Should Marijuana be legalize?

Question

my opinion... yes....
the government is just trying to cover it up, all those ads about how bad it is is BS.... if the government was to legalize MJ alot of the main drug contributors like asprin etc..... will not make anymoney, and the taxes wount go to the government. they know that it isnt a bad thing.... if they can grow it in massive warehouses and give it to cancer patients.... or when there is a bob marley concert and the cops are all over people smoking and they dont arrest no one... but in the streets they will.... its all BS and money.... they would make millionssssss!!! and it would eliminate the dealers.... oh and those ads on tv about the guy pasing the joint to the dog is stupid!!!!!! they need to make ads about coke, or crack... a REAL drug that is killing our streets.....not MJ....

Answer 1

If cigarettes and alcohol are legal...YES.

These two kill hundreds of thousands of people every year. Drunk driving, bar brawls, riots, come on, these are caused by alcohol.

If we're willing to have something lethal be legal, like cars, cigarettes, alcohol, guns, etc., then why the hell is a plant that makes you watch TV and eat Frito's while playing with your dog and watching National Geographic illegal.

As a former college student, I've seen thousands of people drunk and thousands of people high on different drugs. From worst behavior to best:

Worst: Heroine
Cocaine
Alcohol
Cigarettes
Ecstacy
Marijuana

It seems in the US we don't look at numbers of deaths or rate of injury when deciding our laws...we just go to church and then illegalize all the "bad" stuff. Awesome.

Answer 2

Decriminalized...yes. Legalized...no.

I agree that for the most part, it's a victimless crime and it'd be futile to try and arrest every pot user. However, you're assumption that the government would handle this in a manner that would be beneficial to the users AND the government is a bit off...pie in the sky at best.

We know very well how adept our government is at creating taxes where once there was none. Something like this would be taxed IMMEDIATELY. After taxation, and maybe a few years of enjoyment, the anti-smoking crowd would jump in, just like they are now. "you can't smoke here, you can't smoke there, you shouldn't smoke period, etc."

At first, it'd probably be no big deal. But of course, that will change, and it will most likely be something stupid. Maybe a kid who had it in his system drives off the road and kills a Senator's son. It wouldn't matter if the kid was a crappy driver to begin with, just that they found pot in his system. You think that the Senator would hesitate for a minute to tax the hell out of it or prohibit it altogether?

There are so many reasons not to LEGALIZE it so de-criminalization is looking like the way to go. There's no need to send so many people to jail for something so minor, but at the same time, there's no sense in giving the government something else to f-up.

Answer 3

I'm for repealing all marijuana prohibition laws, period. I love some of the responses, It's amazing how many buy into the government propaganda campaign against it. Some people can't even fathom the simple fact that prior to the creation of the DEA and the "war on drugs" marijuana was in our high schools. Today, it's in our elementary schools, we're losing the war and our youngest children are the causalities. Legalization would take it out of dealers hands and put it into licenses business people's hands. into the hands of people who won't risk losing their weed license by selling to a minor.
Legalization will do what the DEA can't and generate revenue while decreasing the load on law enforcement. On the down side cops will lose their "easy busts" and have to take on real criminals instead.

Answer 4

A study of 450 individuals found that people who smoke marijuana frequently but do not smoke tobacco have more health problems and miss more days of work than nonsmokers. Many of the extra sick days among the marijuana smokers in the study were for respiratory illnesses.

Even infrequent abuse can cause burning and stinging of the mouth and throat, often accompanied by a heavy cough. Someone who smokes marijuana regularly may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers do, such as daily cough and phlegm production, more frequent acute chest illness, a heightened risk of lung infections, and a greater tendency to obstructed airways. Smoking marijuana possibly increases the likelihood of developing cancer of the head or neck. A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers.

Marijuana abuse also has the potential to promote cancer of the lungs and other parts of the respiratory tract because it contains irritants and carcinogens. In fact, marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than does tobacco smoke. It also induces high levels of an enzyme that converts certain hydrocarbons into their carcinogenic form—levels that may accelerate the changes that ultimately produce malignant cells. Marijuana users usually inhale more deeply and hold their breath longer than tobacco smokers do, which increases the lungs' exposure to carcinogenic smoke.

Answer 5

$113 billion is spent on marijuana each year interior the U.S., and thanks to the federal prohibition *each and every* dollar of it is going right now into the arms of criminals. far from combating human beings from employing marijuana, the prohibition instead creates 0 criminal grant amid great and unrelenting call for. the dimensions of the wear and tear this motives far exceeds any income acquired from preserving marijuana unlawful. in accordance to the ONDCP, a minimum of sixty % of Mexican drug cartel funds comes from promoting marijuana interior the U.S., they shield this gross sales by ability of brutally torturing, murdering and dismembering limitless harmless human beings. If we are able to give up human beings employing marijuana then we ought to realize this NOW, yet while we will not then we ought to legalize the production and sale of marijuana to adults with after-tax costs set too low for the cartels to adventure. one way or the different, we ought to rigidity the cartels out of the marijuana industry and do away with their exceptionally worthwhile marijuana earning - no organisation can stand up to the shortcoming of sixty % of its gross sales! as much as now, the cartels have accumulated greater suitable than a hundred,000 "foot infantrymen" and perform in 230 U.S. cities, and this is now believed that the cartels are "morphing into, or making elementary reason with, what may well be seen an insurgency" (Secretary of State Clinton, 09/09/2010). The longer the cartels are allowed to apply the prohibition the greater efficient they are going to get and the greater our very own very own risk-free practices would be put in jeopardy.

Answer 6

I personally don't see the big deal if they legalize it. Why is smoking one plant (tobacco) o.k. and not another (marijuana)? God must have put that plant on the earth for a reason. People can get prescriptions for cancer or glaucoma, so why is it lumped in the same catagory as crack, cheese, ecstacy and all of the hard core crap out there?

Answer 7

Nope and you need to stop smoking it because your thought processes are all messed. It will never be legal becaue we have gotten passed the place where we make drugs legal. Don't think we will ever make another drug legal especially since anyone who ever went to college or the military knows it produces such burnouts. I am an old hippie and I can tell you there are weed heads who have not worked or had a thought in 25 years. Nope, get off the weed dude its killing you. Ain't no conspiracy to it, thats the weed and the dead brain cells talking

Answer 8

Yes

Answer 9

Legalized...maybe. Decriminalized for personal possession? Absolutely.

Answer 10

Come out of the 60's retro kick. We are now in the land of nots. Society is now passing laws for the land of the can't do. You can't smoke here or there, you can't use this word or that word, you can't cook with this or that, you can't do this or that. You have a better chance of selling pork rinds in Iraq than getting it legalized.