Should cannabis be completely legalised?

Should cannabis be completely legalised?

  • Yes, legalise it completely

    Votes: 93 31.5%

  • Yes, with similar laws to tobacco use

    Votes: 134 45.4%

  • No, keep it illegal

    Votes: 33 11.2%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 30 10.2%

  • Other

    Votes: 5 1.7%
  • Total voters
    295
I honestly don't care. I tried it a couple of times when I was younger and just couldn't get into it. The last time I smoked it I got physically ill, and to this day I get nauseous when I smell it. And unfortunately I smell it quite a lot as my neighbour (an advocate) has a young man renting a granny flat on her property, that enjoys a zol every now and then...
 
Other. You can't compare it to tabacco. Its more similar to Alcohol as it inhibits your ability to operate machinery and operate normally at work. Hence if you do legalize it for recreational use it needs to have similar laws around it for driving, and work. Personally I would prefer if it moves into the medical pain control world for the most part. As a recreational stimulant I worry that it will push many to try harder drugs for the bigger high. Right now kids that want to be edgy and break the law can take it as a fairly mild and less addictive drug. If its fully legal what do they then take to be edgy? Tik? Moves the whole bar up and I don't see how it won't lead to more taking of hard drugs too.
 
Cius said:
Other. You can't compare it to tabacco. Its more similar to Alcohol as it inhibits your ability to operate machinery and operate normally at work. Hence if you do legalize it for recreational use it needs to have similar laws around it for driving, and work. Personally I would prefer if it moves into the medical pain control world for the most part. As a recreational stimulant I worry that it will push many to try harder drugs for the bigger high. Right now kids that want to be edgy and break the law can take it as a fairly mild and less addictive drug. If its fully legal what do they then take to be edgy? Tik? Moves the whole bar up and I don't see how it won't lead to more taking of hard drugs too.
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I voted tobacco but you are right on closer to alcohol laws.
As to the gateway theory, the only gateway (if such a thing even exists) is alcohol.
Most peoples first getting high experience is alcohol.
 
ShaunSA said:
I don't have an issue with zol. But **** that smell is naar.

It's bad enough walking in or out of a public building with a bunch of smokers hanging around
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You get dry vapes nowadays that don't let the smell linger.
 
When visiting Colorado over December, the normalised use of dagga was a non-issue.

Some of the locals I socialised with talk of how bizarre things were, thinking back then dagga use was criminalised, with people getting arrested and what not.

They speak of those days like we speak of Apartheid, in the present-day context. As if the whole war-on-dagga was just unconceivably stupid.
 
So this might be super noob but here goes.

I've never smoked a cigarette myself, but recently someone left one of those "party vapes" at my apartment. The ones that are disposable, and apparently have quite high % nicotine inside the liquid. I took it along with me to work the following week, taking a few puffs in traffic or when going for coffee. And damn, did it give me a massive headrush. The first time I tried it I nearly fell over from the dizzyness. I wasn't sure if I liked this feeling or not but I kept trying it until I decided I don't like this feeling and disposed of the disposable.

Now my question is, what's the difference between that headrush from a cigarette/vape, a 1-2 hour high from a joint, or a buzz from a drink while at work or the office? I don't see any difference, depending on the level of intoxication.
 
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