What's with the double negative? :brokencomputer: They ARE illegal but "violently insane" is not a normal side effect... I'd say the rationale for them being illegal is more historical reluctance to stuff like alchohol, marijuana, and the like, as well is the use fueling criminals in South America.

It is worth the time. It's inconvenient for the criminal and gives them more incentive to stop using. That's the whole point :/

Alcohol causes more deaths every year than all illegal drug use combined, I don't see how its too a lesser extent.

I mixed that sentence up, you're right. It's actually the other way around.
I'm tired >_<

lolwut?
That "effort" cost countless hours of wasted time and tax dollars.

You know, there's a lot of money that gets put into the "War on Drugs", but with little effect. Putting a more rigid law(s) into effect against them, would already increase the drug developers business even more. The less likely something is to a group of people, the more risk they're willing to get it. That's why we have problems with Drugs in todays world. Prohibition was an example of an extreme taken against Alcohol, and the result was Capone, Bugs, etc.

I think we are going to have to agree to disagree here, your thinking is completely opposite to mine.
Smoke more, chillout

:o arrest me!

lawlz.

Sorry about my intense convictions. I have personally witnessed my brother become a blithering idiot from alcohol, and my father is off in another state doing marijuana.

As expected, I don't like my family much >_>

Drugs and drug use have been around for all of human history and will continue to be around for the rest of human history, no matter how rigidly you enforce the laws.

Plus, the police are not there to ensure that we're all healthy and feeling super duper.

Plus, I'd like to mention that in the US, where drug laws are quite strict, drug use is higher than in the Netherlands, where drug laws are quite lax.


You combat drug use through proper education and informing people, not by arresting anyone who's ever mentioned they once used an illicit substance.

We all have , we all have my friend ......

Because the 4th and 5th amendment says so.


Of course with the Federal ruling on the school laptop surveillance, I don't know what's gonna hold up anymore...


And actually, do a quick google... Celebs get busted all the time.

I'm sorry about your family, I've had an uncle fall under the life of drug use myself. But that's still no excuse to take away my love for consuming alcohol. I LOVE my Anchor Steam! :foodndrink:

Hah, well, in moderation.
Which 99% of users don't do anyway.

My brother says I have the mental capacity to control myself with 'THE DRINK'. I've yet to muster up the balls to try one sip of 'THE DRINK'.

Being a former pot-head myself(haven't touched the stuff in about 8 or 9 years tho), I can say it would be absolutely ludicrous to try to go after every single minor offender. You really have no idea how many people do/carry small amounts of pot until you actually live in that world. Then you find out at least half if not 3/4 of your tiny little town, including the cops, have some(and yes, I am dead serious. Population, 1700). It would be the most massive waste of tax-payers dollars to try to bust every single person that mentions marijuana, jokingly or non-jokingly in a conversation. Not to mention the extreme exhaustion that would be-fall our beloved(lol) law enforcement officials from trying to race to and fro arresting all those people. They would be to tired(or, more likely, to busy) to try to stop other, more serious crimes from happening. It's called "Picking and choosing where to make your stand", and in the case you've laid out, it's a a simple "Don't bother".

You can't take your personal situation and try to apply it as a blanket to every single other person in the world. I'm sorry that you're brother can't control his alcoholism. Try to help him if you can, if not, distance yourself and if you're type, pray for him. I imagine your father does more then just marijuana, I've known hundreds of people who smoke marijuana who have never shied from their familial responsibilities(or work ones either). Also, don't worry, Alcoholism does NOT run in families. My grandfather and one of my uncles are(well, in case of gramps, was) prone to high amounts of the drink. My parents used to always say to me "Don't you start drinking, you'll never be able to control yourself, Alcoholism runs in the family"......Which was the biggest bunch of bull-honkey i've ever been told in my life. I can barely stand the TASTE of alcohol. I've gotten drunk(not tipsy, but drunk) less then 5 times in my entire life, and none within the last 6 1/2 years.

Your post alone attests to WHY this crap has laws against it to begin with.

Look, ideally yes, they would go after minor things more effectively, but it's never, ever going to happen. There's only so many police officers, and only so much time and money. Bear in mind that they are policing an entire city, and they have to deal with every type of crime, and time spent wasted on putting person X in a cell for being caught with a tiny amount of a controlled substance is a waste of both space and time. That money could have gone towards more police working on a big case that cracks down on the local drug baron or even just taking some dealers off the streets. Or even just preventing good old fashioned violent crime. They don't care, and can't care about the little people, when there's bigger fish to fry. And they know as well I do that people will always find a way to get drugs, so taking in some crackheads off the street is just a waste, as they will be back out there doing the exact same thing again as soon as they've given a chance.

You know, this really isn't a good subject for these forums.