Well maybe it does. See, your wanting to legalize it in the home but not in public? Your like half legal, half illegal. That's so complicated, how are there laws gonna do all that?
Where I live, it's illegal to smoke a cigarette inside any public buildings and you must be at least 15 feet away from any doors of those public buildings if you want to smoke. If a cop spots somebody smoking marijuana in public, he tells them to put it out or he can arrest the guy. It would work exactly like the no smoking law they just passed except it would have to be smoked on your own property.
Marijuana does NOT impair learning unless you are trying to learn while high. That's a fact. Most people cut out the "unless you are trying to learn while high" part.
There is no evidence what-so-ever that points to marijuana causing violence or any negative long term effects.
Anti-Marijuana WebPageHere are a few scare tactics and double talks that they use.
Joints and blunts may be laced with other substances, including crack cocaine and the potent hallucinogen phencyclidine (PCP), substantially altering effects of the drug.
Yes, that is wrong. People shouldn't mix marijuana with other drugs, but that isn't grounds to keep marijuana illegal. People mix drugs with alcohol all the time. Shouldn't alcohol be made illegal? This scare tactic is used to make you unconsciously think that most marijuana smokers also use other hard drugs such as cocaine. Most marijuana users don't use hard drugs such as cocaine!
Smoking, however, is not the sole route of administration. Marijuana can be brewed into tea or mixed in baked products (cookies or brownies).
This is another scare tactic. By explaining how it can be brewed into brownies and other foods, they make marijuana look like a bigger problem then what it is (because it isn't).
Eating and drinking food with marijuana brewed into it is actually healthier for you than smoking it because you don't breath in smoke. Smoke is bad, even if it's from a candle.
Effects of smoking are generally felt within a few minutes and peak in 10 to 30 minutes. They include dry mouth and throat, increased heart rate, impaired coordination and balance, delayed reaction time, and diminished short-term memory.
So does alcohol, which is legal!
Moderate doses tend to induce a sense of well-being and a dreamy state of relaxation that encourages fantasies, renders some users highly suggestible, and distorts perception (making it dangerous to operate machinery, drive a car or boat, or ride a bicycle). Stronger doses prompt more intense and often disturbing reactions including paranoia and hallucinations.
This is all temporary. Paranoia isn't good, but it's not really bad either. Hallucinations rarely ever happen. AND OMG
STATE OF RELAXATION THAT ENCOURAGES FANTASIES?! Highly suggestible, you got me there. Of course, highly is a huge stretch. This isn't reason enough to keep it illegal.
Most of marijuanaâs short-term effects wear off within two or three hours. The drug itself, however, tends to linger on. THC is a fat-soluble substance and will accumulate in fatty tissues in the liver, lungs, testes, and other organs. Two days after smoking marijuana, one-quarter of the THC content may still be retained. It will show up in urine tests three days after use, and traces may be picked up by sensitive blood tests two to four weeks later.
Most of marijuana's effects ARE short term effects. Sure, it might linger in the body, but who cares? With marijuana legal, it wouldn't be a problem.
Marijuana use reduces learning ability.
I can't really argue this one. However, marijuana tests tend to be highly biased. This article mentioned 2 studies, many more studies have disproved this theory.
Chronic marijuana smokers are prey to chest colds, bronchitis, emphysema, and bronchial asthma. Persistent use will damage lungs and airways and raise the risk of cancer. There is just as much exposure to cancer-causing chemicals from smoking one marijuana joint as smoking five tobacco cigarettes. And there is evidence that marijuana may limit the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease.
That's funny, because nobody has yet proven the link between cancer and marijuana. Marijuana smoke is as bad for you as any kind of smoke, so the problems with marijuana smoke is from smoking in general. Vapors and marijuana foods don't cause lung problems, bronchitis, emphasyma, and asthma! ZING!
Marijuana as Medicine
Although U.S. law classifies marijuana as a Schedule I controlled substance (which means it has no acceptable medical use), a number of patients claim that smoking pot has helped them deal with pain or relieved the symptoms of glaucoma, the loss of appetite that accompanies AIDS, or nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy. There is, however, no solid evidence that smoking marijuana creates any greater benefits than approved medications (including oral THC) now used to treat these patients, relieve their suffering, or mitigate the side effects of their treatment. Anecdotal assertions of beneficial effects have yet to be confirmed by controlled scientific research.
Actually, marijuana has been proven to have true medical purpose, but because it's illegal, research to further its purposes have been crippled. Everything else is fairly true. However, marijuana shouldn't be penalized for any of this. It's just proof that medical marijuana wouldn't add anything to the medical world. Oh wait, marijuana would be cheaper.
Marijuana Dangers
Impaired perception - Not nearly as impaired as alcohol. Anybody driving while high can get a ticket. If someone goes to work high, he can get fired if the boss chooses to do so.
Diminished short-term memory - Only while you are high. Same exact thing as alcohol.
Loss of concentration and coordination - Only while high, same as alcohol but to a far less extent.
Impaired judgement - It happens, one for the anti-weedies.
Increased risk of accidents - Well, yeah? You shouldn't drive or work while high. Other accidents don't happen all that much. If they do, they do. If we hurt ourselves smoking a little, WHO CARES!? These accidents are VERY RARELY lethal in ANY WAY.
Loss of motivation - People who lose motivation tend to smoke marijuana. This is an untrue stereotype. Oh, maybe while you are high, then you might not have as much motivation. Who cares? You can get drunk and drunks lose motivation as well.
Diminished inhibitions
Increased heart rate People with heart problems shouldn't smoke marijuana. It's not rare for any drug (medicines included) to increase heart rate.
Anxiety, panic attacks, and paranoia - Very uncommon.
Hallucinations - VERY FUCKING uncommon
Damage to the respiratory, reproductive, and immune systems
Increased risk of cancer - Not if you eat it, no, maybe, and maybe.
Psychological dependency - Very rare.
I'm not encouraging people to smoke marijuana. You don't have to smoke marijuana to support it!
You don't have to smoke marijuana to support it, nor should you smoke marijuana to support it.