What? Pot is still illegal?Follow

Wow. What a night I had last night. The plan was to go outside and enjoy a J on a slow monday. It was me, two guys on my floor, and a girl on the floor above. We rolled it inside, then went outside to smoke it.

About half an hour later, we went to the door and there was a girl standing there. Turns out, she was an RA and she had smelled the stuff when she walked by us earlier. So she had called the cops, and they were already waiting there for us.

They took out information and all that junk, then one of the pigs (he actually looked like a pig) took everyone aside individually and interogated us. He also used veiled threats like "We aren't going to help you out unless you help us out" and things like that. He was a prick.

Long story short, I got busted for smoking pot outside my dorms, and could be kicked out of school. They'll probably just give me a warning since this is my first time ever getting in trouble at the University, and I have no criminal record. But man, what a night.

But one thing kind of made me laugh. The other cop (not the piggy) said to us that weed wasn't a big deal anymore. Which makes me think, why am I standing here getting busted for it?

What are your thoughts on pot? Legalize it? More punishment? Less punishment?

Just slap an age restriction on it like tobacco or alcohol and call it a day. It's certainly no worse for you than those.

On a side note, anyone remember that anti-drug commercial that was on not too long ago with the girl that took 3 hits, passed out, and got f*cked?

personaly i dont know about pot, im a christian so i think in the bible it says not to but it doesnt exactly say it in any clear form of way but i was always brought up to not to smoke pot, personally if it wasnt a "suppose" sin then yes i would smoke pot, my brother smokes pot and i have tried it but only once. personally i think they should just put a age restriction and then alright, oh and the thing about the gurl smoking 3 puffs and getting raped is sad and wrong but thats her fault for smoken pot, she should not have done it or been more careful.

Make it legal to buy/smoke for the 21+ croud and tax the **** out of it....

So everyone pretty much agrees that we should legalize it. Awesome. People have been saying that for 40 years. How do we institute some change around here?

I got a couple opinions if you got a couple of minutes to hear me out. LOL

Yeah, I am one of those people who think it should be legal. You could argue that it causes damage to the brain, but so does alcohol, (alcohol also damages the liver). My personal opinion on that is..those who abuse it will be at blame, just like with Alcoholics. Of course drunk drivers kill people almost everyday, but I have rarely heard a pothead killed someone driving. I feel alcohol can bring out the worst in a person, where as pot makes a person happy as well as a potato (couch potato that is). There should definitely be an age limit to usage, and of course tax it.

My other big opinion. I do not think this will ever happen.. least for as long as I am alive that is. Yeah you can get issued doctor's notes, have medical illness excuses, but I think hell will definitely freeze over before it is legal. I don't see a lot of people going out and doing it if it was legal, because some people enjoy the rush of doing something 'illegal', and if these odds are great.... that would mean once it is legal, other drugs (worse over pot) would become the choice to do. Then of course it could be argued.. well if Pot is legal, how come everything else is not?
(everything else sucks in my opinion, just a lil FYI).

For realistic purposes... I'd say that now adays they should just write you a fine, and take away any pot you have. I had lived most of my life in Nevada and that place will put you in jail under a felony for possession of a pot seed. Some laws are really outragious.

It wasn't MY question... I was only suggesting that people would try to argue that point... if pot were ever to become legal.
I totally agree with the fact that the other shznit would make some serious damage to a person. ;)

I once saw an old episode of Dragnet where Joe Friday and his partner busted in on a bunch of "hopheads". They gave them a stiff warning and let em off easy. Anyways, at the end of the show the "Maryjane smokers" were at it again and the mother and father left their infant son in the tub and he drowned. The horror of it all.........


Also, did you ever notice that all the Dope Peddlers on fat Albert and the gang were white people? Hmmmmmmmmm.....


Hey, Hey, Hey! No smack for me today! Brown Hornet's on!

I have a theory about that. There is no question that pot affects both your ability to think and decreases your reaction time. But, as it is illegal most people do it in their home and hence don't have to drive home.

And don't compare pot to alcohol--alcohol is *much* worse. Alcohol, as others have mentioned, destroys your liver and is addictive. Withdrawing from alcohol can easily be fatal. Alcoholism can give you permanent brain damage and turn you into a confabulating idiot. Alcohol predisposes to violence.

MJ is not addictive, has no withdrawal effects, predisposes you to eating and doesn't cause brain damage.

Errr, why is alcohol legal again?

--DK

hey yanari were u talking to me about what i said about the rape thing cause if u thought i meant something bad from it then no i didnt, i was simply saying that it was horrible and sad that she got raped but she smoked pot and thats what happened to her. sometimes there are consequences to stuff. and now that i think about it yes i remember that commercial, dont know if that has happened lots of time but im sure it has before

I remember that commercial. Actually, it showed her in three cut scenes on the couch, smoking a joint and getting progressively stoned. I suppose you could assume that she only took three drags off it, but in that case the could have showed it all at one time. Certainly it's a bit heavy-handed, like all PSAs, but I think the basic message is true: If you get knocked off your gourd on some substance (be it pot, alcohol, whatever) you're less likely to be able to fend for yourself. That and there's a good number of folks out there more than happy to put you into that state for the obvious reasons.

None of which is to say I'm some anti-drug advocate. Really, I don't give a wet slap if pot is legal or not since I stopped doing drugs when I got out of college and never really felt any desire to go back to it (nor do I feel any regret at having done them).

one of the biggest reasons that marijuana will never be legalized
1. if weed ever gets legalized it will become a legal gateway to other natural drugs included in the list from the posts above. having seen the effects of actual peyote on the average individual stuff should never be under any form of consideration for legalization.
2. I cant imagine the kind of legal arguments that would be made in letting other "natural" drugs become legalized as well, as few drugs are completley lab made, most are based of naturaly occuring substances and just slightly augmented/fermented. beer is just hops and yeast grown in a specific enviroment, much as heroine is just poppy seed extracted in a certain way or actual LSD isa wheat protein and fungus grown in a specific environment
3. with all the law getting passed with anti smoking(in regards to cigarettes) the headache that weed becoming legal to every person involved in general public business would be staggering. imagine, every restaurant needing to have assigned seating for non smiking, tobacco smoking, and weed smoking. while im not necessarily against certain uses of marijuana, I'm pretty dead-set against a bunch of undergrads hot-boxing my infant children at denny's
ehh, I'll probably get torn to all hell for this, but it's just my opinion

That parachute thing is as good a reason for outlawing hemp as any I've ever heard

One of my favorite Straight Dope columns did a decent rebuttal of the conspiracy theory behind pot's illegalization.