08-09-2013, 02:21 PM
1
Pot
Someone mentioned in the Arial Castro thread that prisons are bursting at the seams. They are in the States for sure, as we have the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. Many of our prisoners are doing hard time for posession of cannabis. There have been several states here that have decriminalized Pot. Colorado has allowed the recreational use of Pot. What do you think? Should Pot be legal, regulated and Taxed?
08-09-2013, 02:58 PM
3
Re: Pot
Legal but restricted, like tobacco is today, I think many good and otherwise honest decent citizens get banged up and their characters destroyed over the use of a drug that is said to be less harmful to health then tobacco. The hard drugs should always be illegal and with the police not having to chase the pot takers they would have more time to go after the hard drug barons, the fact that is legal in some places and illegal in others just proves there needs to be some compromise found, that's my view anyway.08-09-2013, 03:19 PM
4
Re: Pot
Originally Posted by AudreyII
->
Someone mentioned in the Arial Castro thread that prisons are bursting at the seams. They are in the States for sure, as we have the highest incarceration rate per capita in the world. Many of our prisoners are doing hard time for posession of cannabis. There have been several states here that have decriminalized Pot. Colorado has allowed the recreational use of Pot. What do you think? Should Pot be legal, regulated and Taxed?
08-09-2013, 03:51 PM
6
Re: Pot
By 'Pot' are we meaning Cannabis? The stuff that causes paranoia and other related mental health issues? Why on earth would anyone want to legalise that?Come to think of it - other than medicinal usage - why do people take drugs? Is life really so horrid that it cannot be faced without a daily fix of something toxic?
08-09-2013, 03:57 PM
8
Re: Pot
We control other drugs like alcohol and tobacco it always seems strange to me we are so down on other drugs. If people are adults then they have to make their own decisions about whether they want to take them. Or we have to ban everything. It is hypocritical to allow some and not others.I really think it's safer than some of the legal highs kids go for these days that are untested and can be lethal.
One proviso is it should be clean and some warning given with each purchase.
08-09-2013, 03:59 PM
9
Re: Pot
Originally Posted by Julie1962
->
We control other drugs like alcohol and tobacco it always seems strange to me we are so down on other drugs. If people are adults then they have to make their own decisions about whether they want to take them. Or we have to ban everything. It is hypocritical to allow some and not others.I really think it's safer than some of the legal highs kids go for these days that are untested and can be lethal.
One proviso is it should be clean and some warning given with each purchase.
08-09-2013, 04:16 PM
10
Re: Pot
Originally Posted by Silver Tabby
->
By 'Pot' are we meaning Cannabis? The stuff that causes paranoia and other related mental health issues? Why on earth would anyone want to legalise that?Come to think of it - other than medicinal usage - why do people take drugs? Is life really so horrid that it cannot be faced without a daily fix of something toxic?
And how would you like to have a pilot of the aircraft you are flying in on pot, the driver of a taxi or bus smoking pot, or a surgeon who is about to operate on you, simply doesn't make any sense at to legalise
|
|
