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In reply to the discussion: Why I'm against pot being legalized [View all]4_TN_TITANS
(2,977 posts)82. I grudgingly agree, because guess who picks up the medical tab
for people too far gone on hard drugs?
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I think no one should be punished for what they put in their bodies, absent harm to others.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#66
The kids will see their parents and grandparents smoking the occasional bit o' weed,
MADem
Feb 2013
#10
Don't buy that for a minute. Kids smoked quite a bit of weed in the 70's when I was in school.
we can do it
Feb 2013
#14
Your whole thing about "a party 'hip' popular guy gype who knows what the young people are thinking
Brickbat
Feb 2013
#19
I think it's regressive to the lowest common denominator, a trait that LOSES all kinds of values,
patrice
Feb 2013
#24
The conservative Dutch government sought to ban foreigners from the cannabis cafes.
Comrade Grumpy
Feb 2013
#69
It is already easier for teens/minors to get pot (and other things) than alcohol
justabob
Feb 2013
#32
his "point" is so highly influenced by prohibition that it's not particularly relevant....
mike_c
Feb 2013
#44
Pot, anything, can become a crutch in environments that are not enriched by opportunities,
patrice
Feb 2013
#87
Creeping like a communist it's knocking at our doors turning all our children into hooligans and..."
LanternWaste
Feb 2013
#45
2 legal things that can be in this argument is Tobacco and Alcohol.
Lady Freedom Returns
Feb 2013
#46
It doesn't matter how it's 'viewed'. Alcohol is a drug. A deadly one, at that.
PeaceNikki
Feb 2013
#84
Many of us actively resist orthodoxy here, even in regard to this question. This has to do
patrice
Feb 2013
#100
You could have spent a little bit of time looking for report papers from countries that have soft
idwiyo
Feb 2013
#73
why you are mistaken in your 'thoughts'. did you imagine this 'hipster' in a dream?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#75
We need to stop filling up the prisons and clogging the courts with non-violent drug offenders
bluestateguy
Feb 2013
#79
People die from smoking "fake pot". No one has ever died from smoking pot. Case closed.
Scuba
Feb 2013
#91
You are implying there is egregious harm if all his friends started smoking it too
NoOneMan
Feb 2013
#101