At least what age should one be to consume cannabis?

* 21 years of age.

* 19 years of age.

* 18 years of age.

* 17 years of age.

* 16 years of age.

* 14 years of age.

* 13 years of age.

* 12 years of age.

* Any age is fine.

* None of the above.

Ron

18.

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I've, actually, been thinking about this. Setting an age-limit would be age-descrimination. I think we should make our own choice and reap our own benefits/consequences in the coming generations. That's the only way we will know how it works. No human has ever been studied for long-term effects of Cannibus. I'd still stick with 18 to give our brains enough time to develop on their own.

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If I wanted to get high, I'd snort the New York Yankees!!! (26 titles, 39 pennants)

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Ya' know, I'm gonna continue this conversation on my own and say...

What if, one day, we find out that it makes our learning process faster?

I can't imagine anyone refuting that point, for the lack of evidence points just as much in that direction as it does the other way.

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If I wanted to get high, I'd snort the New York Yankees!!! (26 titles, 39 pennants)

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beachguy...ya' crazy...we should have to be at least 30 because that's when we get the steepest drop in Melatonin levels. Or maybe 60, because that's when we'll need it the most.

I think the legalization age should be 6-months, or whenever we discontinue breastfeeding.

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It really depends on the individual, since different people mature at different rates. I don't think the government ought to be enforcing a rule that says everybody who is 17 years and 364 days old is too immature, but on their 18th birthday suddenly they can handle it.

Althought I can see pros and cons for a set age limit, I think that 17 is a good medium. At 17 I think the majority should be mature enough to handle the responsibilities of smoking. Age limit would not really prevent 'under-age' smoking, since most anyone can obtain anything regardless of age.

16 to consume, but 18 to buy. Same as tobacco in some states.

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It depends if you're talking in legal terms or not. Actually, it doesn't really depend on that at all. But I don't think that the government should dictate what people can or can not put in to their own bodies. I personally think that, in an ideal society, there wouldn't be age restrictions for anything and that people take responsibility for their own actions.

In the case of minors, however, I think it should be up to their parent/guardian (i'm speaking hypothetically, of cours and assuming that, in this scenario, Cannabis is legal) to decide.

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Or like alcohol in civilized countries, with your parents at any age. Moderation can only be taught by experience and example. Perhaps not smoking for health reasons, but in special treats like baked goods during holidays.
Doctor G

I voted but I will keep my opinion to myself on this one......

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yes
18 is ok!

18 in legal terms

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Why is marijuana not legal? Why is marijuana not legal?
It's a natural plant that grows in the dirt.
Do you know what's not natural?
80 year old dudes with hard-ons. That's not natural.
But we got pills for that.
We're dedicating all our medical resources to keeping the old guys erect,
but we're putting people in jail for something that grows in the dirt?

I think that passit 420 is right on it smoke weed forever

I voted 18, but i think that it shouldnt be sold in shops - just able to grow. Of course, paraphernalia (sp?) would be sold everywhere. Then if it was legalised, cafes would have to be made legal aswell - which is only a good thing. Think about it, would you rather go out and get pissed (and probably in a fight) on a friday night or sit in a cafe with yer mates, passing round a J and having a laugh? In that respect, there would be a lot less violence on the streets aswell so the cops - useless as they are lol - could concentrate on catching the REAL criminals, not the laid back stoners that are too damn monged out to even fight back lol. Rant over.

Legal terms havn't ment alot to me for a while. So save your breath becuase people will just do what they want anyways.

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*Activity in the evolutionary advanced areas of the brain is increased in cannabinoid receptors and promotes higher consciousness levels.

* The natural evolutionary course for mankind (because of the location of our CB1 CB2, the brains main receptors) is to be more stoned.

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Originally Posted by GHoSToKeR I never thought i'd say this to you, but shut the fuck up.

I take drugs and you should too

i was one of the few that voted "none of the above"


think about it guys. if weed were legal to 18+ or whatever, what about the kids that can handle it maturely at age 14 or whatever?


wouldnt they be in the same position we're in now? i know that most posters here are probably pretty mature with it and dont need the government to regulate what they do with their bodies, so why should some genius kid who's fourteen be denied what we fight for?

has parenting become that much of a novelty?

do you really want the goevernment to be able to swoop in and snatch your kid away from you over "just a little pot"?

throw your ass in jail or fine you while your kids writes letters from a foster home?


we should be able to spend five minutes every other week to sit down and discuss issues like this with our kids. if we cant find that kind of time, what kind of parents would we be?


im sorry to babble, but honestly i think if there are "age restrictions", then it'd be the same as college kids getting their hands on alcohol. you wait and wait and finally when you get the freedom, you go crazy with it...most often the first time being able to do whatever you want.



thinka bout it...

