You don't get it do you?
You're right -- so eliminate it altogether.
How do you think you can do that? By waving a magic wand? By putting anyone participating in it onto an electric chair? You CAN'T eliminate something just like that. That was the idea behind making alcohol illegal in the USA... trying to eliminate it, but that failed incredibly.
Don't you realize that by legalizing the drug, you're going to have even MORE junkies trying to make money for their next hit?
No you don't, you idiot, read what I said, controlled distribution for addictive drugs. Marijuana isn't addictive, so that shouldn't only be available through prescription... that should be sold in liquor stores next to the vodka and whiskey, only after legitimating oneself so minors can't get it.
Controlled distribution makes it that the prices will be no higher than the production costs, so it will be affordable to get their hit. Making something illegal incredibly inflates prices, since the supply is small and risky to make.
That's only going to PROMOTE drug use.
No it isn't going to promote it. Making something illegal, that makes teenagers want to try it out.
Except in the case of marijuana which has become more potent over the years.
More potent doesn't make something more dangerous. Vodka is more potent than beer and isn't more dangerous if you drink it moderately. Making weed legal would make it possible to exactly measure the amount of THC (the effective substance that makes you high) in it, and put that on the label. This makes it possible to use the perfect dosage. With illegal weed you don't know how much is in it, so then danger exists that you might take more than you want to. You also don't know the quality, a dealer might have put rat poison in it... if you buy it from a respectable store those risks are gone.
I never mentioned the Bible in any of my posts in this thread. That quote must be in reference to someone else.
I was anticipating towards anyone who might start to type any of those replies in this thread.
Wrong... marijuana smoke contains over 400 different chemicals. It is 3x more dangerous than cigarettes because the THC is fat-soluable. Not to mention the fact that marijuana has more tar than cigarettes are well.
People who smoke weed don't smoke it as often as people who smoke cigarettes. I'm sure regular tobaco contrains over 400 different chemicals as well, the regular air you breathe as well.
Alcohol = brain damage and liver damage. Cigarettes = lung cancer
When you are an alcoholic and your use of it is extremely high, then it causes permanent damage. Drinking too much water can also kill you, just like eating too much. One glass of wine every day actually increases your health, that has been proved by medical research. Sure, some brain cells die off, but you have more than enough and only use 20% of your brain capacity. Older cells that die off will be replaced by previously unused ones. If you stop smoking one year from that moment 90% of the tar in your lungs is gone, a few years means that your lungs are practically clean. So if you stop smoking there is no damage after a couple of years, no permanent damage.
And if you don't think the damage is permanent, you are deluding yourself as well.
I'm not deluding anyone, I don't smoke anything and drink a couple of beers weekly. I read articles and one of my friends who is studying to become a doctor would confirm this.
I said it once, I'll it again:
I can read... repeating, capitalizing, making bold and increasing the size of what you said in an earlier post, won't really do anything but making you look like a stubborn activist who can't find relevant arguments to counter what I said.
By the way, I just see that you are from New York. Weed is illegal there, harddrugs are illegal there. Go outside, take any underground train to Brooklyn and count the amount of addicts you run into, that should display that making drugs illegal isn't the solution.
I'm sure that in New York the ratio of people who smoke marijuana regulary is higher than the ratio of people regulary smoking marijuana in the Netherlands, while over here marijuana is legalized. As a matter of fact I think the ratio of people who live in Amsterdam and smoke pot is even lower than the ratio of people who live in New York and smoke pot. Most people you see smoking pot in Amsterdam are tourists, Americans, British, Germans, who think it's cool to smoke pot because they can finally smoke it legally. As a matter of fact, if marijuana would have been legal worldwide most coffeeshops in Amsterdam would run out of business.
Who says it's "proven"?
