A far reaching/epic/"thinker" question, most people, if not all, have a opinion about, what do you think?

Question

The subject of the question is marijuana, I will submit the good answers (whether for/against) to a few major magazines for thier consideration.

Who would benefit from the legalization of marijuana? Lose out?

What are the pros of marijuana being legalized? Cons?

When do you think marijuana will be legalized? Ever?

Why has marijuana not been legalized?

How do you think marijuana could be transitioned into a legal "substance"?

Whould small business profit from legalized marijuana? Could they profit?

Whould the big business profit from legalized marijuana? Could they profit?

Whould the government profit from legalized marijuana? Could they profit?

What is the number one reason for legalizing marijuana?

What is the number one reason for keeping marijuana illegal?

What are the major problems marijuana causes? Minor?

What do you think of alcohol/marijuana? Is there a connection?

Answer one, answer them all, or state your opinion, just have fun and please be thorough and honest!!

Answer 1

If alcohol is a tiger, marijuana is a mouse. Major problem is it makes you lazy and a poor taxpayer. Minor problem is your lungs may not like it. Number one reason for legalizing marijuana is so that dealers will have to get a real job. The government would profit by taxing the stuff. Ah, taxes again. Enough questions, excuse me while I fire this sucker up. Helps with imagination. Lord knows you need imagination on this site.

Answer 2

1. Companies (you know they would get in on the action) would make large profits. Critics would say its the users who would lose out in the end.
2. Pros: Allows law enforcement to focus on other matters, creates another taxable vice. Cons: becomes eaisly available and loses some of its stigma
3. I doubt it. people compare it to alcohol or tobacco, but those things are old and became major parts of the culture (and economy) long before the government was prepared to legislate agiast them.
4. Governments figure that if the new drugs remain illegal they can't develop a "heritage"
5. The Dutch method, limited buying, selling, and ownership. You can only smoke in the privacy of your own home or a "hash bar" (thank you Pulp Fiction)
6. Marijuana will never become a "Mom and Pop" business, there's too much money involved
7. Absolutly. Marijuana will become branded, packaged, advertised and sold by the carton.
8. Yes, taxes on alcohol and tobacco already provide lots of money to the government
9. Theres money to be made and crime to be stopped (take a major commoditty away from pushers)
10. "Would somebody please think of the children?"
11. Brain damage, possibility of addiction, lethargy, "gateway drug"
12. Already adressed

Answer 3

You would probably get better, more readable answers if you kept your question concise, but here goes...

Only the people selling marijuana would benefit from legalization, society would pay a onerous cost in the form of wasted lives and potential, wasted resources and increased crime.

Who loses out? Our Society. People who do a lot of pot are classic under achievers and adding more people to that category would only help countries who have more directed and ambitious populations to catch up and surpass America economically.


Marijuana is not legalized, because right thinking people do not want yet one more vice unleashed on a society already over indulgent in vices. It is too late to curtail the alcohol and cigarette abuses, as both these substances (poisons) do huge harm to society. Just because it feels good, does not mean a person should do something nasty!

Hopefully marijuana will never transition into a legal substance, but anything is possible.

Most businesses would lose out in the form of lost productivity and decreased health of workers. Also they would pay out higher costs in benefits as the long term health detriments of marijuana use mirror tobacco and additionally cause problems with horomones. Occupational health and safety issues would also raise as more workers would be injured on the job.

Some businesses could profit, but only by playing on the losses of the majority of businesses.

The number one reason for legalizing Pot is because certain people feel it is their right to pursue it constitutionally. It feels good to them, helps them cope or escape and becasue they want it, they may get it in certain jurisdictions. Of course they are deluding themselves, but that is their democratic right.

The number one reason to keep marijuana illegal is to protect the health and well being of the majority of citizens. The high that pot gives does not outweigh the irrepairable harm its widespread use would inflict on society.

Alcohol use and Marijuana use are related, but not completely intertwined. Both do great harm. Both kill brain cells. But on a strictly pragmatic level, making alcohol illegal is not practical because it is unenforceable. Marijuana is barely manageable now. There is a myth that marijuana use is "harmless" or "victimless", but that is simply not true.

People fight and die over its use. Pot smoking can turn an average student from C minus to failure or an A student into a C.

If life is so boring you can't cope without pot, try community service, video games or reading, try exercise or sports. Keep busy, don't be lazy, have some ambition.

Pot is not evil, it simply makes its selfish self gratifying users stupid.

Answer 4

ive actually done a study on that

with libr. and college library books it took up 15 pages front and back

what you are asking for is opinions then you move into specifics
since it grows naturely it cant be made and taxed

it would also drop the prices and lots of people would be out of a job sell pot to kids and adults

people rob houses for there maryjane money and sell other drugs as well we it would change some of the economy
and treatment centers would increase in number just like the alcoholic ones i know lots of people who work for the government and smoke day and night they dont really care if its leagal or not

some one could make it an issue to get known politically or in the media for a second expecting the huge following of pot smokers to join in and rally i havent meet any that really would

its a weak ploy its not really an issue it wouldnt help or hinder anybody
illeagal lots of people have abuseive and develop abusive habits
enough to where they would stop paying taxes to cities and other government

its against the law to be under the infuence of alchoal or other mind altering substances be hind the wheel in public so all the pot smokers would have to stay at home i guess

why would you want to leagalize pot
when i was younger i signed a pottition once i like it
but i dont see any benifits to it being leagal exceppt this

(haha im not doing anything wrong mindind my own buisness smoking bud haha you can t judge me or give me a ticket
hey lets go leagize it
the tobbacco companies have pot fields in experimentally stages
if that happens to controll the market

you need to speciffy leagal to grow or own
or legal to use