Marijuana...legal or illegal?

Question

Should marijuana really be illegal? Hvae you ever tried it?

Answer 1

yes i have :]
marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Due to these reasons and many others many people are going to jail/prison on a daily basis due to simply smoking a little pot These aren't dangerous criminals that would kill or rape someone. Many of them are teachers, lawyers and respected members of their communities. But yet we still pay thousands of dollars of tax payers money to lock up non dangerous "criminals" yearly even though most aren't going to stop after they get out of jail. Don't you think the money spent here is a waste? Couldn't it be going to more useful things such as hospitals, disease research, or better schools? These are the things that would benifit the people of this country. Certanily you would rather benefit the people more than throwing a non violent pot head in jail who was only trying to smoke a joint and relax after a long days work in jail. There is up to forty million regular (note thats just the regular not occasional users) drug users in the United states. If we were to throw all of them in jail it would cost $500,000 per million people, plus the cost and space of building many more prisons. Couldm't that money be spent on building hospitals? There's already about 1.5 million people tax payers are paying to keep in jail over drugs. From 1990 to 2003, nearly 5.9 million people had been arrested for smoking marijuana. Thats a greater number than the entire population of Alaska, Delaware, The District of Columbia, Montania, North and South Dakota, Vermont, and Wyoming combined. This country simply can't afford to put 40 million more in jail.

Marijuana should be legalized. It has many uses such as helping sick patients. People are going to smoke it no matter what the government sais, and with out govenment guidelines this can be dangerous. Not to mention the fact that we have no way we can afford to throw all those people in jail. Its much less harmful than alcohol and tobacco, which are legal, so doesn't it make sense that it would be also?

Answer 2

Legalize it for 21 and over - like alcohol. Yes.

Answer 3

legal. I think it's wrong to make something that grows from a seed illegal. Just doesn't make sense. I feel that this another way for the government to control one more thing that's not hurting anyone.

Answer 4

Absolutely, I am 48 now, never in my wildest dreams did I think it wouldn't be legal by now. They should regulate it just like alchohol and tax it. Look at all the revenue the government would receive. I don't buy for a minute that it is a threshold drug that leads to others. Unlike alchohol thc does not cross the blood brain barrier and does not kill brain cells. A little tar in the lungs and a case of the munchies seems to be the real danger. Oh, yes i have tried it :)

Answer 5

yea i do believe marijuana should be legal. i have tried it **** Mary Jane is my best friend. if u ask me people pay more attention with that and are very calm and low key and i don't see how alcohol is still legal and that stuff cause people to really loose they mind and do stupid stuff. Mary Jane cause u to eat alot that's about it. i hear about alot of drunk driver accidents not too many under the influence of marijuana. it can make u paranoid which means more alert. it relieves stress maybe if they make it legal the crime will possibly lower because everybody would be getting blown and sitting back just kicking it. hella relaxed.

Answer 6

I'm an ole party dawg who came of age in the late 70's. My opinion is that reefer should be legalized. Set a smoking age just like the drinking age, slap a tax on the stuff and set up laws just like the laws for alcohol. One argument against legalization has been that if reefer was legal, then there would be so many people addicted. Reefer ain't no different that alcohol and there will always be that percentage of people that will abuse it just like the ones who abuse alcohol. With a tax on it, the government would get their cut and maybe it would take some of the profit out of the drug dealers pockets and we wouldn't have as much drug related crime. Yes I have more than tried it but haven't smoked in years. After a certain age, you have to hang on to all the brain cells you've got :)

Answer 7

I think it should be legal. It is worse to drink alcohol. Maybe if everyone smoked some it would be a happier world!

Answer 8

Yes I have tried it.
Not be legalized because a bunch of nutty people would just take it and do bad with it instead of good.

Answer 9

people will do what they want to do.

Legalize it all

it will/could improve the quality of the drugs, lower prices and also crime rate would go down.

Answer 10

It should not be illegal for medicinal purposes (e.g. Glaucoma), but legalizing things that are wrong, so they won't be wrong, is wrong.

Answer 11

i think that it should be legal.....no i have never tried