Comments on: Marijuana Advocates See "Tipping Point"

Pot Smokers Celebrate "420" With Protests, Smoke Outs As Usage Becomes More Accepted And Supporters Push For Legalization

[mason2012]

One thing your program "What If Marijuana Were Legal? Possible Out comes " left out was the effect legalized marijuana would have on the cultivation of industrial hemp which is now prohibited. If marijuana were legal hemp would also be legal. The prospect of legal hemp would bring far more income to farmers than marijuana as the products for hemp have far reaching social consequences hemp can be used as fuel, food, paper and fiber. In some parts of the nation hemp can be harvested three times a year. Hemp would replace many items that petroleum now produce. Such as nylon and plastics. The plastic would be of high quality and biodegradable. Marijuana and hemp are the same plant and should always be considered together when weighting the merits or demerits of legalization. The legalization of this plant would benefit all americans. One of those benefits being a lessening of our dependence on foreign oil. Another would be the environment as this plants products would be sustainable and benevolent to our exosphere. It would put farmers to work bring new economy and tax income. The effect of legalization would be felt on the industrial products of the plant and the benefits would far outweigh any problems associated with the drug.

[honestabe8]

JosephAmmons: Researchers HAVE determined a fatal dosage of marijuana. It turns out that the fatal dosage is a 50 lb. bale dropped from a 5th story window

[JosephAmmons]

http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20030918/marijuana-smoking-doesnt-kill


I hope WebMD is a credible source for most people. Please note the comment "...there's no such thing as a fatal marijuana overdose...".

So you can overdose on Tylenol, but not marijuana. And which one is legal?

[honestabe8]

I don't know that I agree with roycas's assertion that pot will never be legal. First of all, never is a long time. Secondly, the fact that it is being discussed means that it is on people's minds. Also, he or she repeats the often used assertion that those who smoke pot are unemployed and spend their time on the couch. The people I know who smoke it work full time in professional and skilled trades positions. They simply prefer weed to beer as a method of relaxation after work.

[roycas1]

It is funny how people have to attack my spelling or what you think is my intelligence level. You are all blowing smoke. Thay have been trying leagalize pot for longer than any of you have been alive and it hasn't happened. Guess what, it never will. From all these posts I have read which I will not be reading any more becasue it is a waste of my day, you are all high! You all crack me up. Good luck in your silly lives. And by the way, if you all put down the pot and go to work this economy might get a little better. Get of the couches people! Your a waste. Go ahead and reply to this but I won't see them. LOL

[honestabe8]

I wonder what is so lacking in Rowdy's life that she has to come on and abuse total strangers every day.

[MethodMan09]

hey doug take some of your own advice and "GROW THE FREAKING UP!!!!!". lol it looks likes you gots some darn well English skills dare sunny........not. try saying"please consider being more mature" or at the least cut it down to "grow up" so you don't look so foolish. While you are busy growing up and going back to grade school so you can FREAKING learn how properly speak and write, you should also look back at your absurd and contradicting statements. but since I know you are to stupid to do this i will go back and do it for you. First apparently you have some confusion when it comes to the comparison of weed to tobacco. The brainless whacko idiot hypocrites that smoke weed and condemn cigarette smoking are actually not hypocrites, and most likely not whacko idiots either. Studies show that the two are very different. While i could explain the science behind this i feel like you can look it up for yourself. second you say "You want the wholed damned planet toked up and brainless? Living like little hippy twits in Utopia?" So you mean to say that if pot is legalized everyone is going to smoke it to extreme excess, including you. Funny it seems that alcohol is legal and everybody is not a drunk moron. It seems that smoking saliva is legal yet the entire world isnt smoking that and tripping.(haha you dont even know what salvia is do you) and lastly you say "o something with your life and find some happiness other than crying like little whiney babies because somebody said NO, we're not having that KRAP in our lives and we don't want our children corrupted with it." we are not crying we are trying to reason, big difference lol kinda like how tobacco and weed are really different. Lastly weed does not corrupt children, crazy people like you do. well i got to go spark a white owl have fun living live as an ignorant *****

[vexzen]

When it comes to Obama ignoring the issue of legalization and wondering about the people writing in from online, I personally felt offended. It was a propelled movement form people who voted for him. This was not a couple of people sending mass emails, this was friends telling friends to let the president know that we want to be heard and taken seriously. Considering the number of people fighting for this cause versus the attention paid to the Tea Parties, doesn't it seem a little unfair?

[rf35]

I can't believe marijuana legalization is being considered at the same time tobacco seems on the verge of being banned. Cigarette smokers are being vilified while pot smokers are being portrayed in an increasingly favorable light. Having never tried pot, I don't feel I'm qualified to form an opinion on its effects. However, smoking is smoking. If you are in favor of smoking one plant, how can you be against smoking another? If it is legalized, I certainly hope it is considered by society to be just as disgusting as cigarettes. Otherwise, we are truly a nation of hypocrites.

[proteach]

Posted by douglas_dunn at 9:41 PM : Apr 20, 2009

Why are you so intent on living a drugged up pot headed life? What's so important about smoking pot? You can't handle your responsibilities and need some wacky weed to pump your ego up? What's the matter can't feed yourself without tokin up first?

What's the matter, can't stand any discipline in your life, any boundaries of behavior or morals.....you idiots that blow your brains out over smoking a cigarettte yet you tout smoking pot like some brainless whacko idiot hypocrite?

Don't we have enough to put up with with alcoholic sots that can't face reality or responsibility? You want the wholed damned planet toked up and brainless? Living like little hippy twits in Utopia?

Like little spoiled brats that can't do without your candy treats just because you wanna!!!

GROW THE FREAKING UP!!!!! Do something with your life and find some happiness other than crying like little whiney babies because somebody said NO, we're not having that KRAP in our lives and we don't want our children corrupted with it.
Posted by Rowdy106 at 10:28 PM : Apr 20, 2009
not sure who posted this but just to clear up the mistaken assumption that potheads are idiots: I am a successful business woman, full-time professor, mother of four, grad student credits away from graduation and all the while have smoked pot as a stress reliever for the past 15 yrs. You know when your day runs from 5-8 a.m. with kid duty, then 8-5 p.m. with students, then 5-9 p.m. running a business all the while dropping off kids at practices, then 10-1 a.m. with online classes and house duty then i feel like i deserve to take off the edge in whatever manner i see fit as long as it is responsibly without being judged by people who don't know what they are talking about. And you know what, i am grown up. Everyone has a vice. Mine is weed. What's yours?