Legalise the weed !?

Question

There's nothing wrong with the stuff at all.
The goverments have spent millions TRYING to find something they can use as a deterant, and the best they can come up with is 'It might make you paranoid and MIGHT make to slightly scitzo later in life'.
Weigh up the cons with drink and try applying the same to the weed, you cant.
When was the last time you heard of someone getting wasted on weed, going out and starting a fight, throwing up and then falling asleep in there own vomit, which i have seen NUMEROUS times with drunk people.
Weed is the love drug.
If everyone smoked a J a day there would be no wars and everyone would get on better.

Answer 1

I fully agree with you. Alcohol has more side effects than weed and I have never met or cared for an angry wasted on weed person. I worked in A&E and we used to get at least 20 people a week with alcohol related accidents, but I never encountered one single person with weed related problems.

Answer 2

People can be so rude. I'm sorry people aren't answering your question seriously. Anyway, I don't see a problem in it. For one thing many people do it anyway and they will continue to do so whether legal or not. So if weed where legalized then there would be less people being arrested for it and less prisoners that citizens would have to pay taxes on. Second, yeah it messes up your brain cell count. But so does alcohol, and it's legal. People get cancer from cigarettes all the time. When is the last time you hear of someone getting cancer from weed? Annndddd third. I'm with Kat Williams on this one. Weed is a plant, not like crack where you have to add stuff to it and cook it. "I don't know the recipe, I'm just saying theres some sh** you've got to do to it." So can it technically be called a drug? I've never smoked it personally, and nobody probably believes me when I say this, but that's just what I think about it.

Answer 3

Funny thing with the ole' weed. Theres always young people thats totaly for or totally againest. theres no middle ground which in reality that if it WAS legalised less people would use it because it isnt a whole big tabu. ill smoke about an eighth a week but i know it makes you totaly lazy. And schizophrenia is a real problem for some users. Anyone heard of a friend who totaly got paranoid on weed? see with something that affects your head its not all a mircle cure but if u can have informed consent on both pros and cons of smoking then i dont see why adults cant choose to smoke weed. but remember Cannabis is no holy grail that alot of people seem to think it is.

Answer 4

I don't smoke weed because I don't have a strong tolerance but I wish it was not only legal but encouraged... It is blatantly clear that smoking weed is not only good for individuals but good for society as a whole, check out any research done on cannabis and it is clear for anyone to see that it has been the most benificial plant in history, not just for it's obvious qualities but without it no civilisation could have flourished, it was only the papacy decided it was "devils weed" and that was at a time when the catholic church could not be questioned without serious repurcussions, since then we have lived in a society that fears authority.
As I said... I don't smoke it but I appreciate it and it should be legal!!!!

Answer 5

More or less I agree with you. Although I think the last sentence is very naive.

And I think there are much better reasons to legalize pot than just for smoking. How about ending the reign of the drug dealing gangs? What better way to run them out of business than to legalize what they trade in? What would they do then?

How about so scientists can be allowed to do real, unbiased research on cannabis and its effects on cancer? The last study was conducted in Virginia in the '70s, and once the report was released which showed that cancer in rats could be slowed or killed by large amounts of THC, the government shut down the lab and refused to publish the report.

Those are good reasons to legalize, but I agree with your premise as well.

Answer 6

I personally dont care if people use it or not but this I do know -all the people I know who have & continually used it since my youth (the 80s) they now look drawn & ill & their eyes look like p1ss holes in the snow,many seem to mumble alot & have short term memory.One girl is definitely paranoid and has lots of psyce probs.-make of this what you will but its true .P.S most nearly without exeption are & have since their teens been wasters.

Answer 7

If they legalized it, it would break the back of organized crime around the world. Studies have shown that money derived from its sale finances other activities. Just regulate it like they do alcohol and tobacco.

After all, man created alcohol, God created weed......Who do you trust?

Answer 8

I think that the 'weed' that in the hippies smoked in the 60s was far less powerful than the new strain of cannabis. I understand this this is mind altering and causes mental illness, not least of all schizophrenia. No, too dangerous to legalize.

Answer 9

ok bro u legalize weed then u would have nothing to ***** about right u cant always get what u want u get what u need


and in so-cal its legal for medicinal use jus find a doctor that would write u a perscription

Answer 10

Weed can lead to cancer for the same reasons cigarettes can. Being unfiltered it is actually worse than tobacco.

That said, I do not believe any drug should be illegal. Its simple enough to see that criminal penalties don't work to prohibit drug use. Instead, it fuels higher prices that fund organized crime. It is also not the government's place to tell you what you can or cannot do to your own body. Its your body and not theirs.