I agree.

just like prescription meds....none are "good for you" but sometimes people don't have a choice. But they all can be a crutch as well and abused...not to mention that people react differently to them. they all have some form of mind altering or body altering ingrediants in them

I really don't like pot, gives me a headache and I can't stand the smell of it. If I want to feel paraniod, I'll just come to Mingle's Political forum on a full moon..

So having said that I don't know if we can believe the reports that pot is bad for you any more than we can completely believe the other side, since they both have an agenda.

just on a full moon??

and I think you are right. since the medical profession can't even agree...how can we?

Hmmm, that made me think that maybe the pharmaceutical industry has a vested interest in this not being legalized? They could not compete with it? It's an herb so they couldn't get a patent... bla bla? a posibility?

LOL I was going to say just about any day, but ....

well the pharmacy (in some states) do have pot for medicinal use

I STILL think making it legal wouldn't do much good IMO. people are used to selling it and buying it without paying extra for tax on it or without Big Brother keeping tabs if it was legal....but that's just me

No I meant the phamaceutical industry not the pharmacy. Just like they can't patent herbs and make money. I am not saying this right, tired and stupid today. Anyway people don't seem to be having trouble getting it even illegally, I would think legalizing it might put the bad guys our of business at least.

gotcha...that makes more sense

as far as the companies though....would it not be like vitamins and supplements??? maybe the drug companies wouldn't get a cut but stores would...I would think. but I still don't see people wanting to pay extra in taxes for what they get for a certain price now

There's nothing positive that can be said about a child smoking pot.

I can see that I didn't splain it well so I will wait for a day when I my brain is working better.. lol

Anyway does anyone even know what it costs today? Don't know if legalizing it would make it cheaper or more expensive. I hear it is expensive now, but never asked how much..

dunno....I don't buy it

Here's the point I was trying to make but didn't do so well...

There's little or no money in herbs for the pharmaceutical companies. They, the herbs, have already been invented, they grow easily, they multiply readily and for the most part, they’re freely available.

Further more, correctly prescribed and formulated herbal compounds generally resolve the health problem of the patient over a period of time, leaving no requirement to keep taking the preparation – that means no repeat sales… no ongoing prescriptions… no ongoing problem.

Pharmaceuticals on the other hand primarily aim to relieve symptoms – that means: ongoing consultations, ongoing sales, ongoing health problems – which do you think is a more profitable proposition…?
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If pot is too helpful it might cost the phamaceutical industry. No repetitive sales of drugs that might do the same only with sideaffects...

Cynical maybe, but I have used herbs to avoid doctors and chemical drugs, pretty successfully for years.

nope you are 100% spot on. ..thats why its ilegall

If that is the whole reason that it's illegal, please tell me why crack, coke, heroin, acid, etc., are illegal too.

I don't think it would be the whole reason. Crack, coke, heroin, acid are mixed or processed with chemicals right? You can't pick them off a vine and boil or smoke them. The pharmaceutical folks wouldn't have to compete with those drugs, hell they benefit from them with more sick people to make drugs for, no?

I say smoke what you want, but right now marijuana is considered illegal, the point I wanted to make was the whole marijuana is an herb, but just on that point cocaine and heroine all come from plants. Yes they are chemically treated but as I don't know if these drugs can be manufactured without chemicals I can only guess.

I was telling a friend today that pot smokers tend to repeat themselves alot, at least that is what I noticed years ago being around a few that smoked regularly. Then today I read from a paper by a DR. that it does something to short term memory that causes that.

I certainly don't need anything to help destroy my short term memory besides menopause.. LOL

I think most people are hung up on the illegal part of it. Driving to fast is illegal, drunk driving is illegal, coming here without going through immigration is illegal, ponzi schemes are illegal, and on and on. I can appreciate people that are for legal marijuana, and those against it...I just think spending law enforcement resources and prisons resources to catch and lock up pot heads is a big waste of time and money. Like I said before, I've had plenty of fights with drunks, even responded to many drunk driver auto fatalities, however, most people that are high are mellow, want to relax and eat and sleep. Most Pharmaceutical pills have worse side effects than pot, and we pay for them..and the government gets it cut as well.

You are so right, I am one of those guilty parties who speeds. But I too have seen first hand people under the influence of pot who are not as quiet nor as demure as most here like to comment. I have seen some act quite the fool, saying and doing things that ordinarily they would not do, foolish things and stupid things and yes have also witnessed them become violent.

I just think that if they legalize marijuana, don't you think the other users will also jump on the band wagon, I see pro-cocaine users, pro-crack users, pro-heroine users raising a stink as they to originate from plants.

Again this is just my opinion - if we're to legalize let's legalize all of it.