do you believe marijuana should be legalize3d?Medically?Recreationally?
604976
I wonder if the people that say marijuana is so terrible have ever tried it before.  It's by FAR better than alcohol, alcohol turns people mean, makes them puke, and get's them into strangers beds, When have you ever seen a high person doing any of the above???....Exactly!
99366
I believe it should be legalized...  my reasoning is that the LAW ruins peoples lives over a stupid charge of possession, the drug itself does not realy hurt anyone directly, however, the irrational, irrisponsible, and/or wreckless things people do under it's influence can... but same could be said for alcohol...\n\nI used to use it... but I quit...
546521
Dear Friend,\n\nYes, marijuana should be legal.  It is a mild narcotic with no addictive properties.  Money spent in a futile attempt to stamp out weed could be directed towards more pressing social problems.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois
1166223
Most definitely.\n\nI don't use it as a drug and wouldn't, if it were legalized, but it would open the doors to a lot of opportunities.\n\nOne of the reasons hemp isn't allowed as a crop in the USA is because, obviously, it's a product of the canibus (marijuana) plant.  Hemp has so many positive aspects about it, from clothing, paper, and rope manufacturing, to a possible product for formenting ethanol, to even directly fueling organic power plants.  Since it doesn't decarbonize the soil (it actually improves the soil it's grown in and requires little to no fertilizer), it's better than cotton and corn as a crop and produces far greater volumes of usable material in the same amount of land.  It's a sort of wonder-plant.\n\nBut, since we can't grow it without also having "pot", we should just get over it and legalize the stuff.  If it were legalized, the government could tax it, generating increased revenue (for the US instead of the cartels), and employ FDA to regulate it, making purer and safer products that are inevitably widely used anyway.  Plus, it would decrease the amount of court-system flow, freeing up more legal system resources to focus on truly necessary law enforcement / punishment.\n\nStudies have also shown that "weed"-use is far less harmful than alcohol, and has also shown that users are far less likely to become violent, which (alcohol) is the primary contributor to domestic abuse and sexual offenses everywhere, along with street violence, and countless other crimes.\n\nHowever, it is still a person/mind-altering drug that needs to be taken seriously.  Any use of a substance that inhibits normal thought-processes and physical functionality is bad and needs control / responsibility / accountability.  Plus, "pot" does cause neurological damage among other significant physical problems (less than alcohol, keep in mind).\n\nI do not see it as a "gateway drug".  But, it is a drug.
949024
I don't smoke marijuana, but I think that if it will help people it should be legalized.
151407
I think weed ought to be legal, the government could tax it and take all the money their spending on fighting marijuana and dump it into fighting the REAL drugs out there.
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....
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.
543525
Wait 'til it's legalized, and then I might offer a suggestion. \n\nMight.....
1153668
I think it is something that needs to be done.  We have all sorts of highly addictive and dangerous drugs that are legal-vicodin, percoset, oxycotin....It may take longer for it to be legalized for recreational use, but is it really any worse than alcohol?  I know of MANY more lives ruined by alcohol than marijuana.
444740
It should be legalized, but natural plants and herbs can't be patented, so the government stands to make more money off of it being illegal...through tickets and citations.  We manufacture and even market drugs with for worse effects and side effects in commercials and in magazines everyday.
55616
Legalize it, impose laws like drinking laws.  I'd rather be around someone high, than a nasty whiskey drinking drunk!
575828
AGREE! of course...lol jk...idk...maybe\nIt's cool, but wat would happen if legalized?\nLegalizing marijuana would allow ppl to smoke it openly rather than hiding it. But would it bring down the number of ppl that smoke it, or would it bring it up? It does help with Gleucoma and other diseases, so I guess for "medicinal" purposes it should be legalized.\nEither way ppl will b doin it anyway, \nwhether legal or not
422337
legalize marijuana!!!
642126
No, marijuana should not be legalized, but it should be decriminalized, like the rest of the world has done. Why make criminals out of pot heads? Answer: to take everyone's rights away.\n\nBecause of a little marijuana, they can seize your car, your bank accounts, your possessions; just load it all up and take it away, and redistribute your wealth elsewhere. That is forbidden by the Contitution.\n\nBecause of a little marijuana, they can search every crack and crevice of your body, search your car, gain access to open land, spy on you, record your messages, and start a dosier on you. \n\nIf they smell marijuana, good luck. But all they have to do is "say" they smelled marijuana, and all of the above applies.\n\nBecause of a little marijuana, they can give you more jail time than bank robbers, rapists, and even murderers, especially if the Fed gets involved, and they have filled their jails to overflowing and can't build them fast enough. And this is one of the most important reasons of all to decriminalize marijuana, is to get the Fed the hell outa here, and to stop the growth rate of the prison industry.\n\nBecause of a little marijuana, you want more marijuana. It is not addictive, but it is psychologically addictive. You spend a good part of your life high, or coming down, and the parties are for hours. Then you spend hours driving around looking for it and smoking more. Then you have to get some more money to pay for it. \n\nYou can spend an inordinate amount of your time "wasted," and watching life go by, or you can kick the drugs and get "in" life and live it, experience it, effect it, gain from it, experience joy and fulfillment and happiness, or you can sit on the couch and seek pleasure that fades after the last toke. \n\nBecause of a little marijuana, you will be lethargic and not do well in school, if you go at all. And probably because of marijuana, you will not succeed in life. It will choose your friends, it will choose your music, it will choose where you go, and you will live your life for a worthless lie called a drug.
67803
It should be legalized.\nIt should be controlled as is alcohol(over 21, strict driving laws, etc.).\nIt should be taxed as are alcohol and tobacco which will provide additional revenue to the states.\nThe legalization will allow law enforcement and the courts to concentrate on more dangerous drugs and more serious crimes.  The legalization will also help to alleviate some of the overcrowding in our jails and prisons, an additional savings to the taxpayers.
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...