Why I think weed should not be legal.?

Question

Really what is so good about weed? Name me when person who smokes weed, and is famous? I know a lot of people who smoke weed, and really there going no were. Is life really that hard to were you need to expand your mind? I know a lot of people who started smoking weed. Once they started, they became this totally different person. So what is so good about marijuana?


Marijuana does nothing but bring crime.

Answer 1

Famous people who smoke(d) weed:

Most musicians, actors, artists, etc. If you dislike weed that much, burn every CD you own, because most of them were high when they wrote that music.

Also:

George Carlin

Bruce Lee

Conan O'Brian

George W. Bush

Bill Clinton

Several scientists, including:

Carl Sagan

Stephen Jay Gould

Richard Feynman



Furthermore, the Constitution is printed on paper made of it. Without its use for parachutes, ropes, etc. we could not have fought World War 2. It has a great many medical and industrial uses.



And yes, there are a lot of dumb potheads. It's not the weed, it's the person.



If you're actually interested in learning facts about marijuana, see the links below. I am citing sources that are not "pothead" sites, but rather science sites.



So, when you say that marijuana does nothing but bring crime, you are dead wrong. Anything can be abused. That doesn't mean there aren't valid uses.

Answer 2

yeah, that guy who listed all the famous people was right. there are so many people out there in the world, let alone the united states that smoke weed and do just fine. you just don't know it because they keep it a secret. have you ever tried it? maybe you'd find out what all the rage is about. i know a ton of people on the dean's list who smoke weed. i know a ton of people who can spell a lot better than you, too, and they smoke weed. so maybe you should just try it. might do you some good.

Answer 3

It doesn't matter whether it's legal or not. It's here. Plenty of visible and "invisible" (or professional) people smoke weed. They just don't admit it openly because people like you would hang 'em out to dry. So why bother being open about it. But, thankfully, there are also many people who ARE open about it.



You don't expand your mind because "life is really that hard". This one you probably won't grasp in the near future.



The change you may see in people is a change in perspective. Something which tends to liberate people from their dogmas.

Answer 4

okay, your clearly ignorant on the issue, because nothing that you say is true. there are tons of famous people that smoke weed. i've been smoking for 15 years and im a clinical psychologist, and your trying to tell me that if someone smokes weed, they're not going to do anything with their lives?



Also, weed is healthier than smoking cigarettes and drinking alcohol, but those things are perfectly legal, why is that?



Just for the hell of it, heres a small list of famous people who smoke weed, in alphabetical order, no less:

Abbie Hoffman

Abraham Lincoln. On a Hohner box cover but disputed.

Al Gore.

Aldous Huxley

Aleister Crowley

Alexander Dumas

Alice B. Toklas

Allen Ginsberg. Poet.

Alexis Korner. Musician.

Andy Warhol. Artist.

Arthur Conan Doyle. Author, creator 'Sherlock Holmes'.

Aswad. Musicians.

Beatles.

Bill Clinton.

Bill Gates. Not confirmed, just very strongly hinted at in the Playboy interview

Bill Murray Arrested for possession

Bob Denver.

Bob Dylan.

Bob Marley. .

The Bishop of Monmouth.

Brian Eno. Singer, song writer. Signed 'Independent' list.

Boy George.

British Lords & MP's - too many to list .

Buddy Rich.

Cab Calloway. Jazz musician.

Carl Sagan. Author.

Carl Segan . Author.

Carlos Santana. Musician, guitarist.

Carrie Fischer.

Cary Grant.

Cary Mullis. Nobel Laurate, Biology

Charles Beaudelaire

Charles Dickens. Claims but no evdience.

Cheech Marin.

Chris Armstrong. Footballer, tested positive.

Chris Conrad.

Chris Farley.

Chris Rock.

Conan O'Brian.

Count Basie. Jazz legend.

Dave 'Tinki Winky' Thompson - TV personality (UK); the Tellie Tubbie that was sacked.

Dr Francis Crick. Nobel Prize winner.

Dr Lester Grinspoon.

Dr Mark Porter. TV doctor who says cannabis is not more harmful than alcohol.

Dr Anne Biezanek (authoress)

Dr R.D.Laing.

Dr John Marks

Dr W.B. O'Shaugnessy.

Drew Barrymore.

Duke Ellington.

Eddie Ellison. Ex head of Scotland Yard Drug Squad.

Edgar Allen Poe. Author, multi-drug user.

Elvis Presley.

Ernest Hemmingway. Author.

Errol Flynn.

Fela Kuti. Musician. Afro/jazz king.

Felix Dennis. Publisher.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow.

Fran Healey. Musician; Travis.

Francis Ford Coppella.

Francis Rabelais.

Francis Wilkinson. Ex Chief Constable of Gwent Police.

Fredreich Nietzshe.

Ganesh - Hindu God.

Gary Johnson.

Gene Krupa.

George Clinton. Ex President's brother.

George W Bush. Possibly the greatest living hypocrite.

George Gurdjieff.

George Melly.

George Michael. Singer.

George Washington.

Gerard de Nerval.

Gilberto Gil. Brazilian musical icon.

The Greatful Dead.

Hasan I-Sabah.

Heinrich Khunrath.

Helen Petrova Blavatsky.

Henri Michaux.

Herman Hesse.

Hiero the Second.

Howard Marks. Author, cannabis smuggller.

Hua T'o.

Hunter S. Thompson. Smoked weed and snorted coke with George Bush.

Ian Botham. Convicted Cricket legend.

Irvine Welsh.

Jabir Ibn el-Hayyan.

Jack Herer. Author 'The Emporor Wears No Cloths'

Jack Kerouac. Author ' On the Road'.

Jack Nicholson. Film actor.

Jackie Gleason.

