Marijuana in the United States

[Flydolphine]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

[OgNasty]

My take is that in the land of the free you should be able to grow and light on fire whatever you want as long as it isn’t hurting anyone else. I’ve lived in states with legal marijuana use since 1996 and I’ve never seen it be a major problem. The only real concern I have is that people could be less effective drivers, but I’d still bet an average person high on marijuana is a better driver than someone 70+ years old. Still, I think better tests to more accurately assess impaired drivers is probably necessary.

[Zlantann]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

I don't have anything against moderate use of marijuana. When used moderately the user can be able to control his behavior or other activities. I have observed that the prohibition of the use of marijuana always give rise to the use of other dangerous drugs that cannot be easily dictated. Law enforcement agencies can easily arrest someone smoking marijuana but it would be very difficult to identify someone that puts few hard drugs into his mouth.

Some persons have agued that the use of drugs could lead to financial crisis because of the cost of these drugs. Marijuana is relatively cheaper than most drugs which means it could hardly have negative impact on the finance of a moderate user.
Apart from the health problems associated with smoking and the abuse of marijuana, I think legalizing it might reduce dangerous drug trafficking and use.

[BADecker]

Freedom dictates that one may do whatever he wants, as long as he injures nobody else.

Government should advertise the dangers of marijuana a hundred times more than they do, with the true scientific studies to back them. Then let the people be free.

It is standard in common law right now, that if a person injures someone else, he should be made to repay the injury. We don't need any special drug laws. Only good, solid advertising.

If someone damages himself because he won't accept the 'advertising', let his family or the church take care of him. Why should the people, through taxes, be forced to bear the burden of someone doing self-harm, especially after he has been warned over and over?

[JeromeTash]

Legalizing it not just in the US but all over the world is the way to go, but of course Governments are stubborn and won't easily accept this because always about money. Banned growth and use of Marijuana by the public while the very same Government grows it for "medicinal purposes" should be able to raise eyebrows.

Alcohol has almost similar effects as marijuana, but guess what? It isn't banned in most nations because there is no money in it.

[DeathAngel]

I don’t smoke marijuana but it’s quite harmless, certainly nowhere near as bad for you as heavy alcohol use or smoking cigarettes addiction.

As with everything, doing thinks in moderation is important.

I don’t see any reason why the odd joint is a really bad thing though. If you want to light up with friends then go for it.

[BADecker]

Government shuts down what marijuana they can because, it cures cancer and all kinds of diseases, and it would make oil obsolete if it were cultivated properly... to say nothing about cotton.

[Gyfts]

Marijuana is only good for pain management, allegedly. I'd guess that most marijuana use is recreational anyways.

I'm not oppose to legalization. But perhaps it's not a good idea to take a society with record levels of mental health issues and drug them up on a substance ostensibly deemed harmless but shown to have psychiatric side effects.

Because marijuana isn't as harmful as hard drugs or cigarettes doesn't mean marijuana is safe either.

[Hispo]

I believe legalizing the recreational use of cannabis is okey, so is the use of it in the medicine and technological field.
My point of view is if citizens of a free country have the right to decide whether have fun with alcohol and tobacco (regardless their negative effects on health) then marijuana should be legal, as long as it does not violate the rights or harm other's, then I see no problem.

 

[Cecilia Joytwin]

First thing first, what are the negative implications of marijuana?

Well, I don't see anything wrong in the legalization of marijuana. Since marijuana is medicinal, I believe it's health benefits outnumbered it's negative implications.

Hence, the legalization of marijuana.

[puloweh555]

What's your take?

It is true that marijuana was legalized to help sick people. But when most humans are given too much freedom, then believe me. Actually destroying a generation. Balanced rules and norms can make people self-aware and not act as they please. And the most fatal thing is when human rights are exalted too much, then it will backfire.

Where is the proof, look at today's USA. this is illegal drug (cannabis) being legalized and having legal shooting guns. America is free but going too far, this will be terrible. You can imagine if you are already using marijuana and continue to be drunk and commit crimes with firearms, be it looting, holding up to shootings.

[BADecker]

I am opposed to marijuana legalization, but also, its 'illegalization'. Why should something that you can grow in your back yard, in flower pots, and grows naturally all over the countryside, be illegal or legal? Get government out of it completely.

[Frankolala]

Moderate intake of marijuana is good and legalization of it by governments is something that should be done because marijuana has less side effect than alcohol or cigarette. I don't think that it makes people to malfunction mentally compared to other hard drugs.

