Just showing how retarded it is to think your anecdotal evidence somehow overrules scientific studies. You also seem to not understand what long term effects are...
1.Comparing weapons, tools made to injure or kill, and recreational drugs, natural or synthetic substances used to change people's perception, is pretty stupid. I'm used to better argumentation from you.
2.And the "scientific proofs", in the absolute, have nothing to do with something being legal or not. Might I remind you guns are legal in some countries - and many substances "scientifically" proven bad for us. (pesticides, car gaz, industrial gaz, plastic, all petrochimic industry, junk food, alcohol, cigarets, sugar, salt, fat blablablabla).
Science and Laws have pretty much nothing to say to each others. As we can already witness, forbidding a substance doesn't stop people from using it, thinking otherwise is pretty dumb and naive.
On the other hand, making it legal would prevent issues related to illegal traffic, and might help the prevention.
You just don't seem to understand that it's not about "some stuff are bad so we can legalize another bad stuff", it's about people being already aware that it's bad but not giving a fuck, illegal or not we use anyway. It's about accepting that some people will always use, and giving them fines and jail time won't change it. It just fuck their life up more than they do with drugs.
Regarding the "long term effects", you pretty much have none if you stop using. As opposed to alcohol which is neurodestructive, THC doesn't deteriorate neurones and synapses, it just "stays" on them for a long time but eventually disappears.
Plus, I prefer to be a slowpoke who have seen life under a different perspective, instead of a sober I-know-it-all having no clue about how absurd our lives can be.
"cigarettes and alcohol are worse and should be de-legalised" some people argue that anything they think is not as bad, should be legal!
Yep it's been discussed already. Alcohol prohibition in the early 1900's was a huge failure. People will never accept being sober during their entire lifetime.
War against drug is a huge failure, it just ostracizes users, create traffic, and never stopped people from using.
And people will always abuse stuffs, legal or not. It's about the product itself, it's a matter of education, prevention, or personnal experience.
tl;dr
Drugs legislation is more of a philosophical debat than a scientifical debat. Drugs are bad, that's a fact ; people will always be using, that's another fact.
Last edited by deprav; Sep 2, 2013 at 05:11 PM.