legallization of marajuana

[Jaleez]

Jules: So, tell me again about the hashbars?

Vincent: Okay, what you wanna know?

Jules: Hash is legal there right?

Vincent: Yeah, it's legal, but it ain't a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. You're only supposed to smoke in your home or certain designated places.

Jules: And those are hashbars?

Vincent: It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and, if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't really matter 'cause - get a load of this - if you get stopped by the cops in amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean, that's a right the cops in amsterdam don't have.

Jules: [Laughing] I'm going, that's all there is too it, I'm fracking going

Vincent: Yeah baby, you'd digg it the most.

and once again its proved holland rules! (and the dutch are just so weird)

[skimminOB]

im down for a trip to holland or amsterdam though for real

[narwhal]

Yeah Holland is a country that is in the forefront of the world.

Please take note at huge amounts of sarcasm sprayed at you.

[Jaleez]

haha i took note at those huge amounts

holland is okay, but prefer living somewhere else to be honest

[narwhal]

I want to visit Holland (cool country) but I dont agree with dank supported countrys.


but I think legalization of marijuana could hinder somewhat an intellectual thought basis of a people.

[J. Saunders]

well i gotta agree taht it would be a positive thing in the US because of the profit off of it and also the stop of many drug trafficing.

on the other hand i forgot who who said it how Coke is only related to Gangs....well ur in ur own little world cause here on My "little world" the OBX kids get drug test in our school randomly once a month so instead of smoking weed there has been LARGEEE increase in kids doing cocain. at a party there was a line throughout the entire house waiting to get into the bathroom to take a line off the mirror... and thats just fracked up. it will lead into a more intense drug so frack that. COKE is so fracking retarded i dont get it. i would never touch it. and just saying none of those kids are gang related cause there are only pussy lil groups of kids here not gangs

[dan.nj]

says the kid with that avatar... I still crack up at it.

[Utah]

Anyone seen the documentary "Cocaine Cowboys"? Its really interesting, especially if you live in Florida...

[RexSkimmer]

potheads should grow up and do coke like an adult

[Skeezin']

Jules: So, tell me again about the hashbars?

Vincent: Okay, what you wanna know?

Jules: Hash is legal there right?

Vincent: Yeah, it's legal, but it ain't a hundred percent legal. I mean, you can't walk into a restaurant, roll a joint and start puffin' away. You're only supposed to smoke in your home or certain designated places.

Jules: And those are hashbars?

Vincent: It breaks down like this: it's legal to buy it, it's legal to own it, and, if you're the proprietor of a hash bar, it's legal to sell it. It's legal to carry it, but that doesn't really matter 'cause - get a load of this - if you get stopped by the cops in amsterdam, it's illegal for them to search you. I mean, that's a right the cops in amsterdam don't have.

Jules: [Laughing] I'm going, that's all there is too it, I'm fracking going

Vincent: Yeah baby, you'd digg it the most.

What is Pulp Fiction?

One of my favorite movies ever.

[J. Saunders]

haha yeah dont mind hte avatar just saw it to be kinda in good humor

but i was just saying that its not all gang related... theres a shit load of kids here who are all coked up every weekend

[Skeezin']

OOo my 2 cents. I do occasionally smoke marijuana, I'd say once every 3-4 weeks. I believe that it should be legalized for all the reasons already listed in this thread and also because it is soo much safer than alcohol.

From Erowid:

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabi..._effects.shtml

(Note good and bad symptoms, are bad symptoms all that bad?)

[Skeezin']

Okay and now alcohol.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/alco..._effects.shtml

(Once again not the good and bad symptoms)

[mitchell p.]

well i gotta agree taht it would be a positive thing in the US because of the profit off of it and also the stop of many drug trafficing.

on the other hand i forgot who who said it how Coke is only related to Gangs....well ur in ur own little world cause here on My "little world" the OBX kids get drug test in our school randomly once a month so instead of smoking weed there has been LARGEEE increase in kids doing cocain. at a party there was a line throughout the entire house waiting to get into the bathroom to take a line off the mirror... and thats just fracked up. it will lead into a more intense drug so frack that. COKE is so fracking retarded i dont get it. i would never touch it. and just saying none of those kids are gang related cause there are only pussy lil groups of kids here not gangs

this is no bullshit. Jack goes to dare county schools and i go to camden county schools. (2 county's over). This year a new drug policy was put into effect allowing random drug testings every month or so. Ever since that the amount of weed through my school has declined a shitload. less kids commin to school high and less pepole using. which is a good thing overall. And just to fill you in on how small my school is. last year the senior class was 110 kids . my class this year has only 140. During the random drug testing before christmas break the school released a percentage saying, out of the kids they had tested so far this year 87 PERCENT. tested positive for cocaine. all the partys ive been to this year. everysingle one of them i have see coke there.


Edit*- if my school and jacks school that makes up north-east noth carolina have this same drug policy as well as the surrounding schools. that since this increase of drug testing, cocaine has become more poplular in our area. To the extent of almost doubling in as little as a year.

