What I have noticed about Marijuana.

Well, when ever I go on my laptop I always check out the news on the internet and I have notice that they have started making Marijuana decriminalized in quite a few places now. Do you think this is just the start to making it decriminalized everywhere. They stopped the law on Amsterdam making it so only citizens can buy it in coffee shops and now the thing in Washington what do you think is next. I even read that they are speaking about it in the UK, I know some of you are like. Oh not another Marijuana thread on Sythe but I find this pretty interesting to be honest. Maybe in 1-2 years it will be pretty much decriminalized in many places in the USA and the UK and maybe even a few more European countries. I am sure the Government would like to get their hands on more tax money from the sales of it.

 

Yes, I believe it will be legal before to long, maybe even sooner than 1-2 years. The whole reason it is illegal is due to whatshisname not liking hemp. It was paper against hemp (i think, part of me wants to say cotton against hemp for clothing...) Ans the guy with paper had more money. Hemp is Marijuana's little sister. Hemp got illegalized and pot did along with it. Pot has been scientifically proven to be safer and healthier than alcohol and cigarettes both. Alot of people believe hemp was made illegal due to the strong connections to pot, but in fact its actually the opposite.

Hemp was a better source than paper (or cotton, whichever the whole thing was over) and having more money and power, the distributor of paper (or again, cotton) was able to get hemp made illegal. As far as I know hemp is still illegal in the USA, i dont keep up with hemp, cuz I dont care about hippies and better sources than cutting down trees or picking cotton flowers, I care about when I can get high legally. So if hemp IS still illegal, I have no clue if its being made legal along with pot, or if this is purely a pot, but I also know very little about the being made legal stuff. I have no clue if its being made legal for everyone such as in Amsterdam, or if its only being made legal for medical use here in the USA, but even if it is just medical, I hear its really easy to get a medical card even with nothing wrong with you lol.

 

Yea, its very easy to get a card. Walk in and say you can't sleep at night or get migraines and boom you got yourself medical card.

 

It got decriminalized here where I live. In my opinion this is just wrong, marijuana is crap and the people that consumes that shit are dumb because they're ruining their life.

 

Sir Richard Branson

While the ‘Sir’ in front of this guy’s name puts him in some very elite company, it doesn’t automatically get him on this list. What does earn him a spot is the fact that he’s the 236th richest person in the world, founder of the Virgin empire, which encompasses everything from airlines to record stores to cell phones, and made his entire multi-billion dollar fortune from absolutely nothing. Not only does this man smoke weed, he gets high with his 21-year-old son. He has publicly stated that there’s nothing wrong with smoking pot, has petitioned for the legalization of pot, and even said that if it were legal, he’d sell it.

Rick Steves

Your name doesn’t become synonymous with ‘European Travel’ by accident. You can’t just take a bong hit, lay back in your bean bag and toss off a few ‘graphs on how awesome the Louvre is. And yet here’s Rick Steves, author of 27 top selling European travel guides, host of his own TV show and radio show, and a very outspoken pothead. He’s a member of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, and credits pot for turning him into a better travel writer by opening his mind to new things.

Michael Phelps

Mr. “Has More Olympic Gold Medals Than Anyone In History” made headlines this week when photos of him and a bong surfaced. Since the scandal, Phelps has given a few interviews decrying his “bad judgment,” promising it was a dumb mistake that never happened before and won’t happen again… but we know that’s bullsh*t. Phelps was hitting that bong like a pro, not daintily toking some little amateur joint. With this in mind, we’re going to go ahead and assume this wasn’t Phelps’s first time. It might be his last, but it definitely wasn’t his first. This means that you can become the most world class athlete of all time and be a pot smoker at the same time. Stereotype shattered.

stephen King

We haven’t included many creative types on this list, mostly because they’re all potheads. Every actor, musician and artist ever is a huge pothead. It’s a fact, don’t dispute us. But writing 1,000 page novels is a slightly different process. You can’t just ‘jam out’ The Stand. Over the course of his career, both his output and his success have been unparalleled. He’s authored upwards of 50 novels and short stories which have sold a collective 500 million copies worldwide. He’s also been one of the most vocal proponents for the legalization of marijuana, calling laws against the drug “ridiculous,” and stating that “I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry.” It makes perfect sense. You’d have to be stoned to come up with some of the sh*t this guy has.

