[JediSkipdogg]

Originally Posted by Will

1) You are wrong here; it is legal for medical use in Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington.

4519 hit that point dead on. Federal law states it is illegal. Therefore it's illegal. If state law says it's legal, they are violating numerous laws and that is already a huge topic. Here's the catch...Just because federal law says it's illegal doesn't mean local police can arrest you. That state must also have it illegal on their books. That is one reason local police can't arrest illegal immegrants, because it's a federal law and not a state law.

State laws MUST follow national laws or be more severe. They may not go against or be lenient. Doing so is a violation, however, one not tried often. But if an FBI agent wants to arrest you in Alaska for smoking pot, they can, and you will then be tried in a federal court with a much harsher penalty than a state court.

Originally Posted by Will

3) This is a valid point, but you can pass a drug test just days just after using marijuana. I have never had trouble getting a job, nor do I feel that I ever will in the future.

Ever heard of hair folicle tests? They are becoming more and more popular now days since marijuana lasts 3 MONTHS in hair.

Originally Posted by Will

What are there moral implications with marijuana use? I do not use it in an unsafe manner; I can be doing no harm to others. So why is this immoral? Legality changes from state to state. Is it immoral to use Marijuana in Florida but not in Alaska?

Comparing OxyContin and Marijuana in the same category of danger is just plain silly. OxyContin is extremely addictive, Marijuana is not. OxyContin destroys people’s lives, Marijuana does not. I’m sure if I started popping Oxy's to feel better my life would go down the tubes pretty fast. I have met many people that have been using marijuana for decades without becoming addicted, hurting anyone else, or leading anything other than productive, happy lives.

The moral implications are that marijuana slows the brain activity down. People that drive vehicles are actually a greater risk than those drinking alcohol, which speeds the brain up for a period.

Marijuana is known as a gateway drug, meaning a drug leading to other drug use. Come to Cincinnati, 43 homicides this year, leading our way to 95, a record in Cincinnati history. Why? 5 years ago we had a HUGE marijuana problem. The jails did nothing about it. Now the marijuana is mostly gone buy meth is in. And people are shooting over meth. Of those 43 shootings, 4 are innocent bystanders, one a 60 year old woman standing on the street waiting for her grandchildren to get home from school. I think around 30 of those 43 are drug related.

I know people that have been doing alcohol for 30 years and can drink 20 beers in 5 hours and be perfectly fine. Yet the second they get behind the wheel they are driving illegal, even though 20 does absolutely nothing to them. Why is that? It's because the majority can't handle 20 beers. Yes, the rest are punished for that, but it's to protect the innocent ones that have nothing to do with it, basically the ones killed in drunk driving accidents. And yes, there are major marijuana accidents.

Driving and it being a gateway drug are not the only problem. It impairs ones mind enough they might get into arguments and not even know it. Most people with domestic violence problems either have alcohol or marijuana history in their past or current, that's a proven fact.

There's numerous other ones. The fact is, it's illegal, and do to our sloppy government in the US, they don't enforce it well enough.