Are you Anti or Pro Marijuana Legalization?
I am Anti Marijuana. It may seem “harmless” and “natural” but in the long run, it causes more harm than good. Name your reasons!
1.) Just because it is natural doesn’t make it safe to use. Arsenic(deadly poisin used by amateur assasins) is natural and so is opium but it doesn’t mean its good for you.
2.) I don’t do alcohol and I know alcohol is worse but you still don’t need to appease drug dealers by givin in. Marijuana makes you lazy and unmotivated. It slows down your reflexes and destorys your brain cells. It may seem like you are “normal” but laziness and very slow reflexes is not “normal”.
3.) Nothing sends a more positive message to small children than lighting one up! While we are at it, why not give them some skin mags too! *sarcasm*
4.)There is no way to control legalized public smoking because anyone who is around marijuana smoke gets a contact buzz whether you want one or not causing unnessesary lawsuits. I don’t want to have to worry about getting high when I go to the store. Also parents would be smoking around their children who wouldn’t be able to choose whether or not to get high by their parents through a contact buzz.
4.)Just because it isn’t physically addictive doesn’t mean it is psychologically addictive. Physically addictive means that you will die unless you don’t have the drug. Psychological drugs causes you to have moderate withdrawal symptoms such as frequent anger, shortness of temper and irritability.
5.) Just because you don’t agree with a law doesn’t give you the right to go and break it. If I believed that molesting children should be a right of passage doesn’t make it any more right if I try and break the law. If you don’t like something, boycott and protest.
6.) Compared to the pot smokers and non pot smokers, the non pot smokers have way better grades and GPA compared to the pot smokers.
Are you pro or anti marijuana legalization?
The only way I would ever consider making it legal would be for medicinal purposes and only availible in Pill/capsule/tablet form so that the government can easily control and figure out if they got it from a doctor or if the person tried to grow and smoke it. In capsule form you don’t have to worry about getting other high through contact buzzes and it is a way to make sure someone needs the drugs for medicinal purposes and are not trying to find an easy way to get “stoned” by smoking it.
Yep the government is out to get you man!!!
Did you know paronia is one of the symptoms of marijuana usage?
Children will be exposed to killers sometime in their lives so why don’t we just expose them at an early age!!! Lets go ahead and get them use to it.
As stated before even if Alcohol and Cigarettes are worse, it doesn’t make marijuana any better.
Again I would only support it if it was administered in capsule/pill/tablet form for maximum control and prevention of contact buzzes.
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So? Who cares what you think.
The so-called “war on drugs” is a war on the American people. End of discussion.
ANTI-pot-smoker. I used to be the hugest pot smoker of all. Now being a successful college graduate and working professional, I can see how it ruins peoples’ lives. Pot is for a bunch of losers who can’t get jobs and just sit around all day on their friends’ 10 year old couches. It is totally not cool like how the hippie days portrayed it. These stoners are just consolidating their fate as the lower class, and they won’t realize it until they are older and much more mature. Stupid libs.
Anti. Death penalty to dealers.
1. No one has ever died from smoking marijuana by itself.
2. All the effects you applied to marijuana are the same side effects that can be applied to alcohol. Alcohol also has the dangerous side-effects to the liver.
3. I don’t think that parents that light up a cigar/cigarette or drinking alcohol everyday is just as counterproductive.
4. Way too much of an overexaduration. No drug kills you if you don’t have it in withdraws. Furthermore, withdraw side effects are also seen in alcohol and tobacco.
5. Marijuana = Molestation? Victimless crime vs. victimization crime. Total different situations.
6. Generalization. I have seen multiple people who smoked pot, and still made better in my classes than I did. I graduated the University of West Florida with a 3.25 GPA, and Cynthia still made a 4.0. Of course this is not every situation, but stating that everyone who smokes pot makes lower grades is ignorant.
I am not against making marijuana legal. Its not my thing, but I don’t think you should tell someone what drug they consume if they cannot tell you the same. I like to drink beer, and I don’t want a marijuana user telling me since they don’t drink beer that I shouldn’t. Furthermore, the War on Drug has been devastating to funding for various educational and prevention/rehabilitation programs to fund the mass prison population. All in all, it would save more fiscally and responsibly to legalize marijuana.
I really don’t care one way or the other. But your list is so misinformed, I have to answer. Not that you’ll listen, anyone so ingrained in the recesses of their own ego is not likely to listen to reason.
1.) Just because it is natural doesn’t make it safe to use. ……
But you don’t demonstrate any REAL harmful chemicals, do you? Just your weak comparison to arsenic? Every report out there will say “MAY cause . . . MAY lead to . . . . . ” which means what? They have nothing. Nothing. So they can only suppose this . . . and suppose that . . . . if there were a real link to something deadly, you’d already know.
2.) Marijuana makes you lazy and unmotivated……
I’ll give you this one. But I know of MANY users who are not lazy or unmotivated. Pot just accentuates the faults of your character. But like I say, I’ll give you this one . . . .
