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GO! Smoke the flowers?
Posted by gosmelltheflowers • 9/25/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: Cancer, doobee, dubai, flowers, lung, muchnies, Pizza, popcorn, smoke
Straight from the gut here folks!
After several ‘healthy debates’ we’d love to know what your opinion of the legalisation of Cannabis.
Do share your thoughts both here and at our blog post showing the 2 spaced out M&M guys:-
www.gosmelltheflowers.com/blog/archives/993
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I'm not in favor of legalizing it myself. I'm not sure how much usage would increase but why take the risk of even more impaired driver's on the road. I'm assuming just the fact that it is illegal now is a deterrent to some people, legalizing it would put more (at least a few) user's on the road.-
"the California Student Survey (CSS), conducted
by California’s Office of the Attorney General, documented
that marijuana use by California teens rose markedly until
1996—the year California’s medical marijuana law,
Proposition 215, passed—and dropped substantially afterwards.
Among ninth graders, current marijuana use dropped
by nearly half from 1996 to 2000."
Also Marijuana use is higher in the US and Canada than The Netherlands (where it is legal)
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I always had the opinion that anything that alters the chemical state of your brain cant be doing you any good and secondly if you cant get high on life itself then a rolled up bit of tobacco isnt going to make it better-
So why is Alcohol Legal?
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Who really cares. It is illegal at the moment and you could fall out your front door and score half a kilo of Amsterdam’s finest before you hit the ground. Legalising it will do nothing more than cut police paperwork. I live in a rural area and the place is infested with the stuff. They probably give it away free with every £10 spent on shopping in the cities.-
Actually I don't think it would cut police paperwork. I'm not sure what the total statistics are but there is a significant amount of crime committed to support an addict's habit. Legalizing it may introduce more crime possibly in this area.
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Compared to the problems alchohol causes I do not think it would even register as a blip on a comparative scale.
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What makes this issue so confusing, is that we regulate alcohol and tobacco, but we criminalize this stuff. There would appear to be an inconsistency here.
My dad used to tell me that smoking the stuff would always lead to hard drugs. If that were true, that could explain the current criminalization. But is it?
My real opinion: I think the federal government in the U.S. could afford to leave this issue in the hands of the states. I'm not convinced that it really rises to the level of a federal problem. -
There is no doubt that Marijuana is a health hazard...Some people would argue that Mcdonalds type fast food,junk food snacks, candy etc. are perhaps even greater health hazards...Cigarrettes and alcohol are also known health hazards..
What would be the downside of legalizing Marijuana ?....More Usage and increased physical/mental health problems...Perhaps even greater driving and work "impairedment" problems....
There is very little evidence if any that supports any arguments that allowing marijuana use would increase criminal or behaviour that would hurt society..
Some benefits of allowing marijuana use include using the other parts of the plant for the manufacture of pulp products we currently chop down the planet's forests for..
By legalizing marijuana do you mean a citizen could legally grow marijuana in his home(w/electrical permit etc.) or yard and smoke what he/she grows himself ?
Or do you mean you could smoke marijuana but only buy it from government authorized agencies at government set prices and failure to so would result in criminal charges ?-
Fair point, well made!
The debate has taken a medical turn over at our blog where one of regualrs has announced her father has MS and is considering cannabis for medication!?! Any thoughts folks...
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Maybe!
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The biggest plus in my mind is in the reduction of costs related to enforcement, trial, and jailing costs for a crime that poses minimal social costs outside of self inflicted harm of a rather low level.
Additionally legalization and regulation of it would divert significant revenue out of criminal and underground channels, into the general economy. -
I have no understanding why everyone doesn't get addicted to the experience of God. It makes any drug related experience look like nothing. The usage of drugs does not allow you to change. You always come back to the same old shit of this nightmare of existence.
