Originally Posted by ultimation

Marijuana is helpful in some disease cases, being 'legal' doesn't mean you have the right smoke it, but it means that hospitals(doctors,scientists) are aloud to experiment with it.

Originally Posted by Agentmax

Still not nice, some people have mental problems like that. Don't use the term so broadly.

Anyways, I'm just saying, the government CANNOT! Make a "buck" on this plant we call Marijuana. It's a natural substance and like all natural substances it can prove to be harmful as stated by cobra. With it being a natural substance you can not put any type of dosage, time of day it to be used, and how often it can be used. Also like cobra said, people become dependent on it like they do cigs and alcoholic beverages. So to say it's "Better" then those is complete lack of observation on your part. Because eventually if you smoke enough weed, you become dependent and you won't do anything with your life because your high all the fucking time. Not too mention you'll food bill go out the roof.

Still, the fact that weed is being legalized fucks up the street price. Because if the government FINDS a way to tax it. All hell will break loose on the street because those who sell it will lose their profits and pitch a fit.

Also I didn't think cancer could be cured by such unconventional ways.

Originally Posted by cocacobra

Harm is harm, no matter what. It makes you happy right? I would go into all the science behind it but I don't feel like typing so summary! Everytime you do something that you think is fun you release THC. When you smoke marijuana it releases alot of THC but the THC stays and you become accustomed to that happiness and it makes every other activity you do besides smoking weed less fun. So smoking weed continuously is the only way to get that happiness your now relying on, making daily life more of a chore. That itself has many major side effects on a society. That already outweighs the "economic gains" all the pro legalize people say. Let alone the damage to your lungs, the damage to your throat, and all the side effects of smoking in general. Oh yeah and marijuana can lead to other drugs once the high of marijuana isn't good enough anymore; you'd probably reply no way I'm going to use other drugs! Other people might, and allowing recreational marijuana is going to open alot of paths that can lead to increased rates of crime. Which is something we don't need now that prisons are overcrowded.

It's pretty popular must be good. Just like opium in China during the 18th century, right? History repeats itself. Also if we legalized marijuana right now, that would officially be one of the worst ideas politicians have agreed to. In hard economic times, people resort to stress relievers, whether it be smoking cigarettes, cigars, alcohol and now introducing marijuana

I MEAN DOPAMINE instead of THC

Originally Posted by cocacobra

Actually, we're talking about recreational use. I can tell you don't know what that is. Recreational use of marijuana is you can buy it from a store and smoke it anywhere where it's permitted legally. Smoking weed is now the same as smoking a ciggarette. In those two states ofc

SINCE THIS IS RECREATIONAL
we don't need to hear how its great for patients, because its recreational usage.

Originally Posted by Agentmax

Ah, thank you for the lesson there. I have heard though people make up bullshit excuses at the doctor just so they can smoke it without getting in trouble.

IE: The people who are dependent on it go to great lengths to get it.

Originally Posted by xero901

Here's my short sentence.

Smoke weed moderately, and drink beer moderately.
All problems; Solved.

Edit:

It seems I'm going to need to make a bigger explanation.
People can get addicted to anything and it can lead to problems. Masterbating is really good but you don't want to get addicted to that for too long. Playing toribash is really good but you don't want to get addicted to that for too long.
Same with drugs and beer like that. If you want to do it? Fine, just do it responsibly.
We don't want high or drunk people randomly walking around our streets.
Making it a crime isn't going to stop people from doing it, it's just going to make them criminals.

Originally Posted by sham

You're fucking retarded. You get the munchies, and you eat a bag of chips. You don't fucking buy a shit ton of food, and become obese. You are retarded. I will use that term because:

You can't put together a proper sentence.

You think that your "food bill" will go out the roof if you smoke weed.

You're retarded.
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Increased rates of crime? If anything, there will be a shit ton less of illegal drugdealers, and marijuana plantations.

Also it doesn't kill. It's not as bad for you as cigarettes.
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Nope, you can only buy up to 1 oz, and you must be at least 21. You can't smoke it in most places.