The washington post is writing cannabis science fiction

[zombo.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...T2010102805974

but it makes a good bedtime story.

[Dose Me]

Really?




That shit is just plain old stupid.

[NamelessNom4d]

Why do they go on at the end about pot addiction and dependency? It doesn't exist

[dysik]

Originally Posted by Slice_760

Why do they go on at the end about pot addiction and dependency? It doesn't exist

it does

[-SpectraL]

I like how the idiot says at one point in the article that the state of California arrested almost a million people in 2009 for possession on marijuana, and then just a few paragraphs down he says that making marijuana legal to posses will not create any financial benefit. Now, if you're NOT prosecuting a million fucking people a year, with each and every case costing the taxpayers THOUSANDS of dollars, how could they NOT save financially by NOT PROSECUTING THOSE CASES!? This guy is a total moron.

[mr.poopypants]

Originally Posted by -SpectraL

Medical marijuana is legal in California, but federal law still bans sales. Amid the uncertainty that this creates — including the occasional raid by federal agents — a full-fledged industry has blossomed, taking in about $2 billion a year and generating $100 million in state sales taxes, CNBC reported.

Fixed.

[Agathokakological]

Originally Posted by -SpectraL

I like how the idiot says at one point in the article that the state of California arrested almost a million people in 2009 for possession on marijuana, and then just a few paragraphs down he says that making marijuana legal to posses will not create any financial benefit. Now, if you're NOT prosecuting a million fucking people a year, with each and every case costing the taxpayers THOUSANDS of dollars, how could they NOT save financially by NOT PROSECUTING THOSE CASES!? This guy is a total moron.

For once I sort of agree - however, if police aren't busy busting people marijuana, they'd be busy stopping other crimes instead.

[-SpectraL]

Originally Posted by Agathokakological

For once I sort of agree - however, if police aren't busy busting people marijuana, they'd be busy stopping other crimes instead.

Reading through thousands of these pig's arrest reports and the sentencing sheets on those arrests for the past 10 years or so, you can plainly see that these prosecutors and judges are somehow sending people away for 5 and 7 year sentences for petty offenses such as passing a forged check and trafficking small amounts of cocaine and heroin... NO PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS! It's sick. What the taxpayer should do is DEMAND their hard-earned money be used WISELY instead of squandered away on kangaroo courts of their own making. Get rid of these totally inappropriate sentences AND the prosecutors, police officers and judges who create them, and THEN America will start to make some serious progress in this regard.

[Charles Manson]

Originally Posted by Slice_760

Why do they go on at the end about pot addiction and dependency? It doesn't exist

I agree, pot addiction is bullshit, but, it is a gateway drug......very very much so...

[Draconian]

Originally Posted by Charles Manson

I agree, pot addiction is bullshit, but, it is a gateway drug......very very much so...

No it isn't you imbecile, stop spouting garbage.

[Dose Me]

Originally Posted by Charles Manson

I agree, pot addiction is bullshit, but, it is a gateway drug......very very much so...

It's only a gateway drug because the same guys who are in the marijuana blackmarket often has access to all other black market substances.

If weed were on a shelf or grown in a home...there wouldn't automatically be cocaine, MDMA or whatever sitting in the safe right next to it.


Weed is a gateway to the BLACK MARKET...we as a nation get to choose what we want on the black market (illegal) and what we want on the white market (legal). Place marijuana in the white market and you will have effectively destroyed any "gateway" to anything but being stoned off weed.

So if you think weed is a gateway drug...DESTROY THE FUCKING GATE by legalizing it. If you don't think its a gateway drug then LEGALIZE IT BECAUSE ITS NOT THAT BAD.

[uncutdiamond]

Originally Posted by Charles Manson

I agree, pot addiction is bullshit, but, it is a gateway drug......very very much so...

I have two trains of thought on this:

A The gateway theory doesn't work because it starts from weed. it should start from water.

water-milk-tea-coffee-cigarettes-weed-etc

B If weed were sold in a shop then people who had to buy their weed of a dealer who sells other things would never come into contact with that dealer otherwise.

[iMagiNation]

Originally Posted by uncutdiamond

The gateway theory doesn't work because it starts from weed. it should start from water..

you're either a genius or an idiot