Comments on: Should marijuana be legalized?

By: Ryno

Ryno — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:46:39 +0000

Yes I believe it should be made legal! I have been smoking for more than two years now and it has changed my life for the better good. I have developed a real peaceful nature where I was normally a very aggresive person. WEED, POT, Mary Jane. And i have never been as healthy in my life! So all that bullshit stories they are spreading about weed making a person stupid or sick for that matter is a bunch of Bull.

Thanks.

Ryno

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:04:32 +0000

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???!!

By: Brandon Snider

Brandon Snider — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 11:34:19 +0000

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?

By: Liberty

Liberty — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 12:41:25 +0000

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'.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:21:53 +0000

Are you even bothering to read the methodology of the study that chart is based from?

By: Andrew Clunn

Andrew Clunn — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:29:04 +0000

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.

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:08:44 +0000

Common sense and anecdotal occurrence does not a sound theory make.

By: Jared

Jared — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:44:25 +0000

Yes Weer'd Beard, a little common sense and observation of friends we know is all we need as proof.

By: Weer'd Beard

Weer'd Beard — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:26:58 +0000

Bullshit. Alcohol is a "gateway drug" Cigarettes are a "gateway drug"….hell hypoxia and dizziness can be considered "gateway drug"

Bravo Sierra

By: Sun Tzu

Sun Tzu — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:09:53 +0000

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.