Ganja

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='Seven77' post='1082949' date='Oct 3 2006, 12:07 PM']
Catechism of the Catholic Church

2291 The use of drugs inflicts very grave damage on human health and life. Their use, except on strictly therapeutic grounds, is a grave offense. Clandestine production of and trafficking in drugs are scandalous practices. They constitute direct co-operation in evil, since they encourage people to practices gravely contrary to the moral law.
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Alcohol is a drug.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Seems to me marijuana is for getting high, while most people who use alcohol use in moderation. There appears to be no point to marijuana except to get intoxicated.

[Sojourner]

[quote name='Era Might' post='1082948' date='Oct 3 2006, 12:07 PM']
Marijuana destroys your life. Don't do it.
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Yeah. I have a good friend who struggles with this. He's currently on his last chance to work in the field he spent several years training for. If he gets caught with THC ... things will be bad for him.

[franciscanheart]

[quote name='thedude' post='1082956' date='Oct 3 2006, 12:11 PM']
Seems to me marijuana is for getting high, while most people who use alcohol use in moderation. There appears to be no point to marijuana except to get intoxicated.
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Tell me, what is the point of drinking?

At what point does one stop drinking? Is it fair to say that MOST people stop drinking at the 'right' time? Is it then fair to say that MOST people continue to smoke marijuana after the point of 'relaxation'?

[Anomaly]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='1082961' date='Oct 3 2006, 11:13 AM']
Tell me, what is the point of drinking?

At what point does one stop drinking? Is it fair to say that MOST people stop drinking at the 'right' time? Is it then fair to say that MOST people continue to smoke marijuana after the point of 'relaxation'?
[/quote]This is based on many years of experience.
It is way easier to regulate the level of 'buzz' with alcohol because you know what your are drinking. (Beer versus Scotch)
It is very difficult to regulate the level of 'buzz' torching a doob. Are you sharing it with someone else? Smoking a bong, pipe, hand roll, blunt, or power hitter? Did it get rolled with more leaf than bud? What's the THC content?
With POT, a 'little buzz' is kind of a misnomer, it doesn't really happen in practical application.

[EcceNovaFacioOmni]

Just my opinion,
The point of using alcohol is not always to get drunk. Having a beer is not going to intoxicate an adult and many people use it to relax. On the other hand, I don't believe I've met anyone who uses marijuana in any other way than to get intoxicated. The ease of its use makes it much more suited to doing so, as Anomaly pointed out. I do not know whether it is possible to use marijuana moderately or not, but I don't think that is the goal of most users.
If consistency is the problem, I would rather prohibit alcohol than allow marijuana. Legal dangerous substances have already made their way into our society and I don't think we should allow any more to do the same. I'm no expert, I just speak from what I've seen.

[Era Might]

[quote name='hugheyforlife' post='1082961' date='Oct 3 2006, 12:13 PM']Tell me, what is the point of drinking?[/quote]
With alcohol, there is a gradual sensation. With marijuana, there is an immediate state of inebriation.

[franciscanheart]

I've met plenty of people that use marijuana to relax or ease pain. I've also met many who smoke cigarettes to reach the same state, though most of them smoke several as opposed to a portion of a joint (or sharing). Alcohol is more easily controlled because it is first controlled by someone else. If there were something that were burned in a joint with marijuana to help control the amount of THC being rolled into it, there might not be such an argument for not knowing how much...

And to take it all a little further, 'practical application' seems to me to be a relative statement.