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That's funny. I love it when people say that it is not the government's job to monitor morality. To all of you who are law students like myself, what is and always has been the purpose of law? It is to preserve a society's standards of living including its morals. Law is at its core a society's view of morality. Always has been.
Marijuana does direclty affect others. Have you ever talked to the child of an adult user of marijuana? Ask that kid what it's like to live with a parent like that. I've been there and lived through that. It does directly affect other people. Trust me.
Alcohol is a completely different topic than any other drug. Unlike any other drug, alcohol is actually good for you in moderation. To eqaute alcohol with marijuana is ridiculous. Each joint of marijuana contains five times the amount of tar in a cigarette. That alone shows that marijuana is not good for you in moderation.
dwalk4 wrote:That's funny. I love it when people say that it is not the government's job to monitor morality. To all of you who are law students like myself, what is and always has been the purpose of law? It is to preserve a society's standards of living including its morals. Law is at its core a society's view of morality. Always has been.
What constitutes morality? I personally don't see how smoking marijuana on your own time, responsibly, is immoral.
Quote:Marijuana does direclty affect others. Have you ever talked to the child of an adult user of marijuana? Ask that kid what it's like to live with a parent like that. I've been there and lived through that. It does directly affect other people. Trust me.
I have friends whose parents use marijuana, and they are fine and well adjusted. As long as the adults are responsible users (and educate their children about its dangers), how is that going to affect their upbringing in a negative way?
Quote:Alcohol is a completely different topic than any other drug. Unlike any other drug, alcohol is actually good for you in moderation. To eqaute alcohol with marijuana is ridiculous. Each joint of marijuana contains five times the amount of tar in a cigarette. That alone shows that marijuana is not good for you in moderation.
First of all, alcohol is much worse than marijuana, it is physically habit forming, deteriorates the liver, causes much more destructive behaviour: it kills more people than every illegal drug combined (http://www.madd.org/under21/0,1056,10057,00.html), half of all lethal car crashes are the result of alcohol intoxication (source: Center for Substance Abuse Treatment), and it is possible to overdose (and possibly die) on alcohol (to OD on marijuana you'd need to smoke about 40,000 times).
Unlike any other drug? Marijuana is a good stress, nausea and pain reliever in moderation. Of course the negative aspects (the tar, etc.) should be widely publicized, and there should be a minimum legal age, etc., but as long as cigarettes and alcohol are legal, marijuana has no reason not to be legal.
The only reason that Marijuana is not legal is bc the government cant not find a way to tax it. Why does the government not make Tobacco illegal its also a drug but the government is making money off of it so they are not going to.
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i think it is a great idea and if you dont want my word on it take a look at what it has done for canada it has almost eleminated the use of drugs
so you think that all drugs should be illegal, that would include alcohol.
:confused: nick:
They legalized it for medicinal purposes in Oregon, but it hasn't really gotten on the market very much. Really if they legalized it they could tax marijuana and make money off of it. It would really make more sense from an economic stand point.
Frankly, I do not see the legalization of this drug as a boost for the economy or society. Sure the government will tax the drug, but now the drug is going to be imported. If it reaches the government, shipments will be stolen and more will reach the markets. Also, many people die for this drug becuase of the greedy and horrid drug lords. There is no way of getting rid of the drug which was the case with prohibition and alcohol. If we legalize the drug, then more people will be able to receive the drug. The end does not justify the means of the drug, and therefore it should not be legalized. Well, there is my two cents, take out of it what y'all please.
myopichappiness wrote:haha if any of you guys are in Youth and Government? eh, that's one of the major issues when we go to the state capital and debate. in any case, yeah...it can be helpful for medicinal purposes.
Hey yeah I'm in youth and government and it is a huge thing. My friend wrote another bill trying to legalize it, kinda reptative though, everyone has a side and no one will budge, except that Armado guy he keeps switching sides, CONFUSING.
brewerjo wrote:Frankly, I do not see the legalization of this drug as a boost for the economy or society. Sure the government will tax the drug, but now the drug is going to be imported. If it reaches the government, shipments will be stolen and more will reach the markets. Also, many people die for this drug becuase of the greedy and horrid drug lords. There is no way of getting rid of the drug which was the case with prohibition and alcohol. If we legalize the drug, then more people will be able to receive the drug. The end does not justify the means of the drug, and therefore it should not be legalized. Well, there is my two cents, take out of it what y'all please.
I can see your point but what doesn't make sense to me is the part about the drug lords. If we legalize marijuanna there won't be any drugs lords, just businesses under federal regulations, can you imagine how much cleaner that would be. They wouldn't be allowed to put anything in it like is in the street version of marijuanna(thanks to those same drug lords), really legalization would be better for the economy. More money+less crime=good thing
bubblez wrote:I can see your point but what doesn't make sense to me is the part about the drug lords. If we legalize marijuanna there won't be any drugs lords, just businesses under federal regulations, can you imagine how much cleaner that would be. They wouldn't be allowed to put anything in it like is in the street version of marijuanna(thanks to those same drug lords), really legalization would be better for the economy. More money+less crime=good thing
Well, I see what you are saying, however, where will it come from now? It takes time to grow and process the drug before it is ready for market, and the government does not have stockpiles now, so we would have to deal with drug lords. They will always be here because there are still nations and states that have them outlawed.
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