Quote Originally Posted by Jintatsu View Post
I don't understand your supporting evidence. Maybe I'm being a tad presumptuous here, but you seem to be implying that you spoke marijuana for recreational reasons and yet you use marajuana's medical uses as a reason that your use of marijuana should be legal. It's fine that you believe your use of marijuana should be legalized, but stating its medical characteristics doesn't do anything to help your cause unless you're using it for medical reasons.
I do smoke marijuana for recreational purposes.

yet you use marajuana's medical uses as a reason that your use of marijuana should be legal.
Nowhere did I say "Hey, marijuana is great for treating various maladies, let's legalize it so I can get baked every day of the week!"

You see, me liking this herb and it being legalized are two very different things. Perhaps I should have been more clear in my opening post.

Moving on, as pulse said, it is indeed idiotic to make marijuana illegal when alcohol, for example, is legal.

How many people have you heard of get really stoned, then go home and beat their family? It's been... never since I've flipped open the daily news and seen a memorial for some poor freshman who smoked weed until he died/had to have his stomach pumped.

According to a study conducted by Blackwell Science Ltd, In the early 1980s, the aggregate number of direct and indirect alcohol-related life losses (In Russia) was more than 500 000 per annum, or 32% of total deaths. Half of the alcohol-related human losses in Russia over the period studied were due to accidents, poisoning and violence.

Yet, I can't find any studies telling me that a significant percentage of any population had died with marijuana as either a direct or indirect cause.

Hope for the future I guess.