What would you prefer to legalize, "illegal" immigrants, or pot?
461309
Heres all kinds of mind-blowing long-suppressed facts about Humanity's best friend "The Cannabis Plant".\n \n**Hemp or Cannabis as it is scientifically referred to is the fastest growing biomass source on Earth. Biomass is a cheap and efficient source of fuel. As a matter of fact, if we were to farm only 6% of the country's available farmland with hemp we could meet all of the country's Industrial energy and transportation needs.\n \n**Hemp is 26 times stronger than cotton and lasts \n10 times longer.\n \n**We can produce 4 times as much paper from Hemp as we can from trees at one fourth the cost and 1/5 the pollution and it is 10 times stronger and lasts ten times longer.\n \n**It is a fact that Betsy Ross made our first flag "Old Glory" from Hemp fiber.\n \n**Also, our Constitution and Declaration of Independance were printed on Hemp paper.\n \n**The soldiers clothes during the revolutionary war were made from Hemp.\n \n**The second most prescribed medicine in the United \nStates for 150 years for over 100 different medical illnesses was a Cannabis extract and it is alot stronger when taken in concentrated form. \nDoes mean that all the children in America for 150 years \nwere brought up as DRUG USERS from birth. Or, Does it just mean, simply, that we had a better understanding of herbs and their medicinal usage 100 years ago than we do today??? And who has REALLY lost their mind, people who smoke pot, or the "NORMALS"????\n\nThe drug war is nothing more than an excuse to suppress consciousness and use the ignorant in our society to create laws for the New World Order to use to crack down on all of our rights !! \nAccording to a Feb. 1938 article in Popular Mechanics the invention of a new machine called the decorticator, would once again put Hemp in the dominant position in the fiber and textiles industry over cotton by speeding up the harvesting methods in use at the time. \nAt this same time Dupont held a patent on a synthetic compound used to break down wood pulp to make paper. To make paper from Hemp didn't require any chemicals. \nIn order for Dupont to profit from these chemicals, they had to see to it that Hemp was out-lawed. \nAndrew Mellon sat on the board of Dupont and Mellon's nephew was Harry Anslinger, the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics at the time. \nWilliam Randolph Hearst owned many big newspapers and working together they whipped up a smear campaign of "Yellow Journalism" in America, spreading propaganda that the African-Americans and Mexicans were smuggling in a new killer dope weed that would lure white women to fall prey to the seduction of the "Negro", while under the influence of Jazz music. \nRACISM and fear were used to outlaw something that was used by every man, woman, and child in America. \nIt wasn't until after the Marijuana Tax Act was passed that the American Medical Association realized that "marijuana", a slang term for hemp was in fact "Cannabis", our second most prescribed medicine.\n \nThis is when "Reefer Madness" began. \n\nNO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM USING CANNABIS / MARIJUANA !!!\n\nThe REASON That Marijuana Is ILLEGAL Has NOTHING To Do With The Pharmaceutical Effects\n\nIts All About Dollars And NO SENSE\n\n\nTo Answer Your Question....\nI Would Prefer The Legalization Of Marijuana \nAs Opposed To Granting Amnesty To 20 Million ILLEGAL Immigrants
15803
Yes...legalized for both. Marijuana is actually less dangerous for recreational use than alcohol--which is legal. Plus...the government could make a lot of money from legalization.
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.
55616
Legalize it, impose laws like drinking laws.  I'd rather be around someone high, than a nasty whiskey drinking drunk!
301944
Yes, because I need a soothing way to relax and I really hate drinking. Cigarettes just don't cut it.\n\nIf the US legalized marijuana it would help our economy so much I can't believe the government doesn't see this. It would create new jobs (growers, farmers, textiles, factory workers, etc) and might actually reduce the amount of alcoholics we have wasting away in this country.\n\nI do believe it should be treated just like cigarettes / alcohol if it were legalized though and that penalties and fines be given to unlicensed growers (just as moonshining is illegal) or people selling to minors, etc.
620109
I'd go for the corporations and businesses, they are the next in this pyramid of breaking the law, the last would be the illegals who have been getting away with coming here, getting jobs and staying without any contemplation whatsoever. The top of this pyramid is the government that doesn't enforce Immigration laws. Lately, we have many "real problems" that our President is just not equipped to solve, they just seem to get worse.
503113
Who knows, maybe all the druggies will immigrate there instead! lol   Seriously, the only drug I agree with legalizing is Marijuana--for medicinal purposes only.
314571
pot was made illegal when lsd and all the hard druggs of the 60's were i think. instead of actually knowing what pot was or how it was different then acid and x and cocaine, and the other hard drugs, it was illegialized right along with it. so really for no good reason is it illegal.. yes it should be legalized.. we wouldnt spend so much money on the fight against drugs, and would be able to focus on the important things like coke, and crack, and heron, exc... the things that actually kill ppl
710726
Yes I believe it should be legalized, because in relation to other drugs that are currently legal, the deleterious effects of marijuana simply don’t compare. I think the distribution of it should be controlled as to where it can be smoked, and who is licensed to sell it.
