Should marijuana be legalized?
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I've used recreational drugs (alcohol, tobacco, weed) before, but don't much at all now. Yes, it should be legalized, and anyone out there drinking glass of wine or a beer and stating otherwise is a hypocrite. Alcohol is soooo much stronger, poison, and addictive. So, either outlaw alcohol and cigarettes or legalize pot.
Besides, do you want to pay for all those pot-heads in prison ($20k/yr)? Do you want to support a prohibition used to prop up forestry, cotton, and now supporting the pharm company that makes marinol? Do you want to support a law that also results from racism, which was partially aimed at throwing black and hispanic people in prison (especially because they could not afford a decent lawyer)?
Not to mention it puts a nearly harmless drug in the hands or gansters who can then solicite customers for more harmful drugs AND encourages gun toting smugglers to come to our country. It's also a weed that grows wild by the railroad tracks and in fields. Regulation is an expensive money losser and I not interested in that either.
Responsible people don't get high or drunk when they have responsibilities to deal with. I don't intend to tell you that ghanja is going to help you parent or anything. Its a drug and it make you high, just like drinking makes you drunk.
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absolutely not. I am a recovering drug addict.
absolutely. it's not that harmful (less than beer!) and it's all natural, AND THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A REFER ADDICT!
Yeah, and I'm a multi-millionaire. A doctor would not be on youqa.com asking such a question.
No, it should not be legalized.
!~ "i'm a non-pot-head" and i think it probably should be legal coz you know when you are not allowed to do something you have to do it.its like that so when marijuana becomes legal then people will slowly loose intrest on them.hopefully~! (^_^) r0ck 0n!
NO
no. cause i said so!
It is already the case in the Netherlands and it works well.
no because I have seen the effects it has on people and it isn't good. My sister in law smokes it a lot and looks like a stick, she sleeps until after midday every day she has 2 kids that my brother takes care of every morning and he works a night shifts.
I am a "part-timer" i have not smoked in 7 years (since high school) I DO think it should be legal. None of my pothead friends drove high.a few do while drunk, I think the USA would be less uptight.
I think it shouldn't be legalized, for it's a dangerous and addicting drug. Even if it is far from being the worse, it's not a reason for legalizing it. However, everyday thousands people use legal drugs, which can be much more dangerous, but they'll never have problems with the law for that. So I also think smoking marijuana shouldn't be so hardly repressed. Being addicted to a drug isn't a crime, it's a disease.
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Been smoking for years
I am not a doctor nor do I smoke marijuana, but it should definitely be legalised. The only thing the black market is doing is making drug lords rich while costing tons in wasted tax dollars trying to fight . . . I don't know what we're trying to fight. All I know is any time anyone moves any substantial amount of money, it has to be reported to the government under the guise of drug laws. What a crock.
Heck yeah. You are more cohearent then than when you are drunk
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I never done it but a sport it.
I have never been into any kind of drugs or smoking, but I think all victimless crimes such as using drugs, or prostitution should not be against the law. There should be rules against doing certain things while driving or flying planes though. But, as long as it doesn't directly hurt someone then noone really has the right to tell you what you can eat, drink, smoke, etc. Plus if they were legal then there would be cleaner, safer places to get it and the money would be taxed which would help the economy.
I am not a professional on the subject nor am I a pot head. I have only used marijuana twice in my lifetime and I don't think it is at all a big deal. I think we are currently living in the prohibition days and it will be legalized. If marijuana is considered a controlled substance, then so is alcohol. They both supposedly (impare judgment) I think within the next 30 years, marijuana will be legalized and you will be able to purchase it by going to your local smoke shop like you would buy a pack of cigarettes.
Well if your a doctor you should know that if a person is in a lot of pain they should smoke a little marijuana to make them fell better so I think that doctors should allow people who are in pain to take marijuana. So it should only be legal for doctors to give. If that makes any sense
absolutly! i dont touch the stuff, but if it was legalised it could be policed, controlled, and taxed. pushers would then be out of business and criminal gangs would be crippled.
I am the US Government, no you cannot legalize MJ because I have a responsibility to a 60 billion dollar government agency that gets funded just to target this weed. Also, tobacco corporations don't like people growing this weed in their backyards for personal usage instead of spending money on tobacco.
As the US Government, it is in my own best interest to prolong this charade as long as possible.
Yes
1. we need police to catch real criminals
2. the "war on drugs" IS A HUGE MONEY PIT, only helping the banks and cartels
3. legal eliminates pushers, which is what actually leads to worse drugs.
