Should marijuana be legalized?

The 22 people who voted on the third option are obviously liars.

 

So hard to tell when folks are being sarcastic...



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I voted on the third option, because my real choice isn't there. I really don't care either way. Legalizing it stops some problems, causes others. It's a zero sum game.

 

I don't use weed but I do support medical marijuana legalization. I am not for recreational marijuana usage though.

 

that would be like saying because I don't own a gun I think it should be illegal for you to own a gun

 

Does it suck to have your foolish notions disproved by your own poll?

So does that mean you support criminalizing "recreational" marijuana use?

 

Ouch. That has got to sting.

 

A more likely explanation is that you're just a foolish individual.

 

I don't really care but I do get tired of hearing all the bull(*)(*)(*)(*) about the wonders of marijuana. It will not solve the problem of the national debt, the energy dependence of the U.S.

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I don't really care but I do get tired of hearing all the bull(*)(*)(*)(*) about the wonders of marijuana. It will not solve the problem of the national debt, the energy dependence of the U.S., cure cancer, stop domestic violence, or make everyone beautiful in their own way. It's just another drug to burden society.

 

I don't really care, but I do get tired of hearing all the bull**** about the evils of marijuana. Legalizing pot will not create problems that do not already exist, or create a nation of drugged out zombies.

It's just another drug, like alcohol, and tobacco and should be treated exactly the same.

 

This is a tough call. I am for cancer survivors using it to ease their pain.

 

I am a rare user...handful of times a year. I think it should be legalised.
Regardless however, it will be legalised in the near-ish future and it will be a test for the underground counter culture kids to see how readily they embrace big corps getting involved in their toke time.

I don't see it as the same as alcohol or tobacco though. In regards to how it should be treated at this present time maybe the same. But developed introspection and social awareness is something that can be worked on on Cannabis. Western packaged tobacco is just a stimulant and alcohol is an immobilser. Neither particularly challenging to the long term social status quo.

 

It should be legal but it would be best if the Government and corporations stayed out of it. If you want weed grow some if your not capable of growing yourself then buy from your neighbor.

 

Drug-use causes costs on society by lowering (or even eliminating...) productivity and by increasing the need for health-care. The question is how to deal with those costs efficiently. Unfortunately criminalization hasn't been very efficient. I think high taxation of drugs and involuntary treatment in extreme cases would be more efficient in handling the societal costs while also decreasing income for organized crime. One has to remember that drug-criminalization is a relatively new phenomena appearing mostly after the second world war. Many true conservatives like me favour returning to the status quo ante and those that don't are mostly unintelligent neocons.

 

This is exactly the right attitude. It should be built from the ground up, not the legislature down. Legalize possession and sale, let us figure out the rest ourselves. Let people grow their own and trade with others without interference, at least at the local level.

If legalized we run the risk of it becoming like tobacco: so heavily regulated that only large multinationals have any interest in it.

 

The ability of cannabis to make people think has always seemed overrated to me. Maybe I just don't get that effect. Makes me feel euphoric, makes music sound good and food taste nice.

Go for shrooms or DMT if you want to have your perspective changed.

 

I would consider a Cannabis high a more thoughtful (for want of a better word) state than alcohol intoxication or stimulation by tobacco or caffeine (in the western use of these substances at least).
That thoughtfulness would depend on environment, mood and education in it's use...as with everything I guess.
That said, I do agree with you as well. Although perspective is a funny thing and one of my more recent changes with it was from a comedy skit when i was 'straight'. Environment, mood and education in it's use then too.

 

I think it should be legal, but only after a reliable testing is produced that can somewhat objectively measure influence levels. With alcohol, there is the B.A.C., which is not perfect (some people are more affected by .08 than others), but at least it provides a fair baseline to determine if somebody is allowed to drink or come to work. As it stands with marijuana, you could smoke a joint 2 minutes ago or 2 weeks ago, get pulled over, tested, and then what? Rely on the subjective opinion of the officer about whether or not he was under the influence?

 

Alcohol and tobacco feel so artificial to me - they give me a headspin. I get more "(*)(*)(*)(*)ed" on either than I do on cannabis, which is a much more pleasant, mellow high. I could not be an alcoholic, I'd be sick 24/7.

I think we were on the right track with the Silk Road; avoiding government involvement and taking the solution into our own hands. Voluntary networks such as those are the future whether government likes it or not. Mathematics advantages the party trying to work in secret, simply because it's vastly easier to encode data than it is to decode it.

Now, if we got around to using that sort of thing for everyday items - homegrown food, medicine, even labor - then we'd be onto something!

 

I see the liar toll is now up to 29.

 

I think it should be legal and I do not use it.

If it were legal and it was offered at a party I would.

I just don't do illegal things.

 

That's the real reason why any non-user would be pro-legalization.

 

I never smoked it; I ate it.
It never should have been made illegal, but of course you must know that the politicians were under the influence of money at the time.
Here is the story of just why......
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-fraudulent-criminalization-of-marijuana-in-america/21070

 

All these pro-weed replies are BS. I know everyone who thinks weed should be legalized is a pothead. I'm sure of it.

 

And that constitutes sound reasoning? I don't use it so it should be illegal?

OK, let's say that there was a person who actually gave a (*)(*)(*)(*) about other people and saw a friend suffering from depression, the meds proscribed by doctors cause serious side effects, nightmares, high blood pressure, dizziness etc. And that friend, like an estimated 2 million people in Canada have discovered that pot helps them deal with depression, would not that individual with an ounce of care say OK, make it legal?
Now let's compare pot with alcohol, an entirely legal substance in most corners of the Americas. Alcohol is five or six times more addictive than pot, causes the breakdown of families, lost work and road and industrial accidents so severely murderous we have road side checks to prevent drinking and driving. Alcohol consumption causes heart attacks, liver failure and a host of blood related diseases.

But because you use it, presumably, it should therefore remain legal?

Now, about cigarettes, the single most addictive substance known to man, the direct cause of cancers too numerous to list, cause of heart disease, Chronic lung disease, organ failure, but are legal in most of the Americas, sold openly at drugs stores, restaurants, convenience stores, bowling alleys and any bar.

By what logic, other than you use them too, presumably, are they even legal?

Not only is pot a medicine, but used recreationally is far, far safer than the legal (*)(*)(*)(*), and far more healthy than what big pharma is using to addict the American population