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 DoorsFan
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 If weed was legal
#6456566 - 01/13/07 07:47 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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I often hear people argue that if weed was legal, alot less people would be doing it.
I find it hard to believe. I think there would be just as many people still smoking. Alot of people smoke cigs, and those are legal.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: DoorsFan]
#6456602 - 01/13/07 08:06 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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DoorsFan said:
I often hear people argue that if weed was legal, alot less people would be doing it.
Sounds like you've been listening to some dumbasses. I doubt that there would be a significant increase in the number of users, but no one with any intelligence would seriously argue that it would reduce the number of users.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: DoorsFan]
#6459341 - 01/14/07 04:56 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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i would expect use to increase shortly after legalization and level out once the hype is over.
besides i think the amount of pot smokers isnt as important as the number of people who won't have to sit in jail because of it.
  
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If it was legal, people would have much easier access to it, and there would be no fear of incrimination so it would be a social thing again, and use of it would rise a great deal.
Use would drop though, of tobacco use. Marijuana would be too big of a competitor in the smoking department, and tobacco companies would suffer greatly.
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Sometimes I wonder why they haven't legalized it everywhere. That's something else the government could tax on.
Edited by ToolGirl (01/17/07 01:30 AM)
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tobacco companies would suffer greatly.
Who is already set up to process plant material into a smokable form.......tobacco companies.
They are the ones who will (more than likley) be growing and be distributing the "legal weed".......if it ever becomes legal.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: niteowl]
#6472362 - 01/18/07 02:36 AM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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yeah and watch, they'll end up making cannabis as harmful as corporate tobacco.
when weed become legal, i'm definitely growing my own.
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when weed become legal, i'm definitely growing my own.
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 Re: If weed was legal [Re: DoorsFan]
#6474677 - 01/18/07 08:15 PM (1 year, 8 months ago) |
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if weed was legal i think many younger smokers may be turned away being that its not illegal its not taboo, granted it'd probably still be illegal for them, but lets think about something else if it was legal i think large pharmecutical companies and corporations would put shit into it to make it addictive and dangerous playin it off just as D.A.R.E and the the rest of the drug war waging bastards want it.
anywho word of advice if it becomes legal stick to homegrown!!!
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I don't smoke pot, mostly from a combo lack of interest and no desire to randomly fail a piss test (I work, essentially, in construction.. if anyone has an accident they piss test everyone who was there, etc). If marijuana was made legal, I'd probably start consuming it though. Still wouldn't smoke it since I don't like to smoke anything, but maybe vaporize and definitely eat it.
Even my die hard republican family members think it should be legal. Of course they would never vote for someone who supported that because that same person would represent too many other conflicts with their ideals. Which is yet another reflection on how poorly, we as Americans, are represented in our government.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: unbeliever]
#6540293 - 02/07/07 12:49 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Let's flesh it out real quickly. There will be some young people that will simply not use marijuana that would have under prohibition because it loses the "bad boy" image that it currently has. At the same time, let's not kid ourselves, some people will pick up marijuana that would have never tried it now that it is legal. However, as it was already stated, I believe the people that try it because it's now legal would fade out as a fad and usage will level off to similar levels. There may be a slight overall increase in usage, but it is nothing like the prohibitionist vision of a zombie society.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: Lothar121]
#6563642 - 02/13/07 05:00 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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i dont think that legalization would effect the number of smokers too much. it would spike in the beginning yeah, but i dont think it would go down whatsoever.
I dont think the appeal of it is the illegalness of it whatsoever. plus the tobacco companies would most likely capitalize on it and come out with marijuana cigs, and since theres no ban on adveratizing weed cigs(as there is with tobacco), they could give it a good name in the media.
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Re: If weed was legal [Re: Drewwyann]
#6564004 - 02/13/07 06:36 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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tobacco companies would most likely capitalize on it and come out with marijuana cigs, and since theres no ban on adveratizing weed cigs(as there is with tobacco).......
If weed were to be made legal.....it would fall under the same types of control alcohol and tobacco have now.
No advertising in certain mediums, no selling to people under a certain age, can't drive under the influence of weed........etc.
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Tobacco is highly addictive. Cannabis is not. Canabis is better for you.
The problem of legalization is that we'd end up not with free love and tolerance, but PhillipMorris' New Cannabis Cigarettes. This is bad.
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Also its important to note that if it was legal it would be almost impossible to control. The plant has to be illegal to be able to control it. You can grow it in almost any climate with great ease. If it were legal I could grow 10 to 20 plants in my back yard in the summer and have smoke and hash for a year.
How can you tax that? How can you control that? How can you patent that? How can you brand that? These are all problems with legalization. How can you charge for something that is easy to get for free? Plus add to that the list of diseases that it helps with and ther e is another problem, which goes back to not being able to patent a plant. No pharma companies can get their cut.
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