should they legalize it??

Question

should marijuana [ canabis sativa, weed ] lol b legalized. i have my opinion on it but i wanna know if its right to feel that it should b legal, and also what you people think about the situation lol

Answer 1

who cares, I'll smoke it anyway

Answer 2

Sure, but the funny thing is the people who care the most are the users, who are either on medical use and will be dead soon anyway, or are stoned all the time every day.

They are not able to organize politically to energize themselves and then folks like Rick above and me who would support them.

Why has this been this way for 70 years now, while many other groups have organized and gotten laws passed to their satisfaction?

Yes, that's right!

Because the interested parties are too stoned, and getting organized means not being stoned for a long time, possibly a whole lifetime, in support of a cause!

So far, folks like yo ask this question 10 times a day on this forum alone it seems, you can use the search engine to see for yourself.

But no one ever does anything about it besides ask.

I can only conclude that users prefer being stoned with a small legal risk to the chance in the future to be stoned with no legal risk at the expense of not being stoned at all for an unforeseeable amount of time.

And that is just sad, because as Rick said, the war on drugs is tearing us apart as a country. But if the folks who use weed can't even step up to the plate, why should folks like me or Rick, as non-users, step up for your benefit?

Answer 3

There are a lot of arguments for and against. For arguments mostly revolve around the regulation of the drug. Where it is illegal, the marijuana you buy can be laced with anything from speed to rat poison. If legalised, the marijuana you buy has to conform to a set standard.

The against arguments include a lot of things such as:
1 legalising the drug can result in people thinking that it is not harmful and resulting in increased use.

2 Many people see legalisation as an excuse for government to make money off something which, because of it's illegal status, was not taxed.

p.s. Everything destroys brain cells, even thinking really hard.

Answer 4

Yes, I think it should be legalized. Not only does it have a lot of medicinal benefits, but if people want to smoke some weed in the privacy of their own home, what does it bother? The war on drugs is a stupid waste of time and money and is creating more crime and criminals than it supposedly gets rid of. Instead of spending all those resources on people who smoke a little bit of weed, why not go after real threats to society like murderers, rapists, and republicans.

Answer 5

Undoubtedly.
The war on drugs is ripping the country apart and a dismal failure.
It causes prison overcrowding, filled with non-violent people, while some violent criminals are allowed out on early release.
It causes unmeasurable amounts of police and legal system corruption.

The United States has the highest prison population rate in the world. 1 out of every 138 citizens is/was incarcerated. 80% of the increase in prison population from 1985 to 1995 resulted from drug convictions. Today 55% of inmates in Federal prisons and 21% in State prisons are inside on nonviolent drug charges. The nonviolent prisoner population is larger than the combined populations of Wyoming and Alaska. Remember these are nonviolent offenders. These are not the drug king pins of the world, these aren't gangsters gunning people down, they aren't even schoolyard pushers. 1.6 million people are arrested each year on drug charges. We incarcerate black males at a rate of 4900 per every 100,000, almost 6 times the rate in South Africa under apartheid.

Today we spend over $20 billion each year funding the drug war directly. Plus tens of thousands per inmate it costs to keep them in prison. Plus the salaries of law enforcement, costs of operating the courts, etc. Altogether the drug war costs us almost $70 billion each year.

And there are there is the same percentage of drug users today as there was when the drug war began.

And especially marijuana, it is incredibly non-toxic. You cannot find a single case in the world's medical literature where a person has died from overdose of marijuana. It has a long list of medical uses. Most people talking about how bad it is know nothing about it. And no, I'm not a marijuana user, although I have tried it a few times, it's not my bag.

Incidentally the U.S. once ran a medical marijuana program, closed down in 1992. There are still 5 patients receiving federal weed, until they die, paid for by taxes.

Answer 6

Hello,
I think it should be legalized like alcohol.
People can make alcohol and people can grow marijuana. Not everyone can, they just don't have the ability.
Since it is not legal for everyone, yet, we need to abide by the law.
If we are legal through our state to have it, grow it,use it (i am legal) I feel we need to stick by the laws of having it and stiffer fines for those who abuse the law. Sick/hurt or not sick/hurt.

We have a process in America. This process is to vote. If to lazy to vote then live by the laws others are making. For these lazy people who whine, knock it off, do not want to hear it.

There is my two cents worth.

Answer 7

Yes. Every pothead I've known has been a productive member of society, more or less. Sure it might facilitate stupid hippie bullshit, but there are more harmful LEGAL drugs out there, and banning it wastes law enforcement resources that should be spent on REAL crimes.

The original racist rationales for banning it don't even hold true anymore. It's an idiotic relic from idiotic times.

Answer 8

I'm confused on my opinion. I don't think it should be legal because they cause problems, people operating machinery on it; that could go wrong...

But if it's illegal, I think they're definitely be illegal dealers out there, and then all of these resources go to waste in the making of them, trying to catch the guys, you know?

But yeah, I'm torn between both, so I hope I helped you either way...

Answer 9

It is legal in eight states for medicinal purposes. You are right in your thinking, though. Of all the drugs available (both legal and illegal) study after study has shown that grass is the most benign of them all. Alchohol, tobacco, and sinus medicine (all legal drugs) do far greater damage to society that canibis.

Answer 10

Only for medical purposes and such, but they would have to get stricter on the scripts that doctors write. I live in CA and use it for pain with my multiple sclerosis at times...but I do see people going into the medical shops, buying it, and then people come up to their car in front of the building and by it from them, which is wrong and should get enforced...

Answer 11

Yes