….. I knew a guy that liked the way that Chrystal meth smelled

… coon huntin son of a gun lol

Someone made the conscious decision to take the drug that may or may not kill them. Who is forcing someone to shoot up and OD? It was their own choice. Addictions start with a choice in the beginning, no excuses.

Guns kill people every day too, because someone made a decision to use them in that manner. Should we make them illegal? That is the individuals poor choice and irresponsibility.

Alcohol kills people daily. Because someone made the decision to be irresponsible. Should we make alcohol illegal?

Please explain the differences. It’s two sides of the same tree. People make bad decisions and act irresponsibly every day with all sorts of things. Does that mean they should ruin it for those that make good decisions and act responsibly? Why does big brother get to decide what is and what is not acceptable?

Not all decisions are legal, nor should they be.

Pretty easy to test is somone is drunk (aka currently on alcohol)
No way yo know if THC is active in the system.
That makes the statistics hard to figure out, but I agree alcohol abuse is more evil than pot but also I don't want to pick between a lesser of two evils.





There is a reason they call it "dope", and its not because ot makes you smart.

It's infuriating than taking the time to explain something to someone and looking at their eyes to see the glazed over almost blank stare of them trying to hide that they are stoned.

I used to smoke but since quitting, a little over a decade ago, I've become against its use and legalization.

Wait....did I really just see someone argue that people shouldn't be be allowed to have legal representation? Yikes

Thanks

Anyone who thinks increase drug use doesn't affect anyone but the user should probably not ever complain about society problems that abundance drug abuse brings with it. Legalizing will make it's use more accepted and will increase the users and usage.

Well, the alternative is to legislate what people can and can't put in their own bodies.

If you support drug criminalization, then you support the govt telling people what they can't put into their own bodies, and I ain't about that sort of tyranny. Simple as that.

Freedom is messy.

Well of course I'm for punishment of crime against other people. If someone hurts you or your family either intentionally or through negligence, then they should be punished. The simple act of using, selling, purchasing a plant or chemical doesn't harm anyone though. (Unless you're the tax man and don't get your cut, of course).

But I'm also in support of legal representation and the concept of innocent until proven guilty.

The criminalization of either is tyranny.

The criminalization of guns is tyranny because it prevents one from being able to defend oneself against violence.

The criminalization of drugs is tyranny because it is govt control over another person's bodily autonomy.

We have the 2nd Amendment for guns. There is no such thing for drugs. I'd prefer to leave it up to the individual states where the citizens themselves can vote on their drug policy.

I am and it is legal

making a tea of the blossoms is also legal

refining it is not

Decades ago if it were up to me I would have made pot legal IF , you grew it yourself and kept it on your own property and made it have zero commercial value make the act of selling it illegal , give the seeds to be transported in quantities of 50 or less but no transporting it.

the issue is in super concentration and making it for others consumption not at your home.

At minimum, marijuana should be reclassified. The very definition of a Schedule I narcotic is that it has no currently accepted medical use and lack of accepted safety under medical supervision. This is pretty bogus considering how many states have legalized it for medical use, and the proven medical benefits.

Personal example: I had a significant shoulder surgery when I was 19. Instead of taking the doctor-prescribed heavy duty opiates (which are proven to be seriously addictive) I just used marijuana instead. It worked just as well as the opiates, but also allowed me to have an appetite and sleep like a baby.

Bingo!!!

The sky did not fall with legalized weed here.

I coon hunted with a guy like that once….we treed on the side of a corn field and when I shined the tree, he said look at em all…there’s hundreds of em. He thought every star in the sky was coon eyes!

Not from my experience. A couple of months back, I took a single hit and could barely function. It reminded me why I never liked weed. The stuff they produce now is nothing like what they produced back in the day, which for me was in the 70s. I'll stick with beer and scotch.

When the government can tell you what you can put in your body you loose freedom and it has creap. I can't butcher a cow on my farm and sell a lb of meat to a neighbor legally becuse I'm not a licensed processing facility. Same goes for selling a quart of goat milk.

O but it's for safety. People are to dumb to be able to.chose what they deam safe for their family. I'm sure the Mexicans in the processing plant care about sanitation and quality far less than I do considering I'm feeding myself and family out of the same freezer.

But what can you say some people need to feel like the government keeps them safe and won't take responsibility to do that for themselves.

Ha! Similar. I took a hit from a friend a few months ago and it ruined me for the night and into the next day. I hit it hard though like it was 1999 all over again.

I do feel like a hypocrite though because I drink which I feel is more destructive.

Same here, but like it was 1979 all over again.