Why is smoking legal?

There is plenty of propaganda going around about anti-pot, one of them that it contains just as many carcinogens as tobacco, which is flat out false. And even if that were true, the average quantity of daily pot smoke doesn't even compare to how much tobacco the average smoker smokes in weight. Example: I smoke an entire pack of cigarettes a day, and If I'm lucky, I might smoke an average of a single joint a day. You do the math.

Secondly, as I've stated before, you literally have to smoke twice your body weight in under 15 minutes to overdose. I'm 200 lbs, that means I have to smoke 400 pounds in 15 minutes, which is impossible because I would pass out long before I even scratched the surface.

And you should really read my entire post, because I said that coffee is worse for you than pot, which is true in terms of toxicity, addiction, withdrawal. Pot may have a more intense intoxicating effect than caffeine, but everything else about caffeine is worse for you.

I even provided a reliable reference to back up my claims.

You wanna know why marijuana is illegal? I'll tell you why: The pharmaceutical companies can't make money off of it, because anyone can grow it. The cotton companies back in the 1920's put out all kinds of propaganda (Reefer Madness!!) because hemp is superior to cotton is almost every way. The American government at the time really shunned on Mexican American immigrants, and blamed them for smuggling in marijuana, which was nothing more than a scapegoat.

And last but not least, America buys it's hemp from Canada to make all sorts of products, soaps, clothes, you name it. The only reason America has to dodge this legal loophole is because Marijuana is illegal, and is forced to get it from Canada.

And then on top of it, you have thousands of people abusing medical marijuana cards when they have no legitimate medical reason to smoke pot. Can't we just skip all this and make pot legal in America?

As far as hash, it might be slightly more "dangerous", but that's an overstatement at best.
 
Wasn't it thought that either unrefined hashish from Nepal or headache medicine led to Bruce Lee's death (not really conclusive either way)?

On the topic of smoking. My main beef with it is that women who smoke greatly increase their risk of having unhealthy premature babies. Normally I would say smoking has no victim (as the smoker chooses to engage in it) but this has a direct negative impact on society in general. Subject is pretty complicated when you get right down to it.
 
You guys do realize that "Nicotine/caffeine/alcohol is way more dangerous" isn't actually an argument for legalizing pot, right?

Also I thought that scrub was done posting here on 8-Way...
 
Please Heaton. Share your wisdom with us and tell us why "Nicotine/caffeine/alcohol is way more dangerous" isn't actually an argument for legalizing pot. Because that IS a great argument for it IMO.

If you read my entire post, I listed several reasons why it should be legal that had nothing to do with it being dangerous or not.

Read before you post.

Also I thought that scrub was done posting here on 8-Way...

I AM a scrub. That's been well established already, but if you wanna beat a dead horse, or kick a man when he's down, then I have nothing more to say.
 
Please Heaton. Share your wisdom with us and tell us why "Nicotine/caffeine/alcohol is way more dangerous" isn't actually an argument for legalizing pot. Because that IS a great argument for it IMO.

You have a poor opinion.

Just because something else is more dangerous and legal does not necessarily obligate us to legalize everything that is less lethal than that. When put like that it's akin to complaining that Jimmy Stainton's mom lets him stay up until 10:00 PM and eat ice cream from breakfast, and your mom should let you do those things, too. It makes perfect sense if you're trying to convince someone that those things should be illegal - who wants to have a national economy run on something that kills you or gives you cancer? But for saying that something else SHOULD be legal because it's less dangerous? By that logic we can legalize literally anything that kills people less than smoking or alcohol - that is to say, A WHOLE FUCKING LOT.

then I have nothing more to say.

I thought that was the point. You seem to have missed that by a wide mark, however.
 
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