And if it was Korea or China, they’d probably be selling cabbage or, at best, low-quality hemp leaves as counterfeit “Sensimillian”…

Legalizing marijuana would probably actually help society in more than just a boost to the economy. You’d also be saving taxes spent on fighting the “drug war”, and be able to control its quality through production regulations. (Although if it was Japan, they’d probably mislabel their product!)

Still, legal or not – I’m not going to smoke it, because have you seen the people who do?

And whats with Vietnamese and cultivating marihuana anyway? In Europe, Vietnamese gans/groups have been growing marihuana in a large scale and been getting caught here too. Just like in Japan they weere growing it in large scale in houses out in the country side. Do they work for the same boss? Is there some kind of international Vietnamese marihuana group who distribute marihuana in Europe and Japan?

In Amsterdam you can get marihuana anywehre but still the majority of people don’t smoke it on a regular basis because they think it is harmful.

You might burn your tongue trying to eat any hot meal; does that make it harmful? No. Your tongue heals–no harm done.

For everything we do, you can find at least one thing that makes it harmful and at least one thing that makes it healthy.

Running is harmful to your joints but good for your heart. Reading a book is healthy because it relaxes you, but reading is harmful because it can make you short-sighted. Pot is healthy because it can help release the stress and makes people happy, it’s harmful because it kills a few cells in your lungs and sometimes you burn your throat.

You could, but that’s not the whole truth, now is it? Chemical dependency has real, physical causes – it is not just a psychological issue. Try telling any addict trying to quit that the withdrawal symptoms are “all in their head” – they’ll probably punch you.

Marijuana has “health benefits”, true – it can alleviate the symptoms of chemotherapy and slow the progress of glaucoma. Then again, the chemotherapy has “health benefits” in that it kills cancer cells before they kill you (if it works properly), but it is hardly “healthy”. I mean, you wouldn’t recommend to a friend who was cancer-free that they run out for a bout of chemo now would you? And given a choice between going blind in several months and increasing one’s risk of emphysema, some folks would probably take their chances with emphysema. It is risk management to these people – just like crossing the street, to use your example. That is a risky activity, which is why most folks don’t just dart out when the light turns green. Look around, evaluate your chances, and then go.

But for a healthy person, there is no health “benefit” to inhaling toxic fumes and hot gasses, and anyone with even a modicum of common sense can see that. If you choose to live in Tokyo you cannot do much about the quality of the atmosphere aside from choose not to make the part you inhale worse by adding toxins before putting it in your lungs. Smoking anything, be it tobacco, pot or banana peels is harmful, only a fool would hold otherwise.

Marijuana is harmless if it’s not abused. It actually has health benefits if used properly.

Yes, you are right. Saying Marijuana is harmless is a lie. But what isn’t 100% harmless. Water can be harmful if you drink too much. It’s called sodium deficiency (or drowning). Sugar. Fat. The sun. Sitting and typing. Fuck, even thinking can be harmful to your health.

You’re a fool for taking the word harmless so literally. Crossing the street is harmless–but the guy that got hit by a car will beg to differ.

So if you’re going to make marijuana illegal on the grounds that there’s a possibility that people abuse it, we should also make games illegal, and sex, and overtime. Especially overtime.

It is one thing to make the argument that there is something inherently wrong with a government policy that legalizes and taxes two addictive, mood-altering or behavior-altering substances while outlawing others of no greater or lesser risk to one’s physical or mental health. However, that argument will not be well-served by a mistaken argument that marijuana is “harmless”. It is not.

o.o”