1. You take the drug.
2. The drug takes the drug.
3. The drug takes you.
Uh, what?
Yeah, wtf guy? Are you just trying to show that a transition can occur to where the drugs are controlling you, rather than you controlling the drugs? Look, not everyone takes drugs because of social pressure. You're right- you do not
HAVE to take drugs. Just like you don't HAVE to take them, you do not have to
NOT take them. It's a personal choice.
anyway, this is not a topic about why or why not you shouldn't do drugs. It's a thread about if marijuana ought to be legalized or not. I personally think that it should.
Here, even the DEA is saying that some chemicals in marijuana can be used beneficially in medicine (all other "information" about it is rather negative, though- I mean, it
IS the DEA). I don't see it as any worse than alcohol. In my opinion, alcohol is worse, since it damages your liver, brain, can make you sick, can send you into a coma; shit, in the history of time, marijuana has never done any of those things. Also, I've never heard of a Marijuana Anonymous meeting, but I'm sure if there is one, they smoke pot rather than discourage the use of it.
What is wrong with doing it at all? Or any drugs for that matter? What
I am doing to
MY body shouldn't be a problem with anybody else as long as I am not adversely affecting
THEIR lives. As long as I am not infringing upon anyone else's rights, what should it matter if I want to light up a joint? There are regulations on alcohol- why not just put them on marijuana, as well? Also, some benefits of legalizing it- it would reduce the need for a black market and would therefore reduce crime, it would mean less money is wasted on sending marijuana users to jail, the government could, you know, tax it and make a profit for themselves, and hey- legal marijuana!
EDIT:
You can think all you want, but nothing's going to change if cigarettes do become illegal. Remember prohibition?
Yeah, prohibition caused more problems, not less.
Social pressure is also:
"But everybody does it... I should do it..."
It's wrong to think like that. If everybody jumps of a cliff, you have to do it as well?!
Who is saying that you have to? it is still a personal choice. And isn't it the same with drinking?