In the state of Nevada the legalization of Marijuana is actually getting support from a few big organizations.
They just want to make sure minors are monitored like with alcohol you must show ID.
I personally think it should be legal.
If alcohol is legal, why not marijuana? I havent heard any stories of a marijuana death.
It would be legally sold. As long as you dont drive under the influence, adults would be able to have up to an ounce.
Whats your opinion?
2006-10-05 18:59:03 · 26 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
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?
2006-10-06 15:32:36 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It should definitely be legalized. By keeping it illegal, the government is basically creating crime, just like they are with their insane drinking age of 21.
As a matter of fact, high consumption of alcohol is MUCH more detrimental over time than high consumption of marijuana.
And no, I do not smoke, and I never have, but I have had access to it on multiple occasions.
The person who said marijuana is or can be a hallucinogen-show me your RELIABLE sources. Any American media doesn't count.
The fact is, marijuana does the same things to you that any smokable substance would-tobacco is, again, far worse because of the chemicals in it. Marijuana is natural.
To Fifa: Obviously not everyone would smoke anyways. I live in an area where access to marijuana is pretty free, and there is little law enforcement. But I don't see any more stoners than I do alcoholics, or heroin or cocaine addicts. That may be because I don't NOTICE because it CHANGES SO LITTLE ABOUT YOU. And of course people wouldn't come to work stoned. Do they come to work drunk? Of course not.
2006-10-06 02:17:14 · answer #2 · answered by maurora27 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sure, why not. They should have marijuana lounges, too.
Let the smoking of marijuana be legal at the age of 18.
People shouldn't even need a marijuana license, either. I know quite some friends in California who have the license and don't 'deserve' it. You can easily get it by complaining to doctors that it will help your 'chronic pain'. The doctor will right you a special note, and from there you can take steps to obtain the license for it.
Why should only such people have the pleasure to smoke freely in public? Marijuana should be ENJOYED BY ALL responsible adults.
2006-10-06 02:08:59 · answer #3 · answered by denh 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have two thoughts on this:
(1) Decriminalize it, but not make it totally legal. Those 18 years of age or older may carry up to 1 ounce without fear of prosecution or imprisonment. Being under the influence of it would be treated the same way as with alcohol impairment, don't drive or (if you do) you will face license suspension and imprisonment.
or
(2) Make it totally legal, but regulate its sale to those 18 years of age or older, making it available only at a pharmacy (it is a drug, after all). Same influence rules apply as for alcohol consumption: don't smoke and drive.
2006-10-06 02:25:54 · answer #4 · answered by hawk79 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Marijuana is a gateway drug but then again i say the same for cigarettes and they are legal....Yes it should be legal...it is just as bad for your lungs as cigarettes and gives people the same affects as alcohol....so why is it having such difficulty becoming legal well tobacco company's and paper company's....tobacco would have competition as is technically already does and it is cheaper to make cannabis paper which comes from marijuana....so it really comes down to money not the well being of the public...and its not like other drugs how many people get psyched out on marijuana...pot heads are the few people u really have to worry about
2006-10-06 05:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by coopchic 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't think it should be legalized.
It's so funny how people constantly compare alcohol to marijuana. I don't even have the time to explain to you the differences between the two.
Why on earth would you want to live in a society full of stoners? I'm assuming it's because you enjoy getting stoned as well. That's fine and well but it's only your own selfish habit/addiction that's making you want this drug legalized. I would hate to have to deal with a bunch of potheads on a regular basis. Especially at work.
If they make laws that state you can only smoke pot in certain establishments or at your own home, then maybe. But I'd never want to be outside walking down the street and see person after person smoking a joint. Just like I don't like seeing alcoholics running around in public looking like idiots too.
2006-10-06 02:17:58 · answer #6 · answered by fifa575 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If Marijuana can be not seen as a trendy drug and wasn't abused on a massive scale "which it currently is", I think it would be fine to legalize it with the same laws as Alcohol. But that doesn't make pot helpful, it just solves the dispute on petty Marijuana drug charges.
2006-10-06 02:07:12 · answer #7 · answered by dashiznititis 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This has been a debate for a long time. I think it should be legalized and look at the taxes we are missing out on. If people will pay upwards of $4.50 for a pack of cigarettes they might be willing to pay $10 or $15 for a pack of little brown smokes. Cha-ching! Taxes!
2006-10-06 02:10:00 · answer #8 · answered by JMidd 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no problem in legalizing the marijuana, but if you want to legalized it, it will use as a medicine! don't you know that marijuana is good for stomach ache, some of the provinces in the Philippines used it for stomach ache.
2006-10-06 03:11:40 · answer #9 · answered by Brayan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm for doing this.
The war on drugs is a huge joke that wastes billions, and pot enforcement takes a big chunk of money...for what? Why? Enforcement of anti pot laws is a embarassment that has put good people in jail for nothing useful, people who need it for glacoma and other medical issues, people who just want to smoke it in the privacy of their own life.
Oh yes, I don't buy that "gateway to other stuff" propaganda either. The whole anti pot argument has a drama whore quality to it.
Enforce it in a similar manner to booze and tax the hell out of it to raise revenues.
Do it.
2006-10-06 02:09:04 · answer #10 · answered by Middy S 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