Freedom makes people live a life of choice ,I found out that people that smokes marijuana can put themselves in order after smoking and behave calm compare to when they have not smoked it. If it is not legalized by the government people will still continue to use it because of it's low side effect and the pleasure they derive after the intake.

[dimonstration]

I am opposed to marijuana legalization, but also, its 'illegalization'. Why should something that you can grow in your back yard, in flower pots, and grows naturally all over the countryside, be illegal or legal? Get government out of it completely.

Marijuana is on this state before people discover it and subject to abused. This substance is the stepping stone of young people to be exposed on drugs because people always want more when they are already feeling less high on weeds. Legalizing it just make the police less job on busting user and seller but more job on cleaning the messed leave by people that is high on this substance.

[BADecker]

I am opposed to marijuana legalization, but also, its 'illegalization'. Why should something that you can grow in your back yard, in flower pots, and grows naturally all over the countryside, be illegal or legal? Get government out of it completely.

Marijuana is on this state before people discover it and subject to abused. This substance is the stepping stone of young people to be exposed on drugs because people always want more when they are already feeling less high on weeds. Legalizing it just make the police less job on busting user and seller but more job on cleaning the messed leave by people that is high on this substance.

But such ^^ is what freedom is about. If young people aren't controlled by their parents, government should step in. But regarding adults, there should be advertising by government, and then freedom rather than government restrictions.

If somebody won't obey the warnings, but uses his freedom to destroy himself... well, he is free, right? He might have asked for death, so if he resists life, and firmly asks for death, finally let him have what he asks for. Let him die.

[Odo1972]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

I don't see marijuana intake as a problem. Where it becomes a problem is when you're taking it at the expense of others. Just ensure you're taking good care of yourself medically and don't be a nuisance to the society nothing more.

[BADecker]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

I don't see marijuana intake as a problem. Where it becomes a problem is when you're taking it at the expense of others. Just ensure you're taking good care of yourself medically and don't be a nuisance to the society nothing more.

Right!

Set up an annuity ahead of time, so that your family will have sufficient income if you go off the deep end. And make sure that you have health insurance that will pay your hospital bills, because your family loves you, and they might feel obligated to take care of you when you overdose.

Of course, the only way to get enough money to afford the annuity and insurance, is to sell drugs on the black market.

[rahmad2nd]

In my country, cannabis is a drug class A1 which is clearly prohibited from selling, let alone using it. unmitigated, if someone is caught consuming it, they will be subject to criminal sanctions according to applicable law. it can be up to five years in prison, it can depend on each case by case. the most severe punishment is, the death penalty for big dealers.

Sadly, even though the sanctions are quite severe. but the fact is, it doesn't make dealers afraid to carry out illegal practices. inversely proportional to the western world, for example, America, Canada or Germany. I haven't heard of any news, nor any criminal cases, for consuming cannabis. in fact, cannabis can be used for health, if it is functioned correctly, especially for dealing with psychiatric problems. I agree more, if marijuana is legalized than making it a prohibited item. in this case, for in my country.

[JeromeTash]

I haven't heard of any news, nor any criminal cases, for consuming cannabis. in fact, cannabis can be used for health, if it is functioned correctly, especially for dealing with psychiatric problems. I agree more, if marijuana is legalized than making it a prohibited item. in this case, for in my country.

I grow Marijuana in my backyard and have never experienced any of the stupid bullshit the governments want us to believe, nor have my close ones faced in problems (Health wise or behavioral)

Marijuana is just like alcohol. If you abuse it, you are fucked. If you don't, you will be all fine and unlike alcohol, it has health benefits. The Health benefit and money part is what makes big Pharma and Governments try to restrict it because they want to rip big out of it.

[BADecker]

I haven't heard of any news, nor any criminal cases, for consuming cannabis. in fact, cannabis can be used for health, if it is functioned correctly, especially for dealing with psychiatric problems. I agree more, if marijuana is legalized than making it a prohibited item. in this case, for in my country.

I grow Marijuana in my backyard and have never experienced any of the stupid bullshit the governments want us to believe, nor have my close ones faced in problems (Health wise or behavioral)

Marijuana is just like alcohol. If you abuse it, you are fucked. If you don't, you will be all fine and unlike alcohol, it has health benefits. The Health benefit and money part is what makes big Pharma and Governments try to restrict it because they want to rip big out of it.

Grow it in your 'frontyard' and put up a sign, "Keep Off the 'Grass'."

[goldkingcoiner]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

I think that there is a better question you should be asking. In fact, you are asking the wrong question.

Let me ask you this: Has the war on drugs been a success, from your perspective, is it hard to procure drugs? Have the laws at all helped the people or rather hurt them?

