Should marijuana be decriminalized and or legalized entirely? Our last two presidents (U.S.) admitted to using it in their youth. Supreme court justices, Lawyers, doctors, grandmothers, etc.
Should we be handing out jail sentences, or big bowls of M&M's?
What do you think....?
2007-01-13 03:31:49 · 19 answers · asked by Shaun B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
yes
2007-01-13 03:34:04 · answer #1 · answered by copestir 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
First, you should understand why it was outlawed in the first place. There were two major reasons. The first was racial prejudice against Mexicans. The second was the fear that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana - exactly the opposite of the modern "gateway" myth.
When the American Medical Association testified before Congress, the AMA said there was no evidence that marijuana was a dangerous drug -- it was used in about 250 common medicines -- and therefore no reason for the law.
You can read a history of the subject at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/whiteb1.htm It is quite funny.
The US Government knew that the marijuana laws were unenforceable from the time they were first passed. Therefore, they started a campaign of Reefer Madness. For example, the US Official Expert on marijuana testified in court, under oath, that marijuana would make your incisors grow six inches long and drip with blood. He also said that when he tried it, it turned him into a bat.
Every major study of the drug laws in the last 100 years has said that the marijuana laws were the product of racism, ignorance, and nonsense. They all said the marijuana laws do more harm than good and should have been repealed long ago. You can read them at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer under Major Studies of Drugs and Drug Policy.
If anyone thinks that marijuana should be illegal, you can be absolutely sure that they have never read the most basic research on the subject.
2007-01-16 11:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by Cliff Schaffer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Definitely yes. Any reputable report indicates that Marijuana is less harmful overall than alcohol. People are in our overcrowded jails and penal institutions for using or for having small amounts in their possession. None of this makes sense. There should be an amount that is okay to have on one's person at any time, something less than one ounce, perhaps only ten grams or so. Then too, people should still be accountable for not driving under the influence, just as we do for alcohol usage. The "crime" should be more along the lines of taking actions while using where other people are endangered somehow. Driving while stoned is one of those things.
2007-01-13 03:39:49 · answer #3 · answered by mountain woman 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
some great reward of legalizing are obvious. Taxes, administration, removing the quite a few ability of unlawful gangs trafficking. you could throw out the popular stoner solutions that do little to function different than "i like to smoke". As somebody who had to oversee oilfield workers that have been on call for twenty-four/7 interior the previous i could say that the risky effects won't be close to as ordinary to parent. My greatest undertaking is the effects of marijuana interior the placement of work as quickly as that's criminal. oftentimes speaking the guy who's below the impression of alcohol interior the placement of work is plenty greater ordinary to discover than the guy who's smoking dope. Is the impairment point a similar? Worse? What approximately drivers who're below the impression. Are we merely including to the epidemic of mindless deaths it is below the impression of alcohol using by including stoned using? interior the top my question is does the decriminalization of marijuana bring about the social attractiveness of it, which in turn could strengthen the use, or worse the abuse? Can the government arise with the money for to take the financial short term benefit, on the rate of greater value down the line? understanding the government the respond is an obvious "confident". If not this government then one quickly. possibly the question would desire to study "while".
2016-10-19 22:27:57 · answer #4 · answered by woodworth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, legalized! Alcohol is a thousand times more harmful. It really gets a bad rap. It's just ridiculous. I think it could even be an effective treatment for ADHD. I used to smoke and I designed very complex circuit boards perfectly, would never have been able to sit still and focus if I had not smoked. Now I am a parent and I can't risk it, but I don't get near as much done as I used to. Give me pot before Ritalin any day.
2007-01-13 03:40:43 · answer #5 · answered by crct2004 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I think the biggest mistake made by our government in its history is the drug laws. The illegal drug money funds most of the terrorist activity around the world. If drugs were legal and were a legitimate business the money would be traceable and the tax base could be enormous. Terrorist cannot operate without funding. The demise of our country will be at the hands of those who felt it was there job to tell you how to live your life.
2007-01-13 03:39:45 · answer #6 · answered by Ben R 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
how many criminals have commit ed hard corp crimes under the influence of weed, not as many as say crack or heroin or the new drug of choice Oxycontin.. so that is the question indeed. but why does the government grow and prescribe weed and the troublesome prescription medication bottom line. MONEY!!!!
2007-01-13 03:41:52 · answer #7 · answered by vinsoner22 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it definitely should be decriminalized nation-wide. no one should be in jail for it. prosecuting for marijuana is a big waste of resources.
2007-01-13 03:36:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Legalize it and tax the crap out of it. It would still be a better vice than alcohol or cigarettes
2007-01-13 03:41:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-01-13 03:34:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-01-13 03:39:00 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