marijuana ?

[willow80834]

I live in colorado on the news they told how u can get a medical marijuana card for head aches....   I believe marijuana is a stepping stone for much worse things...  I do believe it is helpful for some REAL conditions... Our 18 year old neighbor has one for pain in his shoulder...   What do u think?

[mc1962]

People will find a way to circumvent any law they want to.  I think that marijuana is like alcohol, food, gambling, sex, shopping, stealing or ANY vice for that matter and if people want to misuse it then they will.

[deewoo85]

GA needs to open its eyes to the sweet thing going on out west

[mommagoes]

People will find a way to circumvent any law they want to.  I think that marijuana is like alcohol, food, gambling, sex, shopping, stealing or ANY vice for that matter and if people want to misuse it then they will.

 
thank you for this! for years, i have wondered why no one (except my husband) agrees with me about this. i have not smoked in a few years, but when i did i was always harassed by my family about it being "gateway" and that it was going to lead me to worse drugs and crime. it irritated the crap out of me because i had a relative that ended up on that road from prescription medication and no one gave her a hard time.
for the record, i started smoking pot because i was working graveyard shift and found it very difficult to sleep during the day so instead of getting addicted to ambien i smoked a bowl 3 or 4 nights a week. i have not done any other drugs, very rarely drink (like once a month) and have never been arrested.

[ULuvCeCe]

I also live in CO and so I hear about this on the news pretty much every day.  People are going to smoke it whether they have their medical card or not, it's just a matter of it being legally taxed or it being an "underground".  I know people who have their card for actual medical reason, I know people who have it just so they can grow and/or be in possession of a certain amount without getting in trouble.  People could be doing a lot worse drugs than pot. 

[shernajwine]

well you know what....lets just legalize everything! why not? it's one thing after another in this country and others....people decide, 'hey it's not so bad' and then enough people say it and it becomes a political issue and the government fights for so long until finally it can't fight anymore. the people want what the people want....and quite frankly the people are idiots.

ok, people are gonna prostitute whether it's legal or not...so let's legalize it. people are gonna smoke dope whether it's legal or not...so let's legalize it. teenagers are gonna get drunk whether it's legal or not...so lets legalize a lower drinking age....

let's just skip right on over all this crap and legalize every immoral, unhealthy, reprehensible, and lewd behavior out there! it will sure save time, let's give evolution a hand....let's spur on the evolution of our species morals. apparently evolution is taking us to no morals....by natural selection, evolution is weeding out every unnecessary value and moral code. i can't wait to see what else evolution has in store for us!! maybe in the near future i can pimp my children out as a career!  won't that be exciting??!

 

[muush88]

well you know what....lets just legalize everything! why not? it's one thing after another in this country and others....people decide, 'hey it's not so bad' and then enough people say it and it becomes a political issue and the government fights for so long until finally it can't fight anymore. the people want what the people want....and quite frankly the people are idiots.

ok, people are gonna prostitute whether it's legal or not...so let's legalize it. people are gonna smoke dope whether it's legal or not...so let's legalize it. teenagers are gonna get drunk whether it's legal or not...so lets legalize a lower drinking age....

let's just skip right on over all this crap and legalize every immoral, unhealthy, reprehensible, and lewd behavior out there! it will sure save time, let's give evolution a hand....let's spur on the evolution of our species morals. apparently evolution is taking us to no morals....by natural selection, evolution is weeding out every unnecessary value and moral code. i can't wait to see what else evolution has in store for us!! maybe in the near future i can pimp my children out as a career!  won't that be exciting??!

 

and you called me uneducated and juvenile? WOW

[hwilliams591]

Most of the time marijuana does lead to other drug use, not too mention other illegal acts. Can't blame marijuana, but the stupid people. And with as many stupid people there are in the world legalizing it would not be good IMO.

[rcbrad]

It's just not a good idea.  There are too many people who are not responsible enough or do very dumb things without being drugged.  I shudder to think about some people trying to function after they have smoked pot.

[klkwid]

I think people are going to do it if they want to-why not regulate it?  It's not as bad as alcohol or cigarettes, we can tax the crap out of it and get rid of this deficit, and it will remove a lot of people from jail, saving tax money that way.  It will get rid of a lot of the illegal activities on the streets because people won't want to take the risk of buying it illegally when they can get it from the grocery store without the risk of being arrested.  The drug dealers will be phased out and street crime will take a drop (not disappear because there are other things they can do too, but this is a biggie).  There WOULD have to be laws to be enforced-it would have to be a lot like alcohol-no public intoxication, you can't sell it to minors, must be 18 or 21 to get it and use it, etc.  I guess I just don't see the harm.  We allow alcohol, guns, and stupid people the option to reproduce-there are worse things in society! 

[belleg1]

Medical use needs to be approved country wide! It has been proven to relieve alot of chronic pain. I also believe that we need the ability to become licensed to grow and sell locally for medicinal purposes. Tghis has been too long in coming because of the 'gateway' argument, but anyone who does go on to harder things probably would have done them anyway. Some people are just dependent by nature.

[JessieKateRose]

I believe that the main reason marijuana is seen as a gateway drug is because it is illegal. People do it, it doesn't hurt them, they think "hey, that's not so bad" and since they've already done an illegal drug, why not try a worse one? If it were legal it wouldn't be any worse than alchohol or cigarettes as far as being a gateway drug.

[yaayme]

I don't know...Using herb for headaches, that's just stupid...a couple of Tylenol should help that, but if you suffer from debilitating migraines, then maybe yes.

[sandiegosurfer]

in CA it's pretty much legal bc you can claim here that you stubbed your toe and get pot. Although Fed law prohibits this drug under the Obama admin. he intends to do nothing about it.

[shernajwine]

 

and you called me uneducated and juvenile? WOW

well, i came back on this thread today to apologize because i was in a bad mood when i posted my last comment and i was unnecessarily sarcastic. but i came across this and i just wanted to ask, what exactly do you perceive uneducated about my comment? and of course the sarcasm was uncalled for but i wouldn't have called it juvenile, but that's my opinion.

so what exactly is uneducated about it? did i read a fake article about lowering the drinking age? hmmm let's see, is this a fake thread about an issue that doesn't really exist? or is the other thread about prostitution irrelevant and no one is really considering legalizing it?

you see because, i would assume that your saying i'm uneducated, would mean that my cause for concern is based on ignorance of the issues....so please explain...