medical use is a crock of shit, but it should totally be legal for personal use.

i dont see why not, it's not dangerous and it could make billions for the econ while we all get high. sounds good to me

I believe in the decriminalization of it. Watch the doc How Weed Won the West. Very informative.

>>209538

Some people it actually does help. Most are just YEAHHHHH NEED MAH BUDS.

Should be totally legal. Like all drugs.

Cannabis has a plethora of therapeutic effects that our endocannabinoid system utilizes.

If it was legal then the government wouldn't get as much money.

Medical use should be totally legal, it is PROVEN that it can help hundreds of illnesses in its natural form, if it's "medical use is a crock of shit" why does Marinol exist?

>I believe in the decriminalization of it
It's decriminalized here where I live (Canberra, Australia... the capital of Australia lol), that just keeps it unregulated still and continues to pump money into the hands of drug cartels, Marijuana needs to be totally legal, but regulated, the last thing I want is my money being handed over to fucktard drug dealers.

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/775/marijuana-may-slow-progression-alzheimers

I think it can be used for many uses in the medical field and also just fun to smoke,, why should sick people be the only ones that have the right to smoke the plant?

/thread

smock wead evreday

>>209580
Here is the thing. Once it's legal everything about it will be raped. Like Tobacco many other chemicals will be added and the price will no doubt sky rocket. Do you really want more of your money to go to Phillip-Morris?

ITT PEOPLE WHO CAN'T SEE HOW SHITTY THEY MADE THEIR LIFE BY USING DRUGS THAT THEY ARE ADDICTED TO NOW.

Are you serious here dude? US spent 7.8 billion in 2008 fighting marijuana alone while hundreds of thousands of pounds were still smuggled in, imagine the money that could be saved and made from legalization then put a tax on it for medical and recreational use

>>209614
Alcohol is a way worse drug than Cannabis. FACT.

way to promote mediocrity

bump

this is flamoot. it's 2010 and i have a brain implant because i use drugs. i know how this sounds. but stories of going schizo from hallucinogens are only myths

lsd and shrooms etc are as mind opening as the rumours say, but it is a big secret because the government is performing crowd-control on the people who know about them. on the number of psychedelic users in society... they can only handle so many of those kinds of people. but psychedelic users are mostly young and hip and feel things deeply and are thus perfect victims for the very evil.

very

>>209614

You are a troll. There is a thing called "moderation".

>>209604
That is why there needs to be regulation only to sell pure, natural marijuana, not joints or anything, just the bud.

Getting fucking people with MS addicted to "cigarettes" is the last thing I think anyone wants to do.

there's no way to get addicted to marijuana, it's nothing more dangerous than the addiction to want to play a sport or eat a burger. i would know for sure, 6 months of smoking regularly then stopping imediately

and yes, alcohol and cigarettes are infinately more lethal than marijuana

>>209652
no, and lol

>>209621
>USING DRUGS
I never said anything about excluding alcohol.

Legalize, for both medical and recreational usage.

There is one bad semi-long term side effect of pot, in that it decreases the amount of dopamine your brain produces naturally if you are a habitual user, which can result in depression and being somewhat more of a dumbass. Stop using it for a month and this goes away. Also lung damage, but probably not to the extent that cigarettes do.

Now, compare this to alcohol, where you can do permanent brain damage, get alcohol poisoning, and destroy your liver far more quickly than pot destroys your lungs. Which one is legal again?

>>209688
my friend, 21 had his kidney fail the other week due to the massive drinking culture in the army (basically drink until you passout every night), still sent him Afghanistan lol.

>>209709

How about we exterminate all of the anti-drug crusaders and see how "terrible" the world becomes?

>>209709

>ban drugs, all of them

Have a great life without medication.

for you that said to enjoy being a "pot head", i believe all drugs other than cigarettes and alcohol should be illegal. for god's sake they ruin lives. but this genlte, beautiful plant needs to be legal.. fuck you

>>209740

Why? Cigarettes and alcohol cause serious problems, why not ban them too?

No drugs should be illegal; in fact, nothing should be illegal. That's my philosophy as an anarchist.

From a practical standpoint, herb is a fantastically wonderful drug that is better than tobacco in every way imaginable. It's healthier, it doesn't fucking kill you, and damn it, it's actually fun and not shit. Medicine....whatever. I highly doubt that pot will go to pot if it's legalized. There are ways for people to grow their own and get the good stuff out there while still dealing with the higher prices of keeping is secret. Whether or not the store shit is actually good remains to be seen, but the underground market will rule even more once they don't have to dodge the coppers.

>>209753
Of course a youngster never new how prohibition 'whiteanted' your society in the 20s and 30s. Led to the Mafia having a fifty year golden age.

>>209771

How is that any different from the vicious drug cartels that practically run Mexico and Colombia?

Seriously to all uneducated in the cannabis culture watch the doc How Weed Won The West.

Legalize weed and be done with it. I don't care if people oppose weed legalization because it's dangerous, if they don't like it don't use it.

