Are you for or against that the goverment passes a law legalizing Marijuana for medicinal purposes? Why?
101655
Legalizing it for medical purposes would be ok.  Look at the side effects from some of the other drugs you see commercials for.  I mean what is the harm in prescription marijuana compared to percocet, methadone etc...
596414
Let me first start by saying I have never smoked any pot or done anyother type of drugs in my life. Not because I have any religious beliefs against it or anything, but just because I like having control of my mind and thoughts. I also do not drink by personal choice. (not that I look down on you if you do.) \n\nI believe the main reason that pot is not legal is because of voting pressure against our leaders. They know that there are tons of groups such as M.A.D.D. and others that would make sure that they were never re-elected. However I feel that if we ever have leaders with enough balls to do it, it would not only lower the crime rate but it would overall help our country finanially.\n\n\n\nIf they legalized drugs it would...\n\nA. Make room in our prisons. Our prisons are overflowing with so many people that they are constanly having to turn guilty criminals loose on the streets to make room for more. About 73% of people in jail are there on some type of drug charge or another. If they legalized drugs there would be more room to house murderers, rapists, and other serious criminals in this world.\n\nB. It would lower the persentage of roberies everyday in this country. If drugs were legal, the price of them would drop jurasticlly. Therefore there would not be as many desperate people out there who are willing to steal to feed their habit.\n\nC. It would bring more economic opportunity to our various states. If it were able to be purchased the same as you would a beer (which by the way it does absolutely no more harm than beer does) then any store could aquire a license to sell and it would hence bring more money for our honest local buisiness owners, instead of into the pockets of lowlife scum dealers.\n\nThese are my thoughts on this subject.
746333
yes!!! the effects from "weed" are far less than the effects of alcohol, if it was legal it would free alot of space in our prisons, where they are placed for a non-violent crime, and i believe it would cause alot less people to use harder drugs! and people who need it for medical reasons wouldn't have to go thru all the garbage they need to now for relief!!!
949772
As several others have already said federal law supercedes local laws. Whether or not it is enforced is an entirely seperate matter. As a citizen of Nevada however I can say that the marijuana measure will most likely NOT pass. It was tried four years ago and failed miserably and I'm sure it will do so again.
229462
Drugs should be legalized, and especially marijuana.  Marijuana grows out of the ground, therefore, it must have a purpose.  It is medically proven to help cancer patients and people with multiple sclerosis, yet the stupid government has this whole issue with controlling people's lives.  My husband was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and did not smoke pot.  He kept having exacerbations and ending up in the hospital.  When he began to smoke, he stopped getting sick!  People shouldn't be punished for using drugs...they should be punished is they commit crimes to obtain drugs!
24032
Yes, marijuana should be legalized.  If you were to put the stats together, you would see that many, many more rapes, murders, thefts, assaults, fatal car crashes, deadly occupational accidents, and various other crimes have been committed under the influence of alcohol.  Recently, a young man was arrested for murdering his mother. His line of defense was that he was under the influence of Marijuana.  Marijuana does not make one aggressive in the least. Anyone that does or has smoked will testify to that. Marijuana has a relaxing effect, not to mention its medicinal benefits.  As for prostitution, it should also be legalized. It is THE oldest profession in the WORLD. You cannot put a restriction on ones body.  The only way to stop it would be to eliminate one of the sexes. Just my guess, but there would probably be a drop in sex crimes and sexually transmitted diseases if prostitution were to become legal.  THE ONLY REASON NEITHER OF THESE THINGS ARE LEGAL, IS BECAUSE OUR GOVERNMENT CANT FIGURE A WAY TO CONTROL OR TAX THEM. (Like cigarettes and alcohol. Which by the way is two very high contributors to our mortality rate here in America.)  Hence the war against them.
