poll should marijuana be legalized in the US?

the reason it's illegal is because the government couldn't find a way to tax it...417alum

No. Marijuana not only opens the doors to other more potent drugs, but also effects awareness and depth perception, which would result in an increased number of vehicular deaths(referring to the innocent, sober drivers) due to people driving under the influence of marijuwana.LikeHaterade

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No. Marijuana not only opens the doors to other more potent drugs, but also effects awareness and depth perception, which would result in an increased number of vehicular deaths(referring to the innocent, sober drivers) due to people driving under the influence of marijuwana.-Sun_Tzu-

No. I'd keep it illegal to supply - maybe even increase penalties, but would allow cultivation for personal use.jimmyjammer69

[QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"][QUOTE="LikeHaterade"]No. Marijuana not only opens the doors to other more potent drugs, but also effects awareness and depth perception, which would result in an increased number of vehicular deaths(referring to the innocent, sober drivers) due to people driving under the influence of marijuwana.LikeHaterade

[QUOTE="jimmyjammer69"]No. I'd keep it illegal to supply - maybe even increase penalties, but would allow cultivation for personal use.Cherokee_Jack

No. Marijuana not only opens the doors to other more potent drugs, but also effects awareness and depth perception, which would result in an increased number of vehicular deaths(referring to the innocent, sober drivers) due to people driving under the influence of marijuana.LikeHaterade

No. It just leads people into harder drugs. I watched some of my 'friends' start of with with weed and move into harder junk. They said they wouldent try anything else, but time tells different.

Drugs are for losers or patients that need them.

tim22000

ONLY IF they legalize all drugs. Sajedene

That would be pure hell.

[QUOTE="Sajedene"]ONLY IF they legalize all drugs. Theokhoth

That would be pure hell.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"][QUOTE="-Sun_Tzu-"] America has tried to ban alcohol, and it failed miserably. The "war on drugs" has also failed miserably. And no, not everyone who drinks gets crazy drunk, and the overwhelming majority of the people who drink actually drink responsibly.-Sun_Tzu-

Sure I can see why you believe that. There are a few contributing factors I'm sure though. Marijuana is addictive to many which does show from the hundreds of thousands of people a year seeking treatment for marijuana dependency, despite the lack of evidnce showing withdrawal symptoms. I think that it could have an effect on young adults' motivation in college as well. You have high schoolers skipping school nowadays to go smoke pot. I don't believe However, some of the same could indeed be said about alcohol, but I'm just speeking in terms that legalizing it would make the statistics worse. I'm not trying to debate on what's worse, alcohol or marijuana.A lot of cocaine and heroin users started off using marijuana which shows that it can indeed open the doors to other, more addictive drugs as well. But whatever. If there was some way to prevent innocent lives being lost because of the two, I suppose I could care less as to whether or not it was legalized. It's a fact that the statistics would get worse though.

What is it with the internet and its obsession with legalizing marijuana?jim_shorts

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

[QUOTE="Sajedene"]ONLY IF they legalize all drugs. Sajedene

That would be pure hell.

There is no reason why it shouldn't be legal. FACT.needled24-7

1. Its not harmful. Theres not one death directly related. If you want to count any DUI's as a reason, you might as well make driving illegal as a whole, seeing as speeding is illegal and it kills people.

2. Its not addicting. Unless you count being addicted to the pleasure received from it, which would make ALOT of stuff illegal.

3. Everything that is bad with it is because its illegal(such as lacing it with harder drugs)

4. The goverment spends billions fighting against a billion dollar industry they could instead use themselves as taxes.

5. Is weed a gateway drug? It could be. I mean its illegal, crack is illegal, whats the difference? I'd get in just as much trouble, so why not try it and get hooked on crack? I mean if weed were legal, why would I try crack then? Or drug dealers lacing it with meth to get users hooked, which wouldn't happen if it were legal.

6 . It would stop harmless people from getting in an overpopulated jail and freeing killers.

7. It has uselful medical properties.

[QUOTE="Sajedene"][QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

That would be pure hell.

LikeHaterade

http://ezinearticles.com/?Cannabis-DNA-Modification-for-Use-to-Produce-Ethanol&id=146965

i forgot to mention you have to alter the DNA but cannabis is easy to manipulate.

[QUOTE="LikeHaterade"][QUOTE="Sajedene"] That is nothing but assumption. If the argument here is that the government legalize weed and control its distribution -- then the same argument can be said for any drug out there. Legalize it and control its distribution... people who do the drugs who have and never were any harm to society or themselves can do so without prosecution and those who ARE a harm to themselves and to society can either be "weeded" out by any screening process the government does or to control how much of the drug they are able to purchase at a time (no more OD)Sajedene

[QUOTE="Theokhoth"]

[QUOTE="Sajedene"]ONLY IF they legalize all drugs. Sajedene

That would be pure hell.

Legalizing all drugs would be a catastrophe. Have you ever seen the effects of crystal meth on a person? Heroin addicts? No, the government wouldn't be able to weed them out as easy as you appear to believe.

Legalized will NEVER happened in the US. The only thing that might be POSSIBLE is to lower the punishment for having marijuana on you, in other words that its no more a crime. and major RUFLZ at people thinking marijuana is bad/gateway drug

1. Its not harmful. Theres not one death directly related. If you want to count any DUI's as a reason, you might as well make driving illegal as a whole, seeing as speeding is illegal and it kills people.

links136

We should be banning drugs and alcohol, or at least further restricting it, not the other way around, our countries image is bad enough, but with everyone high on weed our country would be a joke.Montaya

Cognitive Impairment is not harmful? How about deficits in math skills and verbal expression, or selective impairments in memory retrievalprocesses? How about how it disrupts the flow of chemical neurotransmitters, orhow it's been linked to or "can" lead to increased anxiety, panic attacks, depression, and other mental health problems. Nah, man -- getting high is soo cool that who cares what happens to me, I just want to forget everything and be free man, yeah -- be cool.Stevo_the_gamer

ya i think you need to smoke like 8pounds at once to die its a imposible number for a overdose. But if it was ever legallized it would have to be like alcohol. Dont drive when you are smoking it and dont do it in public. basebike2

Actually, it's way more than that.

You have to smoke about a third of your body weight within fifteen minutes to die of an overdose.