Mass. Decriminalizes Marijuana

[Langox510x]

I honestly think it should be legal. Would put a lot of dealers out of business.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Langox510x

I honestly think it should be legal. Would put a lot of dealers out of business.

Yeah, the black market and everything that goes along with it would pretty much fall into self.

I think it should be like at the ABC store/liqour store. Maybe you have to be 16 or 18 or whatever to buy it, but just go, get what you want, and that way everybody wins. Well, everybody except uptight puritans who want to control what everyone else does anyway. But you can't please everybody.

[PhiGam]

If there was a way to field test whether or not somebody was high then I'm convinced that it would be legal.

[fantASTic]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

If there was a way to field test whether or not somebody was high then I'm convinced that it would be legal.

Right. That's the problem, right? Alcohol..test the blood. Weed? It stays there for weeks. There's no way to figure out how recently you've smoked.

[UGAalum94]

Decriminalizing it sounds fine to me, but how are you going to tax a product that probably couldn't meet any kind of FDA safety standards for use or sale?

It may not be worse than cigarette smoking, but I actually have a hard time imagining that cigarettes would be approved for sale if they were an entirely new product, which I kind of think marijuana would have to be evaluated as.

I've got no philosophical or moral concerns about legalization or taxation, just practical ones.

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

Decriminalizing it sounds fine to me, but how are you going to tax a product that probably couldn't meet any kind of FDA safety standards for use or sale?

It may not be worse than cigarette smoking, but I actually have a hard time imagining that cigarettes would be approved for sale if they were an entirely new product, which I kind of think marijuana would have to be evaluated as.

I've got no philosophical or moral concerns about legalization or taxation, just practical ones.

Its definitely worse for you than cigarette smoking unless you use a vaporizer.

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

Its definitely worse for you than cigarette smoking unless you use a vaporizer.

Based on what?

Even if you account for the lack of the filter, how do you account for all of the carcinogenic additives in cigarettes, not to mention the fact that I doubt many people (and I could just be really ignorant here) have the equivelant of a pack-a-day marijunana habit.

[PhiGam]

Originally Posted by fantASTic

Right. That's the problem, right? Alcohol..test the blood. Weed? It stays there for weeks. There's no way to figure out how recently you've smoked.

They can in a lab... 90%+ of marijuana is out of your system within a couple hours, a small amount can be stored in fat cells for weeks. They can't test it on the side of the road though like they can with a breathalyzer.

[Phrozen1ne]

I understand other states are trying to legalize it for medicinal purposes, but it becomes harder to talk to kids about being drug free when they hear stuff like this. Kids aren't thinking about medicinal purposes, they are thinking that if they make it legal for some to use then it must be o.k.

[SydneyK]

Perhaps this is the answer to our current economic situation!