I was just wondering why people get in a uprage with pot. I can see meth and hard core drugs. I just don't see why they don't legalize pot dosen't it have some health benifits too?
2007-12-10 06:06:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
OF course it has heath benefits like it helps with glaucoma and depression and other things most places don't want it legal because if you were caught we don't have a device to show the cop how much was done but one day it will all be legal
2007-12-10 06:19:37 · answer #1 · answered by I dont know 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Smoking pot can damage your future children. It makes you lazy and robs you of ambition. When you stopped getting buzzed by pot you will move onto something harder to get the buzz. Eventually the buzz becomes more important than what should be. Yes pot can help some people deal with pain and that's a good thing. But basically it makes people losers and a waste to society. While the drugs may make you feel as though you are accomplishing great things, you are not and it is an illusion. I don't want to have to support you or your damaged children. I used to be a hippie and would go to parties where everyone, but me, was high. Oh yea. Everyone there was staring at a glowing number on the door and talking about how cool it was. Boring. . . And this great pianist playing this great tune. . .really bad. And then my best friend passed out cause the drugs were so good. Wow, that was not a good time. . .it is only the illusion the drugs create. You are really doing nothing. . .Oh yea and my bf passed out on my bed laying in his own puke. Geez! My best friend went from Pot to window panes to LSD. She like to sit on my balconey and be high, high, high. I lived on the fourth floor with the pool beneath me. I had to grab her to stop her from picking the red flower. It was the Coke machine on the other side of the pool four stories down. She would have walked off the balconey. Yea drugs are such fun. Altho it was funny when she (very high) backed into a Miller beer truck or he backed into her. The driver was very drunk. They argued and argued and both ended up at the bar drinking. The next time the beer driver came in sober and my friend came in sober, they didn't even remember each other. They couldn't figure out what everyone was laughing at. It's a waste. I don't want to be responsible for any of the consequences either.
And to the stoner, maybe you need to consider what you could be doing instead of sitting on your *ss inhaling after working hard all day. It dulls you and takes the edge off of life, rather than living it to the fullest and takes a pretty good bite into disposable income too. There is so much else to do besides sit and suck. And because other drugs are legal, that doesn't mean we need one more to deal with. Tell this stupid stuff to someone that doesn't know better. I know you and hundreds just like you.
2007-12-10 14:38:23 · answer #2 · answered by towanda 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some people mistakenly call it a "Gateway" drug to harder, more dangerous and addictive drugs.
Interestingly they don't make the same analogy to alcohol. Have you ever heard people say that they only SMOKE when they drink? Alcohol becomes the gateway drug to Tobacco.
Is smoking pot wrong? For some it is, for some it is not, again, just like alcohol.
Not only does marijuana have benefits to some sick people from glacoma to migraines to chemotherapy patients, you can not OD on it like you can from Alcohol poisoning.
For future debates, merely substitute Marijuana for Alcohol and talk about Prohibition and all of the ills that came out of that time in our history.
End the War of Drugs... Repeal Prhobition.
Finally don't fret at all about the tobacco and alcohol companies. Don't you think that Anhueser Busch , Brown & Williamson, Seagrams etal have a plan in place to get packages of pot onto the shelves at Walgreens and your local liquor store? Imagine going into a grocery store and buying an ounce of pot just as you would a fifth of alcohol. And buying it for less.
2007-12-10 14:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by witz1960 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not bad
(Leah that sux but same can happen with caffine pills, booze, not sleeping, Nyquil, etc so a person doing a stupid thing is not enough to make it wrong or bad)
The main reason is that stoned people are not productive and so easily found due to smell, behavior. If it made you work more hours in the rat maze of corporate life then it would not only be legal...but mandatory....it actually makes you do less so the "man" has to make sure people do not use it to have a moment's joy or because certain groups "know what is best for you"
2007-12-10 14:16:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most people think smoking pot is wrong because this is what they have been lead to believe their whole lives. It is wrong because it is illegal but this is the only reason. Our wonderful government of ours has been brainwashing parents and society to be scared of this "harmful menace to society" using every tactic necessary, mainly a bunch of lies to intimidate and control the population in the direction of their choosing. Sure, inhaling any kind of smoke is going to be harmful to your respiratory system but that includes even standing around a camp fire! People are scared of what they do not know. If someone has never experienced getting high, then they have no right to judge as they sit and drink their beer. Smoking pot is a choice. There should be rules in place to make sure that choice is not harming others but it should not be illegal.
2007-12-10 14:30:11 · answer #5 · answered by imahippieguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is not wrong. It is illegal in the U.S. Since the 1930's the prohibition of marijuana has been a main target for the DEA. Today it remains on the schedule one drug list even though it doesn't fit into that category because of its medicinal values. Marijuana should be legalized and controlled by groups such as tobacco is today. Their should be a minimum age on it and inspections to see if where it is produced is clean. If it were legalized America's favorite drug would destroy drug dealing crime and murder revolved around marijuana dealing. It would keep it out of the hands of kids and not aid Mexican gangs or overseas terrorist groups who profit off its Prohibition. Marijuana has been given a bad name by associating it with other hard drugs while Nicotine and Alcohol remain legal. It is impossible to overdose on Marijuana but is very possible with Alcohol, over the counter drugs, hard drugs and Nicotine. Every drug has its impairments and you can make bad choices like driving after smoking. Many more Americans are caught driving under the influence of Alcohol which is just as dangerous but yet it remains legal. A smart stoner is not one who sits on his *** all day he is a hard worker who contributes to society and after a long hard days work relaxes with a joint or two. Very similar to the working class who comes home every day and has a drink or two to relax.
2007-12-10 14:28:07 · answer #6 · answered by Spac 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They call pot the gateway drug. Other than that do we really need to legalize 2 drugs that cause impairment with the Other being Alcohol? Alcohol is bad enough, I don't think we should add pot into the mix of things now.
2007-12-10 14:12:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is school out for the holidays today? Lot of legalizing pot questions. By the way, what is uprage?
2007-12-10 14:14:19 · answer #8 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
1. It is illegal.
2. And it is a mind-altering drug. One of my friends in college was killed in a car accident because he drove off the road after smoking pot.
3. It may have health benefits, but that would be in a very controlled situation.
2007-12-10 14:10:43 · answer #9 · answered by Leah 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is nothing wrong with it. The most harmful effect of pot is going to jail. Alcohol is much much worse for you.
2007-12-10 14:11:14 · answer #10 · answered by Watch it bub! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