Blitzeclips
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Let's not all forget the beneficial things along with marijuana. It offers medicinal purposes and helps many people sleep, eat, and relieve themselves from pain. It is by far, safer then most pharmaceutical or prescription drugs people are given to date-- assuming you know where the weed was grown to relieve any risks of laced or tampered weed.
Here's a brief reason for risk associated with marijuana..
There is a marijuana forum, I will not post it because I may or may not be a member.. Anyways, there was a string of weed going around Europe for a few weeks that looked amazing, was amazing, and pretty much knocked you on your ass. Anyways, soon, people began to notice that it *hurt* to inhale the stuff. During and after.
It wasn't until a man was breaking the buds up on his glass table that something abnormal was noticed. As he broke them up, he noticed the buds were leaving scrapes and streaks across his glass table.
Upon further investigation by many potheads, they found that trillions of trillions of tiny glass particles were found on the buds, which were perceived at the time to be crystals, keefe, or THC. The dealers on a mass scale were actually grinding up sand and glass bits into tiny bits , then mixed into the bricks of weed.
MANY MANY of the users were admitted into hospitals for extreme lung damage and internal bleeding. NONE of the patients were treated or covered by medical insurance because they were injured from the use of the drug.
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I can solve 2 big problems in America right now that would reduce jail crowding, high taxes, and crime associated with petty drugs such as marijuana. Here's how...
Legalize marijuana and relieve everyone caught selling or distributing the drugs(without associated murder, homicides, assault, etc...) from a jail term. The guys out there selling this stuff by the pound or two aren't hurting anyone, and if they did they should remain in jail. But for all the users and distributors with non-violent offenses should be free again. They're not criminals.
This would effect society and the economy in the three ways previously mentioned. It would decrease the amount of inmates in jail, which in turn would decrease the amount of taxes deducted from out paychecks because those taxes provide food, shelter, and treatment for the inmates. If the inmates are gone or reduced, it's less money out of our pocket- and ultimately back into the economy to assist the current recession we have right now. Lastly, much less crime would be committed if marijuana were legal. No one would be fighting on their own (because honestly, who calls a cop and says I got robbed for a pound of weed) and it would promote less violence associated with the drug. This would be a continuing cycle because there would never be anymore people going to jail for the crime(s).
One of these days, the government will wake up, or congress will pass a joint around and realize it's really no big deal.
Here's a brief reason for risk associated with marijuana..
There is a marijuana forum, I will not post it because I may or may not be a member.. Anyways, there was a string of weed going around Europe for a few weeks that looked amazing, was amazing, and pretty much knocked you on your ass. Anyways, soon, people began to notice that it *hurt* to inhale the stuff. During and after.
It wasn't until a man was breaking the buds up on his glass table that something abnormal was noticed. As he broke them up, he noticed the buds were leaving scrapes and streaks across his glass table.
Upon further investigation by many potheads, they found that trillions of trillions of tiny glass particles were found on the buds, which were perceived at the time to be crystals, keefe, or THC. The dealers on a mass scale were actually grinding up sand and glass bits into tiny bits , then mixed into the bricks of weed.
MANY MANY of the users were admitted into hospitals for extreme lung damage and internal bleeding. NONE of the patients were treated or covered by medical insurance because they were injured from the use of the drug.
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I can solve 2 big problems in America right now that would reduce jail crowding, high taxes, and crime associated with petty drugs such as marijuana. Here's how...
Legalize marijuana and relieve everyone caught selling or distributing the drugs(without associated murder, homicides, assault, etc...) from a jail term. The guys out there selling this stuff by the pound or two aren't hurting anyone, and if they did they should remain in jail. But for all the users and distributors with non-violent offenses should be free again. They're not criminals.
This would effect society and the economy in the three ways previously mentioned. It would decrease the amount of inmates in jail, which in turn would decrease the amount of taxes deducted from out paychecks because those taxes provide food, shelter, and treatment for the inmates. If the inmates are gone or reduced, it's less money out of our pocket- and ultimately back into the economy to assist the current recession we have right now. Lastly, much less crime would be committed if marijuana were legal. No one would be fighting on their own (because honestly, who calls a cop and says I got robbed for a pound of weed) and it would promote less violence associated with the drug. This would be a continuing cycle because there would never be anymore people going to jail for the crime(s).
One of these days, the government will wake up, or congress will pass a joint around and realize it's really no big deal.