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I had an interesting conversation with my co-workers last night about whether or not marijuana would be legalized. I used a counter-example of public nudity being legalized (not too much in common, except common courtesy), and that got me to wondering; which would be legalized first. Three said nudity, four said pot. What do you think?
Note: This isn't about personal preference, this is about which one you actually think will go first. -
More weed smokers then nudist. And nudism deals with the human body, this fact scares some people more then weed.
I'd like to see both be legal.Comment
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Giving the millions or billions spent on the drug war, I think nudity has a better chance of being legal first.Comment
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In the United States, Pot has been legal before ... as have most of the common street drugs, Cocaine, Heroin, LSD, etc.
The only drug in the United States that has been legal, declared illegal, then declared legal again has been Alcohol.
Technically nudity has always been legal ... it has been "covered" by societal norms and regulated under decency ordinances with various levels of intensity throughout the course of the United States history.Comment
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Drugs.
The 2000 Presidential election was notable in that both candidates had fought in the drug war -- on the side of drugs.
When will we see a presidental election where both cadidates are nudists?Comment
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Nudity. Because regardless of how many marijuana advocates there are, it still qualifies as "smoking" and there are dozens of organizations and millions of dollars being spent AGAINST smoking now.
Unless some genius invents (or proves) a marijuana is non-carcinogenic. By the way, WIRED magazine has an article claiming researchers in three countires have created a drug that delivers all the brain effects of pot without the smoking activity.
I really think the clothes silk-screened with pictures of genitalia are funny! I saw a photo of one of the WNBR participants wearing them, and thought THAT would test a few laws on Freedom of Speech (Expresssion, Art, etc.).Comment
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I voted weed, as at least this issue is on the radar screen for Americans. The average person, I think, can understand why someone would want to smoke marijuana. They are still as absolutely terrified of nudity as they were afraid of marijuana in the 1950's. This can be explained by possibly by research in the scientific community. The culture used to think that marijuana would basically turn you into a Mr. Hyde type person, but science has figured out that weed's effects are actually more mellowing, and were greatly exagerated. Nudity on the other hand, hasn't really been taken seriously by the scientific community yet. I've been researching for an essay on nudism, and it is actually very hard to find serious scientific studies of the lifestyle and its effects. Even amongst academics, it is still veiwed as "lude" and not worth examining.Comment
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Someday...women will gain the right to be topless...anywhere a man can be topless...( equal rights)...someday !!!Comment
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Weed for sure. But do I really want weed to be legal? No way! I know that down here if you go buy weed "illegaly" it comes with more than you think. Often durg dealers will spray windex and other things on the weed which make it more dengerous. I know some people that are smoking weed and each day it seems that they are less inteligent. Maybe weed is way diffrent when its chemicals free but still Im against weed all the way.Comment
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quote:But do I really want weed to be legal? No way! I know that down here if you go buy weed "illegaly" it comes with more than you think. Often durg dealers will spray windex and other things on the weed which make it more dengerous. I know some people that are smoking weed and each day it seems that they are less inteligent. Maybe weed is way diffrent when its chemicals free but still Im against weed all the way.
Your statements seems to conflict. If one buys weed illegaly when drug dealers are making weed more dangerous, why should we refrain from making it legal? If the government were to legalize it, marijuana could be regulated, grown and sold according to safety standards just like alcohol. This in fact is the classic problem with prohibition; without a legitamate body controlling the substance, who's to know what processing it goes through before it reaches the consumer?Comment
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Something I neglected to mention is that this question primarily pertains to the US, although it can be applied to other countries where weed is illegal.
When posting this at eight in the morning (CT), I neglected to mention this.Comment
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I'd like to see Weed legalized first. After everyone has smoked some and has mellowed out, then they'll all get naked and we will have killed two birds with one stoned.......I mean stone.!
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quote:Originally posted by FireProf:
I'd like to see Weed legalized first. After everyone has smoked some and has melloed out, then they'll all get naked and we will have killed two birds with one stoned.......I mean stone.!
LMAO...great one!!
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Moonshine is still being made dispite the repeal of prohibition. My uncle used to distribute high quality tax-free whiskey, but not everyone is so committed to quality.
If recreational drugs were legalized and quality standards implemented, there would still be a cut-rate cheaper product on the black market.
The only way around this is to make recreational drugs legal, subject to government-supervised quality control and FREE!
The black market cannot compete with free drugs.Comment
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