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Rx, meth, coke problems? Legalize the herb!!!

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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    know1 wrote:
    But if you do that, spare the the medicinal uses because that's a small percentage.

    A small percentage because its not an option. Pot has been known to help people dealing with AIDS, cancer, glocolma, anxeity and stomach disorders. symptoms Hmm... suddenly the percentage doesnt seem so small does it?
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
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    know1know1 Posts: 6,763
    MCG wrote:
    A small percentage because its not an option. Pot has been known to help people dealing with AIDS, cancer, glocolma, anxeity and stomach disorders. symptoms Hmm... suddenly the percentage doesnt seem so small does it?

    Yes it still seems small. Also, there are other legal medicines that help as well so it's not like pot is the only one.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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    HoonHoon Posts: 175
    know1 wrote:
    I don't have any well-developed thoughts on the drug war.

    I do know this - if it's illegal and there is serious jail time involved, I don't understand why people would risk that much just to get high. If a drug is that important to you, you've got a problem, in my opinion.

    I also think that the statement about criminalizing large numbers of people doesn't make a lot of sense for two reasons. First of all, the very nature of a law is that people who break it are criminals. Secondly, the people still have a choice, therefore it's not the war or the law doing the criminalizing, but instead the people who choose to ignore the law.

    Conversely, I would not oppose making it legal.

    My whole thing is that these arguments:

    a: it doesn't affect anyone else
    b. it's not as bad as alcohol
    c. it would keep people out of jail

    Are not logical, compelling reasons for making it legal.

    If you want to be compelling, find positives that it brings to people and tout those instead.

    But if you do that, spare the the medicinal uses because that's a small percentage. Also, spare me the "it gives me an escape" or "relieves stress" lines because those can be found elsewhere.


    A large number of people want it to be legal. It is a part of our lives and we would prefer not to be criminals. We break the law because it is an unjust law. We don't have "criminal" minds because we chose to break them. I would never lie, cheat, steal, injure or kill. I just want to take a little hit when I watch a movie, hang with friends or sit around and get in touch with god. For most people it is a beneficial experience to their perspective on life. I don't see what the problem is.

    Why should it be illegal?

    I'm guessing hemp is part of a differrent disscussion, but the stigma placed on such an efficient plant as that is one I'm sure you find ridiculas.
    If you keep yourself as the final arbiter you will be less susceptible to infection from cultural illusion.
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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    tybird wrote:
    My argument is that people should never be allowed to smoke it in public....never....ever......under no circumstances in public.

    Your health is no more important than mine. Second-hand pot smoke is a severe deterrant to my good health. Face it. Pot is not good for everyone.

    I agree with you about 100% here. People should never be allowed to smoke anything, cigarettes included in a public place where it could harm somebody else and I personally am very careful about that.

    Of course its not good for everyone, what may be right for you may not be right for some. I'd never try to force it on anybody that is for sure. It's simply my opinion that some people could benefit from being able to aquire it leagally. You won't get any argument from me there.

    Bars must be hell for you :(
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    know1 wrote:
    Yes it still seems small. Also, there are other legal medicines that help as well so it's not like pot is the only one.

    Well then, I guess I can't convince you of pots medicinal benefits. No hard feelings, a fun debate on an otherwise unneventful day :)
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
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    AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,569
    Elvis didn't do no drugs!
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    MCG wrote:
    Bars must be hell for you :(
    Catching a show in a bar, where smoking is allowed, equals at least a day of bed rest. :(
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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    Jammin909Jammin909 Posts: 888
    tybird wrote:
    My argument is that people should never be allowed to smoke it in public....never....ever......under no circumstances in public.

    Your health is no more important than mine. Second-hand pot smoke is a severe deterrant to my good health.

