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NeedToUseYou -> RE: Your stance on.. (1/9/2008 1:01:49 PM)
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It should be legal, with the same restrictions as alcohol. I smoked pot for a few years, and quite a lot for about a year or so. It's the least of all illegal drugs in terms of addictive qualities, and negative side effects, and it is not as bad as most prescribed addictive drugs that are all the rave. Considering that the vast majority of people smoke pot at least a few times in there life, it seems rather ridiculous that it should be illegal. Regulate it, Tax it, Put it in a shiny box. Whatever. There is no need for pot smokers to be forced to go to the same drug dealer that will expose them to even more drugs. If it's sold at 7-11 at least you don't have to worry about the potheads turning to methheads to the same degree.
And beyond that, it's a rights issue, even more fundamental than the abortion issue, If one believes that one owns his own body, then one must have the right to harm it as well. The law should interfere only in cases where someone is involuntarily harming you. That's it. At least the abortion issue, has the question attached "Is she harming another human or not(the fetus)", in this case especially when dealing with the least of the illegal drugs, it is very feasible to use pot without ever harming another person. Thus the question would be , why is something that can and is regularly used without endangering anyone illegal? The answer is some think the law should be based around personal preferences and mob rule, when it should be based around logic and reason. If one takes freedom as the basic premise to build our rule of law from, then there is very little reasonable argument for pot to be illegal. Freedom extends only until it infringes on anothers Freedoms then a compromise must be made(law and regulations). There is no basis in a land that values Freedom to restrict the use of a plant that can and usually is used in a manner that endangers no one else but the user. I quit simply because I got tired of it, and it became boring. Most do or reduce their usage with time, sorta like masturbation. LOL.
It's very simple to my mind.
All this talk of pot, I might buy a joint. It's been years, I've almost forgotten what it was like to be stoned. Look out for some real whacked out posts shortly. hehe.
And that brings up another point, you can't get rid of it anyway, you just need dirt and light to grow it. It's not like alcohol at least some process is involved and it is in theory possible to get rid of alcohol. But pot is way to easy to grow, and requires zero knowledge. My friends 13 year old brother, back in the day used to grow a couple plants in the woods behind his house. LOL. He got seeds planted them. Then smoked it.
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