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Weed, Alcohol & Cigarettes? Legalize or Keep/Make Illegal?
Weed- Should it be legal or illegal? Why? Alcohol-Should it be legal or illegal? Why? Cigarettes-Should it be legal or illegal? Why? After a... Show More
2)Should the age to purchase cigarettes be lowered?
Again, from the US^^^
In my opinion it makes no sense to lower such ages if weed isn't even legalized, but just looking for opinions
Most Helpful Opinion
I actually believe ALL drugs should be legal, NIOT because I support their use but proabition has never worked and never will. People need to understand that if someone wants something they will get it regardless and the fact that most drugs are ilegal means that there is an open market for them with zero regulations. As it stands now, as long as you have the money, no matter your age, condition or history you could pretty much find a local dealer on the street corner and get whatever drug you liked without question or difficulty. So in fact drugs being ilegal actually results in the opposite effect at making them much more accessible than even the legal ones.
Plus the fact that all drugs are ilegal means that zero profit is made from them, over 20 billion a year is made globally with all the profits going to criminal organisations, the fact that they are ilegal means your creating a criminal underworld behind it for supply and demand, if it were ilegal they could not even exist, there would just be no place for them. Raising the ilegality of drugs is even worse, all that means is that now since there is a greater risk in selling drugs, criminals are than faced with the problem of having to be much more dangerous in protecting their investments. Take the Cartels in mexico for an example.
Now in regards to safe drugs that are ilegal such as marijuana for example, the danger of them being ilegal means that your fueling a criminal underworld who also could link you to hard drugs such as cocaine, Many dealers who sell marijuana would try to get you to buy cocaine because they know how addictive it is and need to go back. The approach we shoudl take which we can learn based on other countries, if we look at the dutch policy on marijuana its been a remarkable success, they have managed to seperate drug markets so people who just want weed don't have to go to a dealer who will try to sell them something else, if we take the portugese approach who are the only country to legalise all drugs so far, they have eliminated the criminal drug market because its not possible to make profit there and there has also been a reduction in use ofering instead of a prison sentence to users but a programme to help get them off in that place. They save millions every year and have one of the lowest rates of use throughout the world of any drug.
Alcohol has already been ilegal once before in the 1920's, people never stopped drinking it, they just began making it in their own bathtubs at home and created a demand. The criminal economies actually rose up from this and this fueled the need to change its legal status to get some form of control. ilegal drugs mean zero control, they aimed to gain control through legalising in the 1933's which since than has proven to be quite a success. Making it ilegal will send us back 80 years and be in the same position as we are with marijuana now.
In regards to cigurettes, I do believe they should take away the 599 addives from it
I don't actually believe any of these things should be made illegal or legal or whatever, it was a simple hypothetical question because at the time I was looking for arguments in the weed debate. Thank you!
ok cool, and your welcome
What Guys Said 13
I say make them legal, remove the help the government offers for addicts etc, let the idiots drink/smoke themselves to death then rest of society benefits from the money they've provided.
Darwin would be proud.
Survival of the fittest huh?
Most sensible.
And I suppose fittest as well. The smokers and drinkers will hardly be in peak physical shape.
Did Darwin support Social Darwinism?
I say legalize all of it. Prohibition doesn't work. It was a disaster in the 30s with booze and it's a disaster now with drugs. Making it all legal will solve a lot of problems with prisons and gang violence, not to mention the disasters taking place in Mexico and Central and South America. It will also generate more revenue for states starved of cash.
I see no reason why any of those things should be illegal.
In my country the legal age for buying alcohol is 16, or 18 when the alcohol percentage is higher than 15. Seems to be working pretty well. Requiring people to be 21 seems rather ridiculous to me.
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Yes, that is why the teen pregnancy rate is so low, because the age of consent is 15/16/17, there's free health clinics and planned parenthood, they aren't treated like children yet can still manage to be irresponsible.
What's the excuse of the 21+ year olds who seem to not handle the responsibilities of drinking? Oh wait, there are no excuses
> Yes, that is why the teen pregnancy rate is so low, because the age of consent is 15/16/17, there's free health clinics and planned parenthood, they aren't treated like children yet can still manage to be irresponsible.
I think the teen pregnancy in your country is more a failure of sex education. I've seen some *very* stupid questions concerning pregnancy on this site (and others). Promoting abstinence obviously doesn't work, so why keep doing it? Birth control isn't rocket science...
Weed- Don't care either way. I don't smoke and never will, but have nothing against people who do. I won't be pushing for its legalization, but if it is legalized, I won't protest.
