Do you think Marijuana should be legalized for personal use?

Question

I do, I don't smoke it or anything. I just believe that you have the right to out anything in your body and it's your choice to take drugs or not. Our whole socitey revolves around taking drugs. There should be no restrictions on what you can or cannot do to your body. It's just like a woman getting a abortion, she has the right to choose if she wants to be a mother or not.

I don't think it's anyone's bussiness if you want to take drugs.

Answer 1

Yes! I think only marijuana though. It is the safest drug out there. Even more safe than alcohol! How often does something bad happen when you are high on weed? Not often, way less than alcohol. Marajuana does not make you want more,you can eat while your high and you can sleep. Unlike all the others like:crack,cocaine,exstacy,and ice. It should be legal to anyone 21 years or older. It relives stress and helps you sleep.

Answer 2

Absolutely not. Marijuana remains illegal in the majority of the world's nations for very good reason.

The drug affects many people as if they were drunk, causing them to operate mechanical equipment unsafely.

Not only that, but with long term use, it makes people lazy. Why would we want anything readily available that would make our teenagers (and adults) lazy? There are enough unambitious people in the world.

It impairs short term memory. Shouldn't people make the best use of what brain cells they have, rather than damaging the cells of the most important organ in the body?

Like cigarettes, marijuana has a number of chemicals in it besides the main one, tetrahyrdrocannabinol, which could be harmful to the lungs and other organs in the body.

Additionally, the psychoactive ingredient, (sometimes also mixed with other drugs) can have an extremely traumatic impact on the psyche. Do you want your children any more messed up than they already are?

Your argument holds no logic. People should not be free to go around drinking battery acid since it kills them. Long-term health destruction is not something to encourage or make easily available just because a few people are stupid enough to want it.

Answer 3

Marijuana is not a DRUG, only by government standards it is a drug, what it truly is is a medicinal plant, that can ease pain and mental anguish in many people, thats why it is legalized for medicinal use. You cannot put all of those pharmeceutical drugs in your body and have no affect many people cannot use over the counter for pain, so this alternative is a great way to avoid what the fda may not even be aware of as far as side effects. And really it should be completely legal, but because of real users who drive or operate machinery as if it is not as effective as pharmeceuticals unfortunately, they will not legalize it. Even though it is a double standard obviously. Yes i do think it should be legal.

Answer 4

No, it's just one more intoxicant people would abuse.

People DO NOT automatically have the right to do whatever they want with their bodies, because what they do with their body can affect other people (i.e. driving under the influence, and even abortion, which involves several bodies: the conceived, the mom, and the dad...to name just a few).

Answer 5

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 6

Then I should be able to drive and not wear my seatbelt without fear of getting stopped because... If I want to die in a car accident, it is my business. /shrug.

So using your logic, we should legalize Meth, Cocaine, Heroin, PCP, and of course marijuana. And remove age restrictions for paints, glues, markers and other things people use for inhalants, OH and lets get rid of legal drinking age and pass out vibrators in daycare centers..Since after all, what we do to our bodies...

Answer 7

Of course It IS MY business if my babysitter is passed out when my son is wandering around. It IS MY business when a driver keeps feeling ****** up and is too busy laughing at his shirt color to focus on the road. IT IS MY business if our society uses this drug and deadens their brains so we just stagnate and devolve.

Answer 8

the only reasons why marijuana is not legalized and alcohol is that alcohol companies foot large marketing bills and taxes and gifts for the government's coffers.

Legalising marijuana would rid the country of many violences as it would be much cheaper. the only violence that is left is substance abuse.

Answer 9

No, people would drive, operate machinery and take care of kids on it. I believe it should only be used for medical purposes.

Answer 10

No. I'm a liberal, but I really believe no, if only for the reason that we have enough potheads around. Does the world really need any more stoners?