Are you for or against the legalization of marijuana?

Question

Please explain your answer in detail. This is a survey that will be used for my college studies. Serious answers only please

Answer 1

for since you can buy it off the streets anyway why not make it legal there are worse drugs out there. The downside is the government would then control it and tax you on it.

Answer 2

First, you ought to know why marijuana was outlawed in the first place. There were two major reasons. The first was because "All Mexicans are crazy and marijuana is what makes them crazy." The second was the fear that heroin addiction would lead to the use of marijuana -- exactly the opposite of the modern gateway myth.

You can find a summary of the reasons for the marijuana laws, along with links to original sources at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/mj_outlawed.htm


The reason that people think that marijuana grows hair on your palms and other awful things is because the US Government has had an openly admitted campaign of lying about it since the 1930s. Shortly after the laws were passed, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics walked out on a bridge over the Potomac River and saw before him a field of cannabis that stretched as far as the eye could see. He knew then that the marijuana laws were completely unenforceable on his meager million-dollar budget. Therefore, he figured that the only way to deal with it would be to wage a campaign of stupendous lies -- Reefer Madness. You can find a collection of Reefer Madness at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/mags/reefermadness.htm

For example, the US Official Expert on marijuana said that marijuana could make your incisors grow six inches long and drip with blood. He testified in court, under oath, that when he tried marijuana, it turned him into a bat. You can find an excellent short history of the subject at http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm

There have been numerous major government commissions that have studied marijuana and the laws over the last 100 years. They all said that marijuana was not a significant threat to health. They all said that the marijuana laws were based on racism, ignorance, and nonsense. They all said that there was no good reason that marijuana should be illegal.

You can find the full text of those studies at http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/studies.htm These are the definitive works on the subject. The collection includes the largest studies ever done by the governments of the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and the World Health Organization, just to mention a few. There has never been a major study that reached a different conclusion.

If anyone says that marijuana should be illegal, you know instantly that they have never read the most basic research on the subject.

Answer 3

Absolutely for it. How much is it costing us to enforce these laws? Not just monetarily. How many lives are ruined over the prohibition of a harmless weed? People are murdered in gang wars for control of the sales of the products. Law enforcement are murdered by people bringing it into our country. Murdered by guns funded through the illegal sales of this harmless plant. Eliminate the loony laws and eliminate the money going in the the pockets of hoodlums with little or no respect for our country. Use the money to fund more education. Use the money to target the drugs that actually kill people. Don't use the money to reinforce some propagandized political agenda.

Answer 4

On a limited basis, with consequences for breaking the rules, yes, it should be allowed. People use it for many reasons, including medical reasons. It should be allowed, in small amounts, for private use, within your home. If you are caught driving while you are under the influence, the penalties should be the same as they are now. If you try to sell it to someone in amounts larger than what is legal, you should be tried as a drug dealer. I don't know that it does any more harm, and maybe even less harm, than tobacco and certainly not as much damage as other drugs or the prescription drugs that people so readily abuse today with the help of their physicians. I don't use pot myself, but know people who do, and the people I know that use it, do it for chronic pain, which it readily relieves and they do not drive while they are using, nor do they do it before going to work, in front of children, etc.

Answer 5

For: no reported cases of someone smoking weed cooking their kids in a oven, or killing 5-10 ppl coz they flipped out.Most weed smokers are middle class ppl. We should legalize weed and spend the money busting potheads on the crack and meth heads that are doing serious injury to our kids ands society,

Answer 6

yes, it is the drug that never hurt anyone. Alchohol is more dangerous -- people on marijuana just sit around and eat cherios out of a green bowl.

ps -- i have never smoked pot

Answer 7

totally for! If cigarettes are legal why cant marijuana be? at least you have fun while smoking marijuana.

Answer 8

for it! people will never stop doing it anyway no matter what