Reed College Bust - Internal affair or PD involved?

#9 was my favorite. It suddenly made some people's posts around here make a LOT of sense.

 

Alcohol is a very dangerous drug, much more dangerous then marijuana. Talk to drug counselors (addition professionals), and ask them what group of addicts have more serious problems. What drug harms more of its users. Seems like most of the anti-marijuana people were the older generations... I wonder if the laws will change to tax and regulate in the next 10 years.

Personally I don't do any drugs anymore, I just want to put things in my body that make it better.

Being brought up in a pro-alcohol family, school, community, peers, workplace, it took quite awhile for me to fully realize all the harm it can eventually do. I just don't think most people correctly look at alcohol as a drug that is dangerous as opiates or anything else.

 

The issue isn't whether drugs are unhealthy. The issue is whether government should terrorize tens of millions of Americans for months of waiting for their court dates, losing their jobs, and hating the country the rest of their lives. Almost a million Americans were arrested last year for marijuana alone.

 

Ya know, I have to admit that between high alcohol booze and marijuana this may very well be true. So the following line of thinking might be that if weed is akin to beer for overall effect (realizing the exact effects are dissimilar), then why do we not decriminalize weed? Also, as Maris pointed out, police should be doing better things with their time than chasing down dope smokers/growers.

I'm guessing, but I think the main arguments against are that weed is addictive (so why legalize something addictive), weed does get one high (and driving... becomes dangerous and why add more danger on the roads), weed does tend to lead some people to stronger drugs that are immensely destructive (like hardcore alcoholics almost always start with beer/wine) and if it is decriminalized then people who grow it will bring craziness of druggies to otherwise safe neighborhoods (as evidenced by that experiment in California that destroyed a community...) so why start down that road at all?

Although I don't support the legalization of weed, maybe if it was only allowed to be grown and harvested in certain protected ways (illegal to grow it for the common citizen) and then sold just like cigarettes (with the hell taxed out of it) so it is a cash crop for the government, perhaps something may work out.

 

umm, no it isnt, physically at least, so its no more "addictive" than chocolate, in fact, chocolate contains caffeine, which actually IS addictive

the main "argument" against legalizing pot is the huge amount of money privatized prisons are spending to lobby elected officials, so that they can keep their prisons full of non violent offenders, and force them to make crap for walmarts "made in the usa" section

basically our government is selling our nations citizens livelihood to the privatized prison system for cold hard cash, what a country

 

But think of how much more they could make if they produced weed and sold it like cigs and collected sin taxes on it.

 

the senator getting campaign donations from a privatized prison lobbyist wouldnt see any of that money though

 

So? He can steal money from the Social Security fund like the rest of those SOB's.

 

there is just too much money in keeping weed illegal, and giant slavery corporations have more power than the us government

 

Why not, if that's what Americans want to do? I thought Republicans are against the nanny state. Sure they are. Why don't you make other addictions illegal, like sports or posting on message boards?

Driving while stoned could be illegal. That's no reason to make being stoned illegal, or possessing drugs illegal.

Why not, if that's what Americans want to do? I thought Republicans are against the nanny state. Sure they are. Why don't you make other addictive activities illegal, like sports or posting on message boards?

I haven't heard of any experiment, but I did read something similar, in which the opposite happened--Marijuana opponents predicted that after California centers dispensing prescription marijuana were closed, crime in the surrounding area would decrease. Instead, it increased.

 

bp, lets here more about these pill parties you used to frequent. ever wake up naked with a snorkel mask on in the boys bathroom with a dead snake and an empty tube of organic fennel toms of maine toothpaste?

 

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