If and when weed becomes legal.

I really want to see the day that weed becomes legal, but I know that if it does, a bunch of legal rules will be put onto them.
Things such as the age limit, no smoking and driving, no public smoking, etc, etc will probably prevent it from being legal like the way we want it to.

but then again, everybody would probably still be smoking pot like we always do.

 

when when becomes legal i will still treat it the way it is still now. and not giving a fuck about rules

 

Yeah it will probaly be like alcohol now....but I can still get hold of it, and get pissed, and drink probaly where I shouldnt.....so its fine.


But I think it is a big IF weed gets legalised.

 

Ya the rules would probably be just like alcohol, but thats not neccessarily a bad thing. An plus mostly everyone sits inside a house and smokes weed anyways.

 

I'm sorry, but I don't see mj ever becoming legal. I see it becoming decriminalized and allowing those who choose to sit in their house or other private areas and toke up, but full out legalization I doubt. I hope as much as the next person that I'm proved wrong....

 

Hm, I never really thought about it before, but, in that scenario, it probably would be illegal to be high while driving. Cops would probably all be equipped with swabs for THC field sobriety, and could probably test you based purely on visual prejiduce. That would fucking suck.

 

very insightfull post...:/

 

I was talking with a friend of mine the other night and we were like:

"You know if back when the constitution was drafted if someone was like hey yeah marijuana is okay. People would have no problem with it being legal today. Also if there was no such thing as alcohol and someone just invented it today there is no way in hell that it would be legalized, it would most likely be a controlled substance."

 

Lol, I don't think that it's possible to tell if someone's stoned from a visual point of eye. Anyone can look stoned for any reason, without smoking pot and the other way round. Swabs for THC? And how would they proove it's not leftover THC of the day before? ...

Over here you can only get caught for driving stoned when the cops catch you redhanded smoking a joint while driving.

 

I was litterally ganna post the exact same thing word for word. Nice to see you back.

 

You've misunderstood. That's exactly my point, that the cop would be able to test at HIS disgression; whether or not there really ARE any signs of the person being high.

And yes, there is a saliva test for thc, for which the testing period is a few hours after initial ingestion.

If alcohol had not been invented already, we would have died out as a people a long time ago. At the dawn of human civilization, beer was the primary source of carbs, as it could be sustained for long periods of time. Thus, we wouldn't be here to ask whether or not it was an allowable substance.

 

yes there is most certain a field sobriety test kit for marijuana, read about police dept's possibly becoming equipped with them a few months back.

of course theres gonna be rules regarding it... its not just gonna be like "do this drug and whatever the fuck you want when you're on it." as far as driving and shit, that will suck too. you'd probably lose your license for it- eventually those fuckin soccer mom groups like MADD will declare driving while stoned the equivalent of driving drunk- and the penalties could likely end up just as severe.

still, legalized pot with restrictions beats illegal pot and prosecution.

 

"You know if back when the constitution was drafted if someone was like hey yeah marijuana is okay. People would have no problem with it being legal today. Also if there was no such thing as alcohol and someone just invented it today there is no way in hell that it would be legalized, it would most likely be a controlled substance."

wow that just makes you think, and it is totally true, and 100 to 200 years from now, when MJ has hopefully been legalised for a long while, people wont even be able to imagine when alcohol was totally illegal for a period of time, justl ike some of us teens do now, and yea i think if they legalise marijuana, there will be more people who TRY marijuana, but the people that actually USE it on a normal basis will stay the same, just look at what prohibition did with alcohol, the amount of people who drank went up, as did crime. As the saying goes: "Prohibition Creates Crime"

 

agreed but I dont want it legalized just yet!!!! No I'm not high yet but the fact that its illegal actually makes it easier for me to get it because its so readily avalible to people who just sell to whoever has cash and if people who sold it to the legal person that was legal to smoke wouldn't sell it to a 13 year old as myself

 

If it becomes legal age limit will probably be 18... hope when i turn 18 it is i will legally come to school high as shit for the rest of my senior year and no1 could do shit about it...

 

We have coffeeshops with an age limit (18+), and dealers without an age limit. When it comes down to pot, everyone tries to beat eachother with quality, service and price over here since coffeeshops offer average quality (or either very high prices). So I bet even though it's legal, you could still easily get hooked up. Cannabis is just something different from beer. Sure there is quality difference in beer, but cannabis is all about growing ... and since coffeeshops are gold mines over here they really don't care that much about supplying the best.

It's not fully legal over here though. But I can see things like extra taxes being charged when it becomes legal (on top of VAT which will be added too), and thus greatly increasing prices ... so there will probably always be a black market for cannabis. A black market for booze is much harder to realize since it's hard to stay undercover while carrying a sack full of noisy bottles. Cannabis is very compact and easy to sell unnoticed.

You can see it happening over here in The Netherlands, where weed is partially (partially because it's not a law) being allowed. There is a huge illegal market, and a huge legal market. Though, the legal market over here doesn't charge VAT or any other taxes (so if it's 100% legal coffeeshops would get even pricier) ... so you can picture which way I'm going.

I like the way our government handles with all drugs. People who are addicted to heroin for example don't get prosecuted, they get help instead of that. It should be like this in every country. But it seems like it's never going to happen because every country is trying to do the best to shut down our drug tolerance. Like it's their business ... sad, really really sad. Our government is almost forced to close down coffeeshops by the EU pressure. And if it's not the EU, it is most likely USA news reporters demonizing our country .. and that while we have the lowest drug related crimes AND addicts. Geez, our country is being fucked up by others.

 

i feel the same way man.