Should weed be legal? [Discussion]

[Novistion]

https://www.facebook.com/TheOriginalBestOfTumblr/videos/1292496050901589/

This video says it all. I personally think yes.

[Verthaa]

IMO, it shouldn't be legal. Just a personal belief.

[ShiftHitTheFan]

Wait what? Isn't THC addictive?

Everything is addictive. Sugar is a major addiction substance. Ever just need a chocolate bar?

[thekeemo]

Everything is addictive. Sugar is a major addiction substance. Ever just need a chocolate bar?

No actually.

Tika chicken on the other hand..

[Misanthrope]

Don´t do drugs kids. 

I don´t really care about that. I neither smoke nor drink. But I think it´s actually alcohol that is more dangerous. It´s just so underestimated and in my country you can drink beer at the age of 16 and it´s like so cool to drink alcohol at that age. Yeah, and there is the problem with addiction.

 

Hey I can drink beer at work during my lunch break.....granted I work on a beer factory but still pretty cool.

[Memories4K]

 

I don't think it's necessarily that they don't know better, I think it's that the foods easier to obtain.

That's why I eat it. I know I shouldn't but it's just so much easier than cooking something.

Plus that fountain pop. Such addiction.

No, it's absolutely a case of the public not knowing better.

We don't fund education well here and the vast majority think being overweight/obese is "just genetics" and that any males under 15% bodyfat and females under 20% bodyfat are simply "starving themselves".

Just the other day i met with a woman who had gone through lipo to lose 40 pounds and she was in my office, referred, telling me she's been gaining the weight back on and had no idea why after she had already gotten her operation...God bless her for taking the initiative though; telling me how "she eats so healthy and exercises"...after about a 20-minute conversation going back and forth i found out that she didn't keep track of her calories (the obvious), her diet consisted of low-protein/low-carb/high-fat foods like salads drenched in fucking ranch and high-calorie yogurts (because she heard going into Ketosis is what's "hip" to fat-loss nowadays...), and that her "exercise" consisted of 30-minute dedicated walks and no resistance-training (which, honestly, is better than most Americans so she had that going for her)

 

But see that's the thing.

This lady made the effort to be healthy however she could think of and it still led to her gaining weight.

It's not as simple as not allowing certain foods for public sale, people need to take responsibility for themselves; like you, many people know what they're eating is bad and still eat it but that's your lack of self-control. (inb4 i'm called an Annie)

Self-control is a good thing and it's hard for everyone, but it's a skill and moderation is something everyone builds upon.

Like moderation when smoking, or drinking.

Edited January 10, 2016 by Godlygamer23
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[Albatross]

Yes, it should be legal.

 

If someone can smoke next to me and give me their secondhand smoke, weed should be legal. If someone can drink their capacity to think away and kill someone because of that influence, someone should be able to chill with some weed. Or to ease pain with it. Point is weed is fine with moderation. For all the people thinking legalizing weed is wrong because it is bad for you, I ask: what isn't bad for you out of moderation? Should we make alcohol and coffee illegal? Cigarettes? What about candy and soda? How about spinach?

 

No one should be telling anyone want to eat, drink, smoke, marry, love, like, dislike or anything else! Yet somehow only doctors are allowed to legally put you into an addiction (and kill you)? Pathetic.

 

We need a man like Gary Johnson to step up and put us back on track. Maybe when people taste real freedom and liberty, they won't let it get slaughtered by power-hungry morons and the people with the "think about the children" mentality.

[Serin]

I think most things that harm no one but the user should be legal - given a certain *high* level of education in society.
At the same time I think we'd like be better off as a global society if mind altering drugs weren't thought of as a great idea - humans have enough trouble being sane anyway.

[SQZY98]

Hey I can drink beer at work during my lunch break.....granted I work on a beer factory but still pretty cool.

Lol. Do what you wanna do. I personally think that beer is meh, even though im living in bavaria, that´s like the beer paradise, i guess.

[Overkilled]

Snoop dogg already has his own weed company in Colorado apparently 

[OcramBro]

No because everyone that I know that is a pothead is usually very trashy and hood-rat like people. I'm not calling everyone that uses weed a trashy hood-rat but from my experience they usually are but there are some people that I know and they use weed and they're fairly decent people but that's besides the point. And plus it would be abused.

[dizmo]

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Guess it's just a difference of where we live then.

I have self control. I choose to eat it, because I want to. Don't get those two things confused.

[PlayStation 2]

Yes. It's been proven time and time again that even abusing marijuana can't kill you. You're just smoking the bud of a plant.

Meanwhile, cigarettes are pretty much tar pits wrapped in paper.

[Clyne]

Its legal here...pretty sure other states would follow suit.

