does ANY 1 (really) care about legalizing marijuana??

Answer 1

I don't think it should.

Answer 2

Isn't it already legal? The penalty in CA for driving in the carpool lane is worse than the penalty for posession of under an oz. of MJ.

The possibility that it will become legal is a pipe-dream that stoners tell each other, but the simple fact is that illicit MJ employs too many people, and the opportunity for tax revenue is non-existent. Legalize MJ, and the cops, judges, and lawyers will have to find real criminals to process.

Catching dope-smokers is like shooting fish in a barrel, so it makes justice look good to people who believe that Reefer Madness nonsense.

All the dope a person could want can be grown on one plant, if there were no need to worry about detection, ripoffs, asset forfeiture, etc. How is a government going to generate revenue from that?

Answer 3

yes , if its legalized the prices of it would go down and the drug dealers wont be so rich so i think it would end some of that , the supplies would be easier to find which would actually be bad for the children , but there could be the same rules applying to marijuana as there is to cigarettes to clear that up too , i think it would be better if it were legalized although i myself do not touch drugs.
also , since it would be legal that would mean less people in prison for possession , so less innocents in jail and more room for the actual criminals.

Answer 4

I've never used it (and never will) but I think it is hypocritical for alcohol to be a legal drug and marijuana an illegal one.

If you really think about it, isn't alcohol a greater destructive force than weed?

With that being said, I don't really care about the subject that much. It wouldn't affect me at all.

Answer 5

YES... All the drug dealers. If uncle sam got in the marijuana business that would put every curb side dealer out of business. So yes they would care. Me personally I would prefer not we all ready have our hands full with alcohol.

Answer 6

I care alot, I want it to be legalized greatly. 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 7

No, people who smoke marijuana are gonna smoke it whether its legal or not.

Answer 8

I think we should dramatically increase the penalties for possession of marijuana and basically shoot people who try to smuggle it in.

Answer 9

ya i think that it should be legalized because itd stop a ton of illegal crap going on and a lot more people would be to busy geting stoned to fight all the time

Answer 10

I think the law enforcement community has some negative views on the subject.

Answer 11

Well this is just what I think.
I don't want it to be legalized, it's funner when it's ILLEGAL. yeah! It's way more ****ing FUNNER!
ILLEGAL THINGS ARE FUN! THAT'S WHY IT'S ILLEGAL! well most... things, are... yeah.
And I wouldn't want to deal with people that are high and **** like that. They get irritating after a while. America would get stoopider.