    The air is so full of shit a couple joints/cigs every now and again will not take another day off your life.
    The less you know, the more you believe.
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    know1know1 Posts: 6,763
    MCG wrote:
    Well then, I guess I can't convince you of pots medicinal benefits. No hard feelings, a fun debate on an otherwise unneventful day :)

    Nope..you can't. "Medical marijuana" is definitely about the "marijuana" and not about the "medical".

    You can't tell me that you all who want it legalized would be happy with it being legal just for specific medicinal purposes. Also, you can't tell me that if there was another medicine that was just as good on the symptoms, but without the high that you'd use that instead.
    The only people we should try to get even with...
    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.
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    Ahnimus wrote:
    Elvis didn't do no drugs!


    And it shows! :p
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    know1 wrote:
    No you don't get it. I don't have anything against pot, although I don't have much respect for people who place such a high importance on it.

    I'm also generally against the governmnet regulating anything...only the bare minimum.

    All I'm saying is that your arguments for legalizing it are illogical.

    (and once again, it is very naive to think that your actions do not affect others. Everyone's actions and even their thoughts affect other people)

    know1, I'm going to have to disagree with your sig again :D Why exactly is it illogical then? I'd love to hear this. Man you already lost this argument before it started.

    So whe are going to admit it eh? lol
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    tybird wrote:
    My argument is that people should never be allowed to smoke it in public....never....ever......under no circumstances in public.

    Your health is no more important than mine. Second-hand pot smoke is a severe deterrant to my good health. Face it. Pot is not good for everyone.

    Omg I think you need some meds from the sound of it. Are you one of those "you can't smoke ever!!! ...even if it outdoors" people? Oh my god get a grip already lady :D ...save yourself before it's just too late...
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    tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Jammin909 wrote:
    The air is so full of shit a couple joints/cigs every now and again will not take another day off your life.
    Wrong answer.............you go straight to jail and do not collect $200. That's one of the problems with you pot smokers........"Man, pot is so good......it does not harm a soul" wrong.........wrong..........wrong..........wrong.......wrong....
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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    RockinInCanadaRockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
    tybird wrote:
    Wrong answer.............you go straight to jail and do not collect $200. That's one of the problems with you pot smokers........"Man, pot is so good......it does not harm a soul" wrong.........wrong..........wrong..........wrong.......wrong....

    Which is utterly ridiculous to goto jail for a smoke...thankfully my country does not wrongly punish innocent behaviour....
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    tybird wrote:
    Wrong answer.............you go straight to jail and do not collect $200. That's one of the problems with you pot smokers........"Man, pot is so good......it does not harm a soul" wrong.........wrong..........wrong..........wrong.......wrong....


    prozac colada anyone? :D
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    HoonHoon Posts: 175
    know1 wrote:
    Nope..you can't. "Medical marijuana" is definitely about the "marijuana" and not about the "medical".

    You can't tell me that you all who want it legalized would be happy with it being legal just for specific medicinal purposes. Also, you can't tell me that if there was another medicine that was just as good on the symptoms, but without the high that you'd use that instead.


    There are actually many cases where marijana is the only thing that works compared to the other drugs.

    I'm not a supporter of legalization for medicinal purposes only, I just think it's a plain silly law!

    I support legalization to grow it for personal use.

    Why should it be illegal? Anyone have an answer?

    We, who want it legalized, just want all your support on this issue. We want other drugs out of peoples hands.

    But to put Marijana in the same catagory as any other drug takes away from the impact of that important message.

    If it would be allowed to be grown for personal use we all save tons of money. For the buyers/users and less prisons/jails and police time. We would also eliminate "the dealer" coming in contact with people, so exposure and access to bad drugs would be eliminated.


    Why should it be illegal? Anyone have an answer?
    If you keep yourself as the final arbiter you will be less susceptible to infection from cultural illusion.
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    RockinInCanadaRockinInCanada Posts: 2,016
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    You don't even flinch

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    Against the new non-rich,

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    Right here in Hollywood,



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    All research and successful drug policy show

    That treatment should be increased,

    And law enforcement decreased,

    While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences,

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    While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences.