Obama should be pushing for this federally, because if at least weed is legalized the economy will truly start to recover.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9077214414651731007&hl=en#

A must watch on the subject, they look at the debate from BOTH sides as well.

>>209738
>Have a great life without medication.
So far it has indeed been quite awesome

>>209721
>How about we exterminate all of the anti-drug crusaders and see how "terrible" the world becomes?
How about we exterminate all of the druggies and all of the drugs and see how awesome our world can become when all the youngsters are actually learning to do something good in life rather then smoking pot and working at McDonalds for the rest of their lives.

>>209868

You're too naive and idealist. Drugs are part of our culture, deal with it.

>>209889
and
>>209721
wasn't naive?

>>209843

You're not invincible, someday you'll get sick and medication is the only thing can relieve you.

>>209889
>I HAVE NO GOOD COMEBACK SO FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

>>209903

He was being witty.

>>209911

How am I supposed to provide a counter-argument when there is no argument to begin with?

The idea that we need to exterminate "druggies" to make this world a better place is so absurd it's almost comical. Instead of poking at the problem, figure out how it started, and that's drug prohibition.

>>209906
>You're not invincible
I never said i was
> someday you'll get sick and medication is the only thing can relieve you.

You people and your addictions to MODERN DAY medications to solve all of your health problems is amusing, but what can you expect from the current American society and it's media.

Also I find it amusing that most people think that living is actually a good thing...

Enjoy living.

>>209935
THIS IS /NEW/ RULES ARE AS FOLLOWED:
1. NO ONE IS YOUR FRIEND
2. YOU WILL ALWAYS ARGUE ON HERE OR GTFO
3. NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS NEWS

>>209938

>Also I find it amusing that most people think that living is actually a good thing...

Obvious troll is obvious.

>>209949

>implying you're not a butthurt 15 year old aspie raging with caps

How about you come up with an actual argument against decriminalization.

>>209965
I'm glad to see you're back to your old self /new/.

>>209956
obviously realists are now trolls

>>209949

If you want random bullshit and sarcasm galore, fuck off to /b/.

>>209979

Tell me how living isn't a good thing, just out of curiosity.

>>209949
>Implying there is news on news

Legalize it for medical and recreational use.

>>209990
>Tell me how living isn't a good thing, just out of curiosity.
Because one can not know what is good world when he doesn't know what a bad one feels like.

That's a rather trollish answer,but I would love to know your reasoning for why life is good and that most likely is my reasoning for why it's bad.

probly not up to date on the numbers but i doubt they've changed much

>>209990
also before you raged may i remind you that i never said it was a bad life either, just amusing that others think it is good.

>>210036
0...
I'm assuming that chart doesn't include accurate details or the details about how many people lost their lives trying to obtain the drugs or any other problem that originates from the use or possession of them.

Legalize but only with the assumption that the user takes responsibility for all consequences of the use.

E.g. if I kick your face in and snap your ribs for smelling like a fag, you go to jail.

>>210022

>Because one can not know what is good world when he doesn't know what a bad one feels like.

What?

>That's a rather trollish answer,but I would love to know your reasoning for why life is good and that most likely is my reasoning for why it's bad.

I don't even think life can be debated as "good" or "bad", it's just life. We evolved specifically to survive[live] and reproduce, consciousness is a result.

This is like saying gravity is bad because we can't fly.

>>210046

The data may be skewed and possibly biased. But it's scientifically proven that you cannot die from cannabis consumption alone.

>>210075
>This is like saying gravity is bad because we can't fly.
What's wrong with saying that? It's a valid argument even though without it we could just fly away.... and then die...

Anything could be debated as 'good' or 'bad' no matter what. saying something can't be is just a bad excuse.

>What?
You're actually gonna have to think about this for awhile before you understand it... that is if you have trouble comprehending things.

>>210046
pretty sure the numbers are coming from the amount of deaths caused by the consumption and effects of the substances. But if you're goin to be a dick hole smart ass like that and assume that the numbers indicate deaths in an attempt to obtain and smuggle then i'm sure that you believe that around 400,000 people died going to buy a pack of smokes and a record breaking 20,000 died in line at Starbucks.. think logically here dude

>>210097
>scientifically proven that you cannot die from cannabis consumption alone.
I beg to differ, to much of ANYTHING can be deadly.

>implying science is 100% proven

>>210110
>think logically here dude
IF a death is invoked/caused because of a object then it should count against the object.

>20,000 died in line at Starbucks
lol... If you're for real on this one please give me a link to one, it has to be funny to read about some person dying in the middle of a starbucks line.

>>210113

No. It would take around 680 kilos of cannabis for you to overdose.

This estimate is based on measurements of toxic lethality, of which you can search for several studies on google.

I don't care, as long as they do it privately.

Enjoy your mediocrity.

Medical use is fine, but don't legalize it. We really can't estimate the social costs of introducing yet another mind-altering substance into the market.

Grandma's arthritis = OK.
Billy Badass drag racing through heavy traffic while high = BAD.