Should weed be legalized?

[Donkey Sage]

If they legalized grow for personal use, that'd be sweet.

Otherwise I don't see it working out. Either legalize ALL drugs, or don't.

[The Bacon Guy]

Quote by: Anmon maybe because soap and water aren't addictive substances?

And there's no reason to believe that marijuana is either.

Quote by: Anmon I think its psychological.

Then it's not an addiction any more than "chocoholism" is an addiction.

[marijuanajake]

Quote by: Anmon See how defensive the average pot smoker becomes when you attack their beloved pot, they are in love with it. Its possibly habit forming Jake because it is addictive. I used to smoke too, but I realised it becomes the central social activity that pot smokers base their lives around.

I haven't smoked in over a month. I'm not addicted to it, if i was addicted to it I wouldn't be able to just stop anytime I wanted with no side effects, No one needs to smoke pot, they want to.
And I get defensive because pot being illegal is stupid, there is no point for it to be illegal. Pot being illegal is just so billionaires can get richer.

[Anmon]

Well it stinks, theres a good reason.

[marijuanajake]

Quote by: Anmon Well it stinks, theres a good reason.

Because it stinks..? Yeah cow farms stink too, doesn't mean they should be illegal.

[another day]

Quote by: Anmon Well it stinks, theres a good reason.

Perfume stinks, let's make that illegal too. Also, people should have to shower once a day or else they should get hauled off and sprayed with a firehose. Clothes must be washed weekly. People with perpetual body odours will be interned into concentration camps.

Hooray for authoritarianism, right Anmon! Isn't it great to control people because you find certain things annoying?

[atheist]

The Office quote:

Dwight: (confessional) I've seen this kid before. He's one of the kids who sneaks onto my farm and steals my hemp.
Delivery Kid: (separate confessional) Yeah, I know that guy. He's that farmer who grows really crappy weed.

[Gods_Mercenary]

Quote by: marijuanajake Should the usage of hemp be legalized? Like for clothes, plastic's, fuel, books, etc... Here are a few facts about hemp-- It can be used to make a bio-degradable plastic 10 times stronger than steel. 1 acre of hemp is equal to 4.1 acres of tree's, so we would never have to cut a tree down again. What about medical marijuana. Or recreation. Well I just want to know other peoples views on the subject.

Equal how? Unless you can make lumber out of hemp, I doubt we won't cut down trees. I agree that these benefits are nice, and that production for industry is desirable, but then again, parents don't want the law to completely not back them up when they're trying to promote not doing drugs.

[Domino]

I would guess that the hemp=tree statement refers to paper production. At least, the numbers are similar to what I've hard in the past.

The hemp paper is stronger, whiter, and easier to make, too.

Industrial hemp is utterly worthless as a drug, and if its pollen makes it to someones marijuana crop, it will greatly reduce the potency of the offspring. If hemp were a popular crop, marijuana production would probably have to be conducted in a very controlled environment.

The appearance of the two is quite dissimilar, so it's not like you couldn't tell what was being grown.

[marijuanajake]

Quote by: Gods_Mercenary Equal how? Unless you can make lumber out of hemp, I doubt we won't cut down trees. I agree that these benefits are nice, and that production for industry is desirable, but then again, parents don't want the law to completely not back them up when they're trying to promote not doing drugs.

Well hemp is worthless for getting high, it's not potent at all. And hemp could be used to make support beams for houses, it would be a sort of plastic house but none the less it still works. And it would be 10 times stronger than steel. But yes I was more referring more to paper and stuff of the sort, so my mistake.

[Gods_Mercenary]

Quote by: Domino I would guess that the hemp=tree statement refers to paper production. At least, the numbers are similar to what I've hard in the past. The hemp paper is stronger, whiter, and easier to make, too. Industrial hemp is utterly worthless as a drug, and if its pollen makes it to someones marijuana crop, it will greatly reduce the potency of the offspring. If hemp were a popular crop, marijuana production would probably have to be conducted in a very controlled environment. The appearance of the two is quite dissimilar, so it's not like you couldn't tell what was being grown.

Apparently my knowlege of hemp is a little shady.

[Marilyn Monroe]

I'd like to ask a question, please. Does the more marijuana you smoke make you higher and higher, or is there a peak level and that's it? I never smoked a lot, so I don't know. Alcohol makes a person drunker and drunker till they are falling down or in a stupor, so I was just wondering. Marijuana seems to make people mellow, so this could definitely be a good thing for society. Everybody should smoke at least three joints a day. Hip, hip hoorah!

[Anmon]

All it does is screw your head up, especially if you have any mental disorders, its probably the worst stuff you can have.

[The Bacon Guy]

Quote by: Anmon All it does is screw your head up, especially if you have any mental disorders, its probably the worst stuff you can have.

Again, there isn't any real evidence of that. The supposed link between weed and schizophrenia is correlational; not causal.

[marijuanajake]

Quote by: Anmon All it does is screw your head up, especially if you have any mental disorders, its probably the worst stuff you can have.

No proven permanent mental or physical effects.

[MariKine]

Quote by: Marilyn Monroe I'd like to ask a question, please. Does the more marijuana you smoke make you higher and higher, or is there a peak level and that's it? I never smoked a lot, so I don't know. Alcohol makes a person drunker and drunker till they are falling down or in a stupor, so I was just wondering. Marijuana seems to make people mellow, so this could definitely be a good thing for society. Everybody should smoke at least three joints a day. Hip, hip hoorah!

No. :]

There are all different strains of marijuana, and eventually, when you're smoking, you'll reach the highest that certain strain can get you. Obviously, something like hydro, is going to get you MUCH more high than something like shwag.

[Marilyn Monroe]

Quote by: MariKine No. :] There are all different strains of marijuana, and eventually, when you're smoking, you'll reach the highest that certain strain can get you. Obviously, something like hydro, is going to get you MUCH more high than something like shwag.

Thank you!

[MariKine]

Of course.


Another way of looking at it, is like.. a bowl, or a gram of hydro, would get you much more high, than two blunts of less than average shwag.

[gela]

You can't smoke hemp (used in paper and other things).

There is no reason why it shouldn't be legalized.

[Technosoul]

Quote by: marijuanajake Well hemp is worthless for getting high, it's not potent at all. And hemp could be used to make support beams for houses, it would be a sort of plastic house but none the less it still works. And it would be 10 times stronger than steel. But yes I was more referring more to paper and stuff of the sort, so my mistake.

If it is stronger then how come it is bio-degradable, that is, why is it that water would not weaken it and cause decay?

Now normal hemp is being recomended for making bio-fuels.

If people got high on hemp that might reduce the use of booze which would reduce domestic violence. Perhaps? Sorry, no study was done to back up that spec.