I believe marajuana should be legalized, because this is some thing that people are going to do weather they are "supposed" to or not. Marijuana was originally illegalized as a racist law, it was made illegal to keep certain people from coming to our country, and that the government should legalize, monitor and tax it just like they do alcohol, and cigarettes. John Maxwell
Even though I don't smoke weed, I feel that it should be legalized.
The advantages are that their whouldn't be less young Aamericans lossing their life in the street game if it was and also they could put a tax on it to help get our country out of debt!
The disadvantage is how would they go buy regulating the use of smoking, like when are you abusing weed smoking how high is to high!
The advantages and disadvantages of legalizing marajuana are many. I think a top the governments list for not legalizining it is increased law enforcement bugeting. On the flip side I think the largest argument for legalizining marajuana is that if one chooses to use marajuana they're aren't endangering anyone else. The government would have you believe, as a lot of adds these days suggest, that every dollar spent on marajuana goes to support terrorism. Someone should point out that if this is the case it is only so because we can not legaly purchase it in this country. At the very least I do not think that marajuana should be listed as a schedule one narcottic. This is the same classifacation used for crack and heroine.
I haven't smoked pot in quite some time, but I have enough experience with it to believe it can be used responsibly (probably more so than alcohol) and its users don't pose any great threat to the public. For these reasons I believe it should be legalized; considering how easy it is to grow and the price that people are already willing to pay for it marijuana could be quite heavily taxed and the money could be used to fund many worthy projects (such as educating people on the responsible use of mind-altering substances). It would also free up the hemp plant for its many other uses that go unused due to the plant's legal status.
Just like everything else on the market from cigarettes to liqour, it is a personal choice if you want to smoke weed or not. I use to smoke when I was a teenager and didn't seem to care what the law was. If the government would really think of how much more money they would have if they did legalize weed in America. There would be taxes, profit, and oh yeah they would save money in the prisons too. Because they wouldn't have to imprison offenders for selling weed if it were made legal. I do think that weed should be legalized in this country, why not cigarettes are more dangerous for your health anyway. Shannon Black
I think so, it is like booze was years ago, you make it illegal a black market will appear. The advantage would be taxes collected just like alcohol and cigarettes and a at least a control of what is being sold.Disadvantage would be similiar to alcohol.
Even though I do not smoke marajuana only tried it twice in my life time. And personally I did not like it taste funny. I think the goverment should legalize weed only because you look at the drugs they use now, weed is at the bottom of the drug list, almost a mistameaner than a felony. Their three states in our union that actually legalized marajuana for clockcoma so why not for your own personal use. Daryl V. Brown
I dont believe it should be legalized for every day use, but as a medicenal aid. Many people with glaucoma, cancer and other terminal diseases could benefit from its uses. Many disadvantages are the paranoia, and impaired judgement usually needed to operate macienary. How would you feel if you went to the doctor for a check up or the dentist for a root canal and he or she was stoned? OOOPs forgot the novacaine cause I was hitting the bong before you got here.
I honestly feel that weed should be legalized. More and more they are proving weed to help medically with pain, and alot of people are addicted to pain medication than why not weed. its like there is no difference. i personally don't use weed, but I feel as if it were legalized that teenagers today wouldn't smoke it as much because it wouldn't be a thrill anymore. Although, if it was legalized then that could raise more of a chase for people to find a different drug like meth to get a thrill off of doing. Tiffany Badgley
I would say that the only reason that it should be legalized is for medical purposes like cancer and glocomma{don't know if this is the proper spelling.} To me otherwise there isn't any other reason that it would be benefitial to have legalized unless this would reduce the use of it by taking its appeal away but I think their would be more rather than fewer users if so. For me I've never tried it and had never felt the need to because I just associated it with smoking. Tasha
I really am undecided on the whole question. Personaly, i am against the use of marijuana. But that is my choice, not for me to shove on other people. I agree with all the reasons for not legalizing it, but i also agree with the strong arguements for legalization. The arguement about less usage is not necessarily sound though. The legal smoking age is 18 and how many minors smoke in America? 21 to drink and how many underage drinkers are there? If weed was legal what would be the legal age to purchase? And if it was 18 or 21, how would that make it different for the youths that already smoke marijuana illegally? There really wouldn't be any difference in the minors that smoke it any way. Mainly, I agree with the medical legalization but other than that i don't really see a reason to legalize it. drew funkhouser
I don't care one way or the other. However,I will say that weed is no different than smoking cigarettes nor drinking alcohol. There is an disadvantage and an advantage for majority of everything in life.
