The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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The only reason it is an illicit drug is the greed of our leaders keeping it that way for there own personal gain. Follow the money I say and you will know why we are being enslaved at the rate of one every 38 seconds. We are sacrificed and written off as the price of doing business..
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 17, 2008 10:16PM
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It is a Myth That 'Everybody is Doing It.'
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Special Advisor for Policy, ONDCP
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I have a study
I consider myself a normal person, three kids, 30 year career with major company, retired, and no police record. In the 60 years I have been around I would say 70 to 75% of the people I have known in my life use Marijuana to some degree. Perhaps just at a party, after work, or on a more regular basis I see no problem with it. So why are our representatives so opposed to it being legal? Follow the money is all I can tell you. They continue to enslave one in three blacks using the war on drugs for the excuse it is time to replace them.
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 17, 2008 10:13PM
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You don't have to 'experiment with legalization'
We already know what it was like when it was legal, before 1937. The country got along just fine, thank you very much. Cannabis was used in children's cough syrup and sleeping drafts, and no one died. They just stopped coughing and slept really well.
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August 21, 2008 10:12PM
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Every body is not doing it.
Even if you prove that not everyone is doing it, why shouldn't it be legal? Maybe everyone is not doing it because it is illegal. Are you afraid that everyone will do it after it is legalized? Then everyone will realize what they were missing out on in life. I mean it's jsut a plant. What if i just want to grow it because it thik its beatiful. Can i not have the right to grow it?
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March 10, 2009 1:12PM
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Think of this
The reason why the government is getting those marijuana user statistics is most likey because its the government itself taking the statistics. I myself recreationally use marijuana, but if the government asked me if i did, or sent out surveys asking if i did, i, and alot of people i know would say no i do not use it, and so would everyone of my friends. However, if it was a legalization orginaztion like NORML me and my friends would all say yes to any survey they'd send out. Simply because its not the government.
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April 1, 2009 12:23PM
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Use of Assumptions = Bad News
Of course there are fewer marijuana users than users of alcohol and cigarettes . The drug is illegal ! I would also like to point out that a recent study showed an interesting correlation. The study showed that the consupmtion of marijuana along with "binge drinking" actually protects the white matter of the brain. Not only is marijuana safer than booze, it protects the brain from it. A little off topic but interesting regarless.
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