Any drug used improperly can cause ill effects. Prescription pills are more often abused than MJ. Alcohol is still the king of auto accidents and has wrecked more families than MJ any day.It’s not the buzz that keeps people from drinking non-alcoholic beer, or, not always the buzz. Somehow, they taste too watery and the finish is much too short. The taste dies off too quickly in your mouth, so they don’t “feel” like a beer with alcohol.
Marijuana warps your brain. “Medical” marijuana is just an excuse to get high. Funny how the “patients” who go to obtain it look just like pot-heads.
You post shows that you understand little about basic chemistry as in distilling.lol, no… nobody said anything about being tanked. The strongest word used, I believe was “tipsy”. Anyways, Jesus used wine because it was tradition, and it was tradition because drinking pure water was a really, really bad idea.
Of course the tradition stands for the Eucharist, but my other point still remains. If enough people enjoyed bourbon and wanted to avoid the intoxicating effects, there would be a non-alcoholic substitute.
The reason that non-alcoholic beer and wine do not sell very well is that it does not taste as good as the products containing alcohol. In fact, non-alcoholic beer and wine tastes horrible!So why isn’t non-alcoholic beer or wine the best-seller?
ah you cheatedShould it or shouldn’t it? How about is it sinful?
You realize I’m not disagreeing with you, right? For the record, no I do not have much knowledge in either chemistry or distilling, and I would set the distinction between tipsy and tanked as somewhere between 1 and 6 beers per hour.You post shows that you understand little about basic chemistry as in distilling.
Who decides the definition of “tipsy” verses “tanked”. In my family our rule is NO drinking and driving. A designated sober driver is require to any event where alcohol is to be served.
Face facts, alcohol is typically the first gateway drug used by most and it is inherently more dangerous that MJ. I am not saying there is no risks with using either substance, but in 50 years I’ve seen more families damaged by alcohol abuse. Ironic that alcohol is still legal. I guess the government likes the tax dollars and overlooks the 40K accidents per year associated to drinking and driving.
I understand now that there is a significant difference in the quality of the taste, but I still ask “why?”The reason that non-alcoholic beer and wine do not sell very well is that it does not taste as good as the products containing alcohol. In fact, non-alcoholic beer and wine tastes horrible!
If you don’t believe me, why not do a blindfolded comparisons taste test?
Thank you for the clarification.You realize I’m not disagreeing with you, right? For the record, no I do not have much knowledge in either chemistry or distilling, and I would set the distinction between tipsy and tanked as somewhere between 1 and 6 beers per hour.
It really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.I believe your claim is false. Alcohol is just as dangerous and MJ, perhaps MORE dangerous when it comes to people subject to violent behavior.
Aside from your own personal opinion, can you prove crime would skyrocket? Can you provide examples of documented instances where MJ was made legal and "crime skyrockted:?It really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.
It should be noted - there is no country, none whatsoever, in the world that has legal marijuana. Yes, I wrote this correctly. Yes I’m aware of cases like the Netherlands. But even in nations like the Netherlands, the use of pot is greatly restricted to a specific place, for a specific period of time. You cannot walk down the streets of Amsterdam smoking pot.
scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalizationIt really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.
It should be noted - there is no country, none whatsoever, in the world that has legal marijuana. Yes, I wrote this correctly. Yes I’m aware of cases like the Netherlands. But even in nations like the Netherlands, the use of pot is greatly restricted to a specific place, for a specific period of time. You cannot walk down the streets of Amsterdam smoking pot.
cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080It really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.
It should be noted - there is no country, none whatsoever, in the world that has legal marijuana. Yes, I wrote this correctly. Yes I’m aware of cases like the Netherlands. But even in nations like the Netherlands, the use of pot is greatly restricted to a specific place, for a specific period of time. You cannot walk down the streets of Amsterdam smoking pot.
nytimes.com/1998/11/29/world/crime-is-key-as-swiss-vote-on-legalizing-hard-drugs.htmlIt really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.
It should be noted - there is no country, none whatsoever, in the world that has legal marijuana. Yes, I wrote this correctly. Yes I’m aware of cases like the Netherlands. But even in nations like the Netherlands, the use of pot is greatly restricted to a specific place, for a specific period of time. You cannot walk down the streets of Amsterdam smoking pot.
americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=11148It really only seems that way because alcohol is legal, while marijuana isn’t. If marijuana was as available as alcohol is today, crime rates would skyrocket and it would easily displace alcohol.
It should be noted - there is no country, none whatsoever, in the world that has legal marijuana. Yes, I wrote this correctly. Yes I’m aware of cases like the Netherlands. But even in nations like the Netherlands, the use of pot is greatly restricted to a specific place, for a specific period of time. You cannot walk down the streets of Amsterdam smoking pot.
As a matter of policy, it’s easy to see the negative effects the War on Drugs has… not just due to illegality, but due to how it’s enforced. However, I wonder if there are any positive effects that are harder to see. Does it benefit us in some more indirect way to do this?The question is should marijuana be legalized not is it moral. The answer is it should be legalized if the US, a country whose economy is in terrible shape, would like to jail less people (and thus save lots of money), waste less money on police efforts including the hilariously named ‘eradication’ programs, decrease the amount of crime that black markets encourage. The criminalization has in no way stopped the usage of the drug. Criminalization is very costly. From a purely practical standpoint ending the entire War on Drugs is a necessity for a bankrupt nation.
I cant think of any. The government cant think of any and they love to spin anything to their advantage. I would tend to think there are none.As a matter of policy, it’s easy to see the negative effects the War on Drugs has… not just due to illegality, but due to how it’s enforced. However, I wonder if there are any positive effects that are harder to see. Does it benefit us in some more indirect way to do this?
I think cigarette smoking policy is twisted. The government says they are against it. They highly tax it, thus making lots of money off of it. But they dont make it illegal because they really want smokers in order to get the tax money. Smoking actually saves the government money and this has been thoroughly demonstrated.Again to your point about the efficiency of how we’re dealing with this: compare it to how we deal with cigarette smoking. The campaign to get people off cigarettes seems like a much better approach.