Do you think that marijuana should become legal?

Question

I sure do, although I believe there should be restrictions:

No one less then 18 years old should be able to buy it

No driving a vehicle while using it

No public intoxication
I
know that I may get slammed by people who disagree with me...however, this is only my opinion. I am not saying that anyone should do drugs I am simply asking others their opinions.

(I just feel that law enforcement should be tending to the more violent crimes out there.)

Looking forward to hearing from you...

Answer 1

Legal but not 100% legal. You shouldn't be able to just fire up a fatty anytime anyplace. There should be designated places where you can--coffee shops where you could do it, or in your own home.

Answer 2

Become legal?

You mean BECOME LEGAL AGAIN.

Before the 1930's, MJ was legal. Then there was the Prohibition, when alcohol and drugs were banned. Although alcohol was of course eventually legalized again, MJ didn't share the same fate.

MJ should definitely become legal again. It's less harmful than alcohol. Not to mention, if it was made legal, then it could be sold in stores like cigs and beer, and so there would be much less of a problem with dealers.

Answer 3

It should definately be legal. Everyone knows that it is way less harmful than alcohol, but alcohol is legal. It is stupid and makes no sense. The government does not care about you. They only want to be able to fine you, seize your house, land, car, property and whatever other possessions you own so they can use them for themselves. Everyone needs to check out a movie called "Grass." It is a great documentary about the lies the government has told us over many years. This is a true story. You can find it on Amazon, ebay, etc.

Answer 4

I think why do we need one more thing legal in this world that can cause problems...you may see it as helping like some people view a cigarette as relaxing or a glass of wine relaxing...but not everyone is as responsible as yourself and they will drive and they will become addicted and they will spend money they don't have for it...I feel that the people that do use it responsibly won't get caught anyway...why would a cop invade your home in the evening if your behaving...one last thing I do believe that it should be legal for all the people that need it for medical reasons....absolutely..

Answer 5

Yes. It would be a great form of revenue if taxed and would be a wonderful way to revitalize farming. It would provide jobs for inspectors, distributors and retail sales. It would also remove one drug and related crimes from the streets.

Answer 6

I'll agree that it should be legal only if you agree that there are more important topics we could debate here. Being that there are more important topics to debate I know I dont wanna sound like a reefer addict and be taken seriously when I speak. That is why I dont think anyone really wants to touch this.

Answer 7

All "drugs" should be legal. However any crime committed while under the influence should be a capital crime with out the right to appeal.

Answer 8

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 9

Its already legal in Calif with a Doctors prescription.

Answer 10

Yes and all other drugs too with regulation a course.