Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Originally Posted By: 95busa
Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Actually I do feel pretty good about the fact that I've never gotten high off locking someone up for smoking a naturally occurring plant.
Naturally occuring, much like the coca plant, the opium poppy, etc. Lots of things are natural, it doesnt make them good for you or anyone else.
Both of which require processing to extract the active ingredients (pot doesn't). And the US has knowingly allowed massive poppy farming in Afghanistan in the name of stability.
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If you are cool with legal weed, maybe we should legalize it, like amsterdam. The netherlands....a heck of an economic and global powerhouse! [censored], lets legalize it all. Look how well it works for them!
Amsterdam wouldn't have much if it wasn't for tourism, which in large part comes from their "coffee shops." It's not truly legal in the Netherlands, or anywhere else in the world.
Look at how well prohibition works for us.
A number of factual inaccuracies....people in areas where the coca plant grow chew it, getting high from the leaf. As far as Afghanistan goes....it isn't our country. Perhaps you have heard of Karzai? The SFOR agreement does not allow us to do certain things, like eradicate the country's main cash crop. Not to say I agree with that, but they are a soveriegn (although occupied) country. Also- Opiates have many legitimate medical uses, unlike pot, which is a schedule 1 Controlled Dangerous Substance, with no medicinal value. This despite what those poor people with glaucoma tell you. I watch enough of the shows about the "medicinal" weed shops to know there were a heck of a lot of young healthy folks buying weed for "medicinal" reasons.