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[The Jackal]

It's interesting. More people die on painkillers in a single month. Then people die on weed in a lifetime. Alcohol is legal. You can kill yourself by drinking too much. Painkillers are legally, they are known to be addictive both mentally and physically. Colorado is the first state in the US to make Marijuana legal federally.

 

No one has died since. Actually their states are reporting a surplus in money in the millions of dollars they can invest in domestic programs. Why the huge Taboo with Marijuana. You can't overdose. It's not addictive. You should go right now to a store buy a pack of cigars that say on the label "This WILL kill you" and it will.

 

Yet you can't buy  Marijuana in every state. It's illegal in some states. It's legal in others. I don't understand why people wouldn't want to make this legal on a federal level. In time I think most states in the US will make it legal. So far the progress is slow. It's known to help people that have medical issues. It's not just something to get high with. Cancer patients take this it actually helps them. Why not just make it legal everywhere.

 

Their is a massive number of people locked up for small amounts of pot. Those people are able to legally buy other things that will harm their body's. What your personal view of pot. Do you support it made legal federally. (In the United States) or wherever you live.  

[Voxr]

Sure why not.

inb4:

Spoiler

[Dobby]

No, because then all the Munchies chips will be out of stock at stores all the time. 

 

Oh and it stinks like a skunk, so no. 

[AventuroLegendary]

I already have enough problems with sharing sidewalks with smokers. 

[Voxr]

No, because then all the Munchies chips will be out of stock at stores all the time. 

 

Oh and it stinks like a skunk, so no. 

[TheClonesLegacy]

Bath Salts should be legal tbh

[mousestalker]

It should be legal for those who don't want to buy it, use it or smoke it.

It should be illegal for everyone else.

[A Crusty Knight Of Colour]

I don't think heavily divisive social issues ought to be ruled on the federal level unless there's overbearing complications involved. Generally speaking, I'm in favour of pot legalisation with heavy restrictions. But yeah, no to the federal government making the decision.

I'm not even an 'Murican or one of those zomg states should have more rights kind of people, just that something that divisive would kill any political capital a government would come into office with, and that would cause issues on more important legislations. State referendums are the way to go.

[mybudgee]

OP you have good intentions, but your info is inaccurate

 

Keep up the good work

 

[Gravisanimi]

Normal cigarettes irritate my nose enough.

 

The few times my grandmother still had the smell of it on her I actually had a nose bleed.

[TheClonesLegacy]

Oh yeah, I know the show was about cooking Meth, but inb4 Breaking Bad references/jokes.

[Voxr]

Guys come on, can you please consider my future employment? By supporting drug legalization your putting me in an awkward position.

Try not to be so selfish!

Marijuana isn't a drug. It's a magic herb that transcends time and space *hits*. That lifts the ancient spirits of the world and surrounds us with it's love *hits*. It makes all the impossibilities, possible through intuition and honesty *hiiiiiiiiiiiiit* And it makes Floyd sound like Jesus singing just for you!

 

Man.

[The Love Runner]

Normal cigarettes irritate my nose enough.
 
The few times my grandmother still had the smell of it on her I actually had a nose bleed.

I actually had a nosebleed, too, but because of a different drug substance that a couple guys were using near me a couple weeks ago.

[rapscallioness]

yes.

[L. Han]

But will it be cool if it gets legalized?!?

[mybudgee]

I actually had a nosebleed, too, but because of a different drug substance that a couple guys were using near me a couple weeks ago.

Presidential Scandal time

[The Jackal]

I actually had a nosebleed, too, but because of a different drug substance that a couple guys were using near me a couple weeks ago.

 

It's not hard to narrow down what makes your nose bleed. Cocaine is literally only drug I can think of that does that...but that's off topic. 

[o Ventus]

It's interesting. More people die on painkillers in a single month. Then people die on weed in a lifetime. Alcohol is legal. You can kill yourself by drinking too much. Painkillers are legally, they are known to be addictive both mentally and physically. Colorado is the first state in the US to make Marijuana legal federally.

 

"More people die to X than Y" isn't a very compelling argument. More people are killed by turtles every year than sharks, but we know not to mess with sharks because they are dangerous. Not to say that pot is a particularly dangerous substance, but it IS known to be linked to more than one kind of cancer (and prostate cancer, in men).

 

 

 

 

No one has died since. Actually their states are reporting a surplus in money in the millions of dollars they can invest in domestic programs.

 

This isn't true at all. Not due to pot.

 

 

 

Yet you can't buy  Marijuana in every state. It's illegal in some states. It's legal in others. I don't understand why people wouldn't want to make this legal on a federal level. In time I think most states in the US will make it legal. So far the progress is slow. It's known to help people that have medical issues. It's not just something to get high with. Cancer patients take this it actually helps them. Why not just make it legal everywhere.

 

Pot doesn't help everybody, it varies person-to-person (like all drugs). There are other already-legal drugs that work just as well. Cannabinoids have been shown to treat cancer symptoms, but never have they been seen to affect the cancer itself. No single drug can alleviate cancer, because that isn't how cancer works. Some cannabinoids, under certain conditions, can actually stimulate the growth of cancerous tissue.

 

 

 

Their is a massive number of people locked up for small amounts of pot. Those people are able to legally buy other things that will harm their body's. What your personal view of pot. Do you support it made legal federally. (In the United States) or wherever you live.

 

I don't really care one way or the other if its legalized or not, but you haven't put forth any really compelling cases for why it should be. If it does ever get legalized on a federal level, I just want to avoid people talking about it day-in-and-day-out. I had to put up with enough worthless idiot stoners who never contribute to anything while I was in high school, I don't want to be around those people on the day to day if I don't have to be. Any kind of negative view I have towards pot isn't toward the drug itself, but to the people I've known to do it.

[Jeremiah12LGeek]

[mybudgee]

The only thing we can all likely agree on is that the USA's "War on Drugs" was largely ineffective & counter-productive. Also the propaganda surrounding marijuana has been misleading in the extreme

 

[God]

State referendums are the way to go.

 

Not in America they're not.

 

Referendums stateside work a lot differently anywhere else.

 

Mainly because they don't mean anything. A referendum in my current state of residence, Indiana, realistically means little more than a glorified public opinion message that politicians are more or less free to ignore at their leisure. And thanks to gerrymandering, they have a large likelihood of getting re-elected. Perpetually. And if they fear a demographic change, all they do is rewrite the lines to make their district winnable, while expanding the demographic zone for another (opposite party) politician, so that all the people who would have voted against him are now thrown into the token blue constituency.

 

Plus, we don't run on simple majority. We have to fulfill some random arbitrary numerical percentage that is calculated differently by gerrymandered state representative constituencies. It's rather difficult to get a referendum to do anything. Which is why we've only used them en masse for the country a handful of times (and none significant in the last 70 years). In the state, it's a lot easier to kill a referendum than it is to make it work, which is why it's hardly used.

 

It's the politicians way of ensuring that even the public can't kill their pet project. It's how politicians and their agenda can be insanely unpopular, yet still elected and holding a lot of power. It's the only reason the GoP still exists outside the bible belt. 

 

In short, referendums don't work in the United States like they do in Australia. We don't use them because they don't work here.

[mybudgee]

God isn't everywhere 

 

He is in Indiana