Marijuana - good or bad?

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Marijuana is not deadly. You simply cannot OD on cannabis.

Not only is it not deadly, but it's far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco. Still, here in Norway alcohol and tobacco is perfectly legal, but if the cops catch you with more than five grams of hashish or marijuana, they arrest you and charge you as a drugdealer, the same as if you had 5 grams of heroin on you!

Now that is just wrong!

How many people do you guys know that do violent things and/or get aggressive when they drink alcohol?
Granted i don't know a lot of people that smoke ganja, but those i do know i've never seen aggressive or threatening when high.

As for the argument of pot beeing a gateway drug.... I don't know. It sure doesn't help forcing people into an criminal enviromet to get their goods!
If it was legalized, and you could buy it in your local supermarket, that would not be a problem.

Another thing is all the taxes the government would earn from weeds if it was legalized and sold over the counter. I can't for the life of me understand why it is still viewed upon as a dangerous drug, just like heroin is.

I have strong opinions, and more arguments on this subject, but i think i'll stop here

Oh btw, contrary to your suspicions after reading this post; i do not smoke weed, but i do want to be able to choose to do so, without beeing a criminal according to norwegian law!


For Norwegians on this forum: http://normal.no/

Am I the only one who translates this, and similar arguments, into "ban alcohol"?

 

[Meisen]

Hehe, we can discuss this further in february

 

[goatseforever]

Too lazy to read this thread, it will probably make me facepalm anyway. But weed is harmless if you're not retarded.

 

[waffle=ijm]

SWIM agrees with above poster.

 

[masterofthebass]

Am I the only one who translates this, and similar arguments, into "ban alcohol"?

They already tried that in the US. Led to the worst organized crime in history.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D
People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

 

[Ethan Rosen]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D

People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

Can you back it up with anything? I mean you're allowed to have an opinion, but I'd like to hear some sort of reasoning to explain why you are so misguided.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D

People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

Can you back it up with anything? I mean you're allowed to have an opinion, but I'd like to hear some sort of reasoning.

Every pothead I've met acts like a total moron. There proof enough?

 

[CL_Pepsi]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D

People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

Can you back it up with anything? I mean you're allowed to have an opinion, but I'd like to hear some sort of reasoning.

Every pothead I've met acts like a total moron. There proof enough?

Well you haven't met enough people.

 

[Ethan Rosen]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D

People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

Can you back it up with anything? I mean you're allowed to have an opinion, but I'd like to hear some sort of reasoning.

Every pothead I've met acts like a total moron. There proof enough?

Then you obviously have a very small sample size. I have friends that frequently use marijuana but are applying to/going to colleges most of us could only dream of going to.

 

[dunpeal2064]

Michael Phelps *cough cough* >.>

But yes, I believe Weed is perfectly fine recreationally. And saying that all stoners are morons is quite a moronic thing to say... i mean, a lot of people smoke weed and no one knows they do... and maybe these morons you met were already morons before they started weed

But i have yet to find ANY solid proof that weed is bad for you. "It kills Braincells!" Yeah, the test they used to conclude that involved them putting a gas mask on these poor monkeys and pumping weed into it, suffocating them. Braincells die due to suffocation. =/

We are all allowed our opinions, and i can see someone who has never tried it being wary of it... but calling all stoners morons just makes no sense.

Side Note: I only learned how to solve a rubik's cube because i was stoned and saw it sitting there and decided "i'm fixing that thing no matter what it takes" only took 4 hours =) and now I'm down to 40 sec`

 

[Dave Campbell]

Every pothead I've met acts like a total moron.

The rub there, of course, is that perhaps you have met several potheads in your life but had no idea they were so because they were not conforming to the same standard. The mature ones don't go around with signs on their shirt letting everyone know.

In fact, i will tell you that i know you have met potheads in your life that were not "total morons" and have lead very successful lives and made a positive difference in other people's lives. Who knows, maybe even some of the cubers you look up to smoke pot?

