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Marijuana

What should the legal status of marijuana be?

  • Marijuana should be legalised

    Votes: 54 78.3%

  • Marijuana should be decriminalised

    Votes: 10 14.5%

  • Possesion should be legalised/decriminalised for personal use only

    Votes: 3 4.3%

  • Marijuana should be legalised for limited medical use, but otherwise remain illegal

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • Marijuana should be illegal

    Votes: 1 1.4%

  • All marijuana should be shipped to Planet X as tribute to our reptilian overlords

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    69

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Following on from the discussion about whether marijuana is harmful or not, I thought I'd start a poll to see what people's opinions on it are. Possibly this is the wrong board, but I put it here because the original thread about it is here and I don't want this thread derailed with exactly the same discussion. This thread is soley for people's opinions on it's legal status, not on the politics or science behind those opinions.
 
I think that it's absurd that marijuana is illegal in the USA (or anywhere).

I highly suspect that much more harm is done to this country's citizens by alcohol and tobacco, yet they're legal. We waste too much money policing something that is no more harmful than these legal drugs.

In discussions about marijuana, I often come back to this memory from high school when I attended a rock concert. I'm pretty sure that it was R.E.M (not a fan, but my friends were - doesn't matter). You could pretty much split the lawn seats down the middle. One half was getting drunk while one half was getting stoned. As the concert went on, the drunk folks started to fight, threw things, created all sorts of mayhem. The other side was so peaceful and just sat there enjoying the music.

It was a very powerful moment. My friends and I had such a great view of this phenomenon as it progressed. The implications were lost on no one. I remember the discussions as we all wondered why the hell was alcohol the legal one.

There is no sensible explanation for making marijuana illegal, in my opinion.
 
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Abooga said:
About heroin instead of marijuana but, did anyone see this memorable documentary? I strongly recommend it

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7301/1551
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Really? Because after reading that review it would be hard for me to be more disinclined to watch that documentary.
What the hell ahs the Somme got to do with modern drugs policy? How exactly is it useful to compare government sponsored drugs education with Nazi propaganda? The whole thing seems to be one long appeal to emotion, with a liberal helping of Goodwin’s law thrown in.
Now I am in favour of more liberal drugs policies, but by the sounds of it, watching that film may make me revaluate that position. ;)
 
As admin: I've moved it here as this is really where such a question be - after all it's a social issue. (The thread that inspired this thread is I think this one: http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57392)

As a Member: Lets try and respect the thread starters wishes i.e. "This thread is soley for people's opinions on it's legal status, not on the politics or science behind those opinions." (Bold by me.)
 
Darat said:
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As a Member: Lets try and respect the thread starters wishes i.e. "This thread is soley for people's opinions on it's legal status, not on the politics or science behind those opinions." (Bold by me.)
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I struggled with that, though, because it is largely the science that influences my opinion on the legal status of marijuana. Also, how does one separate the politics out of any opinon on its legal status? It seems that its legal status really is only about politics (in my humble opinon, of course ;)).
 
Perhaps a more revealing question for those who favour the idea of marijuana being available to adults to buy is what drugs should not be? E.g. should you be able to go into a pharmacist and buy any drug (either recreational or medicinal) that you desire?

I tend to lean towards the legalising route until I think about the possible consequences of that choice affecting me or those I care about:rolleyes: So I'm going for medicinal use.
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
I tend to lean towards the legalising route until I think about the possible consequences of that choice affecting me or those I care about:rolleyes: So I'm going for medicinal use.
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So let´s start the prohibition thing again with alcohol?
That wasn´t the big success story as far as I know. But why avoid a mistake when you can repeat it...........
 
That´s what I already told the O.P. in the thread that darat mentioned in post 6.
Would it make sense to merge them?
 
Darat said:
I would say make it available but regulated.
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I think it should be regulated the way alcohol is but with some changes to take the second-hand smoke into effect. Don't think it would be too wise or polite to have kids or non-willing adults breathing in pot smoke. I also think people should be allowed to grow their own.
 
HarryKeogh said:
I think it should be regulated the way alcohol is but with some changes to take the second-hand smoke into effect. Don't think it would be too wise or polite to have kids or non-willing adults breathing in pot smoke. I also think people should be allowed to grow their own.
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Are people allowed to grow their own tobacco in the USA? (This is a genuine inquiry rather than a rhetorical question)
 
I can see how it is illegal on its own merits, but when you compare it with alcohal...One of the most potent and dangerous drugs of all time, and its rampid abuse in the US...it just seems like a joke to have pot illegal...
 
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