BKFraiders7 wrote:They will get Doctors involved....and if they say no to it it wont be passed. This is stupid anyway. A drug that harms ur body being legal?- That,DPM,is hypocritical
Taking away one's right to privacy?
-That, BKF, is unconstitutional.
That's what it pretty much comes down to. Marijuana-smoking isn't the most safe habit, but it's non addictive, already widely abused in nationwide drug trade, and legalizing it would allow responsible smokers the right to smoke personal amounts at their own leisure without big government stepping in. It would also drastically cut crime rates related to marijuana trafficking. The mafia and other forms of organized crime used to exist primarily for the sake of trafficking alcohol during prohibition. After the amendment was ratified that made the sale of alcohol legal, these types of organized crime were nearly completely abolished! And that's
without wasting resources on jailing these people. If we could do the same thing for our more urban communities, especially the more poor African-American communities, it's gotta make you question whether this kind of legislation could really be one of the key components in revitalizing our slums and ridding our communities of dangerous marijuana drug trafficking.
Marijuana is also very less harmful to your body than cigarettes or alcohol. You can't "overdose" on cigarettes, but we all know about the terrible chemicals in cigarettes and the serious effects thereof are devastating. It's very easy to "overdose" on alcohol. In fact, many people do without even realizing what their body can handle and black out. Regarding marijuana, you'd have to smoke 15 pounds in under a minute (or around there) in order to overdose, and that simply isn't even humanly possible.
Also, if you've never smoked cigarettes, drank alcohol, or smoked marijuana before, I don't think that it's necessarily "fair" to say that it's wrong, but more importantly, I REALLY don't think that it's fair to tell other people who may enjoy any of those things that they are wrong. This is a very "Libertarian" bill. I don't think it will pass as it is unless it's revised, and I still don't think it will get through.
* free up 20% of our jails
* drop crime rate
* keep government out of your private life (many appreciate this especially after the Patriot Acts)
Now, I'm sorry this is such a long post, but if you bear with me, I'd like to make one more point. Marijuana/ cannabis is registered as a class 1 drug alongside some of the most dangerous drugs known to man - some of which can kill you the very first time you use them. As we know, however, marijuana is not nearly as dangerous at all, and the smoke-related effects are many times less damaging than those of cigarette smoke. People rarely even do things like vomit from marijuana smoking or get sick in general.
I mean, these are some of the "pros". I think these pros would really work. It makes me wonder how powerful legislation like this can be in terms of stopping the dangerous drug trafficking of marijuana. I think the serious questions are more long term, in which case, I still haven't made a decision on this bill because I haven't taken a critical look at the negatives of this legislation.
-DarkPacMan77-