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- borninda818, on 10/12/2007, -16/+108they should legalize it, then tax the living ***** out of it.
- robdiggity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75So we could pay for about 5 weeks worth of military operations in Iraq? Kickass.
- headcase, on 10/12/2007, -4/+68I wonder if this takes into account the inevitable drop in price due to legalization. Either way it should be legalized.
- madformadness, on 10/12/2007, -5/+63Happy 4/20!
legalize it! - reeder, on 10/12/2007, -4/+56taxes would bring in another 14 billion.
- catalysis, on 10/12/2007, -5/+42"The government is protecting us."
You're not a marijuana user. - swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+40@fprod:
"Marijuana is not a drug. I USED TO SUCK DICK FOR COKE! Now that's an addiction. You ever suck some dick for marijuana? "
/halfbaked - ryno35, on 10/12/2007, -7/+40@frprod
I'm a real stoner and a few of my friends are too and none of us have anything wrong with our heads. If you are in the medical field then perhaps you should study how the cannaboid receptor system works. You feel a bit altered while the variouse molecules in cannabis bind to those receptors but once they dissipate there is no lasting impact. Just as spicy food doesn't actually burn you, weed doesn't do any harm to your brain.
I can almost guarantee you that any case you can point to weed is not the problem, only an easy scape goat. - billessig, on 10/12/2007, -7/+36@frprod
I do work in the medical field and I can tell you that is not the case. Shut up unless you know what you're talking about.
@aegisgfx
Use a vaporizer. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30Republicans want to wage a war on drugs AND illegal border crossers, when they don't really need to fight either. Legalizing marijuana would stop the drug run coming out of Mexico.
- HyperJack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+25Dugg for this and this alone:
"Build three nuclear reactors, because Greenpeace will be high and won't notice"
That has really made my day. - nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21"4) There are connections between mj and diseases like cancer, and arthritis. The government is protecting us."
Where the hell did you pull that up? Out of your ass?? - therippa, on 10/12/2007, -7/+23"intoxicates drivers on the road"
But that's ok...what's the difference between someone who drinks and drive and someone who smokes and drives? The drinker will blow through stop signs, the smoker will stop for stop signs that don't exist. - polyGone, on 10/12/2007, -8/+22Happy Holidays, bitches!!
- Racerx52, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15Why not give it the same laws as alcohol, No public stoner`ing, no driving while stoned. All that jazz.
A tax wouldn't even be the worst thing, and the government gets money.
WIN-WIN situation for everyone! - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13@aegis
Tell that to the millions of cigarette smokers!
At least you don't have to smoke cannablis to get high, you can cook with it or vape it.
Regardless I think that people have a misconception when they think that they can tax cannabis. They don't call it a weed because it is hard to grow. IMHO taxing it would only keep it under ground and put the growers back in jail.
Also, you can't tax something that is decriminalized. You can only tax something that is legal.
Decriminalization would keep regular joes out of jail saving the billions though. - Salgat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15Unfortunately for you, research shows that there is no truth behind Marijuana inhibiting your ability to think, there are no long term effects from Marijuana. The only reason smart people usually don't do marijuana is because they don't want to go to jail, and I personally don't feel like paying taxes to house a bunch of people with poor judgement when it comes to drugs.
- Hetman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12First off alcohol is a dangerouse drug. Marijuana is not. So I agree with rickremixx its not the same. I better study would be how much money marijuana made in amsterdam or a place where it is legal.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11*I* don't even smoke pot, but I'm for legalizing it. I wouldn't smoke it if it were legal - but I still have no issue with people enjoying themselves with marijuana. So many laws, so much wasted ***** time.
- enginbeering, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The only problem with taxing cannabis is that anyone can grow it. So, you don't need giant corporations to grow and package the stuff into nice little smokable cylinders. Instead once it's legal, I can grow 10 of my favorite strains in my backyard-or legally purchase the necessary hydroponic setup to grow it inside. And considering of the traditional anti-establishment view of most potheads, it's safe to assume a large percentage of smokers would want to grow their own as well (not only is it cheaper, but lots of fun!).
Anyway, the money saved from the drug war would be gigantic, and of course there'll still be billions from taxes (though perhaps much of it from other cannabis products like paper, cloth, rope).
