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Garion81
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 22 2004 Location: So Cal, USA Status: Offline Points: 4338 |
Posted: August 27 2010 at 14:59 | ||
List of Pros:
Less people in jail, Less prisons, less prison guards, less parole officers, clear up logged jam court agendas, less money spent on enforcement, creates new local jobs and businesses, curtails some of the drug wars in Mexico, gets rid of dangerous illegal growers in national parks and wild lands, some medicinal benefits for cancer patients and others with chronic pain and a growth of public tax revenues both from tax on the product and less government spending. List of Cons: Some people will abuse and hurt others (i.e. traffic accidents) some people will get hurt on the job being under the influence, smart people become stupid, some people will wreck their jobs, marriages and other relationship through abuse, "What were we just talking about?" type of questions becomes a big problem in communicating. No brainer to me. It is on the ballot in California to legalize it this year and I am voting yes. Edited by Garion81 - August 27 2010 at 14:59 |
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UMUR
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 3069 |
Posted: August 27 2010 at 15:18 | ||
Allthough the official policy has changed in the last ten years in Denmark towards less tolerance and more fines for even personal possession of weed, culminating in the closing of Pusher Street in Christiania http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freetown_Christiania in 2004, I still think most Danes are pretty liberal when it comes to Marijuana. Of course I can´t speak for the whole population, but most people I know think that legalization is the only way forward. Personally I think it´s a personal choice. If you ask me alcohol is a much worse sinner and not many people are talking about removing that from the shelves.
On a sidenote the closing of the marijuana trade in Christiania has brought a lot of bad things with it. Before the closing of the trade in 2004 people came to Christiania when they wanted to puchase their weed and while there were smoking clubs and pushers other places in the country as well before 2004, we now have maybe ten times as many now and most of them are controlled by hardcore gangs. We´ve even had a gang war going on in Denmark in the last couple of years with people getting shot in the street ( even innocents), which is pretty likely connected to the trade of marijuana ( and harder drugs). Something that you didn´t see as much of when most of the trade was situated at Christiania. One other thing that was great about the trade on Christiania compared to the trade in the clubs and at the local pushers is that hard drugs are forbidden on Christiania. If you caught with hard drugs on Christiania you´ll be thrown out of the freetown. At the clubs and at the local pusher the kids are much more likely to be exposed to the trade of hard drugs when they come to buy their weed.
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Equality 7-2521
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 11 2005 Location: Philly Status: Offline Points: 15784 |
Posted: August 27 2010 at 16:50 | ||
Pros: People would be free to own their own bodies. People would be free from arbitrary government imprisonment and fines. The black drug-market would take a large hit and lives would be saved.
Cons: None
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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The T
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 16 2006 Location: FL, USA Status: Offline Points: 17493 |
Posted: August 27 2010 at 16:52 | ||
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
Posted: August 27 2010 at 19:55 | ||
...hemp is legal |
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Rabid
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 20 2008 Location: Bridge of Knows Status: Offline Points: 512 |
Posted: August 29 2010 at 07:41 | ||
Hahahahahahaha.......let's just hope that China does'nt cut off your credit.
You may be in for a rude awakening.
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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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Anderson III
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 25 2007 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 708 |
Posted: August 29 2010 at 08:01 | ||
My body, my weed... I couldn't care less about your law!
PS: Don't break the law, children. |
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo
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Rabid
Forum Senior Member Joined: May 20 2008 Location: Bridge of Knows Status: Offline Points: 512 |
Posted: August 29 2010 at 08:04 | ||
Hey, Coco.....can I borrow your red nose and big shoes at some point?
ps : Some peoples attempts to troll forum members can be quite entertaining....
but yours are inane, feeble, and generally boring.
Maybe you should try a new approach.
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"...the thing IS, to put a motor in yourself..."
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JJLehto
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Tallahassee, FL Status: Offline Points: 34550 |
Posted: August 29 2010 at 16:56 | ||
...My bad? Not even trolling for once, just a corny joke you made was all And not much to add the convo...its all been said quite well. Legalize it! |
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: September 06 2010 at 10:29 | ||
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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CCVP
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitória, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
Posted: September 06 2010 at 11:21 | ||
I'm not only in favor of legalizing pot, but they should actually legalize everything.
There as an official research by the Callifornia government about that and, in the first year of legalization alone, there would be an increase of almost 3 billion dollars in tax money: stop spending 1.3 billion dollars with repression and gain 1.5 billion dollars with marijuana taxes. Besides, statiscally, drug legalization lead to less consuption and less drug-related problems. Just see the Netherlands and PORTUGAL. Edited by CCVP - September 06 2010 at 11:23 |
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: September 06 2010 at 12:21 | ||
The laws sometimes have unintended consequences. Alcohol prohibition was very profitable for the mob in this country. The Mexican drug gangs are prospering with illegality of other psychoactive substances.
You can try to lock everyone up. We have record incarcerations for drug offenses in this country already. There is another way: A decade ago Portugal took a radical new approach to illegal drugs by treating users as people with social problems rather than as criminals |
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EatThatPhonebook
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2009 Location: Norwich, VT Status: Offline Points: 788 |
Posted: September 07 2010 at 09:52 | ||
Yes, I would definitely legalize weed.
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CCVP
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 15 2007 Location: Vitória, Brasil Status: Offline Points: 7971 |
Posted: September 07 2010 at 13:59 | ||
You prog people sure are some talkative potheads.
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Conor Fynes
Prog Reviewer Joined: February 11 2009 Location: Vancouver, CA Status: Offline Points: 3196 |
Posted: September 07 2010 at 14:06 | ||
Huh? What were we just talking about????
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EatThatPhonebook
Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2009 Location: Norwich, VT Status: Offline Points: 788 |
Posted: September 08 2010 at 14:29 | ||
I don't know, but the sky is so beautiful tonight....
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ExittheLemming
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: September 13 2010 at 05:24 | ||
Yes, legalise marijuana but intern hippies
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Blacksword
Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
Posted: September 13 2010 at 09:52 | ||
Legalise weed and prog rock may come back in a big way! Either that or everyone would just sit around in their pants eating Jaffa cakes all day...
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: September 13 2010 at 10:20 | ||
Cough cough cough cough.
I'm going to have to look up Jaffa cakes, I have no idea what the hell they are. Now I have heard of Alice B. Toklas. OK looked it up. Not quite the same thing. Edited by Slartibartfast - September 13 2010 at 10:21 |
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: September 13 2010 at 10:53 | ||
You have oreos we have jaffa cakes - I call that justice myself. Edited by Dean - September 13 2010 at 10:54 |
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