Legalize [CENSORED WORD]?

However drugs impair your decisions; which lead to bad decisions which are caused by drug use. Therefore, drugs can affect school life [;)]

^No, most drug users only do drugs outside of school. They only way that it could effect their school life is if they were high in school. And if they are high in school, then the probably have problems.

Originally posted by Jms10391

^No, most drug users only do drugs outside of school. They only way that it could effect their school life is if they were high in school. And if they are high in school, then the probably have problems.

I know plenty of potheads who smoke before school. Many do it IN school. You don't have anything behind the first statement.

And what do you have behind your statement? Because I live in a poor neighborhood where drugs are everywhere.

And like i said, if they smoke in school, then there are more problems with that person than just [CENSORED WORD] use.

Legalizing it would make everything so much easyer...

>> Contradiction?...hardly. I do well in school, have a great social life, and get along well with my family. Just because you find something stupid doesn't mean is necessarily is.

You are either depressed and need to get high to feel good about yourself, you need to relieve some stress in your life or you are just a dummy to peer pressure.

I do not see how or why a person who does well in school, has a great social life and *even* gets a long with the family needs to take drugs.

Care to explain why you started?

because it provides some fun for a few hours

First off, I do not NEED to take drugs. I choose to. Need implies addiction

One more point before I begin my story. You said that me choosing to take drugs and doing well in school is a contradiction. It is not. Taking drugs does NOT automatically mean that you will do poorly in school. Although I admit that for some, it certainly aggravates the problem.

When I was about 14 years old, I would sometimes find myself very unhappy for no apparent reason. At other times, I would be in an incredibly good mood. As you probably have guessed, I was bipolar.

NOTE: Depression is a disease (caused by chemical imbalances in the brain) that can be cured, just like strep throat or a cold.

I was prescribed some medication that helped somewhat, but I still didn't feel quite right. When I was 16 years old I tried cannabis for the first time.

Nothing happened.

A couple weeks later, I tried it again, having heard that many people don't get high their first time. For the first time in my life, I was high, and I liked it. Originally, I liked weed because for a moment, I could forget my worries and feel alright.

Throughout the years, my views on [CENSORED WORD] have changed drastically. I know like to smoke mainly because of the alternate (yet nonetheless real) perception of reality it gives me. I am very interested in other people's point of view, where their ideas come from, and how they decide what is right and wrong. [CENSORED WORD] helps me to rationalize situations and understand where others are coming from (I used to be VERY closed minded). Not to say I don't enjoy the euphoria that comes with it, but it is so much more than that.

Now if you have never been high before, some of this may seem downright dumb, as it is a very simplified version of what goes through my mind when I'm high.

It bothers me how many misconceptions about cannabis are out there. When I am high, I am no dumber than I am sober, and my judgment is not impaired. Much the opposite actually. I think about everything very carefully and rationally.

I guess in conclusion [CENSORED WORD] gives me an alternate mind set that I enjoy to explore.

So even if you don't smoke (which is completely up to you) you should still respect those that choose to. Cannabis is a drug that in no way degrades a person's character, and for that reason I do believe that it should be legalized.

Originally posted by Jms10391

And what do you have behind your statement? Because I live in a poor neighborhood where drugs are everywhere.

And like i said, if they smoke in school, then there are more problems with that person than just [CENSORED WORD] use.

It doesn't matter where you live. Stop playing the "oh poor me" scheme. Drugs are everywhere in the US. So that's not proving anything.

Sure, I can agree with you on the second statement. But some are just in it for the high.

[Oscar]

I like the pain relief it brought me when coolbeans326 got me high. I was pain free for weeks [:)]

Oh snap, did I just say that?

Originally posted by griffonluv

It doesn't matter where you live. Stop playing the "oh poor me" scheme. Drugs are everywhere in the US. So that's not proving anything.

Sure, I can agree with you on the second statement. But some are just in it for the high.

I wasn't trying to say "oh poor me" I was just saying where I live and how drugs are everywhere in the neighborhood that I live in. You guys are the ones taking it out of context.

^ You've said that multiple times now. So you can stop. We know where you live and how your surroundings are, and there are many people just like you, and plenty far worse off than you. It just sounds like you're trying for sympathy. That's all.

