Simply put, it profoundly alters and expands consciousness by loosening or — at higher doses — completely erasing the normal filters and screens between your conscious mind and the outside world.

With these filters down, more information rushes in. You sense more, think more and feel more. You become aware of things normally filtered out by your mind — visual, auditory, sensory and emotional. The intricate details on surfaces, the richness of sound, the brightness of colors, and the complexity of your own mental processes are all brought to the foreground of your consciousness.

At higher doses, the rush of information becomes a flood and your senses actually begin to merge and overlap (syntheasia) until you can see sounds or smell colors.

CANNABIS dulls the experience in the come-up; heightens the peak; brings back the effect during comedown. AWESOME.

WTF I mean if weed was legal, people would not drink as much, it would cut back on the DWI fatal wrecks, because people wouldn’t fear losing thier jobs as its legal and probably would rather smoke it or eat it instead of drinking, it would reduce all the domestic violence calls (most dangerous call for officers), would reduce alot of fights, peoples anger, and it would help alot of people study.

Hell if it was legal I would probably do it to but its not worth my job, instead I drink (not heavily but still drink, gets your mind off all the bad things we deal with day after day) And its not a gateway drug. i’ve never heard anyone say \Damn thats some good shit I think I’m gonna go do a line of COKE!!!!!\ Plus theres all types of marijuana so if they get used to it, they can get another type, and just keep going back and fourth.

It should have restrictions, where you should be able to smoke, eat, what ever you want with it inside your residence. (I know people can drive on it but maybe if congress or law makers make it where its legal inside your house, and jobs wouldn’t drug test for it then that might be the only way they decriminalize it is only you can do it inside your house.

All the cartels will stop killing kids yea they MIGHT go to cocaine but its a $40,000,000,000.00 profit they make a YEAR so alot of them would just hang it up already and stop. Juarez Mexico has over 3,000 Deaths alone in just ONE city because of weed.

LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!!!!!!

In all honesty, I don’t think I could have completed the hard-work I had done without the help of my chemical friend, THC. It allows me to tap into what I would like to refer to as “creative conduits” and allows me to draw upon inspiration as one would draw upon food from the kitchen.

In my position, my creative thoughts are money and Cannabis allows those thoughts to be financially effective. Cannabis allows me to notice more subtle things, such as the wind in a willow tree, the code error in line 107, or how I might converse with my egotistical, self-serving family members when I choose to call.

When I call it a cure-all, it has been just that. I will make a note. Of my years of use, I have quit several times. These periods of non-use are especially difficult for me to endure right after I stop, but with willpower and determination, it can be done. I have dried out countless times since I started to smoke cannabis, and as so many others have dictated that it’s a life choice, I must whole-heatedly agree.

Cannabis was the target of Anslinger to defame and belittle to effectively brainwash the social norm into thinking of it as a harmful, life-destroying substance. Just watch the film, “Refer Madness”. In a nutshell, the original ban on cannabis was enacted with the fears that pot made black men pursue white women. It was also thought that mexicans were destroying the country as they had brought their friendly plant with them to America.

Overall, the bans on weed focus around racist and out-dated mentionings that no longer hold weight in today’s society.

With any substance, it can be abused, but we don’t limit a fat man’s use of food just because he’s endangered is life. We pick and choose what to manipulate and the underlying morals of such a choice couldn’t be more biased.

Pot does not cause interracial tensions. Pot does not threaten our culture or way of life. It is a plant that even the forefathers of this country used and even REQUIRED their citizens to grow at one point as it’s use in textiles in ship building were nulli secundus (second to none).

I beleive it is only a matter of time before cannabis is either decriminalized or legalized. Those who choose to stand in the way of this reform, do so under the bias pretenses of others and not from their own free will.

The truly sad thing is, most people who are brainwashed, don’t realize they are.

The ultimate issue here isn’t pot legalization, but it is the self-awareness of our culture and people as a whole.

I hope we can survive our own ignorance. In my heart, I think we’re doomed unless we revolt.

I have quit a few times because I wanted to get a job and I was perfectly fine even when i was around my friends when they would smoke it (job thing never worked out because I don’t have time now that i’m in college). I still continue to smoke it but only on occasion because I have to concentrate more on my school, but when i do smoke it when i hang with my friends, it’s the only escape i get from the stress of my family and school.

It makes me so much more relaxed…it keeps me sane when I feel like I’m going to go crazy from the tons of stuff I have to learn at school.

Marijuana is something that grows on the earth naturally, even though a lot of people manipulate it to make it stronger, it’s still not something man-made. God made it and anything he made I can trust! I can honestly say that no matter how high i am i can drive just fine…actually i drive a lot better…my friends are witnesses.

When I’m drunk though…I definitely could not drive and i would never try it. Alcohol should be illegal…not weed.
LEGALIZE MARIJUANA!

