Make Marijuana Legal?

I hate to bring this argument up yet again; but by your reasoning, alcohol should be illegalized.

But yes, to some degree I agee with you. Not all drugs are meant to be used, as bath salts are just the result of trying to circumvent the law. Who would prefer to use such unstable and unpredictable drug, when there are other well-known and relatively safe alternatives? Unless, of course, you won't go to jail for using it.

Of course it should be legalized, and heavily taxed (sales and import and export) along with the products you could make.

The war on drugs has failed and there are thousands of dead people to vote for that.
Legalize it , save AND make some money < USA >

Yes. Considering that it is pretty much harmless. Can also be controlled and taxed for a little boost for the economy.

The only reason why it's illegal is because it would solve so many health problems, and being the way America is which makes alot of money on Medicare and health insurance keeping civilians sick- thus it woulndt make since on their part. I agree to legalize it because it opens up alternative prospectives on life.

I dont care if it becomes legal or not. I still not going to smoke weed. i do not care if you all do. but leave me out of it.

If you want nothing to do with cannabis, nor the legalization of it, why are you in this thread to begin with?

The stupidity of some people is terrifying.

I voted yes for legalizing it.

i used to smoke everyday, honestly it made me calmer, not to mention was a great pain killer substitution instead of pills. the only reason i stopped smoking was so I could get a good job, which i did but still i miss my mota.

my main argument for weed/mary-jane/grass/mota being legalized is this:
you can overdose on alcohol,pills,meth,crack,speed, and all the other drugs, but you can not overdose on marijuana.

I'd kinda like to see the current situation of weed and alcohol reversed, but that's not gonna happen. Too much traditional stuff behind alcohol.

If weed was to become legalized just like that it would cause a lot of monetary problems for quite a lot of people, haha.

By the way, this thread is ass old. I just looked at the first couple of pages, looking at the usernames and I think I just got some FAKKU-nostalgia.

If they legalize it, then it will be much much easier to create jobs that grow and distribute it.
The US doesn't realize that by doing this, they have a means to get out of the hole that they have unwittingly pushed themselves into.

Its unstable now, but once this gets legalized [hopefully] think of how low our unemployment rate will be. Eco would basically be on the fast track of fixing itself.
The amount of money we drop on creating medication that carry harmful side effects will lower as well. Seeing as it would be legal and some of the very debated properties of cannabis point to usage in a medical back drop, doctors could very well substitute different strains for different pills.

This is America's last bullet in the chamber, I really can't imagine anything else they can do to fix so many problems at once.

What do you mean ?



That's a good thing ! This subject need to be talked abouth , until it gets legalised !

Yes, because there's no reported cases of deaths from marijuana (without pre-existing conditions). Marijuana being a gateway drug doesn't really convince me that it's worth spending so much money to control - nor am I convinced that being a gateway drug is important.

Make it legal not because of the pot heads wanting their pot, but because it's too expensive to control and too worthless compared to more pressing matters (economy). Hell, I don't understand why the US government won't just tax it to death.

Expensive to control? Is there a government out there that actually takes Marijuana control seriously? More like it's the exact other way around, literally free income. That's why legalization is so unattractive.

I don't know where you live but whereever you live what you say is wrong . First , in canada and in the US the goverment spend a fucking lot of money to fight against drugs , expecialy marijuana because it's the easiest and least dangerous to fight against . Second , not only would we spend less money fighting against drugs but the governement would do a fuck ton of money from the big tax they would put on weed and i'm not even talking abouth all the jobs that would be created !

Unatractive ? 63% of the people on this forum are for the legalisation , maybe you should real all the pages and all the arguments that have been made , for the moment none has been able to give one single good arguments against its legalisation .

Btw i quoted you and asked a question that you didn't answer .

If people want marijuana then they can get marijuana. might as well legalize it. Or even better, regulate the quality of the marijuana in the united states- I read in a time magazine article that weed is very similar to the coffee bean- its taste and quality is greatly dependent on the soil it is grown in.

