Are there any legal alternatives to marijuana? I see 'legal bud' on the internet.?
368587
There really is no substitute, I don't care what they are trying to sell over the internet. The police wouldn't care. They would take you to jail just as fast. Every time you have the desire to smoke get a garden hoe and go outside and hoe the grass in your yard. Soon you'll be exhausted and before long you can plant flower seeds... then you can pull the weeds out... then water them every morning and night ... and them hoe up some more grass and make a new flower bed. Before long, you will have a beautiful yard full of flowers. When the police drive past your place they will only think good thoughts. Then you can sit out in you're beatuful garden and drink chamomile tea made from the chamomile flowers that you grew yourself. There is alot of power in perfectly legal flowers. Hence, FLOWER POWER.
830744
What would happen to the crime rate if it were legalized?\n\nWhat would the number of users do if it were legalized... would it increase or decrease?\n\nWe know it's a harmful substance so why would one want to legalize such a harmful drug?\n\nIf it were legalized, then teens (for the most part) using the substance to rebel against parents, rules, laws, and whatever else, what would they do?  Would they continue using marijuana or would they move on to another, more harmful substance?\n\nHow and why would this benefit society?\n\nThe only use for marijuana that's acceptable in society today (for medicinal purposes) is already available in many states/provinces with a prescription from a qualified doctor.  What would the purpose of legalizing marijuana be?  \n\nIf it were legalized, wouldn't it be easier to get ahold of and be easier for children to access and be harmed by?\n\nWould you allow your own children (either now or several years down the road when you do have children) to use marijuana?  If it's legalized they can purchase it on their own much easier.  Just gives a person a little bit to think about.
4440
Wow, your message is not a good advertisement for legalizing pot!\n\nBut to answer your question, because they don't get it. They believe that pot is to blame for all drug use and that it leads to harder drugs.\n\nBooze and pot do different things, either one is real bad for you if not used in moderation. Some people are not capable of moderation with the use of their drug of choice.
1050723
None of those asian countries listed have medical marijuana prgrams and all are VERY strict on even possesion of small quantities.  I think medical marijuana is a good idea but seems impossible to regulate with many people just paying a doctor a few hundred bucks to get a cannabis club card, sick or not.  So i think they should just go ahead and legalize it already, its practically decriminalized already here in california (if you get caught with under  an ounce, its like an 80 dollar ticket with no arrest or jail.) Im counting on you arnold to get it done!
1029258
I don't think marijuana should be an alternative to alchohol, but I do think it should be legalized. In my opinion alcohol has already killed millions more people than marijuana will ever so I believe that alcohol should be the illegal substance. It is man made and makes EVERYONE on it an absolute a**, where marijuana just makes people chill out and relaxed. On top of it all I have never heard any evidence that would prove that alcohol can be used positively in the medical field, as where marijuana can be positively used for many different ailments: depression, cataracts, cancer, extreme pain diagnosis, and even Post Tramatic Stress Syndrome. Should there even be a debate as to which one is less harmful, but that is the government for you. They would rather people kill themselves by drinking so they can charge them high taxes on it and keep marijuana illegal to make money off of search and seizures.
304767
If it was just true marijuana by itself maybe it wouldn't be as bad as alcohol.  But now it's mixed with all the other stuff and then it's just a introduction to the true brain rot that's out there.  If people want to be human vegetables for the rest of their life take dope.  If you want to be healthy mentally and physically don't do drugs, period.  Good question.
1153668
I think it is something that needs to be done.  We have all sorts of highly addictive and dangerous drugs that are legal-vicodin, percoset, oxycotin....It may take longer for it to be legalized for recreational use, but is it really any worse than alcohol?  I know of MANY more lives ruined by alcohol than marijuana.
295980
Marijuana is the least toxic drug there is. That includes smoking and alcohal which are both legal and I believe far more dangerous. I think there should be limits on when and where you can have it of course,but I think it should be legalized. The only reason it isn't already is because the Government hasn't found a way to tax the hell out of it yet.
