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Legalisation of pot?
Jan 3rd, 2011 at 3:08pm
 
Legalise, decrimilise or keep illegal?
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Reply #1 - Jan 3rd, 2011 at 4:07pm
 
Well pot is a reasonably innocuous drug, so either decriminalise or legalise works fine by me..
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Reply #2 - Jan 3rd, 2011 at 5:16pm
 
Keep it illegal. It keeps the market price high and keeps big companies from muscling out the little guy that just wants to make a buck. My friend makes a fortune selling that stuff to those morons.

Potheads are some of the most loathesome and annoying ne'er-do-wells around, so keeping them pissed off is fine by me.
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Reply #3 - Jan 3rd, 2011 at 11:05pm
 
lol, I disagree Butterfly, but know what you mean.
I had an acquaintance, (I won't call him a friend because I didn't like him, as he was a total idiot), who went into the local holden dealership and bought a new car, then when asked how he wanted to finance it, he pulled out a bag of crumpled notes, and said it was OK he'd pay cash.

He was amazed to see the police roll up to his home the following week, with dogs and probes, and proceeded to uncover several containers buried around the garden.
Being the Einstein he was, he of course assumed that someone must have dobbed him in.
When discussing it with friends later, I agreed with his analysis, somebody had dobbed him in, somebody very stupid, himself.

Still, I think that having Marijuana illegal does far greater harm than good.

It should be legal, as should most illicit drugs.
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Reply #4 - Mar 4th, 2011 at 5:52am
 
Intensify the war on drugs to increase profits for drug dealers so they can buy ballin' cars and reflate our economy.
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Reply #5 - Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:36am
 
I'm happy with it being illegal.

if it were legalized, the guv would come sniffing around and want to tax it.
Penalties for tax evasion (ie growing it without a license, or not giving the guv their cut) are far higher than they are for growing weed now.

Just see how they throw the book at anyone caught growing tobacco, which as you know is a legal substance.
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Reply #6 - Mar 4th, 2011 at 12:25pm
 
[quote author=James_Bluntus link=1294031311/0#0 date=1294031310]Legalise, decrimilise or keep illegal?[/quote]

Decriminlize It

BUT don't Legallize IT

What does it matter if someone smokes pot

What has the law got to do with it

They did it So what, confoscant it and thats the end of it
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Reply #7 - Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:43pm
 
Keep it illegal.
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Reply #8 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 9:33am
 
muso wrote on Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:43pm:
Keep it illegal.


I couldn't care less about someone puffing a bit of pot once a week on a Saturday night.
People who smoke it all the time worry me a bit.
I really think that hunting down potheads is
a bit like the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.
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Reply #9 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:25pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 9:33am:
muso wrote on Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:43pm:
Keep it illegal.


I couldn't care less about someone puffing a bit of pot once a week on a Saturday night.
People who smoke it all the time worry me a bit.
I really think that hunting down potheads is
a bit like the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.


Hunt  down dealers. Ignore those who use small quantities for personal use (except for driving).  Otherwise, keep it illegal.
http://www.drugs.health.gov.au/internet/drugs/publishing.nsf/content/marijuana
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Reply #10 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:33pm
 
... wrote on Mar 4th, 2011 at 11:36am:
I'm happy with it being illegal.

if it were legalized, the guv would come sniffing around and want to tax it.
Penalties for tax evasion (ie growing it without a license, or not giving the guv their cut) are far higher than they are for growing weed now.

Just see how they throw the book at anyone caught growing tobacco, which as you know is a legal substance.


So is morphine but I reckon you'd have a meeting with a judge if you started producing it at home.

Most drug dealers are done under the Counter Terrorism Financing & Anti Money Laundering Act these days as the penalties are far stiffer than even tax evasion and producing a controlled substance.

Make it legal and use all the money wasted policing and prosecuting in other areas of the community that need it.
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Reply #11 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 2:37pm
 
We'll get more stories like this in the newspapers if we legalise cannabis:

http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/weird/fears-talking-cat-abducted-by-...
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Reply #12 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 4:10pm
 
muso wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:25pm:
Bobby. wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 9:33am:
muso wrote on Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:43pm:
Keep it illegal.


I couldn't care less about someone puffing a bit of pot once a week on a Saturday night.
People who smoke it all the time worry me a bit.
I really think that hunting down potheads is
a bit like the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.


Hunt  down dealers. Ignore those who use small quantities for personal use (except for driving).  Otherwise, keep it illegal.
http://www.drugs.health.gov.au/internet/drugs/publishing.nsf/content/marijuana


Muso - do those bad effects pertain to someone who has one puff of a pot cigarette
once every 3 months - or do they refer to someone who smokes very strong stuff
all day every day for years on end?
It all depends on the dosage surely?
There was no dosage data in that list of effects.
I expected more from you as my scientific friend on Ozpolitic.
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Reply #13 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 7:56pm
 
Bobby. wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 4:10pm:
muso wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:25pm:
Bobby. wrote on Mar 5th, 2011 at 9:33am:
muso wrote on Mar 4th, 2011 at 7:43pm:
Keep it illegal.


I couldn't care less about someone puffing a bit of pot once a week on a Saturday night.
People who smoke it all the time worry me a bit.
I really think that hunting down potheads is
a bit like the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.


Hunt  down dealers. Ignore those who use small quantities for personal use (except for driving).  Otherwise, keep it illegal.
http://www.drugs.health.gov.au/internet/drugs/publishing.nsf/content/marijuana


Muso - do those bad effects pertain to someone who has one puff of a pot cigarette
once every 3 months - or do they refer to someone who smokes very strong stuff
all day every day for years on end?
It all depends on the dosage surely?
There was no dosage data in that list of effects.
I expected more from you as my scientific friend on Ozpolitic.


I'm not an expert on Marijuana, but the links on that page may provide  answers to your questions.

It always depends on the dosage.
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Reply #14 - Mar 5th, 2011 at 8:08pm
 
It can only be decriminalised, not legalised.

If it was legalised then we would be breaking a UN Convention and we'd find ourselves about as popular as Iran as far as the US is concerned.

Decriminalise it. We've had near three decades of experience with decriminalisation of cannabis in South Australia. Their rate of use is no higher than that in the states where it's illegal (and less than in Qld where it's very heavily policed), they don't have a pot induced mental health crisis and they don't have peoples lives ruined by close encounters with the court system.
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