[Citadelen]

While I like to identifiy as a borderline Ultra-Leftist, drugs are something I simply don't like, while a lot of Liberals will argue that people should be allowed to do what they want to their bodies, I don't think people should be allowed to harm themselves, while Cannabis isn't particularly harmful, it can exploit mental weakness in some people, leading to bi-polar disorder, or schizophrenia. I also don't think alcohol or tobacco should be legal, as well as the vast array of legal highs. If there's one right that I don't think people should have, it's the right to harm one's self. I do however support medical Cannabis, as long as back round checks have been made to establish whether they're are prone to the possible mental health risks involved with it.   

[Real_PhillBert]

I'm on the "Your body, your rules" bandwagon. If you can use it in a way that is not harmful to others, it's your business and your business alone. 

[alicskysareblue]

I've dine it and have mostly stopped, It just makes me lazy and eat a lot, plus since I have OCD and other anxiety disorders it just makes me paranoid.

[Trik'Stari]

No more harmful than alcohol or caffeine.

[Guest]

No more harmful than alcohol or caffeine.

I do like those 2. A lot.

[Totallycasual]

While yes i do think weed and other drugs should be made legal its maybe not for the the same reasons as the OP.

 

The best course of action in the war on drugs is to legalize them all, have all of the users on a program where they get their daily/weekly doses/amounts from government approved dispensaries. When this solution has been implemented in other countries crime rates fall dramatically, drug addiction, HIV and Hep C all fall dramatically as does the amount of money we spend on law enforcement and the judiciary wasting money to investigate and prosecute them.

 

Once all of this has been put in place then you can start to funnel some of the savings into addressing these peoples health issues, i see drug addiction as an illness that can be cured if tackled in the right way.

 

Can you imagine how small our prison populations would be if we weren't persecuting addicts, think about the cost to society of a crack/heroin/ice addict fueling his or her $500 a day habit, think about the crimes they commit to get a fix, boggles my mind. As logical as all of this is it will sadly never happen because its a political bomb, any politician openly pushing for this would be committing career suicide and that wont change until we as a society start to change how we see addicts and the problem as a whole.  

[Admiral Naismith]

It's 'harmful' effects aren't *that* bad. Especially if it's responsibly used. It has legitimate health benefits, is a healthier painkiller versus many other addictive pain killers like Oxy, etc..

 

It should have an age restriction to deter underage usage. +18. I say the same with alcohol. It should also face similar restrictions with Tobacco and Alcohol. I don't want to pass people in Disney Land who are lighting reefers if you get my drift.

 

The most important reason I argue however is that, by making it legal, you take a massive chunk out of crime. Cartels are a significant problem in the U.S. (more than most people know) and having something as benign as weed contribute to that is simply stupid. By making it legal, legitimate and taxable businesses are created that would absolutely destroy this part of the cartels' business. Less money wasted fighting crime (gang violence, cartels, etc.), less people going to jail , less money funding the cartels resulting in less crime, etc..

This is implying that whatever bill legalizes it doesn't hand over the rights to a hand full of specific businesses like they've been trying to do. That'll create a monopoly that would be hard to break and result in cartels just undercutting.

[Trik'Stari]

I do like those 2. A lot.

I will fucking cut anyone who tries to take away my caffeine. I need that shit to live.

[Guest]

I will fucking cut anyone who tries to take away my caffeine. I need that shit to live.

I can do without, but it won't be nice.

[Coaxialgamer]

Drugs in general : no way in hell ( don't want heroin or hard drugs to be legal )

 

But for less harmful stuff , people should be able to put what they want into their bodies.

Weed should be legal.

And the government shouldn't have made psilocybin illegal ( let alone a class A drug ) , as it isn't addictive and  has so far shown to have health benefits .

 

But what would i know , i don't do drugs ( just making that clear )

[Memories4K]

I will fucking cut anyone who tries to take away my caffeine. I need that shit to live.

Spoken like a true addict of psychoactive stimulants.

 

On the real though, even drugs like caffeine can serve a purpose with moderation.

The point is to stop thinking of anything as "good drugs" and "bad drugs" when that's not how it works.

 

Drugs in general : no way in hell ( don't want heroin or hard drugs to be legal )

 

But for less harmful stuff , people should be able to put what they want into their bodies.

Weed should be legal.

And the government shouldn't have made psilocybin illegal ( let alone a class A drug ) , as it isn't addictive and  has so far shown to have health benefits .

 

But what would i know , i don't do drugs ( just making that clear )

Ironically enough, Heroin, while being as physically addictive as Nicotine, seems to be fairly safe and is one of the least physically harmful drugs granted your source is clean, take the proper dosage, and you don't share needles. (I was surprised to when i learned this)

 

We have to be careful what we deem "too harmful" and "less harmful".

Alcohol and Nicotine have taken the most lives out of any other drugs.

 

Magic mushrooms still do have the ability to be addictive.