Whats your View on Marijuana?

[God]

What you view on Marijuana, and reasons backing it up.

[Futz]

i'm a fan of dat dank ass kush

getting high is nice and it's alllll natural so you don't have to worry bout them bad ingredients

so I ain't got nothing against its use, **** it should be legal

but the problem with weed is overuse makes you ok with being bored

[-:Undertaker:-]

My opinion on drugs? You'd be an idiot to take them. But you have a right to be an idiot PROVIDED the rest of us don't have to foot the bill for stupidity. So I would only consider legalising drugs like cannabis provided the NHS was privatised. If not, then no legalisation.


i'm a fan of dat dank ass kush

getting high is nice and it's alllll natural so you don't have to worry bout them bad ingredients

so I ain't got nothing against its use, **** it should be legal

but the problem with weed is overuse makes you ok with being bored

Arsenic is also natural, but you wouldn't consume it.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr3JXZHglOI

[OldLoveSong]

i dont really care about it, people can smoke it or not smoke it idc. aslong as no one pressures me to smoke it i'm fine.

[Futz]

My opinion on drugs? You'd be an idiot to take them. But you have a right to be an idiot PROVIDED the rest of us don't have to foot the bill for stupidity. So I would only consider legalising drugs like cannabis provided the NHS was privatised. If not, then no legalisation.



Arsenic is also natural, but you wouldn't consume it.



Why are people idiots if they take drugs?

More specifically, cannabis

[-:Undertaker:-]

Why are people idiots if they take drugs?

More specifically, cannabis

Is that a question I really need to answer?

It destroys their coherence, their mind, can tear families apart, makes them into criminals to fuel their habit and is so damned selfish.

[buttons]

Is that a question I really need to answer?

It destroys their coherence, their mind, can tear families apart, makes them into criminals to fuel their habit and is so damned selfish.
hm yes that would never happen with alcohol

ps doesn't bother me know loads of cool groovy people who smoke it n are great kids, unselfish, intelligent and nice people :O !!!!

[Yawn]

its nice

[Sharon]

where as i wouldn't myself (at the moment?) i don't care in the slightest if ppl wanna

[Jurv]

don't have a problem with it as long as whoevers taking it is at a reasonable age

never smoked it myself but wouldn't judge those that do

[Futz]

Is that a question I really need to answer?

It destroys their coherence, their mind, can tear families apart, makes them into criminals to fuel their habit and is so damned selfish.

That's such a dumb ******* statement to make

People can misuse anything to the point it affects their personalities

[MKR&*42]

Oh my how dare people by selfish. How dare they want to have a fun time and enjoy life how DISGRACEFUL. I hate the over-use of the term "selfish", **** if you wanna enjoy your own life and ignore everyone else's then so be it.

OT; I have no problem with people who smoke it. I have known plenty of people who do and their lives have certainly not been torn apart.

[-:Undertaker:-]

hm yes that would never happen with alcohol

ps doesn't bother me know loads of cool groovy people who smoke it n are great kids, unselfish, intelligent and nice people :O !!!!

I didn't claim such a thing.


That's such a dumb ******* statement to make

People can misuse anything to the point it affects their personalities

They can, but drugs seem to have more of an affect.

You only have to listen to those who took drugs to realise it's destroyed their mind. Russell Brand is a prime example, the man can barely talk, retain attention or form coherent sentences. Ozzy Osborne with the drink and drugs is another example. If you think that's something to aspire to then that's upto you and i'm fine with that - provided the rest of society isn't charged for such stupidity.


Oh my how dare people by selfish. How dare they want to have a fun time and enjoy life how DISGRACEFUL. I hate the over-use of the term "selfish", **** if you wanna enjoy your own life and ignore everyone else's then so be it.

OT; I have no problem with people who smoke it. I have known plenty of people who do and their lives have certainly not been torn apart.

Wanting to have fun or happiness in life isn't the same as going out and ruining your mind.

If the only happiness or fun somebody can have in life is getting doped up, then what a sad life they lead.

[lawrawrrr]

Should be legalised. There's nothing worse about it than any other commonly used and legal drugs, nicotine, alcohol etc.

[Futz]

this thread was originally about marijuana

you seem to be putting all drugs into the same category and bringing up extreme cases of substance abuse

why is someone that has the odd spliff considered an "idiot"

in your mind someone who drinks a cup of coffee is an idiot also?

[lRhyss]

considering I spent £110 on half an ounce 4 days ago and have nothing to show for it.

But seriously, It should be legalised, fair enough some things in it are bad for you but... Alcohol is basically a poison and that's legal?

