The thing about developing illnesses while smoking weed is that it doesn't just happen. if you smoke weed and then you notice that while you are not high you feel really nervous and emotional or scared for no reason, then you are probably developing schizophrenia. The chances increase 100 fold when you smoke something laced, but if you are quick enough, there is brain detox medicine that can help reverse these effects. Fortunately and unfortunately just as much so, 90% of the time this happens to those who are smoking weed that is laced unknowingly.

Darkember, you seem to have never driven while high or have been high yourself at all, but criticize as if you have. As someone who has driven high on multiple occasions, its not as big a deal as you are making it out to be. Being high does not make you retarded.
Driving drunk is not even allowed, so why the fucking do you think that smoking weed and driving will be allowed? people do it because people want to. Its not a matter of don't let high people drive they will just add on the the drunk deaths. We are talking about if it is safer than the alternatives, and it is, case and point.

You keep asking why would you encourage people to smoke weed.
Why do people encourage each other to drink, or even have a drink? did you think about that? i doubt it. "lets go out for a drink"
"Have another on the night is young"
and so on.

For the past few weeks, your argument has been the same with you reiterating it in a different way each time someone gives you a logical reason why it still makes no sense that weed is not legal.
Make a new argument or please, shut up.

This is what you keep repeating:
"People who smoke are retarded"
"smoke is bad for you"
"it will hurt the healthcare system/economy"

You know what this can be applied to? Anything.

"If there is a significantly increased risk of this happening while under the influence of a substance, I'd argue that that substance should be banned. You're right, people should have the right to choose what they do to themselves, but as soon as it becomes a significant risk to the safety of others, that's when the government should step in with legislation."

You know what this can be applied to? Anything

No one is sweeping cannabis accidents under the carpet because they rarely happen.

give someone 10 joints,
give someone else 10 cigarettes,
and someone else 10 bottles of alcohol.

and lets see who get cancer, or dies in a car crash first. Because I can just about guarantee you, that the guy who got high will be in the same place for the next 4 hours. Or at the park watching birds fly around.

at this point just seems you are being presumptuous, and it would be great if we could move the topic along and not keep turning around driving right back into the shit storm that this discussion has come to be.

Im tired of re reading the same bullshit 14 different ways. Talk about HOW it should be regulated or why it shouldn't be without saying shit that everyone has already heard 5 million times. We get you are against weed, cool. Talk how you'd regulate weed if it was legal, or what you would do to try and prevent it from being brought into the country. And if you do want it to be legalized, in what ways would you regulated it. At this point it seems that it will be legalized, so instead of shitting out of our mouths, lets all be productive and creative and make this thread interesting again and not a shit storm of people arguing about the dangers of something that is as dangerous as falling with a metal spoon, because no matter what happens people are going to smoke weed, drink, smoke, and whatever else until we are all dead anyway. This shit not a practice life, think about that.