I am pro-pot & pro-choice. However, I feel much better now that I now not smoking on a daily basis. My life gradually started to revolve around when & where I could smoke.

I have more energy & concentration is better. When I tried controlled smoking I quickly fell back into the same overuse. So – some people can use it without bad effects, but sadly for myself, I cannot.

The only thing keeping most of us asleep is the notion that we aren’t these low life half witted criminals keeping selling extorting packaging and whatever other kinds of illegal stuff. But we all are and theres no difference when it comes to a historically relevant smokeable flower as an automobile fresh off the conveyor belt, to big macs and fries as also crack and cigarettes. we use them, they get old we move on to a better one, the only obvious difference is that a weed plant has a truly positive effect on everything that encounters it.

Unless it is false informative snakes at the presidents desk, yeah fuck you americans too, noone will ever see peace or wealth so long and this plant is ILLEGAL because I a 13 year old kid am a criminal for being as high as i am atm, fall under the umbrella of ifluenced by an illegal substance. Just like how it is illegal to tresspass somewhere and we all are under control from, from freedom. Because weed is everything people dream of having today and more, its the plant of golden roots and spirits so to everybody not reading this. No matter how hard you try to stay alive, you will die sooner than you know it and i will be laughing wont remember you cause im high as an eagle.

The Limbic system is the reward center of our brain, everything from food, alcohol, tobacco to LCD is addictive because of the Limbic system. Marijuana’s psychoactive compound THC interacts with a part of the brain that wasn’t discovered until 1988, the Cannabinoid receptor. It is called that because the only thing that part of our brain can interact with is THC. We are biologically designed (or we evolved this one part of our brain to process marijuana) to consume Marijuana.

As human beings it is our birthright. The only comparable type of addiction would be being addicted to a TV show, as a runners high is also a result of the Limbic system. Marijuana withdrawal is similar to getting cut off by another driver while on your way home from work. Your ticked off because you want to get home and your prevented from doing so as quickly as you like (because TV addiction might use the Limbic system too).

I don’t see how anyone can compare the addiction to heroin or crack cocaine to the habitual use of herb. It’s like comparing a watermelon to a potato, they are two totally different things. I had an addiction to crack, it made me steal from my own family, sell things i shouldn’t have and left me penniless and homeless for a time.

Yet when I smoked herb, I held a job, went to college, got my own apartment and never asked my parents for anything. Heck I even took myself on vacations!!! and THAT COSTS MONEY!!! so no, there is no such thing as addiction to marijuana, if you are stealing,telling lies and selling your shoes to the potman, then you have a REAL PROBLEM that doesn’t have to do with marijuana.

I was in Tulsa ,OK not too long ago and a Fireman who had been on the force for over 25 years told me this ” It’s not ILLEGAL because it’s dangerous, it’s DANGEROUS because it’s illegal” he said in all those years he has never had to use the “jaws of life” to pull a person out of their smashed up car because they smoked a joint, if not legalization, at least DECRIMINALIZE IT!

I think that Cannabis should be totally legal at the age of 16 and up. It is proven that THC is harming the ability of creating new memories (and memory in general) in mice equal to the age under 15 in humans. After this point, the damage is minimal to the brain, if any.

The effects of cannabis varies from person to person. I believe that some people (very, very few) does get depressed. But if you compare it to alcohol, then it’s nothing. Alcohol is a powerful depressant.
And yes, some people does get addicted, but as all other things in life, addiction is a survival instinct. Everyone is addicted to food, water, sex, comfort, fun, ect. Of cause to survive. If we didn’t drink water we would die. But we would still survive if we didn’t get sex, but we wouldn’t get our genes into the next generation.But as a lot of things today it have changed. Now it’s enjoyment. Everyone does it.

Lighting up a reefer is just the same. Enjoyment. We need enjoyment in the world today. With workdays from 08 to 17 we need to be able to put our worries away for a short period of time to have the energy to go on with our problems, to have fun, or just to relax.

I began smoking reefer once a week about 6 weeks ago ago. Already after the second weekend, i felt better. Even when not being under the influence. My tendency to paranoia- like thoughts have completely gone. My relations with friends and foes has improved. I’ve become a more honest man. I even told my parents 2 weeks ago. I even drink a whole lot less since i like the high more than the drunk. I have realized that life is about having it well. If you need a success in business life to be happy, then do that. Or if you need a family to be happy, then get one.
It’s about doing what you wanna do. If you like reefer, the smoke it. Just don’t let it get in the way of your plans. It’s about moderation. Just keep yourself on the line, then there is nothing wrong with it. Be happy.

The problem now that we need to legalize cannabis, is that it has become socially unacceptable. The general population is against cannabis as recreational use because the brainwashing from Harry Anslinger have continued through the generations in the general population. We need to make about 2 billion people (the western countries (Europe, USA, Canada and such)) realize what that has happened, and why it should be legal.