Plus, I always say, get 2 fields, fill one with 100 stoners and one with 100 drunks, where does the fight break out first?

plus people say it makes you lazy and fail in life, and you'll go no where if you smoke it... I've smoke since year 11, thats almost 4 years now... I got B's and A's in my GCSE's (Apart from history, **** that), 3 A's and a C at A level and I've passed my first year of uni so far (without exam grades) with 85%... So

[!x!dude!x!2]

I dont care if people use it. I don't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6H56CmIrT4

[lucaskf390]

It's already bad with alcohol, nicotine, analgesics, etc. And you want one more option to be available? - There is already too much deaths, sadness, pain for users and for people around them. That's just non sense, you can't use alcohol as excuse to turn everything legal.

[myles]

dont really give a **** to be honest

[FlyingJesus]

Arsenic is also natural, but you wouldn't consume it.

YOU DON'T KNOW THAT


You only have to listen to those who took drugs to realise it's destroyed their mind. Russell Brand is a prime example, the man can barely talk, retain attention or form coherent sentences.

Tiny minority of drug users become drug ABusers (totally different thing) and again can happen with any activity as literally everything we do affects our brain activity - doing a workout releases endorphins to flood your brain the same way that certain drugs do, it's just different ways of getting the same or similar outcome. Brand is also a terrible example as he's exceptionally eloquent and is rather famous for his wordplay :P


in your mind someone who drinks a cup of coffee is an idiot also?

Can you not, coffee tore my family apart

[Zak]

people can smoke it if they want, that's their choice. I'm not really bothered by it

[Judas]

I didn't claim such a thing.

They can, but drugs seem to have more of an affect.

You only have to listen to those who took drugs to realise it's destroyed their mind. Russell Brand is a prime example, the man can barely talk, retain attention or form coherent sentences. Ozzy Osborne with the drink and drugs is another example. If you think that's something to aspire to then that's upto you and i'm fine with that - provided the rest of society isn't charged for such stupidity.

Wanting to have fun or happiness in life isn't the same as going out and ruining your mind.

If the only happiness or fun somebody can have in life is getting doped up, then what a sad life they lead.

You seem to be under the impression that anyone who has ever engaged in the use of cannabis is a raving junkie and can't function as a human. Not everyone that has the odd joint every now and again is Ozzy Osbourne, believe it or not.

While we're at it, why don't we just ban alcohol, nicotine and even caffeine if that's the logic you think we ought to go by? Let's ban chocolate and McDonalds because some people can't stop eating them and get obese.

Just because a small percentage of people make bad choices and abuse certain substances, it doesn't mean everyone is that way. The fact that there is a minority of people that lack the capacity to look after themselves is a crappy excuse for marijuana to be illegal.

[FlyingJesus]

ps Dan is for decriminalisation and has said so, he's not trying to ban stuff he just doesn't like it

[GommeInc]

Used to be against it, but now for it. After reading journals on people being criminalised for taking it medically because prescription drugs were worthless completely changed my mind. It seems completely barbaric to punish people who are suffering pain and can't get rid of it with what does seem to be a harmless drug, especially when it was done in a controlled, private environment. Other than for it stinking to high heaven (pun maybe intended) there aren't really that many problems, other than those who have addictive personalities who will no doubt get addicted and obsess over it, causing a strain on services offering psychiatric services to combat addiction. But you can't really stop that without mindless intervention which is just time consuming :P

Not sure about how it should be used either. The good thing about banning smoking in public was that we do not have to put up with the smell of tobacco in pubs etc, so if they follow that I wouldn't mind, but this is just opinion.

[God]

I believe it should be legalized. Not just for its medicinal properties (which you get from extracting the oils and drinking it).

It is also natural, and has been proven to be safe, heck the American Gov't even hold a patent for one of the medicinal uses for it.

Also we have the many uses of Hemp, and it doesn't even need pesticide!


If you look back as to why it was illegalized, it was because back then, the Mexicans would come up and do work in America, and after they were done, they would go back and smoke some wacky tabbacy. Anyways Men in power thought "We cant have these mexicans going back home after work and smoking this, what if they did something to our women and children". Same happened with Crack (African Americans using it after they were done working on the ships back then" and also Opiates (Which the chinese immigrantes would smoke after working) All in fear they would do something to their woman and children.


Anyways, for 1000's of years we never criminalized these substances, until then. Something to question honestly.

[Stephen]

cannabis being illegal has just made the world a more dangerous place
why buy something illegal when you can get some ultra potent powder off the internet and then have a few seizures

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Seizure_57d439_430923.gif

[GommeInc]

I believe it should be legalized. Not just for its medicinal properties (which you get from extracting the oils and drinking it).

It is also natural, and has been proven to be safe, heck the American Gov't even hold a patent for one of the medicinal uses for it.

Also we have the many uses of Hemp, and it doesn't even need pesticide!


