Out of Pod Experience

Cannabis only causes health issue if smoked with tobacco, and if you have industrial strength sessions everynight

Yet another who thinks that only 'bad' things kill people.

Also, you forgot alcohol, but let me guess you are responsible and can handle your alcehole

Please take a look at the rate of death associated to over eating and lack of locomotion.

/facepalm


Slade

Overlooking, neatly, the horrendous permanent mental health issues such as psychosis that the recent strains of this stuff induce.

Still, the link to mental health issues needs to be fully explored before it can be made legal.

I'm pretty blazed right now, your point is invalid, until you prove to me that cannabis is harmful, you talking out your arse

Yes, that's the idea.

The people are not gaining from any drug war. They are losing.

The US government is the biggest trafficker of narcotics.

Then, if you use their product and are caught with it, you go into its prison system where your are used as a statistic for more budget towards a bigger prison system.

The corruption is so deep, it seems like only the end of the nation is going to get rid of it: trash it all and start all over again.

Yet since the typical Dancing with the Stars - watching flouride head can't think their way out of a wet paper bag with an open end, the subject is politicized. If you want to see the end of the WOD, then "you must be some kind of hippie or something".

Here's something you can try. Become an activist about police abuse and maybe you can get harassed a little. But go after the corruption and they will find a way to make you dead very fast.

Does not anyone notice how they use SWAT team raids on pot growers and traffickers with such planning and precision that they seldom kill anybody, yet if it's not about drugs, they end up burning down the house or shooting someone. All that snacktical tactical raid stuff is a courtesy to the drug operation: they want the dope, and they want the leads.

Meanwhile you can get busted with hundreds of pot plants, and if you don't have any guns on you, you are out in a week. Where did the dope go?

A former landlord of mine was a grower back in his youth. His buyer was a district attorney in another city that he still won't name to this day. THAT dealer is the sort who never gets busted. Anyone else not on the take will get busted. It's not about stopping drug dealers, it's about drug dealers (who are the government) stopping the competition to their business.

All of this is NO different from what happened to the police and government during the years of Alcohol Prohibition.

Meanwhile, the police worship is so bad that when a cop on a cop salary has an RV, a big house, a speed boat, motorcycles, a huge expensive SUV, nobody wonders where all that money comes from.

As soon as everybody realizes that the government is trafficking and dealing in narcotics, monopolizing it and profiting from the price increase created by drugs being illegal, the sooner people will stop living in fairy land thinking that government cares for us and the war on drugs is going to stop people from doing it.

I usually use the war on drugs as an intelligence test for people I meet. If they know what a scam it is, there is hope. Otherwise, have a nice day and don't forget your flu shot.

cannabis + car = destroyed lives.

What a load of bullshit.

I can prove everything with statistics, 87.3 % are totally nonsense.

"Recent research in Europe, and in the UK, has suggested that people who have a family background of mental illness – and so probably have a genetic vulnerability anyway - are more likely to develop schizophrenia if they use cannabis as well."

Recent research done by me has turned out that people who have a family background of mental illness – and so probably have a genetic vulnerability anyway - are more likely to develop schizophrenia if they drink water once a day."

Alcohol is so much more dangerous yet it is not illegal, either make that illegal or stop the bizarre razzia against weed. If you want to get stoned in the privacy of your own home go for it.

It's a drug and it will make you feel good and abuse of any drug will eventually **** you up.

This whole charade where half the population is demonised for having smoked some weed once in their lives is just surreal.

I am saying that it should be legal, but I am NOT saying that it is necessarily an ethical/moral thing to do.

My belief is that the law does not necessarily (and should not!) dictate what is ethically/morally right or wrong. Case in point, it is in face legal to lie in your everyday life. However most civilized humans were taught by their parents that lying is wrong.

IF I were to hold the opposite belief: that the law should be perfectly in line with what I believe to be ethical or moral, then I would argue that not only should cannabis be illegal - but so too should nicotine and alcohol (both of which I ALSO believe to be unethical to use recreationally).

Other examples: I believe that Nazis and *** rhetoric are unethical, but I do not believe that these people should have their free speech taken away.

Furthermore, there are advantages to legalizing cannabis, such as forcing illegal drug rings to compete with legitimate suppliers - possibly putting an end to drug related crime, cutting off funds for terrorists and all in all making the world a better place. It also allows cannabis to be regulated by the government which could save lives and reduce the amount substance abuse. I would also hope that by making the less harmful recreational drugs legal, people would be more likely to use those instead of the more harmful drugs.

And is alcohol much better? And to do these studies, did they sequester these teens away from the alcohol they are likely also drinking in larger than safe quantities?

I for one have no doubt that drugs and alcohol can have an effect on the mind, and the brain of people. They are after all chemicals. But a study, done in an unclean test tube isn't science, it's a shot in the dark.

Studies have also concluded that heavy religious indoctrination of children can lead some to problems as well. But others, under the same influences don't have these issues. No one knows why, it just is.

Point is, effect can be blamed on anything so long as cause can not be isolated. These studies do not isolate cause and instead only attempt to classify effects.

3 out of 10 people in this study like left shoes when given red shoes. Red shoes cause some people, 30%, to have an unusual preference for left shoes. Further studies of the study reveal that 3 out of 10 in the study lost their right foot in a car accident.