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Personally, I was 18 when I tried pot for the first time. I'm 20 now; I felt then and continue to feel that it happened at just the perfect time in my life.

Just having graduated from high school, I was ripe for new experience, anxious about the future and confused about the state of my life. Basically searching for I-didn't-know-what, and trying to figure what life is all about.

The posts on this page all seem to address the technical/legal end of the question, but what I feel is almost more important than the extent to which one is "mature" and "ready for the responsibilities" of marijuana use (though this too is quite important) is the state of an individual's psychological/spiritual relationship to life, to other people, to one's own existence in the world itself. When we talk about maturity, we mean more than just being considerate of others while stoned or not driving while totally fucked. I'm talking about how much somebody has taken the time to really contemplate life, death, and the purpose of our being here, sharing this earth together. Past a certain age, it is inevitable that all of us start asking such questions... this happens at different times for different people, and so does maturity.

Most of us recognize that smoking pot can be more than just having a laugh with some friends, more than a social drug or a way to relax. Like other psychoactives it can (and should be, sometimes) a mind-blowing, private, consciousness-opening experience that is capable of teaching us much about ourselves, if we are only willing to listen. I feel that marijuana ought to be used for this as much as for social leisure, and that as part of the legalization movement we have to challenge cultural stereotypes about its users that say we are all lazy irresponsible stoners.

A person's experience of marijuana on the whole--what it is, what it is for, what it can do for you--can be incredibly rewarding and liberating if they start at an age when these problems (of self and identity, meaning of life and spirit and of the universe) are already being dealt with seriously. Pot should not be something that we are initially peer-pressured into, and informed of what to expect by a group with a limited cultural mindset. Pot is an experience which precludes definition; it is irrational and individual and we each have to make what we want of it.

We all know that things change dramatically in the post-high school/ college period. We begin to think about the "real world"--what it is and what it should be, and our place in it. This is a good time to try pot if not a little sooner.

At the age of 18, I was a late-comer to marijuana by today's standards. I see now that it was the perfect time for me because of the ideas that had begun to occupy me. For the past year, I'd begun to read the mystics, to discover the irrationality of love, to question my atheism of many years and redefine it as pantheism. I was reading lots of Buddhism. My new best friend was a hippy who challenged my preconceptions about drugs, and I took the plunge. It changed my life, helped me work through many problems, made me feel good about existence. And yet waiting until that point in my life was the best part about it, because only then was I ready for the spiritual substance it provided. Every time I smoked I was in awe, ecstasy; you know what those first few times are like. I waited two or three weeks between each "spiritual occasion" because I was almost scared of the effect it had on me, igniting that spark which was, for me, a glimpse of the infinite.

Well I know not everybody can relate to all of this, because I mean c'mon, "it's just pot." Well yeah. I know.
But that first high, man... I think everybody knows.
We can't trivialize it.

That's why I think it should be tried at an age when we know enough to separate our individuality from the culture. When it won't just be all about getting fucked up. I voted for age 17, when most people have begun to experience enough of life, the good and the bad, to be mature, to know who they are. Or what they're looking for. Or at least to know that they DON'T know.

There's nothing wrong with the recreational experience, but when you realize that there can be more than that, I think THAT'S when you're ready.

there should not be an age limit, start smoking when u feel like it...

ofcourse 6 moths is too young, since I do not belive that such young lungs can handle it, but when a "kid" starts smoking pot should be 100% up to the parents, the government shouldnt intervene or some BS like that.....

besides... its good if the "kids" know pot before they are totally "Free"... cuz like somebody said theyll go crazy...



pot rocks

yo thats a hectic question....we as individuals approach life at all differant angles,,there are some kids from 16 who live life like a 21 year old,not cause they choose too,jus because they faced reality sooneR then others where as some 21year olds are as immature as shit...wat im trying to say is if people could appreciate cannabis and not jus smoke to forget,,it would help.plus many kids i know smoke crappy head ach weed and just dont see the light...as for what age is appropriate i would say 18..like that we become responsible for our own actions and theres no one to blame....i dont know..maybe im just wierd
i love to grow and i love to smoke...but theres only a few times when i kick back and appreciate the iree way,mostly im so caught up in the shit around me,,i forget why i crush..so for al you crushers out there much respek and lets try educate these kids the right way...thanks for all the help cannabis.com

I agree completely.