I probably would actually, but we are not comparing like with like, because sexual desire is inherent and hardly to be compared with wanting to smoke cannabis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
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I probably would actually, but we are not comparing like with like, because sexual desire is inherent and hardly to be compared with wanting to smoke cannabis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
I think you're right Neely - no political party will legalise it because they don't have the right fibre. They'd rather polarise the issue along with the press and throw money at a problem that won't go away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
My main concern is the criminality it promotes. Users have been using whether legal or not. I can't see that changing. Legalisation might take away the forbidden fruit aspect of it and puncture the egoism of users.
Society is completely ambivalent about drugs anyway. They are illegal, and yet celebrities and rock stars flaunt its use. Ozzy Osbourne is feted because he didn't manage to kill himself with his excess. Yet some poor geezer with a disease is prohibited from legal use. Double standards? Certainly.
We know that cannabis isn't too much of a problem for most people, though I suspect that users are all too keen to say it's safe when there are people who have suffered from it, and to deny that it is a gateway drug when it does open those doors. It's the other hard drugs that cause the social problems. Yet by criminalising the whole lot, these people can be left on inadequate methodone programmes whilst their poor kids suffer.
Lets legalise the whole lot - take the trade away from criminals, and use the revenue to support those who may have made the wrong choices, but more especially inform kids better and try to give them the heads up about the real dangers of all the drugs - alcohol included.
It won't happen though.
I think what you say is interesting Paulclem. What about people who develop an addiction to prescription drugs? These drugs are already legal.
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You have just highlighted the the nub of the problem.Quote:
Legalisation might take away the forbidden fruit aspect of it and puncture the egoism of users.
Some of it must be down to the doctors who prescribe them and acceptable practice. There are always people who can subvert the system though. Michael jackson did, and he would have legal or illegal no doubt. It's difficult as it's not about rationality.Quote:
Originally Posted by Delta40
I've heard that the only proven therapeutic benefits to be had from the use of Cannabis are the alleviation of nausea and loss of appetite.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
No. I didn't say that. I said if alcohol and cigarettes are legal, so should pot, a drug scientifically chosen to be no worse than alcohol or cigarettes (something the non-supporters seem to make a point of not addressing). Heroine and cocaine are definitely shown to be worse for someone than those three drugs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I'm just for consistency. Alcohol and cigarettes are legal, why not pot? I've seen no rational argument here again it being legalized (I may have missed something). Alcohol and tobacco have been a part of cultures for thousands of year while pot hasn't. So? What does that even matter?
Someone, I think a non-supporter, said that if it was legalized that use may go down because the forbiddenness of it is a drawing da ore for many people, especially the young. I agree . . . which is another reason it should ne legalized.
It's supposed to help alleviate the pain of...MS I think. There have been court cases where a chap with it wanted to be able to take it legally. There have been experiments since. I don't know lot about it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
The available evidence seems to point to alleviating certain medical conditions. But there is a wealth of difference in someone taking it for medical purposes and youthful vanity taking it because pop singers take it illegally.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
Hahaha. What?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Do you drink Emil? Have you ever? Its the same thing. Or I guess some would have us obey the law even when that law is irrational and unjust.
I can almost see Emil sitting on his porch in a rocking chair, yelling at the neighbor kids because their ball rolled into his yard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
I also offered to provide evidence. Want some?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
It's safer:
http://hempnews.tv/wp-content/upload...ngdangers1.png
People are rotting in jail for it:
http://norml.org/share/marijuana_arrests_chart468.gif
I don't think so, sometimes people wear helmets and sometimes they don't. If it is a law, it's one of those ones that's impossible to enforce in Canada because we have too few people (which also means too few cops) over such a large area.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
They're hideous too:Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
http://daerangall.ca/wordpress/wp-co.../tarsands3.jpg
It's annoying, usually there's a liquor store at least near the grocery store, but sometimes there isn't and you have to trek to the other side of town.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
That's just not reality. I'm pro-abortion for the exact same reason: if you make a law against it, people will do it anyway and they will f*ck it up and cause a lot of damage. If it isn't illegal, it's safer. Since it isn't illegal here, the police don't turn too heavy an eye on the growers so we buy from people we know (haha, one of the ladies who sells it in town owns a flower shop and grows weed in her greenhouses), however in other countries where it's far more strict people want to smoke anyway so they'll buy from shady freaks and that money will eventually find it's way to very dangerous people to fund horrible things. Saying "well they shouldn't do it anyway" is meaningless, that's a fantasy world.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Looks like Canada is getting gyped.Quote:
Originally Posted by stlukesguild
Lots. I'm at work right now, but I'll dig around tomorrow night when I'm at home.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
He's got a point, all of the anti-legalization people on this thread happen to be British. It's possible that Britain isn't there yet. Yaaay, cultural differences on litnet!Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I don't think so, it's not a "forbidden fruit" here, we smoke it because we like it. The stigma that seems to be attached to marijuana in the UK isn't the same as in Canada, neither are considered "drugs." People who drink at parties and smoke on weekends don't usually think to themselves "whelp, guess it's heroin next."Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulclem
:smilielol5: Oh my god, I almost died. Those damn kids with their Cyndi Lauper! *shakes fist*Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
There are vast multitudes of older people who are pro-legalization, litnet simply has a high number of 18-25 posters. So far, we've got two older people and one younger person anti-legalization, and we've got two older and maybe five younger people who are pro-legislation. As I've said multiple times, the "young people are stupid!" argument does not hold a drop.
In democratic countries, governments and their advisers decide what is going to be legal or illegal. Once a law has passed onto the statute, it remains until it is changed. If someone disagrees with it they are duty bound to obey it until it is repealed. It's the basis of western civilisation, without which, all our freedoms would be undermined.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darcy88
Methinks the young lady doth protest too much. Nevertheless, young people, with notable exceptions, aren't stupid but they are impressionable and therein lies the cause of this particular problem.Quote:
As I've said multiple times, the "young people are stupid!" argument does not hold a drop.
As for those rotting in jail for it, the answer's clear: if you don't want to do the time, don't commit the crime.
Juniper, it's obviously not worth the time to make good arguments backed by facts, at least for Emil's sake, because he doesn't seem to want to acknowledge them.
Ok I knew I said adieu to this conversation but --- seriously emil?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emil Miller
Maybe that is why you critisize so much democracy, because you actualy don't get it?
For nations (the E.U and America) that relish and use the word Freedom so often, I am astounded by how suprisingly litttle our general populations know of what actual freedom is.