Ted Turner

Ted is a rare breed of billionaire — he comes off as completely absent minded, incapable of even putting on his own pants. Yet he is a mega-mogul. He single-handedly invented the 24-hour news cycle with CNN, was named Time’s Man of the Year in 1991, is the largest private land owner in America, and also owns a few other TV stations, and the Atlanta Braves. So… owning lots of stuff? Not what you’d expect from a guy who grew pot in his college dorm room. Ted is also a major funder of the Kentucky Hemp Museum, along with renowned stoner Woody Harelson, and is a well known fan of the classic stoner cartoon Scooby-Doo.

cant forget steve jobs smoked pot as well.


So stop with your lies. Educate yourself. If you think it's bad don't smoke it. Simple as that. Don't go around telling other people what they should do.

 

Your supporting material is all a bunch of people from a completely different generation, not only does the time period play a major factor in how their success played out, but I think it's unfair that you picked some big names of people and try to explain how their use of/experience in dabbling in marijuana correlates with their success. It doesn't.

I'm just shocked that you guys really have that kind of faith in society and mankind. Most of the pot heads I know aren't best-selling authors or television network owners either, they're burger king employees... And a lot of them can hardly formulate a sentence let alone remember what was told to them 10 minutes ago.

I'm not going to be one-sided in this thread, but the matter of the fact is saying that marijuana couldn't hinder/affect (Maybe even attribute, but again I don't really have that kind of faith in mankind as a majority) success at all in someones life is the only lie I've read.

 

Im just saying plenty of people who smoke/have tried it are not dumb idiot drug addicts who are useless to society. look at the famous people who got into other drugs like alcohol,crack,heroin. They are either in jail, dead or there life is in a rut. Those drugs ruined there success. Pot never ruined anyone's success. (people who have already gained it)

 

Those people are irrelevant. You're comparing them to your peers and trying to draw similarities. We're leaving out the factors of "The times that we live in" which is just cluttered with horrific things that are undeniably increasing as time goes on.

I think someone's background should also be taken into consideration. For example, I can understand how someone like Ted Turner or Richard Branson (didn't bother looking into the others) might be okay with a little hippie experiences. Not only were they born into rich families, but they got educations far superior to a high percentage of us typical, average people. In that sense, I can see how stuff like drugs (yes pot) could affect some people differently if say they receive abuse at home, or they have other family problems, or financial problems, or girlfriend problems, etc.

I also need a definition of success because being someone who has played in bands and had experience, it's not hard to make a name for yourself even if you get high/drunk before a show. It's not like hard work so you can't really say "Oh look they made it and smoked pot so it isn't a problem". That's Bs dude.

"Those drugs ruined there success. Pot never ruined anyone's success. (people who have already gained it)"

"People who have already gained it" pretty much answers this one. Yeah dude, if you're in you can do a fucking railroad line with president obama and it'll be fine. You've already done the "Work" to get there. I know you're going to hate this too, but people like that usually don't get into the harder stuff until they hit fame and become tired of the same old same old. It's the truth, I know people don't like to think pot can be a gateway drug, but I think that's also BS. it does work on you psychologically. I guarantee some of those people who have died of stuff like ODing would agree and testify that if they could.

 

Pfft. Me telling what other people should do? I just expressed my opinion; Opinions aint facts mate, you can take them in or let them go and if you can't handle my point of view than that's your problem because I am certainly sure a lot of people would agree with me.

 

This is how it works.. plain and simple..

If you're stupid, and smoke weed, you're still stupid.

If you're not stupid, and smoke weed, you're still not stupid.

I smoke weed everyday, why? Because I like how it makes me feel when I got home from a long day of work.

Does it help me in any way other than that? Nope.

 

Legalizing it in moderation would be the best approach. If they just flat out legalized it and allowed people to buy pounds and pounds whenever they wanted it'd just be counter-productive. Issuing a card like a green card, except you could just go buy one at a Marijuana dispensary, and then scanning that card every purchase in order to determine how much marijuana you can purchase that week/month.

 

Unfortunately you're a rare breed. As are much of you on here. But come on, we're the minority. There are TOO Many dumb asses all around us to think this is okay for everyone.

Not to mention there are plenty of people who started out with a smart mind and slowly deteriorated their minds and drowned themselves with stupidity. I've seen people make awesome grades and do great in school and then significantly slack because they're pot heads, and then they lose all ambition and then it rolls on down the hill.

