Legalization of Marijuana
 

Do you think Marijuana should be legalized in this country for recreational use?

All use.
Ignore the tobacco, alcohol, textile and pharmaceutical lobbies.

i've never met anyone that has taken the position that pot should NOT be legal. does not sound like government by the people, for the people to me.

Guess you have not been talking to the right cotton or lumber lobbyists then.

I think you must be hanging with a bad crowd jimbo.

Damn right it should be legal. What really, really pisses me off, is that bloody America, put pressure onto my bloody country and loads of others, to ensure that pot, and indeed all drugs, would be considered beyond the pale.

There is no reason, whatsoever, for pot to be illegal. End of story. I keep hearing this bullshit from the anti-pot brigade about how it causes psychosis in some vulnerable youngsters (majijuana makes you mad, remember?) and how the pot now is soooo much stronger than it once was, and these days it really is a dangerous drug. No. It's. Not.

Like any substance which affects one's state of mind, it has to be treated with a degree of respect. If you sit in your house and smoke twenty five joints a day of prime skunk, chances are you won't be mentally healthful as if you didn't. Okay. That's fine, advise people not to do that and then stay the fuck out of their lives!

Right now, the whole thing just fuels a worldwide smuggling and guns operation that keeps millions in misery and danger. Legalise all drugs. Operate responsible control over them, as a government. We control alcohol manufacture to avoid people going blind from moonshine...we could control heroin, or cocaine, to minimise the dangers of those drugs too.

Back before your lot persuaded my lot to slam dunk the whole drugs thing, there were people in this country happily combining mild drug addictions with ordinary life. Having a drug habit didn't mean you had to steal stereos, because the drugs were simple to get. The quality of the drugs was such that rarely did people end up with a bad dose. Those people who indulged generally held down jobs, and didn't end up losing their homes and self respect with quite the same ferocity that todays addicts do.

Legalise al drugs. Nobody should be able to say to any of us...it is illegal for you to swallow/inhale/inject that substance into your body.

But, but, but....

My personal fave.

Legalize it.

For recreational use I am supportive of it being legalized but I'm not so active on it because it is very easy to get pot anyways and even though I don't use it to be rebellious, it is fun because of the creative places you go to smoke it so you don't' get caught. Legalizing it would most likely make it much cheaper which is good too.

For medicinal use I am very supportive of it being legalized for reasons like what rkzenrage is going through. No one should go through unnecessary pain due to bullshit politics.

Drugs are bad, mkay?

Decriminalize. Tax the crap out of it. Everybody's happy. Well, I am anyway. :rolleyes:

I believe what he meant was

:angel:

de-criminalized (sp?) wouldl be my preference as it wouldn't make it legal for phillip morris or other cigarette makers to make a huge profit on it . I'd rather see it in the hands of people who are responsible and rational enough to grow their own stash. gateway drug my ass.... coors light is 10x worse... and the culture that goes along with it.

the thing with the reference to greatfuldead and all that... pffth! if they could manage to grow anything other than greasepits under their arms I for one would be surprised..

as an old punk rocker I take offense to that... I am willing to take bets that mary-j will be decriminalized w/in 10 years. any takers? (once the pre-baby-boomers die off... think about it)

ps. he he brucex0x0.. much love.

that's the weird thing about living in the south now.. there's still hardcore racism but.. it's weird.. it's such an undercurrent that it's not spoken about in mixed 'company' (in this case multi-racial) but.. once a person of 'colour' leaves the room... the shit starts flying.. my point has always been I don't care what you look like.. are you a decent person? and I have found that more of the 'white' people are really depthless shallow hatefull rat-bastards.. hell! the last place we lived the only neighbors that even talked to us (and we keep a fairly tidy house.. inside and out) was the "mixed-race" couple nextdoor.. and they were damn cool. all the other white folks in the neighborhood viewed us as "N*gger lovers" ..uh... no... they were nice folks... and on the other hand! the 'blackfolk' in the neighborhood thought of us an 'white people' (and yeah genetically we are..) other than the guys who I had worked with... I dunno the point to this.. sorry wrong thread.. but ya know what it boils down to is that if you spend a little recreational time with people.. be they of another race or your own. it lends alot to racial understanding and human understanding in general. ya sit there and smoke a joint with someone and have a beer with someone.. I swear you can have a conversation about almost anything in a relaxed manner.... anywhoo! have a nice day! love you all( in a platonic sense)!

You can't blame the US for laws in your own nation, LOL!!!
No coffee for you huh?

I'll have to dig for the methods, but they are really tough on foreign govs which don't toe the line.

Yeah, we are really hard on the Dutch!

Reefer Madness
 

This movie is so hilarious. Watch it stoned. :lol:

Been a favorite of mine for years.
It is a study of "the opposite of how people behave on pot".

Absolutely!

Nah, not ten. But I might give you twenty. California is always the trendsetter for the nation, and they're still in the "medicinal only" category (and having lots of struggles with it.)

The trends seem to be towards criminalizing, not de-criminalizing. Soon, they will gun you down for just walking out of a bar, or for lighting up a cigarette in a parking lot.

*smiles* no, I blame my own people for being cowards and buckling to American pressure...though in our defnse we were recovering from war at the time. USA was/is all powerful.

Oh how I miss having a joint never been stoned since i gave up smoking tobacco **sigh**Grass was never my bag always preferred hash, nice bit of "black"Pink floyd on the hi-Fi ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzone out...Aye them were the days

When was this, Dana?

Late fifties, early sixties. Britain was just finding its feet again it had taken quite a long time to fully recover.

OK, it wasn't until the Mod/Rocker era.
It was made illegal here in 1937... gave the ex-prohibition feds something to do. Even so, during WW II planting it was encouraged for the war effort. Besides, at that time, only low-lifes like musicians and Negros were abusing it.

We started regulating it and bringing in the idea of controlled substances much earlier, but we instituted what became known as 'The British System', whereby pharmacists and doctors can prescribe, supply controlled substances to registered addicts.

This was by far the most popular approach in the country, and the medical profession was right behind it. But, international pressure, primarily from the States, but routed through the UN brought an end to the British system in Britain (beginning of the end of the British System was a 1961 UN convention. It continued successfully in a few places (like Holland), but we ended it and suffered an explosion in addiction rates and drug related crime.

I remember watching a programme about the guy who made it his mission to persuade the rest of the world to buy into the anti-drugs agenda. Can't recall the guy's name now. Fascinating character.

If you think of the name later, please post it.

Will do.

OK, which two of you voted to keep it illegal?

I may have clicked the wrong thing :P I am tired, drunk, and it's 2 am. I think all drugs should be legalised. There.

There's 28 votes and 15 people posted so you'll never know.

:unsure:

Ahhhh, fuck it

:joint:

Legalization of Marijuana
 

When the guy invented the first bong........
Did a blacklight go on over his head? ~ Mitch Hedberg

hahaha Juanco