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Originally Posted by flamesfever
So Hoot, if we legalize marijuana, wouldn't most users just grow their own, and if they did, that would surely eat into the government revenue. Comparing alcohol, it would be a lot easier to grow a plant than to distill alcohol.
And if users had marijuana plants sitting around the house, it would be easy for kids to grab the odd leaf and smoke it. I can even remember trying to smoke burdock leaves as a kid. Luckly we only had cigarettes and booze when I was growing up in the 40's and 50's. The drug culture didn't really start until the 60's.
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no offence, but it's posts like these that really contradict logic. You can up with scenarios like this for anything in the world, using hypotheticals makes it possible to vilify the most inert substances. If you are against something, which is fine, try backing it up with scientific evidence or statistical trends of behavior or something logical beyond the oh we musn't forget the children. In the scientific realm it's juvenile to present arguments like this because of how ridiculous it is, it's the kind of thing that at face value seems harmless but it's pure conjecture underneath and if you use this kind of thinking anyone who debates it will go endlessly in circles. A real argument would be:
studies show neurotoxic effects of marijuana on adolescent brains, therefore, should legalization occur there should be strict regulations to prohibit the acquisition of marijuana by adolescents.
The only thing worse is the "my brother did it and he is schizophrenic now so it's the devil" or "I've done it for years and I'm fine so you are wrong"