 

Grades? Who the fuck cares. I did terrible every year but senior year. I hated school. Smoked pot, cocaine, acid.

Got f's every year. Then senior year, I aced every class, with AP classes.

Did i have a good GPA? Fuck no, but the point was I could do it if i cared.

This education kids are receiving isn't an education, they memorize facts, until they don't need them anymore, then forget them.

I pride myself in being somewhat more intelligent than the norm.

But do i accredit it to school? 0%.

I read on my own time about important things, not about how many Hyperboles are in Tom Sawyer.

Kids are being babysat. All the time, people act like it's hard to get good grades, anyone who says that is lazy, or retarded.

It isn't hard, you don't need to be smart, you need to have some self-control, that's it.

Sorry for the structure of this, I'm on my iPhone.

 

one word that you said, TAXES. this is why Washington and Colorado legalized it, for extra money, this country was founded on slavery, growing marijuana, and marijuana is how we will get out of the debt crisis.

 

You think we will get out of our debt crisis?

usrs bro?

usrs?

 

Weed smokers lol... They will never have the balls to admit they are fucking up their lives. Or have the intelligence to notice it maybe... ?

 

Yet, i'm more succesful, hahablag.

 

Did you just make this statement up yourself or what? There's absolutely no link between intelligence and smoking weed. There hasn't been any scientific study where the more you smoke, the dumber you get.

People only assume people who smoke are stupid because of the sheer amount of stupid people who do it.

If you were smart before you started smoking, you stay smart.

If you were stupid before you started smoking, then you stay stupid.

If suddenly a bunch of idiots started playing chess and out-numbered the smart people who did it, would chess suddenly become the game for idiots?

As for the whole "straight A kid started smoking, grades went to shit" idea, it's pretty much just because they chose to stop studying/working and chose to smoke instead. It's a lifestyle choice really, it's basically "oh, he used to have a 4.0 GPA but then he discovered Call of Duty. Yeah, we'll be lucky to put him through community college now." If all the smokers decided they wanted to work hard instead, would smoking weed now be a motivator?

And on a side note, only complete idiots would somehow associate smoking with being "cool". If you were to just walk up to a random pothead and asked him why he likes to do it, (s)he'd probably just say they like to do it because it's fun or just simply because they like to.

I don't see a problem with legalizing weed either. It's not exactly as if people have to go through a maze in Chinatown and then finally into some dark basement or some shit to get it. Hell, you can probably ask like a random 13 year old for a nickel or something like that and he'll have it. Legalizing weed will just simply give a slight boost in taxes is all and will probably be best if the circulation of weed is regulated. Perhaps put an age limit so there's no retarded ass middle school kid who ends up passing out from swearing he can smoke some huge ass blunt or something. Whatever, it doesn't really matter, there's like a shit ton of things you can do to curb this whole "weed problem".

Besides, there's nothing wrong with people smoking weed just because they want to. Cigarettes is proven to be considerably worse for a person's health than smoking weed, so what's wrong with smoking weed instead? However, I only advocate smoking weed because there's nothing that can be detrimental to your health. If it was something like cocaine or whatever, that would be a different story.

I apologize if this is a little hard to understand, I found it very difficult to convey my thoughts properly on this subject.

 

Just so you know when you say in your opinion its wrong that is where the opinion ends and where misinformation starts, marijuana is fine and like anything can be abused.

People who eat fast food are ruining their lives, people who smoke tobacco or drink alcohol are ruining their lives ECT ECT or maybe if you stopped telling people how to live their lives you would realize that its NOT because they are enjoying themselves.

 

Not even gonna waste. Just gonna reply to your first question: I associated Intelligence with marijuana because there are studies that've proven that marijuana kills brain cells, of course its not just marijuana; Drugs, alcohol and a lot of more things. However Marijuana, alcohol, drugs & weeds are probably the worse.

I am sorry if anyone is experiencing an addiction with marijuana; trolling wasn't my intention, but its my personal opinion and I hope its respected. I used to have a group with I used to chill with, 3 of the 4 guys were weed smokers (This was 1 year ago) stopped seeing them for a while as they only smoked and smoked; Met them again like a week ago, they eventually kept smoking weed and also dropped college; In summary, their life is kinda fucked up.