Do you think marijuana should be legalised?

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The Only reason marijuana is still illegal is because it's an excuse to put people in jail and make money for the Judicial branch of the US gubbermint.

So what happens to a persons mind when they fast for 40 days? Do they hallucinate?

If I was living off govt assistance, I would still keep my house clean......I love to turn on music and clean, I also can only stand my own filth for so long so I'd still shower at least once a week and go outside. There is no way in hell I could sit there and play video games all day every day, I'd get so bored.

Also how do you suggest people use weed with the agenda to have a bad time? wouldn't make much sense........also if marijuana is a 'gateway' drug so is alcohol and nicotine. Drinking with the agenda to have a good time might make one more open to illegal substances.

I'm just saying that over dependence on simple pleasures is going to ruin your life no matter what you do or don't smoke. If I had an example of someone being overly reliant on pot, I'd have more to say about it. As it is, I see a lot of people waste the best years of their lives on videogames.

I guess I could've worded it a little better, but what I'm trying to say is that placing immediate happiness ahead of long term well being day in and day out will lead to bad things whether or not pot is involved.

I'm just saying that over dependence on simple pleasures is going to ruin your life no matter what you do or don't smoke. If I had an example of someone being overly reliant on pot, I'd have more to say about it. As it is, I see a lot of people waste the best years of their lives on videogames.

Yes moderation is key, I know this........but yeah for me things like cleaning are simple pleasures, I mean you can't beat listening to loud music and cleaning. Maybe people should adjust their pleasures, make things that suck pleasurable that is what I try and do and it works out. But yeah people can certainly get sucked into things and use them excessively whether it's drugs or video games.

I guess I could've worded it a little better, but what I'm trying to say is that placing immediate happiness ahead of long term well being day in and day out will lead to bad things whether or not pot is involved.

How silly our government is for making what grows on the plaent we call earth illgeal like they really care that people getting high if it was legal and they could tax it America would be the worlds largests economy but they do not want to do this because of conservativies mostly also pot is called a the herb of all nations for a reason.

In a study by someone at harvard if pot was legal and taxed it would generate 20 billion. That is a good amount but not as big of a deal as it seems like you are saying

I'm just saying that over dependence on simple pleasures is going to ruin your life no matter what you do or don't smoke. If I had an example of someone being overly reliant on pot, I'd have more to say about it. As it is, I see a lot of people waste the best years of their lives on videogames.

I guess I could've worded it a little better, but what I'm trying to say is that placing immediate happiness ahead of long term well being day in and day out will lead to bad things whether or not pot is involved.

They would be handed a legal monopoly on the substance, allowing them to decide the price. As is it is not a very expensive product (depending on where you are) and pharmaceutical companies do not like products that do not make them a lot of money. Besides that a recreational substance should not be controlled by them. The market for openly selling cannabis would be much larger and more accessible. To sell tainted products would be to commit commercial suicide. Legal suicide as well since there would be regulations for anyone who wants to sell it. There could easily be large cannabis companies akin to Budweiser or Heineken that have standards of quality as brand name corporations. Here in Quebec we have a very open cannabis culture and quality is indeed important otherwise customers just move on. It is heavily freelance already... but despite this most vendors sell at equal prices and have similar bulk deals depending on the quality or product. I once heard a joke that cannabis trade is the "last vestige of free enterprise left in America".

I think the ideal situation would be as follows:
-Government run cannabis shops akin to liquor commissions
-All laws applicable to alcohol and tobacco now applicable to marijuana
-Individuals may grow maximum three plants for personal use with a license
-Individuals may grow maximum twenty plants for limited distribution with a license, background check and regular inspections (like a microbrewery, essentially)
-All refined THC products may only be sold in government "cannabis commissions" (this means hashish, qif, extract, pills, foods)

the effect you get from eating pot is stronger than the effect of smoking.

Alright I posted my opinion and you aggressively shot it down, can't blame me for standing my ground in a rather defensive manner especially if you tell me my opinion is 'paranoid' and 'delusional' even though I've only based it on facts. But good for you there are pleanty of other threads anyways.