I would tend to lean on the side of not legalizing it. I haven't smoked it but I have been around it at a concert. The only thing it did was make me sleepy so I would be in trouble if I tried to drive afterwards. I don't see a whole lot of advantages to legalizing weed other than seeing more stoned people than we do right now. The disadvantages would be when this is needed for medical use. Nancy Byard
Sure, that's just what we need in our society--another legal drug besides alcohol to help people shirk their responsibilities. Legalizing pot would be about as smart as legalizing gay marriage. In legalizing delinquent behavior, your approving that behavior. Do we really want a bunch of gay lesbos freaked out on weed walking among us? I for one say no thanks.
Yes. The U.S. government goes on and on about how we are hurting ourselves by smoking marijuana. But what a lot of American people don't know is that the same government who says that marijuana has no medicinal value whatsoever, sells this same drug to many pharmacies across America. Talk about hipocracy. They are making money off of it right under our noses. A disadvantage of marijuana being legalized is that we would be taxed out the ass to be able to get any. That would turn into an advantage because the government could use that same tax money to pay off the national debt, help build schools, and could use it for many other things t they say we don't have money for now. Yes I do have a good connection but it wouldn't be appropriate to give it to you over the internet for this class maybe another time.
yo uwant weed, let me know, i know many people and could get you whatever you want. please keep that on the down low because as you know weed is illegal and by selling it and buying it a person is jumping into untaxed commerce! weed will never be legalized in the united states for one reason, the government cannot regulate the groth on it and there are too many people producing the crop at the moment to change that. its a lot easier to grow a few weed plants than it is to distill a whole barrel of moonshine or beer. i think that it should be legalized because there are soo many people that currently use it and get charged with small convictions. they could at least put an age limit on it, that way they could increase the punishment for posessing or abusing it.
I don't know if marajuana should be completely legalized, but it is important for medical use. For those who are in pain with cancer, or for glaucoma. It can be a dangerous drug, and from what I have seen, incredibly addicting. I think that if it was legalized that it would bring in a lot of money to the U.S. which they concentrate on a lot these days. I think that if it was legalized though, that it would as well need a certain age for the users. I know that underage kids will still be using it, but I don't think that younger kids should be able to get their hands on it due to the effects it has on your body. I don't really think it is necessary to actually go through with it and legalize it just because in the long run, I'm sure it will just cause more problems.
I guess I'm in the minority, but I do not feel it should be legalized. I know that teens will still try it and some will still smoke it (I've tried it myself like pretty much everyone I know), but I don't want my children to grow up thinking it's okay and an everyday item to buy at the store. It's not. I don't care what anyone says, it's very, very addictive. I know two people who were close to me and couldnt' stop smoking the crap if their life depended on it! What age would be legal? Would they treat it the same as alcohol? I can actually understand why it might be used for cancer patients who are in intense pain; medicinal purpose. But I do not agree with making it mainstream in stores and teaching our children that it's okay. Katrina Schoonover
I think that leagalizing marajuana would bring in tax dollars, but I don't think it will work as smothly as most people believe. Marajuana is a depressant just like alcahol, and most companies would fire someone if they came to work while under the influence of alcahol. Since marajuana stays in your system for an extended period of time, most of the working class wouldn't be able to use it anyways.
I believe that the legalization of weed would be a very bad idea. I admit that there are many positives that could come from this act such as the use for the treatment of glaucoma, the side effects of chemotherapy, and prolonging the life expectancy of those suffering from AIDS. But I feel that they are out weighed by the negatives. Weed is a drug that has been made illegal because it has so much potential for danger. It has five times the amount of tar than in cigarettes. Tar is the substance that causes lung disease. This disease is one of the most deadly that our nation faces. I think that nicotine and alcohol should be made illegal. It would be senseless to bring another drug into our stores and gas stations to kill our citizens. David Floyd
I dont think that it should be legalized but at the same time people are going to do it anyways but no i dont think it should be legalized! Amber Franklin 9:00
Yes i believe that marijuana should be legalized. it isn't fair that it should be deemed illegal just because a few beaurocrates can't seem to make a profit out of it
Yes i believe that marijuana should be legalized. it isn't fair that it should be deemed illegal just because a few beaurocrates can't seem to make a profit out of it
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I believe marajuana should be legalized, because this is some thing that people are going to do weather they are "supposed" to or not. Marijuana was originally illegalized as a racist law, it was made illegal to keep certain people from coming to our country, and that the government should legalize, monitor and tax it just like they do alcohol, and cigarettes.
