manhunter098
Smash Lord
Well there was a similar thread here a while ago, but its dead now due to inactivity so Ill revive it in a new form, dealing more or less strictly with marijuana. And considering that we just got a bunch of new recruits, I think that this thread could attact a lot of people to post here and show just how dedicated they plan to be in the debate hall, as this is a rather good issue for generating discussion.
Well I guess to start out, my stance is pro-marijuana reform. I feel that the potential benefits that can come from marijuana legalization are absolutely enormous and something that should be looked at as a way to bring America to the world stage as the worlds largest producer of both marijuana and hemp products.
So be prepared, toss your prejudices to the side and be prepared to hear me out.
A few facts to post here just to start out.
You CANNOT overdose yourself by smoking marijuana, it would take smoking pounds of the plant in order to do so and you would pass out before you could actually kill yourself.
Marijuana is rated as being roughly as addictive as caffeine, but with a weaker withdrawal and higher sense of reward after using it. So its much less a physical dependence as it is a thing people want to seek out of their own free will.
Marijuana is currently the largest cash crop in the United States.
Gateway drug theory is rather invalid in the way that it cites marijuana as an influence for using more dangerous drugs. Its more likely that the black market sales of marijuana cause people to encounter harder drugs on a more frequent basis and thus they are more willing to try them. Nothing within marijuana really drives people to seek a greater high.
The growing of hemp, which has the potential to pretty much solve the fuel crisis, save forests, and produce an array of building materials that would enable us to make pretty much anything that isnt metal out of hemp, is currently illegal in the United States.
Drug testing that goes on right now is really only effective at finding a very limited array of drugs, chief among these drugs is marijuana. Many drugs that are much more dangerous than marijuana are out of your system within a couple of days, such as cocaine, heroin, virtually every stimulant really, along with most psychedelics (not that I think these are all bad), and numerous other drugs.
The cannabinoids in marijuana interact with the body on a level of their own. As humans we produce our own chemicals that are very chemically similar to cannabinoids (thus cannabinoids tend to have an array of effects on the human body. Right now research in the United States is very limited when it comes to anything marijuana related even though the various cannabinoids in marijuana can potentially be used to replace some of the more harmful pharmaceuticals that people take to help them with various health problems.
The Federal Government has provided medical marijuana to several patients over the last 30 years, currently only 7 of them remain alive, but without medical marijuana the number of those people surviving right now would likely be much lower than it is now.
Well I guess to start out, my stance is pro-marijuana reform. I feel that the potential benefits that can come from marijuana legalization are absolutely enormous and something that should be looked at as a way to bring America to the world stage as the worlds largest producer of both marijuana and hemp products.
So be prepared, toss your prejudices to the side and be prepared to hear me out.
A few facts to post here just to start out.
You CANNOT overdose yourself by smoking marijuana, it would take smoking pounds of the plant in order to do so and you would pass out before you could actually kill yourself.
Marijuana is rated as being roughly as addictive as caffeine, but with a weaker withdrawal and higher sense of reward after using it. So its much less a physical dependence as it is a thing people want to seek out of their own free will.
Marijuana is currently the largest cash crop in the United States.
Gateway drug theory is rather invalid in the way that it cites marijuana as an influence for using more dangerous drugs. Its more likely that the black market sales of marijuana cause people to encounter harder drugs on a more frequent basis and thus they are more willing to try them. Nothing within marijuana really drives people to seek a greater high.
The growing of hemp, which has the potential to pretty much solve the fuel crisis, save forests, and produce an array of building materials that would enable us to make pretty much anything that isnt metal out of hemp, is currently illegal in the United States.
Drug testing that goes on right now is really only effective at finding a very limited array of drugs, chief among these drugs is marijuana. Many drugs that are much more dangerous than marijuana are out of your system within a couple of days, such as cocaine, heroin, virtually every stimulant really, along with most psychedelics (not that I think these are all bad), and numerous other drugs.
The cannabinoids in marijuana interact with the body on a level of their own. As humans we produce our own chemicals that are very chemically similar to cannabinoids (thus cannabinoids tend to have an array of effects on the human body. Right now research in the United States is very limited when it comes to anything marijuana related even though the various cannabinoids in marijuana can potentially be used to replace some of the more harmful pharmaceuticals that people take to help them with various health problems.
The Federal Government has provided medical marijuana to several patients over the last 30 years, currently only 7 of them remain alive, but without medical marijuana the number of those people surviving right now would likely be much lower than it is now.