Instead of locking drug addicts up in prison and have them stamped out of society forever as criminals, should they not be rehabilitated? And since drugs are easy to procure for anyone with an internet connection, we cannot say that the restrictions have actually stemmed the flow of drugs to the people.

What the laws HAVE done is make a quality regulation impossible. So anyone smoking Marijuana (which is a racist term invented to unjustly blame the Mexican people for the distribution of the drug) is in danger of inhaling deadly chemicals because the dealers do not care about their customers health and would even spray the drug with deadly research chemicals to make it appear to be more potent. Some even add shaved, microscopic bits of lead or sugar to their product in order to increase the weight.

Anyone who wishes to take drugs will be able to procure them easily. So the government should finally acknowledge this fact instead of putting their heads in the sand and legalize them in order to take away the profits from the mafia/cartel murderers and instead use the tax from the sales to fund rehabilitation, youth protection enforcement and quality control.

Do you also have any idea how much tax money YOU are paying to lock up some pothead for years and years?

[Stepstowealth]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

There are many things that are legal that have equal negative health implications, marijuana is not the baddest of them all. People will keep using whether it is legal or not, so it is a step the government has made in the right direction to try to still make money from this industry and have a sort of control over it.

[darkangel11]

I agree with goldkingcoiner here. The laws are made by idiots who are looking to satisfy voters.
Prohibition was one of such laws that never worked and was lifted, now we have cannabis ban that is again being lifted. How many people went to jail because of smoking something that used to be completely legal for ages and then suddenly made illegal because it "made people lazy." Let's ban alcohol then, it makes people violent, but no, it would dissatisfy our voters, a lot of whom are heavy drinkers, and let's not forget how much money we're making from alcohol sales. How about banning cigarettes, they make people get cancer? Nooo, that would be bad for the economy because tobacco companies are taxpayers and many of our voters smoke... Let's ban weed then, none of this lot is paying taxes and they're mostly libertarians, artists, immigrants, who don't vote. That's how it started.
Bad economy? It's because those addicts aren't working!

[JeromeTash]

Grow it in your 'frontyard' and put up a sign, "Keep Off the 'Grass'."

I will, when I finally get a more accommodating compound because I recently got more seeds  , Can't grow it in the front yard at the moment because of a lot of activity there. Who would love to get their precious herb get destroyed by car parking or parties?  

[Marykeller]

The USA can't legalize marijuana for her citizens without finding the importance of taking marijuana into the body system. The USA already knows that legalizing marijuana would go a long way for her citizens who suffer from chronic pain, drug addictions, social anxiety, and depression. If it should be taken moderately without taking excess of it.

To me, this is a step in the right direction to set the people of the USA free from the false belief that marijuana has negative implications on the body.


While other countries are yet to legalize marijuana in their country, the USA is encouraging and using it as an open cure-house remedy for her citizens.

How I wish other countries would adopt this kind of move by the USA than declaring marijuana illegal without focusing on the positive effect of it on the body system of their citizens

[BADecker]

^^^ Right! If you combine THC and CBD with the natural pharaceutical chemicals found here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5440232.0 - we just might find that we can all live healthy lives well over 100-y-o. And maybe some of them can take us into our 200s or 300s, all in optimum health.

[BADecker]

This is even better. THCV. It's found in some marijuana plants, and it works almost the opposite of THC. In addition, it works even better in the presence of CBD.


Unpacking the Hype Around THCV, aka ‘Diet Weed’


https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/thcv
Dubbed “diet weed” and “weederall” for its purported appetite-curbing and energy-boosting properties, delta 9 tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) is fast becoming one of the latest cannabinoids on the market.

As with many other cannabinoids, including better-known compounds like CBD and CBN, THCV might not have intoxicating effects linked to THC, despite having those all-familiar three letters in its name.

How does it compare to THC?

It’s hard to give a straight answer.

“Anecdotally, people report that, when [THCV] is used in combination with THC, THCV can mitigate [the intoxicating] effects of THC,” says Jonathan Vaught, PhD, the CEO of Front Range Biosciences, an agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in hemp genetics.

Front Range Biosciences produces strains rich in THCV. These strains have historically been difficult to grow and process, because they couldn’t be easily scaled up due to little demand and an expensive isolating process.

As for THCV on its own, “it’s a little less clear,” Vaught says.

THCV is mainly found in cannabis products alongside THC. If the cannabinoid is isolated, purified, and “put into things,” it’s not even clear whether it’s intoxicating at all, he adds.
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