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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
What about shrooms? Or peyote? Or any other "natural" psychedelic? I'm pretty sure we don't want people driving their VW buses around town licking toads and have the cops powerless to do anything about it.
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
I'm of the mindset that smoking should be illegal because I hate the smell, marijuana should be illegal because I hate how retarded people's behavior becomes, but booze should be legal because I love beer.
Make marijuana legal for all I care, but it wouldn't change my opinion of it. Smoking that sh*t is a stupid thing to do - it has medicinal properties for people with eye problems, but while they're getting their eyes healthier, they're absolutely slaughtering their lungs just like with cigarrettes. If you don't have eye problems, then it has no medicinal benefits for you, and you might as well just be taking a blowtorch to your lungs every day.
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
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Study Finds No Cancer-Marijuana Connection If we want to talk about retarded behavior, personally I find drunks to be much more annoying than stoners. A stoner is going to laugh at stupid shit and want to eat everything in the house, while a drunk gets violent, obnoxious, or pukes and pisses wherever he or she pleases. |
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
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I don't know about you guys, but both of my grandmothers smoked all of their lives and were diagnosed with lung cancer when they were in their 80s. If you're going to get lung cancer, whether it be from smoking pot or from smoking tobacco, it's generally going to happen in later years. This is the only study that has found results like this. If other studies begin to say the same thing, then I'll become a believer. But it doesn't make a ton of sense given that there are a lot more of the same harmful chemicals in weed that are in cigarrette tar. Besides, cancer isn't the only negative effect from smoking things. Emphesema (sp?) might be worse. It certainly results in a more uncomfortable death. I just don't get how people can breathe smoke into themselves. It's just beyond me, but that's a personal thing.
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
I don't smoke weed, and get drunk often. I'd say though, that I STRONGLY prefer people who smoke up over drunks.
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
Boozin' is a social thing. If you're wasted and your buddies are wasted, everything is cool. But if you're sober and you're buddies are wasted, nothing is more annoying.
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
Amsterdam must be a stoner's paradise... anyone ever been there?
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
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They also went to the Red-light District, one of the guys had alot of fun there ![]() I know you all think they are probably making up parts of their story, and they might have embelished to an extent. But I can personally vouch for the weed there not making you tired. How you ask? Let's just say they brought back presents....
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Actually I have seen pics of the coffee shops, inside them as well. Plus they were smoking outside, in public. Seems really chill...
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
How did they get the presents through customs?
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
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The red light district was super clean, much like the rest of the city. I guess it's regulated by the government, so it has to be pretty legit. Walking through it, some of the girls are kinda flirty aggressive- they'll just tap the windows and smile at you... whereas I've heard stories about the third world girls being just in your face aggressive cuz they need the money. We stayed clear, just b/c the idea is still kinda foreign to us. While I expected the city to be kind of like a party central, Amsterdam had a real calm and conservative vibe to it. The citizens just went about their business and the buildings and cobblestone streets reflected a historic atmosphere. Although I heard stories of being able to ask a cop for a light, I learned it's really not polite to smoke outside in public... I noticed a group of people leaving the area around me the first and only time I tried it. Oh yeah, for anyone thinking of visiting: beware of the space cakes and shakes... the stuff is pretty strong. I ate a space cake in one shop and kind of lost my motor abilities to walk (or so my brain told me). And then I got munchies and proceeded to eat more cakes, forgetting that they weren't normal baked goods... those were the days... |
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Re: Why are cigarettes legal, but marijuana illegal?
Very true. I also prefer people drink beer. There's always the guys who want to drink shots of Wild Turkey or Beam and then fight people.
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But being sober and choosing to just up and start doing shots is nuts (doing shots to get drunk that is, sometimes you hit up the Jack on the rocks just because you like it, and that's alright cause you don't guzzle it). As a sober person, you're in your right mind, I don't know why you'd choose to guzzle shots from the get-go and make yourself angry and pukey.
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