Do you think marijuana should be made legal in Louisiana?
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The odor of the stuff causes me to become unable to breathe for a short period of time. Raw, burnt or 8-ball (this is a term for certain deposits that can be packed together from the ash into a marble, then burned again. Just FYI).
Leave it illegal. I have no desire to have it anywhere near me.
Leave it illegal. I have no desire to have it anywhere near me.
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See an ER on any given night with people who are there from the consequences of drinking. I have seen 3 already tonight at work here. See how many people dying and destroying their livers and turning yellow on a daily basis in the hospital. Just because alcohol is legal doesn't make it better than smoking pot. Alcohol has destroyed 100x (or more)the amount of lives and families than pot has.
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Banning guns won't stop criminals from getting guns
Yet 11 people who think the above statement is true think banning drugs won't stop criminals from getting drugs
Hypocrisy at its finest. Laws don't stop criminals. We need less laws and less government control. You get pissed off when Bloomberg tries to take away the right to a large sugary soda but think it's fine that they take away the right for you to choose what you put in your body.
If we legalize it, we save so much money on jailing all the people caught with weed on them. We take away the black market for weed. We get rid of the "gateway drug" status because potheads won't have immediate access to harder drugs if they're buying their weed from a legal source. What do you think it would do to the murder rate in New Orleans and Baton Rouge if gangs weren't killing each other every night over who's corner it is to sell pot at? Look at the states and countries that have legalized it and see how it's benefited their economy and how it wasn't complete chaos like people here think.
You don't like the smell? Seriously? I can't stand the smell of cigars yet I don't think people should be banned from smoking them. Plenty of people don't like our guns, what do we tell them?
Yet 11 people who think the above statement is true think banning drugs won't stop criminals from getting drugs
Hypocrisy at its finest. Laws don't stop criminals. We need less laws and less government control. You get pissed off when Bloomberg tries to take away the right to a large sugary soda but think it's fine that they take away the right for you to choose what you put in your body.
If we legalize it, we save so much money on jailing all the people caught with weed on them. We take away the black market for weed. We get rid of the "gateway drug" status because potheads won't have immediate access to harder drugs if they're buying their weed from a legal source. What do you think it would do to the murder rate in New Orleans and Baton Rouge if gangs weren't killing each other every night over who's corner it is to sell pot at? Look at the states and countries that have legalized it and see how it's benefited their economy and how it wasn't complete chaos like people here think.
You don't like the smell? Seriously? I can't stand the smell of cigars yet I don't think people should be banned from smoking them. Plenty of people don't like our guns, what do we tell them?
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To be honest, I don't know enough about drugs.
However I do think the highly processed and manufactured stuff like METH/Crack/Heroin and the like seem to be extremely dangerous and harsh. Countless Documentaries I've seen about the effects of drugs and their danger never seem to be about Marijuana.
I've got a couple drug addicted friends from High School, some who have died from OD. The others are still struggling to get off the above stuff or pills. It has ruined their life and their families have suffered greatly b/c of it.
Yet, everyone I know that has ever struggled with Drug Addiction and had their families destroyed by it as well
has never been b/c of weed.
I hear weed is a gateway drug. Have no clue. But I can see that by having weed illegal it might drive folks to more underground places to get it where pushers push harder more expensive drugs etc. etc.
If it were legal to buy off the shelf I think it would take away it's effect at being a gateway drug to more harsh chemically altered manufactured drugs.
It's just hard to see the danger/threat comparison between a plant
and a chemically altered highly processed manufactured drug like METH.
Like I said, I'm not voting b/c I don't know enough about drugs. I also don't care if it remains illegal.
However I do think the highly processed and manufactured stuff like METH/Crack/Heroin and the like seem to be extremely dangerous and harsh. Countless Documentaries I've seen about the effects of drugs and their danger never seem to be about Marijuana.
I've got a couple drug addicted friends from High School, some who have died from OD. The others are still struggling to get off the above stuff or pills. It has ruined their life and their families have suffered greatly b/c of it.
Yet, everyone I know that has ever struggled with Drug Addiction and had their families destroyed by it as well
has never been b/c of weed.
I hear weed is a gateway drug. Have no clue. But I can see that by having weed illegal it might drive folks to more underground places to get it where pushers push harder more expensive drugs etc. etc.
If it were legal to buy off the shelf I think it would take away it's effect at being a gateway drug to more harsh chemically altered manufactured drugs.
It's just hard to see the danger/threat comparison between a plant
and a chemically altered highly processed manufactured drug like METH.
Like I said, I'm not voting b/c I don't know enough about drugs. I also don't care if it remains illegal.
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As much as I hate the stuff, it's hard for me as a beer drinker to judge pot smokers. I agree with Dave. I have seen a lot of guys lives ruined by alcohol. What makes pot worse? The fact that it's illegal? Alcohol was illegal at one point and they repealed that. I think you would have more people flocking to smoke it if it were legal, but the novelty would wear off to some. I have no doubt in my mind that it would cut down on crime, and that's enough reason for me to say legalize it. It would cut gun deaths, which would cut little old ladies from Liberalstan trying to take away my second amendment rights.
Eventually, I'd like to see it legalized and taxed.
The violence problems associated with the drug trade are the government's doing. The "war on drugs" made it so illegal to deal that its not a huge increase in punishment if you kill your competition.
It's not like CSI is real and criminals have figured this out. If there's no witness, likely there will be no arrest.
This is a simplistic way of looking into the criminal mind, but it gets us most of the way to the general lack of respect for human life and our legal system. A legal system that disproportionally targets a substance that is less lethal and conducive to violence than many legal and condoned substances.
The ******** about marijuana being a "gateway" drug is yet another byproduct of the very illegality that "we the people" keep voting for.
I have never and will never smoke marijuana regardless of its legal status, but even I can see the law of I intended consequences at play.
By the way, I know considerably more people who have smoked marijuana than have not...and I associate with otherwise law abiding people. Probably because they know my stance, they're more willing to tell me about their past usage.
The violence problems associated with the drug trade are the government's doing. The "war on drugs" made it so illegal to deal that its not a huge increase in punishment if you kill your competition.
It's not like CSI is real and criminals have figured this out. If there's no witness, likely there will be no arrest.
This is a simplistic way of looking into the criminal mind, but it gets us most of the way to the general lack of respect for human life and our legal system. A legal system that disproportionally targets a substance that is less lethal and conducive to violence than many legal and condoned substances.
The ******** about marijuana being a "gateway" drug is yet another byproduct of the very illegality that "we the people" keep voting for.
I have never and will never smoke marijuana regardless of its legal status, but even I can see the law of I intended consequences at play.
By the way, I know considerably more people who have smoked marijuana than have not...and I associate with otherwise law abiding people. Probably because they know my stance, they're more willing to tell me about their past usage.
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You mean drug dealers or people with poor impulse control?
Yes I do. The cost of lost product, risk of jail or death drives the cost up just like taxes would.
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