Should marijuana be legalized?

Answer 1

Although I really don't smoke anymore... HELL YES.

Why?
1. Save BILLIONS of dollars that would be spent prosecuting and jailing the people that sell/use marijuana.
2. It could be taxed which would create BILLIONS in new revenue for the government.
3. Marijuana is not physically adictive.
4. Marijuana's negative health affects are less severe than those of alcohol.
5. Marijuana use is already very common, and it makes no sense to call people criminals for doing something that is widespread and common.
6. Nobody ever beat their wife because they got stoned.
7. It makes me appreciate the music of Queens of the Stone Age in a way I never thought possible.

Answer 2

Yes, for several reasons:

1) Either you own your body or you don't. If you do, then you should be free to put whatever toxic waste into your system that you choose, including marijuana. If you don't own your body, then you are living as a slave.

2) Although unhealthy in many respects, marijuana is far less destructive than alcohol. Alcoholics are more responsible for human misery than any other group. Consider:

Politically: Josef Stalin, Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Henry VIII, Alexander the Great, Kim Jong Il.

Traitors: the Cambridge 5, Kim Philby, Donald MacLean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Andrew Daulton Lee, Christopher Boyce, Richard Sorge, Edwin Wilson.

Serial Killers: Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson, Albert DeSalvo (the Boston Strangler), Henry Lee Lucas, Richard Speck, John Wilkes Booth, Jim Jones (the Jonestown Massacre), Sam Sheppard, shall I continue?

Other Tragic Personages: Huey Newton (Black Panthers), John Tower (former Defense Secretary), Captain Joseph Hazelwood (Exxon Valdez oil disaster), Senator Joseph McCarthy, Dashiell Hammet, Dorothy Parker, Lillian Hellman, Earnest Hemingway, Eugene O'Neill, Oscar Wilde, President Andrew Johnson, President Franklin Pierce, Huey P. Long, Joan Crawford, Sinclair Lewis, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ludwig von Beethoven, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, Senator Ted Kennedy, Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Montgomery Clift, O.J. Simpson, W.C. Fields, Drew Lewis (former Secretary of Transportation), Upton Sinclair, Margaret Mitchell, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Paine, Truman Capote, Henry Ford II. Shall I include more?

How about all the lives destroyed by DUIs, the battered wives and children, those born with fetal alcohol syndrome...

How many stoners inflict this kind of damage? How often do stoners beat-up their families? If Stalin were a stoner, tens of millions would have lived-out their natural lives.

3) Where does the Federal Government have the Constitutional right to criminalize marijuana? The only criminal acts expressed in the Constitution are treason and piracy; therefore, the Federal Governments ban on marijuana is illigitimate. Certain politicians say they are for state's rights EXCEPT when they try to decriminalize marijuana.

4) Smoking pot is unhealthy as #*!!, I don't recommend it, but alcohol is far more unhealthy. So are cheeseburgers and french fries. So is professional wrestling. So is watching 6 hours of television a day. So is cliff diving...

5) The Billions of dollars we are spending in the law enforcement, prosecution and incarceration of non-violent stoners is completely wasted. Furthermore, any violence surrounding marijuana is precisely a result of its illegal status (turf wars, drug dealers, etc.). The illegality of pot ensures that the scumiest elements of society will be in charge of its supply.

6. The underground economy surrounding pot is enormous. The potential tax revenue would be a benefit to all.

7. There are many industrial uses for hemp (fuel, paper, oils, food products, textiles and lots more). There are also ancillary benefits in that it can be grown more cheaply and more quickly which would have an anti-inflationary impact on the economy through cheaper goods.

I could enumerate more reasons, but I think I've said enough.

Answer 3

Ok...Stupid you are Marxist....we would all like you locked away for a long time too. It's because of people like you that us, highly intelligent, peace-making potheads can't get our smoke on. We are not asking you to smoke (though if you did you might chill the hell out, so I "high"ly recommend it). Maybe it should be legal under the same circumstances as alcohol:
You can't drive on it or somethin but, it should be LEGAL for sure. I have never heard of anyone overdosing on marijuana. Have you??

Answer 4

Yes, then America can tax the crap out of it, and use the money for education.
It would remove the $$ from the criminals and be used to benefit society.
also young adults, who want to try pot wouldn't be buying it from the same guy that makes more off cocaine, and would rather see them smoking it.

would actually make the recreational drug market(alcohol) more free, so booze makers would actually have a little competition. Isn't free market what the opponents of pot decriminalization are always crying about??


doesn't it seem like Americans have become more hateful of one another since the whole crackdown on bud started??

it is still a huge cash crop in many states, can you imagine the wonderful impact if it were legal for them to grow that cash crop?

Answer 5

$113 billion is spent on marijuana each twelve months interior the U.S., and thanks to the federal prohibition *each* dollar of it is going right away into the hands of criminals. some distance from struggling with people from utilising marijuana, the prohibition truly creates 0 legal furnish amid massive and unrelenting call for. the dimensions of the wear and tear this motives some distance exceeds any earnings won from conserving marijuana unlawful. in accordance to the ONDCP, a minimum of sixty % of Mexican drug cartel money comes from merchandising marijuana interior the U.S., they shelter this sales via brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering limitless harmless people. If we are able to quit people utilising marijuana then we would desire to attain this NOW, yet as quickly as we will not then we would desire to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax fees set too low for the cartels to adventure. one way or the different, we would desire to stress the cartels out of the marijuana marketplace and do away with their notably rewarding marijuana earning - no business enterprise can face up to the lack of ability of sixty % of its sales! to this factor, the cartels have amassed better than one hundred,000 "foot infantrymen" and function in 230 U.S. cities, and that is now believed that the cartels are "morphing into, or making worry-loose reason with, what would be seen an insurgency" (Secretary of State Clinton, 09/09/2010). The longer the cartels are allowed to apply the prohibition the extra valuable they're going to get and the extra our very own very own protection would be put in jeopardy.

Answer 6

Yes, marijuana should be legalized. Rick N, your argument (if you can call it that) is sophomoric. I smoked pot all through high school and college and I got almost straight A's. My memory is better than most people I know, including my friends who don't smoke pot.

Answer 7

Medical marijuana is legal in our state.

Answer 8

Yes it absolutely should be legalized. There are many uses for hemp. And there are political reasons why it is illegal. Mostly pertaining to the profits of the paper industry and the cotton industry, etc.!!!! I haven't read that book that Susan S. is talking about, but I intend to.

Answer 9

Hey I don't inhale ha ha just joking? But if they give me a concession I am for it. after all it is a natural weed isn't it
Rather than all the other over the counter meds, that kill you?
and the anti-depressants? Mood elevators? what crap they give people to alter their systems, man I don't like weed or pills or anything like that for myself but as they say in china? What ever sinks your boat eh? Not me thanks anyway This ship Sails!

Answer 10

Yes...

Funny how in other countries marijuana is used for medicinal purposes...but here in the US the government says that it has NO medicinal purposes.

YES IT SHOULD.

Read the book...

"History of Hemp"....it's awesome and very educational....

People like Stupid Marxist should read it.