would u support a new law to leigize marijuana for the over 21?

Question

on Maui,HI the is a bill going a round it reads "it shall be lawful 4 any person 21 and older, to use and possess one oz. of pot",and also 4 medical marijuana growers 2 suply all the pot 4 the patients that already have "the blue card"

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

Should marijuana be legal??? To be honest, I don't know. There could be benefits such as its huge potential to be a taxable cash crop and cutting down on drug related crime.

But is legalizing pot going to be a good thing for America. I realize the issue is more about the right to choose for ones self what is best...but if we had the power to prevent access (legally anyway) to a substance that leads to further drug abuse and addiction. Do we want to be apart of a society where the paramedic who has to save you from your burning car just smoked a 'fatty' on his lunch break???

Answer 3

All drugs should be legalized and provided by the government. Then in a few days the garbage trucks could make the rounds and pick up all the ODs and cart them off, We'd be rid of alot of useless idiots that way.

Answer 4

I would support a bill that anyone over 21 who possesses marijuana or smokes it is bashed in the head with a tire iron.

Answer 5

Yup. Think of how the farmers could benefit. The government tax it and end some of our $ issues. Our jails could clear out. And people would chill a little.

Answer 6

You should migrate to
South Australia it is legal there has been for a long time
More people are killed on the roads from drink driving than dope

Answer 7

i really doubt that the law is as you wrote in quotations, so don't use them... it would be funny though, if that was the actually letter of the law. anyway, i'd be all for the legalization of pot, and actually, all other drugs for that matter.

Answer 8

Yes, I would. I think if they would legalize it people would probably stop smoking it. Its a certain kind of thrill to know that you are in possession of something illegal. Its kind of like a catch me if you can kind of feeling.

Answer 9

yes but because it makes me sick to see drug dealers making more in an hour than i do in week. tax the hell out of it make all the illegal drugs legal tax is to hell and back choke out the welfare drug dealers that is how you win the war on drugs. sell it cheap like 20 to a pack for like $1.50 then and make em thick like cigarettes. and you kill the death dealers

Answer 10

i think pot shold be legal, i dont smoke it... i dont like it, but atleast if its legal there will be less criminal activity... ppl are going to do it even ifs its not legal so ya i thing legalizing it wold be smart and to ppl over the age of 18.bt i think trafikking it should still be iligal.