Oh God The Irony
 

Hell yeah.

Lol.







Yeah thats all I've got.

Am I the only person who thinks pot is only illegal because they can't effectively tax it?

Nah, health boards and mothers go nuts over it too, you'd upset a few sectors in society.

And if they did legalise it, you'd see it in shops which is easily taxable.

Tobacco lobyists, rich paper manufacturers, and discrimination against Mexicans is how it started.

There actually is a tax on marijuana, if you have marijuana in a bag without a marijuana tax stamp affixed to it they can also get you for tax evasion (no bull****).

Lobbyists are the main force keeping it illegal, though conservativism isn't helping the situation out much.

Mothers and health boards havent made cigs and alcohol illegal which I really don't see to be on a different level. You could grow it yourself which isn't [easily or effectively] taxible. Sure you could moonshine but getting to tobacco ready for your own personal use is just uneconimical.

Well, mothers did succeed in making alcohol illegal once upon a time (prohibition?) and that turned out great (the mafia), but at least then they had a reason, seeing as how their husbands would go out, get drunk, then come home and beat them. I don't think too many guys are going out, getting stoned, and then beating their wives/girlfriends.

But yeah, people are uptight and uninformed and I don't really see that changing too much anytime soon.

The quality would go well down and the price would go well up if marajuana was to become legal anyways, so it's better as it is now.

yeah, until you get caught, that is....

It is illegal simply because to reverse a prohibition is a massive thing, and frankly most cannabis smokers are just too fucking passive to scare them into taking action. they WILL NOT legalise a psychoactive drug for recreational purpose; a drug that is as yet criminally understudied, but certainly has - as most drugs do - ill effects.

how many other things that are bad for you (and don't give me that spirituality shit - true or otherwise. the majority of people cane on rotten for the buzz/escapism) has the government pushed, recently.

there's no room for hedonism in the minds' of successfull politians. they are single minded and robotic in their pursuit of popularity, and regular cannabis smokers still remain a minority.

Maybe, but it's easy to avoid getting caught.

The last thing the world needs is more potheads

I say keep it banned

Pothead is such a ****ing stereotype. Even if those people didn't smoke pot they'd still be the same. Marijuana becomes their excuse for performing poorly in school, being apathetic, etc.

I smoke frequently and am getting better grades this year than all 3 previous in High School.


By the way, watch this to understand the history of Pot in this country and the reasons' it's illegal. Very interesting Documentary that is presented very well. http://video.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wv&q=Grass (it's the first one, the school computer won't let me link directly)

I agree, lets get these kids hooked on Cocaine and maybe they'll get some sh!t done. I've never met a cokehead with nothing to do

I disagree. it's not that straighforward as you can generalise in that way. it affects people differently, as you demonstrate. I know plenty of peeps that would have 'done their homework' if they didn't have something they were really into at the time - ie: cane lots of gear!

lol, right?


Anyway, a good story here: My friend X was always fun and caring and nice to everyone. Then X started smoking pot.....regularly....like daily......and in large doses. X has become annoying and forgetful and most of us(friends) cant stand being around X anymore. To make it worse, the pot was an entry drug to **** like DXM and now X snorts Xanax and drinks bottles of Nyquil and alike just for a buzz. Pot should remain illegal because it makes people stupid.

Obviously it was the pot that led him to more drugs and he wasn't interested in any of that in the first place.

Pot didn't affect my grades in anyway, the only reason I stopped was because my girlfriend wanted me to and because I needed to quit using other things to get away from my problems.

Agreed. It is all different. In my experiance it simply serves as an excuse. I smoke when I have free time and have nothing important to do. Alot of the stereotypical stoners smoke before they have things to do because it helps them cope. And those are the "potheads" that media portrays giving the rest of us a bad name.

:(

Well she was a moron doing it daily. I smoke too, but in moderation. Like once a month if I'm lucky. I COULD get it more but after watching my friend deteriorate I'm just not interested in a life like that.

Who was stereotyping?

