Well in Massachusetts last month it was decriminalized, now anything less than an ounce, you dont get arrested, no record, all you get is a ticket with a fine of $100, this is actually a good thing,  now the police can use those resources to bust the heroin, crack, etc dealers,  and the rest of the group of bad guys, made me think i havent smoked it since high school, which just happens to be a very very long time ago

I don't know any potheads that would invade someone's home and steal money to buy a bag of weed, either.  Maybe that's because the quality of pothead I know isn't the norm...I admit I don't know a lot of people and I don't get out much in the world, but the ones I know, are the type that just want to be mellow, get high in the comfort of their own home, and not bother anyone. I don't know anybody who ever wanted to drive high, either...they just want to sit in a comfy chair and think their mellow, sometimes deeply philosophical and sometimes dumb as a brick thoughts and not be bothered with having to focus on traffic or expose themselves to possible pull-overs from Johnny Law.  They don't want to waste their buzz by having to drive.

In regards to "Please don't tell me that as an intelligent woman you truly believe there should be no laws regulating drugs or that most people can/could control themselves using drugs like meth," I don't think people would CHOOSE meth if they had access to...oh, I don't know, actual cocaine?  Think about it...meth wasn't a problem when we were chasing down people for coke, and crack came about because coke was too expensive for the common man (again, because it was illegal).  I've tried all those things, and I'd pass on all of them for a Dunkin Donuts Boston Creme, and I'd pass on the Dunkin' for a single dark chocolate Dove's Promise, because I don't have the gene for addictive personality, although of all those things I tried, the coke was the best, but I realized at the prices they were asking, I would take my free trial and pass on becoming a customer.  It was nice enough to feel that level of confidence, like I could solve world hunger with one swipe of my pen to my checkbook, but not $300 worth of nice.

Honestly, I don't know if I feel we should decriminalize coke, meth, and crack, but I know keeping them illegal means the criminals control the trade and the price is inflated.  That is what we learned with prohibition.  Obviously, keeping them illegal hasn't solved the drug problem in this country.

My real problem is one of solipsism - I really don't know anything outside of myself, and I make the mistake of thinking everybody is like me -- and if everyone was like me, they'd choose the single Dove Promise (100% satisified with a small quantity of a quality item, as opposed to a large quantity of a lower quality item) and everything would be legal.

I need my own planet.

 

I'm in.

Sweet! chocolate rivers, coke snow, wonderous mushrooms in the hemp forests! And biking hoffmans's everywhere!

Icecream glaciers, whisky fountains, beer lakes... and a crazy borg monkey.. live shows from our favorite bands, internet, armani versace gucci some prada for the ladies free lamborghinis nirvana... a castle to live in... what did i miss hmm.. gnite ppl

 

A planet.... with just... apes??

hahah... i get it... hahahaha

 

Charlton Heston would roll over in his grave

 

.. we need a munkeh smiley...

 

The perfect WB  

I'm joansin' for a download of that!

I must confess, my wife who is in the advanced stages of MS, smokes it, her doctor knows this, and approves, it helps tremendously with her muscle spasms, as well as stomach problems from some of the medications she takes, We just wish she could get on that list of people legally allowed to do it, and the government supplies it, but they are really hesistant to do this, well the higher ups dont have MS so they dont know what its like and how much it helps, DOC you would know a little bit more about this than most posters including myself

.......ummm........donuts.

But then, it wouldn't be a planet of his own.

No....not that. Please, not that.

OK........I'm Ed, and I'm a donut-aholic.  I tried main lining the jelly filled but it clogged the needle, I tried smoking the dried coconut covered ones and yes I've snorted the powdered sugars.  Now I just orally ingest them.  I need help, so anyone heading to a Dunkin' or Kripy Cream, pick me up a dozen and head to Florida.

My wife has cancer........ and you totally misunderstood my post.

If I misunderstood it, then I apologize, and request that you please explain it to me.

