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For your country, you get to choose between two laws. The first law legalizes weed but puts a ban on guns. The second one does the opposite. Guns get legalized, but pot is illegal.
Which law would you choose?
And no, there aren't any options to legalize both or ban both. You have to choose what you find most important.
| Legalize weed, ban guns | 122 | |
| Legalize guns, ban weed | 64 |
I'm not often so black and white on things but cannabis should be legalised (and the statute book should be updated so that deaths caused by driving under the influence are equivalent or more severe than for drinking and driving).
If someone breaks into my house and tries to steal from me, I want to be able to shoot them in the genitals. Guns, all day, every day.
Depends on your state laws.
Or country.
Depends on where you live. There.
I'd like to think if I walk in my house and my sister is being raped with a knife held to her throat, I'd be allowed to shoot the bastard in the head and be done with it. Another scenario where a gun is useful and weed is not.
Wow...
You really think people will break into your house just to rape your sister? If someone breaks into your house, it's usually for stealing stuff. If you get a decent alarm system you don't have to worry about that.
What's up with people wanting to take the law into their own hands anyway? The police force is way more responsive than you'd think, and they're trained for that kind of situations. If you take the robbers on yourself, there's a good chance you'll get shot. Criminals are better at that sort of thing.
True. I don't know of many other countries that are so attached to guns than the US. It's creepy if you ask me.
Bans do nothing I could have either or both at my door in under 15 mins.
Yeah, but for the sake of the question, let's assume that bans actually work and there's no illegal trafficking.
I really have no use for either. I guess I will go with keeping pot. Keep those people out of jail for silly reasons. Although without guns we would be easy to take over. Do the military get to keep guns?
Now that I wouldn't agree with, especially if there were no black market. Take away the guns from everyone but the military and see how fast this country goes to shit.
Explain this to me then.
America, is the only country where guns are allowed to the general public.
YET, it's the most unstable and corrupt country in existance. Hell, the US already went to shit.
It's one of those countries you would have to be mentally ill for to actually want to live in.
Back to the topic, theoretically, if America didn't already go to shit, which it did, how would guns keep it in place?
Yeah...
No.
weed over guns anyday, weed is unlikely to hurt anybody, where guns are.
If weed is legal, why the fuck we need guns? Everybody would finally chill the fuck out and stop blowing each others brains out for no god damn reason.
Guns aren't necessary, and neither is weed. But guns do so much more harm than good. Sure it's the 5th amendment in the US, but times have changed since those amendments were created. I believe guns should never be allowed in public, but having one in your home to protect your family and yourself from intruders is perfectly fine.
Legalize the guns, have a revolution, and legalize weed. Everyone wins.. except the government lol.
And the millions of people who inevitably die in a violent revolution.
Revolutions aren't magical cures for a country. Egypt for example is still fucked up. How come Americans fear their government so much anyway? Isn't your country supposed to be democratic?
I will ponder this while smoking a bowl and cleaning my gun. OK so I don't have a gun but I would own one. Can I choose both? I have decision making issues :/ OK neither. Its more fun breaking the law breaking the law
Toughie.
Weed causes - or at least exacerbates - mental health problems in SOME people (I speak from second-hand experience, unfortunately).
SOME people with mental health problems - IF they have what could be thought of as violent tendencies (either for self-defense at an overwhelming world or just because they are nothing more than sick fuckers who like killing things) - would be more likely to want and/or use a gun.
What if someone whose mental illness was caused/exacerbated by weed (legally obtained) were to then legally get a gun and do a Columbine/Bane-style attempt at massacre?!
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After some deliberation, I reluctantly say weed is the lesser of the two evils as it doesn't - as far as I'm aware - actually kill anyone itself. HOWEVER, I would segregate varieties of medical marijuana and recreational marijuana. The medical variety would only be legally obtainable through a prescription and the recreational variety would only be allowed in certain bars/cafés and - for want of a better phrase - "high shops", to smoke at home or in outdoor spaces away from children. I would ban both varieties from moshpits and the tokers can have a "toking area", much like smokers do.
Really, though. If weed were legalized and the governments of the world manufactured it, put a tax on it and made it regularly available as cigarettes, the money they'd generate each year would be incredible.
If the guns are banned from everyone, including officers (but not military when they are oversees fighting people with guns) I would choose weed. But of course, it is impossible to extinguish every gun in a country, so someone will always have a gun.. Even still, guns need bullets to function and what bullets one may have would be used sparingly. Wait a minute... We will need guns for the zombie apocalypse! I change my answer!
Guns. It's harder to get a gun illegally than it is pot. Also, people who own guns legally need them to fight off the assholes who don't.
Yeah, but for the sake of the poll: assume that there'll be no illegal circuits at all. (even though that's not realistic)
But did you imagine all the people who do?! And how crazy they would be if weed were illergal???? Yes, illergal! It would be like it is now! Insane!
I choose guns because if you shoot at a target you're not hurting yourself but if you smell weed you're hurting yourself most likely in less it's medical but let's face it the world is full of pissed off stoners. I don't like this weed thing at all and somebody unfriended me simply for saying it was gross. None of my other weed "friends" did.
Fuck Guns, you don't see people dying from Weed do you, no Guns don't bring peace but Weed does, just look at the hippies. Their has been a lot of shooting lately. Guns Should just be Desrtoyed or something, use bats for protection. In my mind Police Officer's should have a gun, to immobilize vehicles etc. Weed isn't violent, but it can make you violent. Guns are violent period, i'd rather have my kids smoking weed than holding a Gun
i made good money selling weed dont legalize it like cigs but do make it legal for medical purposes. in my family everyone who had cancer (alot!!!) took weed and it helped more than every other medicin :) LEGALIZEEEEEEE