Furthermore, it impairs your judgment.
Someone who's been drinking and smoking pot is more likely to "step up" than someone who hasn't.
Someone who's been drinking and smoking pot is more likely to "step up" than someone who hasn't.
Originally Posted by skulfuk
*agrees*
If I really wanted to I could spend £20 at a dealers & that would get me a bag of speed, 10 Es & a blast on a crack pipe. I wouldn't have to walk too far to get it either since my estate's full of dealers.
However if I wanted to get hold of some weed I'd not only have to travel across a few towns to find some - if any is available - it'd also cost £30 for 3gram of resin. A few years ago the same 3grams would cos £15.
Could a combination of high prices & unavailability of weed be driving smokers to other drugs?
this is one of the reasons why i think it should be legal. If it was it would remove the connection with harder drugs completely. You'd get your weed from the government knowing that its not been sprayed with fiberglass or mixed with plastic and henna, you wouldn't be offered anything harder or ripped off and your money would go on to do something useful rather than to some drug dealer. If it was legal it would remove the novelty for underagers somewhat as well, telling someone something is not allowed makes them want to do it more.
I think when people smoke it and the vast majority realise it isn't giving them schizophrenic fits like the government/media say they lose faith in the government/media as a reputable source of drugs information and disregard what is said about harder drugs as well. Same applies to the '10 times stronger than 10 years ago' bollocks, 10 years ago the average thc content was 12.7% or something, 10x12.7 = 127% THC?!! i want some of that please governments, where the hell are they getting their statistics.
Its just silly putting weed alongside hard drugs when people could just try it at 18 without having to commit a crime and most likely move on afterwords. Currently its being left open for kids to smoke soapbar (nickname for extremely impure hash like skul mentioned, full of rubber and plastic) all day cos its cheap, if it were legal none of that would be going on.
its just madness, they are not trying to reduce harm at all they are sitting trying to defend their fat profits from the pharmaceutical industry and the alcohol lobby. Grrrrr.
Originally Posted by DesertPunk
once again i'm to lazy to read all of what you said spree, but I'm sick and tired of people saying, that people only do it because its against the law, murdering people is against the law, do you have a craving to kill now?
yes its true when your young, you like to disobey your parents, and some people do enjoy breaking the law, but weed is not one of them, every single person i know who smoked weed, smoked it because of curiosity, or peer pressure.
I celebrated 4/20 out of curiosity. None of my friends do it because of peer pressure, but peer pressure is a big cause of marijuana usage. Young kids hate authority figures because they are being taught what they think they shouldn't be taught when really what they are learning is useful, they just don't think it is. People use marijuana is being used for many different reasons, some of which I already know but many others I do not.
I have left Toribash, but will drop in occasionally on the forums and IRC. Still in Sigma.
