should marijuana be legal in california?
482526
No adictive substance should be legal.
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.
569240
I seriously doubt it although in my opinion it should be legal . There are pros and cons to any mind altering drug but I believe pot is alot less harmful than alcohol yet alcohol is legal.
226488
Yes, I think marajuana should be legalized.  Compare it to our two most popular legal "recreational drugs."  Marijuana is only mildly addictive especially in comparison to tobacco.  The affects of marijuana lower inhibitions, but unlike alcohol it is nearly impossible to overdose.  When was the last time you heard of someone getting high on pot and beating someone up?  It would be far more likely they got an uncontrollable case of the giggles. Now consider how dangerous someone who is drunk on alchohol - their aggressor response is heightened, not diminished.\n\nAnd I would also like to state:  I don't drink and I don't smoke marijuana.   This is just my observations.
1035368
Marijuana, because it can be used to treat glaucoma patients and to alleviate certain types of pain, should be legal, provided that it does not cause uncontollable affects in the users for whom it might be prescribed.  Legalization could eliminate the abuse of this drug and the sale of it by "street pharmacists" who frequently add other dangerous chemicals to it and use unscrupilous sales tactics to dupe customers who cannot get it legally.  The fact that it is illegal makes it more tempting to some people who enjoy living on the edge.
111833
Yes.In my opinion, I think marijuana should be legalized. Have you ever watched the tv show called Cops? How many domestic violence calls have you seen them respond to because someone was high on pot. None that I remember.. Alcohol on the other hand causes most people to become violent,arguementative and has destroyed thousands of families. Most that get into a drunken stuper can't even remember what they did the next day. Marijuana on the other hand causes most people to relax, kick-back, laugh and eat.. They can alsways remember what they did. The only lives I know of that have been destroyed because of marijuana has come about because they got caught using or in posession. Now their life is ruined because they are going to loss their job, possibly their house, cars, kids and anything else the government can figure out a why to make a buck. Hell, someone that smokes a little pot on the weekend can loose their job three or four weeks later if they're drug tested at work. This, even though they aren't under the influence. An alcoholic, who has abused his wife and kids over the same weekend can go to work on monday and pass any drug/alcohol test given them.. Me personally, having spent time with both, I'd much rather spend time with the potheads than the drunken, slobbering loud mouthed alcolohic's.
137646
I 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.
810591
yes it should be legal--if alcohol is legal why not?  Do you realize the process it takes to make beer and liquor?  Pot is 100% natural...no chemicals, processing, hell it grows out in the fields--why shouldn''t it be legal....just think how much more peaceful things would be if people smoked pot instead of drinking........i can't wait for the day i can walk down the street smoking my joint rather than hiding in my house
1015919
Marijuana is perscibed to people that are dying and people with health issues that need it for certain reasons. Yes i think it should be legalized. The medical use is a step in the right direction and i belive these folks get cards and paperwork for personal use.
736693
I agree. I don't smoke marijuana but think it should be legalized. Think of how much money the government would save/make.\n1 The government spends loads of money to try and prevent people from using marijuana. With advertisements and all.\n2 the government has to spend tax money to build new prison's, because so many people get arrested for possession.\n3 Government could tax it similar to how they tax tobacco and alcohol, so they could potentially make Millions maybe even more.\n4 police could spend time actually helping people rather than trying to bust people for smoking a little marijuana every now and then.\n5 could create new jobs and stimulate the economy with people buying and selling.
631126
I don't know if I qualify as Smart People or not, but...\n\nI disagree that it will soon be legalized.  There was a ballot initiative that passed here in my very liberal hometown of Columbia MO that decriminalized pot, and there was such an outcry from the community that it's almost certain to be repealed this November in the general election.\n\nHowever, I do believe that it SHOULD be legal.  It can be taxed and regulated, and then we'll have fewer people getting killed over it.  I agree...if you want to kill yourself by smoking tobacco, you're allowed to.  If you want to kill yourself by destroying your liver with alcohol, you're allowed to.  If you want to fry your brain smoking pot, you ought to be allowed to.\n\nPerhaps legalizing it would help weed out (no pun intended..ok, maybe it was) the "dumb people" that you speak of.
