Should marijuana be legalized, yes or no?

Mello Yello

Well, my whole argument with marijuana legalization all revolves around alcohol being legal. I am not condoning marijuana use, but if they are going to let alcohol remain legal then why can't they legalize marijuana.
If you compare the two, it seems to me alcohol is the more problematic. And, I don't buy the argument of marijuana being a gateway drug. Because alcohol can be a gateway drug as well.

So I think it should be legal. Tax it, package it, moderate it's strength, don't sell it to people under 21, smoking and driving merits a DUI and best of all you take a good size chunk out of the drug wars.
Make alcohol illegal and you take away my whole argument. Keep alcohol legal then I remain by my point of view.

yes. without question.

rashest_hippo

well i am a avid user so i would say yes but i think that it would loose some of its awesomeness...Ok and the fact that the only poor people use it is dumb becasue look at all these rappers who have made millions off dollars and who are getting caught with it in airports and such. and iam personally far from poor and i love it.

kate m

Legal: Yes
Legalizing maijuana would ease a huge burden on the legal and prison systems as well as generating huge amounts of tax money similar to that gained from the sale of alchol and tobacco.
However it should also be heavily monitored by the government because it has the possibility of dangerous side effects, no different from alchol or pain killers.
Why should it be legal? There are no recorded fatalities linked explicitly to the consumption of Marijuana, unlike the thousands upon thousands who die of alchol poisoning every year. In many respects it is similar to alchol without some of the dangerous side effects such as increase in violent behavior and the possibility of alchol poisoning.

I think if any drug is to be legal including alchol, pain killers, stimulants used to treat ADD/ADHD, and nicotine there should be money put towards more rehabilitation programs across the country, especially in prisons.

Vote4RonPaul!

Every year, hundreds of millions of tax-payer's dollars goes into arresting and trying people in marijuana-related offenses, while real criminals are out committing crimes. Also, marijuana is an excellent cash crop which could produce great revenue for investors. Every year tobbacco and alcohol kill hundereds of thousands. Marijuana? 0... I can't understand why anyone would criminalize marijuana while drunks kill innocent people in car accidents every day. In fact, 700,000 U.S. citizens are arrested every year on marijuana related charges, when policemen could be doing something legitimate. Of course it should be legalized. Now excuse me while I go hit this blunt.

millstone7201

Marijuana is a weed. It grows wild. The government has no way of taxing it. In 1933 it was lobbied against because of the tobacco and alcohol industries in which the government makes big bucks off of. It is not addictive. It does not cause cancer, (has a lot of tar though) Compared to alcohol?...the only thing you would kill by smoking marijuana is a bag of chips!!!... If you want to know more about why it should be there is a website to check out.....

Da Coach

Yes. Tax it like cigs and beer. Put those working on the enforcement of this drug on enforcing illegal immigration.

KRIS

yes.
i would rather deal with a person stoned on marijuana than a person stoned on booze, crack, or any other mind altering substance!!!
someone on pot doesn't want to beat anyone up they only want you to pass the chips.

Wreckless

yes it should, they should tax it like alcohol and tabacco

doc

Yes, for medicinal use, and will help a lot of unsuspecting people.

gone fishing

Yes! Akcohol and tobacco are legal and do far more harm than grass.
Legalizing it would standardize the product and stop the home invasions done by people who just want to rip off a grow op. It would protect those people from physical harm. And it would protect the people in grow ops from getting sick from the results of moisture and mold in the walls.
It would also put grow ops out of business and cut into the dealer's profit margin.
Marijuana was actually legal in the 30s when it was used as a "tea" for older people to use to get sleep without the chemicals that pharmaceutical companies love to push.
BTW smoking grass rarely leads to other drug use.

luxlugger

Yes, for all the wrong reasons.
But...........

I think I'm high just thinking about it.

N. Cognito

No, it should be decriminalized; all laws concerning it should be removed.

It was not made 'illegal' out of any concern for the health or safety of the public, but for reasons of racism and corporate greed; Google "Anslinger Hearst DuPont marijuana" for details.

Our government was never granted the legitimate authority to prohibit the private possession or use of any substance to the individual. This is a violation of the Constitution. If we are to be expected to obey the law, those who formulate the law should be expected to obey the ones that pertain to them.

No form of prohibition has ever worked, and every time a prohibition has been imposed the problems caused by doing so were attributed to the product rather than the prohibition, which is actually the source.

Jeff W

I feel that marijuana should be legalized for those over 21. Personal growing as well. If the feds were in charge they might try to add actual addictive chemicals to the otherwise non-addictive plant. Sure there are a lot of people claiming to be addicted to marijuana but it is only mentally addictive not physically addictive like tobacco is.
I think it should also be sold in shops and bakeries licensed to sell it. If purchased outside them than afflict a penalty.
There are thousands of uses besides just smoking the plant. Also the plant can create as much oxygen as an oak tree in its photosynthesis process. Talk about a way to make people happier clean the air, cut down on logging for as much paper, not to mention the seeds have many health benefits.

the quiet one

NO!

Chris

yes, its not too bad for you and if the government ran it, they could make alot of money. it still will be on the black market laced with all the other crap some people do but it should to a certain level (potency)

RoxanneZG

Decriminalized like it has in Canada and Mexico. There is alot that it can help medically and it's just sad that it's against the law. I have a friend with MS and should not be called a criminal.

so_classy

Yes,
All forbidden things are more attractive

pinkice430

ACTUALLY MARIJUANA IS USED IN SOME HEALTH MATTERS, IF IT WAS USED RIGHT INSTEAD OF GETTING HIGH, THEN YES....BUT I DONT THINK IT WILL EVER HAPPEN.

warning

All the while the govenments and their supporters burn and destroy our planet, and yet insist that you act in the ways which they morally prescribe. Get ready for the end of paradise.