John Maxwell
Even though I don't smoke weed, I feel that it should be legalized.
The advantages are that their whouldn't be less young Aamericans lossing their life in the street game if it was and also they could put a tax on it to help get our country out of debt!
The disadvantage is how would they go buy regulating the use of smoking, like when are you abusing weed smoking how high is to high!
YES BUT MY BLACKNESS WAUNT LET ME TELL!
Yes i think weed should be legalized. There would be alot less kids trying it just because your not supposed to.
The advantages and disadvantages of legalizing marajuana are many. I think a top the governments list for not legalizining it is increased law enforcement bugeting. On the flip side I think the largest argument for legalizining marajuana is that if one chooses to use marajuana they're aren't endangering anyone else. The government would have you believe, as a lot of adds these days suggest, that every dollar spent on marajuana goes to support terrorism. Someone should point out that if this is the case it is only so because we can not legaly purchase it in this country. At the very least I do not think that marajuana should be listed as a schedule one narcottic. This is the same classifacation used for crack and heroine.
Matt D.
I haven't smoked pot in quite some time, but I have enough experience with it to believe it can be used responsibly (probably more so than alcohol) and its users don't pose any great threat to the public. For these reasons I believe it should be legalized; considering how easy it is to grow and the price that people are already willing to pay for it marijuana could be quite heavily taxed and the money could be used to fund many worthy projects (such as educating people on the responsible use of mind-altering substances). It would also free up the hemp plant for its many other uses that go unused due to the plant's legal status.
James Koltz
Just like everything else on the market from cigarettes to liqour, it is a personal choice if you want to smoke weed or not. I use to smoke when I was a teenager and didn't seem to care what the law was. If the government would really think of how much more money they would have if they did legalize weed in America. There would be taxes, profit, and oh yeah they would save money in the prisons too. Because they wouldn't have to imprison offenders for selling weed if it were made legal. I do think that weed should be legalized in this country, why not cigarettes are more dangerous for your health anyway. Shannon Black
I think so, it is like booze was years ago, you make it illegal a black market will appear. The advantage would be taxes collected just like alcohol and cigarettes and a at least a control of what is being sold.Disadvantage would be similiar to alcohol.
Even though I do not smoke marajuana only tried it twice in my life time. And personally I did not like it taste funny. I think the goverment should legalize weed only because you look at the drugs they use now, weed is at the bottom of the drug list, almost a mistameaner than a felony. Their three states in our union that actually legalized marajuana for clockcoma so why not for your own personal use.
Daryl V. Brown
I dont believe it should be legalized for every day use, but as a medicenal aid. Many people with glaucoma, cancer and other terminal diseases could benefit from its uses. Many disadvantages are the paranoia, and impaired judgement usually needed to operate macienary. How would you feel if you went to the doctor for a check up or the dentist for a root canal and he or she was stoned? OOOPs forgot the novacaine cause I was hitting the bong before you got here.
I honestly feel that weed should be legalized. More and more they are proving weed to help medically with pain, and alot of people are addicted to pain medication than why not weed. its like there is no difference. i personally don't use weed, but I feel as if it were legalized that teenagers today wouldn't smoke it as much because it wouldn't be a thrill anymore. Although, if it was legalized then that could raise more of a chase for people to find a different drug like meth to get a thrill off of doing.
Tiffany Badgley
I would say that the only reason that it should be legalized is for medical purposes like cancer and glocomma{don't know if this is the proper spelling.} To me otherwise there isn't any other reason that it would be benefitial to have legalized unless this would reduce the use of it by taking its appeal away but I think their would be more rather than fewer users if so. For me I've never tried it and had never felt the need to because I just associated it with smoking.
Tasha
I really am undecided on the whole question. Personaly, i am against the use of marijuana. But that is my choice, not for me to shove on other people. I agree with all the reasons for not legalizing it, but i also agree with the strong arguements for legalization. The arguement about less usage is not necessarily sound though. The legal smoking age is 18 and how many minors smoke in America? 21 to drink and how many underage drinkers are there? If weed was legal what would be the legal age to purchase? And if it was 18 or 21, how would that make it different for the youths that already smoke marijuana illegally? There really wouldn't be any difference in the minors that smoke it any way. Mainly, I agree with the medical legalization but other than that i don't really see a reason to legalize it.
drew funkhouser
I don't care one way or the other. However,I will say that weed is no different than smoking cigarettes nor drinking alcohol. There is an disadvantage and an advantage for majority of everything in life.
