Marijuana Legalization

You're pretty arrogant.


I know quite a bit about both those topics. My point was that you just through something out there with out addressing anything specifically.


"I'm going to right an essay about the world." Well what about the world?

You lacked anything specific. I could find plenty of topics to write about from your list, the problem was simply that you didn't mention anything.


You said there were plenty of easier things to write about, then sucked when giving examples.


Go find another thread to dwell in.

hahaha no weed is not an anti inflammatory...

once again I DIDNT CHOOSE THIS TOPIC (it chose me) lol no i drew out of a hat, and i was stoked to get this topic, everyone thats helpful holy shit thanks +k

You lucked out so hard. You could have been writing about the life story of lady gaga.

or gay rights, liberalism, military spending oh god the list goes on

Why it wont happen:

- Large for-profit corporations and lobbyists with special interests control government.

- It would fuck over the big dogs in the pharmaceutical industries/cartels.

- It would fuck over the fuckers in similar positions in the paper industry.

- America is too morally and socially primitive for it to work. Privileges would be abused from the get go.

Why it should happen:

- Many proven medicinal benefits.

- Massive taxation revenue (estimated $32.7 billion), and immense savings from law enforcement and prisons (estimated $44.1 billion).

- It would divert funds from international and local drug rings to means of productive economic development.

- A reduction in drug related crime, and drug related criminal activity in general.

- Extremely valuable agricultural commodity.

- Prohibition has close to zero effect, apart from worsening the already colossal economic crisis.

- Relatively low dependence liability and fuck all withdrawal symptoms, unless you have a weak mind. Opposed to other legal drugs this surrounding issue is laughable.

- And in my opinion, above all, each human being should have the right to do what they want to their own self. Especially when it comes to consumption of a naturally growing plant that has been used for thousands of years.

For close to a century the dangers of marijuana have been hysterically exaggerated to deceive the public by means of justifying its illegality with outright false information. It sickens me that citizens are lied to by their own government on the basis of greed and wealth.

Marijuana WILL be legalized one day. America has to go through some serious, and i mean SERIOUS changes before that can happen though.

I might be sounding like a complete retard since I don't have a lot of knowledge on this topic, but comparing marijuana to tylenol/advil and such, I get that marijuana relieves pain, but with tylenol, you don't expierence the high that you would with weed.

Couldn't that be a reason to not put it in the same category as painkillers, considering that some people would much rather pop a pill of advil without feeling the "high" of smoking weed.

Maybe I am missing something but couldn't that be a relative problem?

When you go to hand in your paper, whip out some dope, put it in your essay, and smoke that shit right then and there. Automatic A+++

or print my essay on hemp parchment and a joint stapled to it :)

uh yea... that was my opinion.. which he was asking for..?

legalization would drastically alter the economies of large parts of certain states. Small towns would cease to function, stores would go out of buisness, and more people would move to the burbs.

Rural areas already hard hit by big box stores moving in and taking over all the buisness will have to contend with not being able to grow their income anymore.


I think its completely fine the way it is now. I also think that getting drunk is far too socially acceptable. You should be able to get high, but keep it to yourself, its your own damn buisness. I fear that weed will become as prevalent and accepted in society as alcohol is...and i think that will be shitty.

I dont know anyone who has gotten in trouble with the cops for buying a 20 sack from the local friendly dealer, gone directly home and smoked in the privacy of their own house. Keep it on the DL(as it should be) and no harm comes to you. Its when you start publicizing it and making stupid decisions that people get in trouble.

"Couldn't that be a reason to not put it in the same category as painkillers, considering that some people would much rather pop a pill of advil without feeling the "high" of smoking weed." If it's only mild pain or you want to pop something else instead of smoking go for it. Nobody would force anyone to smoke weed.

"Maybe I am missing something but couldn't that be a relative problem?"

I don't really get what you're arguing.

even with taxes it would be cheaper than underground because it would be available everywhere, so the supply and demand would even out

this. george washington was a fucking hemp farmer

no, it would likely be around the same price. Cheaper for sure, but probly around $150 for a zip of something decent, $200+ for something good.

The cheap way to grow weed is outdoors, and the crop can be ruined really easily, and it tends to not produce really good weed.

Its not like weed farmers right now are making a killing growing the stuff, the majority are just getting by. Its a lot of work and a lot of investment to grow on a medium-large scale.


In many areas, supply already exceeds demand.


also, what crop is going to be sacrificed to make room for fields of weed? is it going to be a cash crop? or a food crop? will it bring in more money than a government subsidized crop? there are a ton of factors that people choose to ignore in regards to the commercialization of weed.

I'm not arguing anything, I am simply wondering because a couple of people earlier on were comparing it to tylenol. Yet I feel like people wouldn't replace the use of mild painkillers with marijuana because they wouldn't want the added high, such as the perception change and altered senses is some cases.

That's not what I meant by arguing so don't get offended.

". Yet I feel like people wouldn't replace the use of mild painkillers with marijuana because they wouldn't want the added high"


Nobody would have to smoke or ingest weed. Advil and tylenol really don't do shit for pain though. The real painkillers do get you high in addition to reliving your pain.

a possible point is to link it to how alcohol become more popular when illegal and maybe mention how it will remove the possibility of it being laced

Look up all the tests they did about how certain cannabinoids react with certain brain cells to do different functions. i.e. prevent cancer with certain amount of intact, boost sperm cells etc.

Just realized what i wrote didn't really relate to what you're asking OP, so not sure if it'l be helpful in any way. Kinda just saw your thread title and had a mini rant.

Watch the movie the union i used that for about 70% of my information towards legalizing marijuana for psychology class and i got a 96% on it. I was getting a 60 in the class and the project was 15% of the final mark. So watch that movie it will help so much.

Wow, I thought I knew a lot on the subject... More people like you need to be a part of the movement to legalize.

sorry, just sounded like you were ranting on his title.

Just gonna leave these here because I like them.