Alcohol- Keep it legal. Prohibition didn't work in the past, can't see it working now. It wouldn't even be a problem if people did it responsibly.
Cigarettes - Keep them legal. I'll never smoke, but a lot of people do. Making it illegal would most likely cause more harm than good.
Weed - Legal. It makes people feel good and is fairly non harmful. Plus you can't overdose on it.
Alcohol - Legal. It already is and I don't see a reason to change it.
Cigarettes-Illegal. There isn't anything good about them. They just make money for companies and kill people.
1. No it shouldn't. Alcohol abuse is a problem in our country and so is underage drinking. If it's lowered it makes it even easier for underage people to get their hands on it. Especially if it's lowered to 18.
2. F***no. lol
Same opinion here lol
"Legalize pot, so the stoners don't have anything else to talk about"--Daniel Tosh
Plus it would be alright for me to try out weed without screwing up my career plans.
1) No, it should not be lowered. People here don't need to be getting alcohol any easier at a younger age than what already happens. People here aren't responsible enough to drink...responsibly.
2) No, but for some reason cigarettes are way more common than alcohol so not much you can do there
Theres no good reason for them to be illegal. The only things that should be illegal are serious violence and theft, I think. Everything that people need protected from fits under those categories.
I think an opinion against alcohol, cigarettes or weed, or indeed a lot of substances, is not a worthwhile one. No offence, ofcourse, LOL. But its not. I mean, if you didn't do any of that, and didn't care about any of it, that's alright, but if your really anti- all of it, you just make life hard for yourself, and for everyone around you. No virtue in it. Especially when you realize how little an opinion really means. Opinions are such worthless things on their own, never mind having one so obstinately difficult.
I often say 'The best thing about smoking is you get rid of all the wankers who say 'I wouldn't go near anyone who smokes''
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Jack one of (F***WAD) media's most successful campaigns has been their attack on tobacco and tobacco users..I express my disdain and UTTER contempt for media and anti-tobacco people every time I get the chance..it is OK to not want to be around a smoker..that is different...
Yeah, I can't stand the anti-smoker propaganda. And of course its all owned by the same companies. Nicorette patches and so on, its just another way to cash in.
weed legalize
alcohol keep it legal we saw what happened when it wasnt
cigarette keep it legal
yes let me sign up for the military and not let me get drunk before I go get shot at
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Haha thanks?
Pandas are fun to argue with also
Thank you ^.^
You do marijuana now though
funny how things change and people get influenced so easy
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Fine I will. But honestly? Honestly? Do you really think you could walk away from weed right now and never do it again? I doubt it
I really should block your ass
What Girls Said 7
I think the drinking age should definitely be lowered, the age for cigarettes is fine. And marijuana needs to be legalized already. I don't smoke at all, but it's a little ridiculous to make it illegal considering all of the social and political factors. The biggest issue I take with marijuana is how it places so many people within the criminal justice system unreasonably. You don't need to be incarnated for 3 years for having marijuana, and you definitely should be unable to participate in society after being punished for having marijuana.
I could go on and on about why it should be legalized, there are very few reasons why we shouldn't, and ultimately the reasons why we should outweigh the reasons we shouldn't.
Dude, I never realized how much time a person can get for marijuana. I was watching a show...can't remember the name and one guy was in prison for life for mairjuana, I was like damn,some killers get away with less time
Yeah, and even the ones who get off earlier have so much trouble later in life because they can't get jobs with a felony on their records. There was a study done of women who sold marijuana in the DC area and were caught, some ridiculous majority were never given a legal job it was something like 85%, and then more than half ended up selling it again because they couldn't find any other way to survive because they couldn't be hired. It's so sad :(
Personally I think the age of drinking should be brought back to 18, I mean you can join the military at 18 and honestly I think cigarettes are worse for you than the occasional beer or two(or shot, depending on what you prefer).
Drinking shouldn't be made illegal again, as long as it's done in moderation, a person's fine and medical research as found that red wine can be good for the heart, so...
Cigarettes, don't smoke 'em, don't ever plan on it. It's one of those things where yes it's killing people, but they know the risks, and if the government were to ban them, then it'd just be another way of them taking control, putting them further down the trail of being 'Big Brother'(there's only so much someone can do to protect another from themselves) Ex. A doctor will worn a guy, his blood pressure's too high and prescribe medication, but it's up to the guy if he takes the meds or not. It's free will. I mean, people have high prices and the warnings, cigarette ads(other than the electric kind) are very rarely, if ever shown and definitely not on TV, so people know the price they're paying...then again, I still think that tobacco companies should just shut down, but I don't think the government should be in control of it.
