Marijuana should be legalized and should be taken seriously as a medicine.

"An entire family was murdered by a youthful addict in Florida. When officers arrived at the home, they found the youth staggering about in a human slaughterhouse. With an axe he had killed his father, mother, two brothers, and a sister. He seemed to be in a daze… He had no recollection of having committed the multiple crime. The officers knew him ordinarily as a sane, rather quiet young man; now he was pitifully crazed. They sought the reason. The boy said that he had been in the habit of smoking something which youthful friends called "muggles," a childish name for marijuana. " And cops to this day are going crazy trying to deal with this murderous drug, mainly by trying to keep from laughing as they smoke your stash which of course you cannot have in the slammer. I see "Reeder Madness" is making the rounds. Remember people used to take this stuff seriously. " I will not debate the scare tactics used by the mainstream media because I agree but with this whole argument about marijuana it relies on one thing. The people have to take responsibility for themselves and decide whats good and bad for there bodies, not the media. "So the increased potency just means minority groups know where to get better weed. Keep this is mind when shopping. Better living through chemistry. Our tax money wasn't wasted after all. " This is a completely wrong statement by my opponent. Most of the high grade potent marijuana you speak of comes from Humboldt County and British Columbia. With medical marijuana many more non minority's have easy access to the best marijuana in the world. Just look at Humboldt county's demographics. . http://quickfacts.census.gov... I agree with your statement saying minority's have easier access to marijuana though. But it is often cheap brick weed from Mexico. There are acceptations to every rule and generalization although so I don't see this marijuana demographic debate going anywhere. "I think the question we must ask is why the witch hunt? Is this a simple question? What effect will this, or any online debate have on the public perception of the issue? Is it really reasonable to believe that anyone is going to cooperate with cannabis tax after being persecuted for so long? Not me. " Well i wouldn't necessarily say it is a witch hunt. Most states have decriminalized marijuana. Usually teenagers feel the wrath of the war on marijuana. See the fact that it is a plant and that it is also easy to grow will have some definitely bypassing the marijuana tax. For most though growing isn't easy and it is also extremely time consuming. Most would choose to go to a medical marijuana shop rather than purchase the expensive indoor growing materials. "Anyway we can plant them faster than they can eradicate them without wiping out everything else too. There isn't anywhere on the planet safe from this toxic eradication program for a poor weed that never hurt anyone and brings pleasure to millions. Particularly of concern, as we can see, is the National Forests. Why, any Johnny Appleseed that wants to can create quite a problem for law enforcement because now Freddy has all this stuff to smoke which they get fired if they smoke and nobody to arrest anyway. I think this could become unmanageable real soon. Of course if they simply confiscate it it will end up back on the street right away. " This argument is very naive at best. For marijuana to be worth any amount of money it must be attended to quite often. You can't simply plant seeds and expect them to turn into potent or even low grade marijuana. Weed with seeds is not popular and if it has many its essentially worthless. If marijuana was legal why wouldn't you grow it on your own land? People know if you guerrilla grow on someone's land it will be destroyed and a bitch to conceal it. Guerrilla growing exists due to marijuana being illegal. Yes Infared you mentioned many ways to smoke marijuana but you forgot the most healthy way. Through edible consumption. Many patients with emphysema use this method. Also with your hash argument yes the best is made in the middle east. Mostly because of heritage and emphasize on it. Anyone who grows can easily make hash.