Again, im not telling you you cant do anything. You make up your own mind there. Much the same as any Smoker or Drinker. At present Cannabis is against the law. You decide whether you obey it or not. Entirely your decision at the end of the day. Your risks are your own.True, so how is it any different than if instead of my bellybutton getting well over $2,000 in fines and court costs, 8 hours in lock down, 2 court appearences (arraignment and trial), a $300 Alcohol Safety Action Program class, and losing my license, I just get to smoke it as I wish in the confines of my own property?
Aside from me getting royally screwed, there is no difference between it being legal or illegal in this sense.
No arguement there either. A little open to interpretation tho. I read that and believe it actually supports my arguementIt supports what? That it should be illegal because it's a health risk? Seriously Sp00k, you called me out on living on a different planet. Where is your head at? Every day is a health risk, you can sit inside your own home's safety and hope you don't die... or you can enjoy yourself and have fun doing things that you enjoy. In my case, I enjoy smoking a joint with some friends at the end of the day... on what grounds do you believe that should be illegal?
I openly invite you to present your facts for discussion. I shall enjoy itI just did present some facts. You want some other facts? Alcohol destroys your liver, kidney, stomach, skin, brain and bladder. Marijuana temporarily thickens the brain's cell walls and you also run the risk of lung cancer. Aside from the brain's cell walls (which, btw, only impairs you under the influence), you can just as easily get lung cancer from sucking in bus exhaust fumes or lighting up a cigarette. It's your choice how you get lung cancer, personally I'd prefer a high that will last a little while.
Cannabis (includes Marijuana, THC, Hashish and Hash Oil) Effects of Overdose: Anxiety, paranoia, loss of concentration, slower moevements, time distortion.
Uh.... that's dangerous?
LOL. No. Thats good for you. SW, What do you think?What do I think? Well amongst that list of potential effects of an overdose I don't see coma or death.
Never have I said, "Cannabis is more dangerous than Alcohol". Never have I advocated Alcohol or Tobacco and presented any arguement that they are a lesser or greater evil than Marijuana. Its very simple to understand my arguement....
2 Wrongs dont make a Dope plant.No, you didn't say it outright. You implied it with the following reply(last sentence) to what I said.(first paragraph)
"However, the purpose of comparing wacky tobacky to alcohol and cigarettes/cigars is to refute the argument that marijuana is more damaging than either of those two- it ain't.
In your humble opinion. I share a completely different humble opinion.."
But what I'm getting at isn't that because they are both damaging they should both be legal.. indeed it isn't... I'm trying to point out the fact that if you drink a beer, or smoke a cigarette, then who the hell are you to tell me that smoking marijuana should remain illegal? Because you don't like it? Because you don't do it? Neither of those? Because it's bad for you? I'll refer you to what I've been saying all along- a whole lot of things you do/can do legally are bad for you. What reason do you have for marijuana to remain illegal?
Facts vs Facts. Experts vs Experts. Who do we believe? Essentially tho, what you just posted above, supports everthing I have been saying. We apparently agreeOkay, I've presented facts. You've presented... well nothing but "I won't believe you". I've presented experts, again, this is a one way street here. You can begin to argue I don't have a point when you actually bring something to this argument other than, "I have 13 years of stories"... cuz it just don't work that way, you were prolly dealing with someone who smoked a bowl of marijuana... with PCP sprinkled on top. And it ain't the weed that made those people crazy..
I'm not telling you not to do anything. I'm telling you WHY you shouldnt. Its all overtime for me and no skin off my nose.Sounds like the Paranoia kicking in.
I know that stepping out front of the number 9 bus is bad for me also. I CHOOSE not to do it for health reasons.Of course it's paranoia... I mean, I sit at home all day with a glock tightly gripped between my ghostly white knuckles in preperation for the day that the aliens come back to steal my mojo... and weed. Or could it be that every day presents you with a new problem, and that problem could very well be death. When you die, do you want to know you experienced a lot of things and had fun... or do you want to know that you were an uptight salamander that told everyone else who to live their lives based on some moral high ground you took? I'm not implying you are a tight bellybutton salamander, but nevertheless, I don't want to die and not have had fun in life. And yes, like I've been saying, smoking a joint and relaxing with friends, or just playing video games is fun.
Lets all light up a cone and shove needles in our arms. I agree with the first part, but I hate needles. Sorry, despite what you may think I do/am doing/am under the influence of... I'm not a crack head, a heroin addict, a coker, or any other hard core synthetic (or otherwise natural but much harder) druggie. I drink beer, and smoke a lil weed here and there. But you seem hell bent on making it out like I'm a hardened criminal, well atleast you support a system that makes it that way.
Firstly, whilst biased toward your own arguement, most of your reasoning is sensible and well constructed. I dont think your spacey when you post, despite whatever I think of your reasoning.I'm very biased towards my own argument, of course. When you educate yourself (and I'm not talking about what you hear or what people tell you, I'm talking about going out on your own and researching this stuff like a scientist would), then you'd find it pretty hard to swallow the current laws and "War on Drugs" as the correct way to do things.
Secondly, there are a vast many laws, I do not agree with and would champion the cause of change at the first opportunity. The legalisation of Cannabis however isnt one of them. 
I'd still like to hear ONE good reason as to why you don't think cannabis should be legalized. The benefits it would provide would be astounding. It can be used as a pharmaceutical drug for patients under going chemo or otherwise very painful procedures/operations. Hemp can be derived from it, a much cheaper and studier resource than cotton. And it'll mellow out a lot of the amazinhunk salamanders I deal with everyday. You're a police officer, I'm a PC hardware technician. We both got one thing in common: We deal with irate amazinhunks all day. You get the benefit of locking their bellybutton up, I get the benefit of saying "Yes SIR! Right away!"
Thirdly, imho, some of those Rehab centres are run by greater Whacko's than the people who attend them for treatment. As for the information, they disseminate. Some of its good. Some of its bad. They have their own agendas and biased opinions like anyone else.Well ranging from the government to rehab encompasses a lot more than just those two I named. I took the information that agreed with each other from various sources as the truth, I took the information that was so off the wall and debunked by other sources as false. It's pretty easy to get the truth when you are looking for it.
"Your drawing a line in the sand between Mental dependancy and addiction and telling me the marginal difference makes it alright?"This is from a previous post, but I missed it... There's a HUGE difference between mental dependancy and addiction. Well actually, it's not dependancy either... it's a habitual drug. Kind of like Aces High, or any other video game, you play it habitually. You don't get addicted to it, you don't NEED it to get by. You don't have to have it, otherwise your body will go into uncontrollable convulsions.
If you don't have it, you'll be mighty pissed off "damn, no weed" or you'll just carry on and know that on some point in the near future it will cross your path again.
Unlike other drugs which when you get addicted to, you can NOT get off of because your body and mind NEEDS this drug to continue working.
So basically, I've presented my case and despite how opinionated you might believe it is, that's the real deal.
I would like to now see why you don't believe marijuana should be legalized. And I don't want opinions, because that's not what I have presented you with.
-SW