Pot is a waste of time. Get a job. Get a girl. Make Babies.

Theres too many pro arguments for medicinal marijuana to not make it legal. Honestly, it takes only 5 minutes on Google to see how practical medicinal marijuana is rather than opiates such as Oxycodone

> Petrolstone wrote:

> Pot is a waste of time. Get a job. Get a girl. Make Babies.

Oh dear. Someone needs to get rid of some cliches.
Can I start the debate on how much more of a waste of time, money, resources as well as the multitude of negative social effects, also the adverse physical effects of alcohol? Or is that best left on the down low.

"In the United States, over half the states have passed laws allowing the medical use of cannabis. Many states now have "compassion clubs" - small non-profit clubs that supply medical-grade cannabis to patients with a written recommendation from their doctor. [..] In a recent case the US Supreme Court ruled that the federal government cannot punish doctors for recommending or perhaps even talking about the benefits of the drug to sick patients."

http://norml.org.nz/page23.html

"I'll back it when you have an exact dose instead of just toking til you feel good, which is exactly how you abuse it"

There is a difference between abusing it and using it for medicinal purposes.

you do realise that there are differing strains and each one has differing "highs", for example stronger strains such as white widow - this strain produces lower yields, is more challenging to grow than others and in turn its effects are suited to a strong pain killer.

in regards to clinical dosage; this would also be challenging for those prescribing it as each person has varying levels of tolerance which is determined by numerous factors. eg. whether you are a regular smoker etc etc

the pharmaceutical companies are likely to wish to oppose the new legislation as some strains will now be seen as direct or indirect competition with some of their drugs. As a result, such companies will take a reduction in profits.

its gods little gift to man... lol

well its also california and they dont give a ratsass about the drug lol. if they tightened qualifications for the perscription then i dont see why not

there are more harmful things that people can legally obtain. but just because legal things can be more dangerous, isnt a reason in itself to legalize it. The last thing any of us should want would be another widely used, harmful drug. we dont need another alcohol or tobacco. While medicinally it is sometimes a good option, i dont think the mild benefits it can have compared to other drugs justifies the risk of increased abuse of the product outside of medicinal use that legalizing it would have.

> avogadro wrote:

> there are more harmful things that people can legally obtain. but just because legal things can be more dangerous, isnt a reason in itself to legalize it. The last thing any of us should want would be another widely used, harmful drug. we dont need another alcohol or tobacco. While medicinally it is sometimes a good option, i dont think the mild benefits it can have compared to other drugs justifies the risk of increased abuse of the product outside of medicinal use legalizing it would have.

*claps*

screw all the bull, the AMA has declared that pot is not any more dangerous than a cup of coffee.
and that the revenue from it could fix our deficit in less than 2 years, but the politicians, textile companies, and the pharmaceutical companies would lose billions if it were legal, and the fact that a person on pot cannot be brainwashed to think that everything is good by gov standards.
simply put, our country doesn't want happy people, they get a lot of money from pharm, and textile companies, and could care less if the deficit gets fixed... its what keeps them being able to be in control. that's why Nixon had it outlawed... he wanted a war, and didn't like that pot smokers expressed they're constitutional right to protest his decision.

[moo] everything else... i just want my original constitution back... not what the bureaucrats and lobbyist have made it.

For another thing, pot does in fact NOT have twice the amount of recognized cancer causing toxins. Please source that because if that came out during one of the 1920 weed reports, its been proven false. Besides, weed is a plant and ciggarettes have tobacco that is mixed with many of the harmful carcinogens. To say that weed is worse than ciggarettes is a blatent misconception.

No way we can pay off our naiton debt that quickly, obviously. But it certainly can help. Besides, since we're talking about medicinal marijuana and not recreational, its odd to assume everyone in the nation is going to be widely addicted (as with alcohol and tobacco).

Politicians lose much from the industry because marijuana and its hemp product can run some industries to the ground. For example, hemp fiber wood is twice as pliable and strong as normal wood, and decomposes in a landfill in 30 or so days. If this product became widely produced, it would run many forresting industries into the red. (and it made the top 100 inventions of all time)

In no way am i saying weed is good for you. But in comparison to drugs already sold under perscriptions, and compared to alcohol and ciggarettes, weed is a diamond in the rough. Its been painted harshly for a long, long time, but studies are finally coming out proving many of the 1920 studies wrong.