legalize it?!

[SgtD]

so this is the question. I'm sick and tired of 13 year old kids with cannabis t-shirts on them, cos it's cool
there was a campaign here to legalize it, and a lots of celebrities said: "yeah, theres nothing wrong with cannabis"

as for me, alcohol and cigarettes should be illegal too

[xvunderx]

i don't realy care if it's legal or not.

I say legalize it and tax it really heavily.

If people want to smoke away their life, it's just natural selection.

[Dummy]

people are gonna do it anways, might as well tax them which might go to things like floaty cars or bridges to hawaii. get the drug dealers off the streets. but the question is should everything become legal? in theway of drinking and smoking it should be in designated spots like hash bars. as long as i don't have to see it or smell it

[Sean The Red]

I think alcohol and tobacco should be illegal to, however I also recognize that there is no way its ever going to happen (and work.)

I would much rather pot heads supplement the funding cuts for Head Start --a program that is designed to help struggling children keep pace with the demands placed on them-- thanks to Bush's No Child Left Behind initiative.

Or to have them fund drug rehab programs, or to make roads better, or to do any number of things, just abuot anything other than to make a very rich columbians.

[Dummy]

yeah speeding is illegal but almost everyone does it.

[Sean The Red]

Originally posted by Dummy
yeah speeding is illegal but almost everyone does it.

if you could tax speeding, so people couldnt get away with it, there would be two possible outcomes.

1. The state would be filthy rich, and people would go however fast they wanted.

2. The state would be dirt poor because everyone wanted to hold onto their money.

[Dummy]

Originally posted by Sean The Red
if you could tax speeding, so people couldnt get away with it, there would be two possible outcomes.

1. The state would be filthy rich, and people would go however fast they wanted.

2. The state would be dirt poor because everyone wanted to hold onto their money.

or a mixture of both

[Sean The Red]

Originally posted by Dummy
or a mixture of both

no, thats not allowed

[xlowercasex]

the day pot is legal is the day i buy a gun. if pot is legal, that's just another substance that will be consumed in even larger mass quantitites and the number of car accidents from people under the influince is going to be greatly increased.

legal or not, if some fucked up asshole hits someone i love, he won't be rotting in jail. he will be dead.

[xsecx]

Originally posted by xlowercasex
the day pot is legal is the day i buy a gun. if pot is legal, that's just another substance that will be consumed in even larger mass quantitites and the number of car accidents from people under the influince is going to be greatly increased.

legal or not, if some fucked up asshole hits someone i love, he won't be rotting in jail. he will be dead.

what are you basing this on? do you really think that all the people that really want to do pot, aren't because it isn't legal and that is what is stopping them?

[Dummy]

Originally posted by xlowercasex
the day pot is legal is the day i buy a gun. if pot is legal, that's just another substance that will be consumed in even larger mass quantitites and the number of car accidents from people under the influince is going to be greatly increased.

legal or not, if some fucked up asshole hits someone i love, he won't be rotting in jail. he will be dead.
then youll be rotting in jail.

[ska_is_alive]

It'll just be like the 1920's Prohibition act all over again. If someone illegalizes it, then people will have more of a reason to do it. Just because it's not legal doesn't mean it wont stop it. Killing people is illegal but people still do that.

[xsecx]

Originally posted by ska_is_alive
It'll just be like the 1920's Prohibition act all over again. If someone illegalizes it, then people will have more of a reason to do it. Just because it's not legal doesn't mean it wont stop it. Killing people is illegal but people still do that.

um. if something is illegal now, and has never been legal, how is it anything like prohibition?

[ska_is_alive]

You know, I have a tendacy to say stupid shit at times. Just ignore what I typed. I just re-read it and it didn't even make sense to me.

[sXeWrestler108]

I don't think cigarettes or any types of drugs (other than for medical purposes) should be legalized because that gives the impression that america doesn't care. And if it is legalized (Drugs that is) then I will be forced to be around it like I already am when people smoke in public places and theres nothing I can do about it.

