Comments on: Smoke Weed Every Day!!

By: educated

educated — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:49:25 +0000

“The key difference between marijuana and alcohol with regard to transition, as I see it, is what I described in the second post — the drug abuse scene.”

It is quite obvious that if marijuana was legalized, controlled and sold in stores like alcohol, then it would be taken out of the “drug abuse scene”, there would not be that link to other drugs, and people who smoked weed would be much less likely to move on to harder drugs.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:01:03 +0000

alcohol is a drug, its no different to smoking weed, whether its pints or spliffs, the more you have, the more intoxicated you are. if alcohol had no affect at all, people wouldnt bother with it, surely it would be easier and cheaper to drink water.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:57:40 +0000

your conclusion sucks, you’ve just completely made it up, the facts you’ve just come out with show that its blatently obvious people don’t move onto harder drugs from cannibis. its people like you that make me wanna move onto heroin and such like, just so you can have your ill-educated opinions backed up.

By: bob

bob — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:52:35 +0000

maybe that is because its illegal so the same people sell weed as ‘harder’ drugs…
oh, and all the daily weed smokers i know have never felt the need to go onto harder drugs (dabbled and enjoyed, yes certainly).. one assumes you get your ‘facts’ from the media!

By: Putvedev is Russia’s White Rider | Sublime Oblivion

Putvedev is Russia’s White Rider | Sublime Oblivion — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:34:52 +0000

[...] acquittal rates from just 0.2% to 10% under Putin. Another whimsical observation of mine is that the drug laws were liberalized, with up to 6g of personal marijuana possession now legal. These are all hardly the actions of a [...]

By: peale

peale — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:51:54 +0000

the first drug i ever tried was a cigerette the second a bottle of cider the third weed the forth amphetamins the fifth cocaine. all drugs are potentially transitional ban them all or mind you own bloody business! i did what i want because i wanted too. im just as intellegent as you are, i know that people can screw there lives up on drugs of one sort or another but i think you will find the society is the route cause of self harming addictions and not the mear exisitance of a mind altering drug.

By: AK

AK — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:39:31 +0000

Ammiano wants to make marijuana legal in state

California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco.

The proposal would regulate marijuana like alcohol, with people over 21 years old allowed to grow, buy, sell and possess cannabis – all of which is barred by federal law.

Ammiano, a Democrat in his third month as a state lawmaker, said taxes and other fees associated with regulation could put more than a billion dollars a year into state coffers at a time when revenues continue to decline.

He said he thinks the federal government could soften its stance on marijuana under the Obama administration.

“We could in fact have the political will to do something, and certainly in the meantime this is a public policy call and I think it’s worth the discussion,” Ammiano said. “I think the outcome would be very healthy for California and California’s economy.”

…

My faith in America is being slowly restored. This is change we can all believe in.

By: John Freegman

John Freegman — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:40:40 +0000

Obviously most people who try weed never move on to harder drugs, but no one starts with the hard stuff. I personally witnessed in my high-school days, friends who went from nothing, to weed, then to all sorts of things that lead them down the destructive path we all know about so well. It’s no coincidence that the one common denominator in the case of all hard drug addicts is that their first high was with weed.

Moreover, you can’t compare alcohol to marijuana. No one has ever had a sip of their dads beer and exclaimed: “I wonder what a heroin high feels like!” Well I certainly hope not anyways. People smoke weed for no other purpose than to get high. Same as any hard drug. Not everyone drinks alcohol for the sole purpose of getting drunk. That’s not to downplay the significance of alcohol abuse though, which can be just as destructive.

By: Bro Karamazov

Bro Karamazov — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:16:07 +0000

Fedia, I think this is the right time to agree on difference.

By: Fedia Kriukov

Fedia Kriukov — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:55:39 +0000

Hey Bro,

I know my logic chain has pretty wide gaps for which I cannot cite any rigorous research, but have to fill in with anecdotal evidence available to me.

The key difference between marijuana and alcohol with regard to transition, as I see it, is what I described in the second post — the drug abuse scene. Once you enter it, you have a wide array of choices, and it’s only a matter of time before you try some other and more dangerous drug. Not the case with alcohol.

Then again, in Russia’s case I would advocate a ban on alcohol as well. It’s one single factor that can make the difference between population growth and decline.