Should marijuana be legalized?

I've never smoked it, but I've always maintained legalisation isn't neccessarily a bad thing.

JJLehto wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I've never smoked it, but I've always maintained legalisation isn't neccessarily a bad thing. Never? I am disappoint son That being said, yet another advocate (or not really caring either way) yet never partaken.

JJ, I hope you are not suggesting anything here

JJLehto wrote: Any Colour You Like wrote: I've never smoked it, but I've always maintained legalisation isn't neccessarily a bad thing. Never? I am disappoint son That being said, yet another advocate (or not really caring either way) yet never partaken.

I've never even smoked tobacco, let alone pot.

Still think it should be legalized.

Ah, but you enjoy things because of chemicals changing in your brain

Also, to anyone that has a single clue about what's happening in Mexico (yes, other things happen there than just immigrants flying over the wall), legalization is the only thing that can put an end to the war and the bloodshed that drug cartels bring about. In Mexico, a few senators and politicians have even started talking about legalization. It would be quite weird if a predominant catholic country run decades by one single party legalizes drugs before the multi-cultural and supposed cradle-of-freedom than the US is. 

Was the use of the name Mary Jane in Spiderman meant to have an extra meaning regarding having something that you want, but can't have?  Just wondering?

thellama73 wrote:   It would be ironic, like rain on your wedding day.

Forget marijuana, I'd like to see alcohol criminalised.

It's the same as guns. The fact is that narcotics and alcohol do have a negative effect on the whole of society. You might not directly murder people through their use, but they are definitely negative. Don't give me that "Oh it's just for me, I can decide what goes in my body" nonsense, we all live on the same planet and in the same society. You messing yourself up is going to affect other people for the worse.

Triceratopsoil wrote: Ah, but you enjoy things because of chemicals changing in your brain

Yeah, you can strip everything down to dopamine and seratonin, although we still don't really understand consciousness, but nothing you do sober alters/obliterates your consciousness in the same way that drugs do. 

thellama73 wrote: Never smoked anything, never taken any illegal drugs. I draw the line at alcohol (which I love) and caffeine. I disapprove of its use, but support legalization for freedom purposes.

Well I also don't like how prevalent alcohol is in our society, so at least I'm somewhat consistent. I understand Prohibition doesn't really work in the same way that criminalizing marijuana only prevents a small number of people from smoking it, but I wish people would just stop using it, or at least only for the expensive stuff that you drink for the taste. Caffeine is a drug but its effects on your consciousness are so mild in the amounts people normally use I don't think it really counts, but I also wish people weren't addicted to it to get up in the morning. I don't drink coffee or regularly drink soda because I can't stand the thought of my body being dependent on a chemical. There's no transition to this story, but one time in college I stayed up all night on the internet not doing work, for I think my term paper on the Balkans, and I drank at least 4-5 giant cans of Rockstar (I was hoping that since it was made by Coke it would taste better than Red Bull, but it didn't), by about 9am I was just lying in bed shaking, and I felt terrible but it was also a semi-out of body experience, so I guess I was "high" on caffeine at that point, but that might have been the persistent sleep deprivation. And I ended up failing the class anyway, so you can see how helpful it was!