who believes tht marijuana shld b legalized???
461660
Right you are, it should be...  How many potheads are violent?  Beat their wives and kids?  Get in vehicles, go driving and kill themselves or innocent people?  Why?  They are too lazy.  They might not be too motivated but, what harm does it do?  To keep the lazy ones from collecting unemployment or other government benifits, they should drug test (randomly), although this is costly, it's at least a detturant.  I don't know though becasue we support all the drunks????  Fact is, there is a lot more our contry has to worry about then someone getting high.  (i.e. alcohol and tabacco)
190346
You make a brilliant point. Thank you for supporting legalization! Please allow me to correct the imbecile above me before I move on.\n\nOk, Buddy, first off, marijuana doesnt stay in your system for thirty days. What stays in your body is the chemical THC. And it only stays there for about 2-3 weeks. And when it does stay in your body, it stays in your fat tissue. And you are not high for thirty days!!! What do you think that if you smoke a joint on the first of the month youll still be high by the 30th? Please...Do some research before you shoot your mouth off.\n\nOk, now that I got that out of my system, yes youre completely right. It should be legalized. But since no-one has yet told you the real reason why its illegal, I'm going to give you an article to read which explains it. Its very good, and 100% correct. I've researched every claim it makes and I can assure its all true. Have a look and keep spreading the word! Thanks\n\n\nPeace
830744
What would happen to the crime rate if it were legalized?\n\nWhat would the number of users do if it were legalized... would it increase or decrease?\n\nWe know it's a harmful substance so why would one want to legalize such a harmful drug?\n\nIf it were legalized, then teens (for the most part) using the substance to rebel against parents, rules, laws, and whatever else, what would they do?  Would they continue using marijuana or would they move on to another, more harmful substance?\n\nHow and why would this benefit society?\n\nThe only use for marijuana that's acceptable in society today (for medicinal purposes) is already available in many states/provinces with a prescription from a qualified doctor.  What would the purpose of legalizing marijuana be?  \n\nIf it were legalized, wouldn't it be easier to get ahold of and be easier for children to access and be harmed by?\n\nWould you allow your own children (either now or several years down the road when you do have children) to use marijuana?  If it's legalized they can purchase it on their own much easier.  Just gives a person a little bit to think about.
627716
good grief. ive seen nothing but lame answers so far except for a few. let me break it down for ya. they are planning on legilization of drugs in mexico. yes and it is all drugs. so yes some mexican guy can walk around all geeked up on coke. is it the mob taking over? no. vincent fox is signing the bill into law to crack down on the gangs selling the drugs. these are the same gangs fighting each other for the lucritive US pipeline. they did propose limits on how much you could carry on your person without being bothered by the police which i can tell you is not much.\n\n\noh and far as legalization in the US. hard drugs i say no. marijauna i say yes. i dont even smoke the stuff but i think it should be legal. its only a gateway drug for people who just want to get F****** up. the highschool health classes are filling your heads with a bunch of lame crap. to all the young teenage kids out there, you havent began to see life for what it really is so what im saying probably wouldnt make sense to you. but anyways if marijauna were treated like alcohol it would work in the system.
55616
Legalize it, impose laws like drinking laws.  I'd rather be around someone high, than a nasty whiskey drinking drunk!
450451
I think people understand wut is going on. If this law passes their is going to be so many changes that can affect so many people. Did u know if u have a green card they can take it away. Also if this law passes they can ship ever single person back weather legal or not.
995422
i dont see what the big deal is anyways,,,,,,,,i smoke weed too,,,,,,,,,,,,,,it should be legal,,,,,,,god put it on this earth,,,,,,,,,,they idians had excellent times,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,now for all those other drugs........nahhhhhhhhhh never tried them and dont wanna ..........peace out
1081085
you bet your bottom they should......\nits weird how they will legalize alcohol, which actually kills you over time. and not to mention the stupid idiotic people that drive drunk too.........but seriously, when have you ever heard of marijuana killing someone....its a known fact that it has never cause death.....NEVER....and its awesome for medicinal use too.\nim telling you , i had the worse headache for HOURS and one hit  is all it took for it to go away......you people that are against it should try it..
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.
1123550
I don't think marijuana should have ever been illegal, I think it is just as dangerous as alcohol.  I think the issue was and always will be that alcohol was consumed by "white men" and marijuana was consumed by "Native Americans."  When we took control of what now is the US we shunned all Native culture, and marijuana part of that.  Currently Marlboro cigarettes already owns the rights to produce "joints" should marijuana be legalized.  I think it's about time that people changed their attitudes on this subject.
759494
in my opinion, marijuana is a natural plant, not like most of the stuff we eat today (which has a bunch of unnatural stuff in it to preserve it). so i dont think there is anything wrong with it, but everyone has their own opinion
699961
Hey Mr."Free market" Kevin K:  what happened to the government practicing a "hands off economic policy"?  I guess it's important to let the responsibility of the people be paramount when it comes to our own protection from terrorists, but when it comes to our protection from smoking pot we need regulation from the government.  Sorry dude...You are a hypocrite.
202686
I don't know, but that's a damn good question. Even if it wasn't legal, there is no reason why we shouldn't be able to speculate on it (as long as no one's directly saying, "Who can sell me marijuana?" or similar). After all, if I have to read questions like "Did god take a dump and call it a muslim" and "Should we hang gays like they do Afganistan or gas them like Hitler did?" and these questions get to stay... well, we should be able to discuss marijuana. After all, it fosters love, not hate.
1042834
I think it should be legalized....you don't hear of people getting stoned and killing someone...whether driving or not.  Stoned people just want to chill and eat....legalize it now and start dealing with the true drug problems like meth, coke, and heroin
522707
think about it this way... i feel marijuana should be legalized due to the fact we are putting away pot heads for possession and stopping this drug from being on the streets and spending all of this money putting them away when there are TONS of cocaine dealers, crack dealers, meth heads, pedifiles, murderers etc still out there... yet our government is so convinced that marijuana is this horrible gateway drug... what about alcohol? in most cases kids now a days are more suseptable to drinking and then smoking pot than it being the other way around... but anyways. do you often read about people gettin arrested for being stoned out of their mind and killing someone from smoking and driving??? it happens occassionaly, but not as often as being being drunk and driving... do you hear about pot heads robbing gas stations to fund their habit? noo... usually that is cocaine addicts and meth heads... if the government was to legalize pot, they could put their own tax on it, and it would be just like alcohol, except for the fact you cant get "marijuana poisoning" well...you can, but to receive a lethal dose of thc you would have to consume 900 joints in a day... sure it causes cancers, but so does alcohol, so does smoking cigarettes...  so based off of how much we are spending on sending pot heads to jail, as well as keeping this so called "drug" off the streets we would make twice that if it were legalized... so yes, i feel people in the states should have full rights to smoke marijuana as they do in amsterdam.  but our government is to damn stupid to realize this potential and is just continually spending our tax dollars on throwing these TERRIBLE people, aka pot heads in jail...
443741
Seeing as the health effects are far less than alcohol, I say legalize it, what the hell let people smoke in thier basements or back-yards with no fear.  Alcohol destroys lives, causes birth defects, and kills people.  Show me one marijuana related death.
231501
huh..  what... dude... like that question.. it like rocks.  i, uh, yea man, like weed should totally be legal.  peace bro.