Comon California! Legalize it!

[Minstrel]

I guess my thing is this- first, I simply do not support legalizing dope. If so, something would certainly follow. And follow that. And follow that. Where does it all end?

Second, we have a hard enough time keeping people from legally drinking and illegally driving when intoxicated. To make any drugs so easily available to the masses just adds another layer of irresponsible people driving, commiting crimes... when high on drugs.

So why go there?

So are you for prohibiting alcohol? The same arguments apply to it (as you note in the second case).

 

[barfo]

Breast milk should be illegal. Gateway drug.

barfo

 

[STOMP]

Breast milk should be illegal. Gateway drug.

but I'm already hooked... and so weak

STOMP

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

So are you for prohibiting alcohol? The same arguments apply to it (as you note in the second case).

No, but when I see wholesale irresponsability with it, it becomes clear dope will only be worse.

BTW, I watched an hour long show about Mendicino county in CA that did nearly fully legalize pot. Each week multiople houses burn down from pot growing equipment, massive environmental sites (diesel, herbocides...) that cost tens of thousands of dollars each to clean, violent crime up dramatically, many people moving due to the whlpe area being terrorized... The count has finally dropped their legalization experiment due to all the fires, crimes and hazerdous waste.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Breast milk should be illegal. Gateway drug.

barfo

Would it be illegal to engage in activity making breast milk?

 

[Minstrel]

No

Why not?

but when I see wholesale irresponsability with it, it becomes clear dope will only be worse.

Why would marijuana be worse?

 

[Minstrel]

BTW, I watched an hour long show about Mendicino county in CA that did nearly fully legalize pot. Each week multiople houses burn down from pot growing equipment, massive environmental sites (diesel, herbocides...) that cost tens of thousands of dollars each to clean, violent crime up dramatically, many people moving due to the whlpe area being terrorized... The count has finally dropped their legalization experiment due to all the fires, crimes and hazerdous waste.

That's a completely different issue. Making hooch in one's basement is different from being able to buy a drink in a bar. If growing pot by amateurs creates a major danger issue, then that can always be outlawed. Marijuana could still be sold in stores from large distributors.

Why would there be more "violent crime?" Making something legal takes away the gang-driven black market aspect. There isn't violent crime around the beer and wine industry.

 

[Draco]

Its inevitable that weed becomes legal in parts of the US in the next few decades, possible next few years. The older generation that was adamantly opposed of legalization is being replaced by the '60's baby boomers that see the positives and negatives of legalization.

Alcohol and Marijuana both have some serious consequence, but can be used responsibly. They should be taxed and regulated.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I find it humorous that cigarette smoking has been severely regulated and curtailed, in no place moreso than CA, but they will allow herb smoke to be legalized now?

Generally, though, I'm against the morals of those who "really lived" in the 60's and 70's being applied to my country as a whole. But if it's voted on...

 

[Minstrel]

I find it humorous that cigarette smoking has been severely regulated and curtailed, in no place moreso than CA, but they will allow herb smoke to be legalized now?

I don't see the contradiction. The main restrictions California has instituted revolve around smoking where the second-hand smoke will be inhaled by other people. You can inhale harmful things yourself, but it's not reasonable to have a legally protected right to harm the health of others.

Similarly, it should be legal to ingest marijuana (and, of course, marijuana is far less damaging to one's health than nicotine or alcohol).

 

[Blazerfan22]

Funny how People really just don't understand Marijuana. It is more than Just getting High it actually HELPS people unlike Alcohol and tobacco and the legal drug dealers they called Pharmacy's. Whats funny Is Hundreds of thousands die each year from prescription drugs or become addicted.

How bout Beer where Thousands die each year from DUI, alcohol abuse, and yes usually leads to other drugs especially if you have done coke in the past and you get drunk.

Weed ruled this earth until the 1940's and hemp was the number one crop in the US at that time over cotton but yet we fight against what can actually help us...

 

[MARIS61]

Huh?

Uh, so tell me, is cocaine legal at the moment?

Yes, in many prescription forms, as long as Big Medicine is allowed to profit from it.