643302
Yes. \nWhy?\nIt is relaxing. \nI have never felt the desire to use any other drugs, and I don't. Even after using marijuana for a number of years.  Here in California, where lots of people use it, people know it's not a bad drug. That is why we have voted to allow medical marijuana.  \nI used to drink, but that got me in lots of trouble, and the occasional fight. Marijuana has never got me in trouble. \nPeople use marijuana to fight pain, as it is a relaxing drug, and they are criminals.  The legal route is to get perscribed a pain killer, which people become addicted to in less than a month.   I have numerous friends who have been to rehab for pain pills, none for marijuana. \nMarijuana has been used as medicine for thousands of years.  In India, they went as far as to diefy marijuana.  It still grows free in the hills of India, where workers have ganga (marijuana) breaks instead of coffee breaks.  \nINSTEAD OF SAYING NO, HOW ABOUT SOME REASONS.\nI would put more but I am a college student and have to go take an exam.\n\nTo the person who says it is deadlier than most substances available, BS! Crack cocaine, meth will kill you. Marijuana will not.   I know people that have been smoking for 35+ years and are active athletes.  Ciggarette smokers develop many health conditions because of the number of ciggarettes they smoke.  I smoke the equivalent of less than one marijuana ciggarette a day.  Additionally, marijuana can be eaten, which negates the lung problem.  It can also be vaporized to reduce toxins which are byproducts of the burning of material.
661832
I'm not exactly sure what you said there bro, BUT yes i agree marijuana should be legal. \n\n1. Beer is legal and much more harmfull. Alcohol destorys a liver. Drunk drivers kill kids. What does pot do? Makes you lazy, who wants to go for a drive stoned? First you have to walk to the car screw that too much work. And I know stoners that drive stoned all the time and never have accedents. However I have known a few of those same people to get drunk and drive horridly.\n\n2. With pot and possably a few other currently illegal drugs legalized you eleminate a large part of violent crime. Not only that you turn drug dealing from crime to legit employment. Youve just fix alot of the crime problem as well as unemployment. \n\n3. Now lets add a tax to our new found trade goods. Say 7 grams (thats a quarter bag) sales for 35-60$ depending on the quality. So well use the 60$ bag, that is 60$ after taxes well say before taxes our price is 15$. As a legal substance we can assume there will be ALOT of huge farms growing right? So with farms produceing our trade goods street sales will drop and eventualy die out. Not only that prices can be regulated and will surely be lower than they are now.\n\nI could list more but I'm rather stoned, and I'm sure i can find something better to do.... like roll another joint.
654471
The only reason that marihuana is not legal is because of the lumber lobby and the cotton lobby.  If marihana were to be legalized the hemp industry would put the lumber companies and the cotton companies out of business.  The drug itself is non addictive, you cant overdose, and its so widely accepted that you cant even get anyone prosecuted for possessing it, if they take it to jury trial.  I dont use marihuana but I strongly feel it should be legalized.  The government could mandate the amount of THC in each cigarette and tax the sales.  It would be a HUGE increase in revenue and and even BIGGER savings in trying to defeat it..besides its been my experience that dealing with someone high on marihuana is a non violent situation.  All they want to do is relax and enjoy life, not like Meth heads and Coke heads...they are the violent and unpredictable....
695501
I think that marijuana laws should be relaxed.  There are many people who need to use marijuana for herbal remadies.  So, in answer to your question I say YES.  Let's smoke on, in moderation.
753582
Marijuana is not LEGAL in any state.  What you are talking about is the de-criminalization of marijuana that some states are adopting.  This means that it is LESS criminal in those areas and it can be anything from a minor infraction to a misdemeanor instead of a felony to posess it.  There are some cities in Oregon and Seattle that also have de-criminalized marijuana laws.
929753
I would certainly think the opposite is true.  I do, however, feel that marijuana SHOULD be legalized for medical use in many other circumstances.