Mary Moore
I would tend to lean on the side of not legalizing it. I haven't smoked it but I have been around it at a concert. The only thing it did was make me sleepy so I would be in trouble if I tried to drive afterwards. I don't see a whole lot of advantages to legalizing weed other than seeing more stoned people than we do right now. The disadvantages would be when this is needed for medical use.
Nancy Byard
Sure, that's just what we need in our society--another legal drug besides alcohol to help people shirk their responsibilities. Legalizing pot would be about as smart as legalizing gay marriage. In legalizing delinquent behavior, your approving that behavior. Do we really want a bunch of gay lesbos freaked out on weed walking among us? I for one say no thanks.
James Burke
Yes. The U.S. government goes on and on about how we are hurting ourselves by smoking marijuana. But what a lot of American people don't know is that the same government who says that marijuana has no medicinal value whatsoever, sells this same drug to many pharmacies across America. Talk about hipocracy. They are making money off of it right under our noses. A disadvantage of marijuana being legalized is that we would be taxed out the ass to be able to get any. That would turn into an advantage because the government could use that same tax money to pay off the national debt, help build schools, and could use it for many other things t they say we don't have money for now. Yes I do have a good connection but it wouldn't be appropriate to give it to you over the internet for this class maybe another time.
Zach Frazier
yo uwant weed, let me know, i know many people and could get you whatever you want. please keep that on the down low because as you know weed is illegal and by selling it and buying it a person is jumping into untaxed commerce! weed will never be legalized in the united states for one reason, the government cannot regulate the groth on it and there are too many people producing the crop at the moment to change that. its a lot easier to grow a few weed plants than it is to distill a whole barrel of moonshine or beer. i think that it should be legalized because there are soo many people that currently use it and get charged with small convictions. they could at least put an age limit on it, that way they could increase the punishment for posessing or abusing it.
benjamin mckenna
I feel Mary Jane should be legal. What's the worst that can happen:People start eating more?
Tamika Newbern
I don't know if marajuana should be completely legalized, but it is important for medical use. For those who are in pain with cancer, or for glaucoma. It can be a dangerous drug, and from what I have seen, incredibly addicting. I think that if it was legalized that it would bring in a lot of money to the U.S. which they concentrate on a lot these days. I think that if it was legalized though, that it would as well need a certain age for the users. I know that underage kids will still be using it, but I don't think that younger kids should be able to get their hands on it due to the effects it has on your body. I don't really think it is necessary to actually go through with it and legalize it just because in the long run, I'm sure it will just cause more problems.
Elizabeth Moody
I guess I'm in the minority, but I do not feel it should be legalized. I know that teens will still try it and some will still smoke it (I've tried it myself like pretty much everyone I know), but I don't want my children to grow up thinking it's okay and an everyday item to buy at the store. It's not. I don't care what anyone says, it's very, very addictive. I know two people who were close to me and couldnt' stop smoking the crap if their life depended on it! What age would be legal? Would they treat it the same as alcohol? I can actually understand why it might be used for cancer patients who are in intense pain; medicinal purpose. But I do not agree with making it mainstream in stores and teaching our children that it's okay. Katrina Schoonover
I think that leagalizing marajuana would bring in tax dollars, but I don't think it will work as smothly as most people believe. Marajuana is a depressant just like alcahol, and most companies would fire someone if they came to work while under the influence of alcahol. Since marajuana stays in your system for an extended period of time, most of the working class wouldn't be able to use it anyways.
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Valerie Myers
I believe that the legalization of weed would be a very bad idea. I admit that there are many positives that could come from this act such as the use for the treatment of glaucoma, the side effects of chemotherapy, and prolonging the life expectancy of those suffering from AIDS. But I feel that they are out weighed by the negatives. Weed is a drug that has been made illegal because it has so much potential for danger. It has five times the amount of tar than in cigarettes. Tar is the substance that causes lung disease.
This disease is one of the most deadly that our nation faces. I think that nicotine and alcohol should be made illegal. It would be senseless to bring another drug into our stores and gas stations to kill our citizens.
David Floyd
I dont think that it should be legalized but at the same time people are going to do it anyways but no i dont think it should be legalized!
Amber Franklin 9:00
Yes i believe that marijuana should be legalized. it isn't fair that it should be deemed illegal just because a few beaurocrates can't seem to make a profit out of it
Yes i believe that marijuana should be legalized. it isn't fair that it should be deemed illegal just because a few beaurocrates can't seem to make a profit out of it
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