should marijuana be legal?

Answer 1

Listen to this story. My wife in her younger years liked to smoke pot. She went to someones house with a friend to buy some one evening and saw a 4 person water bong on the table. The people who lived there had a 2 year old girl running around and they used to think it was funny to let the child suck on the bong to make bubbles. They would light the bong occasionally because it was funny to see a two year old high. My wife left and on the way back to her house called the cops. They went to the house and arrested them both and left the child with the drug dealers mom, who was also a dealer who had served time in prison for it. The couple was released the next day and continued dealing. God only knows what will happen to that child. This is a reason to NOT allow another drug to be made legal because it makes people do stupid things and involve innocents in the process.

Answer 2

Legalize all the drugs, and if you are too weak a person to let youself fall into it, or you have an addictive personality, or you are not in touch with yourself enough to know it would be a bad choice for you, then its your own damn fault. Legalize all drugs, and for the first few years watch everyone who chose to partake run around high all the time. I don't even have to tell you what would happen to our society. Eventually it just wouldn't be fun to do because it's not illegal anymore, as it is human nature for some strange reason that we are always attracted to do the things that are not the best for us. Or you could just recognize these reasons for the reasons they are illegal in the first place.

Answer 3

All drugs should be legalized. The laws against drugs are Unamerican. Freedom is more important than safety. At least, that's what this country was founded on.

Home of the Free and the Brave
not home of the Scared and the Safe

Answer 4

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 5

when i was young and stupid, i smoked pot as a recreational drug. it made me hungry and sleepy. but i also noticed that when i smoked it when i had a migraine, it lessened the pain.

now that i'm older, i keep some on hand in case nothing else works for the migraine. it's not my first painkiller of choice, but when nothing else works, it's where i go. unfortunately, if i smoke it, i'm in danger of being fired from my job. the painkillers i use for other pains i have are much more detrimental to my judgement.

i wish this was a legal drug. regulated. taxed. watched. prescribed. i know folks who still use it as a recreational drug and i don't care if they do. i don't. but probably because it does nothing to enhance my life. i also know folks who smoke crack and i can tell you i worry about those friends a helluva lot more than the ones who smoke pot. actually, the drinkers are who i worry about.

Answer 6

Absolutely. This is still America, freedom of choice and pursuit of happiness is a constitutional right. Try to take away coffee and alcohol these are also drugs.
It does need to be regulated and taxed. Think of the added income with the taxes, jobs and decrease in prison population.
The war on drugs is a waste of taxpayers money and violates the freedom of choice for millions. I think they need to free the prisoners of war, the war on drugs.

Answer 7

No it should not. If you have been around someone that uses it you know why. It destroys you and supports murderers. Using it in the US can eliminate your chances of getting a great career in the government. And yes it is more harmful than tabaco.

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

I think no because of the way ciggarette companies are able to make these things look cool. If we had a more mature society I would say so, but I guess such a society does not exist.

Answer 10

People who do marijuana eventually live to regret it.
I Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!!!