Should weed be legalized? - Page 5

And IQ have been proven to be a subpar way of measuring intelligence. Sorta like BMI is with weight.

On September 02 2012 12:55 HunterX11 wrote:


Maybe in Sweden people don't smoke weed, but America they ARE fighting a figurative war (albeit with real guns) on marijuana and it's still not going anywhere and is still socially acceptable by a large portion of the population.

EDIT: Alcohol is a bit of an unfair comparison perhaps because it is one of the most destructive drugs, but how about comparing marijuana to another drugs that's 1000x more dangerous, like Tylenol? I mean you don't even need a prescription to buy it! You don't even need to be 18 to buy it! And it is easy to obtain a lethally toxic amount of it!

On September 02 2012 12:53 TheSwedishFan wrote:

No offence, but this is what i mean when i say that people are blind to the negative sides of cannabis. They always bring up alcohol, just leave it out of the argument. If alcohol would be a new thing it would never be legal. It's just that it's so tied with our culture that we cant get rid without a war almost. Do we really need to have another drug that will do no good? Answer is of course: No, we dont.
Well numbers dont lie so you cant say that smoking cannabis at a yearly age doesn't affect you. And lower numbers in this case is not very good.

On September 02 2012 13:18 thoradycus wrote:
Ideally all drugs should be legalized, along with a small sales tax on them

On September 02 2012 13:00 ampson wrote:
Sure, if we give it the cigarette treatment (insanely high taxes plus prohibition for people under 18). On top of that though, there would need to be EXTREMELY heavy penalties for smoking and driving. Like a month in prison for first offense heavy. That's not something people should have to deal with.

On September 02 2012 13:16 TheFish7 wrote:
Legalize and tax the shit out of it. Might help some people start legitimate businesses, and allow the government to collect some extra revenue. I really don't see what the big deal is - its pretty much accepted now that tobacco and alcohol are much worse for you and more addicting. Its a win/win, but change like that comes slowly.

On September 02 2012 13:25 killa_robot wrote:


Because people will totally abandon their current supplier of weed, for the much more expensive and likely lower quality version.

On September 02 2012 13:20 RoosterSamurai wrote:

In this thread: People that don't actually know any real drug addicts.

On September 02 2012 13:34 Grumbels wrote:
A good legalization policy would look like this:

- You have licensed smartshops. These can sell herbal medicine, food supplements, tea and less dangerous drugs like cannabis, salvia, shrooms, dmt, mescaline, mdma, lsd.
- Access to these products with a card that you can get at your local government. This card costs a bit of money as a deterrent to start using drugs.
- An age limit of 21 years.
- You can only buy enough for personal use.
- Smartshops should by law be required to tell you of the dangers/risks associated with a certain substance. It should provide advise and contact points for people that need help for things like addiction. Properly educated people need to man these places.
- Drug use needs to be legal, there should not be a law that makes it a crime to eat or smoke something. Selling drugs outside of licensed smartshops should still be a crime.
- Smartshops should not be allowed to sell online, because you need to have the personal contact to force people to come in touch with the properly regulated atmosphere of the smartshop.
- There needs to be real education at schools about the reality of drug use. Not just scare tactics.
- Hard drugs like heroin should come with a prescription that shows you are an addict and you should be able to get them if you also frequent an anti-addiction center and get medical help.
- For the states rights people, states can still choose to not give out licenses and effectively ban sales of drugs in their area.

On September 02 2012 13:11 Alvin853 wrote:
Imo legalizing weed is a bit egoistic, while it may not be harmful for yourself, you are more likely to commit crimes or cause accidents while high.
It's the same thing with alcohol, but it's very easy to prove someone is drunk via blood test. So people are less likely to drive while drunk, because they know they will get tested if they cause an accident, and might get tested for no reason whatsoever, so it's a high risk with huge penalties (at least here in europe).
But it's hard to prove someone is high, or rather prove they are not high anymore even though they still have the substances in their body. It's either "you have to refrain from smoking weed for a couple of days if you want to drive a car", or accept people driving high all the time because they know it can't be proven that they're high.

Weed is a drug, in the medical sense, it can slow your reaction time, even alter your state of mind. People should not be using it outside of a safe location, and especially not expose others that may not want to be exposed to weed.

On September 02 2012 12:27 TheSwedishFan wrote:
I don't know how it is in the US. But here in Sweden it wouldn't make any sense to legalize. It's a drug that acts as a gateway drug and makes you a lazy loser that doesn't contribute to the society. Well that's that the goverment tells you. I've watched the documentary and it very much pro cannabis so i would recommend everyone to take it with a spoon of salt. Matter of fact is that pro cannabis people almost always comes off as people and is blind to the negative sides of the drug. Often times i hear "oh, that's what the goverment wants you to believe" and "Weed has no negative effects, it the perfect drug".
It's really hard to take those people seriously.
There have been researches that have proven that teens that smoke have a lower IQ then non cannabis smokers. Thats because it interfers with the brains development. I've tried the drug but didn't like it because it made me lazy and unproductive. I dont think that those conditions are what makes a world evolve.