Good article though. Happy 420. - illt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11uhm, you do realize, that as marijuana ages, the psychoactive cannabinoids degrade and oxidize into non-psychoactive cannabinoids....
either way, happy holidays.
be safe - illt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11northern california disagrees.
- illt, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12"1) It makes us stupider than we would otherwise be. (Just admit it, it doesn't just attract idiots, it creates them) I know people will disagree, but everybody should be honest about this.
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4) There are connections between mj and diseases like cancer, and arthritis. The government is protecting us.
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Carl Sagan was a pothead, and Richard Feynman smoked...along with many other brilliant minds..
and i'm pretty sure there have been a bunch of new results showing that THC reduces tumors, and helps prevent neurological diseases.... - TheOther1, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Get off my lawn you damn hippies! :)
- rickremixx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9lol you cant even compare alcohol with herb
please.. - RedHerringHack, on 10/12/2007, -7/+14Back atcha. Supply is so good, that I have a selection of fine leaf/bud/hash to try tonight, including some 2002 vintage hydrokind that I only break out for special occasions.
Happy Holidays Gents!
(Then I am going to try to kill old greeneye, again. Lost Planet XB360 ) - robato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@JShope
The reason why you can't see a benefit to the end of prohibition is because you are historically blind.
If you could see, you would realize that alcohol prohibition was repealed for a great number of reasons. Homicides increased substantially, corruption of government officials was routine, the consumption of alcohol became far more dangerous as prohibition dynamics increased potency as the expense of safety. The huge black market became the primary source of revenue for organized crime (see Al Capone), and turf wars spread the violence into the everyday lives of Americans.
For all your "noble" intentions, you fail to learn of the historical failure of alcohol prohibition, and are thus unable to see the greater failure of cannabis prohibition.
Happy 4/20. Hemp for Victory! - dirtyhipster, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12THC has been proven to inhibit cancer growth.
- Shiftgood, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I dont get why everyone is so against Nuclear power?
I just took a course on global energy and it turns out that nuclear power, although not perfect, is one of the best resources we have for making energy with little impact to the environment. Especially if we allow for the recycling of the waste (like in europe).
Im guessing these are the same people that say "it has a shelf life of a billion years"...
Did you know that having a long shelf life actually makes it less dangerous?
for example.. Would you rather have a firecracker go off in your hand with a 'pop' (shelf life of under a second) or degrade in your hand over a thousand years?
ps. weed is good...
p.p.s. smoking weed + Discovery Channel HD: Planet Earth series = super fun. - bobcobb42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7banning it didn't make it go away, decriminalizing it won't make everyone start smoking, and it would be the economically intelligent thing to do. the US needs to own up to the past decade after decade of mistakes and free the potheads!
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Well if you firmly believe in all four of those points (I don't BTW), AND you're a smoker, then I'd say you're probably at least borderline retarded.
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8$10 billion would buy so many munchies!
- ganjadude4391, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Happy 4/20 from the ganjadude
;)~~~~~ - ryno35, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8@aegisgfx
Get informed. First off you would never guess that I'm a daily smoker if you met me and you wouldn't think I was a hippie. Second smoking weed does not cause cancer and there are many way's to enjoy it that are easier on your lungs than smoking it. - johnlandes, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Just head up to Vancouver. *****'s pretty much legal up here. Plus we've got the best stuff (We keep the really good stuff to ourselves, so you really have to be here to enjoy it)
- fantasticFlan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6@billiam627
Barring prohibitive legal barriers to home growing, it would be damn difficult for corporations to corner the market and sell at high prices. - nairanvac, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9@frprod
You do know weed is not addictive, right? There's no nicotine in it, or any other substance that would cause actual addiction. Now, given, there would be withdrawal if a heavy user stopped smoking for a period of time, but that by no means constitutes an addiction. - robato, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It also doesn't take into account all the NEW jobs that would be created. With legalized cannabis, you would immediately see an increase in the production of hemp and hemp-related products. Imagine the processing factories that would spring-up, considering the myriad of uses cannabis hemp. Marginal farm land could be turned into productive fields by planting cannabis hemp. Those people who profit from the black market could use their skills instead to open coffee shops and become an entirely good thing for society, rather than a reflection of bad policy. With an end to the drug war, everyone would mellow out, and as we all know, you can't put a price on peace of mind.
