It would hit them financially, but they would more than likely overload the US with cocaine, meth, and heroin to make up for it. It isn't going to get rid of them, or lessen the violence at all.
Tell me that again after you get busted and end up losing your job, or end up in jail etc. They are not always that bad, but they can be.dank69 said:Once again, the consequences of smoking weed are not 'very large'.
It would hit them financially, but they would more than likely overload the US with cocaine, meth, and heroin to make up for it. It isn't going to get rid of them, or lessen the violence at all.
Clearly millions and millions of people do, so it's a benefit to them. End of story.
Riiiiiight. You're the idiot killing brain cells smoking dope, whining about the laws, and I'm the troll.
If have no doubt all sorts of addictions cause a lot of harm. That's not the issue under discussion, now is it.
And no, I play legally. If they outlawed it and made it a serious offense, I would most certainly not play. I'm neither addicted nor illogical.
Clearly they do, but that doesn't mean they are not stupid for pursuing that particular avenue. You can't argue whether someone considers something a benefit or not, that's up to each person, but you can say that a particular avenue for pursuing that particular benefit is stupid or not.
Now you're delving into details about smoking in the home while not arousing suspicions blah blah blah. That's just semantics. It doesn't change the fact that it's a stupid thing to do, just like any kind of smoking is. That doesn't mean people should not be free to be stupid if they like, but it is stupid.
I'm sure it would impact the cartels, but I think it's pretty safe to assume that they'd do as criminal organizations have done for thousands of years, they simply move into other crime.
Do you not comprehend the absurdity of what you're writing? All along you've been arguing that MJ is dangerous.
But you did exactly that.
Now reality is 'semantics'.
Learn to read. Learn to comprehend. I have not been arguing that MJ by itself is dangerous. If you think so, please show me where I argued that.
What I've said is, there are potential negative consequences to it - legal/health/financial. To do it anyway in the face of those potential consequences is stupid.
Riiiiiight. You're the idiot killing brain cells smoking dope, whining about the laws, and I'm the troll.
If have no doubt all sorts of addictions cause a lot of harm. That's not the issue under discussion, now is it.
And no, I play legally. If they outlawed it and made it a serious offense, I would most certainly not play. I'm neither addicted nor illogical.
Please address my post showing how ending prohibition had a drastic effect on crime and homicide rate.
Ending prohibition/war on drugs would have an incredibly positive on crime rates.
I'm completely logical about it. The potential negative consequences are vastly larger than the upside, unless you are stupid or addicted (or both).
Then what's your damn point then?
You came in here just to insult pot smokers and call them stupid.
Less smoking, more reading
The largest study of its kind has unexpectedly concluded that smoking marijuana, even regularly and heavily, does not lead to lung cancer.
The new findings "were against our expectations," said Donald Tashkin of the University of California at Los Angeles, a pulmonologist who has studied marijuana for 30 years.
"We hypothesized that there would be a positive association between marijuana use and lung cancer, and that the association would be more positive with heavier use," he said. "What we found instead was no association at all, and even a suggestion of some protective effect."
Just calling a spade a spade.
They would try to. Problem is, while the market is big, this is where the gateway drug myth shows it's true colors.
A major component of the underground drug market is based on marijuana. Not all of it, but the majority of the network is built around pot, and they use that to deliver the other drugs.
Take that away, and it will become harder to deliver the tougher drugs. Allow people to buy their pot in the store and they'll no longer have to go to drug dealers to get it, and that's less traffic in the underground market.
Learn to read. Learn to comprehend.
I did no such thing. You said it's a benefit, I say it's not. The answer depends on who you ask. The point is that even if you do consider it a benefit, it's a stupid way to achieve said "benefit".
Oh, you mean some particular scenario you conjured up out of thin air to come up with specific parameters to make something less risky is now "reality"? Brilliant. You must be a liberal.
But the exact same applies to having a beer: The upside (brief period of relaxation, etc) is dwarfed by the potential consequences (alcoholism, impaired driving, etc). Is this what you are getting at?
I also don't believe marijuana is physically addictive like alcohol or opiates, if anyone disagrees I am all ears, er eyes I mean.
Less smoking, more reading
Just calling a spade a spade.
Cancer patients get a benefit from it.
I don't believe that pot is a gateway drug at all. Throughout my life I have known MANY pot smokers, and the vast majority of them never moved on to any other drug.
Absolutely. I agree 100% with real medicinal use, I don't see why it should be treated any differently than any other medicine, the ban on it's use for that purpose is BS. Note that I said "real" medicinal use, not the excuses the dopeheads come up with to get high.