Should marijuana be legalized?

JJLehto wrote: Or should I say boo hoo we've "ruined" this thread that's been repeating the same junk for 20 some pages now. The debate has been so great anyway. Shame on us for ruining all that.

lol, it would be great if that atheist vs theist thread ended like this instead of going on and creating tension for more than 200 pages.


Edited by CCVP - January 17 2011 at 00:13

Drugs are a link between God and Man.  Discuss.

IF God didn't want us to smoke Marijuana, then why did he make it easily cultivatable and accessable?

Shame Ivan is gone....

Not sure if you're serious Joel but:
I would like to ask him why marijuana should be illegal when it grows naturally on the planet. It's not made in some factory and filled with hundreds of chemicals and poisons.
Same with shrooms.

If God created the Earth and everything then why are those things illegal?

UndercoverBoy wrote: JJLehto wrote: Shame Ivan is gone.... Not sure if you're serious Joel but: I would like to ask him why marijuana should be illegal when it grows naturally on the planet. It's not made in some factory and filled with hundreds of chemicals and poisons. Same with shrooms. If God created the Earth and everything then why are those things illegal? Because humanity dun goofed.

I would like his answer.
God could not have made a mistake surely.

Maybe God is just a crazy motherf**ker.

UndercoverBoy wrote: Maybe God is just a crazy motherf**ker.

Well this is something I do believe.

The platypus?

He had a wicked sense of humor, but that's for another thread.

wtf why did this topic start up again?

Triceratopsoil wrote: wtf why did this topic start up again?

bcuz  Brian'z dum.

Damn how did I miss this discussion? Hate working sundays...

I can't believe that people are so convinced that what the law says is sacrosanct because apparently we wrote it. I used to say things that were almost similar to this but even I reckognized laws didn't have value per se. Laws have a value when they help make protection of rights better, not when they complicate everything, create a whole subworld of danger, imprison millions of people some of which otherwise would be productive, increase violence (people will go to further extremes in order to avoid getting caught - also, the fact that something is illegal puts in the user the idea that if he doesn't "score" every chance he has it might be the last chance he ever has to score, obviously forcing him to act more irrationally), creates an entire problem for everybody, generates horrible drug cartels in third world countries that are now pretty much ruled by them (north Mexico), while people STILL GET GODDAMN HIGH BECAUSE THEY SO WANT.

Legalize everything. Actually, that's poorly expressed. Nothing should be "legal". Some things might be "punishable" but saying something is "legal" means I have to thank somebody for allowing me to do something. Just eliminate these stupid regulations and people, free to choose, will do so in their best interest. Yes, some will become addicts but, hey, maybe they will remain productive to a degree since they are not put in jail to turn them in actual criminals. And if they become waste, so be it. It was their choice.

I'm starting to almost feel repulsion when I think that I used to use the excuse of "society" to justify imposing my morals and my view of how things "should be" to everybody else. Just like a person can't function properly psychologically if all he has in his mind is a lot of "i should be this" ego complexes that don't allow him to actually BE something, so do "should be" laws and regulations and moral prohibitions stop people from just BEING, in peace, respecting the others' right to be as much of a waste or a success as they can and want to be.

The first step though is to tear down the religion of dependency. Not really talking about the god-related ones, but those that preach the absolute necessity of certain things that are engraved in most people's psyche as irrefutable truths.

Edited by The T - January 17 2011 at 00:58