CA VOTERS LEGALIZE POT?
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My reason for smoking is personal experience. From the people I have seen around me that smoke marijuana, the majority of them are dropping out of school and blowing off everything. They are constantly coughing from the particulate matter they inhale, and they don't do anything with their lives.
My cousin was a sponsored skateboarder, as well as a fabulous guitarist. He started smoking weed, and the skateboarding and guitar immediately were dropped in order to go smoke a joint. -
*not smoking
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ChainsawCharlie wrote:
I didn't write this but cool! What I ment to say was. Either way kids under 18 could get it, it's just the fact that since it's illegal "it's the cool thing to do". Of course even legal it's goin to be cool to them. That's where parents need to step in.O-Dogg wrote:
Just because something is a plant/weed doesn't make it safe to ingest. Oleander is a plant/tree with pretty flowers. Eat it & it will kill you.
I could walk out into my backyard right now and picket at least a pound of castor beans. And the Castor oil plant, according to the 2007 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records, is the most poisonous plant in the world.
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the canadians have handled this issue well imo.
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Yes they have, and CA handled it poorly...vote yes in 2012
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Σмקεгφг ќ wrote:
My reason for smoking is personal experience. From the people I have seen around me that smoke marijuana, the majority of them are dropping out of school and blowing off everything. They are constantly coughing from the particulate matter they inhale, and they don't do anything with their lives.
My cousin was a sponsored skateboarder, as well as a fabulous guitarist. He started smoking weed, ....
I have been a heavy smoker for 10 years+, I have always been promoted to upper management at all my jobs, my current job , I am basically the managing director, took me 3 years to get promoted from the bottom(it's a small company)I smoked all though college, and i studied computer engineering.(not easy)
Weed demotivates me from social activities such as bars and clubs, but has never interfered with any of the goals I set in life.
People who say weed demotivates them are already demotivated, and just looking for an excuse
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Belial wrote:
I am not a fan of filling our jails with pot offenders, that is just stupid (thats the courts for ya) but like I said "legal is not the answer either". Not that I have the answer🔫Silvio Dante🔫 wrote:
so you prefer our current system which puts smokers in prison?I have no problem with weed. That being said, making it legal would open a bunch of unseen doors. First where would the money really go (i.e. lottery for schools, yea right), employers that have no drug policies would now be required to allow someone to work w/ a positive test (cant tell when they smoked, maybe on a break, maybe last week), what would the drug dealers do now that you took their income away, different more violent crime? Do I care if you smoke, not really, but legal is not the answer either. Just my opinion.
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zraygo wrote:
My point was that alcohol is a drug...you stated that you don't smoke because you are anti-drug. A big problem with alcohol being so socially acceptable is that the majority of people (including myself) often forget that alcohol is a drug as well.I drink socially. Never get drunk anymore. I don't enjoy the feeling
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! ! Night ! ! wrote:
You are absolutely right.zraygo wrote:
My point was that alcohol is a drug...you stated that you don't smoke because you are anti-drug. A big problem with alcohol being so socially acceptable is that the majority of people (including myself) often forget that alcohol is a drug as well.I drink socially. Never get drunk anymore. I don't enjoy the feeling
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I have never been a big fan of alcohol. I don't drink beer at all because I never forced myself into drinking it when I wa younger, and therefore never acquired a taste for it. I'll drink wine because I have forced myself to drink it and have acquired a taste. I also drink mixed drinks, because it typically masks the taste that most alcohols have. In my college years I smoked pot because I preferred the high of marijuana to alcohol. I never liked the act of "smoking" and didn't like the fact that it was illegal...but given the choice between that and alcohol, to me there was no question. Also, most of friends in college (both those who smoked and those who drank) felt that smoking pot was socially acceptable.
I could care less about the economics, medical use or politics of legalizing marijuana...in my opinion there will be good and bad and you will never get an average group of citizens to agree on it. -
In fact, in a straight comparison between the recreational use of marijuana and alcohol, you aren't going to convince me that marijuana is any worse than alcohol. If history had been slightly different, we could be having a discussion about legalizing alcohol instead.
So yes, my only argument to legalize marijuana is because it would be my recreational drug of choice over alcohol...and I'm sure there are many others out there just like me. And with that, I challenge that anyone who is opposed to the legalization of marijuana should be on a similar band-wagon to make alcohol illegal...otherwise, in my opinion, they are being hyprocritical. However, because of the social acceptance of alcohol on a global level, I know that most people are not, and probably will not jump on that band-wagon. -
I'm not encouraging the legalization of marijuana any more than alcohol. In my "dream world", you'd be able to go to your local bar or liquor store and pick up some beer and a pack of joints. You wouldn't be allowed to legally use/abuse marijuana anymore than alcohol currently is. But if you wanted to use it in the comfort of your own home...go right ahead! You would get arrested for public stonedness and driving while stoned, just like with acohol. And I doubt you'd have any more people abusing that system than there currently is with people abusing alcohol.
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BigBK wrote:
I'm a woman, not a man. You can't smoke & drive, really? Lol, I like that law!Mystery wrote:
No. You can't smoke and drive. In Canada you can't buy it in corner stores. You can't smoke in public. You cant smoke at work. There's more then just age restrictions to booze man.Kozy wrote:
The difference being you have to be 21 instead of 18 to buy alcohol?It is what it is. No worse then anything else out there. People will smoke it regardless. The issue isn't whether or not to make it legal to the point of cigarettes. Just make it like booze.
@Night- I'm probably the only one, but it wouldn't really bother me if alcohol was also illegal. I like the occasional ice cream drink but I certainly don't need alcohol. Judging from history, the law most likely wouldn't work.
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