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JoshK001

alll i've got to say is that it should be legalised, its no better or worse then alcohol. ive been a pot smoker and a drinker for the last 8 years an alcoholic and drug addict... im talking twenty to 30 cones (about 3 grams) and 15 - 30 drinks a day )depending on whether r not id been working that day. that is the one good characteristic about me i jave been a drug addict since about 10 yrs old yet since about 12 i have held down one, at one time two jobs.

i quit smoking pot 2 months ago and have been feeling a lot better because of it. but what i had not realized is it had given me scizophrenia, i had always thought it was normal to have voices in my head telling me to kill myself and severe hatred towards others. a week after i quit i stopped hearing these voices which made me recognise what they actually were and where they came from.

anyway i still believe it should be legalised because MOST (not me) people can have a casual smoke and not be severely emotionally effected by it, plus with alcohol (as i know, i am still kind of an alcoholic) you dont have to suffer the headaches and sever agitation of a hangover for most people, me i just wanted to smoke all the time and it made me a recluse all i did was sit at home and smoke pot, if i didnt change then i would have ended up killing myself, i was miserable....

anyway my conclusion is that it should be legalised but certain people predisposed to mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bi polar (which pot has left me being treated for both) should stay away....but hey im all for prohibition of the substance... as i said im an alcoholic and i found the stuf easier to give up then alcohol....

playstation60

Ok, Josh your post makes no sense. Aside from the spelling and grammar errors that could your message, you contradict yourself in the last paragraph. You speak through the first three paragraphs about supporting the legalization of pot, yet in the last you say you are all for it's ban. What gives?

I really don't know where I stand on this issue. I don't know if I trust people to have enough common sense to moderate if it were legal. At least with it being illegal there are some legal consequences to abuse. If it were legal, you'd take that away.

Besides, what of the financial repercussions *sp*?

Crazy_dude6662

i think it should be legalised, most of my reasons have been pointed out already so i wont repeat them.

they should sell it in packs behind the counter (kinda like cigarettes) and have a tax on them.

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QuothTheRaven

I'm not sure why this was put in creative nonfiction, but I would say no to the topic. I've seen how people behave under the influence of marijuana, and frankly, I hate it. People are stupid enough on their own, I see no need to add marijuana into the mix to make them even stupider.

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QuothTheRaven

You, sir, are a prime example of why it should remain illegal.

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mN.sparroW

wisdom offered: avoid the "crutch" of cannabis

Tsaeb XIII

Maybe we should focus less on the fact that because alcohol and tobacco are still legal and more the fact that cannabis should stay illegal. What about illegalising alcohol and tobacco?

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Gnomes Amok

lol, the "crutch" of cannabis.

I started smoking socially when I was a freshman in high school. Id say I smoke often enough to be described as the typical stoner, I have been since I started, and now in my senior year Im at the top of my class. I have been the past four years. The majority of my friends are intelligent, responsible people and coincidentally, stoners. Its something fun to do, like your average middle-class laborer who has a few beers with his friends after work. Except marijuana isn't near as detrimental to your brain as alcohol. I don't drink, I have before and I don't enjoy it, and aside from weed Im completely drug free.

The gateway drug theory is a farce. Its a matter of ones environment, like everything else in life.

I've never craved getting high, and I've never felt the need to get more high. So what makes cannabis a crutch?

The only effect it's had on me in the past few years is the effect it's had on my creativity. You don't see everything in a new perspective, but you become naturally more objective and free-thinking. That's a positive as far as Im concerned.

And the idea that crime rates would go up, or at that any crime is related to marijuana, is simply laughable to anyone familiar with "stoner" culture. I mean honestly, being high doesn't make you think less about consequences when it comes to the law, it makes you far more aware of them. No pothead would ever get high and try to steal anything. Except maybe a cheeto from their buddies bag.

People who oppose the legalization of marijuana are simply ignorant to the reality of its effects, and the culture that surrounds it. To quote Ben Harper in Burn One Down:

"My choice is what I chose to do;
and if I'm causing no harm,
why should it bother you?
Your choice is who you chose to be;
and if your causing no harm, then you're alright with me.

Herb the gift, from the Earth,
and what's from the earth is of the greatest worth.
So before you knock it, try it first.
and you'll see it's a blessing and it's not a curse."

Marijuana's just something that grows out of the ground, no need to make a big deal out of it.

Gnomes Amok

And Tsaeb, you should probably pick up a history book sometime. They tried illegalizing alcohol, about 70 years ago. It was called Prohibition, and all it did was cause crime to skyrocket until it was ended in 1933, much to the appreciation of a country that wasn't happy with the government regulating their lives and making their cities unsafe.

Uriah

Legal and Illegal are relative concepts. The Law is simply an abstraction of authority. What is illegal is not always immoral, and what is legal is not always moral. Truth does not necessarily reside in the courtroom, therefore one must sometimes disregard the wagging finger of society and do what they want.
Bottom line, weed is harmless, if it were legalized it could be taxed and whatever negative economic impact it may have on the societal bureaucracy would be paid for. As it is now, it's simply a drain on tax dollars and finite resources. It will never go away, it's called "weed" for a reason. It's just more evidence of the hubris and folly of American government that they think they can get rid of it.
People who trust the government to provide them any kind of truth deserve to be slaves.

persian_star

People can drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and not become addicited, it seems to be dependant on the individual. But I was quite surprised to see just how many people are addicted to this stuff...or perhaps emotionally dependant on it...and are trying to break this addiction.

This is not a criticism to anyone here, but I am yet to meet one individual who regularly smokes cannabis who doesn't have illusions are grandeur. Take the cannabis away and people's egos seem to quickly deflate.

Also, anyone here familiar with the bodies alkalinity? In other words alkalinity in the body is good, too much acidity is bad. Cannabis (as well as other drugs, alcohol, cigarettes) is highly acidic. Anything highly acidic in the body is dangerous for overall health and wellbeing.

Above all, cannabis has one of the worst smells my nose has ever experienced.

Slartibartfast

If alchohol and cigarettes are legal, then of course marijuana should be. Period.

21 should be the legal age to purchase.

persian_star

I think eventually it will be made legal. I just hope (in the UK anyway) when/if it does, following the impending public smoking ban, cannabis can only be smoked in people's homes and not in public. A couple of times now, I've had to breath in some strangers fumes and ended up feeling 'high' as if my brain was full of cotton buds.

Slartibartfast

Now that's funny. Cotton buds? As in...before the cotton bud opens up? I see a bunch of little hard green buds rolling around in your head, as opposed to a head full of cotton. Hell, I don't know...maybe even after it buds, it's called a cotton bud.

Look at me...off on my own, in left field.