By katzperiod - 05/03/2009 04:21 - United States

Today, I was debating weed legalization in drug awareness. I was thoroughly unleashing arguments: how marijuana turns normal citizens into criminals, how the government spends billions to enforce drug laws, when I lost my train of thought. My teacher grinned saying, "My point exactly." FML
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Ok, my turn on my own post. My slip up came because it is very hard for me to organize my thoughts when I don't write them down and also because of frequent personal use. This is all besides the point of the debate though. I oppose the marijuana laws for both my own selfish reasons and from an economic-minded libertarian approach. It is written in the Declaration of Independence that all men are entitled to their own pursuit of happiness. From a public health point, marijuana does not physically harm anyone. Hard drugs should remain illegal because they will lead you to decay and death. Marijuana does not cause lung cancer or any other type of cancer. Zero people in the history of mankind have died directly from weed use. It is impossible to overdose and the worst that can happen is lethargy and fatigue. It can and has been used to treat over 120 diseases or symptoms of other medication. This country spends 12 billion dollars fighting pot with no results. If marijuana were legalized and taxed, then it would produce 6-7 billion dollars in revenue. That means almost 20 billion dollars would be gained every year that marijuana is legalized and taxed, money that can be spent on education, health care, environmental reform, defense, anything. Currently there is a huge overpopulation problem in prisons. 40% of all arrests are because of drug laws. Again as an American, I want to support legitimate American businesses and my government with my weed money. The people bringing weed into this country are international gangs that also deal in cocaine, heroin, prostitution, slavery, and arms deals. I do not enjoy supporting those causes for what I consider should be my personal freedom. To legalize pot would also create millions of jobs. Limited hemp research has proven that it would reduce dependence on foreign oil through hemp products and biodiesel made from hemp. Hemp is biodegradable and plastic can be synthesized from hemp fibers. Hemp seeds contain more protein than soy beans and could lower malnutrition if only it was legal to include it in aid packets sent to Third World countries. There is no slippery slope after you legalize pot. To say that fully automatic weapons could be legalized once pot is is absolutely absurd. Jake, the only reason weed is grouped with illegal drugs is because the government decided to place that label on it. Other drugs do physical and emotional harm through addiction. In response to #54, a good reason all those chemicals are present in weed smoke is because there has been no scientific approach to removing them, and most weed is smoked without a filter. Tobacco has been cultivated in America for 400 years and science has been around for 150 of those, the tobacco companies have billions of dollars to spend funding both research on how to make it safer and to fund anti-pot studies. I say enough propaganda. Listen patiently to what others say and accept it only if they can prove it with facts. All that I have stated above can be proven with facts. Jake, could it be that pot makes your family lazy because they don't want to be arrested outside? For someone who posts that you don't want people to cram opinions down other people's throats, you certainly like to cram your own down ours. In the last one I just read you were using mostly all caps.

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Yep, when I smoke weed I like to go a rapin' and a killin'... lame.

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savesam 0

when i smoke all i want to do is go to sleep lol.

DaBoss_fml 0

#12 i completly agree. I think that the reason weeds illegal is that if it was legal the Gov. wouldnt be abl to make all the money they do off of painkillers. If people could just have a pot plant growing in their backyard they could smoke a bowl whenever they are feeling shitty. the Gov is full of ******* money ******

The_Man_fml 0

I could care less if it was legal or not. I smoke buds all the time and don't think onece about it I guess it could be just cause I'm stoned though.

xogigi 0

Like #54 I have friends who go to harvard, stanford, and yale who smoke weed. One other friend skipped two grades and smokes weed. straight 4.0 Two other friends smoke everyday, smokes before they do their hw, study and go to school and they have straight As and Bs. Look at Michael Phelps. Hes achieved so much and smoking weed has not bothered the way he lives and what he does. it just as what # 36 said "I's not the drugs fault, it's the people who use it and the way that they use it." So **** all those Marijuana Commercials that make weed so bad. I smoke ciggarettes which are far more worst then smoking weed. There are no counted deaths of Marijuana whatsoever. and it even cures cancer.

I think the teacher wasn't biased, but rather just busting your balls. For the record, I am radically pro-marijuana, and i still would've laughed in that situation, just because of the irony

Just thinking. You know I don't actually care if it is legalised. Just decriminalize it. I am sure all of you who agree it is bad for you but no worse than alcohol or tobacco can agree that it should be decriminalized and therefore whoever wants to get hold of it and bake themselves slowly can do. Just as anyone who wants to increase their chances of cancer can go buy a pack of death-sticks and smoke themselves into a stupor. Hell, half if not more of America's last couple of decent presidents smoked or at least tried it or other drugs. If they had been unlucky enough to be caught at that moment and put in jail as so many before them have they would have still gone on to be the leaders of one of the biggest nations around? Either way. It is a useless argument because if it was ever put to a vote there are too many grey voters and too many religious nuts (and I include all religions there so nobody is being singled out) to vote against it as the media has and continues to do a great job of scaring the populous into thinking it is an evil weed. So to all my drinks and smokers. United and lighted we stand inebriated we fall! Put your drinks and your lighters up and toast to your happiness. The one thing the government can never take away from you (try as they might).

i smoke alot, or at least i used to, now i only drink and smoke fags my wallet is crying. Loads of my mates did they're exams high, all got A's

Gemablizz 0

I absolutely love how three sentences about loosing one's train of thought in class can spark massive paragraphs of debate.

inlimbo11 0

some of these comments are absolutely retarded. he wasn't saying that smoking weed makes you go out and commit crime, only that smoking weed IS a crime (which it is, i think we all agree on that one) and therefore when you smoke weed, you become... what now? a criminal. potheads don't rob and kill to help pay for their habit. that's crackheads and juice junkies. a pothead with no money or weed will either a) smoke resin out of their pipe(s) or b) sell a video game or some shit like that at a pawn shop. for those of you who haven't ever smoked pot yourself and think that you can account for it's effects through your observation of other people who have, just stop. you don't know. really. i promise. you have no idea whatsoever what pot does or doesn't "make" you do. #88 - that was the most ignorant thing i've ever heard anyone say on this subject. weed is by far NOT any worse for you than alcohol or cigarettes. When was the last time you heard of someone dying because of a marijuana overdose? How about killing a family of five in a wreck because they were too high to be driving? And though marijuana does contain chemicals that COULD lead to lung cancer, it is much less likely because people don't smoke it like they do cigarettes. #93 - could you please enlighten me on how the benefits of alcohol and cigarettes outweigh the detrimental effects of their use? i must be missing something, because i was unaware that either of them had ANY benefits whatsoever... you're argument is not only ignorant, but a prime example of why everyone else in the world thinks all Americans are complete idiots with no idea about what's really going on in the world, much less their own country. #65 - one of your closest friends died from smoking to much pot? really? BULLSHIT. and as for anyone who made a statement similar to this: "laws are made to protect you" please find a hole to crawl into and die.

The_Man_fml 0

#65 your full of it the only way to die is to smoke like a pound in an hour or something and if your friend did that then he's my hero.

FACT: it takes 10,000 times more weed to kill you than it does to get you high.

you have to smoke 2x your body weight in 10 minutes i believe