To all my fellow weed smokers

[Padawan787]

I understand that, but you also have to understand, them being illegal is why people stray away from them in the first place. No one wants to get involved with the law. If you made meth legal for example, do you realize how many more meth heads we as a society would have to deal with on a day to day basis? Not to mention how many would end in hospitals as opposed to how many do now, how many more addicts we'd see waiting in line at stores to buy more and if they can't afford it, they'll find a way to get it, such as robbery, assaulting someone, etc. And that's just the starting block. You do make a very valid point, but you're not considering the parts to where opening those doors to people where they know it will be a scotch free high.

No, all drugs should be made legal, that way quality controls can be put in place, criminal activity decreases since the gap in the market has been catered for, drugs can be taxed, jobs can be created, and the social stigma attached to doing drugs decreases which means that people are far more likely to ask for help when it is needed.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago, since the legislation has been put in place drug usage has dropped by 50%.

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal - Forbes

Nootropics are an interesting subject, Modafinil seems to be all the rage on the net.

[faithandhope]

No, all drugs should be made legal, that way quality controls can be put in place, criminal activity decreases since the gap in the market has been catered for, drugs can be taxed, jobs can be created, and the social stigma attached to doing drugs decreases which means that people are far more likely to ask for help when it is needed.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago, since the legislation has been put in place drug usage has dropped by 50%.

Ten Years After Decriminalization, Drug Abuse Down by Half in Portugal - Forbes

Nootropics are an interesting subject, Modafinil seems to be all the rage on the net.

yup!!

[Wolfemother]

Yeh but the country's bankrupt any link who knows..One thing for sure we are not going to sort it out...

[GoingForGold]

This thread gave me a headache so I'm going to inhale some burning hot AK-47 vapors.

It's a plant, stop treating it like a narcotic/hallucinogen/whatever. THC is the drug, not weed. And it fixes cancerous cells. Ha...ha...ha...

I don't need it. I want it. You can buy a new car or new clothes so people will admire you... I will smoke my plant so that I don't give a f*ck.

Coffee is much more addictive and detrimental TO MOST when ingested on a daily basis. Sure, pot will trigger schizophrenia where it is laden, but so will many experiences. Just because a few little boys lost their mind at one point or another doesn't mean we should all lock our brains away from artificial potentials.

And if you think inhaling smoke is healthy... you might as well think a bullet to the head is healthy.

[Thirdeye]

This thread gave me a headache so I'm going to inhale some burning hot AK-47 vapors.

It's a plant, stop treating it like a narcotic/hallucinogen/whatever. THC is the drug, not weed. And it fixes cancerous cells. Ha...ha...ha...

I don't need it. I want it. You can buy a new car or new clothes so people will admire you... I will smoke my plant so that I don't give a f*ck.

Coffee is much more addictive and detrimental TO MOST when ingested on a daily basis. Sure, pot will trigger schizophrenia where it is laden, but so will many experiences. Just because a few little boys lost their mind at one point or another doesn't mean we should all lock our brains away from artificial potentials.

And if you think inhaling smoke is healthy... you might as well think a bullet to the head is healthy.

Precisely. That's why I try to vaporize and eat edibles as often as I can. Although I do enjoy a nice fat bong rip every now and then.

[Wolfemother]

I like to stick Vicks Sinex up my nose when I have a cold... It really sorts me out.. Its the menthol man...so cool! LOL

[Padawan787]

However, cannabis is the plant that would replace the pharmaceutical companies, oil companies, and many other industries out of business.

Did you really think that through before posting?

Why would cannabis affect the oil industries?

And why exactly would it put put the pharmaceutical companies out of business? It isn't a wonder drug, and the only reason why it is prescribed as pain medication is because it's practically impossible to accidentally overdose, it stimulates appetite, and it doesn't tax the liver. That's it.

Ridiculous statement.

Radioactivity isn't the only cancer causing mechanism. Smoking pot can certainly cause lung cancer just like tobacco, more or less.