79600
Yes, marijuana should be legal, because the current system of illegalization is unfair. Why are cigarettes, which are proven to be tons more times unhealthy and deadly than marijuana, legal? Cigs kill through a physical addiction as well as a psychological addiction, which means that you actually become physically dependent on the drug and you enjoy how it makes you feel, and therefore you develop the diseases that kill you. On the other hand, marijuana does not cause a physical addiction, but a psychological addiction. So you don't die from weed, and there are very few reports that support the direct disease development of weed that kills you. So why are cigs legal and taxed, but weed isn't? Why don't they just make weed legal, tax the hell out of it so it can benefit the economy, and set an age limit for 21 years-old, just like alcohol. This will benefit everyone, because it will allow taxes for law enforcement to go towards people who are actually committing violent crimes instead of trying to calm down after a hard day by smoking weed. Also, it will stop the violence that erupts over the weed drug war between gangs and thugs. Money will no longer be an issue for the gangs to fight about over the weed.\n\nWe all know why weed is illegal - because the majority of its users are minorities and those in poverty. Sure, there is a fair share of middle and upper class young people who smoke weed, but the majority are those of us in the lower tier of society. If it was made legal, then those in power (the rich, upper class and conservative citizens) would not have as much power over us. Bottom line. Dispute it if you want, but the evidence is clear.\n\nIt's the same thing with why a smaller amount of crack carries a harsher legal penalty than the same amount of pure cocaine. Poor minorities use crack, upper class citizens use pure cocaine.
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...
772292
I think that people have done enough harm to make sure marijuana stays criminalized by their actions. There's a lot of people that carry the title of being a pothead as a badge of honor or whatever. One of the biggest reasons I ever laid off smoking marijuana was because I saw so much disrespect to the herb. I believe that it's the oldest healer that we have around. It has been used to help people relax, reach to a higher being of their own understanding in many Native American tribes as well as Aztecs and many other primal tribes in the world, it's also used to heal. My mother suffers from arthritis, she soaks some marijuana in rubbing alcohol, then applies an alcohol soaked rag on the part of her aching joint (no pun intended) and the pain is subdued. I think that the reason in is not criminalized id because it's an herb. People would grow it and use it to their own consumption. My only consern with that is the lack of responsibility of certain people that would use it. I know a lot of kids out there love having that whole grown-up facade and think that smoking your brain off is so cool, but they fail to see the other of side of smoking or eating marijuana, the doors it can open to your subconcious and mentality in all it's complex existence. I don't think it will be decriminalized because it really would be a hard thing to keep a tax on and if people can get away with buying it and distributing it now, they most definitely will if it's decriminalized all together.
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........
45536
Marijuana should be legalized.  \nTax it.  \nRequire a special license to buy it.  In order to get the license you would have to be a certain age and sign a waiver that you can't receive taxpayer funded services if you get addicted to other drugs or contact lung cancer.\n\nRequire them to disclose the fact that they have the license for job applications.  Where else are we going to get Fast Food Fry Cooks in the future?\n\nWhy not do this for other drugs.  Cigarettes.  Alcohol?  Maybe if people had to accept responsibility for what the drugs could do to their system maybe they would think before ingesting them.
483775
yes, it should be legalized. if you can't get rid of it at least you should be able to control it.
524514
in favor of the "good" immigrants legal or illegal.  you will notice i mentioned illegal also.  my logic behind this is...i believe that there are illegal immigrants out there who truly appreciates being here, are thankful that they are here, and really trying their best to contribute to our society and economy but are unfortunate that they do not have a way to get legalized.  many people do not understand how difficult it is for an immigrant to get a permanent residency in the US if no one would sponsor them i.e. immediate family = US citizen parents or children.  also, i'm sure all of us at one point in our lives...an illegal has helped in some way, maybe the doctor who saved your loved one is an illegal immigrant, or the caregiver of your grandparents are illegal.  however the illegals who commit crimes like murder, stealing, vandalizing, gang violence...those people are simply bad news.  so i'm in favor of good immigrants, legal or illegal...key word GOOD.
584711
I'd definitely support legalization for someone who volunteered for combat service. If they are willing to defend this country, the least we can do is let them live here.\n\nAmnesty for illegals isn't fair, and you know it.  It is a matter of where do we want to put our resources, what do we want to live with having done, how effective would deportation be at the end of the day and at what social cost, and should we at least partly blame our government for letting these people get to the point where this is the only home they have?\n\nI don't know how to get something workable out of the Senate Bill, though. I think we may just need to start over.