Gunstar Green wrote:Putting dealers out of business is a good argument, but really they'd just deal something else.
Think of how many smoke weed in comparison to other drugs like meth and coke though that is a huge market that would completely dry up for them.
Sure they could move onto other drugs but their client base would shrink a lot. Weed is one of the few drugs that has a consistent market since nobody is overdosing and without testing it usually goes unnoticed in the work place.
I'm pretty sure they wouldn't move on to 'hard' drugs like Coke and Meth. They'd likely shift to prescription meds, which most of them already do on the side. I don't think legalization of pot would have a huge impact on dealers and all the shit they bring with them.
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Prescription drugs were a big problem back in my home town. It's especially bad in small towns. My mom works at a pharmacy and everyone knows which crooked doctors are over-prescribing for the dealers but nobody does anything about it.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
BurningDoom wrote:Marijuana stores in your fat cells and stays for about a month.
That's a half truth. The tests are in micro grams I believe, and anything over 50 is considered dirty but they only test for up to 100 I believe. It can show up on lab drug tests for a month if you've been smoking heavily for awhile but if you're an average smoker it is gone in under a week/below the levels that you can get in trouble for. The fat cells thing is pretty funny though since it's pretty easy to pass drug tests by just eating a ton of fatty foods that will bind with the thc and remove it from showing up in your system. On the flip side burning fat can also put thc back into your system but I don't think it's possible to burn enough fat to fail a test.
Back on topic I don't smoke but I would love to grow. I've had offers to to move out to Portland and help with harvests then stay to learn how to grow but have never really felt like it.
Adam wrote:We have a serious problem with alcoholism and drug taking. Kids nowadays just focus on going to university to drink, smoke weed and get laid.
That is how universities in the United States have always been.
Adam wrote:I just don't think that getting high on drugs and drunk on alcohol is really worth it. Especially when the rest of us has to pay for them to get their stomachs pumped in hospital. It's an endemic problem.
I just wish people could drink more responsibly. We need to educate people more on the effects of alcohol and drugs. The same goes for food education. I think it is scandalous that some American kids don't know the difference between an eggplant and a potato. I've taught a big classroom of Chinese and North Korean orphans before, and they all know the names of a large variety of fruits and vegetables and their nutritional benefits. In both English and Chinese. Meanwhile, in an American classroom (link).
Why can't we stop living in a world where we take everything for granted? All I am saying is that our children should have a better quality of education. Learn what is bad for you, and what is better for you. It is our duty to educate our societies more. We should be working towards putting those cigarette butts out, saying no to pot, fixing our food industries and enforcing more stringent alcohol laws.
It doesn't seem fair? I'm not saying that we should be taking people's hearing aids and inhalers away, am I? I am saying that we should be limiting things that are bad for our health.
See, that's your opinion. Why not educate the public and let them chose for themselves? I feel like we have enough laws telling us what and what not to do.
