2007-01-25 08:52:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
It shouldn't
2007-01-25 09:04:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a cop, and I'm all for it being legalised. Why? For starters, I'm tired of seeing police budgets and drug squad budgets squandered to fight something as difficult as pot. It can be grown here, and even if we stop it a the border, we aren't really stopping anything.
I'm tired of seeing the DEA's budget squandered on a drug that isn't really as dangerous as others would have us believe. Gateway drug? Maybe, but the problem is that anybody that truly wants it, can still get it, and our country hasn't lapsed into a drug induced come yet. But truly, it's not that much more intoxicating than alcohol. Sure there are high potency strains out there, but wormwood or other drinks can make you freaking hallucinate.
Also, just because it would be legal doesn't mean that any company or employer has to hire a person who uses it. Since it is so difficult to determine when it was ingested, if a drug screen came back hot, an employer would still be empowered to fire that person. So dopers would still be segmenting themselves from the rest of society due to their choice in extracurricular self medication.
Then the government can tax the hell out of it, or require that any person who wishes to possess any quantity of it would have to pay a possession tax. So there would still be arrests, but not like now, which would free up needed space in prisons and jails. I've read the history of how weed became illegal, and frankly, I'm none too pleased with the snow job our ancestors pulled over on us.
Would I use it if it were legal, hell no. It represents everything I fight against. But there are larger and more looming evils out there that require our attention, and a bunch of weed heads are hardly worth it anymore, especially when the courts and legislators have essentially hamstrung weed cases. My own judge has turned dope cases into disorderly conducts to keep it off peoples records. In my book, if you are serious about a law, you treat it serious.
2007-01-25 22:32:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From personal experience, I'm bipolar and pot helps me out alot, with a lot less side effects than the drugs being pushed by the almighty pharmacutical companies. I'm all for the legalization of pot altogether. If the government wised up, they could tax it just like the extremely harmful cigarettes that they allow to remain legal, addicting and killing too many people. To my knowledge smoking pot has never killed anyone, it would be quite hard to overdose on it I imagine. And If it were legalized, it would eliminate most criminal acts to acquire it. If tobacco and alcohol are legal pot should be to.
2007-01-25 17:29:40 · answer #3 · answered by s8n666999 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should not be legalized because people get high and spell words wrong.. i.e. leaglized
2007-01-25 17:25:58 · answer #4 · answered by Michael R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It should NOT be legalized. All this country needs is a population filled with spaced out potheads. Marijuana is call the gateway drug, it leads to experimentation with many other drugs, uncluding heroin and crack.
2007-01-25 18:25:40 · answer #5 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with Stacy
2007-01-25 17:07:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the prisons would empty out fast and thousands of tax dollars would quit being wasted on a fruitless fight
2007-01-25 17:11:31 · answer #7 · answered by tigerlilliebuick 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
to stop the sellers from pushing harder drugs...the market would die, and I agree with tigerlil
2007-01-25 17:13:45 · answer #8 · answered by curious115 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