Why legalize marijuana?

Question

It seems to be a popular opinion these days that marijuana should be legalized?

What is this country coming to? Are we going insane?

Marijuana is illegal for a reason. It's a mind altering drug and those who use it are greatly risking their health. Why is everyone obsessed with legalizing it these days? It would just create more addicts and result in even more marijuana related deaths.

Answer 1

At first I didn't support the legalization of marijuana, mainly because I don't / never will smoke anything because it's gross whether it's harmful for you or not. I agree that marijuana is mind altering- but so is alcohol, hallucinogens, prescription drugs, and inhalants. Just because they're mind altering doesn't mean that they should be banned- they are only fatal if taken in ridiculously large amounts. If marijuana was legalized, the government would be able tax it like crazy. Regulating it would be so much easier. We wouldn't be spending millions on investigations and busts every year. Honestly, I don't think people caught smoking a blunt in a park deserve to be thrown in jail with real criminals.

Now, other drugs, like cocaine and heroine, are manufactured drugs that have been proven to kill at even small amounts. These drugs do much more damage and relate to much more serious illegal activity than marijuana does.

Answer 2

Charles and Alisha could not have answered this question better. Marijuana is illegal simply because back in the day the rich cotton farmers wanted their crop to be worth more, and too many poor people were growing marijuana/hemp. Marijuana and hemp make an amazing long-lasting material. In fact, Christopher Columbus used hemp ropes on his ships, as do many sailors in today's world. Marijuana has amazing medicinal properties, and many people who now self-medicate with alcohol will find that the healing powers of marijuana are far more useful than the destruction that comes with alcohol.



I have been a long time user of marijuana, and I know many people who also smoke it for medicinal, and recreational purposes. I am a college graduate, and I am working towards my master's degree in social work. I consume marijuana, I have seen the many benefits of marijuana, with the only real set back being that it is illegal. I am an arthritis sufferer, and have been my whole life (I was diagnosed with juvenile arthritis as a youth), and marijuana helps me get through my day. It keeps my head straight and not focused on the pain that I experience. I use no other drugs, except Naproxen which keeps the swelling down.



I have seen families torn apart because the weed is illegal, and for no other reason except that it is illegal. Doors have been kicked in, mothers have been thrown in prison for years, fathers have been ripped out of family homes, children are being sent to foster care (where too many are abused), and all because some rich guy didn't like that marijuana/hemp was a cash crop that was taking money from his cotton farm.

Answer 3

Pot doesn't hurt it's users. Too may people are in jail for casual use. Too much money is spent trying to control the illegal trade. There has NEVER been a marijuana related death. Marijuana is NOT addictive. Big macs, Pepsi, and Coke Cola have been proven to be more addictive and harmful



Try for some facts and forget the hysterical BS.

Answer 4

The reason it is illegal in the first place is due to the counter culture revolution that took place in the late 1960's. The government classified drugs on a score card and then passed it as a blanked law instead of passing laws for each individual drug that, it was felt, was contributing to the 'moral decay of America's youth'.

Prior to this 'civil disobedience', it's legality was not a question.

As with any drug, benefits of marijuana (clinical studies reducing the chances of prostate cancer, assisting with chronic pain, appetite enhancement for chemo patients) and risks ( lung cancer, possible addiction, thresh-hold usage) must be weighed, and ultimately, the decision to use it or not (legal or illegal) is up to the individual.

There seems to be a majority, when voted upon, who feel that: 1) the punishment for personal use is excessive to the crime itself, and, 2) The addictive qualities are marginal as compared to other drugs, legal (alcohol) or illegal (Opiates, Coca, etc.). Then there is the monetary gains issue (taxes, licensing, drug court, etc.).

According to national political polls the largest voting age groups are 40 and older. It makes one wonder.

Answer 5

Look it up u cant die from over dosing on weed you would have to smoke 150 or so pound in just 10 mins just to get any dagerous effect from it. What you can die from is what you do when your high/drunk like crash a car. Alcohol is far worse. So why isnt it illegal as well? They compromised with it and made it illegal to walk in the streets or drive drunk. We always had alcohol so it never got a chance to be illiegal. When weed came about everyone thinks its different and "Bad" because its new so they make it illiegal.... Thc is a natural anestetic and only slows your nerves down to a slower rate that is why u dont feel as much paint and think more calmly....

People think that buy making weed legal that it it takes the "excitement" out of it. Look up what happening in Amsterdam reguarding weed and the amounts of teens smoking it.

Answer 6

It's been proven that Marijuana is actually not an addictive drug! It is actually better for you than Cigarettes! The reason to legalize it would be so that the US government could make a ton of money off of it! People are going to smoke marijuana no matter what you do or say! As for marijuana related deaths I'm sure there aren't as many as you think!

Answer 7

Who has died from a marijuana overdose or marijuana poisoning? No one. I challenge you to find anyone that has ever died from weed. You can't.



Not only could our government sell it and tax it like cigarettes and make a profit, but adults could have access to MEDICINE. Yes, its medicine. My dad uses it to help with the pain of being a cancer patient and thats due to advice he got from a doctor. You're going to tell me you know more than a doctor?



Also, I've smoked since a young age and never turned to harder, addictive drugs. I've gone years in between without smoking because marijuana isn't addictive.



People like you are why this country can't move forward. You're uneducated and ignorant, and your opinions are based on nothing.



edit: Wasn't hostile, didn't mean to hurt your little feelings, but either you were lying or you're uneducated and I was simply correcting you. Weed isn't dangerous, ignorance is.

Answer 8

Same as drinking...mind altering. Legalize it you can tax the hell out of it, and all the "guys in jail for pot would be out of the system taking up time and money. By the way I've never tried it.

Answer 9

i'm ill and uninterested in the human beings who say, "What message does this deliver to our toddlers?" I say to you.......... What message does alcohol which kills thousands of folk deliver? What message does nicotine from tobacco deliver to youngsters? close up with this our toddlers bull ****. That line is often used whilst somebody needs to restrict some element from accountable adults. Marijuana remedies cancer , makes human beings non violent, and is medicinal for a bunch of different illnesses. it quite is the real message . although, youngsters shouldn't smoke marijuana anymore than they drink booze. Wait until they attain grownup age.

Answer 10

in 2009; there were 16000 deaths related to smoking and alcohol. guess how many there were related to weed? 1, one dumbass that tried to hackysack a tarantula. also, it helps cancer,not cuases it. it would lower the national debt by ending:what we pay to keep pot dealers in prison, the war on drugs, and by raising revenue through taxation. its cheaper to legalize it than to keep it illegal. also, you realize that 2/3 of americanadults have used weed before? so trying to stop them isn't working. its being used by everyone so it wouldnt change anything if it were legal anyway.

Answer 11

because people dying and going through rough stages of cancer are often given marijuana by doctors to help the pain. i say free the weed if they want to. i mean who cares? if you're not using it then it shouldn't be anyone's business. there is a lot of stuff worse than marijuana that people take

Answer 12

I disagree on legalizing marijuana,because it makes you crazy and your not a normal person when you smoke it.It also burn your lungs.It shouldnt be legalize.Im thinking that only potheads wants to legalize marijuana.

Answer 13

Because if it was legal, it could be regulated, taxed, it wouldn't have impurities in it, and it's certainly no more mind-altering than alcohol.

Answer 14

Legalize pot, regulate it to the MAX.

Answer 15

People are such posers saying legalize pot man like a bunch of hippies

Answer 16

Because people will always defend something they love, and will make it seem better then it actually is.