Almost anything out there can cause cancer. For years, people were saying nutra sweet is a great substitute for sugar. People are now realizing that it is a carcinogen. I'm not saying that it's ok to smoke cigarettes or do any other unhealthy things. I just don't think it's the governments place to tell people what they should do to their bodies. If they want to smoke something that could possibly cause cancer, that's their own choice. Let people know the risks of certain things and leave it at that. If we tried to get the government to ban all that is harmful for people, there would be very few things out there that we could consume.
In recent years, I have become more and more convinced that marijuana should be legal. More so for economic reasons. It will reduce the amount of arrests and people thrown in jail. I know people who now have a record for carrying an 1/8 on them. I'd say the majority people who are caught with marijuana are thrown into a detention center rather than a hard core prison. Still, let's save tax payers money and put real criminals into the detention centers.
While it's probably best to drive sober
, Billy is somewhat right in his opinion that it is better to drive stoned than drunk. For many people, marijuana opens their senses so that they can concentrate more. I think I remember someone posting on GC a few years back about how they like to take exams stoned just because they're able to process the information better. You just can't get an effect like that from alcohol.
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On my way to lunch this afternoon, I was stopped behind a car at a traffic light. There were about 3 people in a Civic. The driver blew out a whole puff of smoke that filled the whole car. I was thinking to myself that the puff of smoke was too big to be from a cigarette. That's when I saw the driver pass back a bong to the person in the back seat. I couldn't believe it. Now, they could've been smoking some legal herbal stuff but I highly doubt it. Meanwhile, there was a cop sitting at the other side of the intersection. Either these people have some big cajones or they're just stupid.