This Is What Will Happen If Prop 19 Passes: Bears With Bongs

And you're too blind to see that the benefits severely outweigh the detriments.

So, your solution to solving problems is by taking some sort of medicine? How many drugs are you on, might I ask?

Absolutely zero, I used to be prescribed Nexium but only took it for two months because I don't like pharmaceuticals. I also don't like running shoes since they cause injuries, I'm no hippie but I like the more natural lifestyle.

Marijuana is a more legitimate medicine than what's on the market today, Benzos and painkillers ruin lives yet those are legal.

Touche. I would, however, like to know how many of the people posting on all these pro-marijuana things are pro because they want recreational usage or they're pro because they really care about the medicinal use of it and aren't using that excuse as a front.

I would like to know also just out of curiosity, but in the end I don't care that much. It's safer than cigarettes and alcohol and if educated properly by schools and parents the negative effects on recreational users will be minimalized.

Unfortunately, recreational users and advocates of Marijuana legalization might have to mask their intentions just so those who aren't educated on recreational use of Marijuana won't attack legalization as much.

Someone posted a study done by Cato Institute on Portugal's decriminalization of drugs, I haven't looked into it too much but what I've read is very interesting and something parents and anti-legalization folks will probably outright ignore just because they don't agree, without actually looking at the facts.

I used to smoke recreationally for six years starting at age 12, until I started getting panic attacks, so I stopped, that simple. I didn't drive high, save one time (did I use save correctly there?) and drove like a champ, better than when I'm sober. Probably because I was concentrated better since getting into an accident while high is no fucking good.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10080

Alcohol and cigarette education is already out there; are people using those responsibly?

Personal experience: A couple of kids thought they were straight to drive while high. Ran a light, killed 3 of my friends. I've also heard alcoholics use that same line--"I was drunk so, I drove better than normal because I was so concentrated on the road." Yeah, maybe in their head they were. Doesn't mean it's the truth.

"Cigarette Use Among High School Students --- United States, 1991--2009

This report updates a previous report (1) and describes results of CDC's 2010 analysis of YRBS data from 1991--2009 for three measures: ever smoked cigarettes, current cigarette use, and current frequent cigarette use. For ever smoked cigarettes, the prevalence did not change from 1991 (70.1%) to 1999 (70.4%), declined to 58.4% in 2003, and then declined more gradually, to 46.3% in 2009. For current cigarette use, the prevalence increased from 27.5% in 1991 to 36.4% in 1997, declined to 21.9% in 2003, and then declined more gradually, to 19.5% in 2009. For current frequent cigarette use, the prevalence increased from 12.7% in 1991 to 16.8% in 1999, declined to 9.7% in 2003, and then declined more gradually, to 7.3% in 2009."

http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5926a1.htm?s_cid=mm5926a1_e%0D0a

I think that proves tobacco education has worked.

"Since 1982, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities on our nation's roadways have decreased 44% and among persons under 21 these fatalities have decreased 71%."

This was from http://www.centurycouncil.org/learn-the-facts which is a website setup by distilleries so I'm not sure how legit those facts are.

I'm sorry to hear about your personal experience, I don't condone driving while high though I do believe it's safer than DWI (alcohol), driving while on the phone and driving drowsy.

I've have a bad personal experience as well, a friend of mine died last year from "hotshot" heroin, meaning it was cut with poison or cut with something that didn't combine with the heroin. If drugs were legalized and regulated I don't believe he would have died.

I don't think the legality of drugs has much to do with the amount of users, in fact it is easier for me to buy Crack than alcohol because I'm only 20. Show kids movies like Requiem for a Dream, or better yet, Oxycontin Express and they should be pretty terrified of drugs. Some will still do them but education of drugs is a better way to combat them than making them illegal.

I liked Arnold Schwarzenegger with the shotgun. haha and the Bear he didn't even clear it...