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Why break out cocaine and heroin from marijuana? They're drugs that are obtained from plants. Just as hallucinogenic mushrooms are. And meth and LSD are just some chemicals.
You might want to ask yourself why cocaine and meth should be as commonly and easily available as beer and wine - and if you have ever known someone addicted to meth or cocaine, you might understand the problem some people have in accepting these drugs.
Your missing the point - people who are addicted to cocaine, heroin, meth, etc may be addicted to marijuana but not vice versa. You can't be addicted to pot. I've smoked on and off for years and never go through withdrawal symptoms bc/ there aren't any. If it's there, I'll smoke it, but if not, I'm not feigning for it.
Also, heroin is semi-synthetic - it doesn't grow straight up from the ground. You have to extract a chemical from the opium poppy and add more to it to get heroin. It's not the same thing as eating a mushroom from the ground or smoking a leaf.
Just to clarify, I believe that the people who are addicted to cocaine and everything else who are also "addicted" to weed aren't technically addicted to weed. Most just use it as a fall back drug when they can't get anything else and its those people who need real help. They are trying to escape reality through any means necessary whether it be meth, pot, alcohol, mouthwash, etc.
Prostitution generates "lots of money" too and does less damage to society.
The "damage to society" rhetoric is simply used to get people behind prohibiting something with little or no facts to support the prohibition. Who gets to decide what is good and bad for society? If its not hurting anyone else, whats the problem?
The only reason it's illegal, is because the money can't be taxed. Same with drugs (along with pharm, prison/police lobbies). If Uncle Sam can't get his share, then it must be evil.
Real Crimes: Theft, Murder, Rape, Fraud, Anything Else Violence-related.
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Drugs such as Marijuana, and Peyote are fully grown from the ground. There is no chemicals being added to it. While Cocaine and Heroin use ingredients from the ground, there are chemicals that are added to it that can....no...will kill you. No matter how much Marijuana you smoke you can never "overdose" on it. It's impossible. Try doing the same with Heroin and you're good as dead. There are obvious differences between them...
But there are thousands upon thousands of heroin and cocaine addicts around the world...
I find you wanting to deny them their right to use whatever drug they choose hypocritical.
I also find it rather ridiculous that pot may become legal yet steroids will probably still be classified as Schedule III. I have no desire to smoke weed but I have no problems using a little testosterone to gain some muscle, lose some fat, and feel better through hard work in the gym and strict dieting.
...And I have no desire to gain muscle, lose some fat and have my testes shrivel up, but I have no problem using a little Marijuana to relax, and feel better....What's your point??
Could someone provide a modern study showing Marijuana is not addictive?
From the quick search online,it appears it IS addictive.
....You can search "Marijuana is addictive" and "Marijuana isn't addictive" online and sh*t will come up for both of them. If you're reading that it is...you're becoming more misinformed...
I live in an apartment complex. Don't want to participate in your drug high through the walls. If you want to eat it and get stupid, fine by me.
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How does one participate in a drug high through the walls?
That's actually a valid point. New construction apartments are put up so fast and not insulated between the units.
Some places don't allow cigarette smoking and some towns have laws that you can't smoke in an apartment that has shared walls.
The way around it it is apply the smoking law to marijuana.
Americans consume more drugs than any other nation. Many probably eat Tylenol, Advil, and Aleve by the handfuls.
So why not legalizing substances such as Marijuana and tax the hell out of it? People use it, why not make a substancial amount of money off it? (If the vote for the legalization of it is passed in Cali, the gov estimates over 1 billion dollars in tax revenue every year from it...)
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