Should marijuana be legalised?

Question

please state why aswell?

Answer 1

Yes of course. Actually, i don't see any reasons why forbid it in the 1st place. It is people's own responsibility to smoke, their own responsibility to drink Alcohol and thus their own responsibility to use Marijuana as well. I think by forbidding it you just make it more interesting for youngsters to search for it and to try it out.
Of course overuse of Marijuana is not good, but neither is overuse of alcohol in that matter. So, in my opinion just legalize it.
Of course it's easy for me to say so, as here in the Netherlands marijuana is legal and we never have any big problems with it. However, a cross-sectional study has been done between Netherlands (legal) and France (illegal) and the result of the study was that Marijuana was by far more of a problem in France. Also some comparison between the US and Holland has been made.

Answer 2

Boy this world is already in a runt you want to legalese marijuana go ahead and you talking about Young teenagers coming to work straight hahahahahaa. It's not just young people your old ones are just as bad. I wouldn't know who I would be talking to when having a conversation with someone the marijuana or the person. I know some people smoke it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I know for a fact that it causes brain damage. I would not legalese marijuana because people would really not fine a job because everyone would what you call be hustling. I have a son and I don't want him out there in the world selling this mess and killing for nothing. We have enough going on in this world as it is. If people go to the doctor and this is what the doctor prescription for them then let it be but please don't legalise it.Jesus

Answer 3

I think it should. It would be a source of income for the gov. They could then lower taxes. It would also make gangs do something else( like get a real job). Ease the burden of our courts, and jails because then there would be no reason for someone selling dope to get busted. I also think it would lower the rate of domestic violence, because usually its caused by alcohol, and chances are these type of people would smoke pot as well and just mellow out. I would also like to believe that car crashes would lower because if they smoked legal pot at a party they would drink less and not drive so fast on the streets.

Answer 4

If it were legal, the authorities would have more time to get the "hard drugs" off the streets. Perhaps
the prices would go down, resulting in less stealing in order to buy.
Also, it could be used by Drs. in pain management, with little or no side-effects instead of man-made pills....many of which are being pulled from the market due to dire side effects.
If alcohol is legal, why not??

Answer 5

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 6

Alcohol is legal and it causes more damage than marijuana.

Answer 7

Definitely.

Heck, it has already been decriminalized where I live... though you can still be fined for having more than a certain amount of it on your person.