Legalization of Marijuana

I apologize for the delay. I would also like to say I dont mind your cursing or "a**hole" arguing, we are all mature here. "Say what you will, I've heard it before. Quite frankly, I've never heard a case of a f***ing mexican cartel geting in a shootout over the latest copy of Call of Duty or some s*** like that."You haven't argued against my point about addiction so I will assume you acknowledge that. However, you are exactly right, and you know why? Because video games are legal. One basic rule of business is that if there is demand there is a market. And if video games were illegal there would still be demand, therefore there would be an illegal market. Then, I promise you would see shootouts of video game dealers protecting their merchandise."You made a good point about the harmful affects, so I'll give you that one."Thanks"I don't think so. It may seem like an exaterattion to you, but some of my friends are potheads. I can tell you from personal experience of being around someone who's high but not high myself that they ate every bag of lays in my house. Maybe I took it too far, but as I said I'm a bit of a d*** about the way I argue."Once again I ask you how this is so negative an effect that it warrants prohibiting a substance to the point of criminalizing its users? " I doubt you had a such a substantial amount of lays that you were little more than annoyed about what happened. If you were, then you should have made sure they paid you back and if they didn't that's on them not weed. "And as for the gateway drug thing that you wrote an entire f***ing seminar on, if weed becomes legal then how does it stop being a gateway drug? " I understand my response was lengthy but that was so I could accurately convey my logic. Based on what you said, I don't think you really read and undersood what I said because I explained how there is no such thing as a gateway between two acts if there is no connection between them. I also explained how making it legal would reduce that which is mistaken as the gateway effect in users. Please reveiew and try to understand what I said so you can properly respond, else there is no point in this debate. "People take pharmacudicals all the time illegally, so making it legal might make it worse, because teenagers can get in a whole lot more trouble, and now someone who actually needs that weed for cancer or something can't get it because some idiot names Brody needed to get his weed."It is true that people illegally use things that are legal to a degree but it is also true that people (many of which are teens/youth) smoke marijuana illegally now. So what does it matter? A whole lot more trouble? Consider the difference between what happens now when a teen is caught with alcohol and when a teen is caught with weed. You have it backwards. Also, I promise no patient is gonna be without their medicine when it comes to weeds availiability, anybody can grow the plant so legalization's resulting businesses will have ample availability. That's not to say that prohibition does much to help marijuana patients get their medicine anyway." Okay, fair enough. What I was trying to say is that weed, like any other mood changing substance, causes crazy psychadelic affects. These things can cause certain people to do reckless and impulsive things, mainly because they're just so calm about everything. Alchohol does this too, but instead of calmness, drunks get pissed about everything. "What crazy psychadelic effects are you talking about, red eyes, giggling? And how can one act impulsively if they are calm? I touched on why intoxication effects are irrelevant with regards to legalization already but I will post again. If you do not respond to any of my points I can only assume you either acknowledge them or cannot refute them. Under the influence of marijuana, a few general effects are euphoria, mild anxiety, mild paranoia, munchies, calming, giggles, etc. Basically, none of these effects are adverse in and of themselves to the point of making the the substance dangerous. With alcohol, the consumer is severely punished for drunk driving or over aggresiveness not the product. This is because the consumer is stilll responsible for his own actions. If a child eats alot of sugar and is uncontrollable for the rest of the night and hurts themselves, do you ban sugar for all or do you blame the childs parents for allowing them to consume that much? "I'm not trying to say weed's a bad thing, I'm just trying to get people to drop the subject. It's not like it's hard to find or anything. Are you too lazy to visit a nearby park that you'd rather wait in a line to get some more pot?"While I can understand your impatience around the topic, that does not excuse the fact that legalization is whats best for and much needed by the nation as a whole. And no I'm not too lazy, I just dont want the threat of being locked away and deemed criminal for using a perfectly safe and fun drug recreationally (that or getting killed at a deal gone wrong)."Perfectly integrated? Tobacco is seen as the devils drinking buddy by society, and drinking is now known as being desperate. Weed will stop being known as a calming drug, it'll just become a cautionary tale."Although some hold these beleifs, I doubt they are the majority, and they still seem pretty tolerant considering I haven't heard anyone talking about prohibiting tobacco or alcohol as of late. By perfectly integrated, I'm talking about things like employee smoke rooms at jobs, smoking sections in restaurants, happy hours, availiability at your local store, events centered around the substance, etc. All societal integrations tobacco and alcohol have."Since when? Since when has the governments job not been to control us? Oh yeah, let's protect the lives of the US by doing absulutely f***-all about our s*** health care and allow all these terrible massacres to keep happening. Let's protect their liberty by trying to ban the things they love. Let's pursue happiness by going to war with the wrong countries and doing everything wrong in every other countries eyes. As for Canada, well King Prime Minister Stephen Harper banned Count Chocula & Cookie Crisp for being unhealthy, so don't expect us to legalize weed anytime soon."What the government does and what is supposed to do are two completely different things. This however, doesn't change what they SHOULD be doing. I take that you agree with me on this so I wont go any further. But, with regards to the U.S., full legalization is becoming more and more likely everyday. Look it up.