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Should marijuana be legalized?
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No way, that stuff more bad things to the body that could ever be good!
No. There is more harm than good that can come from smoking a plant for health reasons. not to mention the complete inability to have specific FDA medial dose control on a growing plant. If there is medicinal use it should be isolated and replicated/extracted in a controlled from for proper administration. (Drugs like prescription THC have existed for a long time now and are completely legal with prescription).
Bottom line people pushing medial marijuana are simply flaying a false flag for legalizing recreational marijuana, which I support.
I don't support getting bills passed for fraudulent reasons.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_...
You're worse off sniffing glue than using marijuana.
So by this logic: should alcohol be legal?
Oh please. I'm for marijuana legalization and I know that's crap. Wikipedia is often bias on hot button issues like this.
Marijuana just for legal purposes, not for recreational ones. It's a gateway drug.
"It's a gateway drug. " – No it isn't. See debate here on gateway drugs, medical findings on addiction and drug seeking behavior, drug policies of Holland, etc.
I am attempting to address the common disparity that something "bad" for us shouldn't be legal. This, to me, is often stupid argument in the first place. It very often relies on assumptions that the bad effects cannot be outweighed by other, individually desired or even generally desirable effects.
And the rational scale model on harmfulness or addiction was not constructed by wikipedians, but rather a group of psycho-pharmacologists in England. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17382831?dopt=...
Cannabis is a benign, extremely therapeutic plant. The discovery of the Human Endocannbinoid System proves it is natural to the body. That's right, our bodies makes its own cannabinoids that helps in brain synaptic connections, asthma, blood building and many more. The reason THC takes up to 30 days to leave the system is because it is beneficial to the body. Poisons like alcohol, aspirin and prescription drugs leave the body within 24-72 hours because they are foreign, poison to the body. So our natural defense kicks in detoxes the poison and eliminates it from the body. Bet you hadn't figured on that one, huh?
Yea I don't think so. I know people don't think of it as a gateway drug, but let me put it to you this way: if you smoke marijuana regularly, you more than likely will move on to bigger and better drugs. That's why it will never be passed in Congress. It destroys lives.
i think the point is that smoking it is a suboptimal way to get the medicinal value is perfectly valid and true. It's not really clear that it is, in all cases, useless for medicinal purposes because it is more harmful. Chemotherapy is often harmful for example in the sense that it is often biological poisons that kill the patient a little slower than the cancer. And if you're dealing with terminal illnesses and pain killers, someone who is already going to die anyway probably doesn't care one way or the other if they're slightly increasing their risk of death from lung cancer over a longer time frame than they have to live.
So far as getting legalisation for recreational purposes, as we can see from people like Jared here, there isn't yet broad support for recreational legal use as a legitimate consumer good. A legal market, even if limited to "medicinal purposes" gives us some test bed examples within this country to point to as if to inform such people that using marijuana is not the end of the world, is not a gateway, is not as harmful as we might otherwise suppose from drug czar speeches, and generally disposes of a great deal of the damage and expense that comes from prosecuting marijuana distribution and production as a dangerous illicit good.
The actual medicinal utilities are probably marginal in terms of extracting THC into a commercially available medication yes. But for some reason people think that these medicinal uses are socially and legally acceptable while other, more common uses are not to be regarded as such. I see no reason not to capitalize on this error in the public's judgment in order to eventually arrive at a more sensible policy. If it gives us the sort of testbed laboratories of democracy in which to see what policies work and which do not, I'm all for it.
Actually people (the public) do think of it as a gateway drug. It's roughly the same percentage of people who think so as are opposed to its legalisation. I might agree that would be a reason, for now, that it will not pass in Congress.
But this common belief is not based in facts. Marijuana users will not more than likely move on to "bigger" and "better" drugs. Regular marijuana users very often don't even try cocaine or heroin much less become regular users of these drugs as substitutes. If the gateway theory goes that people will use one and then the other, and that this is because of the drug, not the person themselves and their responsiveness to chemical use and dependence, that theory is unsupported by anything other than common folklore.
Bullshit. Alcohol is a "gateway drug" Cigarettes are a "gateway drug"….hell hypoxia and dizziness can be considered "gateway drug"
Bravo Sierra
Yes Weer'd Beard, a little common sense and observation of friends we know is all we need as proof.
Common sense and anecdotal occurrence does not a sound theory make.
I'm sorry, but I demand that all statistics and measurements have non-subjective labels and units in order for them to be of any relevance to my opinions. As far as that scale goes, you might as well say that some drugs "taste better" or "improve memory." Charts with rhetoric based units set off my internal bull s*** detector for good reason.
Are you even bothering to read the methodology of the study that chart is based from?
My uncle smokes marijuana. In fact, he grows it. He has a rare eye disease which gives him a lot of pain and stuff. He can't get a prescription for it. Without it, he wouldn't be able to leave his bed. So he smokes it.
I do not think there's anything wrong with medicinal uses. In fact, I don't think there's anything wrong with people being stupid and taking it as a recreational drug, either. At least, I don't think they should go to jail simply because they were silly enough to go 'get some stupid'.
While I agree that Marijuana is bad, I believe it should be legal, I say this because I know so many people who still smoke it anyway. If you can't get them to stop, then why not tax it?
Marijuana should at least be decriminalized. We are wasting time putting people who sell marijuana in jail. We need to keep track of REAL criminals. You know people who are actually hariming other people!!!
When is the last you ever heard of a pothead who hurt someone???!!