Weed - should it be legal?

Uruguay has just changed its legislation and is now the first country in the wrold to sanction the growing, selling and smoking of marijuana.

 

They have done it to put the illegal drug trade and drug traffikers out of business.

 

Personally I think it makes sense. If nicotine is legal than there is very little difference between the 2.

 

Your thoughts?

 

http://www.smh.com.au/world/uruguay-becomes-first-country-to-legalise-marijuana-trade-20131211-hv59x...

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siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy



It's a sedative alright.

To the point where the habitual smoker loses all drive, ambition and sense of responsibility, and becomes a lazy, lost, hallucinating paranoid schizophrenic with the constant munchies instead.

 

Want to lower the crime by legalising? Fine.

 

Raise a population of mentally impaired, indolent and unemployable vegetables instead. Not to mention obese and all the health issues that come with it.

 

Not a winner.

 

 

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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy


Not at all true for all smokers and for habitual (every day) smokers, the times when they cant get it they often bevome very agitated and aggressive.

Child neglect would be a big problem amongst dope smokers too, many kids miss out on essentials so their parents can buy dope. Dont try and tell me it doesnt happen, I've seen it first hand.

 

The fact that these problems also exist amongst drinkers does not make it ok to legalise dope. What is needed is more education not more availability.

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So how has leaving the distribution of illicit drugs in blackmarket hands help those that have been mentioned

 

anecdotally in this thread that had detrimental effects when using Pot ???

 

 

 

 

 

ie How many blackmarket drug dealers supply an education program, counselling service or a positive support network

 

with their product??

 

 

 

ie If the drugs were governmentally controlled and distributed how many of those lives might be turned around

 

because they have been given access to correct information.

 

Only those that seek help at the moment xcan be given that information.

 

IMO by linking the search for illicit drugs with counselling a greater proportion of deniers (those with problems but deny it) are liable to be reached

 

 

 

 

 

 

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@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy


Not at all true for all smokers and for habitual (every day) smokers, the times when they cant get it they often bevome very agitated and aggressive.

Child neglect would be a big problem amongst dope smokers too, many kids miss out on essentials so their parents can buy dope. Dont try and tell me it doesnt happen, I've seen it first hand.

 

The fact that these problems also exist amongst drinkers does not make it ok to legalise dope. What is needed is more education not more availability.


The problem does exist among drinkers.  

 

Lets make alcohol illegal, after all, it is the most abused substance in Australian society.



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@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy


Not at all true for all smokers and for habitual (every day) smokers, the times when they cant get it they often bevome very agitated and aggressive.

Child neglect would be a big problem amongst dope smokers too, many kids miss out on essentials so their parents can buy dope. Dont try and tell me it doesnt happen, I've seen it first hand.

 

The fact that these problems also exist amongst drinkers does not make it ok to legalise dope. What is needed is more education not more availability.


The problem does exist among drinkers.  

 

Lets make alcohol illegal, after all, it is the most abused substance in Australian society.


Perhaps you could start a thread about that and get some opinions, its a totally different subject to legalising weed. I'm not sure why it keeps raising its head as some kind of argument or comparision.

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@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy


Not at all true for all smokers and for habitual (every day) smokers, the times when they cant get it they often bevome very agitated and aggressive.

Child neglect would be a big problem amongst dope smokers too, many kids miss out on essentials so their parents can buy dope. Dont try and tell me it doesnt happen, I've seen it first hand.

 

The fact that these problems also exist amongst drinkers does not make it ok to legalise dope. What is needed is more education not more availability.


The problem does exist among drinkers.  

 

Lets make alcohol illegal, after all, it is the most abused substance in Australian society.


Perhaps you could start a thread about that and get some opinions, its a totally different subject to legalising weed. I'm not sure why it keeps raising its head as some kind of argument or comparision.


In fact really, all it does is prove that legalising a harmful substance is not the answer.

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@punch*drunk wrote:

@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

@punch*drunk wrote:

@siggie-reported-by-alarmists wrote:

Keep in mind punchdrunk, that pot has a sedative effect, unlike alcohol, cocaine and other stimulants.

 

Woman Happy


Not at all true for all smokers and for habitual (every day) smokers, the times when they cant get it they often bevome very agitated and aggressive.

Child neglect would be a big problem amongst dope smokers too, many kids miss out on essentials so their parents can buy dope. Dont try and tell me it doesnt happen, I've seen it first hand.

 

The fact that these problems also exist amongst drinkers does not make it ok to legalise dope. What is needed is more education not more availability.


The problem does exist among drinkers.  

 

Lets make alcohol illegal, after all, it is the most abused substance in Australian society.


Perhaps you could start a thread about that and get some opinions, its a totally different subject to legalising weed. I'm not sure why it keeps raising its head as some kind of argument or comparision.


In fact really, all it does is prove that legalising a harmful substance is not the answer.


So you obviously reckon that all people who drink alcohol have a problem or at least the major amount?

 

ie the sensible drinkers the ones that do nt cause a problem are in the absolute minimum

 

alcohol entered this discussion as a comparitive.

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The comparison between weed and alcohol in an online forum is expected, surely?  

 

People are going to seek ways of escaping reality.  They've always done it.  Some chant.  Some dance.  Some use repetitive beats.  Others use religion.  Some use drugs.  Others turn to alcohol

 

Alcohol and weed/drugs are self-defeating.  The escape is brief, the price is high.  The damage is widespread

 

Weed seems to be as easily obtained as alcohol.  Will legalising weed diminish demand and supply?  Will legalising weed mean people use less?  Will legalising weed make much difference to society? 

 

If it's legalised, it will curtail the profits to suppliers, at least.  But they'll move onto supplying something else

 

Who here would purchase/use weed if it were legal is probably the issue.  How many would form an addiction and how would that affect society in terms of absenteeism, accidents, etc.  Or would there be no discernible difference because so many are using it to escape their lives already

 

Would legalised weed become a safer alternative to the mountains of mood-modifying-enhancing legal drugs currently being consumed ?

 

Who would be the winners and losers were weed to be legalised?

 

Who knows?  Really --- anyone know?  Because I don't

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They call it "dope" for good reason.

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@icyfroth wrote:

They call it "dope" for good reason.


as can be said for wowsers

 

A person regarded as obnoxiously puritanical.

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