If you look back as to why it was illegalized, it was because back then, the Mexicans would come up and do work in America, and after they were done, they would go back and smoke some wacky tabbacy. Anyways Men in power thought "We cant have these mexicans going back home after work and smoking this, what if they did something to our women and children". Same happened with Crack (African Americans using it after they were done working on the ships back then" and also Opiates (Which the chinese immigrantes would smoke after working) All in fear they would do something to their woman and children.


Anyways, for 1000's of years we never criminalized these substances, until then. Something to question honestly.
Ah I remember hearing Hemp was/is banned in the US (and maybe Canada too?). The only reason that seems to stand these days is that it looks like cannabis, rather than any actual excuse :P Hemp is/was grown a lot not so long ago in the UK, probably to help create hemp shopping bags as it was the year before bringing your own shopping bags to go shopping with came in as an environmental protection incentive.

[FlyingJesus]

Hemp is a fantastic multi-use product and that is a good argument, but "it's natural" is not :P

[Futz]

cannabis being illegal has just made the world a more dangerous place
why buy something illegal when you can get some ultra potent powder off the internet and then have a few seizures

http://static.fjcdn.com/gifs/Seizure_57d439_430923.gif

can you put a warning on spoiler tags in future please

brain shutdown for a moment there

[lRhyss]

Ah I remember hearing Hemp was/is banned in the US (and maybe Canada too?). The only reason that seems to stand these days is that it looks like cannabis, rather than any actual excuse :P Hemp is/was grown a lot not so long ago in the UK, probably to help create hemp shopping bags as it was the year before bringing your own shopping bags to go shopping with came in as an environmental protection incentive.

Isn't hemp banned because they can't tax it? Basically the government not getting their own way for the 10000000th time

[FlyingJesus]

Nah it's under drug regulation laws that it's banned through most of the US (although this is slowly changing) and they can/do tax it as an import but if you're cynical then it's also interesting to note that the biggest industry in the world - oil and plastics - would be threatened if significant amounts of industrial hemp were grown. It's exceptionally good as a biofuel and the plastics you can make with it are biodegradable and very strong, so those with a lot of corporate influence don't really want to see it thriving :P

[Stephen]

can you put a warning on spoiler tags in future please

brain shutdown for a moment there

i spoilered it
thats as far as i can go without being overcome by laziness

be grateful

[Lewis]

Marijuana is probably much better for you than normal legal smoking, especially if you don't smoke the marijuana. So this is what I think:

A) Marijuana and cigarettes should both be illegal.

B) Marijuana and cigarettes should both be legal.

Not one and the other.

[-Amyy]

People can do it if they want, it wouldn't bother me

I wouldn't do it myself though

[Jazz]

i prefer smoking cannabis to drinking alcohol, but i dont smoke it often. Some of the most intelligent and creative people I know smoke cannabis, they aren't the stereotypical junkies you see on TV.

dont have an issue with it at all

[Kardan]

I don't like it and I have no issues with it being illegal, and personally I'd rather it stay that way.

[wixard]

not fully educated on the subject, doesn't bother me if it's legalised or not

when i smoke it i smoke it, it's easy to get so don't care/don't need it to be sold in a shop
drinking in public is banned here too so doesn't really matter where i'm smoking it, used to having to move/be cautious

can see the benefits of it being legalised, every day there's been a drug seizure and it's predominantly cannabis that's being seized worth several thousand euro etc would be nice to put a tax on it, but as far as i'm concerned i don't really care

[The Don]

I didn't claim such a thing.



They can, but drugs seem to have more of an affect.

You only have to listen to those who took drugs to realise it's destroyed their mind. Russell Brand is a prime example, the man can barely talk, retain attention or form coherent sentences. Ozzy Osborne with the drink and drugs is another example. If you think that's something to aspire to then that's upto you and i'm fine with that - provided the rest of society isn't charged for such stupidity.



Wanting to have fun or happiness in life isn't the same as going out and ruining your mind.

If the only happiness or fun somebody can have in life is getting doped up, then what a sad life they lead.

There's literally zero credible evidence that short term use of weed can 'ruin your mind'.

I have no problem with weed, and if the government allows tobacco and alcohol to remain legal then they should legalise it.

[Absently]

i've no problem with marijuana one bit and honestly am not bothered whether it becomes legal or not. the only problem i have is when it's smoked in excess that people go around like zombies (although not the drug itself fault more so the people that are constantly using it). if i'm seriously stressed out, i'll smoke a joint just to put me at ease and it helps me greatly, or sometimes if i'm drinking i might have one, although i'm not as big as a smoker as i used to be. but yeah, overall it doesn't bother me, i do know a lot of people who will casually smoke it and are completely fine people and aren't all hippy dippy about it.