I'm a non-smoker, but I oppose war on drugs

I have never smoked pot myself, but i strongly oppose the war on drug. It is pointless, costly (gov't spending our tax for educating kids how bad marijuana is), and violating freedom. Since the start of the "war" against an assumed enemy by the most infamous president Richard Nixon, gangsters in US increased multifold, street violence became rampant. Got to stop it, i think we non-smokers should co-operate with marijuana users together to stop the war on drugs.

 

yea man. but most non-smokers wont listen to us smokers and just dismiss anything that comes from us as not worth thinking about since we are just stoners and dont know anything and are to high to do anything but be lazy

 

so true, many non-smokers seem to be self-righteous about not smoking... hell, i don't give a shit if someone smokes or not, just stop making a big deal about it. mr morrison put it absolutely perfectly

 

ironically we're the ones actually fighting and trying to make a change to society. We take all the casualties (jail time, police brutality, death), yet we're to high to do anything but sit on the couch.

 

There is a political party fighting for the legalization of drugs: Libertarian Party of United States, however its other platforms are too extreme though.

 

I'm gonna step in as the Devil's Advocate here and disagree with ya'll.

I don't think Chinese Troubador's case is all that uncommon. I thought the same that if you were a smoker you were pro, and a non-smoker, anti... until I got out of high school and into the real world.

I think most people do disagree with the war on drugs, and want federal spending spent on something more worth-while. I can think of many non-smokers in my life who say we have better things to do than push the potheads around.

Now I also live in Meth capitol of the world... and I think the war on drugs does do SOME good. I think that priorities should be shifted to making people's lives better so drugs aren't such a tempting alternative. Fuck Meth... we need a good program to fight it. Watch your friends give up their lives, homes, and health chasing a high and then look me in the face and say otherwise.

That's just my 2 cents on the good of the war on drugs.

But I whole-heartidly agree that the war on drugs in general is a fucked state of affairs.

Back to my original rant.

I think the majority of people do want Marijuana to be legalized and legitimized. I've talked to very few people, a dominance of non-smokers, who think it's generally harmless and it's use should not be grounds for punishment.

Now I'm a smoker, but only in the appropriate times. My times with drugs were very wasteful. Reflection time at the end of the day, on some days, is a good time for smoking. Most people (I say most, not all) do not function to their full capacity when Smokin' up is a big part of the day. Pot makes you content... and sometimes to get things done in life ya can't be content.

The mind itself is what gets things done, regardless of ganja intoxicant. The free thinkers, or the hippies as we're called unfairly by stereotyping, that I know the majority of don't smoke or smoke seldom, and we act as the local activists. Within that group the heavy smokers are the idealists, who show up to meetings and gatherings, but do little in the ways of progression. Now i'm not putting them down, their ideas and input are more than helpful, but when ya'd rather smoke a bowl and play hackysack than organize rallies or hand out flyers, the process gets a bit slowed down.

Liberate Mary Jane, but first liberate your mind. A tainted mind is only further tainted by alteration, a liberated mind is merely tweaked by taint. Cast off the shackles of hippiedom, be yourself, not another stereotype.

 

i think we just have to take a good hard look at which drugs are really to blame... meth, heroin, crack, those all seem to cause some major problems. the war on drugs itself isn't a bad idea, but it seems like it's just turned into a big arrest campaign, rather than a rehab one.

 

I think some really bad drugs like heroin should be banned, but not with a "war" that cost people's tax money into some ineffective movements with massive arrest and producing new gansters. The ones like marijuana should be legalized, that is no doubt, since its harm is even less than cigs, and has way more positive effects than cigs.

 

youre on the right side, my friend.

 

no drugs should be illegal, even if they are bad for you, its your choice, the government cant make you not allowed to do it, theyu dont hvae that right. otherwise they would eventually make weed illegal again on the statment that its bad. they cant tell you what you can put in your body.

if i was old enough id be more than willing to rally protests and hand out flyers and stuff. and i smoke at least 3 times a week. im not lazy. but i just got to age a bit

 

The government's job isnt to tell its citizens what they can do and what they cant. The government is only there to protect the rights of those who live there.

Therefore, where it shouldnt be allowed to tell us not to smoke pot, or even crack. What happens when someone on crack murders someone.

regardless, marijuana should be legal no matter what. but crack, heroin, and meth... the govnerment cant just say you can do them then when you committ a crime on them, what?

-peace

 

The government's job isnt to tell its citizens what they can do and what they cant. The government is only there to protect the rights of those who live there.

Therefore, where it shouldnt be allowed to tell us not to smoke pot, or even crack. What happens when someone on crack murders someone.

regardless, marijuana should be legal no matter what. but crack, heroin, and meth... the govnerment cant just say you can do them then when you committ a crime on them, what?


-peace

 

I'm glad people like you exist. It gives me hope that some people out there still have common sense.

 

Oh people today is the last day of school before spring break, and in first period history class 2 kids were caught for bringing marijuana to school and probably they'll be in big trouble...ironically, some fights happened in the same time and school teachers didn't even care.

 

It's also costly to imprison the "criminals" who carry, sell, and use weed.

Unfortunately, it has been stigmatized by the media and government to an extent that the general populace is strongly opposed to legalization/decrim for whatever dumb reason.

Also, the government makes a lot of cash by taking things from those who are arrested for posession. Because of this, I don't think we'll be seeing any freed tokers anytime soon.

 

It is great to know that people like you exist. The government or whoever runs the show has to have their hand in the drug market, it is a huge market and because of that it is a seller's market. In other words pot/crack and all the others can be sold for a ridcously high price, thanks to the black market.