What are your views on marijuana? Legal or not?

Answer 1

Just last week there was a new story that the most commonly abused drugs currently are prescription drugs. You know "legal drugs."

Prohibition of any substance is a futile effort. We tried it with alcohol [which is much worse] and the resultant crime wave proved that point pretty well. The US didn't learn from that experiment and has spent billions of dollars fighting a non productive "war on drugs" for a long time.

IMO all drugs should be legal and taxed and regulated just like nicotine [cigarettes] and alcohol are. The money raised could be used to fund health and treatment services.

For example, in certain European countries drug addicts can register as such with the health services and get the drugs they need to function. This means they don't have to resort to crime to raise the money to support their habit and while they may not be the most productive members of society at least they can survive and hold down jobs while they get the drugs and counseling they need to rid themselves of addiction.

People have always are always will want to alter their reality through drug use. Education and counseling will solve the effects of that better, than throwing people in jail simply because they choose to use a drug that the government has deemed illegal.

Answer 2

How many police have gotten called to the scene of a violent pot-head beating his wife and kids? How many pot-heads have sped through the front of a store while driving? How many families are broken apart because of marijuana?
I think alcohol should sooner be illegal, but let's remember that the drugs, no matter what they are, don't change you, they only enhance what you already are.
The pot-head's only crimes are the love of pretty, shiney things, abstraction, and their generous contribution to junk food companies everywhere.
As for any stories of a person getting high and then doing something terrible, maybe they were just bad people who needed an excuse.
PS. This is hilarious, on Feb 21st, 2006 "...the United States Supreme Court ruled that a church in New Mexico should be exempt from the law, which everybody else has to obey, against the taking of hallucinogenic drugs... Yet the Supreme Court ruled, in 2005, that all patients who used cannabis for medical purposes are vulnerable to prosecution (even in the minority states where such specialist use is legalized)..."

Answer 3

I have to agree with write sense on this one. Alcohol is a legal drug which to me has never made sense. I have never heard of someone smoking too much pot getting in a car and killing ten people. But I have too many times heard alcohol to be the cause of situations like this. I believe that it is another way of Government control, they make too much money off it every year so why make it legal? And lose a payday? Yeah right. I believe it should be legal or other mind altering substances should be illegal as well. Now don't get me wrong here I don't smoke it and I am not saying this because I am a stoner but I just don't see how it is fair.

Answer 4

There is a yes AND a no to this question. A yes because it would help to prevent the rifeness of drug-related crime such as beatings, theft, fights, breakings, house raids and in some cases acts of prostitution to feed their habits etc. a "NO" is because the long-term effect of schizophrenia is much more prevalent than it was years ago, this is due to the fact because cannabis nowadays tends to be "cut" in which people mix other substances (i.e petrol) to give a boost on the effect and to make more profit. Also, the majority of children nowaday have a least tried it, and unfortunately whether cannabis is illegal or not, they can still manage to get hold of it.

In my opinion, I think Marijuana should be legal if it was 100% cannabis, but if it is cut, then no.

Answer 5

It's already been proven that marijuana has major benefits for people suffering from chronic illnesses. Cancer and AIDS patients, in particular, benefit from marijuana. One Cancer patient said that a cup of tea with marijuana provides six hours of pain relief.

At least medically, it should be legal. Just make a prescription mandatory.

People's individual prejudices should not halt the advancement of medicine.

Anyways, why is alcohol, which has been proven to kill, legal, but marijuana, which has not been linked to any death by itself, been banned.

I think it's because the government can't tax marijuana.

That's just wrong.

Answer 6

If the federal government has such strict anti-marijuana legislation, why aren't members of congress and everyone else in the federal government drug tested?

Using data from a variety of federal and state government sources, Miron's paper, "The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition," concludes:

**Replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of legal regulation would save approximately $7.7 billion in government expenditures on prohibition enforcement-$2.4 billion at the federal level and $5.3 billion at the state and local levels.

**Revenue from taxation of marijuana sales would range from $2.4 billion per year if marijuana were taxed like ordinary consumer goods to $6.2 billion if it were taxed like alcohol or tobacco.

These estimates may be conservative. Because available data is incomplete, assumptions necessary to produce national estimates inevitably allow for some variation up or down. For example, Miron's report does not include estimates for certain potential savings -- such as the likelihood of fewer criminal justice referrals of marijuana offenders to drug treatment and reduced prison costs stemming from persons on parole or probation being reincarcerated after positive urine tests for marijuana. In addition, Miron based his figure for corrections costs stemming from marijuana prohibition on an estimate that one percent of state prisoners are imprisoned for marijuana- related offenses. A report released May 18 by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy put the figure at 1.6 percent, acknowledging that tens of thousands of Americans are incarcerated in state or federal prisons for marijuana offenses.

OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK.

Answer 7

Legal.
With all the dangerous chemical concoctions made up in labs and marketed to us as "safe" and "healthy", it's absolutely ridiculous that we cannot partake from a naturally growing plant.

Answer 8

Both alcohol and marijuana should be legal or both should be illegal.

Answer 9

I say legalize it and put a tax on it then the US can come closer to coming out of debt :)

Answer 10

Marijuana is illegal in every society because it is not good to take smoke.it is harmful to our health.