should marijuana be legalized? please explain.?

Question

marijuana has been proven to be less harmful than alcohol, contains less harmful chemicals than tabacco, and is use for medical reasons.

Marijuana has also been exaggerated by anti-marijuana campains about its affects. what do you think?

should marijuana be legalized?

Answer 1

Definitely. Controlling what people do in their own privacy is not the business of government. Making some drugs legal, like alcohol, and other illegal, like marijuana is arbitrary cultural bias, making no sense whatsoever. We tried to get people to stop drinking in the 1920's, and the crime and other problems that developed were so bad we repealed the law. The same thing is happening now. Our courts and jails are full of pot smokers and those that sell pot. Our police are required to be clergy men with guns, and they have much better things to do than arrest someone for smoking a joint. The illegal and nontaxable huge profits from drugs being illegal corrupts our system. People will use drugs, as we learned with alcohol, whether they are illegal or not. If they were all legal, they would be cheap, we would have no legal problems, corruption, or drug cartels (they would just become like Philip Morris). And imagine how our relations would improve with Central and South America as a result!

Answer 2

You should ask a young man I seen a while back if it should be legalized. He will never walk again due to its effects on the body. He was an old man, all the way to 19. So yes it is exaggerated when saying it has no effect on the body. It has a tremendous effect, just as alcohol does. You are looking for a legal reason to get high. Get high on life and let the drugs alone.

Answer 3

Of course it should be! We waste so much money and resources that could go towards economic growth in our economy instead of trying to catch potheads. You can't stop or even slow down the demand, only lower the supply causing more and more price hikes! Productive peaceful people should be free in a free country! I'm not even a pothead and I know this! It just makes no sense. My friend was arrested for pot and it is costing him so much money in fines and time off work! He is smart as a whip to....probably smarter than most cops I know. (He is really a smart kid) He hates drinking cause he says he can feel it killing his body so he only drinks like once a month but he smokes every weekend! It is just another government scheme like taxes, social security, Iraq, illegals, gays, and any other thing that should be left to the efficient sector in a free nation! It is all just a bunch of politics gone wrong! Welcome to the real world!

Answer 4

I think so. Like you said, it's not any more socially dangerous than many other legally available products out there. I think it should be regulated and taxed like alcohol and cigarettes.

I dispute Dracula's answer though. I believe that if marijuana was legalized the black market would dry up and put a lot of drug dealers out of business. When is the last time you bought a heavily-taxed product off the black market, like cigarettes, alcohol, gasoline, etc?

Answer 5

You mean decriminalize it. Everything is legal unless you make it illegal by law. This means at some point, for some reason, a law was passed to ban its possesion use and transportation. As for uses, the same claims can be made for alcohol and tobacco. Tobacco is an antiseptic and red wines are high in anti-oxidants "proven" to be healthful. The difference is since mary jane is banned it must have yet another law passed to decriminalize it, and for that you have to "prove " your case in a much tougher arena.

Answer 6

You mean, should we stop throwing people in prison (and ruining their lives) for something as silly as smoking grass? Do you mean we should save money because we won't need as many prisons? If grass were legal, then neither cops nor dealers would have to worry about battling it out, saving the families of heroic law enforcement officers a lot of grief.

Why would you want to do that?

Answer 7

To many bums have ruined their lives smoking that crap. I have a friend whose brother started when he was 13 and now he's 28. He's dropped out of college, still lives with his mom, got a dis-honorable discharge from the army, he doesn't have a car, he can't go into to the state Kansas (for a criminal offense), he has no girl friend, he's just a plain first class bum.

Answer 8

No because I want Pelosi and Clinton to decide for me what type of plants I can grow in my home. I wish they could also tell me what videos are okay to watch, music to listen to and what color I should paint my bathroom.

Just kidding.
You know what - congress can regulate the interstate trade of this crop all they want. Criminilize it, legalize it, I really don't care if money is changing hands and it's not isolated within the state - they can do whatever they want.

But for them to restrict me from growing ANY plant in the privacy of my home and consuming it's fruits is archaic, unconstitutional and absolutely scandalous.

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additional notes, how are you gonna thumbs down this answer??? It's growing a plant!!! And also special shout out to the Grandma who knows someone that was paralyzed by grass... Methinks you are talking about something different than buddha.

Answer 9

Weed will screw your brain, I don't care what anybody says...

Legalise it for scientific purposes. Find out what's in weed these days and study it. Like most rec drugs weed is stuffed with garbage, we need to allow scientists to examine it and see what effect it has on the human brain, at least

btw taxing will not work. I can get anything off the black market, all you'd get would be tax-free weed

Answer 10

Why not. They can't stop it anyways. Might as well tax it. Just put the same rules on it as alcohol. No driving, operating machinery....etc.