Should marijuana be legalized?

Certain people using drugs as a way to enhance the talent and skill they already had is very different from telling people to start popping pills so that they will turn into musical geniuses. For people like me who aren't afraid of drugs, those lines are clearly defined already. The picture never implied anything otherwise in my mind.

Nobody said that drugs are some magical substance that automatically give you wild skills as a musician. How dumb do you think people are?

 

 

You've completely . . . completely missed the main points of my argument. Let me try to make it clearer to you: I am well aware of lowlives not being able to stop smoking weed. But that doesn't change anything. Obviously, pot being illegal hasn't stopped them from obtaining it, anyway, and making it legal isn't going to automatically make everybody else in the word want to use it. The fact that some people can't regulate their pot use has no effect on whether or not I think it should be legal. Stupid people do stupid things all the time that get them in poor situations later in life. That's how the world works. 

Meanwhile, the responsible pot smokers (which are the majority) are in danger of being labeled as criminals, and the underground drug dealers continue to make a fortune. The war against pot smoking (and drugs in general) is a bad thing. It feeds crime, and makes the streets less safe. The moment you make something illegal that a vast majority partake of, you've given birth to a huge, money-making crime zone. Pot in particular is so mild, you can't even overdose on it. And this 'gateway drug' stuff you've now spouted off is oldest argument in the book, and is so inaccurate, I honestly wonder how you even thought using that reasoning would actually convince anybody here. Abusers who need something harder eventually? They are a very low number of the pot smokers out there. Let's not punish everybody else who simply enjoys it as a way to chill out and relax. 

Yeah, some people abuse their pot smoking habits. Just like some people abuse alcohol, pornography, video games, sex, excessive shopping, gambling, etc. Should we make all of these things illegal? I mean, they often lead to ruining lives if the people in question surrender their lives to them. But in small doses, aren't most of those activities . . . fun? Do they cause any harm when kept in check? Anything has the potential to be harmful in excess. That's why we have to use our good judgment. You've had the wool pulled over your eyes by the government when it comes to pot. It's just like anything else. But you've heard the propaganda, and a couple of your buddies seem to confirm that false notion for you. So you think it's best to keep the harmful stuff away from the children. What you seem completely oblivious of is that keeping pot illegal makes it much easier to obtain and much harder to regulate. Make it legal, the crime surrounding it drops considerably, lives are ultimately saved, we get a boom in our economy as the selling of pot in stores becomes taxed, and the wrong people stop going to jail. 

 

In a perfect World that would be the answer, but I'm sure politician will pick up over the issue and screw everything... especially when most (or at least many) of our politician had their our hands on the business. The decisions made in my country depends more on the business of personal interests more than what the society needs... so, I keep dobuting... but it sounds like a good answer to me...

 

First, I know the difference between addiction and "self-induced habit", which doesnt' have a difference at the end because people -at least the one that I know- just can't stop trying weed. Name it as you want, the fact is that people is really loosing their minds about it, and what abusers said? they said that they need something harder eventually to get the same feeling, so, again, they are wasting their lives on it.

 

Second, it doesn't depend on me to be legal or not. Yes, I know drinking is way more dangerous than weed. I'm against drinking as well, but I'm seeing it from my cultural reference. As I said it in this very thread, there are places where no matter its legal or not, the reality is same and there's no difference. I have seen lives wasted by alcoholism as well, but not all the places has the regulations, or the government controls or even the education to control a "self-induced habit" or an addiction. If you can see the amount of lives that are wasted in weed -I have seen many...- you can comprehend my point. Guess you have not met someone wasted... but well...

 

Third, drugs become with a very bad force in between. I used to think "whateve, everybody have their own rights" but now that I grow up I have seen that the problem is bigger and that at least in the local circles I know there's no controls or education enough to deal with it. So, sorry, I disagree...