$35 billion dollars annually, and those are wholesale prices. This makes mj the biggest cash-crop in the US.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061218/us_nm/usa_marijuana_dc
2006-12-19 09:27:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I have always thought it should be legal, that is for everyone.
Cheaper then the meds I was on lol!
2006-12-19 09:33:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I have wrestled with this question for my adult life and up until a couple a years ago my immediate answer was YES! I find marijuana not to be addicting in the sense of physical addiction and I never woke up the next morning feeling like I had been hit by a Mack truck.
The government would make billions in taxes on it and would have some regulation power in its sale and distribution. Plus this would free up essential law enforcement for more important tasks like why they are no better today than 20 years ago at stopping hard and addicting drugs from crossing our borders and killing kids and adults at a startling rate.
But now no matter how we look at it it is still a drug just as alcohol is and if abused may still be a harm to its users.
I have been addicted to heroin for a number of years and finally was turned around 2 years ago and I do not partake of any drugs but that is because I know I am not able to control it.
I still say that Marijuana is the better of the two options for legalization. I would rather alcohol be made illegal and marijuana be legalized if we had to choose.
From my personal experience, I have never seen a mean pot smoker... but have been a mean drunk.
Legalize I vote.
2006-12-19 17:43:28 · answer #2 · answered by knnykeith 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes! The taxes could fund our educational system and health care and homeless shelters and mental health services. Focus on the positive uses of marijuana. My son had a devastating encounter with shrapnel in Iraq. Many, many Oxycontin later, he chose to stop taking the legal drug and turned to the "illegal" drug. The pain never goes away or is really ever dulled, but he does eat. When he got out of the hospital after the 4th back surgery, he weighed like, maybe, 8 pounds. He's 6'1" Not a good height-weight ratio.
2006-12-19 17:38:50 · answer #3 · answered by answersforkate 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yep, when are we going to have a government which will recognize that it could make a LOT of money out of a regulated and taxed doobie industry. Just heard on the radio yesterday about the new pot "farms" set up in anonymous suburban houses, which are gutted and set up for high-volume, high-quality production...and owned and run by Chinese mafia.
Guess we didn't learn from alcohol prohibition, that where there is a demand for something like this, if it's illegal, that it won't stop people from getting it, but that criminals will satisfy the demand and take all the profit for themselves.
Got to legalize-it! (RIP Peter Tosh)
2006-12-20 10:52:36 · answer #4 · answered by silentnonrev 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Think about it. When someone is high from smoking weed, they don't act violent, abusive and crazy. It's mellow, and fun and, at times, very creative.
As to where alcohol causes numerous DUI's, abusive relationships and more. Not that I'm suggestion we have another Prohibition, but weed is not a dangerous drug by any means.
2006-12-19 17:42:44 · answer #5 · answered by Seven Costanza 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely
2006-12-19 17:30:16 · answer #6 · answered by scottboss64 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the laws are a failure here. people like to get high. it's really that no politician seems to have enough nerve to come out full force on it. in time, i think it will be legal. that's just too much money to be ignored.
2006-12-19 17:33:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it should be legalized, regulated and taxed.
However--the pharmaceutical, alcohol and cotton lobby are all against it...probably more...so will it happen, doubtful.
2006-12-19 17:29:22 · answer #8 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its really simple, its never gonna be legalized and if im wrong its still going to be produced and sold as much as regual cigarrettes.
2006-12-24 22:57:13 · answer #9 · answered by alonnso_00 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no. legalize it then they will put a tax on it. the kind i get is already too expensive.
2006-12-19 17:35:20 · answer #10 · answered by Just my Luck 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