Would you legalise marijuana for tobacco to be banned?

[Samozaryadnyastan]

You wander in, spend three minutes staring at the menu board with your mouth open and your eyes red, and they struggle to contain themselves.

Before you eventually decide yes you will have the doner kebab and chips with garlic sauce, hand over three pounds too many and then stagger back to your hovel :3

Have you ever tried to pay your ID card? I make that mistake all the time. And all this kebab talk is making me seriously hungry

I've been watching Man vs Food all afternoon, I'm dying for some fried chicken.

>fast food places don't open until 4
>firstworldproblems

[Ifreann]

Brain cells, yes.
It does kill neurons, was what he was saying.

Wait, derp, I meant that the idea that you only get so many brain cells and once they die they're gone forever is a popular misconception.



Oh gods, maybe alcohol has finally made me stupid....

[Halloween Karaoke]

W00t! My first reply!

Congrats.

Mmmm. Feels good.

*polishes skull collection of dead posters*

You may have a point. Obviously the brain does grow for a while, or else there would need to be something else in there to take up the space as a baby's skull gets bigger into a child's skull and then a little bigger into an adult's skull.

It's just something I read somewhere, some time. Neurons aren't as good at regenerating as other cells are ... maybe I exaggerated.

I'm pretty sure the thing about alcohol killing brain cells is a popular misconception.

Tell me more, Doctor Iffy.



Don't let me troll you. We know each other pretty well on this forum.

There are some crucial ...er, ganglions? ... in the hypothalamus which can be knocked out by alcohol. Bartholo- something nodes, or somethings, they play a role in storing memories. Or it might be a deficiency of some vitamin which kills them, and too much alcohol kills those vitamins or enzymes or soemthing. I'm not a doctor, but I was told this by a doctor.

Maybe I wasn't paying proper attention. She had long brown hair, like a river of chocolate I just wanted to wade into and be carried away by.

I did sincerely want her help. I wanted the therapy. But ... chocolate. Gloopy, clinging, warm and turbulent chocolate. Mmmm.

She said something about brain cells, I thought I learned something but maybe I was wrong.

[Silician]

Did I miss something, or isn't the whole point of getting high for kicks and giggles?

It's also for clearing out your fridge and/or freezer if it breaks and its contents might spoil if not eaten now.

See, he gets it. There IS a practical use for marijuana!

[Ragnarum]

Lots of things are dangerous. Overdosing on common everyday medicines like paracetamol is more dangerous than overdosing on marijuana. Alcohol can make you crash a car as well. matches, ovens, guns, regular tobacco, bathtubs, etc. They are all dangerous in their own way, that doesn't mean that they should be banned.

[Chinese Regions]

Would I rather have marijuana legal or have tobacco banned? I'd rather have tobacco banned.
Would I have tobacco banned if it meant marijuana was legal? Yes.

[Ifreann]

Would I rather have marijuana legal or have tobacco banned? I'd rather have tobacco banned.
Would I have tobacco banned if it meant marijuana was legal? Yes.

What's your problem with tobacco?

[Horsefish]

I've not been round a supermarket baked, but some of my friends have, they say it's hilarious

So many difficult descions. It ends up being so expensive, but so tasty.

[Copenhagen Metropolis]

I'd prefer to see all smoking in public (council/government) areas banned completely and restricting smokers to private venues only. If you think that's rough, you aren't allowed to drink in government controlled spaces either...

Speak for yourself, our parliament building has a bar in it.

It's one of the key components to Denmark's success. Politicians being drunk pretty much all the time. *nods*

[Copenhagen Metropolis]

Using possible health risks as an argument against marijuana is completely pointless, considering a lot of medicines also pose health risks.

No argument from me.

The pros outweigh the potential cons.

Excellent. Legalize prostitution then?

It already is in several countries, including Denmark. I can't see why prostitution shouldn't be legal?

[Renegade Island]

Being forced to choose either option implies compliance/consent with coercive/restrictive State apparatus.

[Kholdlands]

I would rather outaw both forms of smoking. I am cynical about both and have little respect (if any at all) for either of them.

[Cill Airne]

Erm... No? Would I legalise marijuana, yes (with government regulation). Would I criminalise tobacco? No, that would be an insane move.

[Ifreann]

Being forced to choose either option implies compliance/consent with coercive/restrictive State apparatus.

Row row, fight the power.

[Norstal]

They are both horrid. I would not vote for either to be legalised, even if it meant the other banned. In no condition should marijuana or tobacco be legal.

Someone loves the free market.

[Halloween Karaoke]

I was joking but I found truth in it. I respect doctors of all kinds, but in any conversation about my body or mind I get to feeling very intimate with the doctor. NEVER would I sexually harrass someone, of either sex, just because I feel "intimate" with them. But it does rather stuff up the therapeutic relationship which should be a client/customer (me) seeking advice and consultation and, if necessary, surgery or medication, from an expert (them).

I walk in with a list of symptoms in my mind, and questions I want to ask, I have it all planned out. But it doesn't go that way, ever. It doesn't matter the race, age, gender or manners of the doctor, I lose it with the first question they ask me or the first reply. It's intelligent conversation and it's about my body, or later in the longer sessions with a psychotherapist, about my mind. I just lose it, and feel like I'm floating in a stream of chocolate.

Hell, it even happened with the dentist a few years ago. When he took such a close interest in my teeth and talked to me about, y'know, brushing, and eating habits, I got all mushy and romantic. I could barely understand a word he was saying because I was feeling his lips with my eyes. He's not handsome, in fact he's rather odd looking and his teeth are very small with gaps between them ... but when he was talking to me about my teeth I just wanted to kiss him.

It's probably an occupational hazard for doctors and psychiatrists, that patients get a crush on them. In fact, I'm sure it is. Even crazy old Sigmund knew it: "transference". If someone is in the room with me, taking a close interest in any part of that doesn't often get attention, of course that is pleasing. Dentists probably get that less, because of the pain and such, but. Maybe there should be a whole other profession, somewhere between prostitute and doctor and hopefully cheaper than either, to provide this "intimate" attention without overlap with either medical or sexual needs.

[Halloween Karaoke]

They are both horrid. I would not vote for either to be legalised, even if it meant the other banned. In no condition should marijuana or tobacco be legal.

Someone loves the free market.

Your health is the people's health comrade. You can't ride a horse, box, or wrestle either. It endangers the health of the people.

[Genivaria]

Why not have both?

I will however do neither.

Straight-edge. Hard-core.

Same here Samurai-kun. Straight edge all the way.

[Samuraikoku]

They are both horrid. I would not vote for either to be legalised, even if it meant the other banned. In no condition should marijuana or tobacco be legal.

Individual freedoms say otherwise, but I accompany you in the sentiment.

[Costa Alegria]

What's your problem with tobacco?

It's stinky and icky and it causes global warming, it's immoral and people who spend one milisecond near a smoker die instantly in a painful and undignified death.

[Samuraikoku]

What's your problem with tobacco?

It's stinky and icky and it causes global warming, it's immoral and people who spend one milisecond near a smoker die instantly in a painful and undignified death.

My dad used to smoke. I'm still alive.

[Costa Alegria]

My dad used to smoke. I'm still alive.

So did mine. And we're both sitting here talking about how dead we are.

[Mushet]

Tobacco is a sacred plant

[Ifreann]

Tobacco is a sacred plant

Pfft, bollocks.

[Bobbyland420]

Banning tobacco, lol, liberals...

If you want 100x the crime, violence, corruption, that marijuana prohibition has ever created, then sure, ban tobacco.

You will continue to be retarded idiots, regardless.