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    Another prison system,

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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    Hoon wrote:
    There are actually many cases where marijana is the only thing that works compared to the other drugs.

    Why should it be illegal? Anyone have an answer?

    I find it amusing that people who have the least experience with drugs always talk like they know the most. Given their mindsets it does not surprise me.

    Have any of these people looked at the effects of prohibition back in the 1920's? They prohibited the sale of alcohol. It created a huge underground network of alcohol selling mafia killers aka "The Mafia" that extorted the entire retail sector became so rediculously powerful it's ongoing legacy can be seen everywhere to this day.

    What happened when they took the ban off liquor and legalized it? The gangs withered out.

    If you could grow herb to get high at home, you wouldn't need to use coke or meth heroin etc..

    I would also bet that new cases of heroin and crack use would go down. Take away the dealers.
    The cops can;t do this ever. The people themselves have to eliminate the need for them if there is any chance of doing it.

    Everyone that gets a harder drug, usually gets it from their weed dealer. That guy either sells crack and heroin, or he knows someone who does. If you're not there to buy weed from a dealer in the first place......get it?
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    "now let's get talking reefer madness
    like some arrogant government can't
    by any stretch of the imagination
    outlaw a plant
    yes, their supposed authority over nature
    is a dream
    c'mon people
    we've got to come clean"
    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
    -Oscar Wilde
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    AhnimusAhnimus Posts: 10,569
    Google Videos

    Reefer Madness
    History of Marijuana Narrated by Woody Harrelson.
    I necessarily have the passion for writing this, and you have the passion for condemning me; both of us are equally fools, equally the toys of destiny. Your nature is to do harm, mine is to love truth, and to make it public in spite of you. - Voltaire
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    This guy is a riot as well (fast forward to a few mins in)

    http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2497.html

    also watch at 6 mins 50 seconds...
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    watch MJ man demonstrate the "Vapo Genie" (at 14:00 mins)

    now that's some classic post Cheech & Chong era shit right there...

    The dude is hooting on pure THC trichomes (resin heads). Check out his reaction!....ha...lol classic. There's not supposed to be any smoke but he toked it so hard...bwaa haaaa...

    http://www.pot-tv.net/ram/pottvshowse2497.ram

    he recovered well though, he remained standing, and talking (coherently).... :D
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    It's a very misunderstood herb. It's was previously thought to be related to the mulberry/hacklberry plants, and more recently hops plant which is used in beer if anyone didn't know that. Cannabis is now placed in the Rosales family order:

    Rosales include: roses; strawberries, blackberries and raspberries; apples and pears; plums, peaches and apricots; almonds; rowan and hawthorn; elms; figs; nettles; and hops and cannabis.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabaceae
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    MeatwagonMeatwagon Posts: 108
    A short story on the medical side of this.....My dad suffers from cronic pain in his back. A bad fall 20 years ago that no amount of surgery and morphine can really take care of. Now the morphine pump was put in about 6 years ago, and the dose just keeps getting bigger after every visit to the Doc. To put in his words "Son. All this shit sucks. I feel the best when I can sit around a talk to my indina brothers" All that fancy medicine and a plain old smoke helps bring it all into focus for a bit.
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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    know1 wrote:
    Nope..you can't. "Medical marijuana" is definitely about the "marijuana" and not about the "medical".

    That's a point I'll argue. Many other medicines that marijuana could be used as an alternative to give you a high. An example I'll use is morphine. Morphine, like marijuana can be used as a pain killer and they both give you a high of sorts. For some people, morphine and many other pain killing drugs can cause naseau and a variety of other side effects. It is also known to be a highly addictive substance. Marijuna can kill the same pain but without the side effects or the dependance.

