muso wrote on Jan 30^th, 2012 at 10:56am:
Exactly so what your trying argue is pointless. There are hundreds of dangerous chemicals all mixed up into a cocktail in most prescription drugs; weed is THC and nothing more if grown purely.
You do realise that a lot of doctors actually get bonuses from pharmaceutical companies depending on how much they can prescribe. Why else would they be prescribing antibiotics to every tiny problem and diagnose huge portions of the population as having a mental illness.
I’m not 100% but I think a lot of people don’t go generic; the government just started that advertising campaign telling people that generics are ok and such. But the pharmaceutical industry is one of the biggest industries in the world, they make huge profit.
I know there are still good doctors but its a growing trend to see dangerous drugs thrown at patient nonstop..
I don’t see what lack of logic you are talking about, my argument makes perfect sense and its well justified.
The views of medical professionals are clearly not balanced or free of bias. Weed does not kill people, is less dangerous than most legal drugs and there is no reason for it to be singled out like it is.
If there was justification in making weed illegal then 90% of pharmaceuticals, alcohol, smoking, fast food etc would all be illegal.
What is not credible about my argument?
Marijuana is used as a medical treatment by medical professionals every day around the world. It has mutable medical uses and is less dangerous than most legal drugs.
There would be thousands of medical professionals who agree with me.

Lots of innocent people die on the roads, so

lets BAN CARS.

Emma wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 4:24pm:

I think we should make being a medical professional illegal seeing as how many people die from incorrect diagnoses, mistreatment, fatal operations etc..

bobbythefap1 wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 4:31pm:


No I'm not. I agree that benzodiazepene is a greater risk (about 10 times the direct mortality rate and and about 20 times when it comes to indirect mortality such as vehicle accidents, especially when it's not taken under medical supervision, but of course if you look into it, overdosing on sleeping pills is a popular means of suicide.   

Do I think it's ok for people to die as a result of abuse of one particular drug as opposed to another? No.

Your argument is the same one used by the Muslims on this forum (not that I have anything against Muslims) The argument is made against Muslim terrorists, and instead of  agreeing that it's bad, they talk about Christians committing offenses too - as if that somehow makes it ok.

Two wrongs don't make a right, and they certainly don't make a good argument either.

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I hope that's a joke. If you are honestly suggesting that ceasing medical treatment will reduce the death rate, then I'd have to ask what you've been smoking.   

For what it's worth, I agree that Marijuana is on the lower scale when it comes to harm, and I certainly do have quarrels with over prescription of benzodiazepine.  If anything, I think that drug is a far bigger problem than cannabis, and it should be controlled much tighter. Of course, as I said before, it's a drug of opportunity for suicides, so the stats are going to be weighted against it.   

If tobacco had never been legal and the process of making it legal was just starting today, it wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in hell of getting through the TGA, but it has been legal for hundreds of years. It's a legacy issue. So with marijuana it's a legacy issue of the opposite kind. If it is to be made legal, it has to do so on its own merits, not on the basis of comparison with the legal status of tobacco or alcohol or some other drug.

Personally I'd like to see smokers pay a higher Medicare levy. It's only fair.

Decriminalising pot without decriminalising the other drugs is absolutely pointless.

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And neither would cars for private use, the motorcycle, the jet ski, the ladder, alcohol, nail guns, angle grinders, sashimi, home swimming pools, candles etc etc etc

Life_goes_on wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 9:45pm:


That makes absolutely no sense. Tobacco and Alcohol are considered drugs and they're legal as opposed to the rest. How is Marijuana not eligible for the exact same exception to the rule?

mozzaok wrote on Jan 31^st, 2012 at 8:19pm:



You've been listening to the Czech  Prime Minister. By the way, the Czech Republic is also a safe haven for bong heads. You can smoke anything with impunity over there.