POLL - Legalization of marijuana? Opinions?

" @eroticfishcake said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @eroticfishcake said:

" Legalise but have control over it. "

Impossible "

Although it's legal in Amsterdam they still have control over it to some extent. Sure, people are breaking them but the police do a good job of enforcing it. It's either that or just legalise it for medical use. "

Marijuana is the number one illegal drug used in the US. If it was legalized, millions of people everywhere would begin growing it in their backyard. It would be impossible to control. "

" @eroticfishcake said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @eroticfishcake said:

" Legalise but have control over it. "

Impossible "

Although it's legal in Amsterdam they still have control over it to some extent. Sure, people are breaking them but the police do a good job of enforcing it. It's either that or just legalise it for medical use. "

Marijuana is the number one illegal drug used in the US. If it was legalized, millions of people everywhere would begin growing it in their backyard. It would be impossible to control. "

" @natetodamax:  By that logic Alcohol, Tobacco, Solvents, Aerosols and hell, ANYTHING that causes air pollution should also be illegal. "

" @Elazul said:

" @natetodamax:  By that logic Alcohol, Tobacco, Solvents, Aerosols and hell, ANYTHING that causes air pollution should also be illegal. "

Alcohol and tobacco aren't illegal because the companies make an obscene amount of cash "

You can drink beer and smoke tobacco so you should be able to smoke home-grown weed, too. It should be illegal to sell it, though.

I think it should just be decriminalized

" @BrockSampson said:

" Absolutely legal. It is not right to live in a "free country" where the government can tell you what you can or can not put into your own body. "

Even if the substances you put in your body are dangerous and can affect others? (I don't consider marijuana dangerous, just a generalization)  Personally, I think it should be legal. I don't, and still wouldn't do marijuana if it was legal, but let everyone else have their fun. "

Legalize it. 
 
It's been proven to have many outstanding medical uses and is a lot less harmful than alcohol. Not to mention we are the only country on earth that does not utilize hemp resources. It would be a billion dollar industry, so I don't see why we have to keep putting on this charade like it's the devil. Tax it, regulate it, etc. the least it will do is stimulate the economy.  Also...
 
No one ever died from weed...

" @Dr_Feelgood38 said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @SpikeSpiegel said:

" @natetodamax said:

" @SpikeSpiegel said:

" Considering everything else that is legal... it should be. I personally wouldn't smoke it but if someone wants to smoke some safely than I honestly don't care. "

I wasn't aware you could smoke marijuana safely. "

When I say safely, I mean, not driving afterwords or anything that could cause harm to others. "

So destroying brain cells is smoking safely? "

I'm not sure you understand what you're talking about. I think you might have marijuana mixed up with alcohol. "

That's entirely possible. "

On the other hand, if its legal, more teens will rebel by turning to a substance that actually dangerous. So maybe it should stay illegal so highschool rebels can feel hardcore without actually putting themselves in danger.

I personally don't smoke but hey why not. Just don't smoke and operate machinery, like farm equipment.

Illegal, I know people who's lives have messed up due to Marijuana, and if people can get it at easy as cigarettes... then I can imagine everything stumbling downhill very quickly 

It should be legal, like cigarettes are, 18+ / 21+ but legal

Legalise it for sure.
People do way worse stuff when drunk then they do high.

Legalize it. Alcohol is worse anyway.

" Illegal, I know people who's lives have messed up due to Marijuana, and if people can get it at easy as cigarettes... then I can imagine everything stumbling downhill very quickly  "

" @MrAwsum said:

" Illegal, I know people who's lives have messed up due to Marijuana, and if people can get it at easy as cigarettes... then I can imagine everything stumbling downhill very quickly  "

Many peoples lives have been messed up and ended due to Alcohol, and yet that is legal. It is the users choice to let a drug run there lives, you shouldn't punish all the rest by the people that can't use it responsibly. 
 
Nothing chemically inside of Marijuana makes you DO anything. It is all your choices. "

"@Dr_Feelgood38: That was in the '30s and 40s "

 @Phished0ne: I'm pretty sure it wouldn't get rid of the black market, Adults would buy it, and then sell it on to kids for alot more, which wouldn't stop anything.

legal. especially here in CA. we are in a shit hole right now and the legalization of marijuana would help tremendously

Legal

Legal.

Legal, but regulated by government.

" Legal, but regulated by government. "

Less government, more happiness

" @Phished0ne: You CAN NOT be addicted to Marijuana, it is NOT a habit forming drug. "

 @AlexB:  And if it's not addictive, why smoke it when you know it's harmful?

FACT: Cannibus (mostly hemp which cant get you high) was used to make more products in the 1800's than any other crop but was eventually banned in attempts to completely outlaw cannibus.
 
FACT: There has never been a reported Marijuana related death 
 
FACT: Studies done in the mid 1900's to prove that Marijuana killed brain cells were preformed on monkeys by forcing them to breath in 32 ounces of Marijuana over 5-10 minutes, therefore causing suffocation (which kills brain cells) the monkeys leading to the "Proof" that Marijuana killed brain cells. 
 
FACT: There aren't any substances in Marijuana that have been proven to be addictive.  
 
FACT: Marijuana arrests cost the tax payers 12 billion dollars anually.
 
FACT: There are more arrests anually for Marijuana abuse than that of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, and manufactured drugs combined. 
 
Just a little look into the rediculousness of marijuana being illegall.

"  @AlexB:  And if it's not addictive, why smoke it when you know it's harmful? "

"

FACT: Cannibus (mostly hemp which cant get you high) was used to make more products in the 1800's than any other crop but was eventually banned in attempts to completely outlaw cannibus.
 
FACT: There has never been a reported Marijuana related death 
 
FACT: Studies done in the mid 1900's to prove that Marijuana killed brain cells were preformed on monkeys by forcing them to breath in 32 ounces of Marijuana over 5-10 minutes, therefore causing suffocation (which kills brain cells) the monkeys leading to the "Proof" that Marijuana killed brain cells. 
 
FACT: There aren't any substances in Marijuana that have been proven to be addictive.  
 
FACT: Marijuana arrests cost the tax payers 12 billion dollars anually.
 
FACT: There are more arrests anually for Marijuana abuse than that of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamines, and manufactured drugs combined. 
 
Just a little look into the rediculousness of marijuana being illegall.

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I'm not a fan of any drugs, alcohol, or tobacco products. If tobacco wasn't such a cash crop in our country, I would say to make that illegal too, but it would crush the economy.
 
I just don't see the appeal of any of them.

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