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Originally Posted by sanityseeker
I think it is also important to remember that the pot today is not the pot of the 70's. Today most street pot is heavily laden with chemicals from growth hormones to pesticides to maximize crop yield. There is also a lot of lacing going on with street drugs so it isn't the innocent 'plant' hellucinagenic it used to be.
I totally think we should legalize it to take a bite out of crime related to trafficking but more importantly I think it needs to be monitored for quality and safety because right now a user has no idea what else they are smoking along with their canabus.
If it were legal more people could grow their own and then they would know what they were smoking.
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AGREED.
People who want to smoke pot WILL find some way to obtain it. Making it illegal just forces these people to deal with real criminals who also sell a variety of other drugs, most of which ARE in fact, dangerous. If it was regulated, like you said, we would KNOW what it is we are smoking, and would not have to worry about smoking something that was laced by the dealer with a physically addictive substance to keep the kids coming back for more.
When a kid gets expelled from school because the school drug dog found an eighth in his locker, even though it's the only thing he smokes and he has good grades and a great reputation regardless of his "drug use", then it's just ridiculous. I know SO MANY people who smoked pot, but you never would have guessed because they're such good kids and I had friends who were in National Honors Society all four years of high school, despite having smoked pot all four of those years.