244540
have rethought my position on legalization of marijuana. I think it should be legal under certain guidelines and locals.\n\nThe first reason it should be legalized it will mellow out the liberals. They are way to shrill.\n\nReason number two, if a liberal is high they won't care about voting and we can easily elect conservative representative, congressmen, and president. Conservatives will never again have to deal with R.I.N.O.s if this happens. Imagine if there was no Arlen Spector or John McCain.\n\nReason Three assuming that only liberals and libertarians are for the legalization of drugs they can fight amongst themselves, and we conservatives have a way to sure up our power\n\nThe Previsos\n\nmarijuana would only be legal in Blue States. If you are caught with marijuana in a red state you get a trial and immediately executed after the trial, no appeals. The reason for this is to get potheads out of here and since it seams as if the Blue states want to legalize it let them.\n\nIf someone who is high robs, steals, or causes an accident after THC is detected in their system ALL their possessions become the property of the estate of the victim. (applies to all fifty)\n\nIf they have children, the children are removed from the home and are never returned (applies to all fifty)\n\nThe only treatment for those who want to quit smoking marijuana will be the intake of tobacco products, or beaten with a bong. Paid for by the offender (the way they train dogs not to make messes on carpets) Again all fifty.\n\nIf this works for marijuana I would propose the same for all illicit drugs. But no one would accept this proposal so I will have to continue my opposition to this and ALL illegal drugs.
1167543
First off, don't listen to ignorant answers from people like martinamagrace.  Obviously she's lucky enough not to have been afflicted with debilitating pain!\n\nI don't know anyone who's used it, but I've heard opinions that it is more helpful than any other high-potency pain killer.  Medical marijuana should not be illegal.  It's been a great help to many people who suffer from a number of diseases.  And kudos to the doctors who prescribe it.  If only there were more like them!
253044
Yes it should be legal. For one, I have lived in a place where it IS legal and the differences are astounding. Children/Teens are MUCH less likely to smoke pot if it is legal. It doesn't have the "mystique" that illegal items do. Also, there are fewer Driving while Under the Influence charges per capita where marijuana is legal, because it is used more responsibly. Check your crime statistics, you'll find that I'm right. Marijuana is no more dangerous than a cigarette. In fact, it is NOT as addictive. Infact, marijuana is ONLY a psychologically addictive drug, not a physiologically addictive one. Cigarettes are both. Economically speaking, if it were legal it would be MUCH cheaper to get. This would help regulate quality of the drug, making it much less likely to be laced with other, more addictive additives like PCP. The sale of it could be governmentally regulated, like alcohol and other controlled substances, and TAXED. That would generate a HUGE amount of tax revenue........
483775
yes, it should be legalized. if you can't get rid of it at least you should be able to control it.
138789
1.  Drug companies make too much money not curing cancer to allow some plant that you can grow in your back yard for free, and which, incidentally, might actually help someone with cancer eat, be legal.  They want you to pay if you want to eat.  So, no weed for cancer patients, which is absolute shame.\n\n2.  Since people already use pot, the govt. sees in weed a nice, easy way to extort money from people and throw 'em in jail, which in the former case bankrupts someone (poor people are generally docile, since they can't just up and travel - go to Washington and protest the day's new illegal travesty being legislated, for example, or move to a better economic area, with gas being so high - Or pay for an education the likes of which a rich person can, which would land someone a good job or a seat in gov't. - you have to go ivy to go federal) in the latter scares 'em out of any 'revolutionary' activities like speaking out in public about scary issues like peace, or criminals in the White House.  This is why its a good idea not to smoke, b/c its asking for the government to take all of your rights away and/or push you into debt.\n\nI don't smoke.  I think that pot should be legalized for cancer patients, and seriously decriminalized for citizens, because no state should have so much ground to take so much money from someone or put someone in jail for some weed, OR to deprive someone in pain of something that might help ease their suffering - such is vile and inhumane.\n\n...and Tatonka (who wrote above), you are not funny.  In fact, you get the 'lame, sad tosser' of the day award for the latent fascist tendencies of your's which you so sublimely demonstrated for us in your response, tosser.
20882
Yes, all drugs should be legal.\n\nMaking drugs legal would mean that they could be better controlled, or maybe even taxed.  The tax could be used to help people get off hard drugs.\n\nIn my opinion, governments should not have control over something an individual does to themselves.
