BF_in_Indiana

If Apple could put out a half assed decent product that the average idiot could understand than they would be competitive. Unfortunately for them their product is too smart for Joe Blow.

HAHA you are great LA. First off, I'm pretty sure I know more people that smoke marijuana than you do. Secondly, usually the ones that buy it that I know buy in larger quantities than 30 dollars. I used that as an example because even as "just" 30 dollars a pop, over the course of a month that's almost 200 bucks. Most people in America could use an extra 200 dollars a month don't ya think?

Best Lincoln- Guided the country through it's darkest time. Ended slavery as well. FDR- While some of his methods border on socialism, he got the job done with a little help from WWII and left the country in better shape than he found it when he got there.

The only item that could be compared to marijuana in this fashion is liquor. It's the only case in which a prohibitted item has been allowed back on the market after a public uproar. So if that is precedent than you would be making a good point.

If there were one supplier of cigarettes they would run about 4.00 a pack in Indiana. Currently a pack of Marlboros cost 3.00 plus sales tax. 3.18 total. If not for buydowns allowing stores to sell at state minimums they would cost 4.09 a pack at the moment.

You obviously don't know many marijuana users than do you? A good percentage grow their own. Let's look at one reason. The cost of purchasing the "drug". Let's say you smoke one joint a day. A 30 dollar bag will get you six joints or so. so after 6 days you have spent 30, after 12 you have spent 60, after 18 you have spent 90, after 24 you have spent 120, and after 1 month you have spent 150. 150 dollars a month? That's 1800 dollars a year. Growing your own costs far less.

Marijuana would not be sold in a competitive manner. The government would pick and choose the companies which it allowed to sell the product, and would then pretty much set a price (most likely one standard price). The cost I gave is just street price for about that many joints.

Yeah it's great for driving I hear. United States Government=hypocrites

Yes indeed.

Even that comparison doesn't stack up. It would be much harder for someone to create good quality booze in their garage than it would be for me to grow a friggin plant.

What did I just say? I said that it would be almost IMPOSSIBLE to enforce. I could grow marijuana in my home and the police won't be knocking on my door. Why would I go pay the government 30 dollars for 6 joints when I can grow my own? If everyone is growing their own without enforcement of anti growing laws, the government won't make a dime. No money, hence no legalization.

I know more about cigarette taxes and how that business works than 99 percent of the posters here. Trust me when I tell you that. The difference in this case is simple. If marijuana were legalized with the idea that they were going to tax the hell out of it, people would just start growing their own. They would make that illegal, but that is almost impossible to enforce. I don't know about you, but most people can't produce high grade tobacco products out of their home. Why would anyone go pay for marijuana through the government when they can grow their own and smoke it without being in fear of going to jail?

Marijuana is not a drug, first and foremost. It's not manufactured with chemicals in labs, and it can be grown to it's truest form from a seed in the ground. It's an herb.

Physical addiction entails becoming physically ill from not using the drug. I guess in the simplest definiton of "mental addiction" that marijuana may be addicting, as long time users have shown signs of being irritable for about 5 days after they have quit using marijuana.

If you would like. The only reason marijuana is illegal is because the government DOESN'T stand to profit from the legalization of it.

Like I said, I can back my argument up with independent studies (you know, ones not conducted by the government media machine.) Would you like me to show you some facts?

HAHAHA You expect me to take ANYTHING you pulled off of a GOVERNMENT site seriously? I'm sure at whitehouse.gov they are telling everyone how great a job Bush is doing too.

A. I don't use the "drug" B. Potheads don't wake up in a binge state where they "have" to have marijuana. I don't need to go dig up studies on the subject to prove my point do I?

And exactly what reason would that be? Is it physically addictive? Is it mentally addictive? Can you die from an "overdose"? The answer to all three of those questions is no. You can answer yes to at least one of those questions in regards to LSD and heroin.

Tell me you aren't in the "Marijuana is a gateway drug." crowd.

A few of my friends used to drop acid before school. They would leave after first period (I'm not real sure how they made it that long).

No one found it odd that a senior in high school was eating brownies and jello every day?

And marijuana should be in school brownies!!!!

Two points. 1. Her violent behavior was most likely prompted by the BAC of .175. 2. I don't see any mass uproar for the legalization of Xanax as a recreational drug.

A 13 year old with .175 BAC and high on dope and Xanax? What kind of parenting is that?