I'd personally like to hear some people's opinion on the effect of pot on cubing. Though getting some to admit publicly that they smoke pot in order to comment is the bigger obstacle there.

I will also say, for the record, some of the smartest people i have known smoke pot. It doesn't mean you need to do so to be smart, they would be smart without it. In my opinion, it is a personal choice. It doesn't have to define the person. Of course it can be used as a crutch and have a negative effect on someone's life. But so can many things, alcohol, sex, videogames, religion, cubing, and so on.

 

[dunpeal2064]

as for pot on cubing... everything moves slower... Look Ahead anyone? lol.

I will say that memorizing algs can be tough for obvious reasons, but seeing patterns is easier. Also, just being able to relax, not stressing out over a previous mess up ( because you dont remember ) treating every solve the same... stuff like that.

also, for bigger cubes, my edge pairing goes twice as fast, because i can pinpoint identical pieces faster for some reason.

Since the subject of Pot is up, any stoners in here should listen to Tool next time they get stoned. =)

I'm hoping all the stoners flock to Berkley next weekend and meet up behind campus =) haha jk

 

[Derrick Eide17]

And I'll add on top of that that canadians are morons.

You don't mean that at all
Potheads actually ARE morons though seriously you see the way they act? I rest my case =D

People who stereotype are morons.

I'm allowed to have an opinion, and it's true as far as I'm concerned

Can you back it up with anything? I mean you're allowed to have an opinion, but I'd like to hear some sort of reasoning.

Every pothead I've met acts like a total moron. There proof enough?

Well you haven't met enough people.

and You murder people.

I'll make assumption on someone's life I have NO idea about as well

Potheads are morons, geez stop hurting my opinion lulz

 

[Anthony]

Who knows, maybe even some of the cubers you look up to smoke pot?

I can actually think of quite a few cubers who would fit that description, cubers that I've looked up to since I first saw cubing videos on YouTube. They're still really cool and aren't bad people at all. I'm not saying that I support smoking pot, I just know that it doesn't necessarily define the person.

 

[goatseforever]

Then you obviously have a very small sample size. I have friends that frequently use marijuana but are applying to/going to colleges most of us could only dream of going to.

QFT. I have high school friends in UCLA and Berkeley now who smoked weed for the first time when they were 16.

Ironically, I also know a person who has never tried weed; he is failing out of community college at the moment and will probably spent his life working as a cashier (I'm not exaggerating this).

InB4 someone interprets my post as smoke more weed = go to a better college.

 

[Derrick Eide17]

Then you obviously have a very small sample size. I have friends that frequently use marijuana but are applying to/going to colleges most of us could only dream of going to.

QFT. I have high school friends in UCLA and Berkeley now who smoked weed for the first time when they were 16.

Ironically, I also know a person who has never tried weed; he is failing out of community college at the moment and will probably spent his life working as a cashier (I'm not exaggerating this).

InB4 someone interprets my post as smoke more weed = go to a better college.

There are people in life who are absolute total jerks, maybe even murderer's who have gotten away with it. Celebrities with no morals or maybe are horrible people and they are great successful people.

So everyone's point..... Doesn't matter WHAT you do in life... WHO you are, or what kind of person you are... it's okay as long as your successful your fine?

That pathetic.

Also college does NOTHING, it means NOTHING.

You wanna talk about success. There are TONS of rich successful people out there, who 99% of people on these forums will NEVER amount to even CLOSE of the success of them, and they probably never went to college or even finished high school (plenty of rich celeb's etc for example)

 

[shelley]

So meeting a smart, successful person who smokes pot every once in a while wouldn't change your opinion that all potheads are morons?

 

[4Chan]

Because finding small exceptions disproves the general majority as a whole.

That was a neutral statement, I don't want to take sides. D:

 

[shelley]

I find it hard to believe Derrick has met the general majority of pot smokers.