If the hippies didnt make such a big thing of weed in the 60s then we wouldnt be having this conversation.
Nixon banned the stuff and created the DEA to get back at them and Weed is seen as too liberal for most conservatives and every conservative i talk to about it always seem to equate that only filthy hippies take the stuff when that is simply not true.
Anyway what with states now allowing legalisation it really is only a matter of time before it becomes legal at the federal level and if the USA legalisies it then you better believe the rest of the western world will too cause the US will want to trade its weed like it does with its cigarettes!
They use a beneficial substance that should be completely legal everywhere on this planet. They most likely drink a lot less, and thus cause a lot less damage and trouble than people who do drink alcohol. They're thus also most likely more healthy thanks to less drinking, and that's not including the health benefits of cannabis.
People should seriously try to deprogram themselves from this Nixonian propaganda and brainwashing bullshit, that cannabis is somehow a dangerous drug. It just simply isn't. Reefer madness was a made up thing, and made up to further an agenda.
Whether or not someone smokes marijuana does not factor into my opinion of a person. May as well ask : what is your opinion of people who drink water?
Legalize everything, tax it, expand and harshen dui laws, let it Darwin itself out.
I avoid them.
Most here work at low-level jobs for the simple reason that bigger jobs mean more responsibility, ergo drug testing.
I've nothing against anyone smoking it, most people I've known who do mellow out when smoking it.
I just haaaaate the smell they exhale, it stinks like the bottle layer of a compost pile mixed with bleach
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To reduce/eliminate charges and processing for possession of marijuana.
If the authorities and courts must pursue possession charges then this takes time, effort, paperwork and manpower to do so. Not having to pursue such reduces the burden. It makes the cost nonexistent.You think the court and prison systems are burdened by such things?
I don't think they should actually. However, that is another issue entirely.They profit from those things, greatly.
There is little I am willing to express my opinion I am not informed about. I do not know everything, but if I am willing to talk about it I am comfortable with my understanding on the matter.You don't seem very educated on the matter. I suggest you look into it a bit more.
Having an opinion on a matter another does not agree with does not make one uneducated. Nor does 'looking into it a bit more' automatically sway someone otherwise.
I do not agree with the use of marijuana or other drugs for the intent of 'getting high'. Raspberries.
I love Christians and any religious people who are against Weed.
The hypocrisy is just too sweet
Its like my moms work friend who is a ultra right christian who hates weed but i swear she would suck my cock for one of my Vicodins cause the stupid bitch is hopelessy addicted to pain pills!
If we ever get a D66 + some left wing parties coalition, those weird ass regulations will be a thing of the past.
Not that im expecting it any time soon.
It boggles my mind our supposed 'liberal' party is against such an profitable industry. I can understand the christian parties and even Wilders(Because he is welll.. Wilders) wanting a complete ban, but the VVD being less liberal on it than even our most extreme left wing parties?
It's moreso the cultures surrounding it that I have an issue with. One the one side you have tree-hugging hippies that never bathe and use egg in the making of their dreadlocks, on the other, you have the predominantly black gang bangers who think smoking pot makes them look cool and kill each other over it. Sure, not all pot smokers fit into one of these two groups, I'm not arguing that.
Granted, I would much prefer people smoke pot than drink alcohol. But I personally can't stand the smell, and start deducting IQ points from the people I know who do it.