Amsterdam's statistics are proving that we in America have it wrong. By having it illegal here in the states it only causes the youth to be able to partake of it at an earlier age through drug dealers. In Amsterdam, no one under 18 is allowed to buy it and then only in very small quantities. People need to become educated about the true effects of mj and which are extremely minor compared to alcohol and is actually very good as a natural pain reliever. And it is NOT addictiing like alcohol or other pharmaceutical drugs.
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It should be legalized. The only reason its not is cause the Govt can't tax it. Luckilly people are waking up state by state and decriminalizing it. Just think how much money they'd save not locking up pot related criminals. Anyone ever see a stoner go on a rampage, killing people to get high? No. Anyone seen a stoner loose their head go out and hold up liquor stores or beat their spouse? No. Anyone seen somone get stoned and total their car on the front grills of traffic in the opposing lanes? No. Leave the poor stoners alone. The only crime Im guilty of when Im stoned is eating waaay to much and moving waaaay to little. And the cops are so proud when they arrest you w/ a joint, like they really cleaned up some crime there. Pfffft.
Yeah, I agree! PREACH IT SISTER!
I agree with you. marijuana is far less effective than alcohol. so if the goverment belives that marijuana should not be legalized then so should alcohol as well.
why Save cops time and generate tax revenue
it should be legalized because part of using marijunia is being cool and if you get it at a store from a 55 year old men or woman it ain't cool anymore. also this way you know what it is put in the drugs and its less potent because the people that sell it are heavily regulated and it reduces crime because its taking the business away from the drug dealer.
I don't have an problem with legalizing marijuana.
I do think that it is probably not a good idea to make another smoked product available. We now know that smoking is anything is bad for your lungs. Long term effects of smoking marijuana will lead to more long term public health problems. Perhaps the legalized marijuana would not take the form of cigarettes.
I would like to see industrial hemp legalized very soon. It is a fast growing renewable resource for fiber for clothing, paper and other products.
i totally agree with you, i myself do not smoke it but I do know others who has. Alcohol should be outlawed in my opinion, there are so many drinking related deaths than there are reported with Marijuana use. Then you have all these stupid people who are abusing pharmaceutical drugs and getting them illegally, come one now. I think Nevada has a law that you can a certain amount with you but no more, don't remember how much. Obviously the doctors think that its ok if they have medical marijuana. I look at it this way GOD put it on this earth for a reason, GOD did not put all the other crap here, all the other drugs are MAN made.
I agree that marijuana should be legalized. People are going to do it anyway so we need to stop burdening our criminal justice system. However, I disagree with you on this: It is addictive. But you can get addicted to anything, so I don't think that's a valid point in the against argument.
Our Government has been making lots of money off drug trafficking so they can't legalize it. it would be bad for their business. If smoking pot creates more tolerance and opens the mind then yes they should legalize it.
I accept that we are stewards of the earth ... that we don't actually own it...rather we hold it in trust for future generations.
But there is one thing in life that is ours, and ours alone...that is our bodies
Government keep your effing hands off!
It's not just Marijuana. Margaret Thatcher stopped the British program of doling out heroin on a prescription basis, back in the '80's and the UK's crime rate quadrupled in less than two years.
We need a rational, comprehensive national drug policy. One that actually takes reality into account. Drug Enforcement and Drug Law related crime have made our streets far more dangerous than they need to be.
Legalize marijuana, tax it and regulate it. Then use the money to treat addictive drugs like the medical problem they are. Crime will go down sharply and so will drug abuse. There's a certain cachet to being an outlaw that attracts people to experiment with the dangerous stuff. There's no such attraction to a socially stigmatizing disease.
I am against illegalization or legalization. I would rather see every state and county or parish and city or town in the USA have the absolute freedom to regulate by customs voted on by the people of that area, the citizens.
This way, some towns in the USA could be very strict and please those people who barely condone the use of coffee as s stimulant, while others that allow drugs, could set up internal regulation of them.
In any respect, I want to see the business transaction of drugs stay in America. I am against the loss of US currency to alien lands and the place of role the US allows them that increases crime.
I would have drugs for sale at prices that would make poor the users and would work on a sliding scale. Say a doctor wants some drug A, his scale price is calculated by his employment both in pay grade and responsibility grade and is by far a higher price then say a gang banger whose job is not but that he is in a program to work, ie live under supervision and direction of police and gang leaders who trade the drugs for behavior modifications concerning how these are used and permitted, ie, no driving, not in public, et al. This way drugs are in a lifestyle for those with lots of money to waste or those without any career goals but away from children and sober society.
Freedom is important, you can lead a horse to water but the bottom line is, you cant make him drink. So if people are absolutly determined to explore deep into drugs in soul searching it ought to be their right to do so but not without responsibility and liability in it as any other job in the USA would settle.
If controls can be set in that actually work to monitor the amount an over 18 gets then fine. But then what you get is people, which do not smoke it using their "entitled" amount for others - the only way it could be properly monitored would be through ration - like books, which people could use for others.
What happens though if you are 15 and want it? I'd only imagine that it would be a peace of pish to get it then. But what does that matter it is a peace of pish to get it now.
so really legalising will ensure that those would have taken it will get nothing mixed in with it which really could damage their health.
Education would be the way to go, but how do you educate the older generation 鈥?The ones that have the power to vote "No" in America.
I know a many people that do smoke it and as you rightly said it does relieve pain. A friend's mum has MS and weed really helps her cope. My Mum has spinal problems and it helps her to get over the pain, along with painkillers.
it the state were to legalise it, it would have to legalise it as a pain relief drug first, and ease the population into it, I do not see how over 50% will swallow "lets legalise weed for everyone!"
Another good affect be legalising it would to stop dealers mixing it and also selling it at a grossly high price, Ok there would have to be tax on it, but you would know what you were getting was pure and it would still work out a lot cheaper.
However, I cannot say its all rosy and it doesn't do any harm to you. Short term memory lose is a major effect, many of my friends that smoke have always said that it does have effects with their short term memory - how saviour it is, i guess is how much you smoke...
And lets face it if or when you smoke it 鈥?its not like you will cause violence, like alcohol does, mellow out people鈥?lol
In the States 鈥?could it really work at an individual state level? I do not know鈥?br />No major addicting effect? I don't know what you heard about that or if you have only been smoking it for a month or something... like anything that the body is use to it - the body will crave.
How much of a burden will it be to the National Health (I'm thinking about Scotland here lol) or any other private insurance company or medi-care? Many thousands die from smoking tobacco on a yearly basis, will smoking weed make this number rise, or stay the same?
How many people will get on the drug, which would not even have thought about it because it was a Class C or an illegal drug?
So, probably like everyone else that has answers so far - I am in favour of it, but only of the substance is properly monitored. It is taxed to the heavens, so the system is able to cope through the National Health or any other health scheme. After all it is better to be actually monitored, than not monitored at all - at the end of the day it is readily available.
Free adult citizens should be free to do to themselves as they wish. Marijuana was legal in the US from 1776 until 1937, I think. I've always believed that pot was outlawed after the gov't repealed prohibition, to encourage booze consumption, for the taxes. I don't favor drug use, but just don't feel it's Uncle Sam's business. I also don't favor obesity, disco,drunkenness, not bathing, chewing with your mouth open, and purple houses. But, I don't believe that gives me some right to tell others what to do and how to live. If I don't have the right, I don't see why a whole bunch of people voting have more of a right to meddle in people's affairs. The power, yes- but not the right. No matter what their motive.
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