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I am going to respond, though your logic is so completely screwy, I wonder why I bother.

Originally posted by manasecret
Money used to buy hard drugs goes to drug cartels like you said, but that's hard drugs and not so much marijuana. But my problem with the commercials was that the government essentially called a bunch of Americans terrorists because they buy drugs.

No, they told you not to buy drugs so that terrorists don't have as much funding.

But did these Americans fly planes into the WTC? Do they bomb American buildings? Of course not.

Again, refer to last point.

Now, with that said, I find your support for the drug commercials while being against oil commercials hypocritical. So that 25% of oil coming from the middle east doesn't count? Just because percentages are different it means it's ok?

The oil money funds the countries. Our 25% of oil coming from the mid-east doesn't give terrorists much money. It's mostly supporting the countries, like Saudi Arabia. They don't support terrorism as in paying them, they just sorta don't mind it going on. The oil money isn't a big source of cash for terrorists.

Well, if that's what you believe then ok. I don't support either commercial, because I think calling Americans terrorists because of indirectly supporting terrorists is extremely unfair.

I again think you misunderstood the point of the commercial. And they are indirectly supporting terrorists. Why not try to scare them off? Only good can come of it.

Oil companies of course do heavily support politicians and political parties through donations, which creates a heavy influence and I shouldn't have to prove that.

Yes you should.

"In Amsterdam, both marijuana use and heroin use went *down* after marijuana was decriminalized -- even though there was a short rise in cannabis use right after decriminalization."

And in Kennessaw County, Georgia, all able-body heads-of-households are required to own a gun for protection. Since then, every category of crime has gone done 80%, with murder and burglery down 87%. So do you think the world would be a better place if everyone owned a handgun as well?

As for the price of illegal weed going up, the only illegal weed you could be talking about (assuming weed was legalized) would be the ones with other illegal drugs added in, and most weed users don't use that. Strong natural weed isn't something that couldn't be grown outside of where it's grown now.

Smoking weed leads to addiction to weeds which leads to you wanting stronger weed which leads to people buying stronger weed which is harder to get, and in the end drug cartels would still make more money. Not to mention, weed leads to use of harder drugs, which are still illegal, and even bigger money makers.

Also, drug addicts aren't the only ones buying weed.

Yes they are. For the .00000000000000001% of America which might have a good reason to use it for other purposes, it's not worth making it legal. You just support drug use, which you seem to be forgetting, is a problem in our society, not a solution.

And marijuana does not lead to the use of hard drugs.

Yes it does. I'm sure you can't get addicted to it either, right? Or die after one use? You can always tell who the druggies are, they always try to say how weed is harmless.

If anything, legalizing marijuana would lead to a decrease in use of hard drugs because buyers wouldn't have to go to a place that sells hard drugs to get weed (as is said in the quote above).

Obviously, if their doing hard drugs now, weed isn't feeding their addiction. So legalizing weed doesn't help.

There are probably a hundred sites like that now with huge faqs. This one has a bibliography of sorts citing numerous books, so I chose it.

And there should be hundreds more, and other huge farms to provide hemp for all its other beneficial uses.

No there shouldn't.

But I meant hard drugs in particular. Absolutely no research is allowed on hard drugs while there could be a lot of potential in them as medical drugs.

You're insane.

They need money to have peace? They have money now yet there is no peace. I'm not really arguing, I'm more interested in what you mean by that.

There is a crucial balance in the middle east, and the second something changes, there won't be any peace. I could go into detail, but it branches off into numerous stories. Ask Joeiss.

Seems to me if they have no money they would be another Africa, where they have nothing so nobody cares about them.

Africa has stuff, whether we buy it or not is another story. There is a small African island that is very pro-US and sitting on tons of oil. We just don't use it... yet.

And in conclusion, if you're trying to help the issue with overpopulation, I respect your concearn, but this is not the way to do it. And if you're not, and you're serious, you need to lay off the weed. Drugs have no benefit to our country.