Legalizing Mary Jane

[Gehennaite]

I utterly abhor it, with a passion. As I do any sort of recreative drug use, particularly those that interfere with mental processes.

It is a matter of principle, of respect for society and for one's mental health.

I also abhor it, but the wellbeing of others is not my personal responsibility. The only behavior that I take offense to is smoking, and that is if and only if I am a victim of second-hand smoke.

I, personally, feel that all drugs should be legalized. We have the responsibility of educating others, but after that let them make their own decisions about drugs. Mother nature can sort out the wheat from the chaff.

 

[Alceste]

The other day I had terrible cramps and went to lay down in my supervisor's office waiting for the painkillers to kick in. They didn't, so he offered me a toke. Turns out he has Crohn's disease and suffers chronic pain similar to cramps, and like myself has learned that pot is the best painkiller we've got. It worked a treat and I was back on my feet in seconds, having a wonderful and highly productive day.

To anyone who thinks treating myself for pain with a 100% natural, affordable, ubiquitous plant that I could grow in my garden should be illegal, mind your own business.

 

[sun rise]

Medical use is one thing - any drug that is prescribed by a doctor for a specific medical condition is fine with me.

I have mixed feelings about legalization for casual use. On one hand, locking people in jail for using it is stupid - it fills the jails and has no real social benefit. On the other hand, I know it can be dangerous from personal experience - I don't have a PhD today because it went up in smoke to a great extent. There are also medical findings that show heavy use can be dangerous, especially to kids whose brains are still developing.

So I come down on the side of illegal but with "traffic ticket" type fines for users.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Friend saint_frankemstein,

Synthetic drugs are not natural and are unknown about their effects and so must be regulated and sold under medical prescription only.

Love & rgds

Oh, I know. They should be regulated - legalized and regulated.

 

[zenzero]

Friend Alceste,

I could grow in my garden should be illegal, mind your own business.

Wish the government agencies where pot is illegal also did mind their own business.
[maybe they do but after seeing us behind bars]

Love & rgds

 

[Avi1001]

Hey Alceste, the last time we participated on a thread like this you told us about some "non-traditional" means you used to get hired.

Now you are telling us you smoke doobies with your boss, i.e., you use "non-traditional" means to do your job.

I can wait to learn about how you get promoted !

The other day I had terrible cramps and went to lay down in my supervisor's office waiting for the painkillers to kick in. They didn't, so he offered me a toke. Turns out he has Crohn's disease and suffers chronic pain similar to cramps, and like myself has learned that pot is the best painkiller we've got. It worked a treat and I was back on my feet in seconds, having a wonderful and highly productive day.

To anyone who thinks treating myself for pain with a 100% natural, affordable, ubiquitous plant that I could grow in my garden should be illegal, mind your own business.

 

[psychoslice]

It doesn't worry me, as long as they have a test that can detect the drug on drivers.

 

[Alceste]

Hey Alceste, the last time we participated on a thread like this you told us about some "non-traditional" means you used to get hired.

Now you are telling us you smoke doobies with your boss, i.e., you use "non-traditional" means to do your job.

I can wait to learn about how you get promoted !

I probably get promoted when my supervisor's supervisor realizes he smokes doobs in the work truck.

(Kidding, of course. The department head is a pot head too, though not for medical reasons.)

 

[BSM1]

It doesn't worry me, as long as they have a test that can detect the drug on drivers.

A truly cost effective test for a driver under the influence of marijuana is to see how long that driver could resist a bag of corn chips.

 

[kashmir]

A truly cost effective test for a driver under the influence of marijuana is to see how long that driver could resist a bag of corn chips.

you sir, have won the internet for the day

off topic
I had a friend tell his mom one time
"there is nothing wrong with smoking pot, it's in the Bible"

 

[zenzero]

Friend BSM,

A truly cost effective test for a driver under the influence of marijuana is to see how long that driver could resist a bag of corn chips.

Hahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!; always used to feel hungry after getting high on pot.

Love & rgds

 

[Curious George]

In the sense that social tolerance overrules legal rejection every single time, sure it is.



It seems to me that drug use is the problem rather. Or even the deeper issue of consumerism of health and mental states.

Sleep control drugs and weight control drugs are perhaps even more harmful overall than illegal drugs. Alcohol is one of the most harmful of all, despite being all but completely legalized.

Continued acceptance of drugs both legal and illegal is what creates, enables and furthers social instability, far as I can tell.

I am confused. Are you supporting laws that keep some drugs illegal? This cannot be so because laws are useless to you.

This post seems more in line with your usual reasoning, but are you suggesting that all drugs should not be tolerated? Why?

 

[Nymphs]

I'm for the legalizing of it and live in a state that legalized it.

 

[psychoslice]

I don't really care, if we legalize one drug, then another will follow, and on and on it will go.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

"Against" is an euphemism in my case.

I utterly abhor it, with a passion. As I do any sort of recreative drug use, particularly those that interfere with mental processes.

It is a matter of principle, of respect for society and for one's mental health.

Are you aware of the benefits of cannabis?

 

[Jeremy Mason]

Friend The Sum Of Awe,


It was freely available and very much legal till 1985. Culturally it finds wide acceptance for its use in India. We used to freely distribute it as a drink during few social occasions till 1985. It finds benefits in meditation and spirituality [read text below taken from: Religious and spiritual use of cannabis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Personally too have used it for meditation al purpose and found very helpful and without side effect or withdrawal system, Used it for 3/4 years during university days and stopped total use of it thereafter without any problem.

Personal would say that one should be legally allowed to freely to grow and use anywhere across the globe as it is part of nature itself.

Love & rgds

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[sun rise]

"Part of nature itself"? There are many natural poisons so being "natural"is not meaningful in this discussion. There's a fairly long list of poisonous mushrooms for example as well as many other plants.

 

[Jeremy Mason]

"Part of nature itself"? There are many natural poisons so being "natural"is not meaningful in this discussion. There's a fairly long list of poisonous mushrooms for example as well as many other plants.

But some very safe and tasty ones as well.

 

[Nymphs]

"Part of nature itself"? There are many natural poisons so being "natural"is not meaningful in this discussion. There's a fairly long list of poisonous mushrooms for example as well as many other plants.

Cannabis isn't poisonous. Your point?

 

[columbus]

I'm well known in the little town I live in. And so is my past. So even though I decided against using pot personally years ago I am now getting requests from people to help them find some.

What am I supposed to tell an old lady with cancer, who has found that a bit of cannabis alleviates the side effects of chemotherapy better than anything EliLilly has to offer? Get your walker and drive to Colorado? But I can't do my Christian duty to these people or else the Christians will get me.
I'm not very good at crime.

Tom