Legalization of Marijuana?

I don't wanna say more, just, as much. Adults are the main audience so companies focus on them. At the same time they miss the younger audience which cuts profits. They need to get that extra profit in, so they do anything they can to get that money. That leads to the advertising.

 

I always see the ones where they show things like the inside of a cancerous lung. Makes me shudder.

 

That's true. Didn't think about it that way.

 

Okay but you do get that if weed were legal, there's a 99.999% chance it'd be age restricted same as tobacco and alcohol right?

 

When I say children, I mean 15-18. And when I say advertising, I mean like cowboys on posters advertising the product, or something of the sort. Not like pot-coated pacifiers. You have to remember that it's not like I'm an advertiser, I'm giving broad examples.

 

Yea I did kind of get that. I'm not sure what the regulations are like in the States, but in the UK, tobacco companies pretty much aren't allowed to advertise (I actually have no idea where I would find a cigarette advert anymore, in any form). I believe there might be some regulations on adverts for alcohol, but I'm not too sure on that.

But anyway, it won't have any great effect even if pot companies are allowed to advertise as freely as they please. Anti-drug messages are far too ingrained into people and it'll always be in the back of their minds. Sure, that doesn't apply to everyone, maybe not even half, but then there's the obstacle of obtaining the weed for someone underage.

 

Which is the same thing that is going on already with weed. Plus tobacco and alcohol.

 

It's called your parent's fridge.

 

I feel this is a contradiction. If it was legalized, it would be regulated and taxed, the same way prostitution in Nevada has become. When you buy it illegally, which people will continue to do regardless, is when it contributes to the negative outcomes you mentioned.

Speaking from a Cali perspective I think it would benefit our state. Financially we've been in a hole for awhile, (more so since Schwarzenegger took office) and this could positively change our debt/well-being on different levels.

1. The Mexican drug cartel is insane and has tons of connections throughout California. This would make a cut on gang involvement/hussling of marijuana, and mules crossing our border. As well as maybe affecting or saving the lives of many police and innocent bystanders in Mexico being murdered currently over drugs.

2. Criminalization of Marijuana here is ridiculous and contributes to low income individuals trying to make a dollar only to wind up in jail and therefore force us as tax payers to fork over taxes for these facilities. Prisons here are ridiculously impacted.

3. People with real health issues, and when I say real I mean Aids/Cancer, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome ect., have been fined, arrested for possession. And yes you can get a recommendation from a doctor to legal marijuana clinics now, but until this stupid stigma that marijuana is of the devil/evil what have you, these people are still dealing with the social aspect of their use on their personal lives. Also many can't afford healthcare and decided to grow it themselves, only to have it confiscated, and then criminalized for it because some nosey neighbor decides to be a whistleblower. It's in the paper all the time.

4. Going back to #1, less gang involvement means a cleaner future for your children. Understand that people want to smoke marijuana, they will smoke marijuana legal or not, but if you have a future where it is no longer illegal you will have a less percentage that your child will experiment one day with friends in high school on weed they bought from God knows who, that could be laced with God knows what. This isn't a huge hypothetical either. This happens all the time, like regular corporations that trim on resources to save money, drug cartels pad marijuana with crap to save on end costs. It's a business, with real business decisions.

 

SURE SOUNDS LIKE EVERY CORPORATION AND CONSUMER PRODUCT WE BUY INTO.

:\ explain the difference to me please.

translation: you have some good points and i have no idea how to counter them. this disturbs my stereotypes and assumptions about marijuana, so i'm going to resort to personal attacks to reduce your authority.

 

My issue isn't even with the drug, I could care less about it. It's with the filth it has brought to our state, and this so called War on Drugs that our government continues to waste resources on.

It's been proven many times in history, people want and will use substances for whatever reason, even if it is illegal. Two examples I can think of off the top of my head are the Prohibition nonsense in the US in the early 1900's and the Opium Wars between China & Britain in the 1800's.

 

I think he was being sincere... doesn't Giggity smoke weed?

 

Er no. At the moment, it's up to the dealer who they will sell to, and if they have standards about selling to minors. Alcohol and tobacco are 18+ or 21+ for the states, unless it is obtained through other means, in which case it goes back to the dealer idea that you need to find someone to supply you when you're underage.

To put it simply, minors can buy weed directly from a dealer.
Minors cannot go to a shop and buy alcohol or tobacco

Therefore legalizing weed would make it less accessible to minors.

 

Rabble rabble rabble.