Should Marijuana Be Legalized?

I can confirm that what Shaw is saying is absolute garbage. Only about two or three people were regular drug users at my high school and they were ostracized as 'druggies.' Perhaps people have less willpower on the coasts, or perhaps the acquisition of marijuana is more difficult here, but by no means did "Everybody [have] some all the time."

Nor did, "People talk about it openly..."

I should have specified that I have only gone to one high school, so I can't speak for any other high school.

And we do ostracize druggies. People that do "hard" drugs and/or steroids.

When I went to High School in North Carolina, my experience was more similar to the Shaw's. People weren't particularly secretive about it, and it wasn't hard to acquire either. My guess is that everyone's so busy farming in Kanasas, that they don't have time for any of those "darn tootin mind plants".

yes. but ive went to Amsterdam several times and have done it and im still doing everything normally so i was just wondering what the people of the forum thought

No owning drugs should warrant capital punishment

Everybody would die then.

This guy's got the right idea.

No not everyone as you haven't seen Arizona education standards we were taught that drugs, alcohol, tobacco etc as the worst thing since Nazi Germany

My school community is a living example that marijuana is not bad for you. But yes the teachers are all like, drugs are bad, mkay?

Yep my teachers are the same, BUT a good majority of my school(k-12) believe that drugs are bad
80% of the students who attend the elementary school find drugs abhorrent
60% for school middle school students
20% for the high school students

Are you not in the high school? Of course little kids would...

yes I am part of the high school and part of that 1/5

here is the link for our schools drug prevention program
http://www.azed.gov/prevention-programs/

Why?

Recreational drug use removes an essential component of your humanity.

well my father was a heavy drinker my mother a heavy smoker so it bred a hatred for drugs, alcohol, and tobacco

Where are you getting these numbers?

a poll from the journalism the class did a while back so i might've got the numbers wrong

http://blog.norml.org/2011/11/01/st...s”-so-explain-to-me-again-why-pot-is-illegal/
Marijuana is nowhere near as addictive or deadly as tobacco or alcohol. When you're drunk you can vomit, blackout, have a hard time talking and walking, and then have a hangover, that is all because alcohol is poisonous. When you are high on Marijuana(I would only recommend that you do marijuana and psilocybin, the least harmful, least addictive, and most awesome "drugs"(but how is a natural plant a drug?)), you feel good about everything, laugh, can generally compose yourself(although the other day I tried a new strain and I couldn't walk across the room without falling on my ass, and then laughed at myself so much I though I was going to die), and there are no unpleasant side effects.

Um...
'Drug' can be defined as anything that causes a change in the body. Which, yes, under this definition, even a food is to be considered a 'drug'.
No unpleasent side effects... except the loss of motivation, brain cells, and a number of non-fatal-but-sucky event, right?

But you know what?
SOCIAL DARWINISM
That is all.

That's a fairly broad definition. Whatever.

Not really. Only when or after you are/have been high.

Again, no. What happens is that brain cells aren't produced as much, and you can't learn anything while you are high. But to say that someone who doesn't smoke it is necessarily smarter than someone who does is just wrong.

What? Not really...

Lol potheads don't die off you fuckhead. As a matter of fact, I would venture to say that the majority of people who reproduce have smoked or do smoke cannabis.[/quote]