2006-11-27 11:52:43 · 18 answers · asked by hachambers06 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I'm french and it's not legalized here too.
We have the same questions here sometimes.
I don't think that's it's a good idea to legalized it.
I took lot of that stuff and I can say that it was causing troubles in my life, in my body and my psy...
So I think it's still a drug... not the badest for the health, but a bad one...
More, if it will be legalized, I guess that we will have more problems (like alcool problems) in lot of family's and houses...
So, I hope it will still be not legalized...
2006-11-27 11:57:43 · answer #1 · answered by @lex 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The question which should be asked in a free society is "Why should marijuana be illegal?".
I have heard no rational reason for this substance's illegality. The idea of it being a "gateway" drug is only related to it's illegality, once you are shopping in the underground market many things far worse become available. Put it above the counter and you isolate it from the truly dangerous drugs. Based on it's FDA rating it is rated safer than alcohol and tobacco. Now there are plenty of regulations on those substances, rightly so, and it is reasonable to expect the same of marijuana. I just enjoyed a few glasses of Merlot, and if I drive to the store right now I would deservedly be a danger to public safety.
Legalization is inevitable.
2006-11-27 12:08:59 · answer #2 · answered by Brian L 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A few salient points:
- Anyone who thinks that marijuana can kill a person is too ignorant to have anything whatsoever to say about the subject. It can't.
- MJ is far safer than alcohol, tobacco or legal prescription drugs.
- Anyone here who drinks alcohol, smokes tobacco, drinks tea or coffee or takes any prescription drug and says that MJ is dangerous and should be banned is the biggest hypocrite in the world. And you are dumb as well.
Get a clue folks.
2006-11-28 14:50:07 · answer #3 · answered by Atlas 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No wonder the rest of the world see us as oxymorons,everyone and his congressperson was up in arms against cigarette smoking and the harm it causes plus the millions of dollars in lawsuits,now lets bring in marijuana,so twenty years from now boneheads that can't kick the habit and act like they were unaware it was harmful start suing the companys that manufacture it,in the end the the winners are the blood sucking lawyers and the two face politicians
2006-11-27 12:10:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Legalized but with restrictions. Age limits, amount in system limits, no use in public, driving under the influence and that sort of thing.
Part of what makes it so popular is the black market effect and that you can't have it.
Personally, I have never tried it nor have any desire to. My life is just good the way it is now, has it's ups and downs, but I manage.
2006-11-29 11:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by Romie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes; think about it, it's a sedative drug which calms the individual using it. If alcohol is legal and causes fights and killings then why is canibus illegal?
But after much tyhought I would ahve to say no; if "pot" was legal the tobacco companies would start producing it with all of their terrible additives and we'd simply have more deaths and disease on our hands.
2006-11-27 12:08:22 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it should be legalized but with an age limit of 21. Any shop selling it to anyone below that age, immediately gets closed down and anyone selling it to minors face the same sentence as dealing Heroin or crack cocaine. No matter how little of an amount it is, you should face prison.
2006-11-27 12:03:44 · answer #7 · answered by Mike T 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I think it should be. There are so many people that do it. I see nothing wrong with it. It is good for your eyes and it helps to relax your body. If you use it right then there is nothing wrong with it. But it will be a miracle if they ever make it legal.
2006-11-27 11:57:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dawn H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course it should. I have no quarrel with those that say it is not healthy, it causes psychological addiction, it gets you "high" by killing brain cells, any of that. The problem is that our police force has FAR more important "fish to fry", even if we leave murder, robberies, carjacking, rapes, child abuse out of this just for sake of argument there are other drugs that make you violent and cause other crimes to support your "habit". BTW, no, there is absolutely NO evidence marijuana makes you do harder drugs.
2006-11-27 11:58:16 · answer #9 · answered by clueless_nerd 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes why not? not because of it's other medicinal purposes.
i simply believe that legalizing it & putting extreme high tax to get will make people think many times before they buy it.
Some will still buy it ofcourse, but they'd go broke afterwards. that's the ulitimate punishment :-)
2006-11-27 12:00:31 · answer #10 · answered by enki 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