3.) Nothing sends a more positive message to small children….
Most ridiculous of all. What you don’t see is that they will be exposed to this one way or another, and by hiding it from them they have no clue how to react. Furthermore, when they discover the deceitfulness behind all your lies, they will be even MORE curious and MORE compelled to try it. Didn’t you learn ANYTHING from “Reefer Madness?”
4.)There is no way to control legalized public smoking because anyone who is around marijuana smoke gets a contact buzz….
Okay I know you’re not this stupid. Really. Your question is well structured, you seem to be a common sense kind of person, but really . . how in the WORLD can you believe this?
***IF**** it were legalized, it would be just as controlled as tobacco is today. People would most likely smoke in the privacy of their own homes, and the same laws would be in effect for pot as for tobacco smokers. This is a non issue, I can’t believe you even raise it.
Furthermore, legalizing marijuana would bring the price down to allow users to consume it in cooked foods, and no longer HAVE to smoke it.
4.)Just because it isn’t physically addictive doesn’t mean it is psychologically addictive . . . . Psychological drugs causes you to have moderate withdrawal symptoms such as frequent anger, shortness of temper and irritability.
And you get this . . . from WHAT? There are no such symptoms from the cessation of marijuana. I know this from my own past, and from those I know who still use. It would be the same as quitting Pepsi – actually Pepsi would be worse, because it contains caffeine.
5.) Just because you don’t agree with a law doesn’t give you the right to go and break it. If I believed that molesting children should be a right of passage doesn’t make it any more right if I try and break the law.
Again, a weak comparison. So dopers are on the same level as child molesters. This is exactly WHY I don’t care one way or the other – anyone who smokes is going to do it, one way or another. Decriminalizing marijuana will do the same thing as legalizing guns: now it won’t be the criminals that profit from it’s use. And this is a big plus for legal business.
6.) Compared to the pot smokers and non pot smokers, the non pot smokers have way better grades and GPA compared to the pot smokers.
CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION. Most of the youths who get involved with pot do so because they are bored and ALREADY have no interest in school. DUH. We shouldn’t be talking about minors ANYWAY, because legalization only applies to ADULTS.
People fear only that which they don’t understand. Your fear has caused you to draw MANY erroneous conclusions. Maintain this position and it’s more likely to drive many people you talk to TOWARD the object of your ire, not away from it.
(1) I’m inclined to agree with you on this point. There’s this illusion out there that natural=good, and this certainly isn’t the case. I don’t really care much that it’s natural. On the other hand, marijuana *is*, relatively speaking, fairly safe. That, in my humble opinion, is important.
(2) Legalizing marijuana wouldn’t appease drug dealers; on the contrary, it would make dealing far less profitable; black market dealers would no longer maintain their chokehold on the market (and probably lose their market share altogether), meaning that these folks who are pushing the real cash drugs (like cocaine and heroin) would no longer have access to the huge number of young people who smoke weed.
(3) The “Won’t somebody please think of the children” argument…lovely. Look at the anti-smoking campaigns. Why campaign against it and yet not make it strictly illegal? Simply this: We can stand firmly by the position that an act is wrong without necessarily requiring it to be criminal. Children don’t care about the criminal law; more important is the example that’s being set. And frankly, if there’s a choice between having Dad smoke a joint at home in violation of the law in front of little Joey, or have Dad walk down the street to the local marijuana cafe where he smokes it legally…what sets the better example?
(4) Wrong. It’s not actually all that difficult to control public smoking. Look to the Dutch example, but only to a limited extent. If we allow smoking in particular venues, but prohibit marijuana smoking outside of those venues (and actually enforce the prohibition), then your concerns about the ‘contact buzz’ dissolve entirely. Indeed, it’s often easier to regulate a thing than it is to prohibit it.
(4b) Everything enjoyable can be psychologically addictive to some extent. I know people who become angry, tempermental, and irritable because they go a couple of days without playing videogames. And there are *plenty* of other perfectly legal things which very frequently have similar or worse effects. (Ever seen a coffee addict who slept in and couldn’t have his three cups of coffee before heading to work? If you do, watch out.) Psychological withdrawal may be unpleasant, but it isn’t dangerous, and this is sort of the point.
(5) Your point being? We’re not saying that people should go out and break that law. I don’t go out and break it. I wouldn’t smoke marijuana if it were legal. What we’re saying is that people should be able to do it, if they choose, without breaking the law.
(6) I’m not entirely convinced that this is true (I’ve seen some pretty academically successful pot smokers), but even assuming that it is, I would suggest that you’re running a false cause fallacy. Kids who tend to do well in school have different social groups with different values. Simply as a matter of demographics, overachievers are less likely to be ‘the type of person’ to smoke marijuana. On the other hand, looking at a teenager who doesn’t perform well in school and acts out in other ways as well and saying “Oh, it must be the pot” is a huge oversimplification, and entirely a cop-out on addressing the problems actually facing youths.