marijuana???

Question

I am for it... I want to know why you are not.

Why should pot be illegal? (besides the govt. not being able to make any money from it)

and I don't want answers about car wrecks and yada yada cause here's my response-- ALCOHOL!

Answer 1

I disagree with your statement that the government couldn't make money from it....they could with taxes!

The problem I see with the question is you want to disassociate the similar effects of marijuana and alcohol as long as alcohol comes up the bigger loser.

I think marijuana AND alcohol are just as dangerous when one using either drug are sitting behind the wheel of a car. Marijuana has many of the same effects as alcohol consumption.

The part you don't want to hear is the factual statistics that show where marijuana has also been responsible for traffic fatalities just as alcohol.

Those who claim the need for medicinal marijuana neglect to report the fact that there are prescibed medications with medical quality THC. Additionally, marijuana consumption has not been proven to be any better than prescription THC.

A study, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, published in the December 2006 issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry, showed marijuana users tended to have less parental supervision, live in neighborhoods where the drug was easily available, and were more apt to be behaviorally deviant, less involved in school, and to hang out with people that their parents didn't like.

I don't believe marijuana is the so called "gateway drug" but I do believe some are willing to try newer or more potent illegal drugs to experiment with different "highs."

I consider one other theory where there are no specific instruments where "on the spot" testing can be used to determine marijuana consumption, which can be done with alcohol ... short of urine or blood testing.

With over 30 years in law enforcement, over half of that experience has been spent in drug enforcement. I see what marijuana and the other drugs do to individuals, families, and communities. I seriously doubt you have had the same experience other than your own recreational use. Just because you've not been traumatized by the short or long term effects of marijuana, doesn't mean that you won't or others haven't.

It amazes me how recreational users of marijuana and other illegal drugs resort to listening to their co-smokers or other kids who say it's "cool" and nothings wrong with it. Yet, those who reported from a medical view have a much different opinion.

My bet is the doctors are smarter and know more about the effects than you or your pro-smoking friends! It's kind of like deciding who to let do your open heart surgery....a board certified doctor....or the dope dealer down the street.

Best wishes.

Answer 2

I think marijuana should be legalized. Common criticisms to this train of though include:
-Pot is not for children and we would be setting a bad example by using it(well neither is alcohol, gambling, or pornography, but that is all legal for responsible adults).
-Pot is a gateway drug (untrue. less than 1% of marijuana users habitually use other, "harder" drugs, and it is probable that they would use the other drugs even if marijuana didn't exist).

The benefits of legalization would be a TREMENDOUS amount of revenue if the government were to tax it (which is logical, as tobacco and alcohol are taxed) and saving a huge amount of money by no longer needing to enforce marijuana laws (more room in overcrowded prisons, police can spend time enforcing more serious laws [or maybe even some police can be laid off because they are no longer needed], and the DEA can focus on other drugs).

Also, if MJ were legalized and sold by companies, there would be much reduced risk of "laced" weed.

Answer 3

Alcohol is also prohibited in vehicles and the use of prior to driving to a degree.

Marijuana is a drug no different than all the others.

Weed fuels crime. I can't tell you how many people I've arrested for violent crimes that have weed on them or just smoked up. I've arrested an equal number of people that have been drinking too much and caused the same problem. Difference is most people that buy weed are going to be getting it from someone on a street corner where the only goal is to make money to buy more drugs and fuel other criminal enterprises. You don't see a pot dealer going out and setting up college education funds or sponsoring a kid in Africa.

If society sees fit to legalize marijuana then so be it, until then it's illegal, period.

Answer 4

If you're for freedom you shouldn't support the war on drugs.
Freedom is for all or for nobody. It doesn't matter if you want to take drugs or not. Freedom means that you should be able to make your own choices. Now the law fit your choice but some day it may not. In fact, with the current set of laws chances are that you're doing something illegal on a daily basis.
It doesn't matter if it's the gateway to another more dangerous drugs. It's your choice and everyone else's choice.
It doesn't matter if it leads to car wrecks or crime (it's bs by the way). You can't make a factor that may lead to a crime illegal, not even if you can prove that it's a direct and exclusive consequence. It's thought crime, punishment for the crime not yet committed.
And over all, it's an infringement of your freedom. That's the whole point of it. Forget about the potheads, they're not the issue here. It's YOUR FREEDOM that's at stake here.
Now drugs, smokes, fat. When are you going to understand that it's your freedom?
Freedom means that you make your own choices and take full responsibility for them.

And I totally agree that everyone should pay for his own lung cancer treatment. Universal health care is more socialist crap and also a huge infringement to your freedom.

Answer 5

I agree that alcohol does cause more accidents than pot. But pot can make you distracted and paranoid while driving and then cause an accident. About 5 years ago when I used to smoke (I quit!!) I didn't look to my left when turning onto the main road and I ran right into someone. No alcohol was involved. It was me just being high and careless that caused it. To me no drug should be legal. I think alcohol is way worse for you than pot but alcohol will never be legal. So there's no point in going on about why isn't it illegal....

Answer 6

I just want to say to the first person who answered, that conservatives are actually the ones for legalization of marijuana and democratics are against it. I am not saying everyone conservative is for legalization, but as a whole they are. They have legalized marijuana use in the Netherlands and some places in Germany. I think it should be legalized because it has been shown with studies that legalization can help decrease the crime rate. Think about it, there are a few million people in the US prison system, which outnumbers any other country and the majority are there for drug crimes. I know you wanted people who disagree with legalization, but I wanted to put my opinion in there, too. Thanks!

Answer 7

It is an evil drug, worse than heroin, cocaine, methamphetimine and alcohol, which incidently kills 303 people a day.

Even though the eeeevil drug Marijuana doesn't kill anyone, nor is it physically addictive.

It is eeeeeeeeeevil, because it became the thinking mans drug.

It does have some good uses, the fiber from this eeeeeeeeeeeeevil drug, make good rope, cloth etc.

Oh, I was, just informed it is a noxious weed. Not a drug.

Well then when you ingest this noxious weeeeeeeeed, the gutters become 10 ft deep, then next your addicted to heroin.

Oh! gosh, I now have been informed, it helps to save lives and is considered to be herbal.

I tried some safe medicine ibobrufin, it has side effects that could lead to a swollen face, loss of kidney function and or bleeding out the ...... well you know where!

and by the end of the day 303 people dead from alcohol related Melodie's.

Answer 8

Its slowly headed in the right way. Its a war they cannot ever
win trying to either keep it out of the country, or people
growing it.

A government should fear its people, instead of the people
fearing their government.

I smell a violent uprising forming
in this country, because the way the government treats its
sick and dying people.

The damn DEA raiding the medical
marijuana clinics, trying to force their Nazi booted ways
on the State of California, for trying to help its people.

Answer 9

Excellent book to read to back up your case - The forbidden medicine. Talks all about the benefits of marijuana.

Answer 10

I am for it, too. It's not addictive, except for psycholocally, but alcohol definitely is. The government could certainly make money from it if they wanted to. I think they're just afraid that if they backed it, it might affect their political futures. I guess you wanted to hear from those who oppose it, but that's not me.