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For medical purposes. Everyone is trying to get smokers to quit by imposing all kinds of restrictions and raising the price to high. Yet there is talk about legalizing marijuana. Doesn't really make sense to me.
At least cigarettes are taxed and somewhat controlled by the "system". I think it has been faily well demonstrated that keeping marijuana illegal is COSTING the citizens of the country much more than the restrictions are improving our daily lives. How many people are in prison for drug related crimes that wouldn't even be in jail if the drug were legal. My example is how many people do you know of that have been killed in a turf war over who gets to sell cigarettes on your block?
Currently, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has no medical benefits even though it definitely does. It should definitely be rescheduled to Schedule II which would make it "legal" but that doesn't mean that you can all go out and legally smoke it if this happens.
The people who don't understand this could not understand how to use PubMed if their lives depended on it. If they could read the medical literature on marijuana and compare it to the medical literature on tobacco they would see there is no comparison between marijuana and tobacco; however, since those who make our laws have vastly inferior intellect all we can do is wait until the idiots die off and smart people start making the laws.
Well, firstly, I don't quite understand why marijuana is illegal in the first place. Prohibition actually made sense: drunks are dangerous and unsafe. Drinking kills your liver. Smoking kills your lungs. Marijuana does none of these. Sure, driving while high wouldn't be the best, but I'd feel better about that than driving drunk.
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For medical purposes. Everyone is trying to get smokers to quit by imposing all kinds of restrictions and raising the price to high. Yet there is talk about legalizing marijuana. Doesn't really make sense to me.
oh hell yeah
At least cigarettes are taxed and somewhat controlled by the "system". I think it has been faily well demonstrated that keeping marijuana illegal is COSTING the citizens of the country much more than the restrictions are improving our daily lives. How many people are in prison for drug related crimes that wouldn't even be in jail if the drug were legal. My example is how many people do you know of that have been killed in a turf war over who gets to sell cigarettes on your block?
I don't know *any* marijuana smokers who smoke anywhere close to a pack a day.
Currently, Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, meaning that it has no medical benefits even though it definitely does. It should definitely be rescheduled to Schedule II which would make it "legal" but that doesn't mean that you can all go out and legally smoke it if this happens.
The people who don't understand this could not understand how to use PubMed if their lives depended on it. If they could read the medical literature on marijuana and compare it to the medical literature on tobacco they would see there is no comparison between marijuana and tobacco; however, since those who make our laws have vastly inferior intellect all we can do is wait until the idiots die off and smart people start making the laws.
duddddeee yessss ! tht would be sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tight.
Tight? I thought "tight" was a reference to something else.
Well, firstly, I don't quite understand why marijuana is illegal in the first place. Prohibition actually made sense: drunks are dangerous and unsafe. Drinking kills your liver. Smoking kills your lungs. Marijuana does none of these. Sure, driving while high wouldn't be the best, but I'd feel better about that than driving drunk.
Yes. Less people die from marijuana use than tobacco yet tobacco is legal. People don't have their priorities straight.