Do you think Marjiuana should be legalized?

Question

I think it should be legalized but under the same sense as alcohol because even a teacher of mine has said that everything is good in moderation.

Answer 1

And the last part of your statement is the one truth everyone should live by. Everything from alcohol and marijuana to religion and politics should be taken in moderation. For once moderation is gone only fanaticism remains. Marijuana should be legal and not because I smoke it. It has medical uses and is less harmful to the body than smoking cigarettes or drinking alcohol. It does not make people violent and rarely is it the cause in a vehicle accident.

One problem with marijuana though is that it is too useful. It can help with depression, and nausea. It allows cancer patients who are going through chemotherapy to eat and keep the food down. It takes the pain away from those same patients and AIDS patients as well. Not to mention the rope from the cannabis plant (hemp) is one of the stronger types of rope in the world and cheaper and easier to produce than synthetic ropes. You can make bags and clothes and an untold amount of things out of hemp.

Because of all it uses it is illegal. Because it has the ability to replace so many products made by so many large companies and corporations it will remain illegal. Legalization is actually a no-brainer until one starts to pass judgment on those who use it. To look at its effects and effectiveness in total one must drop their predisposed judgment of it and take into account all that it can do. Thanks and have a nice day.

Answer 2

Yeah, I think we pay way too much money
on this one to let the Neocons fool themselves
into thinking that making recreational drug
use illegal protects society.

All it does is fritter away our resources which
we could use to help people stay OFF drugs.

There is little evidence that making it illegal
has done anything to curb its use, but it
certainly has inspired a robust and wide spread
black market for it.

That being said, "Anything in moderation",
though certainly not new with your teacher,
is not universally applicable. The question
is not whether or not the drug is good for
you (with limited exceptions, it clearly is not)
but whether this is the right way to approach
handling a drug epidemic that is killing millions.

Banning it is like banning sex. It might make
YOU feel better, but all it does is make otherwise
law abiding citizens into criminals - it doesn't
curb its use.

Better use of the money would be to educate
people and provide re-hab programs, etc.

FYI, I do not use marjiuana or any other
recreational drug.

Answer 3

ok this has been a main question for the american people for years. keep in mind a drug is a substance chemically altered to enhance the body's makeup. Marijuana picked from a plant is not chemically altered, now there are a lot of people that mess with mother nature and do chemically alter it, then it is a drug. The main reason why it isn't legal is because the government would have a hard time taxing it. Just because it's so easy to grow. I think it's true form should be legalized , if you chemically alter then that should be illegal.Look at amsterdam and vancouver in recent studies they took these two legal destinations and scaled them to size of the united states, and found that drug use was forty to fifty percent less than america's . When you legalized something you're taking the little red button that you told the kid not to press away.

Answer 4

I personally do not like it but it appears some people do. I don't think it should be made legal but de-criminalizing it is probably ok. That means small amounts for personal use would be like a traffic ticket. It should remain that way until a positively accurate test could be given so we can prosecute for DUI etc. I am not sure you could consistently prove in court that a driver, operator or pilot is under the influence. Once such a testing method is approved, people should be able to grow only a limited amount, under control ed conditions (so minors don't get access to it) or purchase it from licensed distribute rs. Penalties for providing it to minors or being under the influence in public should be pretty high. By the way all of this should be under State control not Federal. The Federal Government should only regulate interstate transportation of it.

Ps. I prefer a nice Scotch on the rocks.

Answer 5

Yeah, sure ...
Now, are you going to enforce it? Remember that now that you have just legalized it, that means you have to have a permit to grow them, apply for local, state, and federal taxes (where applied) and give those taxes to the goverment.
You also have to have enforcement on the age limit. Is it 18? 21? older? Whatever it is, you now have to deal with minors and any laws for distributing to minors.
Now we have the wonderful affect of people in the workplace and school. We've all seen someone stoned, drunk, or hung over ... how would you like to deal with the 3-4 cahsiers at the grocery store who are stoned from just getting back from smoking pot outside. They are slowed and their behavior is very "unprofessional".
You can't complain about that because smoking weed is afterall, legal now.

Answer 6

Well, shame on your teacher. Marijuana should be legalized if legally prescribed for pain control for people who need it, such as cancer victims.

The way marijuana is grown now, it is so chock full of toxins that are only in there to make you more addicted, is not a good idea, even in moderation.

So, if everything is good in moderation, how would you like to be moderately raped????????

Answer 7

No. Everything is not good in moderation. How about crack or smack? How about the fact that marijuana is as addictive as alcohol (which is unfortunately a legal drug)? How about the fact that marijuana smokers go to rehab just as alcohol drinkers, heroin addicts, crack smokers, etc.? How about the fact that long term marijuana use will alter you chromosomes and lead to birth defects in your children and grandchildren? This is no BS. Think about it before you light up.

Answer 8

No, my previous due youthful brother is a marijuana addict on the age of 15 and he died 2 years in the past on the age of fifty 3. in comparison to different contributors of the kin which had an prolonged existence and residing thankfully without drug and tobacco.

Answer 9

absolutely. FYI: when the FDA tests anything for human use they require an LD50 test which defines the lethal dosage required to kill 50% of an animal test group. To date, they have not been able give a large enough dose to get that for marijuana, but there is an LD50 rating for McDonald's french fries .

Answer 10

yes, but because of the burden of non-violent weed offenders on our prison/judicial system. bothering with small time weed offenders is like having your local swat team also make traffic stops. there are bigger, violent fish to fry.