Do you support anti-marijuana laws?

Question

Why? I feel it's money the government wastes on it's "war against drugs" and I'm not sure the people of the US even really support the law. Most people I know either want the law removed or don't care one way or another.

Answer 1

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

I don't feel that the marijuana laws NEED any support - they've been in place for decades and likely won't be changing any time soon, if at all. I don't believe that marijuana is a drug worthy of its infamy and don't believe we need laws against it.

One answer you got here (byderule) gave you some pretty complete facts, but there is a bit missing, and a little bit slightly in error.

He's right about the hemp fibers being used for so many things to great success, particularly rope.

There was a big newspaper publisher back in the day, named William Randolph Hearst, and he had incredible power because he oversaw nearly every important newspaper in the USA. And I do mean powerful - the man started a war, for crying out loud, because of what he printed in his papers. Really.

So one day this guy buys an enormous cotton-growing operation, I believe it was in central or south America, and who was his biggest competition? Hemp growers. He started an all-out assault on that industry through his newspapers, and the best way he saw to do it was to focus on the people who smoked it, instead of the products created with it. There wasn't nearly the number of people smoking it that his newspapers said there were, but that fact was kept quiet.

Where his newspapers couldn't print fact, they printed fiction. The idea was to appeal to parents whose children might be led astray, and to lawmakers who would see governmental profit in outlawing it. And like with the war he started, people began to get all up in arms about this danger to the American way of life, and started demanding that something be done about it.

This, and one selfish rich man, are the base root of our current laws against marijuana. Once he started the ball rolling, others jumped on the bandwagon and its all gone downhill from there. These days its just commonly accepted that marijuana is a drug of the same caliber as heroin or meth.

William Randolph Hearst was a successful man. His methods were manipulative and corrosive, but he definitely succeeded.

So, whether you are for or against pot smoking, this is really how it became an issue in the first place.

Answer 3

No, I don't. Alcohol is MUCH more dangerous than pot. Not to mention the fact that pot is habitual, not addictive, like alcohol is. There's been something of a witch-hunt lately trying to eradicate pot, when other drugs, even legal ones, are the real problems.

The government simply seized the opportunity to keep alcohol legal, because it can be regulated with the breathalyzer, and anyone over the legal limit can be fined heavily, thus funding more policeman's balls (pun intended).

Marijuana, on the other hand, is much more expensive to test for (blood test), and so they'd rather just make it illegal. You get repeat offenders with alcohol, and each time one is caught, they pay hefty fines, court costs, and sometimes restitution.

The PROBLEM is: if you allow drunks to continually drive drunk, sooner or later they're going to kill somebody, and then the police have to explain their greed, and why the drunk wasn't put away for longer, kept on probation, house arrest... etc.

With pot, you get the munchies, and sit around the house playing video games. How dangerous!

Answer 4

it is a basic violation of democracy and a hypocritical approach,to permit booze ,and cigarettes and persecute marijuana,tipical Christian double standards.

but i dont think it will ever be legal in the USA,if a
anything the politics are moving in the oposite direction and a fascist attitude against minority groups is growing

even though marijuana has many genuine positive uses
MEDICINAL
in many countries marijuana is used in rubbing alcohol mostly by old people to relieve body pains especially the limbs.
it is also used for Asthma and nervous disorders
AMERICA
the USA the attitude is dogmatic for other reasons than the narcotic effects of the drug.
before 1920 marijuana was extensively grown by the USA and Mexico for the production of fibre.which made a durable material,cheap and it does not scorch,that was used for all the jeans,ropes,sails for the sailing ships and millions of jute bags that were used by millions of farmers,representing a multimillion dollars business.

after 1920 with the coming of synthetic materials,which were products of the petrolium business ,which were owned by the families or associates of most of the presidents,

this competitive comodity could not be allowed to continue to exist,
and the war on Mariujana was on.

the drug factor although it has been proven beyond doubt by countless tests that it was a relative harmless substance compared to sigarettes,alcohol and others,was blatently ignored and relentlessly the war continued to this day.
although it does worry the church, since people tended to stay up all night and question religious and philosohical beliefs.some times coming to uncomplementary conclusions of what was socially accepted.

alcohol puts people to sleep and they dont question the given standards.


MARIJUANA FIBRE
today Mariujana fibre is making a come back in Europe and Africa and produce designer pantalons and shirts for very high prices because the quality is superior than linnen.

these fibre plants do not produce drugs to speak of and are worthless for the drug market .it is the fibre that is the value.

and organically speaking it is an exelent plant to recuporate tired soils ,after cattle and corn field have practically destroyed the land,because the plant is deep rooted grows on most altitudes,and breaks open or loosens compacted soils as well as secreting nitrogen.

.the stalks can also be converted in to building material such as blocks

Answer 5

I don't agree with anti-marijuana laws, because you just can't compare them to the array of much more dangerous drugs out there. Those are the drugs that need to be stopped from being produced and sold, because they cause so much damage to lives. Think about it this way: marijuana isn't addictive (not physically anyway), is probably a lot less unhealthy than cigarettes and alcohol, and produces the same effects of alcohol. If marijuana is illegal, cigarettes and alcohol should be also.

Answer 6

Yeah, someway I don`t imagine this may be heard, yet after all, i imagine that the warfare is only about over. Why are people so targeted on weed every time there are alot of alternative organic complications, some herbs are endangered, unlawful, and the credit for organic healthcare is subdued through the pharmacy? I`ve heard of ridiculous trials with regards to weed vs different sentences, yet that only proves that the agencies in cost should be stood as a lot as quickly.

Answer 7

I don't support the law and I don't even smoke the sh**! If ppl wanna get high and then relax or eat a bunch of junk food while high on marijuana... I say let them! OK so they might loose a few brain cells... They probably didn't have too much to start with! And those, who did mighta added a few more! I'd bet that some guy that's high on marijuana could run our country a lot better, then the sh** that President Bush is on now... "Which is a big case of STUPID-DUMB-A**"! JUST GO ASK CHANEY WHO JUST A GUY, WHILE BEING ON THE SAME SH**! BUT THEN AGAIN THEY COULD HAVE BEEN SMOKING MARIJUANA WHILE SNIFFING THE OTHER SH** UP THEIR NOSE OR MAYBE PRESIDENT DUMB-*** IS STILL DRINKING IT! ***HE STILL LOOKS A LITTLE DRUNK TO ME***!

Answer 8

I don't want people taking drugs. Whether if it's legal or not. I say keep the laws. And even if you have laws against it...they still take the drugs anyway. Do you see people stop taking crack just because there's a law against it? I don't think so.

Answer 9

Right on!!! I don't think many people really support the so called war on drugs. Personally, I would like to see a war on poverty or a war on our failing educational system.

Answer 10

I don't support them. They are just making my habit more expensive so to hell with the government.