pan6467

Being in the business of drug abuse and addiction, I have to laugh at people who feel that alcohol is ok but weed is going to destroy society and people.

Alcohol turns into adelhyde in your body, it is extremely toxic, from the first drink you ever take your body builds a physical tolerence (it takes more and more to achieve desired affect) and the brain chemistry starts to change negatively. Basically, alcohol fucks with your body and changes not only your chemistry but it also changes cell structure. You want a drink every night to relax after work, your tolerence will go up, and you will find yourself drinking more and more to get that desired effect (won't happen overnight, but it will happen).

Marijuana does not do any of the above. Physical tolerence to marijuana never changes. You never have to smoke more than the first time to achieve desired results. Psychologically, depends on the person. Basically, smoking one joint when getting off work to relax will give you pretty much the same effect every night for 50 years. Psychologically, that's up to the person, but in most cases, they never feel a need to increase. Those who do need more, usually, are searching for that zing and will find a drug that will give it to them.

There are only 2 drugs that a cold turkey withdrawal will kill an otherwise healthy person: benzodiazipines (valium, xanax, klonipine, etc) and alcohol. Opiates you may wish you could die, cocaine, meth and others are basically pschological with very limited physical withdrawal.

An alcoholic must maintain a certain BAC in their body at all times, when that drops below what the body needs, withdrawal symptoms start (the shakes, blood pressure skyrockets, DT's, etc).

For marijuana none of this happens.

Those are the facts, alcohol is by far the worst drug out there, as far as what it does physically.

So for those who wish to argue alcohol is ok and marijuana isn't.... look at the facts and do some true research.

I see alcoholics and their lives destroyed very effectively by alcohol, everyday, I have yet to see someone who has had their life destroyed as effectively because all they did was smoke weed.

Should weed be legal? Yes.

I think the numbers of those using it will actually decrease within 10 years. I would much rather see a regulated, taxed controlled product out then to see people helping organized crime and terrorist cells and not knowing what they are truly getting. A lot of the street weed today is being mixed with opiates, crack, meth, or you name it.

In the end if you are going to become addicted to something in life, you'll find what zings you, legal or not.

If in your opinion you can handle a drug in moderation and be ok..... then go for it.

Making something illegal because someone may use it and get hurt or hurt society, is a lame excuse.... if that is the case one could argue for making guns illegal, cars illegal, and the list could go on.

By the way, do you wish to keep marijauna illegal because you fear what it will do to society, knowing people will find it anyway, or just go to worse drugs....... thus you are stating your morals and your beliefs are far more important than someone else's.............................

or the truer question:

do you wish to keep pot illegal because you are afraid you may try it or have and like it to where it may negatively affect YOUR own life and thus you must keep it illegal?

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"