Do we agree or not that Marijuana Illegality is totally assinine, considering alcohol is far more damaging?

Question

Yes or no...and why?

Oh, the government could DEFINATELY tax it...there's plenty of people that would be too lazy to grow their own and wait for it to harvest! Supermarkets STILL have produce sections. So that argument is nonsense.
And you wouldn't have to SWITCH it with alcohol...both could be legal and generating revenue.

Jefro...you never REALLY smoked a joint in your life, did you?

smm---the only people who would be put out of business would be street level drug dealers...you're not defending THEM are you?

ps to smm---that's WARPED. More people die from being SHOT over a weed deal than actually die from smoking it!

ps to smm---that's WARPED. More people die from being SHOT over a weed deal than actually die from smoking it!

Answer 1

Everyone know this but alcohol got a head start and it is too ingrained in society to make the switch now.

Answer 2

NO!!!! It should not be legal! Then Big Business will just come by and take it over, putting A LOT of people out of business. They will probably try to find someway of making it cheaper (mixing it with some cheap filler herb or something) just so they can sell the purer forms at a ridiculous rate. There will be a large tax on it, and that will just keep increasing. you've seen what they've done to tobacco. what they'll do to marijuana will be MUCH worse

edit: actually, i am. I'd rather have some suburban kid making money off of a free wild growing plant than some big business jerk who will slap something addictive into a non chemically addictive item just to make people dependent and thus make more money. I'm not talking about crack dealers.

edit2: If you take marijuana out of the picture it will be replaced, likely by something worse. It is the nature of things. when drinking was illegal, bootleggers made their money and there was violence over territories. But not all bootleggers were big time mobsters

Answer 3

Yes it is completly bass ackwards to think a plant that grows wildly can be considered illegal just because the flower gets people "high". It all goes back to the DuPont Co. that lobbied gov't to ban it because their synthetics weren't able to compete with hemp(the stalk and branches of marijuana-not addictive or smokeable). Since it was being smoked in dope dens in the Southeast Asian sector it was immediatley duped illegal. Prohibition didn't work for alcohol and more people use marijuana now than did when prohibition went into effect and alcohol was still brought back.

Answer 4

America has enough problems don't you think? I've smoked a boatload in my time but to legalize it? sorry can't answer without sounding like a fool even to myself.------ Whatever you think is okay with me I mean I'm not really what was the question again anybody seen my shoes oh yea duuuuuuuuuuuuu.can sombody answer this man? i forgot what we were talking about oh yea about 8 or 9 I suppose.--------Just joking around, sorry man, after I hit the answer button I just went blank.Yea I smoked a pretty good bit but not anymore, I know what 4;30 means.The police hears everything I think when I smoke.--- really--- to much money being made by the government keeping it as a controled substance, heck most of the officials smoke they just don't have balls enough to stand up and say so. Is that what your looking for and yea it should be made legal because a criminal record for something this minor is just STUPID

Answer 5

I think marijuana should be legalized. I smoke it not very often and only one hit will last me the entire night. It relaxes me. Where I think alchol is far more dangerous. I never get mad or angery when i smoke it and if i do drive on it i do the speed limit i am a courtsy driver etc. The people i see drinking are mean sometimes drive much faster etc.

Answer 6

I agree, it should be legalized, standardized (right now, as it's illegal, are you sure of what you're getting? there were people here that were getting sick as there was some that had arsenic cut into it), and taxed as alcohol and cigarettes are now. The revenue would be tremendous, and many of the people in jail wouldn't be criminals, easing the overcrowding in the local jails, and reducing the tax dollars going toward that. It's a win/win situation. And, btw, I dont' indulge.

Answer 7

While I don't necessarily agree with it being illegal, the fact of the matter is, the Federal Government will never make it legal, because it can't make money off of it. People can grow it in their closets.

By making it illegal, the government can sieze possessions and action them off. It can impose fines on possession. It can impose fines for DUI.

I have several friends and relatives that are drug and alcohol couselors, and they say they would prefer that people drive under the influence of pot, than drive under the influence of alcohol.

But we are back to the money issue. If the goverment can't tax it, then it will be illegal forever.

Answer 8

Alcohol is physically and financially more harmful than cannabis, yes. The calls for decriminalization/legalization have been booming through the halls of power for decades, and will only continue to grow. The chorus of intelligent, hardworking, productive members of society clamoring for legal cannabis will NOT be silenced.

Answer 9

Milton Friedman advocated legalization.

Answer 10

Your logic sucks.

Yes, alcohol is bad, but how does it follow that marijuana ought to therefore be legal? (We'll also ignore the fact that marijuana is alot worse than ciggies.)
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RI: If the government was so concerned about "taxing" weed (i.e., making money) why bother incarcerating people for weed related offenses? Jailing people is always expensive!