getting ready to vote in vegas on pot law what do you think should happen yea or nay?

I don't know how the law is worded on your ballot, but I'll give you my opinion on it. I think pot is a drug that alters your perception of reality. I don't see it as particularly dangerous especially when compared to other legal items such as alcohol. I think it should be regulated much like alcohol is today. It should be for persons over 18 unless required for medicinal purposes. It should be regulated such that persons wishing to consume the drug in private or in a "pot bar" or the like should be free to do so at their own discretion. However, if you drive stoned, you go to jail. You smoke around my kids, you get fined. You smoke on the job, you get fired. You get stoned at school -- suspension. That seems fair to me and would increase the taxes brought in, reduce the costs to the consumer and reduce the danger of smoking something that has been treated with unknown pesticides and other chemicals -- not to mention the lack of sanitary conditions.

Pot is less addicting and less damaging to your health than alcohol or tobacco. Nobody has ever died of a pot overdose. Enforcement of it being illegal is an incredible waste of time and money. Basically, pot is illegal because of an effort beginning in the 1930's by the plastics industry (Dupont/rope) to put the hemp industry out of business.

LEGALIZE IT!!!!!! It has medicinal properties, the government could make a lot of money off of it, and concentrate on drugs that are really harmful.

Medical marijuana should be legalized. Of course I'm afraid for the elderly/infirmed who might use it--elder abuse is already rampant in this country.

You have no thoughts of your own??

I think if it is regulated, more time & effort could be used for worse crimes. There is far worse than a little weed...

Yea!

In fact keep the govt. out of it altogether, they have imprisoned enough people, wrecked enough lives and made their fair share of money on weed, that they should just say let it be, ...Amnesty.

Neither legal nor illegal, just free to toke responsibly, or not...I have never met a stoner who wanted to go out and kill someone for any reason, you get high and you are just mellow; get drunk and you tend to become an as shole!

Drive high, get paranoid...

Drive drunk get SUPER POWERS!!! SUPER STUPID, weaving, making poor choices going too fast...etc.

I quit smoking pot recently, like in the last 6 or 7 months I have done it four times.

I used to do it all day, daily, even get up at night and toke to ...whatever...be stoned for a bit longer.

I feel like I have a GOOD reason to smoke pot, but most "peoples views" here seem to say NO I DO NOT!

I am Bi-Polar, so I go up, and down...Either depressed, with racing (bad ) thoughts, or Manic (happy with tons of energy and racing good thoughts).

I swear, when I was HIGH, not MEGABAKED, or whatever, I felt like I could keep somewhat, if not pretty much on an even keel.(actually manic) Even keep my mood UP instead of DOWN in the DUMPS.

I am all for the LEGALIZATION of MARIJUANA...

Maybe it should be regulated by the GOVT. if they would spend the money generated from it on EDUCATION about it, or put it (the revenues made) into the SCHOOL SYSTEMS across the NATION, then COO !! you know regulate it.

But then ofcourse what about driving jobs?

It is in your system up to 4 or 6 weeks, in your HAIR longer...

So like I was saying though, ....

I have driven while SUPERBAKED (from pot), and I have driven while just SLIGHTLY BUZZED (from drinking), like 3 beers for me...

I felt better (more able to focus on driving) when baked and though I drove more PARANOID I mean PARANOIA, how bad is that? I still felt able to drive more effectively stoned than if I was to get drunk (I hate drinking,so that was not usually a problem. drinking and driving), and if I got too worried (while high) I would pull over somewhere and you know do whatever, get off the road ,smoke another bowl & take a walk to mellow out, eat to "come down" even more. Not when a person is drunk, they are just gonna drink more and get worse/ more wasted ...(I really do not like alcohol, weed was my drug of choice.)

I think weeds', PARANOIA FACTOR ,is due to the fact that it is illegal.

I think if it was legal a lot more people would be able to experience EUPHORIA, or a feeling of seperation, if only for a little while, from all the dark stuff around us, WARS, TALK OF WARs, BEING BROKE, DEPRESSED, OR WHATEVER.

When I got HIGH, unless I was worried about my G.F getting super mad at me.... or the GOVT. slapping cuffs on me for it, I was mostly just mellow, my thoughts would slow down enough to "think" and I say, FUNCTION "NORMALLY". The only trouble was the ILLEGALITY part of it.

So I would get PARANOID around others who were not using or likely to never use it...and while driving on it.

My favorite times to use were out in the woods, while hiking or rockhounding, (digging for crystals or agates) or just out in the wilderness- whether the desert, or the forest...

yeah Legalize it.

In Nevada, I heard it is a FELONY if you get caught with just one seed.

I lived there for a year or so in LAS VEGAS.

So they need to let people out of the jails nationwide for weed and put people in who really deserve to be there.

A few thousand or a hundred thousand STONERS would not make our streets dangerous, but a few or hundred thousand real criminals, sex offenders, murderers, thieves, killers and thugs; who get thrown into jail for like a month and then are out, due to overcrowding, or cause they are 1st timers...B.S . Then the govt. locks up a person with say a few ounces of weed for like ten yrs. really B.S. .

Whether they were distributing it or not, BFD.

Man, people like to smoke a bowl in this day and age, one main reason I think teens and young adults like to SMOKE WEED is to REBEL AGAINST AUTHORITY (duh). I know that was part of the reason I did it.

Imagine if it was legal, there would not be that factor, except then the GOVT. would take it from out of underagers reach anyway, or regulate it like TOBACCO...So then the young ones who usually do it more than the rest anyway, would have to keep getting it the way they do now, illegally.

I have a few thoughts on that too. I started using it for the first time when i was 13 yrs. old...to rebel, to feel good, to escape my reality, to be accepted by my peers...

Teens are what... they are not stupid? I mean people tell me that it pretty much STOPS your brain from moving forward/or growing , or maybe it just creeps along until you stop...Well I don't know, SCHOOL sucked anyway, the only friends of any LABEL I fit with or accepted me were STONERS. It did not matter that I could CYCLE for a hundred miles in a day ,or more than that (like 150 mi.), or that I was, physically fit, I just did not fit in to the socialisms at school, except for with the STONERS.

And we mostly just DITCHED anyway...well not always.

Then there is the REPLACEMENT... TOBACCO.I have been smoking cigarettes, as a crutch, mostly. I want to be able to TOKE, but I can't really,so I smoke.

I swear even as I become more addicted to CANCER STICKS, I would much rather smoke a NON-ADDICTIVE bowl of weed. it taste better, smells better, it does not leave me WINDED like CANCER STICKS DO....or cigarettes. I could smoke a grahm of weed and cycle my bicycle a hundred miles or more. As I continue to smoke ciggys, I can barely even breathe, at or for anything...Well that is not completly true YET, but cig's are way more harmful than pot if you ask me, a like ,20 year, VETERAN ...TOKER.

As far as my mind/brain... I have been mostly clean for like I said about 7 months.

I am not stupid or slow, I like to read, write and get out and do my thing. when I'm not working.

I have a couple of books I want to write, but sometimes I think thatI THINK WAY TOO FAST from being bi-polar, that it is difficult to stay focused on one thing for more than a minute or so....anyway....(I still have a couple of books in me I will write eventually)

I swear tobacco kills more people in a year than POT ever has or did...in that much time.

Well maybe I should write a book on this subject, oh, looks like I allready did.

Hey sorry ,"YEA", theres my answer.

That is all you were looking for huh? just a yea or nay...

Well I got to state my opinion and my reasonings for it.

DJ