Advocates for legalizing marijuana tout the benefits at Hempfest

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (WA) ^ | August 21, 2006 | MIKE LEWIS

[Paloma_55]

There are many good reasons to smoke pot.

1) It gets you stoned so you can deal with life.
2) It makes things that are not funny, seem funny.
3) It improves your driving...well, more than alcohol.
4) It improves your sex life... OK, it doesn't, but sounds good.
5) It makes you more calm while using woodworking equipment.
6) It helps you to deal with an injured child if one was unfortunate enough to get injured while mommy/daddy was getting stoned.
7) It helps you to concentrate concentrate.
9) It gets you stoned so you can deal with life.
10) It grows easy on your neighbors property.
8) The kids love it when they find some in your drawer.

[theDentist]

What did one deadhead say to the other deadhead when they ran out of dope and sobered up?

"This music sucks!"

[Know your rights]

There are many good reasons to smoke pot.

Dunno about that, but there certainly are many good reasons to legalize pot.

[Know your rights]

ping

[Know your rights]

That was funny the first hundred times I heard it.

[theDentist]

Same here (but I've only recently heard it, so I still get a kick out of it).

[traditional1]

Let all the Soros' sympathizers start posting why pot should be legalized....it happens every thread with the opportunity to get pot legalized on FR.

[A CA Guy]

"We should legalize all drugs."

And Eve told Adam to eat the apple...

Just say no!

[Know your rights]

I say no to drugs, including the drug of excessive government power.

[Lunatic Fringe]

While I completely disagree that we should legalize all drugs, I see no harm in marijuana. It is a mild drug, far less harmful than alcohol.

[Know your rights]

Let all the Soros' sympathizers start posting why pot should be legalized....

Iran has tough anti-drug laws ... does that make you an "Iran sympathizer"?

it happens every thread with the opportunity to get pot legalized on FR.

Pot's going to be legalized on FR? A CA Guy, is that you? It's the same feeble grasp of the English language.

[Know your rights]

While I completely disagree that we should legalize all drugs, I see no harm in marijuana. It is a mild drug, far less harmful than alcohol.

Legalizing marijuana might leave us with a War on Drugs we can actually win. (I don't think it will, but I could be wrong.)

[Lunatic Fringe]

Dunno about that, but there certainly are many good reasons to legalize pot.

In a "free society", government needs a legitimate reason to make something ILLEGAL. Otherwise, it should be legal. The societal risks provided as reasons for making marijuana illegal were greatly exaggerated, and in some cases racist.

[traditional1]

Let me speak more slowly, so you can keep up:

Each time a "legalize pot" discussion occurs on FR, the SAME posters who want to get the drug legalized (consistent with legalizing all drugs in the Soros' plan), will bombard the pages of FR with their irrational rants on the benefits of pot laws being repealed.

Ask for help, if you can't understand the posts.

[Know your rights]

Each time a "legalize pot" discussion occurs on FR, the SAME posters who want to get the drug legalized (consistent with legalizing all drugs in the Soros' plan),

Those who want them illegal are consistent with Iran's plan.

will bombard the pages of FR with their irrational rants on the benefits of pot laws being repealed.

So you can write English if you really try. Good. Now can you support your claim that posts on the benefits of pot laws being repealed are "irrational"?

[Lunatic Fringe]

Given all the people who wish to legalize pot, why do you specifically point out Soros? Why not former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson? He is a conservative Republican who supports legalizing marijuana.

[traditional1]

It would never pass on the ballot, nationwide, as there are still too many people of principle, family values, and traditional responsiblity and decency. I am not going to get into discussions at length, as I have years past, but here's a bit of what legalization will do:

" Longitudinal research on marijuana use among young people below college age indicates those who used marijuana have lower achievement than the non-users, more acceptances of deviant behavior, more delinquent behavior and aggression, greater rebelliousness, poorer relationships with parents, and more associations with delinquent and drug-using friends. Research also shows more anger and more regressive behavior in toddlers whose parents use marijuana than among the toddlers of non-using parents (Michael Farrell, M.D., British Medical Journal) "

" A gateway drug is a drug that is considered to lead the user to experiment with harder more addictive drugs. "There is a fairly long history of research showing that early cannabis (marijuana) use is associated with increased risks for later use of so-called 'hard drugs,' but that research is based on the fact that most heroin and cocaine users report first having used cannabis," says lead author Michael T. Lynskey, Ph.D., a visiting assistant professor of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and senior research fellow at the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Brisbane, Australia (Lynskey). "

[Know your rights]

It would never pass on the ballot, nationwide, as there are still too many people of principle, family values, and traditional responsiblity and decency.

So I guess the 41% of Americans who support legalization are unprincipled, anti-family, irresponsible, and indecent?

here's a bit of what legalization will do:

No, that's what USE may do (but note that all they have are correlations). What legalization will do is stop putting inflated profits in criminal hands ... and show respect for individual liberty.

[Know your rights]

ping