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Poll Question: Should marijuana be legalized?
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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2010 at 16:52
Originally posted by Garion81 Garion81 wrote:

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. 

All of these actually benefit most everybody. 

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.

All of these are consequence of individual decisions and actions. 

No brainer to me.  It is on the ballot in California to legalize it this year and I am voting yes. 

I agree with that decision. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 27 2010 at 19:55
Originally posted by NeoGnostic NeoGnostic wrote:

Yes...one never develops a tolerance to marijuana as with alcohol or most drugs.  There are no hangovers.  It has proven over the last 5O years not to make people insane or lead to heroin addiction and violent rape and murder.

Another massive benefit would be that HEMP would then be legal.


...hemp is legal
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2010 at 07:41
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

You gotta wonder what the feds and cops do with the trillions of dollars worth of confiscated dope

Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

But it is legalized, you're just living in the wrong country. 


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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2010 at 08:04
Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Rabid Rabid wrote:

No. It should be smoked.  Wacko



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Direct Link To This Post Posted: August 29 2010 at 16:56
Originally posted by Rabid Rabid wrote:

Originally posted by JJLehto JJLehto wrote:

Originally posted by Rabid Rabid wrote:

No. It should be smoked.  Wacko



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Clown  Hey, Coco.....can I borrow your red nose and big shoes at some point?
 
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...My bad?
Not even trolling for once, just a corny joke you made was all Wink

And not much to add the convo...its all been said quite well.
Legalize it!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 06 2010 at 10:29
cartoon: comic about state budget crisis and marijuana legalization
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Direct Link To This Post 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.


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Direct Link To This Post 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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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 09:52
Yes, I would definitely legalize weed. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 13:59
You prog people sure are some talkative potheads. LOL
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 07 2010 at 14:06
Huh? What were we just talking about????
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 08 2010 at 14:29
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2010 at 05:24
Yes, legalise marijuana but intern hippies
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Direct Link To This Post 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...
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2010 at 10:20
Cough cough cough cough.  LOL

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
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 13 2010 at 10:53

You have oreos we have jaffa cakes - I call that justice myself. Approve



Edited by Dean - September 13 2010 at 10:54
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