1045398
Mostly fear. And ignorance. \n\nThe medical community and people who decide what is legal and illegal still consider marijuana to be a gateway drug. They think it is  bad for you. \n\nWhile I agree with you about it should be legal, it isn't. \n\nYou can it taken off the list of illegal drugs and work to make it legal, but until it is legal, don't break the law and risk going to jail. Instead, work to get it made legal. \n\nIt is legal for medical use in Oregon and California and all over the west coast. \n\nWork to get it legalized.
78588
Blame it on the Mormons and the Jazz musicians!  Anti-Marijuana legislation began because of several reasons, but the one's that were crucial were the Mormon church elders in Utah, and the racists everywhere else. Marijuana was villianized for no logical reasons, just purely ignorant and fearful ones.  \nIt's health benefits are indisputable, in fact I think it could really help a lot of the mentally ill (social anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia etc).  People who smoke marijuana are generally not a danger to others, or themselves.  I don't believe marijuana is a gateway drug at all!  If our government were smart (haha) they would legalize, regulate it, and tax it.\nSince this is not likely to happen anytime soon (it's too damn simple), we get stuck smoking in our closets, while the drunkards go barhopping legally.
15228
yes, marijuana should be legalized, if not for the wonderful textile possiblities of hemp (which is legal, for it contains no THC, but y'have to jump through a bunch of hoops to be allowed to grow it), marijuana gives you the munchies!  on a humorous scale, that would increase your local grocer's business a hundred-fold.  on a more serious level, it stimulates the appetite of chemotherapy patients, so sick from all those anti-cancer poisons that they have trouble eating.\n\nthe only problem with any substance or act that makes people feel "good" is that someone will invariably abuse it.  alcohol, tobacco, acts sexual in nature, just to name a few, are abused constantly by humans.\n\nthe u.s. government could also tax the crap out of it, thus generating funds instead of wasting them incarcerating people who, otherwise, have done no wrong.  plus, it'd put the drug dealers out of business, whom often are involved in the selling of more harmful substances, as well.  i also suggest the legalized use should be restricted from those in the fields of public transportation, child care, anything requiring the use of guns, and medicine.  i'm sorry, but i want my pharmacist sober when mixing up migraine medicine.  i don't wanna get estrogen pills by mistake!\n\nthe real gateway drug?  tobacco.  think about it.
283063
Well, when the government wanted to make it illegal, they had to classify it as a drug. Since the government defines it as a drug and deems it illegal, If we are going by the government's definition of a drug, we HAVE to say yes it is a drug.\n\nHowever, aside from the government definition and classification, lets look at marijuana in it's pure form.As a harvested crop of foliage ( herb, weed, plant whatever u call it). When my daughter has a cold, she has osha root, when she has the flu or upset stomach, slippery elm and chamomile sometimes mint or ginger. You can blend these with foods, make them as teas, use tinctures of them (a concentrated dose), even use the herbs and leaves in an herbal bath soak. Herbal medicine has been around longer than any other kind. Even when you go to a spa and get an herb wrap, you are being swathed in a steaming herbal blend meant to detoxify and nourish....this is also a form of herbal medicine. In these cases marijuana could easily be used as well or instead of the above, because of it's many uses outside the favored smoking. Marijuana is known to sooth upset stomach, menstrual cramps and lots of other pains. It is used in Holland in small children with asthma, because it dilates your lungs, and they think the steroid inhaler ( not the emergency inhaler) is too strong for kids. As far as in a spa, I am sure the relaxing effects of a marijuana wrap would be highly revered. I guess herbs like these could be drugs depending on how they are used, but they arent called drugs when purchashing them at a natural food store or herb shop.So I think it would be safe to say that if it were not made illegal and defined as a drug by the government, it would never have been considered a drug in the first place. Valerian root calms and relaxes, and maybe someday the government will classify it as a drug and make it illegal too. \nI have a favorite Bible verse that comes in handy times like these. Some people take the Bible more serious than science....\n" On the sixth day...God said...' Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing herb which is on the face of all the earth.' Then God saw everything that was made and behold, It was very good."\n\n      Genesis 1:29-31
846354
As long as there is a law against it, something must follow the breaking of the law. I feel the law needs to be changed and make it legal, however a small fine or working in the community would meet my needs.\nNOTE I am not a person who has ever used and illegal drugs, but I do think the laws reach out too far.