re: Spinoff: Is anyone here still opposed to marijuana legalization and if so why?

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Ctiger, when I have marijuana I smoke on average once a week on the weekend. Sometimes I will go several months without smoking. You keep calling people addicts. Do you think I am an addict?

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Yes, you are a drug addict. You are using a drug and you have failed at every permanent attempt to quit or worse, you are in denial and have zero desire to quit the drug abuse. Usually it is an eye opener to be called a drug addict to your face.

"Addiction is progressive and most of the time treatment is required to end the addiction. When a person has a drink, for example, they enjoy the flavor of the drink, the relaxing feeling they get when they drink it and they often have a drink in a social setting with friends and colleagues."

"Because they enjoy the experience, they want to repeat it and so they have another drink, or they go back to the same place and have a drink the next day. They are not necessarily addicted. People who take prescription pain medications, do not necessarily put themselves in jeopardy of developing an addiction."


"Addiction sets in when the person no longer has a choice to use the drug or not use the drug. They claim they can quit anytime they want, but the truth is they can’t quit and they keep using. They say “I’ll cut back,” but their tolerance to the drug is building and they will need more drug to achieve the same effect. As the addiction progresses, people will often lose themselves entirely, as their whole existence is consumed by the desire to use. They have no choice."

I just assumed everyone who said they opposed legalization was trolling.

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who said they opposed legalization was trolling.

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Are you in favor of more impaired drivers and more driving fatalities all for the purpose of allowing a drug addict to legally fulfill his drug habits?

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sig picture supports these drug addicts?.

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I agree. It was funny for awhile. Time to retire it. Thanks.

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if you were actually concerned about this you would be opposed to alcohol being legal

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Is alcohol currently illegal?

The discussion is on weed. Drug addicts are always changing the subject in desperate denial attempts.

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mouton

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"Helping Someone Overcome Addiction to Weed

Feeling that one’s life is just passing one by is a typical symptom of weed use. One person who spent a decade smoking dope said that it was like ten years of his life was just missing. At Narconon recovery centers, the brightness and joy of really living can be recovered after symptoms of weed use have demonstrated abuse or addiction to the drug."


Stop rationalizing and minimizing your drug addiction. You can stop your drug addiction.

Good luck to you.

I'm not opposed to legalization, but there are problems that stem from constant use that I can see people having a problem with:

Lack of short term memory which could affect a person's tasks at work.

Maybe 5% of the people that smoke, can fully function while stoned. Of course the majority of smokers think they can, but they can't. It's also a harder to spot than drinking, because you can't tell if a person's stoned or just that stupid.

Mental issues like Anhedonia, apathy, lack of motivation, and "addiction". They all go hand in hand. The general "I don't care" or "I don't know" attitude used in making most decisions. That's why stoners usually have dirty homes, cars, and appearance. I mentioned "addiction", because some stoners will not make an attempt to advance their career because of drug tests, or not go somewhere because they can't smoke there.

In men it also lowers testosterone, and keeps those levels low if used constantly for a long time. Hence why stoners never fight.

Through long term use, people will get COPD.

There's also the financial aspect, which will only get worse through legalization. Add 15%-20% tax onto the price of it now and you'll see that shite gets expensive.

Of course a responsible user will not have many of these issues, but they are things to be aware of.

Still haven't seen one good reason not to.

Y'all are missing the whole point. People who don't use won't start using. Just because alcohol is legal doesn't mean everyone uses.

So no there won't be more slow driving stoners on the road. And making it legal should actually lower the price. People go to Cali and Colorado to get weed and sell it for MORE in the non legal States.

Who cares about low testosterone? You'd rather alcohol induced bouts of rage?

It just makes more sense economically to stop trying to destroy the most useful plant on earth.

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Opposed. Drugs have ripped a wide swath of destruction in our family. Wife's brother died at 31 from OD, sister at 51, she went from alcohol, to pot, to cocaine, died from a drug/alcohol binge. Nephew, 23 in rehab, cousin died from OD at 24. Grass is the common link with all, some never drank, but they all smoked grass. 

You are fools who want all the pleasure you can get at no cost. There is a price and it is steep.

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Sound more like your particular family has issues. And I call bullshite that none of them had ever drank alcohol before. And you clearly stated one at least did.

My issue with people like you is where is your crusade over all drugs? You think if weed was completely eradicated people would just stop doing drugs? Because you believe marijuana is the link to that behavior?

People buy weed from drug dealers. Drug dealers sell drugs. If it was legal, they most likely are buying it from the store and would never have known they had access to other drugs. Just like people do with alcohol. They aren't meeting up in a parking lot where a guy has some coke and two beers to sell.

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Sounds like a major step forward to me.

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I'm in the traffic safety business. Legalizing pot does not our roads safer, the opposite is true.