As for marijuana, I go back and forth myself...it's more natural than cigarettes, it has health benefits, but it does impare judgment, but then again, so does alcohol. People are getting it now, the government knows it, they more than aware of how common the drug is despite being illegal, so I don't know.
The age of buying cigarettes should not be lowered though. I work at a gas station where we sell cigarettes regularly and I have kids coming in that look like they're 12(they're 18), and they look so vibrant and young and then I see older customers come in, who've spent years smoking and it's such a difference, even had one come in on oxygen to buy cigarettes, it's sad, so no, I don't think kids under 18 should be able to buy cigarettes, yes I know some of them get their hands on it, but, that's less than what it would be if more could buy.
I already debated the military and drinking comparison so I'm not gonna debate it for a second time but I only brought up the age for cigarettes simply because in Europe the drinking and cigarette purchasing ages are different but I guess their ages of being legal are also different:0
The ongoing attack on tobacco users is one of the most sickening things I have witnessed in my lifetime...
Cigarettes should be illegal and weed should be legalized. My belief towards this is because of general health concerns mostly. Now, I know that weed is not 100% safe for the body, obviously, but it is much safer for someone than cigarettes. Heavier drugs should stay illegal. But hey thats my opinion.
The only issue I take with any of these, is when a persons consumption of it can affect another persons health or safety.
For example - smoking in public places, drink driving, driving whilst high etc
If people wanna smoke or drink - that's their choice. Just don't let it endanger anyone else not partaking. And that's the big/tricky issue.
I am OK with No Smoking in most public places in clduing restaurants..but banning it in ALL bars was WAY over the top and is just about grounds for a revolution...
i persoanlly don't care. people are going to use them anyways, legal or illegal. making them legal will just make the users a bit safer
but doing drugs isn't something to be proud of
Neither is the opposite. At least that's what I think. You can like doing it or not like doing it. Being "proud" of it usually just means you think one side is worse than you.
I agree with Snacks
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Combine juice, garlic, cumin, and 1 teaspoon salt in a large bowl, then whisk in oil. Add pork and toss to coat, then marinate, covered and chilled, turning occasionally, 3 hours.
Drain pork, reserving marinade, then put pork in pressure cooker and add enough water to cover. Seal pressure cooker with lid and cook at high pressure, according to manufacturer's instructions, 30 minutes. Remove from heat and let pressure fall naturally.
Make filling:
When pork is cool enough to handle, drain, discarding liquid, and coarsely shred. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in a deep 12-inch heavy skillet over medium-high heat until it shimmers, then lightly brown pork, stirring, until crisp.
Transfer pork to a bowl with a slotted spoon, then add chorizo and ham to skillet and cook, stirring frequently, until slightly crisp, about 5 minutes. (If chorizo is very lean, add 1 tablespoon oil.) Add onions and bell peppers and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until tender but not browned, about 15 minutes. Add paprika and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
Return pork to skillet, then add tomatoes with their juice, tomato paste, Sherry, and reserved marinade. Simmer, covered, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes. Remove from heat and keep warm, covered. Prepare crust and bake pie: Preheat oven to 400°F with rack in middle. Oil a 13- by 9-inch glass baking dish.
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Taking Personal Responsibility for Twinkies
You are slightly overweight and in need of more exercise but generally healthy, aware of the difference between vitamin C and beta carotene and why your body needs such things, well instructed in the dangers of too much fat in the diet — and hungry.
You go to a restaurant with friends or colleagues for lunch and commendably order half a tuna sandwich and a cup of soup. You drink iced tea and refuse the cheesecake. Then, on the way back to work, alone with your hunger, you buy a bag of potato chips or a Snickers candy bar. Later, you sit at your desk feeling physically uncomfortable and morally bereft.
"Eat right" is an admonition as old as childhood, one tied up with lessons vaguely religious in intensity, with pious vitamin charts and food pyramids that, when I was a child, seemed to have nothing to do with the fare dished up in the school cafeteria. Equally as pious-sounding today are the food experts who, rightly, prescribe less food and more exercise for aging men.
"Men really start to gain weight after the age of 40," says Sachiko St. Jeoré a professor of nutrition at the University of Nevada's School of Medicine. "They should take a self-analytical look at themselves and ask why they overeat. It may have to do with stress."
In other words, examine your soul and accept the responsibility of eating less. Heavy up on fresh fruits and vegetables, even if they are less appealing than potato chips and chocolate.
