Lately I have been battling the idea that marijuana is not a drug. I have talked to people who smoke it to get their reasoning behind their statement. All I can get is that "it's not as bad as cocaine, it's just like alcohol. Alcohol was illegal to at one point and they legalized it, marijuana will be accepted also." There are several things that bother me about this. Alcohol was illegal for a reason, people became addicted, it was destroying families, it kills people, etc. Marijuana is illegal for a reason, as well. It impairs judgement, it kills off brain cells, etc. Maybe it's not that marijuana should be legalized like alcohol, but maybe it's that alcohol should have never been legalized. I know a marriage that recently ended because one of the spouses decided she cared more about marijuana than the marriage. I sit in class with quite a few "potheads" and worry that they are our future; a bunch of dead brain cells. It is truly worrisome. It is worrisome for me to know that an assistant at the dentist office I go to uses marijuana. There needs to be a change, people; we need our brains.
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www.erowid.org - might as well represent both sides. And marijuana is a drug. I hate people who think because it is natural or "not that bad" it is not. We also shouldn't be outlawing the possesion of substances because some people choose to abuse them.
Res ipsa loquitur.
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Weed not a terrible evil thing. and it sure as hell shouldn't be a schedule 1 drug- Heroin as a schedule 1 drug, just for a reference point. there may be health benefits to it. Also, Unlike alcohol, when you have been smoking you are aware of your impairment and do thing more carefully than normal, and also unlike alcohol it does not promote risk taking. Oh yea, Tobacco and alcohol are both drugs as well.
Alcohol was illegal for thirteen years in the United States, and the government found that use of it actually increased doing those years. If something is a forbidden fruit, then people crave it. Legalizing marijuana under strict regulations and taxing it in order to stop harder drugs might be beneficial. I've never smoked pot and never will, and I'm not speaking in absolutes; I'm just saying that we can't be prudish about it and need to consider the possibilities.
Regular marijuana use doesn't cause permanent brain damage. Just because your P.E. teacher says so doesn't make it true.
and a good one at that.
"it's not as bad as cocaine, it's just like alcohol"... well it's not.
I have a blog on this subject,you should read it and be informed by a real activist.
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Marijuana is great.
Over a thousand people die each day due to tobacco use! Close to 300 a day die from prescribed pharmaceuticals. . The tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals gangs deal drugs that kill many more annually than all illicit drugs. http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
We tolerate their salesmen!
I taught my children that their bodies are the temples of
their souls. However, when my children became young adults I told them the truth about drugs. Including that marijuana or cannabis is a safer health choice in a recreational drug but the collateral damage from arrest can be devastating and life long."
"Save the children from Prohibition," was a slogan used to end alcohol prohibition. Punishing children or adults for making a safer health choice today is absolute madness. Again, we need to save the children, this time from drug prohibition's collateral damage.
http://newsblaze.com/story/20070730184952tsop.nb/newsblaze/ENTERTAI/stor...
Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Member - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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weed isnt even as bad as Alcohol!
You've never heard of an overdose of weed!
also i have a funny story.
I know someone in the marines, and he as he was being interviewed they asked him if he ever used drugs before. he said no.
then they asked him if he has ever smoked weed before.
and he once again said no.
The interviewer said some people say they have never done drugs before, but they have smoked weed.
hahaha.
Our FDA has allowed pharmaceutical killers on the market, suppressed the truth about cannabis and failed to grant the terminally ill access to investigational drugs.
You can help downsize big government. An authorization bill for the FDA is due from Congress by the end of the month. Write your US Representatives and Senators asking them to refuse to authorize this agency, which has become a partner rather than a watchdog of the pharmaceutical industry and exacerbates problems instead of solving them.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
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It’s a Labor of love. Push, push, push; expel Un-American Activity!
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Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Member - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.leap.cc/
& Drug Policy Forum of Texas
When big government gets downsized, marijuana will probably become legal buddy.
Have you been to starbucks - ever? Marijuana is a drug - but so if coffee.
Yeahhh, so, marijuana doesn't kill your brain cells. It surrounds them with a thicker membrane so that thought processes are sometimes harder to carry out. But I mean, I just smoked a joint and did my trig homework, so...
And, considering the risks, marijuana is safer than alcohol.
U.S. police arrested an estimated 829,625 individuals for making a safer choice (marijuana violations) in 2006, according to the latest FBI annual Uniform Crime Report. That total, the highest ever recorded for marijuana violations, made up 44 percent of all drug arrests. The impact on society from the children orphaned and displaced by this senseless policy is a crying shame.
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/causes.htm
Meanwhile across the US last year 40% of the murders, almost 60% of the rapes and about half of the aggravated assaults went unsolved! The cumulative effect of this is horrendous. While we police individual recreational and medicinal use of drugs; murderers and violent sexual predators roam free. Law Enforcement keeping the focus on marijuana despite the rise in violent crime is policy bordering on insanity or reefer madness.
Restore justice in America; construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives. Warriors can get their adrenal rush catching murderers and violent sexual predators. Many of whom we know are out there, somewhere. Then our peacekeepers will truly be making our neighborhoods safer.
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Colleen McCool is a portrait artist, poet and peace activist.
http://mccoolportraits.com/2007rebelwithjustcause.htm
Member - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.leap.cc/
& Drug Policy Forum of Texas
no, u need ur brain. and i can do whatever i want to do with my brain.
a drug is something that people use as an escape. this includes legal activities. just because it is illegal doesnt mean it is a drug. LOVE is a drug. FOOD can be a drug. people escape their daily stress with whatever they want, and then therefore it becomes a drug.
some of the smartest people i know smoke pot. i'm talking about doctors, lawyers, stock brokers etc.