Should marijuana be legal for personal use? Why?

Question

I believe that it should be legal. It doesnt harm you as bad as achol does.

Answer 1

It is very simple and I don't understand why ppl ask this question so often.

Marijuana can not be made legal because it is a drug that alters the mind and does harm to the body even when used in MODERATION.

In layman's terms, one beer does not harm to your body and does not get you high, whereas, one toke off of a joint does.

Answer 2

The question is not whether it should be legalized, the issue is if it was legalized how could it be regulated. Alcohol is heavily regulated and laws are in place to protect the public from drunk drivers. With marijuana, it is more difficult to regulate the use and determine when a person is too "high" to be driving. If laws could be created so that the public could be protected from its use, and by that I mean while at work, on the road or in school... then I think it could be legalized. Until then, and I don't see this happening soon, it is better for public safety that is isn't.

Answer 3

I think it should be legalized, not just because it has not proven very harmful (and certainly it's less harmful than cigarettes), but because legalizing pot would do two things:
1. It would vastly slash the amount of money spent on imprisoning low-level offenders with small amounts of weed
2. The goverment could sell it and impose a large tax. This could be used to fund programs to keep cocaine and other hard drugs off our streets; it could also help pay for education - which our country sorely needs more of.

Answer 4

I believe it should and probably would have been legalized by now if the government could figure a way to make money off it. I believe that alcohol is much worst on your body than marijuana, and there are scientific studies out there to prove what I'm stating. As soon as Uncle Sam figures out a profit from legalizing it, it will be legalized. As it is right now, Uncle Sam makes more money from marijuana being illegal from house seizures,vehicle and property seizures, jail and ticket fines, etc. :)

Answer 5

I have to agree with u. If it became legal, some people might stay away from the hardcore stuff.

Holland has a success story with it's legalization.

The main problem is getting the congress to legalize it, which will be very hard considering the majority is fun hating Republicans(who probably smoked it when they were young)

Answer 6

Of course it should. Other than the equivilent effects that cigarrette smoking has on the body , there has been no doctumented and scientificly respected study that says otherwise. Besides in my own personal opinion, drunks are far more dangerous to the people around them. Ask a cop who he'd rather pull over and have to take into custody. Oh, and a little trivia, 46% of police officers have admitted to trying pot at least once in their lives.

Answer 7

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 8

both alter the mind and could cause accidents if a driver was under the influence

having said that, I think it should be legal, taxed, and regulated, much like tobacco and alcohol; there'd be less crime as a result

Answer 9

cannabis should be legalized it just goes to show that the government dose not represent the people when most of the people on here have said yes to legalizes cannabis

Answer 10

yes, cannabis needs to be legalized NOW. personal and medicinal use are perfectly legitimate uses, as well as paper, fiber, fuel, and a multitude of other uses.