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Originally Posted by Blueblaze
The question is not whether or not pot is bad for you, it's whether it should be legal.
We're talking about a weed that was cultivated so heavily for the fiber prior to being outlawed, that it now grows wild in the highway ditches of nearly every state in the union. Outlawing weed worked about as well as outlawing dandelions.
Personally, I'm an American. Liberty is the whole reason we have an America, and believe it or not, liberty even extends to stupid people. Yes, I think adults have a right to their stupidity -- even, to a reasonable extent, the right to try their own stupid way of raising their own stupid offspring. I think stupid people get to control what poisons they stupidly choose to ingest for whatever stupid reason they choose!
If you don't even have the right to choose what you put in your mouth, how can you say you live in a Free Country?
I wouldn't outlaw ANY drug, much less a weed. But if we insist on having an FDA to approve SOME drugs, why are untested "CBD" concoctions exempt, and free to make any ludicrous claim they want -- much less untested nicotine concoctions for kids to "vape" themselves to death 40 years quicker than a cigarette?
In my perfect world, the FDA would be required to test ALL drugs sold for human consumption. It would publish the results, and require an honest label listing the contents and warnings. But we would quit sending people to jail for ingesting their favorite poisons, tested or otherwise.
And we would throw the book at junkies who steal our stuff to support their stupid habit!
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Marijuana isn't really a weed, it's a herb. CBD has so little THC in it that one would have to smoke pounds of it to feel any effect. I wish thy would start using hemp in more products from paper to home building.
Yes, liberty allows one to choose, as long as it isn't detrimental to other people's freedom. Marijuana was legal in the US for 130 years before prohibition. And, yes, a 10mg gummie, an hour or so before bed, allows one to have a great nite sleep.