Did I say it was in that post?
But it is as potentially harmful to others as alcohol, in that if someone's driving a car while high, they have a higher possibility of having an accident.

That's debatable. There's evidence on both sides of that claim- there's been some research that has proven that you are a safer driver when high, and there's been some evidence that driving while high reduces competency.

The Department of Motor Vehicles notes that, after alcohol, cannabis is the leading cause of motor vehicle accidents.

I've only driven high once and it was for about 100 feet, but I drove like 3 mph the entire time. There was no way I was getting in an accident. If anything, it makes you a safer driver.

I'M NOT ENCOURAGING ANYBODY (STRICTLY CHILDREN) TO SMOKE MARIJUANA. MARIJUANA IS CURRENTLY ILLEGAL AND POSSESSION OF MARIJUANA IS STRICTLY ILLEGAL IN SOME COUNTRIES. I DO NOT TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR MISUSE OF ANY INFORMATION HERE. THIS WHOLE DOCUMENT DEAL WITH MATURE CONTENT AND EXPRESS PERSONAL VIEWS ON AN ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE. READER DISCRETION IS STRONGLY ADVISED!

Okay, So I decided to make a short resume about the movie The Union.

You can watch the full movie here.

I just took notes of the important keywords and put them in a word document to share it with all of you who won't have time to watch the movie/too lazy to and/or just can't watch the movie.

Brief marijuana history 101:
Cannabis can be hemp. It is the most durable natural soft fiber on the surface on this planet. Since thousands of years, hemp always had many uses on the industry. A lot of medicines and clothes were made from hemp. It is said that the famous movie "Reefer Madness" caused marijuana to be illegal. It was believed that marijuana caused the user to be violent but many politicians later opposed that myth. In fact, marijuana calms and mellows the user.

-Does prohibition really works?
Prohibition in fact has never worked. Prohibition has never stopped people from using marijuana. In 1937, it was estimated that there was 15,000 marijuana users. Now, it is estimated to be 15,000,000+ marijuana users.

-Dangerous of using marijuana?
People believe it kills brain cells, etc... The government did an experiment on monkeys to determine and see if marijuana kills or causes any damage to the brain or brain cells. The monkeys died. 6 years later it was finally released how the experiment was made. They pumped astronomical amount of smoke on monkeys. The smoke and the lack of oxygen made the monkeys suffocate and die. The dead brain cells were from the lack of oxygen and not from pot. Thus, the experiment results were invalid.
In fact, in 2005 a study showed that marijuana could stimulate the growth of brain cells on the brain.

-What about lung cancer?
All the studies used always that marijuana "may" or "should" cause lung cancer. But it has never been reported that someone had lung cancer solely from using marijuana. But smoke is harmful because of the proprieties of smoke. Any smoke could harm your lungs. But nothing in the cannabis plant ever caused lung cancer.
A study has been made and showed the tobacco smoke is more harmful than marijuana smoke.

-Which drug is causing more death per year?
Tobacco kills more people than all illegal drugs combined with accidents and aids per year.
It causes over 450,000 deaths per year. Even knowing that tobacco is being the number one killer in the country, the government still plants it and sells it.
Then we got alcohol. It is responsible for the death of over 85,000 people per year. Then we got caffeine which cause from one to 10,000 deaths per year. Even aspirin causes from one to 7500 deaths per year. What about marijuana? People believe it kills from 50,000 to hundreds of billions per year. In fact no single case of death has been attributed from using marijuana in the history of the human kind from thousands of years. You have to smoke 15,000 joints in 20 minutes to die from marijuana which is almost impossible.

-What about addiction?
Only 3% of the patients on the rehab system went voluntarily from being independent on marijuana. The others were either told by a judge or a guardian. Some people get the choices either going to jail or you go to a treatment. Everyone chooses to go to a treatment. They consider these people addicts. Marijuana is known to be less addictive than coffee. There are no severe withdrawal symptoms after stopping the use of marijuana. Its use can be discontinues easier than any other drugs.

-Marijuana is more potent now.
Marijuana being more potent now won't change its effects it had thousands of years ago. For it being more potent will just take fewer amounts from a user to get high thus, inhaling less smoke.

And marijuana could never be overdosed.

