which is a worse crime being an illegal alien or smoking marijuana?

Question

in a general way i dont care which carries the worst punishment in your mind whats worse

Answer 1

Being an illegal alien is far worse. Being an illegal alien is actually hurthing our economy and forcing the usa to pay for people that they shouldnt even be resposnsible for. Pot isnt that bad of a thing, and the few bad things about it your doing to yourself when you smoke not the people around you 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

Well, if you're asking which has the worst punishment? Marijuana. Illegals get jobs, money, homes....some are better off than I am.

If you're asking which I think SHOULD be a worse crime, I'd say definately being an illegal alien. We may all have rights, but that also means we as a country have a right to keep our country the way we want it! As for marijuana, I don't even smoke it, it's gross. But I happen to know it doesn't to do anything bad to you unless you're a complete idiot. The only reason it's illegal is because the government can't make money off of something that grows wild.

Answer 3

Smoking marijuana, duh.

Being an illegal alien isn't a crime I really would look down on you for. When you apply for a job overseas and you tell them you have a felony record for being an illegal alien, I doubt most people will care.

Answer 4

illegal alien

I don't care if you smoke something in closed doors or whatever, but when you get to be in this fine country without taxes and other crap youre just being a jackass

seriously I am in full support of deporting very last illegal alien, they wanna come to this country fine, let them come through normally, this country already has enough of its own reject we can't get rid of

Answer 5

illegal alien smoking marajuana

Answer 6

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Answer 7

neither
all come from the earth
earth born and raised
we are all proably aliens and illegal
what is of earth .....is of earth!.

Answer 8

What should be a crime is asking stupid questions. Thanks for the 2 points.