Portland Maine legalized the pot!
Chaotic_Good
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I don't smoke the pots, but just as an event my buddies and I will have to go for some Lobster Bisque and smurf and turf. Mmm lobster bisque .... dammit.
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You youngsters and your hip lingo!
Warning. Slightly graphic news article. Not for the faint of heart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2442411/Brazilian-man-crushed-death-weed-cannabis-trafficking-chase.html
See? Lethal.
I don't think you can outlaw a state and what do you expect from the home of Ted Nugent.
Happened to my cousin.
Seriously, this is way overdue. So it's legal to possess a recreational amount, but illegal to sell? Bummer, to be legal, you'll have to grow it yourself.
Now they need to pass the same law here. Except the cops'll be pissed, there's nothing they like more than raiding half a ton of weed, making a big pile, setting it on fire, and standing about making sure that every last leaf gets burned ...
Why exactly is it the government's business what I, as a legal adult sound in mind, choose to put into my body? If I want to take a recreational drug that may harm me, I don't see why that's anybody else's business unless I'm putting other people at risk; e.g., smoking pot and driving.
You will also find, unless you live a remarkably ascetic life, that you put an awful lot of drugs into your body for various things, sometimes without realising it. Do you have a "comfort food", for instance? A lot of common comfort foods stimulate the production of certain hormones, just like any other mood-altering substance. Chocolate, for instance, is known to stimulate dopamine in the brain (which is why it is sometimes eaten in large quantities by people self-medicating for ADHD; in some ways it's similar to a weak dose of Ritalin).
And, of course, for an even more obvious example, why are coffee and tea the world's most popular beverages? It isn't because of their taste (not saying nobody likes their taste, but that's not why they became popular in antiquity), it's because they provide you with the drug caffeine. Which also has effects on the brain with long consumption, is mildly addictive, can be overdosed on, and so forth.
In any case, whether you think people who take a drug are stupid or harming their body, it's still none of YOUR business what anybody else does with their own body, and it shouldn't be the government's business either.
I think you've been seriously misinformed, marijuana is basically a dried plant, the "active ingredient" THC is mostly in the pollen and if you were to inject it to your veins, you'd die in a few minutes blocking the bloodstream.
Neither can marijuana be sniffed, it'd be just plain silly to do that.
Marijuana is either smoked or "eaten", a dough can be prepared as well as milk and butter.
Now marijuana is most certainly a drug as much as alcohol and nicotine, but it can be very helpful in curing or mitigating the effects of various neurological illnesses including Alzheimer and epilepsy and many others.
The main reasons to legalize such a drug are:
1. To legalize the usage for the people who can benefit from it's curing qualities
2. To mitigate black market and tax the hell out of it
The 1. is obviously very important and it's a shame that our governments have been preventing us from using a herb that can improve lives for many, mostly elderly people.
Drinking alcohol during pregnancy is far more dangerous to the fetus than marijuana and tobacco combined. And yet, alcohol is not illegal.
You're scaremongering. I mentioned alcohol and tobacco, which are both more dangerous than marijuana and a lot of other recreational illegal drugs.
You're also assuming people are more likely to overdose on drugs if the drugs are legal. In fact, legalising and properly educating people about drugs consistently reduces both addiction and overdose levels, as well as significantly reducing the spread of diseases from things like sharing needles. This has been proven repeatedly in the real world - read up on Portugal's experience for a very notable example.
If you actually care about all the things you're saying here, you'd support the legalisation of these drugs, as counterintuitive as that may seem to you.
Thankfully the medicinal qualities of marijuana has been officially proven and legalized by governments of many countries, including mine (Czech Republic)
Marijuana has been so far the most effective medicine for slowing down the effects of Alzheimer diseases
saying that you'd rather give her "official medication" is like saying that you trust the bureaucracy of your government more when it comes to health of your grandmother than the actual pharmaceutic researchers.