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I am liberal, I don't smoke and don't think I'd start even if it was legal, but I'm for legalization.
It's a personal freedoms issue imo. The fact that Marijuana is illegal, despite all the scientific evidence saying it's no more harmful (and in many cases, LESS harmful) then cigarettes and alcohol should be a problem for every freedom loving American, liberal or conservative.
I'm sure most of you have heard the phrase that the only people who support marijuana legalization are people who smoke it. While that is in fact true
Which is where you are wrong from the get go.
I've never smoked pot, not once. But it's easy to recognize the stupidity of having it be illegal and wasting so much time and money on it. I don't drink whiskey either but if you wanted to outlaw it I'd fight against that too. Or cigarettes, which I HATE, but would still fight to keep legal. People can't see past their own noses, literally.
It's the biggest non issue in the country and I don't know why people continue to fight about it. Ignorance I suppose. Inability to admit they might be wrong or to give an inch or to change things from 'how they have always been'. I can't be sure. In real life the only people who ever told me they wanted to keep it illegal were a little light in the brains department. While I can't speak for everyone who wants to keep it illegal I'm not going to rule that reason out either.
Alcohol is involved in the majority of documented homicides, manslaughters, assaults and rape cases. This is because alcohol impairs people's judgement (no sh*t). Marijuana won't influence you kill someone or rape a woman in the heat of the moment, but alcohol undoubtedly gives many people the liquid courage to do unspeakable things.
Not to mention alcohol has been used as a tool of oppression in American inner city areas for decades. It is without a doubt that an over access to alcohol fuels the crime and homicide rate in impoverished ghetto communities. For example, the notorious West Oakland has about 53 liquor stores and ZERO grocery stores. Cohesively, cheap liquor marketed to poor minorities in the ghetto definitely causes a stark difference in the prevalence of alcoholism in said communities which starkly contrasts with the generally more conservative and moderate drinking habits of higher income people. For instance, malt liquor drinkers are more likely to be poor and or unemployed minorities who drink everyday.
Not only that, alcohol causes havoc and death on America's roads every single day. In the U.S., it is estimated that 3 out of 10 people will be involved in drunk driving accidents at least once in their lives. Tens of thousands of people die every year as a result of drunk driving crashes. Accidents from drunk driving occur approximately every 45 minutes in the U.S. To add more, you can drink yourself to death easily in an hour if you drink too much. There is not a single marijuana overdose death on record in the history of mankind. Also, if you need more proof, the mere enjoyment of being drunk on a regular basis is considered to be a scary life-threatening disease known as alcoholism. Marijuana is not physically addictive like heroin or alcohol. Most people who smoke marijuana only smoke it occasionally. Also, many studies have concluded that occasional marijuana use is less harmless than drinking soda on a regular basis. It is obvious that the social cost of alcohol is astronomically higher than marijuana.
I also hate the ignorant idea that people who are alcoholics are immature people who need to learn how to "drink responsibly". Some people have a genetic predisposition to developing alcoholism and have no business drinking, even socially, in the first place. I've seen what alcoholism can do from watching people in my family. If anything, alcohol should be illegal and marijuana should be legal. But that would never happen.
Last edited by goldenchild08; 12-17-2010 at 03:56 PM..
Wow! I never read an OP with so much misinformation. Hey my mind's made up! This is pretty funny actually because the same people who complain about using our "hard earned taxdollars" to support inmates in prison are the same loudmouths who want more individuals to go to jail for offenses such as this.
You see, this is the whole point of legalizing cannabis so that it's not an illegal substance anymore. Maybe we should make alcohol an illegal substance and start locking up alcohol users. Hey we did that in the 20's didn't we? Ironically these same antihemp people say that "alcohol prohibition" didn't work, it wasn't fair to prohibit alcohol, waah!
I don't understand antimarijuana legalization people. Especially the ones who use alcohol and nicotine products.
I'm sure most of you have heard the phrase that the only people who support marijuana legalization are people who smoke it. While that is in fact true, atleast for the most part, I still don't understand the potheads. Sure, they want it to be legal so they can get their fix, and continue using harmful and illegal substances (which wouldn't be illegal if they had their way). Most people are opposed to legalization of illegal drugs, but I just don't get why some people think it's a good idea to make it legal? People who say "it puts innocent people behind bars" are idiots. Innocent people don't use illegal substances. There is no reason for marijuana, or any other illegal drug, to be legalized. You don't want to go to jail? Don't use illegal substances.
The only legitimate use for illegal drugs is for medical purposes, but if you just want to go get stoned and/or feed your addiction, then it's not okay. And people who say that marijuana is not addictive at all are full of ****. People get addicted to marijuana all the time and they suffer from it, just because you got lucky with a joint once or twice, doesn't mean that everyone is immune to become addicted and/or dependent. I really don't understand marijuana legalization people. No intelligent individual supports and/or endorses an illegal activity, yet a select few uneducated persons seem to support the use of marijuana, which is an illegal activity.
Just these two paragraphs of this thread just shows your lack of knowledge and belief of propaganda. How dare you sprout the words 'uneducated people'. There are a lot of WELL educated people that smoke weed. Marijuana isn't a 'fix'. That's cocaine and heroine etc.. No one gets addicted to marijuana and if you did any REAL research or had any REAL experience you would know this. Start a thread you actually know something about instead of just biding your time because your bored. One of two things... you're either a much older person that still believes all the old school propaganda or a young person that just listens and believes what the much older crowd tells you. Either way do some research and get yourself EDUCATED.
Marijuana may be a bit more dangerous than the pro-drug types claim.
They recently arrested a US citizen 14 year old hitman in Mexico who was cutting heads off people he tortured. He's going to go for the innocent plea because he is claiming he was kidnapped and drugged with marijuana to get him to saw off heads.
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