Marijuana - good or bad?

I'm not ganna say much, the last time I expressed my full opinion on something i got banned, (it was religeon by the way)
Ilicid (illegal) drugs in my opinion are very stupid. Even if your've screwed up your life, drugs are a bad way to go.
Sure, if you wanna destroy your brain cells and have other mental and physical issues, go right ahead.
Not only will it effect your mental and physical health, but when people no you take pot, your social life might go low.
If your going to try it, I couldn't care less, it's your life. For your own sake, don't get hooked on the stuff.

Oh yeah, your question was marijuana, good or bad?
It's BAD!
Drugs are bad Mmmmkay
 
blade740 said:
Derrick Eide17 said:
blade740 said:
Derrick Eide17 said:
blade740 said:
And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.
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You don't mean that at all :)
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously :) you see the way they act? I rest my case :D :D =D
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Canadians actually ARE morons though seriously :) you see the way you act? I rest my case :D :D =D
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see just look at the way your acting :) can't come up with anything so you copy me... poor poor blade.... :p
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Actually, I was pointing out that you're generalizing. You don't know all potheads, and I don't know all canadians. It's fallacious for either of us to make those statements.

And I know plenty of intelligent "potheads." (and canadians)
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You know plenty of potheads?
No wonder I don't like you :D
 
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol

Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.
 
V-te said:
Well yes, but the fact that it's an herb means that it does not contain any synthetic substance unless it's added to it, so It's already cleaner than any other drug.
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So, it's just as clean as arsenic?

Crossed said:
Marijuana is better than alcohol.
Prove me wrong with reliable sources.
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Apples are better than oranges. Prove me wrong with reliable sources.
 
joey said:
How can something with no recorded fatalities be illegal
And how many deaths are there per year from alcohol

Err, well actually according to research
Government funding for further education pales in insignificance
When compared to how much they spend on repairing
Leery drunk people at the weekend
In casualty wards all over the land.
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+ 1million
 
The problem with Marijuana, is not that it is a "Gateway drug" as such. It is a "catalyst" drug. Legalising Marijuana will pave the way for slightly harder drugs to be legalised. Next time it will be LSD or a similar that will be being argued about. I would bet a large amount of money that more people die from Alcohol than from LSD so they could use the same argument.

tl;dr: It's the concept, rather than the actual substance.
 
More people die from alcohol because it's legal. If you made these other drugs more accessible then you would see more death from these drugs, maybe not as much as alcohol because so many people drink, but you would still see more.
 
@Edmund: That's blatantly false. Millions of people around the world use marijuana, but it has yet to cause a recorded death. That's a HUGE sample size. If you legalized marijuana, even if ten times as many people smoked it, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that the number of deaths would go from 0 to 85,000.

Anyway, I fail to see anything wrong with marijuana whatsoever. The medicinal purposes far outweigh any known negative effects. The recreational purposes also really aren't bad at all. I've been around high people many times, and I haven't seen anybody do something particularly dangerous that they wouldn't do sober.

Can someone please explain to me what is so bad with a person choosing to smoke marijuana in the privacy of his home?

Also, to Zane C: Please explain the negative effects that marijuana will have on me mentally, physically, and socially. You pretty much just repeated crap from health class and I know that you won't have anything to back it up, considering that you also seem to believe that you can become physically addicted to marijuana.
 
I am a 26 year old man. I have never in my life used marijuana and it is a personal choice. I also have no problem with it. marijuana is far less dangerous than both cigarettes or alcohol. Marijuana prohibition is far more detrimental to society and individuals than marijuana itself.

That said I am not a huge fan of potheads. I have friends who smoke weed, but I remember how lame it was in highschool hanggn out with friends and most of our time was spent finding pot, finding what to smoke it in/with, finding where to smoke it and then them being completely high and stupid.

Who knows what the two biggest sponsors of DARE are? The alcohol and tobacco industry. they ahev a vested interest in havign less competition and if you believe their lies and propaganda you are just as stupid as the worst pot head.

more people die from alcohol because it's legal FALSE!
alcohol is bad for your body when used in large quantities. if you wanted to OD from the active ingredient in weed you would actually die from lack of oxygen first. drunk driving is far more dangerous and deadly than high driving. Frequently alcohol contributes to domestic violence. there are millions and millions of people in AA who are rebuilding their lives across the world. Marijuana while it too can have a detrimental effect on people's lives at a rate close to alcohol.
 
04mucklowd said:
I've seen people at my school who were nice kids in lower years, smoke green and become awful people.

Cannabis really does ruin you life one way or another
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They probably became awful people and smoking pot was a part of the **** they do. it wasn't the weed that made them change it was growing up that did. it's a symptom not the disease. if they are smoking a lot and having it interfere with their lives this is likely due to self destructive behaviour and not a powerful drug consuming their lives. if it was legal they wouldn't be getting it from drug dealers and not knowing the quality or if it had been laced with something worse and government regulation would actually make your friends safer.


self destructive addictive people will find a way to hurt themselves regardless of what the local governments decide should be illegal or not. I have a good friend in rehab for huffing. shoudl we make compressed air illegal? it's WAY worse for you than marijuana.
 
Ethan Rosen said:
@Edmund: That's blatantly false. Millions of people around the world use marijuana, but it has yet to cause a recorded death. That's a HUGE sample size. If you legalized marijuana, even if ten times as many people smoked it, there is no reason whatsoever to believe that the number of deaths would go from 0 to 85,000.
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I find that hard to believe. Maybe the drug itself wouldn't kill you from overdose, but it could significantly increase the chances of dying in other ways. It can impair you in ways that increases the chances of accidents. Marijuana smoke damages DNA and can lead to cancer, but on the other hand, other parts of marijuana can be used to fight against cancer growth.

I'm against using it, but I would say it's reasonable to legalize it. It would be more economically efficient and probably safer for the users. Why don't we just legalize everything? That might increase the chance of people dying in random accidents, but they happen regardless of drug use.
 
04mucklowd said:
I've seen people at my school who were nice kids in lower years, smoke green and become awful people.

Cannabis really does ruin you life one way or another
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I've seen people with no reason to live, no happiness in their life, then they smoked green and found out what living is.

Cannabis really could save your life if you thought you couldn't live a normal life.
 
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