Jackson Pollock.

Jane Fonda. Actress.

James Brown. Singer, song writer.

Janis Joplin. Singer, song writer.

Jesse 0Ventura.

Jerry Lee Lewis. Musician, song writer.

Jimmy Dorsey.

Jimmy Hendrix. Rock guitarist, singe, song writer

Jim Morrison. Musician, songwriter; The Doors.

Joan of Arc. Accused of using 'witch herbs' (another name for cannabis).

Joan Rivers.

Joe Strummer. Musician, singer, songer writer; The Clash.

John Belushi.

John Denver.

John F Kennedy.

John Keats. Poet.

John Lennon. Musician, song writer; The Beatles.

John Le Mesurier. Tried it but said it's not for him.

Johnny Cash.

John Peel. DJ, BBC broadcaster.

John Sinclair.

Judge John L. Kane. Chief Judge from the US District Court

Julie Christie. Actress.

Jules Verne.

John Wayne. 'I tried it once but it didn't do anything to me.'

Kelsey Grammar.

Ken Livingston. Mayor of London - supports decriminalisation but does not smoke or support the use of recreational drugs.

Kirk Douglas. Actor.

Kurt Cobain.

Larry Adler. Harmonica player and

friend of George Gershwin. May have written a song about it.

Lenny Bruce. Comedian.

Lewis Carroll. Author 'Alice in Wonderland'.

Linda St Clair

Little Richard. Musician.

Lord Avebury.

Lord Byron. Poet.

Lord Deedes.

Lord Tony Gifford. QC, civil rights lawyer.

Louis Armstrong. 'Oh what a wonderful world'.

Louis Hebert.

Mark Thomas . Comedian.

Marlon Brando. Actor.

Martin Sheen.

Mary Shelly. Author 'Frankinstein'.

Mary Tyler Moore.

Michael Mansfield QC. Lawyer.

Jade Jagger.

JC 100. Fastest rapper in the west.

JT Moore. Legendary white rasta guitarist.

Mike Tyson.

Miles Davis. Jazz/rock drummer.

Mo Mowlan. Genuine honest politician.

Modigliani. Sculptor.

Montgomery Clift. Mentioned in his biography.

Neil Diamond.

Nick Hornby. Author.

Niel Young. Musician.

Norman Mailer. Author.

Oasis. Rock band.

Oliver Stone.

Oscar Wilde. Poet.

Pablo Picasso. Artist.

Pancho Villa. Mexican bandit revolutionary.

Paul Flynn. Uk Member of Parliament.

Paul McCartney. Musician, song writer; The Beatles.

Paul Simon. Musician, song writer.

Pharoahs of Egypt. Traces in body samples.

Phil Donohue.

Phil Tufnell. Former test cricketer, now media celeb.

Peter Fonda. Actor; 'Easy Rider'.

Peter Sellers. Actor, comedian.

Peter Tosh. Musician.

Philip K. Dick. Science fiction author.

Pierre Burton.

Pierre Elliot Trudeau.

Pink Floyd; Syd Barret and Roger Waters.

Prince Charles. Heir to the Throne. Quoted while visiting a hospital; 'I understand cannabis is good for medical use' .

Prince William.

Prince Harry.

Pythagoras.

Queen Arnegunde.

Queen Victoria. Used it for medical purposes.

Ram Dass.

Ray Charles. Musician.

Rev Kenneth Leech.

Richard Branson. 'Virgin'. Entreprenur.

Richard Feynman, Nobel Prize Laureate physicist, founder of quantum electrodynamics.

Richard Prior.

Richard Wilson. Actor; 'One Foot in the Grave'.

Rimbaud. Author.

Robert Burns. Mentioned it in a poem.

Robert 'King' Carter. Grower.

Robert Anton Wilson. Author.

Robert Mitchum. Jailed 90 days for possession of marijuana, 1949.

Roger McGough. 60's liverpool poet.

Rolling Stones. Rock band.

Ronnie Scot. Jazz club owner, musician, busted on stage 1958, at his club in Soho, London.

S Club 7. 'Super clean' pop band, busted in Soho, very embarrassing.

Salvador Dali. Artist.

Samuel Beckett.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Poet.

Shen Nung. One of the fathers of Chinese medicine. 2700 B.C .

Sinead O'Connor. Singer.

Sidi-Hidi.

Sigmun Freud. Shrink.

Sonny Bono.

Super Furry Animals. Welsh band who wrote a song about Howard Marks.

Stephen King.

Sting/Gordon Sumners.

Tariq Ali. Activist Writer.

Tenessee Williams. Author.

Terence McKenna. Author.

Terry Gilliam. Actor, comedian;Monty Python.

The Who. Rock band.

Thelonius Monk.

Thomas Jefferson.

Timothy Leary.

Tom Lehrer.

Top Tories. Senior members of the shadow cabinet.

Tony Elliot. Publisher, 'Time Out.

Tracy Blevins. Artist.

Tuppy Gore.

UB40. Band.

Victor Hugo.

Vincent Van Gogh. Artist.

Walt Disney. Cartoonist.

Walter Benjamin.

Whitney Houstonn. Busted at Hawaii airport but ran away.

William Burroughs. Author, poet, artist.

Will Self. Author. Did smack on Blairs plane.

William Shakespeare. Playwright.

William Straw. UK Home Sec Jack Straw's son. Cautioned for supplying undercover journalists in pub 'shocker'.

Willie Nelson.

Winston Churchill. British Prime Minister, poet, artist & multi drug user.

Woody Harrelson. Actor. Features in a book on growing medical marijuana .

Zoroaster. Persian prophet.



YOU TRYING TO SAY YOU'VE NEVER HEARD OF ANY OF THESE PEOPLE?