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Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice
I don't know enough about weed to formulate a good argument about it being an added danger to society. I have never smoked it so I don't know how it makes you feel. However I have heard that song about the guy who ended up doing nothing "cause I got high". So if pot makes people want to sit at home and do nothing but stare at a black light poster, legalize it. If pot makes people want to go out and do things because they are now invincible, keep it locked down. Maybe pot will diffuse a lot of problems like you are saying. Maybe it will turn the drunks that want to get violent into lazy sleepy drunks that don't. Either way, I have never seen a stoned guy win a fight so maybe it will just weaken the drunks and make them easier to deal with.
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In terms of behavior modification... weed is a million times better than alcohol. Weed doesn't make people violent, boastful, aggressive, etc. Weed just makes people sleepy and hungry, which is why it's such a great help to people on cancer and aids drugs, since they have such a hard time keeping food down with all those other chemicals in them.
Also, weed isn't physically addictive (it is perhaps psychologically), and you can't OD on weed. So it's safer than alcohol too.
I'm not advocating that people should all smoke weed. Just that as a society we spend a lot of money, time, and even lives fighting to keep people from using it, when we've already got legal things that are worse like alcohol and tobacco. If you're going to be a burn-out pot-head, I don't blame the pot... I blame the pot-head. At least alcoholics and smokers can be actually addicted to their vice. Legalizing weed shouldn't make a bunch of people lazier than they already are.