Why is pot illegal?

[blacknightteg]

pot is nowhere near physically better for you. your right about the chemicals, but unless your smoking a filtered joint you are taking in alot more tar than a filtered cigarette.

and no, you dont have to have smoked yourself to see what its effects are. if i was in here arguing and had NO experience around it, that would be one thing. however, i have seen with my own eyes what it does to people, so i know. but do you think that the people who were recording data and making assesments in the clinical study on how it affects driving were high? most likely not. it DOES cloud your judgement and thinking ability at least during the period that you are actually high, and eventually it has the same effect regardless.

if you think im wrong, skim over the previous posts in the thread. the posts made by smokers basically say these things:

1. pot makes you focus better
2. pot makes you drive better
3. pot isnt as bad for you as cigarettes

#3 is to an extent true, but its more of a compromise between the two. cigarettes have ****ty chemicals, pot has tar. its a trade. neither are good for you, but its arguable about which is better.

as far as pot being better than alcohol, it depends on the circumstances. pot doesnt make you beat your kids, which is a great thing. but pot makes you lazy and dumb, but thats okay since it only hurts you, not the people around you.

i dont necessarily think its a bad thing to do, but i know that my personality is very prone to addiction, plus it runs in the family. ill keep my distance. i dont smoke cigs because it stinks.

im sorry but your arguement seriously = FAIL. You cannot compare the two ( pot and cigarettes). with the amount of chemicals that they put into those ****ing death sticks cigarettes are by far more worse for you then a joint of pot. there too many chemicals to list with names i have never been able to pronounce that are in cigarettes, where as in pot, there is just strong ass THC. Pot is not physically addicting substance and never will be as long as it is around unless tobacco companies get ahold of it and start putting chemicals in it to make it so. Like deiselnuts said. pot is something that you can easliy get off of as long as you want too. If you dont, then you will keep smoking on it. As long as you have the will to do so. I highly honestly doubt your friends were actually addicted to pot, they just didnt want to stop smoking it so they got sent to rehab to maybe help make them want to stop. but if they relapsed, well **** happens. smoking pot is only as harmful to your as you make it. if you do it responisibly, then you will have no problem what so ever. If you know when its time for you to truely stop then you can. How do you think i stopped....i'd been smoking for a long time, one day i came home and could smell myself ( being around friends that smoke cigarettes and what not on a constant basis as well as pot) so i decided to stop. As luck would have it, i also go sick so i couldnt even smoke. so you know what i did, said **** it and stopped. its not hard

If pot its considered to be a gate way drug...then i guess it made me start smoking cigarettes, which i stopped. Why did i start because i was around people that did all the time and i didnt want to feel left out. Drug uses is all about who you are around and how often you are around them. if you associate yourself with people that just love to do drugs. your gunna end up being one of those types of people doing it every day. if you dont, then you might do it every now and then if its around if your out somewhere. but in no way shape and or form are you going to end up like some crackhead did, just cuz you occasionally smoke, or even smoke a few times a week. Pot is not a mind altering substance, it just may make you lazy. if it does, thats cuz you allow it. I know for a fact that when ever i was high with friends. we never just stood or sat around. we always wanted to do something. it does not make you less productive what so ever.

[DieselNuts]

smoking pot is only as harmful to your as you make it. if you do it responisibly, then you will have no problem what so ever. .

True. At one point I was feeling really depressed. I cut back on the Wiid smoking and *voila* depression gone. That is one bad side effect that I do admit that it has had on me. But I found out the solution and I fixed the problem.

If pot its considered to be a gate way drug...then i guess it made me start smoking cigarettes, which i stopped. Why did i start because i was around people that did all the time and i didnt want to feel left out. Drug uses is all about who you are around and how often you are around them. if you associate yourself with people that just love to do drugs. your gunna end up being one of those types of people doing it every day. if you dont, then you might do it every now and then if its around if your out somewhere. but in no way shape and or form are you going to end up like some crackhead did, just cuz you occasionally smoke, or even smoke a few times a week. Pot is not a mind altering substance, it just may make you lazy. if it does, thats cuz you allow it. I know for a fact that when ever i was high with friends. we never just stood or sat around. we always wanted to do something. it does not make you less productive what so ever.

This is also very true. When I got my DUI, not only did I quit because of probation, but I also started school and my classes were early as shiit in the AM and all my wiid smoking buddies worked nights at a sports bar. Because of this, I didnt really hang out anymore except on the weekends and that mad it VERY easy to quit.