How should marijuana be regulated?

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

And if smoking trees leads to other drugs then why am I still buying white owls and not eight balls?

Because you are a dumbass, just not that big of a dumbass.

 

[thericanballer 10+ year member]

Marijuana has been proven to be a much less potent drug than alcohol. That's why the 'gateway drug' argument sprouted life. The idea that its not really that bad, but if you use it, you will assuredly use worse things. Pot leads to coke leads to heroin leads to... whatever.
For me it went like this. Smoking cigarettes lead me to smoking pot. Wanting to impress a girl lead me to smoking cigarettes. Sticky underoos in the middle of the night lead me to wanting to impress a girl. National Geographic lead me to sticky underoos.

I guess they are all gateway drugs, better criminalize cigarettes, ***, National Geographic, and underoos.

lol

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

No, it shouldn't be legal...you boyz who smoke the weed are stupid enuf already...we don't need to encourage you. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[hzsogood 5,000+ posts]

How should marijuana be regulated?

Kill all stoners....

well with the stoned idiot in your ava, along with this guy its aparent America is not ready for this yet

You can start it @ 5 minutes in to get my point, if you havent already seen my thread

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[newusername 10+ year member]

Marijuana specifically should be legalized and regulated, for the betterment of society. Several big problems with the current system:

1) It is easy for kids to buy pot. Drug dealers don't check ID's.

2) Unless you know the grower, you can't be certain of the purity or potency of the product. In a regulated market, products would be inspected for purity and quality, and they would their potency and side effects would be clearly labelled.

3) There is no dispute resolution mechanism. When a drug dealer screws a buyer, they have no recourse. When gangs fight over drug territory, the only way to resolve disputes is through violence.

4) Related to 3, the demand is so high that the considerably high risk is not enough to dissuade gangs. The most violent people in the nation have a real incentive to deal in cannabis when there's such high demand with no legal supply.

5) If there was a gateway effect (and all evidence, and logic, suggests there isn't), the current system is the perfect way to let drug users scale up to more harmful drugs. They likely already have a source, a source that won't limit doses or recommend treatment.

6) The current prohibition has done nothing to slow usage rates. They've been about the same for a long time now, and yet the spending on enforcement goes up and up and up. The US has by far the largest prison population (particularly relative to its size) that costs tax payers considerable money without ever solving the problem.

In 2001, Portugal decriminalized EVERY drug. For possession of hard drugs, the user sits down before a commission of an attorney, a psychiatrist, and a civil servant. Their system is not perfect, but since that time, teen usage has dropped, overdoses have been halved, HIV transmission has declined, and the number of people seeking addiction treatment has doubled.

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

Its not a very well publicized fact that the War on Drugs has made the drug habit problem in the US worse. Back when I was a fairly young kid, pot was everywhere and dirt cheap. Mostly imported from Mexico. Cocaine was only something you heard about, rich people had it, never saw it on the street for the average guy to buy or afford. Then Nancy Reagan strted her just say no campaign, the War on Drugs was scaled up, and everything changed.

US clamped down on its borders tighter, making drug importing much more difficult. The drug smugglers who were bringing shipments on marijuana into this country changed their tactics. Since smuggling became harder, and the reality of being caught and sent to prison became more real, the smugglers changed their product of choice. Instead of hauling in large bales of marijuana, they changed to cocaine, a much smaller and more compact substance than marijuana, with much higher profit margins. Pot became harder to find (although still very accessible, a lot is grown locally now) and cocaine became a drug the average guy could find and afford to buy on the street. Cocaine has even become so prolific that the US has learned to cook it down, refine it, and create a new, stronger drug: crack cocaine.

That's right, the US's attempt to squash drug abuse in this country has only served to push it's users to stronger drugs. The govt knows this trend exists, they know they helped cause it, yet they show no sign of stopping their war on drugs.

 

[Mookie 10+ year member]

Lmao.. Wonder how many pages this will get to.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Its not a very well publicized fact that the War on Drugs has made the drug habit problem in the US worse. Back when I was a fairly young kid, pot was everywhere and dirt cheap. Mostly imported from Mexico. Cocaine was only something you heard about, rich people had it, never saw it on the street for the average guy to buy or afford. Then Nancy Reagan strted her just say no campaign, the War on Drugs was scaled up, and everything changed.
US clamped down on its borders tighter, making drug importing much more difficult. The drug smugglers who were bringing shipments on marijuana into this country changed their tactics. Since smuggling became harder, and the reality of being caught and sent to prison became more real, the smugglers changed their product of choice. Instead of hauling in large bales of marijuana, they changed to cocaine, a much smaller and more compact substance than marijuana, with much higher profit margins. Pot became harder to find (although still very accessible, a lot is grown locally now) and cocaine became a drug the average guy could find and afford to buy on the street. Cocaine has even become so prolific that the US has learned to cook it down, refine it, and create a new, stronger drug: crack cocaine.

That's right, the US's attempt to squash drug abuse in this country has only served to push it's users to stronger drugs. The govt knows this trend exists, they know they helped cause it, yet they show no sign of stopping their war on drugs.

It is pretty common knowledge (I thought) that when you keep saying don't do it and making a big deal out of something, the more a rebellious adolescent will want to do it.

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

Lmao.. Wonder how many pages this will get to.

Depends on how much they are smokin' when they respond...if they can type. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

 

[Mookie 10+ year member]

It will never be legal, so why even talk about it anymore. Just smoke the shit and get on with our daily lives like all the years we have been.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

You would be one of those faggots who writes a paper about marijuana.

 

[nateberrier 10+ year member]

Depends on how much they are smokin' when they respond...if they can type. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/fyi.gif.9f1f679348da7204ce960cfc74bca8e0.gif

Troll. Alcohol is more imparitive than pot. There are way more binge drinkers than pot smokers anyway. You said that the world isnt ready for legalization of weed, but I think that if we traded it out for booze things would be a lot different.

 

[97gp 5,000+ posts]

Troll. Alcohol is more imparitive than pot. There are way more binge drinkers than pot smokers anyway. You said that the world isnt ready for legalization of weed, but I think that if we traded it out for booze things would be a lot different.

What you need to understand is pot smokers are generally dumb as fuck