Should marijuana be legal?

Answer 1

Of course it should be legalized.

As for the fella that lost his sister - so sorry for your loss, but some people just can't drive. Others can't drive whilst on cold meds. We don't even know what anti-depressants do to the driving population. They sleep behind the wheel, read newspapers, and talk on cell phones. And maybe the driver wasn't drunk - but would that have been preferable?

Legalizing or decriminalizing marijuana doesn't mean you or me or anyone we know has to smoke it - it means we'll stop spending MY tax dollars to fight it, it means we'll stop locking up kids for experimenting with it, it means that people who NEED it won't have to go underground and pay high prices for it.

Put it in a storefront and tax it. It's the American way.

Answer 2

Yes, it should.
The health risks associated with marijuana use are of a much smaller threat in comparison to both cigarettes and alcohol, which are both legal. The health risk of marijuana use , when smoked, is an increase in the likely hood of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses. Although marijuana smoke is less carcinogenic than tobacco smoke. Alcohol use can cause liver damage, digestive damage, cancer, heart inflammation, and alcoholic myositis. Tobacco use causes lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses. Clearly marijuana has less impact on ones health than tobacco use or extreme alcohol abuse.

Answer 3

My little sister was killed by a guy that had been only!!! smoking marijuana and driving around. He was smoking and driving and not paying attention, he drove onto the curb and hit her......How should we legalize a NARCOTIC???

You tell me that?

I think people that smoke marijuana are not only creating a lazier, slower, stupider society, but they refuse as do alcoholics to believe that mind altering drugs will do anything to them.

By the way, the driver of the car is now serving life sentence in jail because of this.....

I bet if you asked him he would say No to legalize this DRUG!

Answer 4

Marijuana has twenty times the cancer causing agents than tobacco has. It should not be made legal. To add to that tobacco should be illegal, too. Neither serve any rational purpose whatsoever.

Yes, marijuana and tobacco are found in nature. But then so is anthrax. Will you ever smoke it? Hardly.

Smoking ANYTHING will give you cancer. If you smoke ANYTHING stop. Your lungs will love you for it. So will your pocketbook. And don't say you get yours for free. Your friends and/dealer may give it to you for free this time but will eventually have you do something for them for all they have so kindly given you. And it won't be asking you to take out the trash or wash their car

Give me all the thumb downs that you want. But in your heart, you know I'm right.

Answer 5

Yes for two reasons:

Making it legal will stop undergound drug smugglers and help the economy grow

no studies have proven that it is toxic, causes cancer or "kills" braincells. Also it is not addictive.

It is no more harmful then alcohol. It should be legal. it would be more controlled.

Answer 6

Absolutely!

Answer 7

Of course. It's a waste of tax dollars to keep harmless people in prison over such a drug that hurts no one.

Answer 8

Why not they could tax it like cigarretes...It would be a win win situation,not to mention all the time it would free up for the police.

Answer 9

Yes

Pretty funny that something that supposedly causes cancer is actually a cure:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/armentano-p1.html

As well as other medical uses, not just to give cancer and AIDS patients appetites and relieve pain:

http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=128

Answer 10

Absolutely, Positively!

I really don't understand what the hold up is.