Legalize it, Legalize it, think of the tax money, it is harmless!
I am sick of idiots trying to push for pot to be legal. Hippies have been slamming us with this B.S. harder than a 16 year old Girl on her cell phone to my car. An under cover investigator in a Chrysler assembly plant found workers drinking beer and smoking the reefer during lunch break. This is, of course, is the same plant Obama visited earlier this year and was quoted saying:
“It's workers like you that built this country into the greatest economic power the world has ever known."
Good one Pres, with a comment like that I wouldn't be surprised if during lunch break his nose is the same color as the house he lives in. Anyway, point being we bail these crappy car companies out to help them continue making cars no one wants to buy. Now on top of that out of MY pocket comes drug money for the worthless car company to have enough hash for the company picnic.
What does this have to do with not having ganja legal? Well aside from crafting terrible cars and receiving praise from the president, Jive took the lives of three innocent tourists in Utah. A zonked tour bus driver rolled the vehicle while transporting passengers last month. The cops had found traces of the green dragon in his system.
If kush was legal would you want to be on the same road as that guy? Or millions of others that are greater than or equal to his irresponsibility? Drunk driving is bad enough as it is.
Crunk driving now? No thank you, keep your filthy tax money, the government is pissing away all of our tax money as is. The last thing I want is an elementary school funded by doobie money.
Go Bucks
I guess I feel like this whole marijuana thing roughly equates to prohibition, as long as we are making the alchohol metaphors. People are doing it anyway, and we take drug money away from drug dealers, and turn it into taxed goods. I don't see the harm in legalizing marijuana and I don't think that it would increase the number of "crunked" drivers. People find alcohol a socially acceptable drug, but it is just as much of a drug as marijuana is, and is proven to be more addictive. The main difference is that it is legal, and thus socially acceptable. I don't see how legalizing marijuana will negatively influence this country. Maybe there are parts of this that I haven't thought out, but I really am having trouble finding the negatives.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Alan on this one. Find a way to tax it, just like we do with all the other drugs that our country decides is suitable for society.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I'm also working through the idea of complete legalization of narcotics, not for tax purposes, nor for my own enjoyment, but for principle's sake. Why can the governement tell me what I can and can't do as a consenting adult? However, though the principle is noble, and right in my belief, there is still the matter of harming those outside of your self...last I checked driving a car on angel dust might not be a good thing...unless your a NASCAR driver in which it might give you that "winning edge".
In summary: you will never see me on any sort of narcotic. Period. But I don't believe the goverment has the right to tell me what I can and can't do to my own body, so long as I'm the only one affected.
I'd rather have someone blazed behind the wheel than drunk behind the wheel.
ReplyDeletei agree with travis for the most part, but where he is on the fence, i am not at all for the complete legalization of narcotics. many of them cause you to not think things through and potentially lose control of yourself. marijuana however, hasnt killed anyone. there is not a single death linked directly to marijuana. and while adam gave an example of a bus driver who had traces of the green dragon in his blood, all it was was traces, that does not mean he was currently high at the time of the crash.
i think morally, smoking is not necessarily a bad thing. it is natural. but overall, just like anything else, it can lead to addiction (but only human addiction, not chemical addiction) and therefore can become something that is abused the same way some people abuse money, food, women, exercise, etc.
adam, it didn't seem like a lot of research was put into your post... seems biased and perhaps a bit ignorant.
I just wanted to say I am thoroughly enjoying this whole Filibust blog! Whoever had this idea is a genius. That's what I have to say today....
ReplyDeleteIgnoring Adam's completely unfounded accusations and moving onto the post...
ReplyDeleteI'm on the fence about this subject. On one hand, I don't smoke it and the people who I know do haven't done anything truly reprehensible. On another hand, I would never let the people I know who do smoke it babysit my nieces, treat me for any ailment, give me legal advice or teach my hypothetical children because they're typically not thinking clearly. They may think they're not very blazed and they know their limits but our discussions prove otherwise.
People are going to do it anyways, Alan is right about comparing it to prohibition and just like if we were to lower the drinking age, new drinkers and pot smokers would go absolutely nuts over it. But I think after a time the hype would go down.
It does seem to be a moral issue and I for one don't think we can make laws off of moral issues as long as they're not hurting someone else.
Legalize! Having experienced the affects of both on numerous occasions, it is very obvious that one is way more likely to do something stupid when they are drunk than high on weed. Video games and potato chips aren't causing harm to anyone or anything except my percentage of body fat..
