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In reply to the discussion: Why I'm against pot being legalized [View all]surrealAmerican
(11,359 posts)90. Your young friend does not sound like he's thought this through.
Alcohol is legal, as are cigarettes, yet his generation are not all alcoholic chain smokers.
It may mean more people will try pot, but most of them won't suddenly decide to be "pot heads" - kind of like the way a lot of kids try cigarettes, but decide they don't really want to smoke.
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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