- swrostmore, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9"There are connections between mj and diseases like cancer, and arthritis."
yeah, the connection is that mj is more effective at treating the symptoms of both diseases than perscription drugs. Prohibition benifits pharmaceutical companies and nobody else, that is who the government is protecting. - wingo123, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6@astrofire: I won't even bother to address the many inaccuracies with your theories on what pot does to you - but the whole 'Having a society of burnouts...' thing is a total joke. Anyone who argues that a bunch of otherwise sober people are just going to freak out and become huge stoners immediately because the law changed is just plain wrong.
There may be a few people who casually experiment just because they always wanted to and are put at ease by the fact they are not breaking the law, but will probably just try it once or twice and shrug. They are already not predisposed to wanting to be high all the time, or else they're probably alcoholics anyway. The people who really want to smoke a lot already are, and don't care about the law. There is no evidence that legalization would lead to higher long-term usage rates.
Prohibition is NOT good for the country for numerous reasons, the worst of which is the encouragement of organized crime and the wasting of money on enforcement (as the article mentions). Plus it fills up our jails with those accused of victimless crimes and does our society at large no good. And the list goes on...
Man, I don't know what you've been smoking... are you sure it's pot?? - Misaiato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5We tried to legalize it in CO last Nov and it got shot down! All of you move to CO with your voting-age like-minded friends and family and we'll give it another shot.
- nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9Decriminalize it and make the make us hippies happy!
(to the tune of Row Your Boat)
Roll, roll, roll your joint,
pass it down the line!
Take a hit, hold your toke,
and blow your ***** mind!
Happy 420 from Austin, TX digg! See you at Marley Fest if you are in town!! - ryno35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@JShope
When society chooses to make a substance, for which there is a public demand, illegal, it loses control over that substance and hands that control over to evil people. Why do you think that alcohol prohibition failed? It wasn't because people started thinking it was good for you or harmless that's for sure.
You seem intelligent and your stupidity would amaze me if it wasn't so common.
Happy 4/20. Free the weed!!! - nathanwalker, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I checked wikipedia. I checked Osteoarthritis, Rheumatoid arthritis, Septic arthritis, Gout and pseudogout, Juvenile arthritis, Still's disease, and Ankylosing spondylitis. Not one of them mentioned Mary Jane.
- tryangles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I think it's only a matter of time before it happens. Think about it though, do you know how many less criminals we will have and how many less govt jobs there would be with a lesser "war" on drugs to fight if cannibas was legalized?
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Vintage weed... I'm not sure whether I should applaud or lower my head in shame.
- 3tcp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Corporations couldn't corner the market on weed or tax the ***** out of it. If it was decriminalized and it got too expensive people would just grow their own. They'd have to keep the price low enough that the time you'd hate to put into growing your own wouldn't be worth it.
- HigherLogic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5@frprod: "And if you think that constant weed use doesn't affect your head..you haven't seen real stoners addicted to the stuff. A weed addict is in a lot worse shape than an alcoholic. Work in the medical field..and you'll see for yourself."
Smoke a joint and YOU see for yourself. You've never used marijuana, have you? It's pretty apparent from your comments in here.
Someone addicted--and I just have to roll my eyes at that one--to marijuana is in no way, shape, or form worse off than an alcoholic. In terms of addiction level, marijuana is less addictive than even caffeine. The only addiction one could get is psychological, and people can and are psychologically addicted to all sorts of things (exercise, weight lifting, video games, food, porn, etc.).
You could replace marijuana with any substance, that person would still have an issue with whatever it was.
Alas, there's no point in debating with someone like you, it's like Atheist vs. Christian. - tazx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Anyone can grow tomatoes, yet people still buy them at the store.
If you could buy filtered, quality-controlled marijuana cigarettes at the corner store for the same price as tobacco, very very few people would bother growing it for personal use. Those that want to should be free to; but those just looking to relax or party for an evening, would probably be happier spending $5-10 at the store and not worrying about it. - bitszor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Did you forget about the other drugs? We didn't say decriminalize heroin, cocaine, LSD, and meth. Pretty sure the DEA will still have their work cut out for 'em busting all the meth labs we have here in AZ.
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