    It is not about legalizing it to replace other medicines, because other medicines are obviously already there. It's about an alternative to medicines. It's also a hell of a lot more natural for your body than most prescription drugs.
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    tybird wrote:
    Wrong answer.............you go straight to jail and do not collect $200. That's one of the problems with you pot smokers........"Man, pot is so good......it does not harm a soul" wrong.........wrong..........wrong..........wrong.......wrong....

    I'll correct you kindly sir, that is the problem with CERTAIN pot smokers. There are some very courteous fellows out there :).
    Which came first,
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    MCGMCG Posts: 780
    Omg I think you need some meds from the sound of it. Are you one of those "you can't smoke ever!!! ...even if it outdoors" people? Oh my god get a grip already lady :D ...save yourself before it's just too late...

    Man I'm on the legalize it front but that is not right. Some people have very serious smoke allergies and it's not all about how much smoke there is, it can be even just the smell. Like that kid everyone had in their class that couldn't even take the smell of peanut butter. It is important to the pot smoking population to be respectful of the non-smoking population because when respect is shown, respect is given.
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
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    tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Which is utterly ridiculous to goto jail for a smoke...thankfully my country does not wrongly punish innocent behaviour....
    The "go to jail" reference is only a reference to the game Monopoly........if someone was spraying the air that you were breathing with something that made you physically ill, would you not protest their activity??????
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
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    rightonduderightondude Posts: 745
    MCG wrote:
    Man I'm on the legalize it front but that is not right. Some people have very serious smoke allergies and it's not all about how much smoke there is, it can be even just the smell. Like that kid everyone had in their class that couldn't even take the smell of peanut butter. It is important to the pot smoking population to be respectful of the non-smoking population because when respect is shown, respect is given.

    You know that saying that if your kids's are allergic to peanut butter and jelly sanwiches...well, perhaps they just aint gonna make it ......(in a public school).

    Wear a mask outdoors if you cant cope even to that level. How much car exhaust do you inhale walking down the street? It doesn't appear to bother the vast majority of seemingly normal people in this way? Not exercising can be the equivalent to smoking a half pack to a full pack of cigarettes per day. That scenario is progressive as well. If you are more unhealthy and you don't do cardio, the effects are amplified. Then there is diet ....Hoh-boy.

    Outdoors is outdoors... It's like you're saying "hey you don't deserve to even breathe my air"...frankly......Shaadaap!! :D ....it's rediculous, you're just gonna paint yourself a hater...

    are you gonna bitch at me because I light a campfire and drink beer too? Grr I'd have some hack, slash, and turn ya around quick shit ready in layers in person in that environment :D I shut down losers at teh boat launch all the time. there is an in and an out ramp. I come in on the out ramp when there is absolutely no lineup just to see if the guys is cool and get's his ride wet, or he bitches. I just retort back...ya dude there's no line...so big deal...take your pick. 99 percent of the time the guy just crumbles speechless dumbfounded. I often come in to dock up at specific times. I love smart people, it's the the dense stubborn that rub me like rubbing crushed glass onto the surface my brain.
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    Pacomc79Pacomc79 Posts: 9,404
    know1 wrote:
    Nope..you can't. "Medical marijuana" is definitely about the "marijuana" and not about the "medical".

    You can't tell me that you all who want it legalized would be happy with it being legal just for specific medicinal purposes. Also, you can't tell me that if there was another medicine that was just as good on the symptoms, but without the high that you'd use that instead.



    I disagree, I know several people who suffer from Fibromyalgia(sp) and THC is the only drug that alleviates the issues for them without serious side effects, they've tried everything else.

    It's also effective for glaucoma and other serious ailments. It dosen't have to be smoked, but our government won't allow any research on it at all.

    Which is interesting, we can use all sorts of other hard narcotics to treat ailments in the hospital, but god forbid they work with THC. Because Oxycontin is just so appealing.
    My Girlfriend said to me..."How many guitars do you need?" and I replied...."How many pairs of shoes do you need?" She got really quiet.
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