Well if it was sold by the government that would be pure socialism.

If they made alternate forms like tinctures and pills and made sure people don't take it recreationally then it would be fine. It's just that if we can't regulate it then we're not ready for it. Alcohol is a recreational drug and that's bad enough for us, introducing marijuana in it's various forms as another major recreational drug could cause even more problems because of it's wide popularity. That's not to say that it's bad for you, it's the opposite. It is, in fact, that it can be very benign that non-users everywhere would get into the idea of recreational usage. That, my friends, would be bad.

On another level, legalizing it would bring about a new industry of growing, refining, and distributing products like pot. It will be dominated not by local growers or drug lords, but by huge corporations. It's double-edged proposition: It would be another industry that would be eventually monopolized by businessmen, but at the same time it would take the power out of the hands of drug dealers and their associates all the way down to the cartels in Mexico. All the while introducing a new (mostly) taxable form of trade. There's still nothing preventing people from evading taxes by just not reporting business. Normally the way the US government encourages people to pay their full taxes is by giving rebates at the end of every year for doing business. Giving subsidies to the pot industry would be an absolute no-no, just like how the government won't subsidize alcohol, and instead enforces it with a watchful eye and stringent licencing for manufacturers. Thus we achieve what would be equivalent to today's (yes, they still do this) Moon-shining business: People distributing tax-free pot while evading the law-enforcement trying to salvage what we all thought would have been the government's hugely profitable deal with its respective devil. What will we do then?

The government may be able to sell it, but they shouldn't have monopoly over it.



There is no introduction. Cannabis is already widely used within our society; what will change with a legalization is a safer drug in general and better treatment for addicts. Besides, I personally think that the overall health of our society (if you wish to see it from that perspective) will increase if people chose to use cannabis instead of alcohol.

Nevertheless, the perspective I choose is an individual one. I should be able to take whatever drug I want without having the government act as a third parent for me; I'm an adult, I should be able to make my own decisions in life.

My point of view is that recreational drug usage is bad. Not necessarily bad for you, it's just something that if more people don't take part in it, the better. That being said, making pot legal would introduce easy, recreational drug usage to the country. It would encourage it's use, kind-of like saying "please become users because it's okay now".

That's to not to say that alcohol isn't also bad, which it is. But if I may reiterate: Because cannabis can be a very mild drug it would easier to do all the time. Easier than alcohol. My view is that if every man were responsible enough not to abuse it (and ideally to not use drugs and alcohol at all) then we wouldn't need laws to prohibit marijuana. Unfortunately, the fact is that because it's so damn popular and easy to use, and that it IS a psychoactive drug, let's not forget, that we're just not ready to legalize pot. Other than that, my argument stands.

Let's take an exemple to demonstrate that it is not true . Maybe it's not like that in the US or wherever you live but here in canada cigarettes are completly anti-publicised . At the tv there is constantly publicities telling us how much cigarettes are bad for health , they give phone numbers to call if you want to stop amoking. Same on the packs and let's not forget the images they put on it to disguss people from smoking .

(this is the least disgusting)
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/photos/2010/11/08/smoking-label-cp-rtr1r904.jpg

I don't think the message would really be "please become users because it's okay now" , it would be more like : "Well it's legal now but you should know that smoking weed is bad".



I like how you take most humans for retarded people that can't think by themself , i do that sometimes too , then i get out of my room and speak with real people .

I'm sorry , but more seriously , there won't be a significant raise in the consumation of marijuana if we legalise it , you know why ? Because prohibition never works . People that want to abuse weed already abuses it .

Like the guy before , i think that every man should be free to do whatever they want with their body . It is not the governement resposability to say what you can or can't do with your only real property , your body . But i know that there is a little minority of the people that can't think for themself , that's why i think it's important that if it's legalised that we also promote awareness abouth it .