Who is right www.pottv.com or www.dea.gov?
I saw elsewhere in this forum that the law wasn’t a basis for philosophy. So without the crutch of “the law is the law” what reasonable case can be made to incarcerate someone who possesses Marijuana?
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Eh30% Voted for by Stevie, Scrap, TraGic PoeT, B Chandler, Happy 420. (7 total)
None that I can see. If anything it’s safer than alcohol and regular cigarettes.
There should be regulations on it, sure. But I see no real reason for it to be illegal.
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What Do I Think?13% Voted for by Energizer Bunny, invader, Applehead.
I think, even though it as the potential of being good in some medical perspectives, it's bad far outweights the good. I believe it tears down far more than it can potentially help.
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Um-ITS A DRUG!8% Voted for by drkbrdmstr, 0thrillme0killme0.
Marijuana is a drug. Drugs are ILLEGAL, and they’re bad for people. It’ll screw up your mind and ruin your life. Anyone who thinks that marijuana is okay is an idiot.
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personal experiences8% Voted for by AshesToDiamond, catseyes2468.
Many of my friends are/were regular users and seem to have suffered no ill effects from it.
Personally, I can’t use it- I get REALLY ill after a few hours; I get nauseous and suffer from terrible hangovers the next day. My mum is the same. Yet I’m fine with alcohol.
I’m not sure where I stand. I won’t touch it anymore, and don’t think it should be totally free for use. However, maybe it should be restricted, as alcohol is, instead of illegal.
I am definately supportive of those who use it for medical reasons, such as to alieviate the pains of MS.
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Not addictive, Not damaging, I can prove it!8% Voted for by all4luv, adaxialtheory.
1.] Medical Usage: Marijuana has thousands of possible uses in medicine. Marijuana was available as a medicine legally in this country until 1937, and was sold as a nerve tonic -- but mankind has been using cannabis medicines much longer than that. Marijuana appears in almost every known book of medicine written by ancient scholars and wise men. It is usually ranked among the top medicines, called `panaceas', a word which means `cure-all'. The list of diseases which cannabis can be used for includes: multiple sclerosis, cancer treatment, AIDS (and AIDS treatment), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis sclerodoma, severe pain, and dystonia.
2.]Does it damge smoker, or is it harmful to user: NO! The truth is, no study has ever demonstrated cellular damage, stupidity, mental impairment, or insanity brought on specifically by marijuana use -- even heavy marijuana use. Nobody has ever overdosed. Not one death has ever been linked to marijuana. Marijuana is so safe that it would be impossible to overdose on it. According to a DEA Judge ``marijuana is the safest therapeutically active substance known to mankind.''
3.] Causes mental damage, permanent memory loss?: The effect of marijuana on memory is its most dramatic and the easiest to notice. Many inexperienced marijuana users find that they have very strange, sudden and unexpected memory lapses. These usually take the form of completely forgetting what you were talking about when you were right in the middle of saying something important. However, these symptoms only occur while a person is `high'. They do not carry over or become permanent, and examinations of extremely heavy users has not shown any memory or thinking problems. Studies which have claimed to show short-term memory impairment have not stood up to scrutiny and have not been duplicated. Newer studies show that marijuana does not impair simple, real-world memory processes. Marijuana does slow reaction time slightly, and this effect has sometimes been misconstrued as a memory problem. To put things in perspective, one group of researchers made a control group hold their breath, like marijuana smokers do. Marijuana itself only produced about twice as many effects on test scores as breath holding. Marijuana does not `cause' psychosis. Psychotic people can smoke marijuana and have an episode, but there is nothing in marijuana that actually initiates or increases these episodes.
4.] Is it addictive?: No, not physically, can be emotionally, but it's all in the users head/ mind, and no rehab is required for quitting. Marijuana produces no withdrawal symptoms no matter how heavy it is used. It is habit forming (psychologically addictive), but not physically addictive. The majority of people who quit marijuana don't even have to think twice about it. Comparing marijuana to addictive drugs is really quite silly. For a drug to be physically addictive, it must be reinforcing, produce withdrawal symptoms, and produce tolerance. Marijuana is reinforcing, because it feels good, but it does not do the other two things. Caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are all physically addictive.
Now there's your facts, all this other additing, it damaged my brain talk is pure bullshit.
All the above facts and more can be found here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/drugs/hemp-marijuana/
~Sherry~
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Some marijuana, if you want some.Voted for by Khoka.
I think theres no REAL reason to keep it illegal...who knows, it might even improve our current crime situation a little...as far as using is concerned, I do think less dangerous than alcohol in a physical manner, but in a creative and intellectual manner I believe it is quite draining. I was a fairly heavy user for a little over a year and I think I got out just in time. I see no realy porblem with experimenting, but I do see it as something that should be eventually outgrown...it just seems a bit pointless and a bit of a crutch for a lot of people.
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Whatwhat.....Voted for by B Chandler.
Anyone and sometimes it can be a very good thing or a a pain in the a**. Pot is the “International” drug of all great americans, moreover, its more popular than any other drugs that out there.
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People that sell it should get harsher sentences!Voted for by Macabre.
When I was a kid basically everyone I knew smoked mass amounts weed I started smoking it at a real young I think it must have been when I was about 10, I stopped when I was about 12 or 13 then started smoking it again when I was 14, I grew up with people that sold drugs so I got a never ending supply for free so I smoked it daily from when I woke up to when I went to sleep from that grew a mental dependence of it then when I was 18 I got real ill through smoking it so I quit and my physical and mental health has been severely damaged beyond repair through smoking the stuff, I can say that there is not one good feature about this drug.
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marijuana, pot, weedVoted for by drkbrdmstr.
is bad cuz the feds cant tax it. same wit any illegal drug in the US
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needslimitations but not neccessarily just for failuresVoted for by ohsweetie2788.
in moderation and with limitations set weed is ok. it only messes you up for a little bit and though it is addicting it doesn't neccessarily ruin your life. i use to do it and i was and still am a straight a student, for some people it calms them and allows them to focus better for others it doesn't its neither good nor bad it just is and depending on who you are it could be helpful. it does need regulations or limitations on it though.
~Ash~
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