ReplyDeleteThere are so many things that hemp can be used for. Marijuana is already the number one cash crop in america and it isn't even legal.
Adam, Obama is a moron, we can agree on that much.
ReplyDeleteThats about it though. When this country was built marijuana was not only legal, but in the Jamestown settlement it was actually a requirement that settlers grew marijuana. George Washington grew it at the original White House. Thomas Jefferson also had a crop of the green genie. The Declaration of Independence got it's start on a piece of hemp paper. Seems to me like the Founding Fathers, the men who built this country, didn't think it was such a bad thing.
The point is a person smoking marijuana is only effecting themselves. There are no scientific studies that indicate marijuana does any harm at all to the body. It should be up to the individual to decide if it is something they want to put into their body. Obviously you would have the same laws in place that there are with alcohol and driving drunk.
I think legalizing it is a no brainer and the only thing holding the government back is trying to figure out how to change the image of marijuana they have created with the propaganda and the various wars on "drugs" that have been enacted in the past.
Then you can get into the issue of marijuana being a gateway drug. I think this problem would be solved with the legalization of it. Lets think about this for a second and try to figure out why marijuana is a gateway drug. When you want some weed where are you going to go? You are going to go to a drug dealer. Most of the drug dealers around are not one drug specific. They have multiple items available. Do you want some pills? How about some cocaine? Maybe some magic mushrooms (which also should be legal). Point is, if marijuana was legal buyers would no longer be presented with a buffet of drugs and the added temptation to use them.
Proof:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3D1PM2pQ7E
In regards to:
"When this country was built marijuana was not only legal, but in the Jamestown settlement it was actually a requirement that settlers grew marijuana. George Washington grew it at the original White House. Thomas Jefferson also had a crop of the green genie. The Declaration of Independence got it's start on a piece of hemp paper. Seems to me like the Founding Fathers, the men who built this country, didn't think it was such a bad thing."
I've been thinking about this all day and have to agree that I think it should be legalized with the same laws as alcohol.
ReplyDeleteBut using the argument that our founding fathers didn't think it so bad makes me wonder if we should reinstate slavery and ignore domestic abuse too... Just because it used to be okay doesn't mean it's okay now. Again, I'm not saying it isn't okay, I'm just saying that's not a very solid argument.
Adam, I'm wondering what you wanted Obama to say after his inspection considering the workers most likely weren't smoking weed and drinking beer then. Maybe, "You weren't doing anything but your job today...but something tells me I shouldn't trust today's performance and instead I'll say something crappy about you so blue collar workers everywhere can attack me." Then we could all be shocked at his unfounded accusations...
Point taken on the slavery and domestic abuse kacie. Also glad to see your opinion has at least been swayed somewhat.
ReplyDeleteThe grass is always greener on the other side (pun intended).
ReplyDeleteNo one can predict all the unforeseen consequences, good and bad, for kush being legal. Once you open that door there is no closing it.
Adam, I was really expecting a better thought out and less accusatory post. I'm on the fence on the issue personally. I feel it's morally rehensible to knowingly get smashed, or to get high and go out into public, and at the same time there are a ton of positive externalities for the leaglization of marijuana.
ReplyDeleteHowever, from my experience with pot smokers, they are not always the most ambitious people. Pot smoking alters judgement, induces laziness and is addictive, it may not produce the receptors int he brain like tabacco does, so it does not take increased amounts of consumptions to get the same feeling, however it is addictive in that the state it induces is desirable. It's kind of like sex in that sex in itself is not inheretly addictive but it produces desirable results. I see no reason to give already unmotivated kids, who stink up my school with their foul odor, horrible attitudes, and general disregard for rules and regulations, any reason to continue being foul smelling lazy assholes. While this may not be the case for all pot smokers, however it is evident, especially when states like California, which clearly should have had pot legalized didn't, because the proponents of the movement are for the most part lazy, unmotivated or they can't vote. While it's a shame because it does make sense economically, and some marijuana smokers are productive members of society, most of them are not, and they control their own pipe dreams.
This then begs the question of where, when and how much pot people can smoke, and what kind of social stigmas will be place on pot smokers, and I myself would complain that my pursuit of hapiness would be infringed upon if anybody who wanted to could just go whever they want and smoke marijuana.
Jack V