/politics/ - News & Politics

Any drug that doesn't make its user a threat to others should be legalized. In my country, Hashish is as popular as cigarettes but it's illegal, which makes it expensive, this obviously benefits the criminal drug dealers, and allows them to mix it with cheaper harmful addictive substances. Pure hash is like a unicorn here.

to sum this up:

Your ideal world will never exist. There will always be drug dealers (supply) and people who want to experiment (demand). By banning it you benefit the drug dealers (who are real criminals most of the time) and harm the users (by throwing them in jail, draining them out of their money just to get high, exposing them to impure shit, ..etc).

>>10803

Weed inhibits mind control techniques, proven fact by declass docs. pertaining to the Mk series of human trials.

I have eaten raw opium as god made it, for therapeutic reasons. Reasons so severe i was prescibed high levels of potent semi-synthetics. When my insurance couldnt cover my pain management, i was left with little choice.

The thing is Pharma doesnt want to loose its Narcomonopoly of the biggest drug market on Earth.

fun with friends, especially old friends you don't see too often. don't do it alone or you're a faggot. more than once a month is probably a bad idea.

>>10925

>more than once a month is probably a bad idea

have you experienced it any negative side effects for taking it more than once a month?

I like weed. I smoke weed.

What irks me is the libertarian ideology, taken as common sense, that deepest of ideologies, is used to argue for it. The "but it's a right and it doesn't harm anyone" line, strengthening the presumption that market transactions are intrinsically moral. This underlies both leftism and libertarianism, and it strangles with irony.

I'd be fine with weed legalization if weed smokers would stop spouting shit like weed is heals everything and is completely harmless.

DUDE

>>10947

WEED

>>10944

it doesn't cure anything and everything it has a few specific uses:

1. as a mild analgesic.

2. as an appetite stimulant.

3. positive effect on people that have seizures.

detractors like to lump weed in with pseudoscience or natrupathy, however it has specific and well documented effects on the body. it should be noted that modern asprin began as a prescription to gnaw on willow bark and that antibiotics began as raw mold scraped into a folded paper tablet.

it should also be noted that smoking pot has been linked with cancers, carbon monoxide poisoning, and a number of similar ailments to cigarette smoking.

>>10926

side effects include being a little bitch, dude woah, not achieving much, and wasting your weekends.

Personally I think it's alright, fun when you smoke it with your best friend and then just go on and on about things. Will it ever be fully legalized across the U.S. in the near future? Probably not. I think it along with shrooms and whatever else grows naturally shouldn't be illegal.

Execute all drug smugglers, that is how you stop an influx of drugs into this country

>>11088

and not by building a wall

>>10803

Anyone who hates it has never used it.

Anyone who's used it is indifferent or likes it assuming they didn't have a bad reaction.

It's legal here in Colorado and I've seen no problems. Crime related to it has dropped to next to nothing as well.

I don't use it, but I see no problem with people who would otherwise just be spending all their day working a dead-end job and then coming home and watching TV instead working a dead-end job and then coming home and getting stoned and watching TV.

> Every country has tried to limit oroutright eradicate smoking. To replace smoking with weed makes it futile.

Many countries also tried to ban alcohol and that was also a horrible fucking failure. Look at prohibition. What is better, the legal alcohol we have now or the alcohol culture that existed with prohibition?

> Personally I think the legalization of weed is just another massive scam by profiteering elements NO ITS NOT THE JEWS in order to make money.

Nope. It's mostly people trying to curb the massive amounts of money dumped into the anti-drug legislature and the like. There is a criminal network in the drug, there are billions of dollars being dumped into taking care of the drug, and countless police man-hours into fighting it, all for something that's more harmless than both alcohol and cigarettes and doesn't have any chemically addictive properties at all.

It's a waste of fucking money and it's retarded. Might as well make cheese illegal.

>>11088

Genius. Why hasn't any other country ever tried to do that? Just take all the people who do bad things, and kill them or lock them up. Why don't we have a system that's built to try to stop people from doing things that are illegal?

>>11408

> The only upside is that it puts more gangbanger thugs in the pen

That's a downside, because it gave that same gangbanger thug a source of income in the first place. I'd rather have that thug's options for illicit income at the expense of his society as limited as possible in the first place.

Legalized weed in Colorado has almost entirely killed off the illegal weed market here. The only people that still buy illegal weed are the ones that don't want to pay the taxes. Most dealers that I'm aware of (I've got friends who are friends with dealers) have more or less completely given up on selling weed, other than the one guy who still grows it because he enjoys the gardening aspect.

So op? You are saying smoking should be illegal too?

Why are you such a faggot who thinks people shouldn't be allowed what they want?

>>11436

The majority of people dealing weed aren't growing.

And I know people who run local rec shops, and the grow operations are all local. I'll support local grow businesses over either Mexican growers shipping north or some chode whose friends call him "Snoopy" growing out of his back yard.

Real small businesses are good things.

> letting government tax your weed

Yes. Taxes happen and they are good things in moderation. There is a public sector for a reason.

>>11447

Governments have no business regulating drugs, especially legal substances, but considering the current political climate and how authoritarian governments around the world are, I'll accept taxes on marijuana.

That being said, requiring licenses to grow or sell marijuana is unacceptable and you should always support local small businesses and individuals and say fuck you to corporations and monopolies. Support your local community.