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nannyandnutro · 2006-01-22 7:24 pm

To be honest, I'm an occasional cigarette smoker and former pot smoker and the latter doesn't even make me slightly dizzy like cigs do. I've never felt impaired (to drive) after a couple of hits.

And, yes...legalize it. The only reason I quit doing it was the fact that it's considered such a major crime in this backward ass state.

justine · 2006-01-22 7:26 pm

wellfleation wrote:
I personally believe fully in New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die!" Call me a crazy freedom craving American.

I just have to add that that's my home state. Yay! big_smile

MacAddict4Life · 2006-01-22 7:26 pm

Legal? Probably, but that is a complex issue.

What should be done right now... decriminalize it! Make it like speeding or parking illegally, and stop wasting 50% of the space in prison!

wellfleation · 2006-01-22 7:31 pm

Sometimes I have issues with sleep. I told my doctor and he puts me on Ativan. I just saw him last week and said that I sometimes took two to get to sleep instead of one as is prescribed. He raised the dose from .05 to 1.0.

Mind you, Ativan is a narcotic and is addictive. If marijuana was legal not only would prescribing it work better but I would not have to risk addiction. I would buy it myself for my sleep issues (and do) but I simply don't have the money as it is very costly due to prohibition.

Nevertheless, being a plant, the pharmaceutical companies lobby against legalization as there's no money in it for them. Pharmaceutical companies don't care about people or cures, it's all about profits. And with politicians in their back pocket, the laws aren't going to change any time soon. sad

wellfleation · 2006-01-22 7:34 pm

justine wrote:
wellfleation wrote:
I personally believe fully in New Hampshire's motto, "Live Free or Die!" Call me a crazy freedom craving American.
I just have to add that that's my home state. Yay!

Cool, I live ten minutes away from the NH boarder (Methuen, MA). Got to love sales tax free New Hampshire, especially when there's an Apple Store within that 10 minute drive! smile

wellfleation · 2006-01-22 7:43 pm

MacAddict4Life wrote:
Legal? Probably, but that is a complex issue.

What should be done right now... decriminalize it! Make it like speeding or parking illegally, and stop wasting 50% of the space in prison!

A lot of cities and states have but it's the dealers that are in prison (you got to get it somehow). Denver just made it legal to possess up to an once legally. But then you have the feds to deal with. In CA the compassionate feds just prosecuted some terminally ill guy who was growing marijuana for himself and other terminally ill patients who had doctor prescriptions for pot even though the state of CA refused to prosecute him, if I'm remembering correctly. It's stupid and f'ed up, ass backwards country as we are. I like Canada's model where they basically just ignore it.

wellfleation · 2006-01-22 7:51 pm

Oh, and I forgot to add that I'm also on Lasinopril for high blood pressure. You guessed it, smoking pot lowers my blood pressure as well. And I don't mean that I have to be high all day for my blood pressure to be low. When I smoke at night it effects my blood pressure positively the next day.

There are so many pros to the legalization of marijuana and very few negatives. Just goes to prove our government works for the highest bidder. What a shocker, somethings gotta give and soon. People need to wake the f up.

bedstuy · 2006-01-22 7:52 pm

I've driven fine tripping my ass off on a couple tabs of acid. Let's legalize LSD as well.

justine · 2006-01-22 7:57 pm

bedstuy wrote:
I've driven fine tripping my ass off on a couple tabs of acid. Let's legalize LSD as well.

More than likely, you THOUGHT you were driving fine.

wellfleation · 2006-01-22 8:00 pm

bedstuy wrote:
I've driven fine tripping my ass off on a couple tabs of acid. Let's legalize LSD as well.

