<p>^^ Marijuana has been around almost as long as alcohol. And there are many people in America who don’t find alcohol socially acceptable. </p>
<p>Oh, and marijuana is pretty common and has been for the last 30 years. Many people find it socially acceptable. </p>
<p>Next argument?</p>
<p>Yes it has been made illegal for those under age 21. Do you believe that we should also lower the age that people are allowed to legally drink alcohol too? </p>
<p>Marijuana is not as widespread as alcohol. what’s your argument FOR marijuana?</p>
<p>^ My argument is that it’s not that harmful and that the government shouldn’t control what I put in my body. </p>
<p>And yes, I absolutely believe in lowering the alcohol age limit. Notice that we have one of the highest age limits in the world and we have some of the worst alcohol problems?</p>
<p>This is an issue where I actually agree with Romani…</p>
<p>Although I do believe things like alchohol should be controlled: Kids shouldn’t be able to just buy them without their parents knowledge.</p>
<p>I don’t believe that the government should make it illegal. They should regulate what you are allowed to do while under the influence, like with alcohol, along with where you can use it, but they should not be able to make it entirely illegal.</p>
<p>However, I don’t ever plan on using it. I have no desire to use an drugs recreationally.</p>
<p>@MM- As much as I tease you about it- we actually do agree on quite a few issues. Abortion is really our biggest difference. Other than that, we agree on probably 80% of issues.</p>
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<p>my argument against it is:<br>
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<li>Don’t even know how to respond to that…Alcohol is legal, alcohol is a drug. If you’re basically saying marijuana should remain illegal because of the social stigma against it, there is no reason to even debate.</li>
<li>Lots of things just as bad or worse as well as more addictive are legal.</li>
<li>Kids’ brains are just as, if not more, sensitive to lots of legal substances. Plus, nobody is advocating the legalization of marijuana for all age groups.</li>
<li>The same counter-argument with tobacco.</li>
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<h2>5. There are laws against drunk driving, just as there would be laws against high driving. On a tangential note, I do think this area needs greater/harsher enforcement.</h2>
<p>This probably has been mentioned but it’s worth putting it out there again. Back in the early 1900s, marijuana was a legal industry, one of only a handful in which Mexican immigrants were able to thrive; the response of nativist lawmakers in the US was to condemn the plant, not because it was destroying lives in the same ways alcohol was (Prohibition, though a failure, was a health-related policy) but because minorities saw success due to it.</p>
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<li>Okay, first of all…seriously? Morals? About drugs? In the US? Okay, fine, because the legality of alcohol makes drano poison seem less bad.</li>
<li>Very few brain damage actually, the lungs is there but far less than that of cigarettes (since it’s mostly the inhalation of nicotine and chemicals, pot is natural so it’s barely there). All in all there’s mcdonalds, vodka, and cigarettes that are all legal and far worse.</li>
<li>Kids would actually be less likely to smoke if it were legal since government regulation would put it at a +18 limit, at the very least. It’s easier for a kid to go out and buy pot than beer right now.</li>
<li>I don’t see pot smokers ever being as chill about going outside as cigarette smokers are, with smoking bans applying to pot as they do to nicotine it’d probably be kept to bars and inside homes.</li>
<li>Drunk drive is danger, so are the elderly. But we have legal bans and punishment for those and these would apply to pot. I don’t see pot smokers driving as much since it kinda just makes you lazy.</li>
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<p>I think my only worry is that if more people start doing pot more than americas obesity would grow.</p>
<p>Still, I do not believe “just because X is worse, marijuana should be legal” is a good rational. It sounds like an excuse to do something, much like “But mom, he started it!” This is the core of nearly all of your counter-arguments. </p>
<p>Also, legalizing marijuana, even if it is 18+ would make it 10x more accessible to kids. There’s no arguing that.</p>
<p>And morals are important. A society that legalizes getting intoxicated (losing coherent thought) holds less moral value. I don’t like the thought of that.</p>
<p>^There’s tons of arguing that. You have no idea how easy it is to get pot because drug dealers don’t exactly ask for ID. Go try it, go somewhere try buying pot and beer and see which is easier.</p>
<p>You also have no idea how much better (health and safety wise) pot is as a way of getting high than alcohol. People are always going to want to party, go out and lose themselves and it never works for the government to stop that but regulation helps everyone out.</p>
<p>It’s much easier for anyone to buy weed than alcohol.
What a weak argument. </p>
<p>You’re not doing yourself any favors.</p>
<p>I’m just saying that because people worry kids will get a hold of pot more if it’s legal and I know they won’t. That’s actually why I want it legal because I know the regulations would hold off children from getting involved in pot and pot dealers.</p>
<p>When was this thread revived?</p>
<p>I don’t necessarily agree with those who engage in the activity, but I do believe that it should be legalized and heavily taxed. </p>
<p>Hopefully the proposition will pass.</p>
<p>^^ My response wasn’t to you if that’s what you thought… lol. </p>
<p>I’m going to stop responding to this thread though because I think I’m arguing with a ■■■■■.</p>
<p>oh, damn, sorry</p>
<p>^ Sorry for the confusion. I was responding to RAlec, I just forgot to hit post so it was delayed. No, I completely agree with you :).</p>
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<p>No, you think that anyone who doesn’t agree with you is a ■■■■■. Get off the high horse. There are such things as other opinions.</p>
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Whoops wrong thread.</p>
<p>I’m still done. I’m not on a high horse.</p>
<p>I always wonder where phrases like ■■■■■ came from…also high horse.</p>
<p>But seriously, you kinda have no…anything, just odd arguments and a denial of what everyone else is telling you even if there’s proof.</p>