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Yeah, we behave so responsibly with the drugs that _are_ legal...let's add some more so I can see more deaths, injuries, and social problems. Wheeee!
Just curious... can you point me to a documented case of a death due to weed?
And don't we already have laws prohibiting illegal behavior such as assault, wreckless driving, child endangerment? Does it matter what drives people to commit these acts, or should we punish the act itself?
From all the evidence I've seen, weed is much less intoxicating, and dangerous for you than alcohol. Also, it is cheaper than alcohol, you can't become addicted to it, doesn't cause fits of rage, and actually has some medical benefits. Oh and you can't OD on it, you would have to die of smoke asphyxiation first.
Just curious... can you point me to a documented case of a death due to weed?
And don't we already have laws prohibiting illegal behavior such as assault, wreckless driving, child endangerment? Does it matter what drives people to commit these acts, or should we punish the act itself?
I can point you to about a billion people I've had to treat b/c of stupid behavior on weed.
But it's true...it's no different than people who drive drunk or people who give themselves cancer by smoking. I'm just so tired of seeing this. It's a waste of money to all of society.
Btw, weed can be addictive and it does cause cancer. So don't go thinking those two things aren't true.
Yeah, we behave so responsibly with the drugs that _are_ legal...let's add some more so I can see more deaths, injuries, and social problems. Wheeee!
People are going to use marijuana whether it's legal or not; for thousands of years, it has been a part of human society and shows no signs of just poofing away because of totalitarian enactments against this beneficial and endlessly useful plant. Cannabis is one of the safest kinds of psychoactive plants and medicines that exist; it is impossible to die from cannabis consumption. You could eat two ounces in twenty minutes or smoke a pound in a day and you won't come even close to reaching a lethal amount. You can't say the same about even as ubuquitous a substance as caffeine (though caffeine still remains one of the safest mind-altering substances, it isn't as safe as marijuana).
Cannabis can be valuable to treat depression, ADHD, glaucoma, and many other disorders. Carl Sagan especially was a proponent of medicinal marijuana. While people die every year from using pharmaceutical, chemical-based medications, no one has ever died of overdosing on marijuana.
Prohibition does not work. The Drug War (which is more like a war on Nature and the American people), like the Eighteenth Amendment, has been a tragic failure that has driven responsible use of cannabis underground, ruined many honest, hard-working peoples' lives, and has wasted hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars in the pursuit of controlling private citizens' private lives.
I can point you to about a billion people I've had to treat b/c of stupid behavior on weed.
But it's true...it's no different than people who drive drunk or people who give themselves cancer by smoking. I'm just so tired of seeing this. It's a waste of money to all of society.
Btw, weed can be addictive and it does cause cancer. So don't go thinking those two things aren't true.
You point me toward one piece of credible evidence that shows weed can be physically addictive. Just because some people like it so much that they don't wanna do without doesn't mean it is addictive. Fat people are addicted to food, doesn't mean food is addictive. Oh and weed doesn't cause cancer, the act of smoking it does. You can also bake weed into brownies. The active ingredient thc is harmless.
It's insane for the government to try to ban and eradicate a plant.
The Kansas Noxious Weed Law was first enacted in 1937. It is designed to control, manage, and eradicate 14 plants designated as noxious weeds by the Kansas Legislature.
The law assigns specific duties to private and public landowners, counties, and the state.
The State Department of Agriculure in Kansas has designated 12 "noxious weeds", and it is an offense for a land owner to allow such weeds to grow on his property without making an effort to eradicate them.
Can a landowner grow such a plant inside the privacy of their own home?
Can a landowner grow such a plant inside the privacy of their own home?
Dunno. Go to the link and read the law. (I updated my post while you were responding). Probably not, without a special permit. Marijuana is not considered a noxious weed in Kansas. But there are counties (Doniphan, for example) who earn a large part of the county revenue by confiscating the cars of out-or-staters who harvest trunk-loads of wild marijuana along the side of back roads there. They used to make about 50 arrests a year, and confiscate the cars of weed harvesters who were passing through, and looking out the window, and saying "Hey man!".
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Apparently, the link to the law does not open. Tyry googling, if you're really interested.
I would if it weren't a PDF file; my computer couldn't handle one of those right now. But, if a person can't grow any kind of plant in their own home, then I see that as a totalitarian and unjust law. There are certain plants that can harm agricultural activity, and in a state like Kansas which relies heavily on agriculture, I can understand (though I may not necessarily fully agree with) regulations against allowing such plants to grow outside, where they may spread to neighboring land.
It boils down to personal responsibility. A person should be allowed to keep a dog in their own home. If that dog roams at large and starts to kill livestock in a farm a mile away, then that's a serious problem. But it would be primarily the fault of the dog's keeper for not being a responsible pet owner, not dogs as an animal.
However, this is beginning to become an irrelevant digression. The cannabis plant does not aggressively spread and harm property like kudzu, a plant which, while being aggressive and potentially harmful to agriculture *can* be legally grown in many parts of the country and is used for food.
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