Everyone ask yourself this question also, those who are supporting this.

 

Yes or No

 

Do you want your kids to smoke marijuana inside their own house?

 

No. I also don't want/allow my KIDS to drink beer in my house.

 

However, 3, we're not talking about kids. We're talking about adults. So what's your point?

This is the kind of 100% false information that perpetuates the problem with drugs.

 

Is marijuana really a drug?

I have no problem with you doing that in your own home Clyde but a law is a law.

 

Dude, we're all in agreement that its against the law. That's not the issue/debate.

Wow what? Did you guys even read Clyde's post? Are you going to stay home and never leave the house like he gave as his example? Sure sounds like he's not going to have a job, but just sit around the house, get high and eat junk food and watch movies. Sounds like a pretty good recipe for welfare to me.

 

For clarification, that was not my intention.

 

What's the harm if on a Saturday night when I'm home with my buddies and I don't have to go to work on Sunday? Its my once-a-week activity.

Why?

 

I'd reckin because it's legal, but you said that's not the question at hand.....

He did say that. When high not leaving and hurting others. Clyde correct me if I am wrong.

 

Again, I don't leave my house WHEN I'M HIGH.

No. I also don't want/allow my KIDS to drink beer in my house.

 

However, 3, we're not talking about kids. We're talking about adults. So what's your point?

 

My point is that, how can you do it but not expect your son/daughter to do it. If it is alright for you to do it then I would assume you would'nt be hypocritical in allowing your son/daughter to do it.

Who said anything about making it legal?

 

Follow along, my friend. From the above, the only thing I can assume is that , like drugs, you are completely against people getting drunk at home, correct?

 

And if you want to know what I am against, it's people breaking the law.

Would you be alright with watching your 21 year old son drink a few beers in his own home ?

 

Absolutely. As long as its not excessive. He is 21 and legal, correct?

"Weed ain't no drug, it's just a plant. It just grows like that, and if you should happen to set it on fire, there are some affects..."

For the record, I know MANY VERY successful people that smoke on a regular basis...So not everybody that smokes weed "amounts to nothing."

My point is that, how can you do it but not expect your son/daughter to do it. If it is alright for you to do it then I would assume you would'nt be hypocritical in allowing your son/daughter to do it.

 

Agreed, and if you're argument is that they aren't old enough to, then when will they become old enough to? The law says they never do.

You keeps saying don't fall back on it's illegal, but you fall back on comparing it to alcohol. There is realy no connection between the two, otherwise you need to compare it to all other drugs. What about prostituion, should we make it legal? I know who here thinks we should. We could use the tax revenue to help fund schools, like our gambling money! :thumb:

 

Here's who it hurts. Most drugs can ultimately be traced back to some bad people, like mexican drug cartels and Al Qaeda for example. Yes, good old american drug users help fund terrorism. Afghanistan's terrorist are funding their war on the drugs they sell. Look at all the murders in mexico over drugs, where entire families are wiped out. Pablo Escobar bomber a Avianca commercial airliner, killing 110 innocents, just to get the guy who was trying to stop his drug trade. He wasn't even on the plane.

 

Then there are thousands of american cars stolen every year and taken accross the border to use for drug running and gangs. Gangs which exist because of drugs. These gangs like to kill our border agents and drug spies too.

 

So I think it does hurt when americans sit on their couch smoking weed. Sorry to be a "Debby Downer", but...

 

1. You cannot compare prostitution in my mind because diseases can be spread.

 

2. So you would be OK with drug use if it was made legal which means that we would no longer have to buy it from terrorists?

Absolutely. As long as its not excessive. He is 21 and legal, correct?

 

He may become 21, but he'll never become legal to smoke weed, unless the law changes.....

I too have seen people who were high on marijuana. I have seen people act stupid while on it.

 

I have seen a guy get high, throw up all over his room, and then strip naked and sit on his roof in the middle of winter.

 

I have seen a guy get high and then drive his car into a street sign, then a ditch. Yes he was arrested.

 

I have seen a guy get high and then proceed to swing from someone's hanging plants off of their front porch.

 

Yes, maybe some people relax, "chill out", talk more, or talk about more in-depth issues, but I have also seen people act like complete fools.

 

I have also seen and been around an experience where someone got a bad batch of weed that was laced with something. The guy did trip out. We, the others there, realized he had gotten a laced bag of pot when he started claiming that the clock was melting. He spent the rest of the night in a bathtub full of cold water because he started sweating profusely and claiming that he was burning up. We watched him and luckily he was okay, but this same guy, who once was a "social pot smoker" went on a couple years later to get hooked on cocaine, eventually landed himself in rehab. I met him again a couple years ago (a year after he got out of rehab) and he was one of the saddest people I have ever seen. He was completely fried. What was once a smart guy with limitless musical talent had become a shell of his former self.

 

All of the above is true if you switch alcohol for weed.