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[Leslie Cheswyck]

[Steelrails]

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

[Captain Corea]

[Leslie Cheswyck]

[Sergio Stefanuto]

[scotty12347]

I understand why people smoke pot, they're damaging themselves, but they're getting a good effect from it.

People who smoke say they get a good feeling when they satisfy their cravings, but why would you want them in the first place. I guess smoking will just never make sense to me.

[Captain Corea]

[DrugstoreCowgirl]

[steveinincheon]

First of all Smoking, Alcohol, Caffeine, and Acetaminophen are all more physically harmful than Marijuana, Psilocybin, LSD, and Ecstasy. Tobacco kills more people than any other substance followed by alcohol, followed by Acetaminophen (in North America it least). I don't suggest that any of these be banned or even too heavily restricted, but am only suggesting how completely arbitrary it is as to what's illegal and what isn't. Tobacco and Alcohol have been engrained in Western culture for hundreds, even thousands of years and their acceptance is therefore much greater than that of other drugs.

As a nonsmoker I think people should be free to smoke wherever they want provided they aren't harming non-smokers too seriously. I have no problem with smoky bars and restaurants personally, but I do have a problem with employees who, ought of economic necessity, have to work day in and day out in a smoky environment. Its not the patrons of a bar who are going to get emphysema from second hand smoke - its the staff who are exposed to it 40 hours a week for many years that have to worry. Still, as long as you can enclose the smoking area and keep employees from spending too long in it, I don't see the problem with having one - and many of the smoking bans in N America go way too far in restricting what privately owned businesses can do.

Essentially, if you banned tobacco tomorrow, you would end up with the world's largest black market in history, and a goldmine of opportunity for gangs, corruption, and organized crime. This would worsen quality of life for smokers and nonsmokers alike. Same with alcohol - the consequences of doing this are already well known. Similarly, I believe that if restrictions on other drugs were relaxed, violent crime in the West would decrease sharply, while narcostates like Afghanistan and Myanmar would have an opportunity to become more stable and democratic. Decriminalizing some drugs, and fully legalizing others could bring more benefits for everyone involved - well except for the DEA agents who will now be working at Wal Mart.

Really, one of the biggest problems with legalization in the West, are the pro-legalize assclowns who take any legitimacy away from what could otherwise be a sensible policy choice. One thing to keep in mind is that alcoholics who come to work drunk and disorderly tend not to get very far in their careers. Likewise, even if weed were legal the NORML bunch would still be living in their parents basement listening to Phish records after just getting fired from their 3rd dishwashing job in 4 months

[Psy]

1) Cigarettes and alcohol are legal.

2) People categorize drugs as either good or bad.
(Cure your disease, or make you high and screw you up)

3) Because of #1, people don't think they are as bad as narcotics and other hardcore drugs, rather they kill you slowly.

4) My dad and his friends smoke/drink, so they think it's ok.

5) Lack of information regarding drugs.

This doesn't seem to be a cultural thing, but rather worldwide.
And yes, marijuana is actually less harmful and addictive than cigarettes.

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

Lets clear up some 'facts'

Pot smoke = more carcinogenic than ciggies. Plus no filter usually, so way worse. Plus it's usually mixed with tobacco and held in the lungs both harder and in larger quantities.

Okay fags and booze will slowly kill you and kill more people than acid or x. This is true. But for the purposes of running a society / civilisation in the current mode if large percentages of the population went round on these drugs everyday civilisation and models of society as we know them today would fall apart very quickly.

Now I am not to judge if that would be good or not, but them's facts Jack.

[Psy]

Here you go, some drug facts.


http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20drugs.gif

Assuming of course, it is the pure drug, nothing is mixed and it is smoked, inhaled, or injected in equal amounts, etc. Alcohol and tobacco are both on the list. So, steveinincheon was right.

[DWAEJIMORIGUKBAP]

[Psy]