now lets have a civil conversation, no name calling, no outbreaks.

what is your opinion about legalizing marijuana?

in my opinion, marijuana (if it isn't abused) is less harmful than alchohol and tobacco. needless to say i am for leagalizing it. but not because its a teenage rebellion thing.

is it harmful? if abused it is, but if not abused, it is natural. no additives like cigarettes. just grown, dried, then smoked (as far as i know, but i dont know it all)

now remeber, think about your post before hand, try to keep it civil, and curteous. lets try to not get this dumped.

'ere.

Well I'm not for it. It still has long term use effect on brain cells even used in moderation. So does alcohol. I won't go into my job but I see the effects of narcotics and alcohol quite often. I 've pulled a lot of bodies out of the water from substance abuse or drinking. I just don't think there is a moderate use formula. If you are using marijuana a few times a day then you are functioning on an altered mind. Best bet is to stay clean. Don't become a moderate user that leads to bigger things and waste your life. Your to young.-----Just my opinion----------

Before you make a decision about marijuana being harmless, you should consider the fact that you haven't been around long enough to see some of your friends live's become ruined from drug use, or come to an untimely end. Maybe you have a friend or two that are potheads. You probably don't think too much of it right now.

Right now, at 15 years of age, you live at home. If you have some pothead friends that are your own age, they live at home.

One of the most common effects of marijuana use, is that the users have no ambition.

Watch and see what happens to a pothead that is, let's say, 25 years old. Most of them can't survive on their own. There is an ENTIRE world of problems that come from lack of ambition. A few of these items are:

POVERTY
IGNORANCE
POOR CREDIT
VAGRANCY
SOCIALLY WITHDRAWN
CRIMINAL ACTIVITY


These are just a few traits of someone strung out on drugs. Life is tough enough with all of your facultys in tact. I suggest that you run as far as you can from the very appearance of dope and booze. You seem like an intelligent young man.

An intelligent person learns from other's mistakes.

An average person will learn from their own mistakes.

A fool will fail to learn at all.

Who do you want to be?

A couple of my buddies I grew up with started smoking pot in high school.

2 years later they were dead from an over-dose of heroin and I can safely say I never tried any drugs after that.

oh, they died in 1970

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I think it should be legalized and taxed. Why waste money on the "war on drugs" while the dealers line thier pockets? The people that do drugs are going to find what they want whether it is legal or not.

I think the war on drugs is a farce too, but I don't want to condone the use of drugs. They are dangerous, and I have never, and I mean never seen any positive results come from alcohol or drug use. It always ends up with a sad story.

Medical marijuana for the terminally ill, etc is a different issue and should be allowed.

Recreational use is a different issue. I always kind of thought it should be legalized, but would the use of pot become as widespread as alcohol use? , particularly amongst our young folks. How many more lives would it cost in the long run to legalize it?

In my personal opinion, all drugs should be legal with the same restrictions as Alcohol. This country has wasted billions upon billions on the war on drugs. Our court systems are spending more and more every year. Our jails and prisons are majorly over crowded because of drug offenders. Make it legal, and tax it. Being illegal hasn't stopped people from using dope, might as well tax it and make money off it. I see no difference between any illegal drug and alcohol

i agree completely with NAIRB.

i post stories sometimes of my past drug use, just because for some reason i thought of it that day, but i really wish that some kid will read it someday and think about just how much it screwed up my life.

a little back ground.....
i started smoking weed at the age of 13.
i had a lot of mental issues that made me very depressed and thought that i was "cool" because i smoked weed.
not long after that, i felt the need for a different high.
one day my brother offered me some cocaine, i tried it and was instantly hooked. i started selling it just to support my own habit. i did it every single day for an entire month (large quantities). i started losing what little of the good friends that i had and was noticing that i was starting to get in deep with the crap, so i just up and quit one day.
after a while of feeling the loss of the coke high that i loved so much, i started exploring other drugs.
one day i was introduced to acid (LSD).
and i absolutely LOVED IT. i did it every single chance i got (got it for free). i actually got to where i could, not sleep for two days straight, and when i did sleep, it was only for a couple of hours before dropping yet another 9 hits, and was completely fine with that.
one day i was in someone's garage that i didn't even know, smoking a huge cigar, laughing so hard that i couldn't even pull my face out of the smile that it was in, when i realized that i was never going to be "normal' again. i sat there thinking that i was going to die because i was so far gone from reality that i thought that i could never come back. this scared me. it scared me so much that i stopped that night and prayed to god that i please return to normal. that prayer has still been un- answered.
so i was "clean" for a while after that. only smoked weed and drank more vodka then anyone that i've ever seen, but i started having that feeling again of wanting something more. when i discovered Ecstasy.
Ecstasy was absolutely wonderful.
i got it for free from a friend so i was taking it every night. the feeling i got from it was so amazing that while i was on it, i didn't ever want to be sober. but like everything, it also had terrible side effects.
while on it, you grind you teeth extremely hard. that is why you see all of these rave kids with pacifiers in their mouth at clubs.
one night i was rollin' on 5 tabs and noticed a tingle in my jaw (you can't feel pain). as i started to come down off of it, my jaw felt like it was on fire. i could hardly eat anything for about the next two weeks, and even when i would move it just to say something, the pain was almost unbearable. so i quit that crap too.

i was at work one day and my boss asked me to cut some tubing. as i walked over to the chop saw i had already forgot what the hell i was supposed to do. i ended up walking back and forth 4 times before i actually got the job done. he told me after work that if it happened again, i was fired.
thinking about it, i knew that it was all of the grass that i smoke clouding the brain, so that day, i quit smoking that crap too.

to this day, i've NEVER had that feeling of ever needing anything "more" again.
this may sound like i'm blaming my actions on the weed, but i'm not. i take full responsibility for my actions, but i do believe that weed played a big part.
one other thing that you must take into consideration is that i'm a very strong willed person. i know a lot of people that can't just simply quit like i did. like my brother; he can't leave the damn coke alone. he has damn near destroyed his entire life because of it (i've told the stories).

so what have i really gotten out of all of this?
sure i have some pretty cool stories to re-minis about with my old friends and sure i had fun when i was growing up, but how about we take a look at the negatives..........
my jaw still hurts to this day....
i have not much more than an 8th grade education....
everything that i look at has white lines around it and i constantly have flash backs and see tracers with every movement; and because of this i have to read everything 3 or 4 times just to understand it because the letters jump and move around....
i shake constantly; its gets real bad when i'm working on something small like wiring....
mentally i'm very screwed up; i think and dream things every night that i won't tell anyone about, out of fear that i'll end up in a crazy hospital, and that is just a small taste of the whole truth....
i lost many many good friends because of it....
and the list can go on all night if i wanted to continue typing it.

i voted that it be legalized, but after remembering all of this, i think i'm going to have to change my vote.

hopefully this helps someone.
do yourself a favor and learn from my mistakes.

late' Aaron

Make it legal! I mean, wth is wrong with it? Give me a "REAL" medical reason of why it is wrong, and then compare it to alcohol.

thats what I thought.

IMO the "legal" drug (alchohol) is MORE harmful than marijuana - maybe we should outlaw alchohol.


There's a lot of people that will never do that .

I've done a lot of dope in my life too. I was a big time crank user/dealer for many years. I don't mess with dope anymore, but I still stand by my other post in this thread.

how man accidents we have related to alcohol a year?
how many accidents will add to that number related to dope?

if you legalize it people will abuse it, if people abuse it it'll get un-legalized again.




Mike

Well, you do know Alcohol was illegal at one time. It's been abused big time and it's still legal.