"Generally," says St. Jeor, "men should maintain a BMI of about 25." She refers to the body mass index, arrived at by a formula that involves dividing your weight by your height, a slim objective indeed. The BMI may strike some men as more formulaic than accurate, particularly when they consider how experts often change their minds about such things, as they did about the simple egg, which has traveled from perfect food to awful carrier of cholesterol and back to OK occasional breakfast companion.
Mostly — unfortunately — the nutritional basics don't change much. The "balanced" diet will outlive us all, and its mainstays are still the fresh fruits and vegetables St. Jeor mentions, plus whole grain breads, cereals and other foods made of grain products. Protein and carbohydrates in moderation, and as little sugar and salt as possible.
One fairly recent addition to the food discussion is the recognition of oxygen-free radicals as harmful elements produced by the body as it generates energy. They are also transmitted to us through cigarette smoke, bright sunlight, radiation and other adverse environmental factors. Antioxidants fight free radicals and are naturally produced by the body, but as we get older the defense is less effective and the damage cumulative.
Antioxidants are contained in foods rich in vitamin C, vitamin E and beta carotene. Drinking fresh fruit juices and eating various dark-leafed vegetables is clearly in everyone's interest, regardless of body weight, and may counteract serious maladies as various as cancer, cataracts and heart disease.
Regular dietary intake of fiber can prevent digestive disorders such as constipation, colon cancer and diverticulosis, a condition among the aging that involves the formation of small sacs on the wall of the large intestine. (Diverticulitis occurs when the sacs become inflamed.) The consumption of some beneficial foods can cause problems as well. Gas, for instance, can result from eating such healthful foods as cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, beans, broccoli, cabbage and even bran. These should not be eliminated from the diet but the portions can be made smaller.
There are various digestive diseases, including ulcerative colitis — a chronic disorder in which the large intestine becomes inflamed and causes abdominal cramps and rectal bleeding — that are affected not just by diet, but also by demeanor.
Although attitude receives less attention than diet, it can be crucial to longevity, survival and a sense of well-being. The stress that can lead to uncontrollable appetite can also play havoc with digestion; gas can result from it, too, as can other functional disorders like diarrhea and bloating. But digestive problems occurring with age are not inevitable. Exercise is a proven antidote, and conscious relaxation before a meal, during it and afterward.
Despite all this, what is a hungry man to do? If his BMI is unacceptable but he still finds carrot sticks and apples uninspiring, well, he can eat a handful of almonds and wash them down with a glass of vanilla-flavored soy milk. Almonds are a source of fiber and a good appetite-blunter, and soy milk a source of nutrients that may have contributed to long life in other cultures and continued to baffle the experts, a small satisfaction.
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Boise State heads into the 2009 football season with the unique challenge of trying to improve upon its near perfection in 2008. The Broncos fell just two points shy of finishing last year undefeated after a 17-16 loss to TCU in the Poinsettia Bowl. The Broncos ended the year 12-1, 8-0 in Western Athletic Conference action. Most importantly, however, Boise State achieved its primary goal of reclaiming the WAC title and winning its sixth conference championship in seven years.
Head Coach Chris Petersen will try and capture his third WAC championship since taking over the program in 2006. Petersen enters his fourth season as the Broncos' head coach. He is 35-4 with a 23-1 record against WAC Opponents.
Boise State returns a young but experienced team in 2009, with 14 returning starters and 39 remaining lettermen on the roster. The Broncos return six starters on offense, six on defense and two on special teams. Of those 14 returning starters, seven are under classmen and only one is a senior.
Today's Spring preview will feature an in-depth look at the defensive line for the Broncos.
Defensive Line: The Boise State defensive line will have a whole new look this season, as the Broncos must replace three of four starters from 2008. Fortunately for Bronco fans, the names will be familiar as most of Boise State's young d-linemen saw significant playing time last year. They will have tough standards to measure up to, however, as the Broncos led the WAC last season in total defense (308.2 yards per game), pass efficiency defense (94.4 rating) and scoring defense (12.6 points per game).
Leading the defensive front will be standout defensive end, junior Ryan Winterswyk (6-4, 258), who was named First-Team All-WAC and Boise State's co-Most Valuable Defensive Player as a sophomore. Winterswyk finished 2008 with 40 tackles, 11.5 tackles for loss. He also recorded 4.5 sacks, six pass breakups and forced two fumbles. Sophomore Jarrell Root (6-3, 254) should bring depth to the position, having recorded nine tackles and one pass breakup last season before suffering a season ending injury against Utah State.