The act of burning a substance and inhaling the smoke creates carcinogens, you can get lung cancer from smoking Parsley FFS.

I know this from personal experience. I know mannnyyy family members and people who have smoked for 40+ years and their lungs are healthier than a non-smoker. Trust me...weed isn't what it appears to be. Personal experience is better than any medical study done. Please check where these studies come from and when they were done. I will guarantee you 99% of the studies have been done to an extreme point, or not done at all.

The problem with comparing marijuana smoking to cigarette smoking is one of quantity, that is the main stumbling block for studies in reality. It's very difficult to find someone who doesn't smoke tobacco and who has 10 "joint years" or more. This obviously makes comparison difficult, it also makes it difficult to gauge the effects of smoking marijuana, and just marijuana, over a longer period of time.

Nonetheless, smoking marijuana increases the risk of lung cancer by 8%.

Yeh but the country's bankrupt any link who knows..One thing for sure we are not going to sort it out...

The usage of drugs decreased in Portugal by 50% because the country is bankrupt? The country hasn't been bankrupt for a very long time.

In the summer of 2010, Moody's Investors Service cut Portugal's sovereign bond rating.

Unemployment went above 10% in January 2010: Portugal Unemployment Rate

2 years out of 10 since the legislation was introduced, you can't reasonably say that drug usage has gone down due to the economic climate.

[CUSP82]

Personal experience is better than medical studies? Any of you guys got some personal experience on heart attacks or did it kill you before you were able to convey it to others? This thread is really silly and some of the assertions are so far beyond reality and common sense it's frightening. As I said a few pages back if you are going to do a drug, any drug,you will always find some research to say you're right and no one is going to convince otherwise and that is fine. Pot smokers will smoke pot; guys that want to do Adderall all day long will do it and say it's fine. Studies will be found, no matter how obscure to bolster whatever position you take. So stop trying to convince each other that what you're doing is good and the other guy doing is bad. It won't work. My body makes drugs, all kinds of them. It makes what it needs and it really doesn't need anything mentioned in this thread. If it did my body would have been more than smart enough to make it. I don't need any substance to make me think better or open up my perception or make me see reality the way it isn't ( because you see an altered reality when you're high or whatever); nope I'm going to operate on the original equipment my body came with, with the exception of course of dark rum. If my body were smart it would have made it's own dark rum years ago when my ancestors were monkeys but nooo I have to go and buy it. I guess my body didn't need dark rum, but I do, especially after reading this thread!

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Personal experience is better than medical studies? Any of you guys got some personal experience on heart attacks or did it kill you before you were able to convey it to others? This thread is really silly and some of the assertions are so far beyond reality and common sense it's frightening. As I said a few pages back if you are going to do a drug, any drug,you will always find some research to say you're right and no one is going to convince otherwise and that is fine. Pot smokers will smoke pot; guys that want to do Adderall all day long will do it and say it's fine. Studies will be found, no matter how obscure to bolster whatever position you take. So stop trying to convince each other that what you're doing is good and the other guy doing is bad. It won't work. My body makes drugs, all kinds of them. It makes what it needs and it really doesn't need anything mentioned in this thread. If it did my body would have been more than smart enough to make it. I don't need any substance to make me think better or open up my perception or make me see reality the way it isn't ( because you see an altered reality when you're high or whatever); nope I'm going to operate on the original equipment my body came with, with the exception of course of dark rum. If my body were smart it would have made it's own dark rum years ago when my ancestors were monkeys but nooo I have to go and buy it. I guess my body didn't need dark rum, but I do, especially after reading this thread!

THIS IS GODDAMNED RIDICULOUS!



I hope YOU MEANT HENDICKS GIN AND GLEN LIVET INSTEAD OF DAAARRKKK RUM!!!?!!!

[Padawan787]

You forgot to bold your post break, it's nowhere near as effective without the bold