Decriminalizing marijuana

[Millane]

i guess it all depends on who you know... i live in Bendigo about an hour and a half away from Melbourne and i could get marijuana and speed pretty readily if i wanted it. but thats just coz im friends with a bloke thats in on all that. down in melb you can get anything and all it requires is cash and going down to the commission flats (which is in itself a measure of how determined you are to get drugs) but yeah if i wanted anything in a hurry it would have to be pot or speed but if i was prepared to wait well till i went down to melb i guess...
i see the govt in this instance being pretty stupid... if pot were legalised a) less people would smoke it (as happened in sweden or switzerland or one of them countries up that way) and b) they would be able to tax and get a bit more money in there grubby little hands.

[markedel]

I'm at University-it's easy to get pot. Hell I can walk to the room down the hall...

[Millane]

ummm i dont see if that is a good point or bad... all the people i know (a few exceptions) are filthy animals and i dont like going near them let alone having to live near them...

well my point wasn't really about the flying, it was more about the fact that after they smoked just a little bit it was still affecting them 2 weeks later. I guess i was trying to point out how harmful it is.

and my point is what in god's name were they smoking to be that ****ed 2 weeks later

[gimli7410]

yea i dont think that test is real. i just did some last nite and i can still focus on anything. i think they probably made it up to try get kids not to use it.

[markedel]

Yeah. Pot should not affect you like that 2 weeks later. Constant chronic use is bad for you-but one time wouldn't have grave pysiological effects.

[gimli7410]

wanst sure if i should of started a new thread about this but i was wondering how much weed is to much weed. i mean i do it every weekend and i dont usually do like 2 joints like i used to but more like 4-5 but all in a bong. just wondering if any vetran smokers have advice

[Insidious Rex]

Originally posted by gimli7410
wanst sure if i should of started a new thread about this but i was wondering how much weed is to much weed. i mean i do it every weekend and i dont usually do like 2 joints like i used to but more like 4-5 but all in a bong. just wondering if any vetran smokers have advice

too nuch weed for what? could it be damaging you physically? of course. the less you smoke the less you risk damaging yourself. could it be addicting you psychologically? sure. try not smoking at all for like a month and see how you feel. if its easy for you then yer most likely fine with what yer doing. if its hard or it makes you feel like crap physically and/or mentally then it could be the sign of a problem. if just the thought of not smoking gives you the creeps then yeah yer a serious pot head. watch out. pot is definitely a routine drug. its not physically addicting like nicotiene but once it becomes something you always do as a routine its easy to become psychologically adictive. but smoking it in a bong throuh water is better for you physically then smoking it in joints. less lung damage.

[Ruinel]

Smoking pot can be damaging to your lungs. Just as smoking anything could be. However, I do not feel it is addicting chemically, as cigarettes.

I've smoked pot since high school, but I've never been addicted to it. It's funny, I do not smoke cigarettes, can't stand them.

I've smoked pot from a bong a few times. I'd have to say that most of the time it is in the form of a joint when I smoke it. The amount I smoke might be 3 times a year or less and only with friends, socially.

Has it affected me intellectually, no. Is it any worse than alcohol, no. Has it led to more harmful and addicting drugs, no. However, IR is correct. Smoking pot can become addicting through routine use. Go without it for one month and see how you feel about not smoking it. If you could take it or leave it, then there's no problem for you. If you can not go one month without it, you have a problem.

To the subject of this thread: I do not have a problem with pot being legalized, since it is less addicting than cigarettes, which is legal.

[gollum9630]

If you think about, by legalizing pot, or making e punishment for carying or doing (not selling) lighter, it will cost you less tax money when you have to take these people to court and charge them with possesion. Traffikers should have more severe puishment though IMO

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Ruinel
Go without it for one month and see how you feel about not smoking it. If you could take it or leave it, then there's no problem for you. If you can not go one month without it, you have a problem.

wow i kept thinking one month. its not that i couldnt do it it is that i go to my friends house and they always have it. i got a friend who wants me to sell his hash for him too.but when im at my friends house, he is hardocre smoker. he has a five foot bong, glass bong and plastic bong which we use all the time. ill take the test of one month and see how that goes.

[Ruinel]

Originally posted by gimli7410
... i got a friend who wants me to sell his hash for him too....

Don't sell it! If you get caught, it's your friggin' neck, not his. It's one thing to smoke pot occasionally, and another to start dealing.

I'm glad you're going to test yourself for one month.

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Ruinel
Don't sell it! If you get caught, it's your friggin' neck, not his. It's one thing to smoke pot occasionally, and another to start dealing.

I aint really dealing(well yea i am) but im sort of transporting for him. im never gonna deal

[Ruinel]

That is really a bad idea. You should not transport nor deal. The penalties are far harsher than for someone who just gets caught with a joint.

[GrayMouser]

Originally posted by gimli7410
I aint really dealing(well yea i am) but im sort of transporting for him. im never gonna deal

Well, you see, officer, it's not really mine...

[jerseydevil]

Originally posted by gimli7410
I aint really dealing(well yea i am) but im sort of transporting for him. im never gonna deal

It's all in small incriments. Too bad you can't talk to my friend Jason - see how many times he said "I'll never do this..." and then he'd do it and then "We I'll never do that..." then he'd do it. Finally he was shooting up with heroin (Something he absolutely swore he would NEVER do). I'm not saying that everyone ends up getting as bad as him - buyt you're already justifying things and saying you'll never do this or that. You seem to be on the same track as him. He also said he'd never sell - but I know sometimes he did.

[gimli7410]

this guy just wanted me to find someone who would buy it and i found someone but he doesnt knowhim so im taking it to him except my friend is giving me somem money

[Ruinel]

Yyyyyeah... that's what is called dealing.

See? You find a buyer and you bring the buyer the dope. Not good. Not good at all.

Edit: I wanted to give you an example of how I am not addicted at all. There's pot in my house and I know it's there, and I do not want to smoke it. (I could use a beer though.) Now, ask yourself if you could do that?

[gimli7410]

Originally posted by Ruinel
Yyyyyeah... that's what is called dealing.

See? You find a buyer and you bring the buyer the dope. Not good. Not good at all.

Edit: I wanted to give you an example of how I am not addicted at all. There's pot in my house and I know it's there, and I do not want to smoke it. I could use a beer though.

fine well call it dealing . but im not doing it after. right now i have shake in my house and im not smoking it either so im not addicted but shake is pretty weak so im not sure

[gollum9630]

In BC they just made possesing small amounts legal, so i guess thats a small step to decrimilaizing it

[Insidious Rex]

Originally posted by gollum9630
In BC they just made possesing small amounts legal, so i guess thats a small step to decrimilaizing it

works for me. what do they consider a "small amount"?