Thread: Legalizing Mary-Jane Yes or No?

Originally Posted by Killuminati

Smoking marijuana is not very bad for you and as you know there are other ways of taking it. Between smoking and other forms of consumption there are plenty of benefits. It shouldn't matter anyway, what I choose to do in the privacy of my home is my business and the government has no right to tell me what I can or can't do.

Originally Posted by Syme

"Responsibility to maintain the health of the nation"... This is nanny-state crap. By this logic fatty foods, cigarettes, and a host of other things should be illegal as well. They are far more unhealthy than marijuana, especially since marijuana can be taken without smoking it, which in fact totally removes the unhealthy part of marijuana consumption. I can't believe I'm actually hearing you say that something should be illegal because it's unhealthy. Killuminati is right, people have the right to decide what they are going to put into their own bodies.

Originally Posted by Sheepz

Right. You missed my point though. Extreme sports have risks and so does smoking weed, and it's upto the person if they take the risk. Not everyone who smokes gets lung cancer, and not everyone who basejumps goes splat. Not a very good comparison I know because extreme sports take practice, but anything could be around the corner.

Same with the government though, I think with the length of time weed has been outlawed they're thinking 'better safe than sorry'.

I agree that people have the right to put mind altering substances into their own bodies. However, there is already a widely avaliable substance that alters the mind with premisies deticated to its distributon. Alcohol causes many problems in every nation and I personally doubt that had it been discovered yesterday, it would be heavily restricted and probably illegal. But something else would be avaliable where the bars and pubs and restaurants are.

My point is that I believe one is enough. Legilisation of marijana would only add to the problems we already have with mind altering substances.

I do, however, believe that legilisation would lead to a drop in demand for the stronger, more dangerous strains but not altogether. Some people would not be satisfied. Like Everclear, stronger and stronger examples of a legal substance that if are freely avaliable and totally uncontrolled could be extremely dangerous not only to the consumer but the people around them. I think one is enough.