When do you think marijuana will be finally legalized?

Question

Will it ever be?

Answer 1

YES people will eventually see that it isnt that bad, more people are starting to smoke pot everyday and realize it isnt bad due to groups like normal (look at www.normal.com), or just simple word getting around. 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

It should have never been made illegal in the first place. The government knew absolutely nothing about its effects in the late '30s. The few tests that were going, including the use of marijuana by off-duty servicemen in Panama, concluded that there were no ill effects and advised against any repercussions for its use. So, knowing nothing about it, why was it still outlawed? Simple. Several large corporations and key persons stood to gain hundreds of millions of dollars if it was outlawed. Ironically enough, those same people and corporations were all tied together and were the ones with the voice and the power to make sure it was made illegal. I've included various links including a link to download the torrent for Hemp For Victory. Hemp For Victory is a U.S. government issued video urging all citizens to grow marijuana due to a wartime shortage of rope. As soon as the shortage passed they re-criminalized marijuana overnight. Doesn't sound very dangerous when it's in their best interest does it?

Answer 3

5 years. Marijuana is just traveling the same road as alcohol. Marijuana is safer.

Answer 4

it is simply a case of modern day prohibition !

many states have voted , and shown their desire for the medicinal usage , but the federal government keeps stepping in and bullying the issue .

it is really about economics . they fear this will cut into the sale of authorised products such as alcohol and tobacco .

with any luck , people will become more vocal about the need to be more progressive in this area ...........although as it seems right now , most of the populous is content to let someone else pave the way .

cheers !

Answer 5

Hell yeah! i do not comprehend of all and sundry who died from smoking marijuana nor killed all and sundry else. the purely aspect is that it does set off severe blood rigidity especially ethnicities and heart issues by using severe blood rigidity. yet it truly isn't any longer a sturdy reason by myself because so does french fries and no workout yet no man or woman is going to penal complicated for no longer walking or for no longer ingesting vegetables. the very incontrovertible certainty that they even use it for medicinal applications by myself must be grounds to legalize it. also, its no longer a man made drug its organic. i imagine it is especially weak that the authorities may even inform you what form of plant you may improve besides. i imagine the cheif reason that it's not already criminal is because it truly is organic and all and sundry can improve it and promote it independently. who's gonna record that on their taxes??

Answer 6

It is legal as long and you dont get caught!LOL best bet hope on a plane and move the Amsterdam!

Answer 7

I think it could be legalized. People use it for medical reasons.

Answer 8

when the american public wakes up and realizes that virtually every dollar spent locking up tokers is a dollar sucked out of their wallets and pissed away by the establishment.

Answer 9

Pray for another rope shortage.

Answer 10

I don't think it will happen for another 20 years for it to happen properly.