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| Thread ID: 120760 | 2011-09-25 07:10:00 | Marijuana decriminalisation | bk T (215) | PC World Chat |
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| 1233413 | 2011-09-26 08:17:00 | Definately screws you up if you're a heavy user though. I have known some that have got rather paranoid. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1233414 | 2011-09-26 08:21:00 | Basically, Don Brash is a retartd, and John Banks has got it right. My opinion. please dont attack me about it. | skeptile2 (16539) | ||
| 1233415 | 2011-09-26 08:47:00 | What a good idea. POlicing drugs doesn't work, costs billions and wastes time when they could be chasing criminals. Let them have access to cheap drugs and the idiotd will soon OD themselves out of the picture. And don't forget to tax it Check out John Key's statement at www.stuff.co.nz |
Greven (91) | ||
| 1233416 | 2011-09-26 08:56:00 | I have known some that have got rather paranoid. Maybe an irrational fear of being persecuted and locked up for no apparent reason ... :lol: |
fred_fish (15241) | ||
| 1233417 | 2011-09-26 10:20:00 | Maybe an irrational fear of being persecuted and locked up for no apparent reason ... :lol: Actually, no. No one is afraid of being locked up. Because nothing happens if you are caught with weed. Worst case scenario is a diversion, it doesn't come to that unless you have a lot on you. It just wastes the system's money on the 0.01% that actually get done for it. Heavy smokers just get paranoid about everything else. :) |
Cato (6936) | ||
| 1233418 | 2011-09-26 10:30:00 | They should try to get tobacco smokers to move on to cannabis & tax it the same as tobacco - there would be plenty of money rolling in thanks to the reduced healthcare costs for smokers. Weed smokers also don't smell anywhere near as bad as tobacco smokers :yuck: Alcohol and gambling both put a lot of money into community groups, but tobacco doesn't put any money back into the community. So are you forgetting the tax on tobacco which amounts to around $1 Billion per year at the moment? |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1233419 | 2011-09-26 20:42:00 | Sometimes I reread my own posts and wonder what the hell I was on about myself. If I come across as strongly anti-cannabis it's a false impression. I have no interest in using it myself but really don't care if others do, at least on a casual basis. I know many people who use it and are as normal and functional as anyone else. However it can become a serious problem if overused and kids / teenagers definately should not touch the stuff, and that's the real worry for me if it becomes more acceptable. One concern to me is those people with addictive / destructive personalities who shouldn't use any mind altering substance, alcohol included. The more things they have access to the more chance of serious problems for them. You could argue laws shouldn't be there to protect us from our own decisions, but where do you draw the line? some people decide to do all kinds of stupid and horrible things and the law is sometimes is all that is stopping them. Users seem to have a few self delusions though. It DOES have adverse health effects, look it up and take the blinkers off. Some of them quite serious. Ok yes there are also medical benefits, but if you use it you should understand the risks. It IS obvious to everyone around you when you are using it, clear eyes does not make the effects invisible. It DOES impair your judgement and reactions and ability to safely drive/ operate machinery etc. If you are one of those people who writes off everything you disagree with as corporate/ government propaganda you will never get the full picture. Truth can come from anywhere, even professional liars (politicians). |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1233420 | 2011-09-26 21:08:00 | I have yet to see an attractive weed smoker . . . ? Surely it is glaringly obvious why that should be? Attractive "weed" is placed in containers and moved inside, at which time it is called a pot plant . The "ugly weed" is uprooted and burned (as a public service to ensure it will not spread) . Surely there's nothing objectionable about this helpful assistance to natural selection? ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1233421 | 2011-09-26 21:13:00 | I'm also yet to find somebody who's moved on to P who *didn't* start with weed. People get introduced to it They then start smoking it regularly They then start selling it to 'take a cut' and pay for their own They then move on to harder drugs that pay more for less Seen it so many times in my short life, it's not even funny. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1233422 | 2011-09-26 21:17:00 | What I find most interesting is the backpedalling this is on one of their core policies, "Zero tolerance for crime": www.act.org.nz Now they're saying "Well, if you all do something enough, we'll make it legal. Why not try rape or murder next, we may legalize that too!" |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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