Discussion thread [Serious]

[cyan]

I'd never smoke pot. Most of my friends would though, and then they'd be all high and get killed or something and I don't want that to happen to my friends. But of course it's not that harmful by itself so I'm neutral. Point out, there must've been a reason they banned it(?).

[lil timmy]

They banned it so that the government could make huge sums of money from marijuana fields hidden in the national parks spread throughout the U.S..

It also helps that billionaire pharmaceutical companies will fight to the last breath to keep it illegal.

[qwertzuiop]

The hidden fields are new to me...

But those pharma industries just want to lie about the good uses of hemp! LEGALIZE

[lil timmy]

Marijuana fields are all over Oregon. Once I was camping near the border and everyone got high from a fire that started in a marijuana field upwind to the campground.

[cyan]

I call it "The Devil's Parsley".

Refrence to Monk... omg I love Monk...

[assdef]

I have a cousin who lives in Oregon. She moved there in January. She sent the family the coordinates for where she lives so we could see it on Google Maps (apparently she doesn't have an address). When I typed in the coordinates there was nothing there but a tree. So I think my cousin is living in a tree in Oregon. And she sells the wacky tobbacky for a living.

[cyan]

That's hilarious! I love your cousin and her tree!

[qwertzuiop]

Can you show me a picture of that tree?

[lunar_furor]

I am in 100% support of legalization of Hemp (pot, hash, weed, marijuana) its safer than drinking and tobacco, less addictive, etc etc. Not to mention the other uses. I don't even smoke the stuff I just hate illogical crap! Why can we drink coffee (caffeine is a drug), soda, alcohol, and smoke, but not have hemp etc.

you don't exactly get high from coffee. And drinking+driving is already enough of a problem.
other than that, i don't really have anything against the legalization, except that doing any kind of drug is an insanely stupid thing and the more are banned the better it is.

Worst part in legal mary j is that kids would be able to buy it from the corner shop, and they would, and probably a lot more of them would turn into junkies
(and hey im not calling anybody junkie just for smoking pot sometimes, but its a good start i guess).

I'm against, but i have to admit I wouldn't know what to do if i had the chance to change the law. I just simply dislike mind-altering substances, and i think most people should do quite well without them.

You can become (easier than many think) addicted to caffeine, and nicotine and alcohol are mind altering. It's not as easy to get addicted to pot when compared to alcohol or nicotine, however when addiction is a case you can literally become addicted to anything you find remotely enjoyable.

They banned it so that the government could make huge sums of money from marijuana fields hidden in the national parks spread throughout the U.S..

It also helps that billionaire pharmaceutical companies will fight to the last breath to keep it illegal.

This statement makes no sense. If it's illegal they can pull no revenue from this but through pharma companies, and they don't make much from it when compared to the tax revenue they can pull in. Yes they make money off of the pharma crap but they loose all that money to fund anti tobacco and other stuff drives. Make it legal, tax it like tobacco or anything else and the amount of money made will help fund important stuff like health care. If legal the pharma companies will have more available by far, and can get it out in larger amounts, easier, at less cost to them. It wasn't even banned for the right reasons, to get it passed they hired some famous people, used sketchy statistics linking it to violent acts, murder, and abuse and it went through like that. I did some research...

[keja]

Wasn't there something to do with the production of paper in America that lead to the ban? I read that somewhere, but it could have been a Darren Brown book, so I'm not sure... :/

[cyan]

I think tobacco is much more dangerous. It will lead to the 6th extinction!

[assdef]

I think keja is right. It has less to do with marijuana being illegal, and more about hemp being illegal, as it would impact the paper industry or the cotton industry or something like that. I remember reading a similar article.

Of course, the article may have been written by a stoner, so who knows.

[cyan]

It sounds like it was written by a stoner.

[keja]

I don't know any "indulgers" who are good enough to write an article. They can draw amazingly but they couldn't write to save their lives.

[cyan]

I'm not an "indulger", but I can draw amazingly and write articles, too...

[lil timmy]

I have a cousin who lives in Oregon. She moved there in January. She sent the family the coordinates for where she lives so we could see it on Google Maps (apparently she doesn't have an address). When I typed in the coordinates there was nothing there but a tree. So I think my cousin is living in a tree in Oregon. And she sells the wacky tobbacky for a living.

Dude there are a lot of trees in Oregon. We like out trees.

What are the coordinates? Maybe she's my neighbor =O?

[cyan]

I have a cousin who lives in Oregon. She moved there in January. She sent the family the coordinates for where she lives so we could see it on Google Maps (apparently she doesn't have an address). When I typed in the coordinates there was nothing there but a tree. So I think my cousin is living in a tree in Oregon. And she sells the wacky tobbacky for a living.

Dude there are a lot of trees in Oregon. We like our trees.

What are the coordinates? Maybe she's my neighbor =O?

fix'd
and I didn't know you were an oregonator! You said you were in nowhere of importance! Don't diss Oregon. Wait I've never been there

[lil timmy]

Someone dissed Oregon?!?

Lemmie at em! lemmie at em I tells ya!

[assdef]

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source= ... 6&t=h&z=19

I like trees, too. But that doesn't mean I'm going to live in one.

She did live in a tree in college, sort of. There was this house on the edge of campus that was built around a tree on a hill that she rented with a bunch of friends. They called it the "tree house." I visited it once - it was pretty cool, but I don't think I could ever live there.

[cyan]

I wish I lived in a tree house. I don't even have a regular tree house. I never will, now... They cut down like all the trees in our neighborhood and now there's a tornado coming from Mississippi...