ site, I don\'t want silly little schoolboys \'cussing me out\', because they think they know better than an old hand \'cos they are unable to believe anything that comes from anyone other than their dozy classmates. Talking to kids these days is bloody hard work.

TBH, as much as there are some great people here, and some great topics( there really are), there is also a Hell of a lot of biased, misguided misinformation, a lot of shit talked, and a lot of very immature and ignorant posting, too.

Imagine how much worse it would be if we didn\'t have the age restriction?

As for an age restriction on smoking, I\'m with Holland; since the brain is (almost) mature at 18 and given the amount of apathetic, drop-out, lazy teens in this world in the past few years, I\'d say that\'s a good, solid age to refuse to sell to under.

 

It\'s a good idea in theory...but nearly impossible to enforce. Sure, once in a while some kid trips up and admits he\'s underage, but most of the time people are only banned because they don\'t get along with other people.

Then again, you get the percentage of people who take an innocent comment and just pounce, \"What!? You\'re in high school/live at home/don\'t have a car? Uh, you gotta be 18 to be on here!\" That definitely gets irritating. They make it their mission to be the age police.

I don\'t think that there\'s an overwhelming problem with immaturity, I just wish people would exercise more discretion when making threads. No one uses the search button and there hundreds of repetitive threads every week.

 

I\'m all for the age restriction ... i jus\' wish people would abide by it before joining and flaming people and ruining the vibe of the forum.

 

There\'s an age restriction on this site for legal issues. The content here is for adults only. Allowing minors to join this site would be similar (not completely similar, just using this as a comparison) to allowing a minor to join a porn site.

You do know that smoking weed while your body is still developing (and even afterwards in some cases) can cause (or trigger) some forms of psychosis, right? I have read many reputable studies that have all shown this to be true.

Legal age to work in the US is actually a lot lower than 15. In some cases children as young as 6 are allowed to work (in entertainment)... You\'re allowed to be a paper-boy at age 11, and you can baby-sit at 12. But to actually get your working papers for normal-people jobs (like at a McD\'s or BK for example) you need to be 14... This also varies by state - these are just the ages for PA

 

I agree with the age limit. People under the age of 18 are probably responsible for 90% of the worthless stuff on this site i.e. thc worms, my mommy found my stash, fight starting, and so on.

 

The site has to do it, and if your not you can just pretend you are anyway.

 

Yeah, but what I don\'t get is why there are legal reasons. I mean, without the recreational users on this site, they go outta business in a week. Of course there is a medical usage section, but that\'s not really what this site is about or even tries to look like they\'re about. Besides, medical cannabis can be prescribed to all ages, so if there was some sort of \"We only let legal users on the site.\" type reason as to why it\'s here, that doesn\'t check out.

I guess like the porn sites, the City just doesn\'t want to be known for exposing minors to such things and they don\'t want to deal with the shit-storm they\'d have to deal with from crazy anti-drug groups and parents... I don\'t blame them. But based on the letter of the law, I don\'t see how it could truly mater.

I have also seen studies where thc has been known to induce psychosis on adults aswell... while true, the adolescnet mind is more subjective to such things, I know from first hand experience that it\'s not that big of a deal and did not affect me and I started smoking at 14. I think it\'s just got more to do with teenagers are not as far past traumatic experiences in their lives, so thc would be more likely bring up bad unbearable memories. But that\'s up to the user to know how it could affect them and decide if it\'s right for them in their life... I\'m postive a 15 year old could figure it out.

I just went with 15 because it was a general number for being legal to work. I know in Florida, you can work at 14 but for <10 hours per week, or something like that. Maybe 14 would be a better age, as it would include almost all High Schoolers. I am postive that a 14-15 year old is intelligent enough to fully understand and comprehend the affects of using any drug... they just have to take the time to learn and make an informed decision. I knew it was as harmless as a drug could get long before I took my first hit.

 

I mean yeah they have to have it, but its just govt bureacratic bull really if you ask me. Its just as illegal for anyone right.

 

i dont think there should be age restrictions for anything. i think there should be aptitude tests.

 

Agreed. Maybe if they created a separate forum for those 18 and under, I\'d be okay with it. But that won\'t happen.