What do you think of marijuana?

Question

Should it be legal, do you think it is more safe than alcholo, and do you t hink it will be legal in out life time?

it does not shut down your brain it actually stimulates a part of the brain that nothing else can stimulate
while other drugs just enhance things your body normal does or produces ppl who smoke pot are not all uneducated and lazy pleanty of ppl live normal healthy lives with great jobs while enjoying this natural herb (its a plant and it illegal really think about it thats crazy ) you dont have to do anything to it to get the effect its natural

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? I'm hoping it will be legal within my lifetime. It should be in a max of a hundred years.

Answer 2

Yes, it should be legal. What is the big freakin' deal anyway!? There is still so much controversy about it, & many misconceptions. The jury is still out on that subject. IDIOTS! I do believe it is much safer than alcohol; statistics certainly show more deaths by drinkers than smokers. In who's lifetime? I doubt it will be "legal" in the U.S. for some time because the stupid government can figure out exactly how to tax it. I wonder how many "Government Officials" have ever even smoked it, besides G. W. & Mr. Clinton? How in the hell would anybody know the exact "truth" about 'pot' if they were or are not experienced? And quite frankly, there are people who 'smoke' who are highly functional, & productive. Not everyone who smokes dope is a lazy bum. Maybe if more people smoked 'pot', the world might be in a more peaceful 'state'!

Answer 3

People who are not stoned to the point of stupidity look at those that are and wonder why anyone would want to become completely desensitized to life. It's like suicide, except it only takes hours and days and memories of events away from you. So you slowly kill yourself by refusing to live in the real world, by escaping to a fantasy land of getting high. It slowly consumes your active mind until it becomes your sole obsession, along with other forms of self-pleasure.

Marijuana, as well as all other forms of addictive narcotic drugs, should be illegal. It's not a good thing to wake up one day and realize that you are now 43 and you have done nothing with your life except drink booze, party, and smoke pot. When you realize how pointless your life has become because of an obsession with drugs, most people either become depressed or suicidal.

Doing drugs is like locking your brain up inside a box for hours and hours. Doing it every day is like shutting off the entire world, every day, and making the real world seem like a passing dream which will go away eventually. Finally you wake up and realize that you are worthless, you have no friends, you produce and accomplish nothing, the best years of your life have already disappeared in a cloud of pot smoke, and all you have to look forward to is cirhosis of the liver, ghonorrea, lung cancer, and poverty-stricken old age.

It might have been less psychologically painful just to overdose on crack cocaine when you were 23.

Or perhaps, you should give up the habit and join the human race here in a little place called reality. Maybe you will find a purpose for living, other than to escape from life altogether.

Answer 4

Marijuana is a tremendous moneymaker for the United States government as it is. It is an easy crop to spot from the air (so you can justify fancy helicopters and blade-time to get up there looking) or indoor use by roof heating and unusual electrical bills. It does not involve toxic chemicals so the response team does not have to wear all that nasty hot anticontamination clothing like they do for meth labs. Disposal makes newsworthy bonfires. And who counts the number of buds? A few can always be secretly stashed in the law enforcement officers's pockets for later.

Marijuana is easily picked off coming across the boarder with drugsniffing dogs. Seemingly easier than illegals that the mayors and counselmen put to work in their manors later. And the amount in dollars of any bust can be easily inflated.

Keeping it illegal keeps the price up. Keeps police organizations funded. Keeps jails and prisons going. It is good business. Merely legalizing it and then taxing it hardly would raise enough to cover lost revenue. There would be too much homegrown available. If mother can grow tomatoes, can she grow marijuana? One would think so.

Safer than alcohol? Socially, yes. I have never been assaulted by someone who was simply stoned. I have been punched and shot at by relatives who were drunk. We have seen what alcohol and quail hunting can do with lawyers and VPs, haven't we?

I believe that marijuana can be very psychologically addictive. I know some people who do not go a day without being stoned. Their whole lives are screened through marijuana smoke. I think that is a waste; not for nothing is that called "being wasted." Many things, including Yahoo Answers, can be addictive. I am not for banning Yahoo Answers. Nor am I for keeping marijuana illegal.

Do I see it getting legalized? It practically is in California for many folks with ailments. Even so, for many jobs (especially those jobs in public trust - nuclear, transportation, refineries, etc) we still have drug testing. A positive test can lose you your job right then.

Even if I were not working where I do, even if it were legal, I think I would stay away from something that would interfere with my life as heavily as getting stoned would do. Just my take on things.

Answer 5

yes it will probably be legal one day.
as for how it compares to alcohol, while no one has ever really died from just smoking too much, that doesn't make it safer, someone can drink one beer or glass of wine and be fine, but smoking one joint is going to impair them...its just not a fair comparison.
as for what i think of it...i've never been a fan, though i've smoked more than my fair share. the idea that its a "gateway" drug is silly, its like saying bungee jumping is a gateway to skydiving, where its probably just that a person prone to trying one is likely to also try another. i think it also tends to make people lazy and stupid and hard to get up and motivated and moving, talk about some rather dumb stuff, and if stoned people eat any more of my chips i'm going to scream and have to pound some stoned butt. and like anything, when its all somebody does, its just sad and pathetic, though it often seems even more so in the case of pot. also there is nothing clever about smoking at 4:20 am or pm...

Answer 6

Yes, I think marijuana should be legalized. I think it is WAY safer than alcohol. I do think it will be legal in our lifetime. I think we're getting to a stage in (American) society where it's going to come to be accepted that smoking pot isn't some total loser epidemic, that all kinds of people have done it, or do it regularly, and live completely productive lives. It's already less taboo for people to be honest about their usage and the more honest discussion there is about it, the better. I agree with the answerer who mentioned that it won't be legalized until the government is able to regulate the strength of the diff. strains. I'm guessing that won't really be hard to do if they care to do it.

Answer 7

I gave this answer to another question. I don't believe marijuana will be legal in the USA until they can regulate the potency of the strains. Once they do this, the government will tax the crap out of it and legalize it. This will stop a lot of crime and save a lot of tax dollars. Kids already have easy access to it, so I don't think legalizing it will make much of a difference. I do not use marijuana, and I do not think it is safer than alcohol. However, alcohol is responsible for more deaths in this country.

Answer 8

It should be legallized and be put in the same category as alcohol. It should have the age restrictions, you shouldn't be able to smoke and drive, etc. I doubt it would ever be legal because the government makes too much money with it being illegal....everyone saying it kills your brain cells, there wasn't a day in highschool that I didn't go in high. I graduated with a 4.0...so much for frying my brain cells huh?

Answer 9

It is more safe than alcohol. Problem is it is also better than latex. See it's only illegal because it's highly useful for many many things and very cheap. It has nothing to do with it's safety. Every judge that has ever convicted a person for marijuana is a sold out, unmoralistic worthless scum criminal because they cause senseless pain to people in pursuit of money, not justice.

Answer 10

I think it's fine, I mean, if you want to destroy your brain in a manner that doesn't hurt. I guess it's the same thing as like, the choking game, or another lame reason for children to run about, waste their lives, and kill themselves. I actually think it might become legal, since so many people are pushing for it now, 'for medical purposes'.