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How much longer do ya'll think mar1juana will be legalized?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by Showtizzle2642, Nov 10, 2007.

  1. Invisible Fan

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    I didn't think you could distinguish between active levels and fatty cells releasing THC in blood tests. That's very interesting.

    As for the second point, I wonder what will be the public consequences of a lax drug enforcement policy. Would high workers or drivers be less focused because they have less to fear from imprisonment? Getting sued on company dime is less tangible than bunking with Bubba.
     
  2. madmonkey37

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    Im sorry but that herb looks quite bammer.

    Medical mar1juana is legal in California, but is heavily abused. Its not hard to find a doctor who writes out prescriptions for medical herb like candy, all you gotta do is pay some money and bam, you have ADHD.
     
  3. RocketMan Tex

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    Not in my lifetime
     
  4. foo82

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    It's sad considering the way mar1juana got criminalized. It had more to do with big business interest unrelated to drugs than people's welfare.

    From wikipedia

    "The decision of the United States Congress to pass the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act was based on hearings[2], reports[15] and in part on testimony derived from articles in newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst, who had significant financial interests in the timber industry, which manufactured his newsprint.[16]

    mar1juana activtist Jack Herer has researched DuPont and in his 1985 book The Emperor Wears No Clothes, Herer concluded Dupont played a large role in the criminalization of cannabis. In 1938, DuPont patented the processes for creating plastics from coal and oil and a new process for creating paper from wood pulp. If hemp would have been largely exploited, Herer believes it would have likely been used to make paper and plastic, and may have hurt DuPont’s profits. Andrew Mellon of the Mellon Bank was DuPont's chief financial backer and was also the Secretary of Treasury under the Hoover administration. Mellon appointed Harry J. Anslinger, who later became his nephew-in-law, as the head of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (FBNDD) and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), where Mellon stayed until 1962.[17]"
     
  5. JD2010

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    not broken down
    its a QP

    oh and to that dude who wanted some..
    you could hit up your local high school
    lol
    *cough*WESTFIELD HIGH SCHOOL*cough*
     
  6. geeimsobored

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    You know at the same time marajuana was being banned, nicotine was also set to get banned. Tobacco companies lobbied to get that stuff off of the bill, then proceeded to lie about its effects till the Surgeon General called them out.
     
  7. Mr. Clutch

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    Say No to Drugs.
     
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    Just a little?
     
  9. cson

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    There is no NEED for it to be legalized, just de-criminalized.
     
  10. GladiatoRowdy

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    Decriminalization, defined as removing criminal penalties for possession and use while retaining criminal sanctions for manufacture and sale, is the worst of both worlds. You still keep sales in the underground, forgoing tax revenue and ceding control to the criminal underground, and get none of the benefits of a regulated market.

    We need to regulate the manufacture and sale so that we can generate tax revenue, while at the same time recouping the billions of dollars spent on mar1juana prohibition.
     
  11. GladiatoRowdy

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    It is simplistic thinking like this that has brought us to the untenable situation we are in regarding drug use and abuse in this country.
     
  12. Francis3422

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    Roscun- Obviously you are uninformed. Missoula, Montana is home to a few private growers whom are of the finest there are. As well, it is also on the border and Northern Cali is only 20 something hours away. Seattle right there.

    Montana, no dsl but good pot. Plus, the indian reservations have basically legalized it (meaning the cops look the other way) because of increasing meth and alcohol infestations.

    Saint Louis- Ive seen a few times what people down here call "chronic" and its basically 3A which is a term used in reference go generic female plants (like good schwag but seedless and prettier)
     
  13. Dubious

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    I like being buzzed on occasion (hybrid hydro, Ft. Bend grown) but having large scale numbers of the general population buzzed would scare me.
    Dudes are dangerous just talking on their cell phones. A lot of them are dangerous just because they are stupid.

    Buzzes are just for when you got no where to go and nothing that needs doing. No housework, no homework, nothing people are paying you to do, nothing where you are responsible for other people or their stuff, not when you are supposed to be spending time with your kids and not when you don't have time to sober up (hours!) before you have to do something that can endanger other people.
     
  14. Francis3422

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    Yea JD, that stuff in the bag is crappy lookin:

    Gotta be a female plant, no seeds, fur crystals and the stank.

    Havent seen that in Htown yet.

    No such thing as good schwag.
     
  15. Mr. Clutch

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    It's quite tenable.

    Do drugs, go to jail.
     
  16. right1

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    I guess that's why there's a drug store on every corner.
     
  17. GladiatoRowdy

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    Like I said, this type of simplistic thinking has gotten us into a situation where any schoolchild has access to any illegal drug they want because the black market, unlike regulated ones, doesn't care who it sells to.

    Keep spouting the platitudes that have seen half our young people use drugs before they leave high school. At least the politicians and their sheep have catchy slogans while our young people become addicted to drugs at the same rates year after year.
     

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