Do you use it, are you against it, should it be legal, should it not? Your thoughts.... If you are un-sure which to choose I advice everyont to watch this Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoK6NztH3eQ
Do I use it? Absolutely not Will I ever? Absolutely not Should it be legalized? Actually, yeah I think it should. I'm a firm believer that the amount of people who chose to not smoke pot only because it's illegal is pretty damn small. I'm also a firm believer that there are a good amount of people that do it only because it is illegal. If it became legal, there wouldn't be a significant jump in people using it. Also, it could be controlled by the government. If people are going to make the bad choice of having this drug, we matters well get money off of it. Furthermore, legalizing marijuana will reduce crime rate by ridding the people that sell it illegally. Oh, and kids, don't do drugs. You couldn't do anything more harmful to yourself.
Are you saying by smoking weed, people are doing serious harm to there bodies over cigarettes and alcohol ?
....I'm not sure if you seriously believe cocaine is good for you. So I'm not sure if a serious answer should be given.
He's asking how weed is harmful. The answer being that it isn't, at least not as much as anything else listed there.
I have never heard ONCE, about any deaths from smoking weed. It isn't exactly the best for you, but it's certainly not as bad as something such as alcohol. Our country could actually profit if they legalized weed.
Is there really evidence toward it being a gateway drug? Especially if it is legal? But either way, this means that "Cannabis may encourage one to use harmful drugs" not "Cannabis is a harmful drug". Which is an important distinction.
To my knowledge there isn't really any evidence that proves the whole concept of gateway drugs as true. As far as I'm concerned, if you use one thing and then feel the need to move onto something harder, as much as anything it's down to other factors such as the person you are, the lifestyle you lead and the manner in which you use the drugs you're already using, etc. I don't smoke it that regularly myself but I've used enough and I've never had any real desire to use harder drugs. I can't really think of anything that I'd say against legalising it that doesn't also apply to stuff that's already legal.
Of course it's a gateway drug. I shouldn't have to pull up an article/study to prove it either. Person smokes pot, person enjoys it, person does it more often, person doesn't get as high after smoking after each time, person tries other drugs to get to that same high, person gets addicted, person either dies of overdose or is lucky enough to go into treatment, or person gets arrested for selling/abusing it. This is what happens to too many damn people that don't pay a second of attention in Health class. Am I really the only one on these boards that doesn't do drugs? Christ. If poll every cocaine/meth addict, 99% will tell you that they started with weed. Yeah, I guess some people may fight the urge such as yourself, but that's the same thing with cigarettes and cancer. Some people will get lucky.
So you're agreeing, yet disagreeing? This leaves me confused. As far as gateway drugs are concerned, that is a theory, not really proven to be true.
Evolution is also a theory. And I'm saying I'm ok making money off the people who make the choice to use Marijuana rather than maintaining its use as illegal and not making any profit at all.
Yep, and there's plenty of evidence to say evolution is real, unlike gateway drug theory. Also, http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Scientific_theory
I'll put it this way: not believing in the gateway concept is just as outrageous as not believing in evolution. I guess that's just me though.
There's evidence to support evolution. There isn't for the idea of gateway drugs. I don't see how you can equate disbelief in one with disbelief in the other.