I would like to just ask where it would stop. Say if we legalized marijuana, now the coke heads come out and say they want cocaine to be legal, same with the acid heads or heroin. After all heroin has been used for illnesses in the past.

People die from alcohol so how is that any different then heroin?

Where does it stop?

Also it seems the same people that want to outlaw smoking are the same ones that want to legalize pot.

I don’t have any problem with pot, but if you make it available at the local 7/11 in packs of 20 joints. Im sure there would be hell to pay.

The only thing I think should be changed is the marijuana possession laws we sure is hell don’t need to fill our jails with potheads….

Don't even get me started.

In a bookstore one sunny day, I happened upon a medical reference book about 4 inches thick, no pictures. Being a teenager at the time, I immediately opened it up to the drug section where there was a list of negative side effects for each drug. Gonj had listed about a half a page while alcohol took up 2 1/2 pages, all bad.

Do your research before you spout. Being a Santa Cruz resident, I know many an ex pothead. People who literally smoked ALL DAY FRICKIN' LONG. Obviously that would be termed as abuse.

When these people finally grew up and wanted to quit, they did. Yeah, maybe they jonesed for it for a few weeks, but they got over it and rather quickly. Try doin' that with cigarettes.

Many people do use Marijuana as relatively safe pain medication much less addictive than any of the other prescription opiates like Vicodin.

Bottom line? Politically, I'm an independent with some liberatarian leanings. I believe in freedom. If someone wants to ruin their life, it's theirs to ruin. Just don't expect me to pay for it. But the fact is, MOST marijuana users are perfectly functional and may be doing better as a result of its use as in the cases of violent or pain ridden people. I know perfectly successful business men, doctors, lawers and the like who regularly use dope. As a private pilot, I choose to keep my brain as clean as possible for obvious reasons but I also know successful pilots and flight instructors that take an occasional toke from time to time with no apparant ill effects.

The drug war is too costly and has been a complete failure. There are more people using drugs than ever. From what I understand, we HAVE managed to curb drub use a little in our nation's kids. That's the real trick, but like Chris Rock said, "People want to get high. You never hear a crack dealer goin', 'Man! How'm I gonna get rid a' all this crack?'"

I could go on and on as I have been privy to much information on the subject, but I gotta' get to work. This damn forum is far more addictive than ANY drug!

BTW... There is a Medicinal Marijuana referral service just down the road from me. They're phone has been ringing off the hook following the recent Federal Supreme Court's decision not to hear the Bush Administration's case.

Put that in your pip and smoke it. = )

Homebrew

you have correctly listed almost all of the products hemp can be used for. this sight is excellent. a very thorough article about hemp

http://www.drugwar.com/inquisit2.shtm 

I've seen a pre-WWII U.S. propaganda film thanking farmers for their Naval ship, hemp-rope production used for anchor and dock lines. "Keep producing that hemp!" the film exclaimed.

Not long after DuPont invents nyolon. A year or so later...

Prohibition!

"Big Money goes around the world!"
RUSH

Grammar, damnit! Grammar.

That should've read...

Not long after(,) DuPont invents (Nylon.)

Just a thought....If pot were legalized, would the large cigarette manufacturers plow under some portion of their tobacco crops and plant marijuana in an attempt to corner the marketshare while driving prices down or would they ignore pot since it would be difficult to compete with the backyard home growers?

Can you picture the Marlboro Man wearing a Grateful Dead t-shirt?

Missing my point, which may have been my fault.

I realize the "bad" things alcohol does. It ruins lives way too often. But it is possible to drink responsibly.
Tokin' on a joint affects you much more than one or two drinks (depending on your size).


As for Hemp, I've read all the good things about it and agree it should be cultivated for such.
But why do pot heads always push for it to become legal?
Do they also only buy cotton vs polyester? Or organic foods?
I think not, because you'd have to smoke more than an acre of cotton to get high...

Just a question tailgater????
Have you ever smoked marijuana?? While not otherwise impaired, to make such a statement, or are you making an uninformed statement?? I may be a lightweight, but 1-2 drinks does impair my ability to drive more than, I remember pot doing, unless I drank before smoking it. But It has been awhile since college so I may be wrong. Besides, I hear pot is stronger now days.
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

By the way,
the above post was not meant as a disparaging remark toward tailgater, whom I would open my humidor to maybe the tap to my keg of homebrew, and chew the fat with anytime.
Later
Dave (A.K.A. Homebrew)

hey sketcha, I totally agree with you when you said "This damn forum is far more addictive than ANY drug!" good luck

griz