Why is MARIJUANA ILLEGAL...Who uses this stuff?

SPIVE · May 23, 2003

As Viagra enhances sexual pleasures, marijuana enhances musical

listen pleasures.

All drugs/medications should be legal and controlled.

Harm from all drugs/medications occurs from abuse of usage Again, control is truly the key to preventing abuse. Abuse, often harnessed by individual denial.

I have found marijuana to be extremely mind expanding, in that, its effect enhance ones awareness, sensitivity and creative thought. The ultimate drug, which is relatively safe, quick and effective, leaving no hang-over or addictive traits.

Marijuana is simply the best when used sportingly.

Disclaimer: Individual results may vary and include side-affects such as drowsiness and hunger.

Think I'll order a pizza on that thought.

hamneggs · May 23, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR>Originally posted by SPIVE:
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> This is a terrible tip. Use only ICE COLD water. Most of the danger comes from inhaling a gas that is heated to 350 C.

Best solution = vaporizer <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

"Steaming hot" water IS emitting water vapor (best solution)...making breathing (inhalation) much easier, expanding the lungs to hold more smoke.

Using "ICE COLD" water is a common misconception and an "improper" bonging (inhalation) technique, cold air contracts.

I suggest you try BOTH methods (ICE COLD and STEAMING HOT) water and experience the difference.

It's simply mind bong-o-ling.

<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

great post, ROTF

Banned4Life · May 23, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> The reason it is illegal in the first place stems from the racism rooted in the early part of the last century against Hindoos and Mexicans. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Absolutely correct. The Marijuana Tax Act was passed in response to racist scare journalism put out by the yellow press at the time saying that "negroes are taking control of white children" by giving them pot. Also Dupont and the pharmacutical industries didn't want to compete with hemp and cannabis.

go2guy · May 23, 2003

The reason why pot is illegal NOW is that the government doesn't have the realistic means to levy taxes on it unlike alcohol and cigarettes. How many people do you know that have distilleries or tobacco crops in their basements opposed to one who have a few plants just hanging around

JackDee · May 23, 2003

marijuana illegal because of:

a. smoking and booze co.'s
b. mafia involvment in marijuana and then harder drugs.
c. puritanist ethics.

Legalize it dont critisize it.

JudgeWapner · May 23, 2003

Put it this way,as oppossed to booze,never known any one to get stoned and then go start a fight.

Freddog30 · May 23, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> In addition to Nanuk's comment, hemp is a threat to the oil industry-it could eliminate a lot of the demand for oil.....and can be grown where very little will grow-with less\no irrigation. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Paper and other things are also potential low cost hemp products.... there would be a large money swing if pot were legalized.... Imagine if it were legal and a country like Mexico were to harvest and sell it, they could pay off many debts people would rather have them keep.

ericdixon · May 23, 2003

Not a user but this pseudo drug should be legalized, imagine the parks we could build, the hungry we could feed from the taxes on it alone.

Freddog30 · May 23, 2003

Money that could be put to good use, I agree....

lander · May 23, 2003

"Money that could be put to good use, I agree...."

Agreed, but the fact is that we would just increase defense spending AGAIN and give more "pro-wealthy" tax breaks ...

if only this were a perfect world.

Freddog30 · May 23, 2003

dammit lander.... thanks for the reality check bro... you are so right about that.

SPIVE · May 23, 2003

Old Hippie
The Bellamy Brothers

He turned thirty-five last Sunday

In his hair he found some gray

But he still ain't changed his lifestyle

He likes it better the old way

So he grows a little garden in the back yard by the fence

He's consuming what he's growing nowadays in self defense

He get's out there in the twilight zone

sometimes when it just don't make no sense

He gets off on country music
cause disco left him cold
He's got young friends into new wave
buts he's just too damn old
And he dreams at night of Woodstock
and the day John Lennon died
how the music made him happy
and the silence made him cry
Yea he thinks of John sometimes
and he has to wonder why

== Chorus ==

He's an old hippie

and he don't know what to do

should hang on to the old

should he grab on to the new

he's an old hippie

his new life is just a bust

he ain't trying to change nobody

he just trying real hard to adjust

He was sure back in the sixties
that everyone was hip
Then they sent him off to Vietnam
on his senior trip
And they force him to become a man
while he was still a boy
and in each wave of tragedy
he waited for the joy
Now this world may change around him
but he just can't change nomore

== Chorus ==

Well he stays away a lot now
from the parties and the clubs
And he's thinking while he's joggin' 'round
Sure is glad he quit the hard drugs
Cause him and his kind get more endangered everyday
And pretty soon the species
will just up and fade away
Like the smoke from that torpedo
just up and fade away

lander · May 23, 2003

Guys,
I don't mean to insult anyone specifically, but have you not noticed a HUGE correlation between worthlessness, stupidity, lack of ambition & general lack of sucess between pot & those that use it???

I know there are CEO pot heads, but I'm talking about the masses here.

corey · May 23, 2003

Those people would be stupid and worthless anyway. As they say, it's just an "enhancer".

lander · May 23, 2003

That's true Nanuk, JourneyMan doesn't smoke pot, but it he didn't I guess it would be a little unfair to blame the excess THC on his problems ...

SPIVE · May 23, 2003

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote">quote:<HR> I don't mean to insult anyone specifically, but have you not noticed a HUGE correlation between worthlessness, stupidity, lack of ambition & general lack of sucess between pot & those that use it??? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Yeah, those "coffee/caffeine" addicts really run up that ladder of success...

While the pot-heads become President!

LMAO

Nice one lander, thanks for the humor.

damiandunlap · May 23, 2003

Lander, how many people do u know that smoke pot

most of the Loan brokers i know smoke pot , and guess what they have big chips

When i was 22, in the Guard in inglewood, they had a drug test, 70% of the people told on there self that they smoke pot

if u lazy , u just lazy got nothing to do with pot.

but i think u need some hommie, puff puff pass

lander · May 23, 2003

Damian, I know over a hundred people that smoke pot ....

... some are friends, some co-workers

The people I know that do NOT smoke pot have excelled VERY MUCH over those that do smoke pot given equal opportunity.

Sure a little rich punk (ahem ... Dubya) can smoke and sniff his way through life, but the common man cannot.

lander · May 23, 2003

I'm not sure why potheads get so defensive over the issue ...

.. fact is that smoking weed kills brain cells & impairs judgement.

Yeah, so does alcohol, but I'm not exactly condoning alcoholism either, am I?

damiandunlap · May 23, 2003

lander, i dont smoke pot on a daily basic, the last time i smoke pot was about back in nov.

but like i said, i dont know who dont smoke pot in los angeles. Grandmas be lighting it up

The police be lighting it up
pastors lighting up

them men that dont smoke pot , is the one i need to worry about , them the type that like kiddy porn and use alot of palm oils