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DaysAreDone wrote:Do you have studies and examples to support your claim? Not all users, but a lot would waste their lives away being "high." If marijuana was legalized is would be just be another step towards moral and social anarchy. I do support the use of marijuana for cancer patients and people that need it for real and serious medical reasons though.

Please define 'waste'. Personaly I tihnk it should be your own choice and I don't see how smoking a joint wastes your life more then (following Prmek's example) playing some game (CS:S / HL2 anyone?). Games prevent you from sleeping and cause bad school grades ow noes!11!!1!!!!!!!oneone lets only make games available to people that need it for medical purposses!

Give me a break and let things which are of this little influence be people's own choice.

rootland wrote:Please define 'waste'. Personaly I tihnk it should be your own choice and I don't see how smoking a joint wastes your life more then (following Prmek's example) playing some game (CS:S / HL2 anyone?). Games prevent you from sleeping and cause bad school grades ow noes!11!!1!!!!!!!oneone lets only make games available to people that need it for medical purposses!

Give me a break and let things which are of this little influence be people's own choice.

You're right, we should let everyone do what they want.

I don't like any type of drugs, but I tried marijuana 1 time.
I didn't like it...

the neverendin question ...

although many of you think, it's completly harmless, in combination with young persons boring life, it can be very psychological addictive...
which , with time, has it's "price" (doesn't all? )

my opinion : it should be legalised, but only for those who won't abuse it (as in, over consumption)

Sure why not?

i live in the netherlands and it is legal over here

so why not in the rest of the world?

Dragster wrote:Sure why not?

i live in the netherlands and it is legal over here

so why not in the rest of the world?

It's illegal everywhere else, so why not in the Netherlands?

Will wrote:When we look to the standards set by alcohol and cigarettes, sure it should be legalized regardless of the health issues. But, in my opinion the only reason cigarettes and alchohol isn't illegalized is not because they're good, or not as bad, but because they're so entrenched in the culture/citizens.

I concur.

nice topic old skool

i sure to give it a yes there i use weed use.
i come from a country named BELGIUM :p EUROPE :p, we got this great country above us (like 120km from my country) called The Netherlands as some if you know the country, other don't its like the only europe country where its legalized and where you buy quality weed in so called coffeeshop (pub where they sell weed) its complete LEGAL to have 25grams of weed with you
(If your 18+ offcourse)

im my country belgium, its ilegal to transfer or to have more then 3 grams due the massive jointabuser b/c the netherlands is our neightbourcountry, we are allowed to smoke it in our homes, or outside without indivuduals under 18 years. Onlythings where we give a shit on is that it isn't allowed to transfer weed from holland to belgium, there they police is looking for LOL

therefor poor canada, been there, smoked there weed, rolling fath joints with much of weed where i was going like WTF so meany weed in a joint, then take a puff and the weed is like CRAP :p we, you don't harm someone with it, if its allowed to grow it yourself like in netherlands or belgium, give it a goo

hell yes.

*lights bowl
*coughs and dies

Weed is not legal in The Netherlands like alot seem to think, police just won't activly pursue small doses. Its on list 2 of narcotics in Holland which means it are drugs with an acceptable risk for your health.

However the whole discussion in politics at the moment is wether we should legalize it or not

I wouldnt want it to be legalized because of the people who will drive under the influence. Have you ever tried driving on it? My friend can drive decently, but different people react differently to it. I however notice I start preparing my stop for a stop sign thats 1/4 mi away since my depth perception is messed up. And I think there will be a lot of DUI's due to the legnth of time you are high.

vermillion wrote:I wouldnt want it to be legalized because of the people who will drive under the influence.

Lets also make booze illegal then

Why don't you try quoting my last sentence also, that answers your sarcasm.

Just because they both affect your driving doesn't mean you can simply say they both should be illegal. Unlike marijuana, alcohol is somewhat predicatable; you have a general idea of how long you will be affected(which isnt that long compared to marijuana) and how much it will affect you. I have gotten high, a couple hours later felt like I was back to normal, then felt high again a couple hours after.

But if it was legalized, how would you know when you are ok to drive? And if it became legal to use but illegal to drive under the influence(like alcohol), could you see people smoking then not driving anywhere for several hours?

I dont see any reference to liqour in your following lines so I didnt quote them.

You cannot predict how long murihuana will affect you opposed to alchohol? There might not be exact numbers but then, are there for alchohol? It all depends on how much you take.

And yes, at this point I have to agree that pot is somewhat less 'reliable' then liqour. You can get high/stoned and feel good for some time before it strikes again (god, I have a love/hate relationship with that feeling:p). With alchohol this can however also occeur (yes, you are correct on this point, atleast, abit :p).

But then, my last comment was serious, it was as you said sarcastic, I don't think alchohol should be made illegal, just think pot should

Id have to say it should be it has only been stoped in the last 30 years that Canabis has been illegal but that is just my opinion