I see way more benefits to legalizing maryjane (and other things) than detriments...Agree or Disagree...?

Answer 1

Honestly, the greatest thing I have found about the illegality of marijuana, is that it presents a choice to every member of society.

It is one of the most logical laws to break. Marijuana is harmless, if used intelligently. Lawyers, by profession, have the highest proclivity to smoke pot, than doctors, ministers, engineers, etc...

Lawyers are smart people and study the law and the fundamental reasons for law. Law is created "by us" and intended for "for us".

Laws add value to society. If a responsible person can stave off marijuana's minor detriments, there are basically no negative consequences. So why not do it?

Better yet, why is it illegal?

Now tangent in a new direction, i ask you.

Disregard for a couple minutes, all prior thoughts/ideas/opinions.

Think only along this track.

If the criminal justice system can set an arbitrary law to weed out "criminal rationalizing individuals", it would be good to categorize people into these 2 categories. Blind legal conformists, and rational thinkers.

Rational thinkers are more dangerous to society and threaten the whole beauracracy of government. Rational thinkers are a potential plague to the government.

Rational thinkers are a huge threat to righ wing america. And I mean "right of extreme left" the "right 99% of us".

In other words, I am grouping everyone into "the extreme left 1%" and "the other 99%"

Those at the extreme 1% are dangerous and their logic and open mindedness and intelligence, threatens the conformal security of everyone else.

Weed is an arbitrary crime, which allows "right 99%" to reinforce the social controls which provide comfort yet restrict a nation that makes sense (which would not be to everyone's aggregate benefit).

Outlawing weed is just one "check and balance" or a form of social control.

Just like the oracle, in the movie matrix.

Answer 2

I totally agree. It has the same effects as something legal like Prozac does, but it's all natural and can't be patented, which is why it's illegal; corporations make more money selling the synthetic stuff then they would the natural stuff. Legalizing marijuana would stop these bogus marijuana charges from getting out of hand. Our prisons are filled with ridiculous marijuana contraband charges that really make absolutely no logical sense. The US has the largest percentage of its citizens in prison, and legalizing marijuana would help address this growing problem-eleviating our overcrowded prisons by not throwing so many "drug abuse" convicts in them. Legalization would also end the marijuana drug trade that's funded, carried out and maintained by illegal gangs and organized crime structures, and that would most definately be a huge success on the so-called war on drugs.

Answer 3

Disagree

Since you didn't list the "benefits", it is difficult to address your question. But here's a partial list why MJ is better off illegal:

1. Enforcement - There is no field sobriety test for MJ like there is for alcohol. Therefore, unlike alcohol, there is no reasonably enforceable level of intoxication (vs. harmless casual use similar to a glass of wine at dinner).
2. Intoxication - Even MJ advocates acknowledge that MJ increases the intoxication level of alcohol when used in tandem. Therefore, MJ creates a dangerous drunk out of a person with legal amounts of alcohol in their system.
3. Potency - Potency has increased exponentially over the past 3-4 decades. God knows the potency increase if Phillip Morris gets a legal shot at marketing it, nor what the health/addiction conditions will be.

If we haven't learned our lessons from the historic impact of previous legalization of tobacco, cocaine, and morphine, we're not paying attention.

Answer 4

Legalization of drugs is a complicated issue. On one hand
it could be argued that individuals have the right to
destroy their bodies. On the other hand the individuals
put innocent bystanders in jeopardy. Simple solution(which
will never happen) is to give individuals the option of
using drugs within a segregated geography. All the
people who could care less about damaging their
health could be established within a boundary of
social jeopardy.

Answer 5

Disagree.

Answer 6

long tale short, human beings would desire to take accountability for what they put in their physique (be it drugs, nutrition, liqueur, or the rest). the government could understand the conflict on drugs is futile, and that they could replace drug regulation rules (for a large number of reasons, yet specifically to cut back out the cartels and shrink drug appropriate crime). My familiar stance is that each and every physique drugs could be legalized, regulated, and taxed like numerous different issues people consume.

Answer 7

disagree.

we should get rid of all of our rights, all of our civil libertys, all of our "unalienable rights," and let the government decide what's right for us. they say marijuana's bad, then it is bad. look at what they did that is just - vietnam and iraq! they honestly know what is better for the american people.

and even though marijuana is not all too bad for you, even though if it is illegal people will still smoke it, even though we put the profits of drugs into the hands of the wrong people, the illegalization of drugs has helped america in some way...

Answer 8

They are about the same as making it legal to put tar in one's brain. If I had it all to do over again, I would have never tried it. Trust me, pain is SO overated.

Answer 9

101% agrree i rather stomach sitting by someone sparking up a "J" than smellin one sniff of cigaretts who cares? maryjane is way healthier, all natural and its better for the environment, people with disablities like glucoma

Answer 10

Agree we spend more money on jailing and the war on drugs than we would make taxing it . And No one has overdosed or or died directly. I don't smoke.