Drugs are illegal for a reason. I don't like them, or anything that they stand for. I don't even drink alcohol. To me, asking for a drugs related theme is as bad as asking for the other one's I mentioned. Hence the sigh. This is a site for making your computer desktop look cool, not for drugs related paraphenalia. Just my opinion................ B[]

I'm a four year cancer survivor Boxxi, so my thoughts and prayers to your wife in her struggle.  Smiles and hugs were the medicines that got me through.

***Bad joke warning***

 

 

 

Sounds ...kind of.... square  ?

 

 

How is ur wife now? Any progress?

Hope she get well. 

If someone is in terrible pain...or faced with his/her mortality, pretty much whatever he/she wants is just fine with me....sorry folks, I've seen too much untreated pain, etc. in my 60 years. I've never withheld anything from a person suffering. Can't do it, never could. That is not a judgement on anyone's freely made/informed choice, however.

Love to you and the Mrs., Boxxi. Health and cure...and my prayers, of course.

Superman: She's doing ok at the moment. Time will tell I guess.........

Thanks for your concern.

Having nursed my own mom though cancer ... I can only say thank god that I live in a state of Aus where maijuana is decriminalised and that she was able to effectively use it as a means to allieviate the awful side effects of the kemo she woz going through.

I can also assure u also that my mom is neither a rapist nor a child molester and would never be in condonence of those actions through having used the drug.

 

1) I do not consider marijuana a drug.  It's a plant that grows from the earth naturally, without adding anything to it, and to those who use this plant, it is partaken of in it's completely organic state.  Our government has chosen to mis-label this plant a drug, just as they used to mis-label African Americans as property, in a time when the citizenry was less enlightened.  ASPIRIN is a drug--marijuana is a plant.

2) Yes, "drugs" are illegal for a reason, and marijuana (which is a plant) is illegal for a reason, however the REASON marijuana is illegal is not the same reason that "drugs" are illegal.  Please peruse this brief link: http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html

3) Just because something is illegal, does not make that thing immoral, or "wrong" in a global sense of the term, and just because something IS legal does not make that thing moral or "right."  We have a few past and a current sitting United States President, highest office in the land, who have partaken of this illegal substance (and some stronger), and "gotten away with it."  If an official from the highest office of the land did not consider this substance as heinous as child abuse and rape (for which a moral man would turn themselves in before even dreaming of running for the highest office of the land), then I believe it's time to re-examine the history of the illegality of this substance, the COST of what keeping this substance illegal is, and the things this country is having to go without due to the continued federal ban on this plant substance.   

I believe in thinking outside the box.  Philosophically I view cannabis and hemp as a logical and reasonable answer to many of today's problems.  It's a renewable energy source, it can be used as an alternative to plastic, it relieves the nausea associated with chemotherapy; if legalized it would generate income and taxes, and could be REGULATED so it stays out of the hands of children, just as more toxic substances, alcohol and tobacco, have.

I refuse to let my government do my thinking for me.  I've researched this issue extensively, NOT because I wanted to justify my own use, but because I wanted to preach on the evils of it's use and the dangers of decriminalization.  Like so many other things in my life, I went out seeking "ammo" to use against "the enemy" and ended up learning I was fighting on the wrong side.

Research has determined that a person can use marijuana for 37 years and pull down 100k per year, log hundreds of thousands of miles behind the wheel and operate heavy machinery .

The alcohol study had to be suspended due to real bad results.

what's so bad about feeling good???

Too bad the first statement doesn't take into account the lung damage and cancer caused by MJ....but....

GWB pulled down $500K a year as POTUS...proving that second statement.

It's bad for business.  If marijuana were decriminalized, the DEA, the Bureau of Narcotics, and a bunch of privately-run prisons would have to downsize considerably, and the DEA and the Bureau of Narcotics employees would have to spend a large portion of their work day in much more harm's way going after meth labs and crackhouses, as opposed to pot farms.  And the biggest "bad" about feeling good...how are the little local governments going to make up for their budget deficits without being able to shake down drivers who fit "the profile" at $1000 a pop to keep the driver's indiscretion off their record and their lives out of court if pot is decriminalized?