i've made a personal study of the topic and i can tell you right now that ALL narcotics are "bad" for you.
LSD began as an antidepressant, for instance. Not a bad thing, people with conditions need such a thing. However it turned into something far more powerful than it's creator intended and became a street chem drug.
stoners will make you think Marijuana is a harmless smoke. Least dangerous they'll say. Wont get you addicted hardly, easy to quit. Nice solid high with no strings attatched!
Did you know that, in a common work/school day, a human being uses (in other words burns out) 1,000 brain cells? Not really a big number when you consider how much we think all day. Did you know that from a mere one pipeful of weed nearly 3,000 brain cells are used up in the process of forcing chemical releases in your brain? Your body only regenerates up to 2,000 per day (on a healthy diet).
Do the math. one month of pot and your memory, logic, speech, and everything associated with are inhibited permanently. Until you go through rehab and rebuild your brain, you probably wont get that back.
Not only that, but inhaling smoke into your lungs has been proven "bad for you". mouth cancer, gum cancer, lung cancer... these are heightened by tobacco of course, but they do occur in stoners
quite often. We're talking %60 here.
Sure, legalize it, down cropfuls of the stuff, just know that in doing so you're lessening yourself mentally and physically.
a man that had beat an 80 year old woman to death with a log, he got 20 years.
hold the phone here, a homicide is penalizable in most states by life, minimum 50 years, or the death penalty. Where exactly was that?
lol Elg, it would be nice if it were that easy to just ban all the vices of the masses. but people insist on hurting themselves and ruining their world. Personally i would have shoot on sight for drug dealers or smokers. Thats me though.
But have it your way, i'm sure marijuana will only bring back the golden ages of invention and prosperity. Hey, maybe someday drugs will be mandatory!