why are you talking to yourself???

IMO, no 13 year old is 'mature' enough to handle pot. Did i 1st use it when i was under age? Sure, was it wrong? Yeah, i think so. Did it harm me? I dont know.

I keep hearing how 'mature' some of the young people here are, but to be honest, as an adult, i dont see a lot of it...Sorry kids, but you shouldnt have the choice when you are a child. I know im probably the most hated man on the board now, but thats fine.

18 years is my Vote

What is he now? A brain surgeon?

Nicotine is a mood altering substance. I smoke cigarettes, and if I don't have one, I'm grumpy. It is also mind altering, as in it alters your brain chemistry. Actually, I should say it's brain altering. Mind altering like Marijuana? no. Worse than Marijuana? definitely. Why should I not be able to consume Cannabis if I can legally increase the risk of myself getting cancer greatly? Cannabis puts you in an altered state of mind, but at least it's not nearly as harmful as tobacco/nicotine. Why shouldn't an 18 year old be able to drink a beer too? It's silly. All laws against controlled substances are bullshit, really. I am not condoning the use of crack, and meth, etc, but the laws really do nothing. If someone wants something, they will get it... regardless of age. But if Cannabis were legalized, 18 or 19 would definitely be a fair age. At 18 one is legally an adult. Why should 18 year olds not be treated like adults too? 18 year olds are just as liable for committing a crime as a 21 year old, so why should the age be 21? An 18 year old could go to prison for 5 years, just as a 21 year old could be. Do you see what I am saying? As maturity goes, 21 is not a big step. I think 18 and 21 year olds, in general, would treat it the same. I've seen crazy parties involving 21 year olds, so what makes them so much more responsible with mind tering substances? Really, though... 18 is the legal adult age in the US.

17 is a bit too young, because 17 year olds are still in high school usually, and that could condone the use of it while in high school. That would be pretty sad if someone legally went to high school stoned every day, and didn't learn a damn thing.

You and me both!!

Just look through the lounge and all the stupid shit they talk about, then try telling me that kids are mature.

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things talked about, use of language some spelling (im not talking about typos), knowledge of issues, etc...

I just wrote about a pages worth on this topic.

But I realized it doesn't matter.

It's a personal choice, and from the looks of it, it seems like young people will be able to make that choice even easier in the future.

Personally, I fail to see the logic of teens going to parties and ending up in the ER for alcohol poisoning, when they could of just smoked a joint and discussed philosophy.

Or taking copious amounts of mom's painkillers becuase their boyfriend just dumped them, when they could of just sat down with the folks, had a cry, and then lit the peace pipe for a relaxing dinner.

Teens are idiots. But is that their fault? NO. It's socieities fault. For not educating them correctly, advising them correctly, or just simply genetics...

enough rant.
18's a good age anyway. Probably be easier not to get carded...

Um, its not society, its the parents. Its not societies job to raise children its the parents.

I'm not talking about raising children in general.

Society/government/idiots sling lies to manipulate children. Those children grow up and have kids. Is it the adults fault that they too were misguided and illadvised on the subjects of drugs, that they in turn misguide their own children? No. It's the deceiver who deceived the children who in turn had children and became parents.

We have the internet now, which is changing society a LOT, but before this illuminating invention, could you really blame the parents for accepting truth told to them by a government whose rules and codes they have to abide by?

blah, blah blah...peole need to wake up and quit relying on the GVT for anything. Quit blaming the govt for everything.
DOnt blame society for the ills of the world then worship MTV...

Ill be honest, the more liberal society has become, the more fucked up its become...

blame MTV

It's nobody's fault. It's just the cycle of life. We are born without knowledge. We acquire knowledge through living and experiencing and learning. We learn more everyday. The longer you have lived and experienced, the more you have learned.

Teens do not yet understand this cycle. They think they have already learned all there is to learn. But they will learn more, and by then they will no longer be teens.

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It's that obvious is it??

16 to consume in my opinion. You should be mature enough to handle it.

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little late but figured i would add my opinion...18. if you can kill yourself with cigarettes you should be able to smoke the good old cannabis that is so much better

I think if cannabis was legilezed then i think it shud b 16 same as normal smoking

I said 18. My reasoning behind that decision is because at the age of 18 I think most people have enough sense in them to make informed decisions about things. Younger people often do drugs or the like because it's 'cool' or because all their friends do it, etc.

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where i live it's 21 to drink 18 to smoke cigs and 16 to drive. But as early as 17 you can join the army and risk your life. so to me it should be 17 to smoke cannabis and drink. if you can risk your life in the armed forces then by god give that man or woman a beer and joint!!

Have I posted in this thread before?

I think age isn't an issue. I think level of maturity is the key.

I absolutely agree. I'm sixteen, and have been smoking cannabis for approximately six months. I started because while previously I had always believed the government lies and agreed with their stance that all drugs were bad, I then did some research and discovered that there was a lot more grey than I had always been taught. Some people are mature enough to handle ganja at fourteen, and some people are twenty-two and not ready for it. Age is entirely subjective and reliant on the individual, not a generalization. Many would consider sixteen too young to be smoking it, but I do so, very frequently, and I get As and Bs in school and in my spare time write, philosophize, and study politics and what I can do about it. So much for stereotypes.

You know, I've been hearing quite a bit of discrimination against teenagers here, and frankly, I don't like it. Not that anybody would take my views seriously, since I'm simply a piece-of-shit 16-year-old who doesn't know what the hell he's talking about, right? Hell, a lot of teens are dumb, I'll grant you that, but I'm far more intelligent than my grandfather, who is extremely narrow-minded and doesn't have a clue about anything. The same applies in many cases. There is currently a movement underway for an increase in the individual freedom of adults, but no one seems to care two bits about the rights of youth. To say that teens are immature is true in many cases, but it is a generalization with many exceptions, and laws based on generalizations are bullshit. Why don't we make it illegal for Irishmen to drink, because everyone knows they're going to become an alcoholic, right? See what I'm saying? I'll turn 21 on September 26, 2011, and according to many of your views I will remain far too immature to smoke pot up until September 25, 2011, 11:59 p.m. Then at the stroke of midnight I will magically become the proper age to smoke.

13 because thats when most of lifes stresses are there with high school and puberty an everythin u can get quite depressed, i no i did an thats when yor parents can control ur use and they can teach u when ur young

Its legal to smoke in ur own home, its also legal to carry up to an eighth if ur 18, its also legal to grow hemp!

Fukin legalise it man, so much easier and sociable

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