(debate) Do u feel that marijuana should be legalized?
761198
Marijuana smoking should be legalised everywhere.\nIt is a simple natural herb, which provides pleasure and relaxation, and has many beneficial medicinal properties. It relieves stress, reduces pain, and certain studies show that it can disipate asthma, and be beneficial to alzheimer's patients.\nThe reason it was made illegal in the first place was because the oil from the seeds can be used to fuel an engine, and so the oil lobby, along with the media who were making profits from cutting down trees, found a way to make it illegal. The law was passed as a part of the tax law, which introduced the name marijuana, so that nobody would realise that they were restricting the use of hemp.
887110
No.   Federal Law prohibits states to legalize pot (and other substances)
1020062
I think it's a good idea also, but many of the people blocking legislation for it are against it for moral grounds.  If it's legalized, then the government is saying that it's okay and so forth.  There are places in the US where it's legalized, and you know what?  Those places aren't dying of moral blah blah blah. :)\n\nPeople are going to do it anyway.  Might as well make it safer for both parties.
660712
No, you should stay and everybody else as well, but legalized. They are going to stay any way, so why not legalize them.
396656
Let me guess.... You are one of the people who want to legalize pot.
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.
504301
I would cancel the law that made marijuana illegal.  It has so many beneficial uses for cancer patients, anorexics, and people who suffer from other ailments.  It's a shame that truly sick people have to buy it off of the black market just for some relief.
401831
Well, that depends on what substances you are talking about.  Personally, I think that an adult should be allowed to engage in activities that are not harmful to anyone else and do not infringe on the rights of others.  Having said that, I do not necessarily believe that full legalization is the way to go.  In the case of marijuana, for instance, it is theorized that the price might actually increase if the government started regulating and taxing the sale of marijuana.  I think a more logical solution, at least in the case of marijuana, would be decriminalization.  The government would not regulate the industry; instead, they could monitor the sale of the plant to minors, insuring that everyone who chooses to buy marijuana is an adult(just like cigarettes).
126322
I think it should be decriminalized.  Marijuana is so much safer than alcohol and tobacco!  And I've never seen a violent pothead!  Think of how much revenue would be generated if it were legalized, and taxed!  Not to mention the savings.  Prisons would be less populated, police could spend more time on things that REALLY matter (you know, murder, other "hardcore" drugs).  I have always been for the legalization of marijuana.  But a lot of jobs may be lost as well (law enforcement).  The "war on drugs" is a big business, and we're just little pee-ons, so what we think doesn't matter anyway.
151432
Jim Bender is a Canadian politician who supports legalization of marijuana. \nits is argued that is alcohol is legal so should marijuana.\nalso, they ay if it is legalized, crime will be reduced and other related negative externalities will be reduced such as black market.\n\nread this, an excellent summary http://www.usask.ca/education/ideas/tplan/sslp/values/legmarij.htm
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. :)
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...
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
652718
well.. i dont know to be honest.. but i think it should be.. the government should control it and price it and the world in my opinion would be a better place... no one has ever overdosed on pot..
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.
1094192
Yeah.  They should legalize it, tax the hell out of it, and try to pay back some of the money wasted on the war on drugs...... help us get out of debt a little.  But the government would have to admit they were wrong in some instances, and they'd actually be held responsible for tax dollars gone askew.  Not going to happen.\n\n**Oh, I totally agree with how much safer pot is than alcohol and especially cigarrettes.  Alcohol, the only drug whose withdrawls can kill you- and cigarettes, which contain nicotine, the most addictive drug on the planet, are both available 24-7. \n\nLook at social issues.  You don't hear about a man coming home stoned and beating his wife.\n\nI don't see how legalizing pot would make people more apt to leaving it out in the open for small children to get a hold of.  It would hold the same accessibility as cigarettes and alcohol.  If I had no other choice, I'd rather my kid be smoking pot than cigarettes, especially after learning what chemicals they have been putting in them- sharing some components with crack.
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.