[xsecx]

Originally posted by sXeWrestler108
I don't think cigarettes or any types of drugs (other than for medical purposes) should be legalized because that gives the impression that america doesn't care. And if it is legalized (Drugs that is) then I will be forced to be around it like I already am when people smoke in public places and theres nothing I can do about it.

so how does making it/keeping it illegal mean that america does care? How would you deal with the increased crime rate and arrest rates? How would you deal with the prisons and how would you find the funding for everything with no more taxes on alcohol or cigarettes?

[air_life_99]

Originally posted by xlowercasex
the day pot is legal is the day i buy a gun. if pot is legal, that's just another substance that will be consumed in even larger mass quantitites and the number of car accidents from people under the influince is going to be greatly increased.

legal or not, if some fucked up asshole hits someone i love, he won't be rotting in jail. he will be dead.

that doesn't make since though. ever as much so does a stoned driver cause accidents as someone who's drunk. or even distracted by some annoying little brat in the back seat. or even a soccer mom on the phone. should we put all the people who are on their phones, and have little kids, and drink, or for that matter any other kind of nuisance of driving, to be illegalities? it doesn't make since to single out singular based examples of accidents and create large concepts on them. it's called inductive(inversly logical) thinking! does this piss anyone else off?

[xsecx]

Originally posted by air_life_99
that doesn't make since though. ever as much so does a stoned driver cause accidents as someone who's drunk. or even distracted by some annoying little brat in the back seat. or even a soccer mom on the phone. should we put all the people who are on their phones, and have little kids, and drink, or for that matter any other kind of nuisance of driving, to be illegalities? it doesn't make since to single out singular based examples of accidents and create large concepts on them. it's called inductive(inversly logical) thinking! does this piss anyone else off?

your analogies don't hold. talking on the phone is illegal in places and will probably be illegal in all. drinking is legal, but driving while intoxicated isn't. if marijuana was made legal, there would be a legal definition of intoxification as well, so it wouldn't be any different than now.

[air_life_99]

Originally posted by xsecx
your analogies don't hold. talking on the phone is illegal in places and will probably be illegal in all. drinking is legal, but driving while intoxicated isn't. if marijuana was made legal, there would be a legal definition of intoxification as well, so it wouldn't be any different than now.

whether my analagies are bad or not. it still doesn't make since. to hold claims from specialized events, and then use them to explain how the masses act....

[xsecx]

Originally posted by air_life_99
whether my analagies are bad or not. it still doesn't make since. to hold claims from specialized events, and then use them to explain how the masses act....

why doesn't it?

and the second part of your statement doesn't make any sense. are you trying to say that if it's illegal to drink and drive it should be illegal to drink and sit?

[No_Crutch]

Bringing back the prohibition or outlawing cigarettes is ridiculous.
Everyone should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies, wether you chose to abstain from certain substances, or you chose to drink and smoke.

I choose to abstain from certain things because it's the right choice for ME. I can't say anything about anyone else.

[straightXed]

Originally posted by No_Crutch
Bringing back the prohibition or outlawing cigarettes is ridiculous.
Everyone should have the right to choose what to do with their bodies, wether you chose to abstain from certain substances, or you chose to drink and smoke.

I choose to abstain from certain things because it's the right choice for ME. I can't say anything about anyone else.

two words, passive smoking.

[hXc_sXe_sxm]

i think every drug should be legal, becuase the states could benfit greatly from taxing the drugs, plus it would help resolve over population(with about 6.5 billion people) let the drug users kill themselves, making a better world for the people that choose a clean life that is poison free.

[straightXed]

Originally posted by hXc_sXe_sxm
i think every drug should be legal, becuase the states could benfit greatly from taxing the drugs, plus it would help resolve over population(with about 6.5 billion people) let the drug users kill themselves, making a better world for the people that choose a clean life that is poison free.

i don't think the drug users will die anymore than they are now, the issue i have with leagalising drugs is birth defects.