4. legal means people with a drug problem, would not fear getting help
5. legal would help eliminate the national debt[assuming of course we could get the Govt to stop overspending.
I am a 29yr old female who does not smoke marijuana or do any other illegal drugs. Yes, I think it should be legalized. Any day of the week I run to the corner gas station pick up a pack of Marlboro and a 12 pack of Bud Select. Cigarettes are far more addicting than marjuana. Alcohol is also addictive and can be extremely dangerous if you operate a vehicle or machinery while intoxicated. They both have their share of health hazards. So why are they legal and marjuana is not. I am sure less people are killed by stoned drivers than drunk drivers each year. Wait until the government finds a way to make a mint off it . they will legalize it. Once again I don't even smoke the stuff and I think it they should legalize!
Yes it should be legalized
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Yes, for reasons of controll.
A Canadian senate study recently published that use of Marijuana in adulthood does no permanent damage, but using it before the age of 15 does. (this means that using it as an adult won't do permanant brain damage once you stop using it, but that using it as a teenager will affect you for the rest of your life.)
By making it illegal, we're making it avaliable to everyone who wants to use it, since there is no regulation on the subject. If it's made legal, then it can be restricted to those over the age of 18, which would greatly reduce the opportunities for youth to do permanent damage to themselves.
as a person who has to much free time to study things believe it should be legal one of the main reasons marijuana became illegal is that it made a cheaper paper then tree's and when some newspaper makers who had allot of money put into large tree covered areas they realized the trees would all be worthless if people started using marijuana for paper they began to print fake stories like pothead rips out his eyes or eats his own arm with freaked people out so they outlawed it
Absolutely. I see no reason why this should not be legalized. It helps kill the pain that is a proven medical fact. If I had a choice between taking 3 different pain meds the rest of my life or smoke marijuana to kill the pain. I would chose the marijuana.
My first husband used marijuana so much that I had to take on the burden of paying all the bill so he could buy his quarter pound of weed every single week, he would sell some to get his monies worth then he would smoke up the rest. There were times that I did smoke it with him. It not only dulled the pain from injury, it dulled the pain from losing family members. My dad's mom died, my uncle died, my moms brother was murdered, my mom's dad died because of the lose of his son, he had a massive coronary, then my mom's mom died, then my dad died. It helped ease the pain of all of those deaths except for my father.
Anyways, I know I got way off track. You can call me a former user, marijuana free for 12 years.
i am a teen and no. people alreadyuse it for medication, so basically i think it is already legal but teens and stuf cant use it. the thing is that people who ask these sort of questions dont know the effects of marijuana. you need to research about it. it does make you feel good but then when the feeling wears off, you feel crappy and i heard its like really hurt when it wears off or seomthing. also it cauese like all these diseases and its not good. plus its costly. mmkay.
good luck on ur blog.. but i dont think ur guan get it legalized but u can try!
i am in the medical profession. i think marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes. marijuana helps with the pain of glaucoma, cancer, and multiple sclerosis to just mention a few. i think it should be dispensed like all other narcotics, through a prescription.
I believe it should be legalized. I used to smoke it regularly but I quit probably about eight years ago. I believe that alcohol is much more harmful that marijuana. For example, many people die from alcohol poisoning, but I have yet to hear of someone dying from THC poisoning. Also, when people are drinking, and their judgement gets impaired, they will insist they are fine and can drive and don't need any help. When a person gets high, they say, I am soooooo high right now. And then go to sleep. Well, they want to anyway. Or get something to eat. I'm trying to make a joke out of it a little bit, but I seriously think it is far less harmful than alcohol.
When I decided to quit, I quit. End of story. Had I been drinking alcohol to the same extent, I think quitting would have been a lot more difficult, and dangerous, considering that the withdrawl symptoms of alcohol can be deadly.
But we are fooling ourselves if we think that smoking pot is harmless. It can be addictive also. Only in a psychological sense. People use it to self medicate, just as many use alcohol. And until they learn to face the problems they are avoiding with the marijuana, it will be a problem for them. I was doing just that. But I got myself out of a bad situation, and then didn't need it anymore because what I was running from mentally, I finally got away from physically.
