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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gurgeh: [QB] Nimrod: You seem to have misunderstood one or two things in my post. I read back over my post and tried to see where something I said might have led to confusion. What I was saying seems pretty clear to me, but let me attempt to clarify: Inhaling coal is bad, yes, and so is smoking. Coal is legal, marijuana isn't. All I was trying to do with this ( admittedly rather facile ) comparison was to eliminate the smoking factor from the reasons against legalising marijuana. You don't have to smoke coal, you don't have to smoke marijuana. Which is where the eating comes into it. You can eat marijuana, and not smoke it. This is not, as you imply, to say that lung damage from smoking is reason enough to ban it, and that I'm backing down on what I said before. Here I mean that for those who are concerned about the lung damage, they can eat it instead. For those who aren't worried about it, they can smoke it. What I'm saying, exactly, is that someone who wants to use lung damage as an argument against the legalisation hasn't really got a leg to stand on. About the obesity issue: My remark that obesity in society would not be affected by legalization of marijuana does not in any way militate against my argument for legalization. Your reasoning for saying [QUOTE]So why legalize it then, if it won't change the overweight bit? You just gave up your weight loss argument.[/QUOTE] is badly flawed, I'm afraid. This is because I am [i]not[/i] arguing that marijuana should be legalized [i]in order to reduce obesity[/i], but that it should be legalized because of other reasons. My statement that obesity would not be affected by smoking pot was in response to a post by First of Two, where the point was made that the increased appetite would make people overweight. Now that all that explaining is out of the way, I'll try to address another issue. I would suggest that there be an age requirement for the use of marijuana, for the reasons of concentration, ambition etc mentioned previously, so that at the minimum age, an adult could make an informed decision as to whether to smoke/eat marijuana products. One might argue about people being able to get marijuana before reaching the required age. However, this is more of a problem in our (with the exception of Holland and Belgium) current situation (where marijuana distribution is illegal, and thus unregulated), than it would be if marijuana was legal and regulated. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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