The real reason for this is that anyone here is addicted to DEATH. There is no drug addiction. It is all addiction to death.
teachingacourseinmiracles.blogspot.com/2007/09/problem-of-teaching-jesus-an...
Cheers,
Alban-
Alice In Wonderland, Shelley, Byron, the poem Xanadu and a whole lot more as a result of drugs.
Queen Victoria took hash.
Hashish was also used in childbirth and is acknowledged as being more efficacious than any other medication. It is an effective pain killer. It is useful in calming panic attacks. Problems with eyesight such as glaucoma are aided by its use. HIV which can kill through wait loss due to lack of appetite is also aided by the munchies effect. I could go on but the post would be massive.
Gods creation of cannabis through design or evolution is actually medicinally beneficial, probably with the intent of making this "shit, nightmare existence," just a little more tolerable. -
Please stop with this missionary stuff. It is very offensive! -
Wow! erm, thanks.
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Addiction to God is the reason I started researching this. Right now I have to take medication for my disability. All of this medication is created in a lab. These are man made substances. I have found that Most of my problems could be helped by marijuana, a Plant that was put on this earth by God for the use of the people on this World.
I love God and do not make a decision in my life with out thought of God. My feeling is a natural substance that I did in a country that it was legal in for years should be allowed. I moved back to the US and could not use it so now I am back on Man-made medications. I was never addicted to Marijuana. But try and keep me away from my Vicodin...
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This article is on the frontpage of digg.com right now:
digg.com/offbeat_news/A_Marijuana_User_Gets_Arrested_Every_38_Seconds_in_Am...
"A marijuana user gets arrested every 38 seconds in America".
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That is a lot of people obeying the law
NOT!
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People should shift their focus from legalizing pot to shutting down companies that manufacture anti-depressants, pain killers, hormone treatments, Viagra, alcohol and scam companies that import phony drugs.
Priorities people.-
Great point!
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Agree 100% with werelax, as it pertains to court costs, filled prisons, waste of police time, etc, etc.
I'm all for legalizing it, though I'm all for legalizing just about any and all drugs. Let the government make their tax money off of regulating and selling it rather than spending billions fighting a losing battle, while keeping the money out of the hands of the mob, underground criminals, etc. Just look at the effects of prohibition for a prior example.
The hypocrisy point (alcohol/tobacco) is also a big one. -
I'm all for legalizing it and then taxing the heck out it. It would save a lot of money that went to various law enforcement, court, and penal system budgets while actually adding to the revenue base. -
I wonder what the point is of trying to make everything unhealthy illegal. If the point is having laws on the books to register our moral outrage at those who would like to experiment with altered states of consciousness, then right on, we're on the right track. But laws against drug use do NOT stop people from taking drugs. If we're trying to decrease drug use, I would think education would be a far more useful tool.
We (at least in the US) learned NOTHING from prohibition. All prohibition did was give a great leg-up to organized crime. If drugs were legal (as others have pointed out), they could be taxed. Those tax dollars could be used to fund educational programs to teach people about the dangers of drug use.
Prohibition of any substance just does not work. People are going to do what they want with their bodies regardless of what the law says. It's time to try a different tactic. I believe it was Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results. -
I wish that it was legal and we could all get together and pass the peace pipe at sunset overlooking Yellowstone Lake.
All of our blogs would be much funnier afterwards, too! -
Sounds good - we'll bring the popcorn!
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Don't bogart that joint, my friend,
pass it over here ...
you've been hanging onto it,
and I sure would like a hit,
don't bogart that joint, my friiiiiiend,
pass it over here. -
Legalize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'm in full support, and I enjoy showing that support on a daily basis. -
Considering we offer both Medical Marijuana Discovery Tours and trips to cannabis friendly destinations in general, I'm all for legalizing marijuana. We have a regulatory and distribution system in place - liquor laws. Apply them equally to cannabis and get if off the streets. I'm sure Marlboro would love to finally launch the "Greens" brand. How many jobs would that create???
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