I was just going by some of the idiots i`ve worked with or people that some of my friends have hung out with at sometime.

ooo boy, an hot button issue. i think the term "pothead" has kinda gone by the wayside first of all, only squares and old crotchity bastards use that anymore. and i smoke frequently, usually daily. i'm not going to say it doesn't affect me at all, but its surely not a negative thing. i might be a little forgetful, but i was just as forgetful before i started smoking. i might be a little spacey, but i was always a bit strange. and if i want to stop smoking, i will, and the effects (if any) will fade with time. it's really a harmless drug. all that gateway drug mumbo jumbo is just that, i starting smoking weed 6 years ago, and i haven't done ANY harder drugs. ok, i lied, i tried E once. and mushrooms don't count, i don't do those anymore. but in reality, i probably would have tried them anyways if i hadn't been smoking weed for years. it's just part of my lifestyle. RAR had a good point when he said that people who do poorly in school etc. etc. and smoke pot just use that as an excuse. to be honest, i've done worse in school myself, but i don't blame weed, it's my own damn fault because i'm lazy. i could be getting great marks, i just don't do the work. but back to the subject here, i think it's great that they are finding real medical uses for it, but of course it won't lead anywhere until the ignorant bastards upstairs quit holding on to a beleif that anything potentially fun=evil. weed is illegal for the same reasons hemp is illegal, to keep money in the pockets of petroleum and synthetics companies. and so the government can bust more black people.

I think you are all looking at this the completely wrong way.

In my opinion, if everyone were a pothead the world would be a much better place. Less would get done, certainly, but you wouldn't be surrounded by war-mongering, uptight conservative pricks. Plus, if everyone else has no attention span or short term memory it makes it much easier for the rest of us to get ahead and succeed.

And anyway, I know almost half of my high school class smokes pot or has smoked pot, and we don't have a single pothead in our grade. I'm friends with some potheads and they're fun people to be around (except my brother when he was one, just annoying as ****) and generally have good taste in music (isn't that all that matters?)

It's a funny one really. I don't regret smoking gear, but I do regret the fact that I got so sucked into it, and that, subsequently, it took me almost five years to kick. I started smoking when I was 13/14, and from the age of 15 through to about 25, you could count on one hand the days that I didn't smoke every second I wasn't at work.

I cruised my GCSE's because i was pretty switched on, and from 16 years on I was smoking gear, taking speed, pills, mushrooms. lsd, coke and alcohol.

I completely fucked my A-levels because I was too busy having a great time.

I also managed to screw up a uni course (surprise surprise).

I had to quit in the end. I was getting pretty messed up. Stupid frigging anxiety problems with ridiculous symptoms and staying up all night smoking and getting no sleep meant that work was a real struggle. relationship broke down at that time, although it was fucked anyway because I was too young and selfish to care.

I can't honestly say I know how I feel about all this. I have had teriffic times, spent years getting stoned, taking drugs, out on the piss, learning to dj and collecting great music, and now I work for a community drug and alcohol charity, supporting those in recovery and working with offenders with drug/alcohol problems.


but i am damn skint (mainly because I spend a fortune on records)

and my head is not quite what it was!

and I don't miss the years from age 21-25 when I desperately wanted to quit and failed again and again.

Pot seems harmless enough, and for many people it is. It's a super drug, no doubt! But be a little bit careful about getting a heavy habit. Addiction is a bugger, and you don't always see it coming :(

I'm still a fucking pot obsesive, I love the drug, and I know that if I start, I just wont stop.

heh

them drugses. they so good ;-/

I smoke the good ol Chron just about everyday :)

Heh, thought that was pretty good.

People who smoke the ganja never get in fights because by the time they've got the fist ready to swing they've forgotten what the problem is.

It's never been a memory thing for me, it's been a I'm too happy to give a damn thing.

you dont deteriorate from pot. you deteriorate because youre an idiot.

lots of incredibly mentally ill people might disagree with you about that.

im talking within the context of what she was saying

It has certainly ****ed me up in some way, it has actually given me depression spells lasting like a week sometimes.

Gee, that's a new argument for teh kiddies to start.