The marijuana, evolution, gay marriage debate take 2

1. Why is marijuana illegal? Well, it isn't illegal everywhere anymore. A. Drugs are addictive. A drug user cannot make an informed and rational decision to continue using drugs because the use of the drug eliminates that user"s ability to think logically. Nor can they disseminate themselves from drug taking. B. Drug use is not just dangerous for the user. Violence has always been associated with the use of drugs and neglect of children by drug-addicted parents. Drug dealers will sell to anyone, even children, as long as they get money. Legalizing marijuana shows children that drug use if acceptable and it is okay for them to use. Teenagers do all sorts of things these days because it isn't illegal and adults do it too. They think smoking is some kind of pathway to adulthood and it makes them cooler if they puff a cigarette, which causes more people to end up with cancer. Drinking is okay too, because it's like some kind of rite of passage. They think that once they finally have their first drink, it shows their adults now, but instead it leads to even more deaths each year. And you actually want to legalize marijuana, causing the same thing to happen. Eventually, teenagers will think that it makes them adults when they start using it, just creating more problems, drug addicts, and most likely, more criminals. Children have always been a big part of the marijuana debate. If you don't think that's enough reason, then you"re basically saying, "Oh, it's bad for the children, who cares, make it legal anyway, they're not important." C. Marijuana is terrible for your mental and physical health. I know that you said that everyone has argued that before, but as I said with the children, it has always been the main argument against marijuana. Marijuana causes persistent impairments in neurocognitive performance and IQ, and is associated with increased rates of anxiety, mood and psychotic thought disorders. Constant users of marijuana have worse lung problems than smokers. For children whose mothers have smoked marijuana it has resulted in birth defects, mental abnormalities, and increased risk of leukemia in children. "It's bad enough that we already lose so many Americans to cigarettes, alcoholism, and drunken driving. Do we really want to endorse the loss of millions more potentially productive Americans via Marijuana? Do we move on from there to Crack, Heroin or Meth? Some people would say, "If they want to do it, great, then it's no business of ours." But, you can also bet that those same people will be complaining about all the junkies and welfare cases that will be created by the policy they endorsed. So, ask yourself a few key questions. Is legalizing Marijuana going to make this a better country or a worse one? Would you want to live in a neighborhood filled with people who regularly smoke marijuana? Would you want your kids regularly smoking pot? Now is the time to think about it because although it's easy to thoughtlessly legalize a drug like marijuana, when things go predictably wrong down the road, it will be a lot harder to put the genie back in the bottle than people seem to think." (John Hawkins) Source: http://townhall.com... 2. Is homophobia the reason for the gay marriage crisis? Homophobia, again! Seriously, where do people come up with this? I want to start out by saying I am not a religious homophobe. Yes I'm a Christian and I have morals, so what? You have your argument and I have mine. Personally, I don't get why Christians are considered that. I mean we aren't even scared of homosexuality, we just don't approve of it. We don't hate them, we aren't scared of them, so...? A. First of all, we were made male and female. :) Our body parts have a natural coordination that reproduces children. How can two males or two females create a child? They can't. They have to rely on others to have a child. Marriage is not just about intimacy, it is merging oneself with the other sexual half. B. An increasingly large body of scientific evidence indicates that the intact, married family is best for children. No child would want to have to make a choice between a mother and a father. It is a horrible position to put children in except they can't choose, since it's already done. Any child raised under a same sex marriage faces a tremendous loss- either no mother or no father. Mothers and fathers are fundamentally important to the development of children, and therefore to the future of the nation, which depends upon the development and maturation of the next generation. I am not saying that Homosexuals aren't bad parents; it just isn't the best situation that a child should have to live. - Homosexual marriage with men prevents the children from having a mother. Mothers provide emotional security and reading the physical and emotional cues of infants. Also they help with things that men will never be able to do, the physical, emotional, and social challenges associated with puberty and adolescence. When a woman has sex with another, it doesn't make one of them a father. Once you decide which one is the father and which is the mother, she is still a women. - Homosexual couples that use IVF or surrogate mothers create a class of children who will have to live apart from their mother or father. Kyle Pruett, Yale Child Study Center psychiatrist, reports that children of IVF often ask their single or lesbian mothers about their fathers. Everyone knows that fathers reduce the likelihood of antisocial behavior and delinquency in boys and sexual activity in girls. A recent study of father absence on girls found that those who grew up apart from their biological father were more likely to experience early puberty and a teen pregnancy then girls who spent their entire childhood in an intact family. If you"re raised in a home without a father, most likely you will drop out of school, take or sell drugs, or go to prison. You can read the full article where I got my facts and information from here: http://www.theimaginativeconservative.org... 3. Evolution The debate about evolution has always been and always will be about man evolving from apes. Not technology or anything else. Since I am currently debating this with someone else I will give you the link to look at my other argument. I will probably just say everything I said in that debate. If you want more scientific facts from me then just say so and I will write it on the next round. http://www.debate.org...