Do you think that Cannabis should be legalised?
488080
As long as alcohol is legal so should cannabis.\nThis is, to me, a terrible double standard as one intoxicant is legal while another is not.\nI have lived quite a few years and have enjoyed the days when pot was greatly decriminalized. To be quite truthful pot should be legal over alcohol as the negatives are less harmful ( socially ) than alcohol.\nPot smokers rarely beat family members or others and I truly believe that stoners have fewer traffic accidents.\nI personally am in favor of legalization
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.
953956
Why don't we just legalize murder and fraud and robbery and rape.  Smoking Marijuana is illegal and just because millions do it desn't make it right.  Millions of people around the world supported the 911 attacks, does that make them rifght?  Crime is crime and people who commit it should be punished.  Lock up the crinials who use, grow and/or sell marijuana.
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.
781437
I think so, for a couple of reasons.  \n\n1) Teen drug use is lower in countries like Amsterdam, which have legalized it. \n2) More law enforcemnet money can be spent on the "harder" drugs like meth, coke, herion, etc.--I consider those drugs much more of a danger to society.  This would take a burden off our jails too. \n3)  Decriminalizng Marijuana would give many minor drug offenders a shot at a better life--FYI, you are unable to get any financial aid for college if you are any type of drug offender, even a Misdemeanor!!  That only helps to continue the cycle of poverty/drug use/dealing, etc. \n4)  Tax the crap out of it and we could pay off our national debt! \n5) Marijuana has the potential to be an effective treatment for many people with various ailments, such as glaucoma, cancer, etc.\n\nCool class you are taking, never written papers like that before.
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.
14520
I am canadian and I would vote to legalize mary jane I uses it for my pain , running up and down stairs all day , l get leg cramps and it helps alot , for that , l run a business 7 days a week sometimes 14 hours a day so all americans , and canadians should legalize it , the govenment can make alot of money , price it like cigs, in the stores , in smoke shops where kids have to be here l think it is 19 to buy cigs , in the US l don't know how much smokes are for kids to buy ? here you can get it through as medical, with doctors letter , only , l wish it was legalized , it would be better then trying to find someone on the street , that you can trust, that is not a cop, or someone that is ripping you off ,you just go down to the store and buy it like cigs .
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.
381891
I think that if spirits (rum, whisky...) are legal marijuana should also be legal.
231501
huh..  what... dude... like that question.. it like rocks.  i, uh, yea man, like weed should totally be legal.  peace bro.
1086319
Yes.\n1. As a popular intoxicant, marijuana is much safer than alcohol and other drugs. If Tobacco and Alcohol are available (tolerated by society), then marijuana should also be tolerated. I would much rather have my child abuse marijuana than alcohol, because afterward they would still have a liver and a brain.\n2. All recreational drugs should be legalized. There is no point trying to regulate personal behavior, which contravenes the American ethic anyway.\nCurrent laws do or can provide penalties for intoxicated problem behaviors such as driving under the influence, so that's covered.\n3. If you want to eliminate the crime associated with "the drugs trade", then legalize drugs. If necessary, make various drugs (such as cocaine) available only at the pharmacist's counter with a valid ID as proof of age.\nBut, no more drug kingpins - drugs will be commodified.\n4. Tax drug sales and get those revenues; and save all the money wasted on the drug war.\n\n5. And of course, as a marijuana user, I would look forward to cheaper product. :)
1063539
Remember that the most dangerous and damaging drugs are already legal - tobacco and alcohol.  So should we legalise all the others?  Well some think that by making drugs available, usage will increase and therefore more people will have a drug 'problem'; however I think it's fair to say the only 'problem' with drugs is the associated crime that affects others in society.  If someone chooses to mess up their heads with drugs, that's their right.  It becomes a problem when they steal from others or hurt others in the process of getting money for drugs.\n\nIf we legalised all drugs, we could ensure that minors did not have access to them (think of the legislation around booze and cigs), we could fund health services and drug rehab centres, we could monitor the usage, trends and predict problem areas, we could ensure the quality (most heroin overdoses are caused by high quality heroin accidentally being injected), and we could create safe places for people to use drugs in a safe way.\n\nSo yes, let's bite the bullet and legalise them.  I don't use drugs (except the odd glass of wine), but I would fully support my fellow human beings' choice to do what they wish with their lives, as well as enjoy the knowledge that such a move would reduce the likelihood of my house being broken into or me being mugged for my wallet.
255195
I don't think it should be legal, we got enough potheads in America, although I think the punishment for possession should be less serious.
787885
I'm french and it's not legalized here too.\nWe have the same questions here sometimes.\n\nI don't think that's it's a good idea to legalized it.\n\nI took lot of that stuff and I can say that it was causing troubles in my life, in my body and my psy...\n\nSo I think it's still a drug... not the badest for the health, but a bad one...\n\nMore, if it will be legalized, I guess that we will have more problems (like alcool problems) in lot of family's and houses...\nSo, I hope it will still be not legalized...
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.
1025970
No. Drugs should remain illegal.
488123
Legalize it.\nTax it.\nDon't demonize it.\nPeople have a fundamental right to do whatever they want to their own bodies as long as they don't hurt other people. The government (of any country, not just the USA) might say differently, but they have an acitve, profitable interest in keeping it illegal.\n\nBTW-No, I don't smoke it. Never have. No plans to. Personal choice. But if I want to smoke it, or shoot smack, or burn some crack, I damn well ought to be able to do that. The consequences are my own. If I lose my job, too bad for me. If my wife leaves me, then that is a poor choice for me to make, but they are MY CHOICES to make.