sould marijuana be legalized marijuana in america?

Answer 1

That which is sacred is legal in the hearts and minds of the people; it only takes time and energy to make it so in the halls of so-called "justice." In other words, yes. But have you noticed a profound tendency of this nation to ignore good sense and to do anything other than what it should?

Answer 2

Yes, and tax it as we do cigarettes or alcohol. Can you imagine how much money we'd make in taxes if we did that?

Besides, Marijuana is not, by any means, the worst drug out there. Alcohol has far greater consequences physically, monetarily and damage and death wise.

The worst you'll see from a chronic pot head is some weight gain and some way too paranoid runs to the market for ho-ho's and Pepsi.

Answer 3

why not follow George Washington's advise grow marijuana.
u will save lots of tax dollars foolishly shoveled into useless senseless law enforcement maybe the idiots in congress and the senate could learn a bitter lesson for the constituents that saw through the bovine fecal matter. it only makes sense! we import a million dollars worth of cannabis from over seas each year for textile mills to make clothes and rope and the such ....

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

there is a big difference between legalization and de-criminalization , legalization would be chaotic in the usa and no one would benefit in the way they think. here in canada decriminalization laws have proved much more successful.
legalization =means legal , controlled by government , possible prosecution for anything still, maybe only grown by gov't
decriminalization= not criminal , grow and smoke yourself, no government control,

Answer 6

Don't see why not ,you have to get rid of the old school.I live in the land of the grow-op SURREY LOTS OF MEDICINE HERE,people making good money to ,feeding the economy

Answer 7

Well zen, let me tell you, I have never known of anybody to rob for weed. Go off and kill for it. Pot makes you a little dumb, pretty happy, and you usually drive slow. Yes on 13 for me.

Answer 8

Gee, we would save billions on law enforcement and make billions on taxing it!! Works for me!

Answer 9

yeppers, i think we spend too much time and money on small drug conviction like weed. hell the cops just take it and smoke it themselves, along with other minor drugs that take from people.

Answer 10

for medical reasons yes but it a nasty effin habbit and for general population no. Im really glad i stopped smokin.