legalizing weed in california ?

[Sangetsu]

Originally Posted by alanX

Weed is totally safe, deffinately more safe than anyother addiction.

Alcohol: Beat your wife then drive off into a semi truck killing you and 3 others.
Tobacco: Lung cancer, tooth decay, throat damage, etc.
Weed: You'll want to take your wife and kids to Dairy Queen.

Or, you can develop an incurable mental condition which will prevent your ever having a normal life. If you smoke pot in your teens, you are 300% more likely to develop schizophrenia than someone who didn't. If you are one of the 25% of people who carry the gene related to schizophrenia, you are 1000% more likely to develop the disease if you smoke pot. As much as 80% of new schizophrenia cases are thought to be triggered by marijuana use.

Marijuana users are 400% more likely to commit suicide than those who don't use it, as well as being 500% more likely to develop clinical depression.

Do you still think it's "completely safe"?

[SephirothVVC]

Originally Posted by Sangetsu

Marijuana users are 400% more likely to commit suicide

legalize it.....now O.O haha jk jk

[Sangetsu]

Originally Posted by MMM

The success of drug decriminalization in Portugal - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com

In 2001, Portugal became the only EU-member state to decriminalize drugs, a distinction which continues through to the present.

Drugs: To Legalize or Not - WSJ.com

A most impressive experiment has been underway in Portugal since 2001, when that country decriminalized the possession and personal use of all psychotropic drugs. According to a study just published by the Cato Institute, "judged by virtually every metric," the Portuguese decriminalization "has been a resounding success."

5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results: Scientific American

In the face of a growing number of deaths and cases of HIV linked to drug abuse, the Portuguese government in 2001 tried a new tack to get a handle on the problem—it decriminalized the use and possession of heroin, cocaine, marijuana, LSD and other illicit street drugs.

But drugs have not been legalized in Portugal, merely decriminalized. "Decriminalized" does not mean "legal". Possess any amount of drugs in Portugal, and you are subject to arrest. If you are caught with drugs, they will be taken away from you, and you will be arrested until you are interviewed by a commissioner. You will be fined, you will be required to perform whatever service you are sentenced to. You will also be required to see a drug abuse counselor, and receive addiction treatment if it is thought necessary.

Please to not tell people that drugs are legal in Portugal when they aren't.

[Kayci]

I don't think it should be legalized.
I really don't.
Even though, on the flip side, I do realize that usage may be very likely to go down now the "risk" is somewhat lower, or whatever reason.

But I couldn't agree with it morally or ethically.

[ozkai]

If they keep cigarettes and alcohol legal, legalize green as how much better or worse could it possibly be.

[alanX]

Originally Posted by Sangetsu

Or, you can develop an incurable mental condition which will prevent your ever having a normal life. If you smoke pot in your teens, you are 300% more likely to develop schizophrenia than someone who didn't. If you are one of the 25% of people who carry the gene related to schizophrenia, you are 1000% more likely to develop the disease if you smoke pot. As much as 80% of new schizophrenia cases are thought to be triggered by marijuana use.

Marijuana users are 400% more likely to commit suicide than those who don't use it, as well as being 500% more likely to develop clinical depression.

Do you still think it's "completely safe"?

Have you ever walked outside of your mother's basement? I guarantee you have never stepped foot inside a public school. And just because I'm curious of where you got this BS from, please send me a link.

I know AT LEAST 50 people JUST AT MY PUBLIC SCHOOL who have smoked marijuana for at least 5 years. Do any of them have schizophrenia? Obviously not.

Please provide me with your resources. I am literally lolling at you right now.

[Kayci]

Originally Posted by alanX

Have you ever walked outside of your mother's basement? I guarantee you have never stepped foot inside a public school. And just because I'm curious of where you got this BS from, please send me a link.

I know AT LEAST 50 people JUST AT MY PUBLIC SCHOOL who have smoked marijuana for at least 5 years. Do any of them have schizophrenia? Obviously not.

Please provide me with your resources. I am literally lolling at you right now.

Well, Marijuana is like any drug; Russian Roulette. Believe me, I've asked every doctor/science teacher I know - and medicine IS a family business of sorts. Marijuana CAN and WILL have harmful affects, it just may take longer than it does for other people. Same with tobacco; Some people have used it for a short time and got empyzemia, and others, like my mother, are getting the negative results slowly. (Although, then again, they could be there without our knowledge- she refuses to go to the doctor)
I know of people who seem fine now on Marijuana, but others, like my brother, who have negative reactions to it.
You just can't tell who and when it will come to affect. Your friends may be lucky now, but don't always assume so.

[Debi]

Originally Posted by alanX

Have you ever walked outside of your mother's basement? I guarantee you have never stepped foot inside a public school. And just because I'm curious of where you got this BS from, please send me a link.

I know AT LEAST 50 people JUST AT MY PUBLIC SCHOOL who have smoked marijuana for at least 5 years. Do any of them have schizophrenia? Obviously not.

Please provide me with your resources. I am literally lolling at you right now.

Hahaha, is it what you call proofs ? Now it's you who should be laughed at.

"I know no one that ever suffered from schizo at my school so therefore it can't happen"

What a sham.

It's like if I said "I know over 100 persons who smoke cigarettes for many years and no one ever suffered from lungs cancer so it can't happen"

That is just stupid thing to say.

Smoking marijuana raise risk of psychosis and schizophrenia. It is clinically proved. Maybe you think you know better than scientists ?

If you want sources just google it, it's easy and I won't do it for you.

[ozkai]

Originally Posted by alanX

I know AT LEAST 50 people JUST AT MY PUBLIC SCHOOL who have smoked marijuana for at least 5 years. Do any of them have schizophrenia? Obviously not.

Please provide me with your resources. I am literally lolling at you right now.

It's an age thing.

I would say at such a young age, the risks are lower and increase with the years.

[alanX]

I'm not saying weed in healthy, by any means. However, I'm sticking to "weed is not unhealthy."

Knowing 50 people just in my high school who use marijuana almost on a daily basis, and having used it myself from time to time, and still having no signs or symptoms of schizophrenia whatsoever, none of us, is not proof to anyone except myself.

Also: It's not really that big a deal. You light one up, you get high, then it's done. Who cares? Get over it. I will probably be made legal sometime in the future, just accept it. Like ciggies. They're worse than weed, and they are legal. And unlike weed, cigarettes have an actually death count. Marijuana's is: 0.