-Is marijuana a gateway drug?
Many studies had been done and never actually found something IN marijuana that could push user to go for "hard drugs"(such as cocaine, heroin, etc...)
In fact, any drug (such as food) could lead in using another drug. Example: milk could lead someone to drink alcohol.

Because of the current status of marijuana, users are forced to deal with the black market. Prohibition could be the reason of marijuana being a gateway drug. (Common scenario: -You got weed man? -No man but I got you these nice pills/powder/etc... I will let you try some for free.)
Many black market dealers now tend to go for harder drugs. Why? It is easier to carry pills and powder that could be easily hidden. Marijuana is harder to hard and to sell. It has a strong smell so it makes it harder for dealers to carry it.

-You will be useless to society if you use marijuana, right?
No. If that's true, then there are about 50 million people who smoke marijuana in the USA and over half of the population of Canada has tried marijuana at least once and yet both societies seems to flourish. Even some famous celebrities use marijuana. Many musicians and writers use marijuana daily. Even doctors and judges. Every presidential candidate has used marijuana at least once in their life.

People who are lazy and stay home and smoke weed were going to stay home and do nothing even without marijuana.

There is no evidence that marijuana had been the cause of a single crime. Legalizing it in Europe decreased the crime rate after being the highest crime rate in the world. Legalizing alcohol caused by far many more accidents and crimes then it is causing now from marijuana.

-What about drug availability?
Students in high school and schools claim that they could have access on illegal drugs easier than legal drugs.
Because of its current status on the country, its price and availability is unregulated and is on the hands of the growers. Marijuana could fully grow and flower in 2 months - 3 months. It is not hard to grow marijuana. It needs water, air and light just like any other plant.


The government spend over 7.7B$ to enforce marijuana prohibition. Legalizing marijuana and taxing it could give the government up to 14B$ in profit.

Some police officers know how marijuana is way safer than alcohol and would like to not prosecute criminals possessing marijuana but they don't want to lose their jobs. They just enforce the laws that already exist.
There are 786,566 marijuana arrests in 2005 for simple possession. 88% of marijuana arrests are for simple possession.
That's almost 1 million people in the USA arrested. either you go in jail or not, your future is destroyed. You don't find a job that will accept you with a criminal record. The government is telling us in other ways that's its okay to rape and murder but your career life will be deeply ruined if you do or smoke illegal drugs.

Drug tests:
They cost a lot of money. At first they said they are going to test pilots and police officers. Then they said they are going to DT professional athletes. Later on they planned on testing every child on every school.
In fact, THC (chemical produced from marijuana) stays on someone's system for up to 20 days (although people nowadays find ways to detoxification in several days) but harder drugs like heroine could leave someone's body in 3 days. That also tells the people to use the hard drugs and avoid soft drugs like marijuana.

What about its medical benefits?
Pharmaceutical companies are the most profitable industry on the US. What happened if marijuana is legalized? Well they will lose money because people found a lot of treatment coming from a natural plant.
Marijuana can slow Alzheimer. It treats glaucoma, back pain, depression, nausea, ADHD, anxiety, help patients with AIDS and cancer and could prevents cancer. There is no a product that provides as many as medical benefits as marijuana.
People in some states in US and in Canada could get a medical marijuana card if they have been checked and proven by a doctor that they qualify for a card. That card helps the patient against any arresting for possession of marijuana.

Marijuana is one of the most useful, if not the most useful plant known to mankind and it should not be illegal while keeping tobacco and alcohol legal.



Would like to see some comments and if that document changed your view about marijuana or not.


Some questions posted by another members in another forum and the answer:


Dealers out of the job? SO???? Who cares about the dealers. They put unfair price on a easy grow plant. And we pay more taxes just for the government to try and bust them. And they are making enormous amount of money by sitting home. Legalizing it would create more jobs and bring more profit to the government.
It causes "physiatric" problems? What kind of problem is that? Never heard of it. You might also want to cite your sources.


Well that's what's the government doing. Give an excuse to make something illegal or otherwise why the hell it is NOT illegal?
The information you get at school is BS my friend and all of what you learnt has been scientifically proven wrong.


