should marijuana be legalized?

Question

(i think it should)

(in canada and the us) state your flag
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Answer 1

It definatly think it should be legalized!!! Im from the United states and I beleive also that it should be legalized here and in canada (as well as everywhere else!) 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

Yes. but if you're caught driving under it's influence the penalty should be as severe as driving while intoxicated with booze... I hate when the mind-altered freaks get behind the wheel and put everyone to risk... and don't tell me some people are able to "maintain," 'cause I grew up in the 60's... and the ganja now is at least 3 times more potent than the stuff back in my day! Sure, I think a person should have the right to become immersed in self-imagined profundity all they want... AT HOME! And they had better eat a LOT of "munchies" and drink a lot of fluids - coming back down to earth, BEFORE they get behind the wheel!!!

Answer 3

$113 billion is spent on marijuana each 3 hundred and sixty 5 days in the U.S., and thanks to the federal prohibition *each* greenback of it is going immediately into the fingers of criminals. some distance from suffering with human beings from making use of marijuana, the prohibition instead creates 0 criminal provide amid huge and unrelenting call for. the dimensions of the harm this causes some distance exceeds any income gained from preserving marijuana unlawful. in accordance to the ONDCP, a minimum of sixty p.c. of Mexican drug cartel funds comes from promoting marijuana in the U.S., they look after this gross revenues by technique of brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering infinite innocuous human beings. If we may provide up human beings making use of marijuana then we opt to attain this NOW, yet when we won't be able to then we'd want to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax expenditures set too low for the cartels to compare. one way or the different, we ought to stress the cartels out of the marijuana marketplace and get rid of their fairly worthwhile marijuana earning - no organization can get up to the shortcoming of sixty p.c. of its gross revenues! thus far, the cartels have accumulated more effective than one hundred,000 "foot squaddies" and function in 230 U.S. cities, and it is now believed that the cartels are "morphing into, or making immediately ahead reason with, what might want to be considered an insurgency" (Secretary of State Clinton, 09/09/2010). The longer the cartels are allowed to take advantage the prohibition the more effective valuable they are going to get and the more effective our personal personal protection will be put in jeopardy.

Answer 4

HELL YES . I'm from Michigan, United States . Should be legalized in the US and Canada , hell every where. You know they how they those little debbie brownies with sprinkles , they need to make em' with weed in the mix and put little THC crystals on top.

Answer 5

I'm of the opinion that you should be able to consume anything you feel like, as long as you don't affect anyone else's rights by doing so. So, as far as marijuana goes, YES, it should be legal, everywhere!

Answer 6

Yes, so we could legalize it, regulate it, and tax it...much like we do with tobacco.

As with alcohol, though, being "under the influence" of marijuana would not be allowed while driving, and we'd still be responsible for our actions done while high.

Answer 7

Yeah!!! I think it shold be the goverment dont got no right to tell me what not to put in my body nobody gets hurt its not addictive or potentially fatal and it dont mess up your driving(like alcohol and thats legal) besides didnt we learn from Prohibition of alcohol in 1920s- God created all plants for us to enjoy except the tree of knowledge of good and evil(the one Adam and Eve ate from) so i know he meant for us to use marijuana. also they keep arresting and locking up so many people for drug use and posession they dont got room for real criminals like murderers and rapists

Answer 8

No, certainly not!

I work in a residential rehab with addicts and I see first hand the devastation drugs cause. Look up on the internet the long term effects of marijuana - I think you will change your mind.

Answer 9

Yes. California, USA.

Answer 10

Yes it should. It's not worse than alcohol and the drug laws cost lots of money and other resources, and destroy young lives for no good reason.