In my opinion marijuana gets a bad rap because of the imature people that smoke it.

Personally I would rather eat pot in a brownie. And I only need that to help me with sickness sometimes. I think if everyone was like me pot would be legal. The problem is that some immature people walk around smoking it all day as if they can't function without it. I know I used to be one of those dudes. That's what people look at negatively. Just grow up people. Why do you have to smoke it? It doesn't make you look cool. Actually is does the opposite. There is more to life than smoking pot all the time. Bryant from North Carolina. PS: and it really makes me mad to think that someone as responsible as me has to worry about a piss test when it comes to getting a job. I don't drink. I don't smoke and I don't take pain pills or any other doctor prescribed medicine. I think it is mostly poison and the negative side effects far out weigh the positive results. Again, this is in most cases. But some people have extreme pain and they need the strong medication, they just don't have a choice and I sympathize with them. That's why I believe marijuana should be legal. Doctors are ruining peoples lives by prescribing pain pills in my opinion. Again, I know in some cases their is no other way. But I think marijuana could benefit so many people. The trick is not to get addicted to it. Or any other substance for that matter. Geez, they should be cracking down on alcohol if anything. I've seen this ruin more lives than anything. And it's sold everywhere. The government knows that people will operate cars and get in fights with their families and kill people while under the influence of alcohol. Give me a break. It's all about the almighty dollar. And that's all I have to say about that. But does what I think matter. I think not. Personally, if I could grow it legally and not have to worry about the police knocking down my door and ruining my family name, I would give it away. I just think it is a very useful and beautiful plant.

Ya we all know that dumb stoners give the majority of users a bad name. But to be fair it like saying alcoholics give alcohol a bad wrap. It is what it is and attract a certain type of people to partake. I just do my best to not look or act like a grubby stoner. Like have a full time job and health insurance at age 24.and have had a job since out of school.

All that beeing said I think its wrong to call out those whp smoke it and say that's the reason for a bad wrap. I smoke it because I like the taste and the social dynamic of passing a bong. I don't thinks people who smoke are different from those who eat or vape. Some are just immature no matter what the form of medication.

Well you can't really point fingers if your enjoyin the crop as well. I see what your getting at tho..

Yeah, I read a statistic somewhere that they spend more money fixing alcohol's problems then alcohol brings in on tax revenue. (Citation needed)

Too bad the people who lead our country are retarded. (no citation needed this is common knowledge)

Cannabis is illegal because companies want it illegal and because arresting people for cannabis keeps law enforcement employed. That's why it was made illegal in the 1930s and that's why it's illegal now.

Counter culture. Who wouldn't be alarmed? I brushed into it in the 70s and had fun, free love, etc,
but even, for me it was an out-of-vietman movement. I never did get it.

We want a culture that accepts the med. Not a culture that embraces the counter-culture
bent on distroying the Culture that protects us. Really the pie-in-sky nonsense is what
is ruining the progress in NL and is spilling here. Even liberals reject counter-culture in favor
of socialism these days.

Counter-culture is ruled by anarcists and other social nobodies, anti-globalists, etc, with useless and dangerous presumptions. Such as 70K years of human evolution will turn on a dime and embrace
their concepts. Ruining everything. That's what anarchy does.

cannabis sativa/indica has a bad name because it's cousin hemp could replace fossil fuels and usurp the controlling class. no amount of people sitting around eating potato chips can do that.

the gang bangers dont help the image, when squares think of weed they think hippies and bangers, and no one really like either that much other than members of said demographics.

well there is not much we can do about that.. pot smokers are a very diverse group - we have 25,000,000 americans who admit on a survey that they smoke - that is 25 times all other drug users combined..

immature people who use marijuana? just like all the dumbass's who do stupid shit, who just happen to be shit faced on alcohol..

has nothing to do with the people who use marijuana, has everything to do with the people who profit from keeping it illegal.

there are immature people who smoke and there are the intelligent people who smoke,unfortunately 70% of the people smoking weed really shouldnt be,simply because they cant handle it in some form,being physicaly or mentaly.Thus doing stupid shit appeals to the majority who lack proper mind for it. Being in mind of a more mature and common sense oriented caliber apart from the idiotic mindset that lands one in jail or the hospital or with a bad set of social circumstances leading to either one should be of more concern than it is,but hey we live in a world were people do what they want and many times it will be regardless to standard of good taste.

ncboy65 said:

I think if everyone was like me pot would be legal.

Click to expand...

What else would be legal if everyone was like you?

I bet marijuana would be legal if everyone was like my neighbor, he's a cool pot smoker and keeps it in the house and low key, but at the same time if everyone was like him, skull fucking dead hamsters would probably be an olympic event.

spandy said:

What else would be legal if everyone was like you?

I bet marijuana would be legal if everyone was like my neighbor, he's a cool pot smoker and keeps it in the house and low key, but at the same time if everyone was like him, skull fucking dead hamsters would probably be an olympic event.

Click to expand...

are dead hamsters doing the skull fucking or being skull fucked? in any case, i don't think i'd like that event.

said another way: variety is the spice of life, but sometimes those spices taste pretty damn shitty.