Marijuana
 

What do you think of marijuana. In America, the walls of the unfounded proaganda seem to be crumbling, or at least you can hear them start to crack. I'm wonder what the feeling is in other parts of the world.

Overrated. (In America)

lol by whom? I'm talking about the prohibition not using it itself. I wouldn't call the damage of the prohibition overrated, I'd say it's very damaging.

By everyone it seems, where I'm from at least. And I mean using it is overrated, not the damage it causes. Around here it's "cool" =.=

The fact that they want to legalize it is extremely stupid, and it is a bad show on heir part. Even from inside America it's seen as a desperate measure by the government to fix all the unnecessary mistakes that's it's made.
Some of my friends, the ones who really aren't all that politcally involved, think it a wonderful idea! Well, it's crap. If you legalize pot, what's gonna happen? People are going to get sick, and need to see specialists, they won't have the money, and then what? We'll be in just a bigger problem!
They say the recession's over? Bull. Total. Bull. I can tell you from being in the bottom right now, it's not over. It's just getting a little better.
So, yeah I think it's total crap.
Hope it helps...
~HonoraryJapaneseGirl~

Please explain how the government is trying to legalize marijuana usage to fix all the unnecessary mistakes it has made. I have never heard this theory before, and would like to hear more details.

Actually from the studies I've read (as old as they may be), tobacco is more harmful than marijuana; one reason there is medical marijuana. Alcohol abuse is far more dangerous health wise and addicition wise. The American diet in America seems to be more dangerous after some of the other threads...

Legalizing it would surely free up our jails and make room for the real criminals.

Hey it would probably even help the get medical marijuana racket out of the health care system.

Think of the problems of alcohol during the American prohibition. Black market, large wealthy mob etc etc.

My opinion is legalize it and treat it like alcohol / tobacco. Its hard to do though in a nanny state.



Almost worth calling it a depression, but Americans are told they can't use that term.
Unemployment is not going down (and its far worse than anyone can truley calculate because of the way it is calculated). And that fake stimulus package that the government raves about is being debunked right on the ABC evening news... sad...

But think of all the GREEN jobs you would be creating if marijuana was legalized.... you also be saving the environment from global warming by planting MORE trees.../ plants...

10 reasons prohibition is bad:


1. Prohibition encourages people to see the law as unrealistic and whimsical, instead of with the respect and obedience a real law deserves.


2. Prohibition creates organized crime.


3. Prohibition permanently corrupts law enforcement, the court system, elections, and politics in general.


4. Prohibition overburdens police, courts, and the penal system.


5. Prohibition causes physical harm.
Because alcohol was illegal, its purity was not regulated. While fruit, vegetable, and grain alcohol is usually safe, alcohol made from wood is not — but it is difficult to tell the difference until too late. The same happens today with illegal drugs — most overdoses are accidental, a result from not knowing the purity or strength of the drug. All of this a result of prohibition!


6. Prohibition prevents the treatment of addiction
It’s a lot harder to say you have a problem when it could land you in jail.


7. Prohibition is ridiculously expensive.
Experts estimate that legalizing marijuana would save $7.7 billion per year in government expenditure on enforcement of prohibition. $5.3 billion of this savings would accrue to state and local governments, while $2.4 billion would accrue to the federal government. The report also estimates that marijuana legalization would yield tax revenue of $2.4 billion annually if marijuana were taxed like all other goods and $6.2 billion annually if marijuana were taxed at rates comparable to those on alcohol and tobacco.


8. Prohibition (a.k.a. 'The War on Drugs') is a complete failure, and is essentially impossible to win


9. A regulated, legal market in marijuana would reduce marijuana sales and use among teenagers, as well as reduce their exposure to other more dangerous drugs in the illegal market.


10. Marijuana's legalization would simplify the development of hemp as a valuable and diverse agricultural crop in the United States, including its development as a new bio-fuel to reduce carbon emissions.

This is an interesting topic. I did search information about marijuana by Google. I was sooooooo surprised that some professionals said it is less harmful to human health than tobacco and alcohol, at least marijuana does not make people addictive. Of course, it's also said that, if someone over abuses marijuana, death is over there.

Anyway, no matter what I have read and told, as well as reports, to most of Chinese people, marijuana is quite evil. If someone around us uses marijuana, he/she is unacceptable.

I think, people should have more positive ways for relaxation. Marijuana cannot really help. ;)

Marijuana does not and has never directly caused death, ever.

Chinese people have been using Marijuana as medicine for well over 2000 years.

2,700-Year-Old Marijuana Found in Grave

To consider someone "unacceptable" because they use a plant is, to me, "unacceptable".