Idlemessiah said:
Link55 said:
1. Weed is less harmful than cigarettes.
2. At least weed help people in a way.
3. That and it's natural unlike the thousands of chemicals in the average cigarette.
4. And in what way does a cigarette help anybody. If you know a way please tell me.
5. But they should just ban them without hesitation.
1. In small doses yes. But how often do you hear of people ODing on cigarettes?
2. The only way I can think of weed helping people is as a painkiller when conventional drugs won't work.
3. You've obviously never had cut or spiked weed.
4. They don't, but neither does any addictive substance.
5. Oh, cause prohibition was such a great idea last time. I can just imagine it... Governments worldwide outright ban smoking. Smog clears, lung cancer patients are suddenly cured, people on the internet stop complaining. The next day, major population centres across the world burn as hundreds of millions of people experience nicotine cravings all at once and collectively go mad.
Now excuse me, I have a jar of "I can't believe how terrible your ideas are!" to eat.
1. It is literally impossible for a human to overdose from smoking marijuana, look it up.
2. Conventional painkillers do immediate harm to your liver and body, marijuana if taken as a pill doesn't.
3. Cut or spiked marijuana are terrible things, but not marijuana's fault. This is the result of it being unjustly labeled a schedule 1 narcotic and being pushed into the same light as cocaine and meth. If regulated and taxed, you would get spiked weed as often as you buy a pack of camels and its full of scorpions.
4. They don't, but neither do videogames, alcohol, soda, the aforementioned cigarettes, sun-tanning, fast food, driving race cars, riding skate boards, ect, ect, ect by that logic. Nearly everything recreational or indulgent is bad for you, should it also be illegal?
5. Prohibition of anything is a bad idea. What one or more consenting adults choose to do in the privacy of one's home should never be subject to control by the government or anyone else. For those who want to live in a nanny-state, go live in the UK or Europe somewhere.
EDIT: Two topical quotes.
"If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add eight to 24 years to your life." - Jack Herer
"The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." - Carl Sagan as Mr. X, published in Dr. Lester Grinspoon's Marihuana Reconsidered (1971)