And one thing I noticed, long before I quit was how it affected my parenting. I noticed that when I got high, my daughter got in my face. I mean, I was high, and wanted to just relax and be laid back and go with the flow. But all of a sudden. and it was like she knew even though she was only a toddler. my daughter needed all my attention then and there. She sensed my sudden feeling of distance and reacted. That's what I think happened. But she needed me to be fully present. And in order to get my attention, she acted up. So then I only smoked it after she went to bed at night, because I was lucky that she would sleep through the night. And that worked most of the time. But to this day, I feel guilty about it, and also proud that I quit and that I improved our situation over all.
It has good and bad points. People are going to do what they are going to do. I think having it be illegal is ridiculous, and interfering where the government doesn't belong. And causes far more problems than it's worth.
I get stoned every once in a while but I still feel that it would do society more good than bad. I mean cigarettes are legal and cigarettes DO kill. You could probably write a 10 page report describing the side effects of tobacco ALONE.
Now, it's up to us as civilized humans to show some sort of restraint regarding how we use the drug. Everyone does something or another to relieve their issues with life. Some smoke, some drink, other have sex, some have sports, etc. but restricting a person from something tends to only make the person want it more.
So, yes, marijuana should be legalized. Shoot, I need some to deal with these economic hardships and scandalous presidency.
I just recently finalized reasearch project related to marijuana legalization for my MBA. Reviewed a lot of different sources with controversial views. Just some fiew facts on the medical background for this review:
Very few Americans had even heard about marijuana when it was first federally outlawed in 1937. Today, between 95 and 100 million Americans admit to having tried it, and about 14.5 million say they use it at least monthly. However, the attitude range towards marijuana use and its legalization is extremely wide: from ultimately pro to ultimately con. Controversial opinions are expressed not only by nonprofessionals, but also by medical scientists and medical doctors. Recently the balance is slowly shifting towards the medical marijuana legalization in United States.
Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the National Lymphoma Foundation argue that Marijuana should be legalized to treat effectively terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation – extreme thinness due to starvation glaucoma sufferers who said it has reduced their intraocular pressure, easing the pain and slowing damage to the eyes,cancer patients for whom it reduces the severe nausea and vomiting that often accompanies chemotherapy and patients in great pain.
Some agencies, which are Marijuana legalization opponents, such as, the Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments argue that marijuana should not be legalized. The main reason the Drug Enforcement Agency still opposes Marijuana legalization for medical purposes is the insufficient evidence that marijuana’s positive drug effects outnumber the negative effects Some medical scientists claim that in twenty years of research, there has been no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has enough medical value. The American Cancer Society, the American Glaucoma Society, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, and the American Medical Association, say that their is no evidence supporting the approach of active marijuana use as a medicine.
Marijuana legalization opposition also uses the Gateway theory as the one of the main arguments in the battle. The theory claims that using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin. However, the Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on marijuana use provided scientific evidence that there is no convincing proof the drug effects of marijuana are causally linked to the subsequent abuse of other illicit drugs.
I also want to point out on one interesting paper by Reinarman, Cohen, and Kaal (2004), comparing San Francisco and Amsterdam in terms of marijuana consumption statistics and trends.
This research reviews the popular hypothesis that punishment for marijuana use deters the drug consumption and thereby benefits public health. Authors compared representative samples of experienced marijuana users in similar cities with opposing policies - Amsterdam, the Netherlands (where marijuana use is unrestricted), and San Francisco, California, United States (where marijuana use for recreational purposes is illegal). With the exception of higher drug use in San Francisco, they found that there were strong similarities across both cities, and establish no evidence to support claims that outlawing this drug reduces use of it or that allowing it increases drug use. Despite widespread lawful availability of marijuana in Amsterdam, there were no differences between those two cities in the age at onset of use, age at first regular use, or age at the start of maximum use. Either availability in San Francisco is equivalent to that in Amsterdam despite policy differences, or availability per se does not strongly influence onset or other career phases. It is significant, from a public health perspective, that clear majorities of experienced users in both cities never used daily or used large amounts even during their peak periods, and that use declined after those peak periods. Furthermore, both samples reported similar steady declines in degree and duration of related intoxication (Reinarman, Cohen, and Kaal, 2004).
My personal opinion is that in 10 years from now Cannabis will be probably legalized in California for recreational use. Orgon similar proposition failed last year, and Nevada will introduce it for voters later this year. We'll see.
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Reinarman, C., Cohen, P. D., & Kaal, H.L. (2004, May). The Limited Relevance of Drug Policy: Cannabis in Amsterdam and in San Francisco. American Journal of Public Health. (94)5. 836-843.
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