[nico]

i live in vb(right above obx) and i havnet heard of any major cocaine problems
just weed

[pboon]

I know there are people who can smoke it, act normal, and only do it maybe once or twice a week. But the majority of people I know, ruin it for everyone else because they...A) act like complete idiots, B) Never stop talking about it, its like their lives revolve around it, C) move on to bigger drugs, cause weed just doesnt cut it for them anymore. I don't think it should be legalized. I also think that there are so many people getting arrested because our penalties aren't harsh enough. Take a look at singapore, they'll chop your head off if you bring drugs into their county. Thats why they have such a low crime rate and such a clean city, unlike here in the US. Disclaimer: I don't dislike you if you smoke weed, I just think weed is retarded. So don't take this so seriously, This is just an opinion.

word except for the disclaimer

[fireball]

oh god you dont want me to get in to this.


here it goes >

America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- lol...try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.
The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.

eventually the US started to see differnt opinions on the drug. mainly because
of skimboarding hippees . where marajuana went, rebelion came.so The US
started to prouduce propaganda films to stop people from using the drug. Ex.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...53053667&hl=en

lol go to 13:10

that vid was pretty hot when the girls went skinny dipping. and i could give a shit less about the banning of pot because it won't affect me

[fireball]

oh god you dont want me to get in to this.


here it goes >

America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767), and during most of that time, hemp was legal tender (you could even pay your taxes with hemp -- lol...try that today!) Hemp was such a critical crop for a number of purposes (including essential war requirements - rope, etc.) that the government went out of its way to encourage growth.
The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp "plantations" (minimum 2,000-acre farm) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton.

eventually the US started to see differnt opinions on the drug. mainly because
of skimboarding hippees . where marajuana went, rebelion came.so The US
started to prouduce propaganda films to stop people from using the drug. Ex.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...53053667&hl=en

lol go to 13:10

that vid was pretty hot when the girls went skinny dipping. and i could give a shit less about the banning of pot because it won't affect me

[waddsworth]

...the majority of people I know, ruin it for everyone else because they...A) act like complete idiots, B) Never stop talking about it, its like their lives revolve around it, C) move on to bigger drugs, cause weed just doesnt cut it for them anymore.

I got news for you; its not the weed thats the problem. Those people you mentioned were born shallow losers. Weed simply became their fixation.

I don't think it should be legalized. I also think that there are so many people getting arrested because our penalties aren't harsh enough. Take a look at singapore, they'll chop your head off if you bring drugs into their county. Thats why they have such a low crime rate and such a clean city, unlike here in the US. Disclaimer: I don't dislike you if you smoke weed, I just think weed is retarded.

Yeah, more government regulations and harsher penalties is just what this country needs. Then maybe we'll finally be able to get skimboarders off the beach for good!

[RexSkimmer]

if they legallize pot, then potheads would have nothing to talk about

[MDskimmerMAtt]

i think it should be legealized in your own home or a "hashbar" and you have to buy it from a certain reatalier and it has to be taxed. On the other hand all the rich white kids that smoke it in the bathrooms in my school have caused administrators to monitor the bathrooms. They have locked all the bathrooms except for one girls and one guys. It kinda sucks because now you cant freely walk around.

[sweenie08]

It will never happen. theres too much opposition to move towards legalization, as smoking weed has always been seen as a deviant behavior in our country. Also, a lot of high up weed dealers actually fund anti-drug campaigns, if it became legal they would be out of a job.

[junwin]

there would have to be something like random breath testing for drivers.... some sort of "Legal Stoned Limit". cos yeh.... stoned driving is just fracking retarded.

[RexSkimmer]

It will never happen. theres too much opposition to move towards legalization, as smoking weed has always been seen as a deviant behavior in our country. Also, a lot of high up weed dealers actually fund anti-drug campaigns, if it became legal they would be out of a job.

don't worry, Nader is on it

[waddsworth]

Another problem I remember reading about is that there are pharma companies who are attempting to synthesize THC. If they can do it, patent it, and get FDA approval... cha ching! Then the government certainly has its reasons to block legalization or even decrim.

Not to mention, for all the people suggesting taxation, that marijuana is incredibly easy to grow. Enforcing taxation would be next to impossible. But hey, money saved from not having to find, prosecute, and imprison marijuana criminals is still like money earned.

[jake]

in sarasota there is huge fracking coke use. its fracking rediculous. this kids here are so fracking dumb

[Canadian_Skim]

I dont get this argument against weed and driving . No shit its stupid , so is drinking and driving . I hardly see that as a reason not to legalize .... Not that i really give a shit what you guys do , Canada is fairly flexible when it comes to weed.

[junwin]

im not saying thats a reason Not to legalize it.... im saying that IF it was legalized, something like a Random Breath test would have to be implemented.....

[Duffskim]

i think that in our life time it will be legalized. I really believe that it just seems like there is a big opposition. Think of it this way, most of the people going into government office over the next 5 years grew up in the early 70's

[Utah]

i think that in our life time it will be legalized. I really believe that it just seems like there is a big opposition. Think of it this way, most of the people going into government office over the next 5 years grew up in the early 70's

I think it will become Decriminalized sometime in my life time. I don't believe it will become legalized though...

[Duffskim]

what is the difference between decriminalization and legalization? i never knew there was a difference

[narwhal]

I am surprised Dzan is not stoked on this debate...

[Rhino]

I think it will become Decriminalized sometime in my life time. I don't believe it will become legalized though...

How harsh are the penalties in FL?
Cause in CA weed, under an ounce, is as much of a criminal act as a parking ticket.

[waddsworth]

what is the difference between decriminalization and legalization? i never knew there was a difference

Decriminalization means that most offenses become a misdemeanor, rather than a felony.

Legalization would mean that there's no such thing as an offense for most aspects of marijuana.