I think it is sad, so many go to jail over a weed that grows wild in this state. Why>? Why put a person in prison with worse people?for what growing or smoking a herb? legal med's---so many side affects----not including- but yes Alcohol, tobacco.
There have been so many tobacco lawsuits, i am surprised that it is not outlawed! I smoke tobacco and drink beer but these laws are messed up. Answer if u want. I do not smoke "smoke".
2007-02-14 15:56:48 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Well for this question I have to agree. Yes I am a "smoker" and know many people who do. I say it should be legal for a lot of different reasons. Let me just get a few things out of the way. First of all, just because I smoke does not mean I'm a space cadet or stupid. I go to college for accounting and have a 4.0, second I used to be a bartender and I can honestly say that I would rather have a bunch of stoned people on the road then drunks, and last, there have been no studies on "weed" that says it's harmful to the body or has long term side effects. Now with that out of the way I feel that making "weed" legal would solve a lot of things. It would stop putting people in jail for something that is less harmful than alcohol, which means less money going to the prisons to keep them jailed & help with the problem of over crowded jails. It would also help the police to have the time and man power to go after actual criminals. It could also help the economy by paying farmers to grow and cultivate just like they do with trees and tobacco. Also creating more jobs. Plus the government can then tax it. Just like they do with everything else. And last but deffinately not least, It could help the inviornment; Hemp (weed without THC) can be used to produce paper, rope, oil, & clothes just to name a few. Plus it grows very fast so cutting a crop wouldn't make much diffrence.
2007-02-14 16:32:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
My ex-sister-in-law smoked pot daily... my brother was an alcoholic. Not a good mix... the marriage ended in a complete mess with two little girls in the middle. As far as pot, and personality... my sister-in-law didn't care about anything except smoking pot. The house was nasty, the kids weren't bathed, the kids came to my mom's house wearing the same clothes every day... she would put them to bed, wake them and bring them back over. It was really a sad situation. Unless he can quit... I don't think you will be happy. Sorry & best wishes... :0) .
2016-03-29 07:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't Smoke it right ow! I have in the past a little. As medication it should be totaly legal with doctors care.
As a every day use I'm at a 90%/10% split 90% for it.
I think they should have it like drinking. Maybe less people will abuse it and trust i've seen people abuse it just like beer. but i have see people who don't. Maybe there would be less crime. Plus more money for our government on the taxes they would surley put on it. Which they could put towards education! Educating our Children who are our future & better Health care for all of us.
2007-02-14 16:43:20 · answer #3 · answered by vomo07 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Hemp, the stuff you see growing wild, is not quite the same thing as pot. It does not have enough of the right chemicals in it to get high from. Smoke hemp and you mostly get sick.
"Medicinal" pot is the female plant of a certain subspecies of hemp.
Whether or not pot should be legal is a totally different issue.
2007-02-14 16:07:48 · answer #4 · answered by Madkins007 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Consensual crimes, those crimes which only harm the perpetrator or his property, should be made legal. I don't think that it should be legal because it grows wild. So does opium. (Opium should be legal, too)
If people want to engage in self-harming behavior, nobody has the authority to stop them.
Check out this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Nobodys-Business-You-Consensual/dp/0931580587/ref=cm_lmf_tit_1/105-6083846-8091619
2007-02-14 16:07:38 · answer #5 · answered by Matthew P 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No it should not be legal - I already have to dodge drunk drivers.
If you find pot growing wild, someone else planted it. It grows in Asia & Africa - everywhere else it is being grown. When I was a teenager, my friend's Dad worked for the state drug enforcement years ago & grew 3 in his back yard (to see how they grew in NC soil) - they were huge.The state burned them afterwards.
2007-02-14 16:11:11 · answer #6 · answered by Wolfpacker 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I do not have the right to judge people for what they do in the privacy of their own home. I do not have the right to create laws that restrict what people can do in the privacy of their own home.
When I do these things... I become evil.
Go back and watch the old anti-marijuana propaganda films. People are too simple-minded to realize that much of the conventional thinking about the harms of marijuana comes directly from propaganda that has been spread over the past 50 years.
I am not asking you to take my word for it. I am simply asking you to get educated. Read about it.
Don't debate... educate.
Enlighten yourself.
2007-02-14 16:07:10 · answer #7 · answered by reasonmrsmith 2 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Pot doesn't grow wild. That's called ditchweed. I dare you to try smoking that sometime!!! There is a huge difference.
I don't want the world on drugs. People are dumb enough already.
2007-02-14 16:06:32 · answer #8 · answered by Nationalist 4 · 3⤊ 4⤋
why it isn't legal..is to many people are making to much money off weed...by keeping it illegal = $$$$$$$$
It is no worse than alcohol ..
2007-02-14 16:09:59 · answer #9 · answered by LeftField360 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
so later you'll be sayin the same for cocaine and other illegal drugs. the thing is that people under the effect of MJ are worse than tabacco, They don't get out of their minds like pot heads.
Drinking causes many things like accidents, liver damage... do research!
2007-02-14 16:07:02 · answer #10 · answered by Livier A 3 · 1⤊ 4⤋