Nick Diaz Needs Marijuana

To clarify those numbers were for the U.S.

Of course, if you are one of those people who never actually got addicted to anything else, still maintain a normal life, and want to smoke some weed every once in awhile…. I’m all for legality in that manner.

High five!

Then you have all these people who say "it isn’t a gateway drug." Yeah… I understand that it’s not actually addicting and generally doesn’t lead to other drugs, but normally… I had friends who hung out with other friends who hung out with other friends who smoked weed… and suddenly, coke was introduced to the group… and down the line it goes.

That’s because with marijuana being illegial, you have the get it from the same people you get cocaine, meth, PCP, ect. Making it legal and putting strict laws on selling it similar to alochol may not stop drug trafficking, but it will put a dent in the drug cartel’s selling of it when you could just buy it legally. Another thing to consider is that marijuana being illegal makes it a lot easier for kids to get ahold of that than alcohol. Drug dealers don’t check ID’s.

We spend 7.7 Billion dollars a year enforcing the prohibition of it ever year, whereas if we taxed it like alochol or tobacco like I think we should, we would make about 6.2 billion dollars a year. Look, you’ll never hear me say that weed is good for you, it’s not. But I think it is a personal choice that you should be able to make just like alcohol and just like tobacco. It isn’t even in the same ballpark as the other drugs that are prohibited by law.

And for the record, i’m not some kind of pothead or anything. I’ll admit to occasional recreational use, but I honestly only smoke once a month or so.

1) Legalizing Marijuana would boost our economy. By regulating weed, the government gains the ability to tax, check for quality, and control the sale and distribution of it. Given that it’s a cash crop (that can grow very well), it would just be that much more of a stimulant to our economy. Not to mention all the people who would be buying pot at gas stations (Marlboro already has a product lined up, which is basically a mass produced joint, packaged and sold like cigars). You can also throw in that the FDA would be checking it for quality and making sure that no harmful psychoactive agents (or fillers like oregano, for that matter) were added in.

2) We would save a ton of our hard earned tax dollars by preventing the frivolous prosecution of marijuana users. Cops wouldn’t have to waste their time busting someone with a reasonable amount of pot, and citizens who do enjoy the MJ don’t have to deal with misdemeanors on their record, which happen to make it very hard to get a job, be accepted into a university, etc.

I could go on.

And also, i’d like to rebutt the point that weed is a gateway drug. You’re saying that people who hang out with drug dealers/ frequent pot smokers are more likely to experiment with harder drugs, and I tend to agree with that. However, the need to assosciate with those kind of people would be drastically reduced if weed were readily available, legally.

All the same preppy kids from your high school who go to college in the same town, and now get drunk together all the time will also probably be getting high together. And that’s because to them, anything that is legal isn’t morally compromising, and therefore it’s alright to do.

It is a combination of his comments on using pot, comments about he “aint no bitch” and my experiences dealing with being massively ADHD. I was used in studies about the affects of Ritalin in large doses.