Getting a bit sick of the Pro-Marijuana culture...

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I have a very simple problem with weed.
My neighbours downstairs sell and smoke the stuff every day.
It comes thru the air vents.
It comes out their door and thru the hall and into my apartment, under the door.
I can't open windows to air my place out because it is (or was) winter (40 below zero).

And it has seriously affected my mind, my concentration, and even my ability to sleep. The fact of this is not up for debate.

Plus it smells.
And I have to listen to them "hua hua hua" coughing until 3 in the morning...

So I'm against legalization until we remove inconsiderate neighbors from the planet.
Which means you should be able to legalize it by the year 3048. After the Apocalypse.

It's not just weed. It's loud music, chain-smoking, wild partying after midnight, not dealing with your flea or roach problem... General asshattery.

I don't think keeping weed illegal will stop people from being inconsiderate to their neighbors. I don't think legalizing it will cause people to be more inconsiderate.

It does need to be covered in "secondhand smoke" laws, though. People shouldn't have to breathe it unless they want to--especially since, as you note, it causes some degree of impairment. It makes driving unsafe. People who are unwillingly exposed to secondhand smoke may be totally inexperienced with weed in general and have no idea how they're being affected--may even be particularly sensitive. That's just asking for trouble.

I don't think making it legal would change things like nasty neighbors sending it through the air vents, but other legislation aimed at making sure people only get exposed to it if they *want* to be--that makes sense to me. Getting high off somebody else's joint just does not sound fun to me--I like my brain the way it is, thank you; and besides, caffeine is my drug of choice.

Everything's dangerous. Yeah, salt can kill you; it's been used as a murder weapon.

I don't like the way people ignore the risks, acting as though it's a panacea for everything, never hurts anyone, and is generally so beneficial that it might as well be a vitamin. That's unrealistic and kind of stupid. And it doesn't help their case any, to be spouting such unrealistically positive things. Nobody buys it, because it's just not true.

There are risks. Teenager spends all his time getting high; teenager's grades drop; teenager fails at school. There's a risk. Or he goes and gets in his car, and his reaction time's too slow for him to hit the brakes and avoid hitting the stupid pedestrian that just ran out into the road in front of him. Another risk. Some people are sensitive. There are mental illnesses that can be made worse. Some people react to it with paranoia and general panic, which isn't pleasant. And yeah, you're putting smoke in your lungs--not as badly as a chain-smoker, not so many chemical additives, but yeah, it's still smoke and it's still not going to be kind to your alveoli.

A thing doesn't have to be totally safe to be considered for legalization. If that were true, it'd be illegal to drive a car without an extensive training course that certified you as an expert driver. We'd have to outlaw swimming pools, pets, and any food product that could possibly ever be contaminated with bacteria. We'd be passing laws that say everybody has to eat healthy and exercise. The question isn't: Is it risky? But, Is the risk acceptable?

It's a matter of degree. It's much easier to die from too much cyanide than too much water. And, I suppose if you really wanted to, you could kill yourself with too much THC... but you'd have to purify it and drink it by the cupful, or put it in an IV or something, because you'd probably pass out before you got a lethal dose.

Dying from poisoning yourself with weed is just really hard to do, hard enough that it probably hasn't been done; hard enough that direct toxicity isn't going to be the issue that we need to address when we talk about the possible dangers. More likely, we'd have to look at interactions with prescription drugs, the effect in people with neurological and physiological illness, the effect of slowed reflexes and impaired judgment on driving and other processing-intensive tasks, the possibility of adverse reactions, the possibility of psychological addiction. (I am told that physical addiction is uncommon, and weak even if it does happen, and have no reason to doubt that; but psychological addiction is possible and probably common.) There's also the problem of people self-medicating instead of getting more useful and effective medical or psychological care.

if carl sagan [RIP] were not a lifelong pot smoker, I wonder if he would have lived longer. he died of blood cancer. he was only 63. I think it would be illuminating if a longtitudinal health study of pot smokers versus non-smokers in general were done.

Not entirely against it, but I have seen people become addicted to it and their mental health deteriorate. So I'm not entirely pro either.

I guess like all things, moderation is important.

maybe a vitamix would be useful to turn it into pot juice- a euphoric elixir, as it were.

I don't believe there any real drawback to marijuana besides maybe to my short term memory, there certainly isn't any reason for anybody to be opposed to it in my opinion. I believe it helps me medicinally and I use it for recreational reasons as well. It's helped me socialize with my brothers immensely, there was a time where we couldn't be in the same room together. It helps me not to think so rigidly and from other perspectives, to be more self-aware, helped me stop drinking(something I thought I was bordering on a real problem) and makes my boring dull life not seem so bad for a couple hours. I honestly wish I started smoking years before I did, I think almost anybody could find benefits in it if they wanted to. I don't think it works miracles or anything, I still would go to the doctor if I had to.

And not liking Bob Marley? Come on man!