Legalize?, where do you stand? Options

This thread is kind of two pronged topic. For one I'm curious to see people's opinions about the legalization of drugs just in general. Then I want to know what readers think about the war on terror compared to the war on drugs.

Since I'm interested in what YOU guys think I'm going to just kinda step back for the moment and see if there are any takers.

) About the alchohol & kidneys, you made my point. Any chemical that goes in your body does have the potential to harm your body, so, saying one is better than the other, is bullshit. Hell, if you're going to pull the weed has medicinal properties thing, there have been studies that have shown that drinking a cup of beer (Or wine, I forget) is actually good for you. It has medicinal properties, fine, let it ONLY be smoked by those with illnesses & let's have extensive tests on these illnesses to make sure that not every pothead in america doesn't fake his way to legaly owning marijuana.

Oh shit man. Lets not get into the "medicinal" values of marijuana. I mean serious brother one of the main arguements for legalizing weed has to do with its medicial qualities. And nobody said alcohol or weed was better than the (other than personal perfferance, which is silly to argue about). But if you're going to treat one chemical substance (one that *does* directly kill people and a lot of them too) as ok simply because the law says its ok then why not push for the legalization for another chemcial that for all intensive pruposes is no more harmful? IMO, even less harmful. Not only that but legalizing the stupid drug would take it out of the hands of crimminals who don't just smoke it but sell it and lace it. You know drug dealers. Real crimminals.

I'm not saying every punk teen should go out on the streets and get high and go skateboarding or whatever the f%*! kids do these days. I don't advoacte the use of mind altering substances of any kind when one has to do anything that requires a clear head (like a job or driving). Its stereotypical stoners that act stupid and cause problems that keep pot from being legalized. Cuz lets face it, if it weren't for the news and media that has those anti-pot commercials we wouldn't be having this converstation.

3) If you love america, argue with the government about things that matter & are a real threat to this country & your well being, like terrorist, don't get stoned & protest weed should be legal in your tie dye shirts (& please, don't tell me "Oh man, that's stereotypical), any intelligent person reading my post would know when I'm using sarcasm.

I must not be as smart as you. Must be too many reffers got to my small brain. And you said the stereotypes not me. The majority of terrorism is caused by the drug trade. If we could make a pie chart of terrorism in this nation the columbians and mexican cartels would take up the majority of the chart. Don't believe me? Look at every drug related gang fight, every cop killed, every innocent person caught in the cross fire, every drug addict addicted to cocaine, speed and heroine. Don't tell me its not terrorism. Fundamentalist Islam would occupy a small segment and aside from 9/11 most of the *American* targets have been military.

The main source of income from these cartels is cocaine, meth and weed. Weed is the second most profitable drug in the world. Why would America, a capitalist nation, not want to take that away from some small piss ant nation that hates us anyway? On top of that cannibis has many many other non-recreational uses.