Wow...you people really don't grasp the idea of the question posed, do you? He didn't want the "Put you'll go to jail!!!!" answer. In a perfect world, it would be legal, right next to the vile drug alcohol, and you could grow it in your backyard next to the tomatoes, and therefore nobody would go to jail (unless they abused it....JUST LIKE ALCOHOL...) and no terrorists would be supported *BECAUSE YOU GREW YOUR OWN*.

Therefore....if you are concerned about funding terrorists, you really ought to be in SUPPORT of legalising pot so that people could grow their own and defund them, right?

So...PUTIN??? Little bitchy, whining, govern-owns-you-all-Putin....you SUPPORT legalising pot, right? Because you hate terrorists and would like to see pot grown locally instead of being imported at the profit of terrorist organizations??? Hmmmmm????

And Putin....my dear fool....do you likewise support making alcohol ILLEGAL? Because, when abused, it has NO social value, right? Drunk drivers, fights, all that crap? So you are AGAINST legal alcohol, Putin?

Come on, Putin....let's show just an IOTA of consistent thought!! Or is that too much to ask of a communist????

@Putin: Prisons are full of people imprisoned for dealing LARGE qunatities of drugs.....who....if you got your head out of your ass....would be doing it LEGALLY and NOT be in jail. Just like ALCOHOL distributors....of which there are at least *3* huge warehouses within 5 miles of my house.... So, MASSIVE distribution of alcohol....a *terrible*, addictive, poisonous drug....is OK with Putin....but Pot is not????

Putin uses crime statistics....but the crime is imaginary. If alcohol distribution is legal, and alcohol use is acceptable, then pot....a far LESS harmful drug...should be legal. By ANY form of logic our laws make no sense...and therefore the laws against pot are ridiculous...and therefore our prisons full of drug dealers that SHOULD be legit business men are a sham....

You all know Putin probably doesn't drink, either. Being a good communist, he enjoys his Saturday night by enslaving a local child into forced labor for a bite-sized piece of candy....and by candy I mean...well, we won't get in to his sexual picadillos....but by bite-sized we probably speak the truth....

No need to go there, krellin. Putin33 is monstrously wrong on a great deal of things, but it's totally uncalled for to imply things like that. I'm sure he's as normal a guy as an American communist can be.

I'm not sure why the legalizers keep pointing to alcohol as the model. You know that alcoholism's pervasiveness is due largely to its legality? You want to do that for other drugs like marijuana? During the 1970s states were experimenting with decriminalizing pot, most famously Alaska. That failed miserably as states found out that if you do that lots more people will take up the drug.

And if you think marijuana is largely "harmless", then please explain why so many people go to the ER for marijuana related issues.

http://www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/hospitalvisits.html

And if you have the "legalize & tax" model that Invictus wants you're not going to do anything about the cartels, as they'll simply use the regulation of the drug as a reason to enter the market, much like the cigarette mafia, prescription drug rackets, gun rackets, etc.

Well, he implies that any pot smoker is a terrorist, does he not? I think a little slander-in-reply is completely called for, since, in his belief system of communism, children are but cogs in the machine, right? If imply anything, it is purely out of ignorance and stereotype.....you know....just like everything Putin has to say about pot-smokers.

I stand by my implications in order to make a point....

If I could only flame up a well-packed bong, though, I probably wouldn't have the energy, or concern, to waste my time insulting Putin.

Putin....DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT SUPPORT THE CRIMINALIATION OF ALCOHOL???? MAN UP AND ANSWER THE QUESTION BITCH~!

LOL....Putin claims that so many people go to the ER for pot related issues! LOL That fucking hillarious!

USING STATISTICS FROM A GOVERNMENT HE HATES AND DISTRUSTS!!!!!!!! aHHHHHHHH ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!! Putin, you are a biggest fucking raging hypocrite!!!! Yo might even be more of a hypocrite than King Atom!!!! DUMBASS!!!!

Hell Putin...a large number of welfare assholes go to the ER because their kid sneezed!!! Moron....

I wouldn't object. I've said that before. Prohibition did a lot of social good. I could do without the occasional Newcastle. It's a small price to pay for getting rid of public drunkenness and domestic violence. Who here isn't glad we got rid of smoking in public places?

less money will be available if they are merely focusing on skirting regulations, cartels will still lose a huge chunk of the market.

Gee, if only we had some previous model of Prohabition in America to use as a basis for our decision

oh wait.....

"Prohibition did a lot of social good."

Like what?

Cartels will be the only reliable suppliers as legal sellers will be limited in what they can produce and sell for higher prices while demand will skyrocket. It'll be like DVDs & books vs bootleg DVDs and books.

"Like what?"

Decreased alcohol related diseases, cut the suicide rate in half, decreased domestic violence - which was pervasive at the time, decreased alcohol production and consumption, eliminated the saloons.

it will drive down the prices of the street drugs and any overflow demand would probably be met by mom and pop growing operations. After prohibition bootleggers didnt disappear but they took a huge hit

cite sources please...

I've read juvenile alcohol consumption actually went up, and drinking was nearly as prevalent as before prohibition. I also read there are few reliable statistics

Let's talk less about politics and more about pot. That was the OP intention to begin with.

I have used marijuana once or twice, but I like alcohol better. The main difference is that alcoholic beverages tend to be rather tasty (think: whisky, Belgian beers, cognac, etc.), whereas marijuana just stinks.

If you want a mellow sensation, try drinking strong beers where they keep the yeast in the bottle (according to google it's called post fermentation).

you can say that less people died from alcoholism, but how many more died because of open warfare in the streets over bootlegging? How much power did bootleggers gain?

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/16/opinion/actually-prohibition-was-a-success.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1470475/
http://www.jstor.org/pss/3786620
http://www.flushinghighschool.org/ourpages/auto/2009/1/5/44726823/NO%20-%20Was%20Prohibition%20a%20Failure.pdf

So uh back on topic. Does anyone blaze before they play a live game of diplomacy?

Listen, if you all wanna argue politics, start your own thread

I did it once
It was gunboat and i wound up invading Austria as Germany in the early-game
I actually did ok for a bit, but eventually Russia killed me off

"Just wanna get a general consensus of the forum's feeling on the drug
Not necesarilly argue the leaglity of it, just why (or why not) you use it.
And what the drug means to you"

I dunno it doesnt mean much, it can be interesting I guess.

Interesting??? Come on!

Oh, and if you want "diplomacy performance enhancing drugs", I suggest mushrooms.

@Bas:

A nice scotch (like a good Lagavulin) after or during a small spliffer can be fantastic.