Interesting comparison. roll

TheUltimateMacUser · 2006-01-22 10:10 pm

i feel about pot the same ias i do about cigarettes. they should be leagal when used in the privacy of your own home, and only in the privacy of your own home. Smoking of any kind in public should be illegal, and yes, i fully support the NJ smoking ban (sorry, didnt mean to go off topic)

bedstuy · 2006-01-22 10:31 pm

justine wrote:
bedstuy wrote:
I've driven fine tripping my ass off on a couple tabs of acid. Let's legalize LSD as well.
More than likely, you THOUGHT you were driving fine.

No. Actually I was driving fine. All the passengers said so. Though, they were tripping as well. They actually said I drove better than when sober because I was concentrating so hard.

Seriously though, there were many plaudets that evening.

bedstuy · 2006-01-22 10:32 pm

It may have been helpful that this was at 6am and there was little traffic, but I digress.

bedstuy · 2006-01-22 10:35 pm

TheUltimateMacUser wrote:
i feel about pot the same ias i do about cigarettes. they should be leagal when used in the privacy of your own home, and only in the privacy of your own home. Smoking of any kind in public should be illegal, and yes, i fully support the NJ smoking ban (sorry, didnt mean to go off topic)

I'd like to ban fat ugly people from public but you don't see me posting about it.

titok16 · 2006-01-22 10:37 pm

like i'll be posting MY OPINION on the INTERNET...
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Robert B. · 2006-01-23 12:14 am

Tax it? What if I wanted to grow it in my garden, right between the tomatoes and the jalepenos? Ya gonna tax that?

dv · 2006-01-23 12:22 am

I wouldn't particulary mind - it's so easy to get that the people who are motivated to use it do anyway. Government might as well save some cash on law enforcement, get some in taxes, and let the stoners pass out in their apartments in peace.

That said, it should be under at least as many restrictions as alcohol.

aquaajb · 2006-01-23 12:35 am

Someone wonders why it's illegal in the first place;

I have reasearched this topic quite a bit, and while I am by no means an expert, I can help explain why it became illegal.

It is, primarily, the doing of one man. His name is Harry J. Anslinger. In the early 1930's, he was responsible for spreading false propaganda declaring marijuana to be an unsafe substance that would "make people into demons", "cause normal people to go crazy" and bring out the worst. Obviously, his rants were nonsense but they did suceed in causing the entire nation to become, dare I say, brain washed to the whole matter. Even today, the entire topic is taboo and no one will discuss it without first saying how harmful it is.

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Metacell · 2006-01-23 1:42 am

Yes, and furthermore, most of it was RACIST propoganda against Mexicans and Blacks (Remember: jazz is the Devil's music) who were the most common users of marijuana at the time.

TheConfuzed1 · 2006-01-23 2:16 am

I agree. Tax it, and eliminate the black market for it.

TheConfuzed1 · 2006-01-23 2:19 am

justine wrote:
bedstuy wrote:
I've driven fine tripping my ass off on a couple tabs of acid. Let's legalize LSD as well.
More than likely, you THOUGHT you were driving fine.

More than likely, he was sitting on a park bench. lol

TheConfuzed1 · 2006-01-23 2:22 am

Robert B. wrote:
Tax it? What if I wanted to grow it in my garden, right between the tomatoes and the jalepenos? Ya gonna tax that?

How many people do you know that grow their own tobacco? Sure some people will choose home grown if it's legalized, but I think most would rather just buy it and not have to deal with it. (Pun not intended.)

mo' ron · 2006-01-23 2:23 am

"Weed is for - I'm a racist cow -"

-American History X

TheConfuzed1 · 2006-01-23 2:27 am

wellfleation wrote:
ironhawk wrote:
It's like being drunk and very relaxed.
I don't know what you were smoking but it's nothing like being drunk. Very relaxing, yes.

What it wasn't what he was smoking, but something he drank? wink

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benightedbastard · 2006-01-23 3:57 am

Robert B. wrote:
Tax it? What if I wanted to grow it in my garden, right between the tomatoes and the jalepenos? Ya gonna tax that?

And just near your fermenter too.

Taxing the sale of it while still allowing people to grow it would be fine, I think.

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