^ I'm not trying for sympathy, I'm trying to make my point. There's a difference. And by saying I live in a neighborhood where drugs are around actually applies to this topic.

Cannabis is a drug that in no way degrades a person's character

Incorrect, sir. A drug is a drug. It alters your mind or body in some way, as youve stated. Thus, like any drug, the reaction YOU have will be different from everyone else.

If by chance, you could say that cannibis affects all people the same way, you would have a valid argument. But because of the very nature of the drug, youre invalid. I know at least two people personally who, once started, it began to alter who they were. Maybe they let it become an addiction, maybe the way it chemically interacted with their body changed them. I cannot know for sure.


I can say, a drug, even as simple as aspirin changes the body. How my body and yours reacts will be completely different. Some people can become quite addicted to the drug mentally - which is just as dangerous as chemically. Others develop some sort of pseudo-chemical addiction as well. I think the reason it remains illegal is not because of how it affects a few but how it affects the masses.

You should all seriously be listening to bigboy, I hear him out completely and his statements are sensible...And of course, also listen to...

Originally posted by Vid_w

Legalizing it would make everything so much easier...

...my best friend

Originally posted by griffonluv

Originally posted by Jms10391

^No, most drug users only do drugs outside of school. They only way that it could effect their school life is if they were high in school. And if they are high in school, then the probably have problems.

I know plenty of potheads who smoke before school. Many do it IN school. You don't have anything behind the first statement.

And you don't have anything behind any of your statements. I have a SOLID 3.9 GPA (including several AP and Honors courses) and I can safely tell you I get high off of something every day [;)]

I got a 4.2 GPA and I used to be on drugs too, still got at least a 4.0 on drugs too.

But if I had said that earlier, everyone would've been on me saying I want sympathy. Which is probably going to happen anyways.

I cannot understand how people can be so vehemently opposed to [CENSORED WORD] and still accept the legality of cigarettes. Talk about cognitive dissonance!

^ I agree, cigarettes are just as addictive as [CENSORED WORD] can be. And cigarettes have been proven to lead to cancer too.

BUT the only reason cigarettes are legal is because back when they became legal, the government saw a big money opportunity off of them, taxes. Its the same way today.

I'm smoking a large joint at the moment to cover up the effects of booze and annoying girls from last night. It seems to be working great.

Originally posted by Kevin Brennan

I cannot understand how people can be so vehemently opposed to [CENSORED WORD] and still accept the legality of cigarettes. Talk about cognitive dissonance!

Wouldnt be the US without!

However, a cigarette minus all the additives - like a tobacco leaf rolled up, isnt going to have the same effect as cannibis I do not think.

The Gov. created the monster that is Cancer Sticks.

haha How would a tabbaco leaf be any less harmful than smoking a flower off of a cannabis plant?

In the end they will all harm you, but with mary-j at least most people aren't physically addicted to it. I have smoked [CENSORED WORD] since I was about 16 years old and I can go for weeks-months without wanting to smoke it. ALL cigarette smokers that I know need to have them all the time, they never take breaks for weeks at a time.

And I really don't understand why this topic even exists. The non-smokers are of course going to be against smoking and the smokers are of course going to be for it. Talk about a never ending debate.

/me smokes one for all the other smokers.

The non-smokers are of course going to be against smoking and the smokers are of course going to be for it. Talk about a never ending debate.

I've never touched a joint in my life, yet still find pot to be a perfectly fine thing to smoke. It's what most of my friends do, and any issues they have/had in their life aren't related to smoking it at all. I'd be smoking it with them if I wasn't a stubborn idiot, who chooses to avoid pot for non-sense reasons.

Lower your morals son

I don't think it should be legalized, since above all like any form of drug abuse it leads to immoral decisions.

^ 2 points

1. Alcohol is legal...does it not lead to immoral decisions?

2. Cannabis does not (at least generally) cause people to make poor, "immoral" decisions. In my experience I have found it to be quite the opposite. People under the influence of [CENSORED WORD] are genrally calm and rational....much more so than when drunk.

Why do you think Bob Marley, Ben Harper, Michael Franti, etc sing about world peace and happines? We just want everyone to get along, as far fetched as that may be.

Real, I have a response to your posts coming later. Thanks for posting man, your really making me think!