Is the vote legalizing marijuana in Nevada likely to pass?

Answer 1

In 1972, President Richard Nixon's National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse recommended that Congress adopt this policy nationally in the United States. Since then, more than a dozen government-appointed commissions in both the U.S. and abroad have recommended similar actions. None of these commissions have endorsed continuing to arrest and jail minor marijuana offenders. Summaries of these studies are available here.

Since 1973, 12 state legislatures -- Alaska, California, Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Oregon -- have enacted versions of marijuana decriminalization. In each of these states, marijuana users no longer face jail time (nor in most cases, arrest or criminal records) for the possession or use of small amounts of marijuana. According to national polls, voters overwhelmingly support these policies. In Oregon, voters recently reaffirmed their state's decriminalization law by a 2-1 margin in a statewide referendum.

More than 30 percent of the U.S. population lives under some form of marijuana decriminalization, and according to government and academic studies, these laws have not contributed to an increase in marijuana consumption nor negatively impacted adolescent attitudes toward drug use. Summaries of these findings are available here.

Enforcing marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers an estimated $10 billion annually and results in the arrest of more than 734,000 individuals per year -- far more than the total number of arrestees for all violent crimes combined, including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. This policy is a tremendous waste of national and state criminal justice resources that should be focused on combating serious and violent crime. In addition, it invites government unnecessarily into areas of our private lives, and needlessly damages the lives and careers of hundreds of thousands of otherwise law-abiding citizens. NORML believes now, as former President Jimmy Carter told Congress in 1977, that: "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."

Answer 2

i could vote for scientific and entertainment. i do no longer at present marijuana, yet I even have interior the previous and that i'm able to permit you already realize it does not make you aggressive as much as alcohol does. I even have in no way heard of somebody that harm some one else with the aid of fact they have been decrease than the impression of weed. yet of those that harm different decrease than the impression of alcohol. i think of if alcohol is criminal why shouldn't weed be too. it particularly is going to truly be a lost for the black industry if it get legalized.

Answer 3

as a grandmother who has lived through the heartbreak of watching many a young man go to prison over marijuana, I am praying they legalize this stuff. I'm not going to go out and smoke just because it is legal......when they ban alcohol, then I will vote to ban marijuana.

Answer 4

probably not unless the hippies decide to have a peace festival down there

Answer 5

no, its been banned 4 years! y would the law have hippies & drunks have their hands on that stuff again?!

Answer 6

y do u care r u a stoner or something

Answer 7

heaven forbid.