At the other defensive end position, sophomores Shea McClellin (6-3, 255) and Byron Hout (6-1, 225) will be competing for playing time. McClellin played in 10 games last season before suffering an injury against Idaho. He had 14 tackles and three forced fumbles on the season. Hout also played in 10 games, seeing more time as the year progressed. He finished the season with 27 tackles and four sacks. He had his first career interception in the Poinsettia Bowl, which he returned 62 yards.
Sophomores Billy Winn (6-4, 282) and Chase Baker (6-1, 284) return the most experience at defensive tackle for the Broncos. Winn played in all 13 games as a freshman, recording 26 tackles with 5.5 tackles for loss. He also recorded 2.5 sacks, two pass breakups and forced one fumble. Baker finished 2008 with six tackles, one pass breakup and one fumble recovery. He played in 10 games as a freshman.
Sophomore J.P. Nisby (6-1, 295) and freshman Michael Atkinson (6-0, 320) are also expected to see valuable playing time this season. Nisby played in seven games last season, finishing the year with eight tackles. Atkinson spent 2008 as a redshirt. He was named Defensive Scout Player of the Year for his work on the Boise State practice team.
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LOS ANGELES: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged US officials Friday to leak secret documents on drone strikes, saying that the broad discretion to kill citizens showed a "collapse" in the American system.
Assange, who has angered US officials by releasing thousands of secret memos, used a rare US television appearance to condemn President Barack Obama's controversial green light to kill American citizens who conspire with Al-Qaeda.
"I can't see a greater collapse when the executive can kill its own citizens arbitrarily, at will, in secret, without any of the decision-making becoming public," Assange told the HBO talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher."
"That's why we need organizations like WikiLeaks. I encourage anyone in the White House who has access to those rules and procedures, work them on over to us. We'll keep you secret and reveal it to the public."
Assange spoke to host Bill Maher, a supporter of WikiLeaks, by video link from Ecuador's embassy in London, where he has been holed up since June to avoid extradition to Sweden. Britain has refused him safe passage to Ecuador.
Swedish authorities say they want to question Assange over allegations of sex crimes. The former computer hacker says he fears Sweden will extradite him to the United States over WikiLeaks's massive release of sensitive documents.
Bradley Manning, a young army intelligence analyst in Iraq, was arrested in May 2010 over suspicions he handed diplomatic correspondence and other data to the website. He faces life in prison if convicted by a military tribunal.
NBC News published an unclassified document by the Justice Department this week indicating that senior Al-Qaeda operators may be lawfully killed, even if they are US citizens and are not shown to be actively plotting an attack.
The Obama administration called strikes legal, ethical and "wise," and vowed to provide lawmakers with access to secret documents that outline the legal justifications for drone strikes.
Human rights groups voiced outrage in September 2011 when a US drone strike in Yemen killed radical preacher Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, editor of an Al-Qaeda magazine. Both were US citizens who had never been charged with a crime.
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I also updated my twitter background with a new wallpaper.
I made this wallpaper in paint with my bow and heart images. A bit time consuming since I had to place each bow and heart by hand and make sure they all lined up properly.
It's been quite an uphill battle learning how to do all of this on my own. But it's also been extremely rewarding. I'm obviously no expert, but if you ever have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.


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The efforts of the US President George Bush, vice President, Aliu Mahamah and outgoing US ambassador Pamela Bridgewater, in the development of base ball in Ghana has caught the eyes of the Ghana Baseball and Softball Association (GHABSA).
Baring any unforeseen circumstances, the association will decorate the trio with special honours as the sport's Patrons, at a special function to be announced later.
The President of GHABSA Rev Albert Seth Ocran revealed in Accra yesterday that "The three personalities have demonstrated unflinching support for baseball and we think it's just fitting to reward their efforts."
"Ms Bridgewater spends several hours with the team anytime we organize competitions at Tema, and there will be no other way to bid her farewell than to accord her the award," said Rev Ocran.
Rev Ocran pointed out that " We want to show appreciation to them by the awards. Because of the very tight schedule of the US ambassador and the US President, the award presentation will be done at the sod-cutting ceremony for the construction of a baseball Stadium at the University of Ghana, Legon."
Presenting its mid-year report on Ghana baseball to the National Sports Council (NSC), Rev Ocran outlined its five year development plan which seeks to spread baseball across the country, by constructing a baseball field, train coaches and umpires, involve more corporate bodies, among others.
And as part of plans to entrench the sport in basic schools, the association is working with the USAID to introduce baseball and softball in the first and second cycle schools and hopes to hold a coaching clinic for some physical education teachers who would then teach the sport in their schools.