677223
no, but i wish they would legalize it :)
1163028
No one buys that stuff anymore...not since marijuana is now tested through hair follicle & fatty tissue samples.  Goldenseal Root is an herb of the past ..LOL
72317
"Making Marijuana against the law is like saying God made a mistake"\n-Bill Hicks\n\n\nit's only illegal because the government doesn't have the control over it like they do on every other substance that is legal.\nAlcohol is much worse for you than marijuana, yet it's legal. you do the math.\nIt has nothing to do with the harm that marijuana may have, yet that is what all the propaganda is based on.  Otherwise, how would you have propaganda being at all useful if it was just simply "the government cant control it, so don't use it". No, they want to lie and preach that it's actually harmful to you. That's the only way they get it to stay illegal, too many people think it's actually harmful so there's not enough to overturn the rule.\n\nIt's also not a matter of IF it can harm you at all. You can get harmed by anything taken beyond moderation. The fact is it has less harm than something that is legal. Therefore being nothing short of total hypocrisy and lies by the government.\n\nP.S.\nI'm not a pothead or a hippy, etc.. I don't use it and I never have. I know enough people and have seen enough information that I don't need to be a pothead to have a strong view on the matter.
402637
I had a gf that smoked at one time, I gave her the option of me or the weed???  Keeping in mind that it is illegal and if you get pulled over or police come over and find it.  Even though it is his you are going down with him and going to Jail.  Might be hard give him the option but will show alot of character on his part.
621511
if marijuana was legal it would make uncle SAM tons of money. one they would be able to tax it. hello that right there is some cash.  all those people sitting in jail waisting a tax dollars for having a few ozs they would be out giving uncle SAM more cash.  they could regulate it better its easier for underage kids to by weed than alcohol so if they sold it in a store you could check id.  Violence in inner city's would go down soon.  other country's like Holland have realized that legal green can be and is a good thing.  /even Alaska legalized weed for a short tI'me, and im not talking about just medical i mean it was legal to have so much on you and grow so much in your home as long as you weren't selling it.  i wish that the government would make it legal i think it would benefit our county greatly
1075034
The effects of both alcohol and Marijuana are so strikingly similar, that I'm shocked the government hasn't legalized it yet. It's not physically addictive either, as opposed to the other illegal drugs.
953572
Well Mathyu I wish you could grow your own legally. I would be growing my own legally too if I could. I just went to Jack Herer's website and will be spending some time later reading more of it. Previously I was unaware of cannabis' ability to turn back the hands of time for Alzheimer's patients. My mom died of complications from Alzheimer's Disease I wish I had known then that there was a way to help her to keep from losing parts of herself.\nI could certainly use the $ but I don't think from what I've read so far that I would want to prove Jack wrong.\nWe'll talk again I'm sure.\nLL
253044
Yes it should be legal. For one, I have lived in a place where it IS legal and the differences are astounding. Children/Teens are MUCH less likely to smoke pot if it is legal. It doesn't have the "mystique" that illegal items do. Also, there are fewer Driving while Under the Influence charges per capita where marijuana is legal, because it is used more responsibly. Check your crime statistics, you'll find that I'm right. Marijuana is no more dangerous than a cigarette. In fact, it is NOT as addictive. Infact, marijuana is ONLY a psychologically addictive drug, not a physiologically addictive one. Cigarettes are both. Economically speaking, if it were legal it would be MUCH cheaper to get. This would help regulate quality of the drug, making it much less likely to be laced with other, more addictive additives like PCP. The sale of it could be governmentally regulated, like alcohol and other controlled substances, and TAXED. That would generate a HUGE amount of tax revenue........
909819
Pot is illegal because it was competition for the cotton grower. During the civil war it was outlawed mainly because of its fibers. Hemp (Marijuana) can grow faster then most plants and produce much more usable material than the cotton plant. Hemp can grow up to a 30 foot tap root, in search of water. Hemp seed contains more protein then the soy bean. It can be used for so much other than the drug effects. Sadly its outlawed for these reasons. As long as DuPont and DOW chemicals are around hemp will be outlawed. Also take into account all the Drug companies who provide campaign money to all the senators who have drug laws approved and denied. If pot was legal maybe someone would not be on Prozac or Paxil. Alcohol will always be legal. It makes to much revenue. From the people who manufacture alcohol to the distributers. Then the bar owners who mixes a bottle and makes a couple 100$ on it. To the state who pops people for DWI's. Then lawyers who get paid to get you off. Then the insurance comp. who rapes you every year to drive. So alcohol makes to much money and will never be illegal regardless of how many people are killed and families destroyed by alcoholism. I smoke pot when I want, and don't really care what the Feds say. So put me in jail. That's where the good pot is anyways.