Should Marijuana be made legal?

Question

Our prisons are over crowded as it is and I personally find it repulsive that they actually lock people up for smoking pot for years while a drunk gets an over nighter in the tank and moves on.

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

Yes. Like any other herbal remedy it has true healing properties but when taken in doses that are too high it can cause permanent or long-term damage to health. It is a matter of being educated on how to properly use things. Abuse is abuse but marijuana is something that should not be regulated by the government, just like ephedra.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe it should be. Marijuana should be legalized and moderated. I agree it's silly to fill up our prisons for small possession charges. Marijuana is no worse for you than alcohol. No one has ever died from using it, unlike alcohol, which kills thousands of people a year(directly and indirectly). We could also save thousands of trees a year from being turned into paper by using hemp as a cash crop.

Answer 4

Yes but only as a controlled substance for use in medical experiments and to alleviate the sufferring of the terminally ill or to manage certain medical conditions with no other remedy which is as effective. \

We are now coming close to making smoking tobacco illegal per se. I don't think we should complicate our lives further by making another dangerous substance as available as cigarettes or alcohol.

Answer 5

NO of course not do you no how many poor youths are locked up in mentle hospitals
how many people are depressed
Ive try ed for years to tell my son about the bad sides of skunk but he don't listen
if people only knew the true facts what skunk weed what ever you want to call the drug does to people i think it would make some think twice
respect
shaz

Answer 6

Well, I grew up with a family member who used it and I tend to agree with his opinion. I have never used it myself. I think with all of the other items/ drugs out there that it should be legalized. I mean tobacco (store bought cigarettes) contain nicotine, a highly addictive substance [LEGAL]. Alcohol is legal above 21. Open up the sale of it to all above 18, it becomes less of a mystery.

Answer 7

yes, as long as it is mandatory that every person that is employed has to take a few hits before heading home every evening from the office. just think of the road rage that would no longer exist. The only downside that I can see to this is the lines in the drive-thru's would be abysmally long.

Answer 8

Yes! And other "recreational" or "street" drugs should be legal too. I do not believe as some do that the government should regulate them. I think they should still be sold in back alleys. Having said that, I also don't believe that one dime of my tax dollars should go to drug rehabs or methadone clinics or the like. Get your fix in the alley. Live in the alley. Die in the alley.

Answer 9

Alcohol and tobacco are legal because big business makes a lot of money off of them. Marijuana is illegal because big business doesn't make a lot of profit off of it.

I think marijuana should have the same status as alcohol and tobacco.

Answer 10

Legalise it.Used to blame it does no damage except for the end results of smoke contained in the body & cigarettes are criminal.Hash isn't one hundred% thc,the point varies because it does contained in the flora.Hash has a range of of crap blended into it to extend earnings.Alcohol damage getting worse& remains criminal.Many clinical reward from using it jointly with relieving soreness.If legalised that is going to take weight off the penal gadget &separate it from the criminal component.The plant has many makes use of jointly with paper,cloth & outfits.If it became taxed funds might want to bypass to the authorities.truly than criminals.