Re: Marijuana's Effects On Consciousness

"However when knowing what I know about drug consumption and all that it entials I would much rather live in a society that is drug free and I really wish people would not take up the consumption of the drug(s)"

What about "drugs" that ease peoples pain? Or "drugs" like sugar? The ultimate gateway drug.

Then of course there is caffeine...another "drug".

"The negatives will continue to exist even if the drug is fully legalised and regulated the way that marijuana consumers want it to be, the same or similar to alcohol and presrciption drugs."

Who says we want it regulated...it's a natural herb made by the creator, ingested properly there are no negatives.

"And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat."

"I want the drug to be legalised so we can see once and for all just how well behaved or just how nasty the legal drug"

5 Years After: Portugal's Drug Decriminalization Policy Shows Positive Results

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=portugal-drug-decriminalization

"I will point out and agree that there are many people
( what percent???) that are wonderfull people who are otherwise law abiding productive citizens who consume marijuana.
Granted? They are the "Good Folk" percent of the marijuana consumers.
It is the considerable percent of bad boy drug consumers that are also involved making matters worse for the common citizens."

Did you ever think that maybe because it is illegal, that influences people to become part of the culture of illegal activity? Does alcohol have this same connotation in your view? Are people that consume alcohol nefarious? Except for the "Good Folk" drinkers?

"Do not take the drug(s)"

Do not consume food?

Hippocrates: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food”

"Many of the drug consumers will read this and "retort" with the usual, standard and clever denial based responces in support of the consumption of the drug ...but I dont care because I know that there are 2 kinds of people concerning drugs
Those that do not consume them and therefore they do not add to ANY problems verses those that do consume the drug and therefore create ANY problems associated with the consumption of the drug."

That is not a very logical statement, you are basically creating a strawman before anyone has even responded. There are physiological reasons why Cannabis seems to affect consciousness.

"When the drug is legalised I seriously wonder just how accountable the drug consumers will be and I wait in anticipation to see what kind of clever self serving excuses and arguements will evolve when the drug consumers are still not satisfied with the rules or regulations and certainly the laws that curb their enthusiasm and lust for the drug"

See how you just lump all "drug" users into one category, you can't even be specific in your statements. Why is that?

"To the non consumer it is painfully clear who exactly creates ANY of the problems that everyone else has to suffer or endure or tolerate and or begrudgingly have to accept."

Who is a non consumer? Everyone takes some substance and assimilates it. Chocolate is a drug, I have definitely seen it affect people poorly. I have seen the horrible effect of coffee in society. I have seen people build their muscles with protein and beat people up.

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Now we know who to blame!

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drug

late 14c. (early 14c. in Anglo-French), "medicine, chemical ingredients," from O.Fr. droge "supply, stock, provision" (14c.), of unknown origin, perhaps from M.Du. or M.L.G. droge-vate "dry barrels," or droge waere, lit. “dry wares,” but specifically drugs and spices, with first element mistaken as word for the contents (see dry goods), or because medicines mostly consisted of dried herbs. Cf. L. species, in L.L. “wares,” then specialized to “spices” (Fr. épic, Eng. spice). The same source produced It., Sp. droga, Swed. drog. Application to "narcotics and opiates" is late 19c., though association with "poisons" is 1500s. The verb is from c.1600. Druggie first recorded 1968. To be a drug on or in the market (mid-17c.) is of doubtful connection and may be a different word, perhaps a play on drag, which was sometimes drug c.1240-1800."

Portugal's drug policy

Treating, not punishing

http://www.economist.com/node/14309861