should weed be legalized?

Answer 1

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

Legalized? Not sure, but is it any worse than some things that are legal? Like gambling, alcohol, cigarettes just to name a few. All of these things destroy lives. So why just pick on one?

Answer 3

yeah it really should - seriously whats negative? that people comit crimes cuz of it? wrong - they dont.......cuz people smoke and get in the car and into accidents? wrong - studies have prooven that weed is safer than most doctor prescried rugs - and let me add that senior citizens driving (jesus christ they need 2 doe already) are responsible for 15 times more accidents than pot-related accidents -and i mean pot related not that the driver was high but that they may have found weed - so name 1 think that it does wrong

Answer 4

Why not. We have legalized cigarettes and alcohol.
Everyday people are digesting things that are bad fir us. Weather it be legalized or not.

Answer 5

nope.the consequences would be devastating.just close ur eyes and picture ur neighbourhood filled with kids high on weed,nah didnt think so.any way it better 4 someone like me who smokes pot once in a blue moon,the excitement of gettin caught just makes it better

Answer 6

No i dont think think so ....
it has long term side effects ... paranoia ... lung cancer and can effect u if u have mental health problems by acting as a trigger
and short term ones ... makes u lethargic .. hungry ... stoooopid
it can be OK if used now and then as a recreational drug but its too easy for it to become a habit ....as altho its not physically addictive it can be mentally addictive ...

Answer 7

yes and alcohol should be illegal....it harms the body just as much as weed

Answer 8

Name one person who has died as the result of marijuana smoke. ******* swine, marijuana smoke will not and never will cause lung cancer... yeah i smoke three packs of joints a day.... not gonna happen bitchass!