Yep, thats true. Which kind of dealer will buy alcohol and sell it to minors these days? Not worth the money or the effort. And what will be his profit in the end anyway? Legalizing marijuana will keep it away from children (HIGHLY DON'T RECOMMEND MARIJUANA REGULAR SMOKING FOR PEOPLE UNDER 19)


Explain how please. How does it kill? I'm guessing you're one of those people who have never tried it and haven't really researched it and learned the truth, but I was like that one day too, but please at least look more into it other than just assuming that it kills people because your D.A.R.E. officer told you that.
All of anti-drugs organization got WRONG information about marijuana. They got some list of symptoms that has been proven WRONG. (I agree with short memory loss, but when they say it fries your brain, or I even heard it may grow boobies in men. NOW that's REALLY STUPID!)


Drinking alcohol is proved to be way more dangerous than smoking marijuana. Don't even get me started on the drunk drivers... You already know it.
Never heard of someone killing someone in a car accident while being 'intoxicated'.


Don't you realize that all the bad situation you been through are actually a result of the "prohibition" of marijuana?
That's why IT SHOULD BE LEGALIZED.

The Department of Motor Vehicles notes that, after alcohol, cannabis is the leading cause of motor vehicle accidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Motor_Vehicles

I think you're just affixing that for the sake of supporting your argument. That's like me saying that doctors believe that sticking large cumbersome objects up your ass helps irregularity.

LOL. The whole point of mentioning a source during a debate is to help your side of the debate. Only complete idiots wouldn't do that.
And your second comment is totally unrelated.

That's not safer. Drunk people do the same thing and it gets them into accidents. You can get a ticket for going too far under the speed limit just like you can while speeding.

That's completely untrue. The common signs of drunk driving are erratic driving, speeding, and excessively slow driving. And DMV I'm quoting is the NJ MVA.

nice going, contradicting yourself in one sentence

do you even read what you quote?

Actually he isn't contradicting himself. He's saying that you can be speeding, or you can be driving slowly, but of course, not at the same time.

Do you even know what a contradiction is?

Why not be able to smoke weed?

If you want to screw up your brian cells then do it.

If kids are dumb enough to do it, let em do it.

It makes them want to do it 10x more because it illegal and they think its "cool"

Then I must be wrong, but your tell me Weed HAS no side-effects or anything that can harm you in it?

Then I must be wrong, but your tell me Weed HAS no side-effects or anything that can harm you in it?

Then I must be wrong, but your tell me Weed HAS no side-effects or anything that can harm you in it?

Marijuana should be legal, the government can tax the hell out of it.

Except as I'm sure I've said many times already anyone who buys that garbage the government produces either has no self-respect or is a moron, most would rather continue smoking illegally then have to smoke that cow bile making taxes redundant and a waste of paper and ink.

Except as I'm sure I've said many times already anyone who buys that garbage the government produces either has no self-respect or is a moron, most would rather continue smoking illegally then have to smoke that cow bile making taxes redundant and a waste of paper and ink.

Except as I'm sure I've said many times already anyone who buys that garbage the government produces either has no self-respect or is a moron, most would rather continue smoking illegally then have to smoke that cow bile making taxes redundant and a waste of paper and ink.

Since when does the government grow marijuana? Even if they did, who says that it would be "cow bile"?

A good enough reason for it to be legal is the fact is that if the goverment allowed Marijuana to be marketed like it does Cigarettes, then they could enforce regulations and what not. Just like there is so many kinds of Cigarettes then can be the the same for pot. Plus if it's in a store sold like cigarettes then hell you know you're not buy laced stuff and you don't have to deal with potentially dangerous people.

Since when does the government grow marijuana? Even if they did, who says that it would be "cow bile"?

about the possible public safety if marajuana induced conduct became prevalent.

You're confusing marijuana with ecstasy or heroin.

Medical Marijuana, it's not that hard to find a sickly old man willing to share and it does in fact taste like "cow bile".



Inorite, those damn stoners are dangerous people.

But in all seriousness unless your referring to driving while high i don't quite see the public safety issues. In fact it does quite the opposite of making someone dangerous.

That's actually exactly what I was talking about. High drivers is a scary concept for me.

If you had read my link that I posted you would be more scared of drunk drivers

If you actually watched the movie, you'll see how marijuana isn't really harmful.

inb4lock.

This thread isn't going to be locked because it is about marijuana.

This thread isn't going to be locked because it is about marijuana.
I'll say it, I smoke weed. I advocate weed. It feels relaxing, and pleasurable. When used chronically, it can slow your mind down, but when you stop it returns to normal. I never felt that there was any damage or long lasting changes from marijuana use.