What is your view on cannabis?

[peteyt]

Do you believe that smoking cannabis can lead to users progressing onto harder drugs? I ask this as friends of mine have certainly taken the same route cigarettes>cannabis>mkat>coke. I was wondering if that's a popular thing to sort of 'up the level' of drugs once you tried one?

Not having a go, just curious.

While a little different to your question reading it reminded me of an ex.

She wouldn't take paracetamol or anything legal because it was legal which I found stupid. I know a lot of people who simply took drugs as a form of rebellion and so I wonder how many people would smoke it if it where legalised. Would more people rebel by taking other forms of possibly more dangerous drugs?

[velvet]

In fairness, the reason why weed isn't legal is because of mostly hemp. That's about as much as i can say about this topic now.

read my edit.
i think hemp contributes to the illegal status, but pharma companies are by FAR the main factor.

[kasi]

If it poses no harm, should children be allowed to smoke it?

sigh. lol
no children should not be allowed to smoke it. it should sold like alcohol and cigarettes, which are both way more harmful than marijuana. just because i say it should be legal doesn't mean anyone should be able to get their hands on it.

there are obviously going to be problems with inhaling smoke. cannabis is 100% harmless if vaporized. there have been absolutely 0 cannabis related deaths to this day. please know your **** before commenting pls ty

[Kardan]

sigh. lol
no children should not be allowed to smoke it. it should sold like alcohol and cigarettes, which are both way more harmful than marijuana. just because i say it should be legal doesn't mean anyone should be able to get their hands on it.

there are obviously going to be problems with inhaling smoke. cannabis is 100% harmless if vaporized. there have been absolutely 0 cannabis related deaths to this day. please know your **** before commenting pls ty

So it's not 100% completely harmless

[velvet]

So it's not 100% completely harmless

yes it is lol.
it can be smoked, vaporized or made into edibles... two of those methods are harmless... if it were legalized those methods would be FAR more widely used, too. take america for example. this is such a circular argument.

[Kardan]

yes it is lol.
it can be smoked, vaporized or made into edibles... two of those methods are harmless... if it were legalized those methods would be FAR more widely used, too. take america for example. this is such a circular argument.

2/3 isn't 100% It's like saying, Guns can be used to hunt animals, take part in sports, and murder human beings... two of those methods are harmless...

I'm not saying that it always causes harm, I wouldn't know, but you guys yourself are saying it can cause harm, therefore it isn't 100% harmless

[peteyt]

there are obviously going to be problems with inhaling smoke. cannabis is 100% harmless if vaporized. there have been absolutely 0 cannabis related deaths to this day. please know your **** before commenting pls ty

There are apparent deaths that have apparently been linked to cannabis. Like alcohol it can lead you to do things you wouldn't normally do.

[velvet]

2/3 isn't 100% It's like saying, Guns can be used to hunt animals, take part in sports, and murder human beings... two of those methods are harmless...

I'm not saying that it always causes harm, I wouldn't know, but you guys yourself are saying it can cause harm, therefore it isn't 100% harmless

my point mainly is more about the fact that it's not cannabis, as such, causing the harm, it's the reaction of setting it on fire. if you set anything on fire it'll release carcinogens, that's no hidden secret.

... but smoking is the "easiest" method so it's what most, uninformed people would do.

i can see that point from both sides which is making my head hurt, heh.
i think legalization and education on the other ways to consume it is the key.

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There are apparent deaths that have apparently been linked to cannabis. Like alcohol it can lead you to do things you wouldn't normally do.

no it can't lol, it isn't a mind altering substance, it's more of a relaxant.

[FlyingJesus]

read my edit.
i think hemp contributes to the illegal status, but pharma companies are by FAR the main factor.

Not totally certain about that - the link to hemp (although not being the exact same thing) always for a ban on the cultivation of that despite as you say not having the same properties, and considering the fact that plastics and fuel industries are all run by the oil market (easily the biggest market on earth) I'd say that their fears over proven cheap/easy/safe production of a challenger are a much bigger obstacle for cannabis legalisation than big pharma's worry that they can't control something that might help with a few illnesses but wouldn't collapse them

---------- Post added 13-05-2013 at 09:54 PM ----------

And Aiden, anything CAN cause harm that's not a great argument lol

[kasi]

So it's not 100% completely harmless

it is completely harmless if you make the drug an edible or vaporize it. if you are choosing to inhale smoke, then that is your choice. you are choosing a harmful method of consumption. anything that turns into smoke is carcinogenic, it is not a harmful factor exclusive to marijuana. you are actually so uneducated on this topic, i'm not going to waste my time trying to convince you otherwise. please go read up a bit on the subject then we can debate