Should Marijuana be Legal?

Why should marijuana be illegal to sell?

 

Well growing a plant is time consuming not only the 3months or so that it takes to finally harvest but the man hours put in to maintain its health I feel earns you the right to smoke it. It should be illegal to sell only due to the fact that it would be taxed heavily by the government if regulated and sold. And puts money in the hands of criminals at the moment referring to large scale sales and growth of it, its a very touchy subject though and an interesting poll.

What are your views on it?

 

Kids nowadays will misuse it. Thats the main reason for it.

 

I don't think the amount of effort should determine whether something is legal, or not.

Because x is taxed, therefore x should be illegal to sell. How inapplicable to real life. EVERYTHING is taxed, there's no reason to believe that marijuana will be taxed more 'heavily' then other substances like alcohol and tobacco. The only reason criminals are making so much is probably because it's illegal. Once you legalise something, it becomes much more easily accessible by the public, and they don't need to resort to shady individuals associated with crime syndicates.

It should be legal, or decriminalized, for the simple fact that nobody has the right to tell you what you're not allowed to do with your body.

 

as close as your gonna get is decriminalized haha good nuff

 

It is proven to be far less harmful than cigarrettes and on that note, even alcohol.

Yes it is somewhat harmful as you are inhaling smoke into your lungs, but Alcohol is a legitimate poison of the body. There are no statistics that show any addiction of Marijauna, I smoke all the time but I never crave it. In fact I haven't smoked in nearly a month now, I don't feel like I need to but next time I get the chance I most likely will, because it feels great and I can just kick back for a few hours.

And as far as this goes..

I agree under most circumstances, but when you bring in a drug that is proven to ruin a life or possibly somebody elses, I don't agree. I do agree in this case and in many based on the fact that Marijauna has never DIRECTLY killed anybody, much less hurt anybody. Now when you want to talk about more harmful substances such as Methamphetamine, lives can be lost in such cases. But I know that's not what you meant ^.^

 

You can't agree in some circumstances and not others for the same argument, it's special pleading to say 'but this one is exempt'.

It shouldn't matter whether the drug harms someone or not, nobody has the right to force others into doing what they think is best for their life. I can't force you to drink 8 cups of water a day no matter how good it is, much like you can't force me to not snort cocaine no matter how bad it is.

 

It does matter when you can harm someone else other than yourself by being on drugs, no one else should pay for your stupid mistakes. It doesn't matter if tobacco or alcohol are worse than marijuana, that is no reason to legalize marijuana nor will legalizing it make the world better in anyway.

 

Let's just take marijuana on it's own. Your stance is that because SOME people that smoke marijuana harm others, therefore ALL people should not be able to possess marijuana. It seems a cliche unfair stance, because one person in the group did this, therefore everyone suffers.

2 questions:

Do you think that the ends justify the means?
Do you think that a person should be free to consume substances at their own volition?
I'll rephrase the last question: Do you think that a person should have the right to FORCE someone to NOT do something?

I'm sure you support the criminalisation of both alcohol, and tobacco, do you not?

Your whole argument on marijuana rests on 1 cardinal premise: Marijuana causes people to harm others.

I'll leave that up to you to support, as it's your assertion. If you can't adequately support that assertion, your argument for keeping/making marijuana illegal falls apart.

 

I just believe you should smoke it if you really need it, as an alternative pain killer, but not for recreation. Although most gangs or organized crime deals weed and making it legal could lower crime a bit. There good points on either side.

 

If they legalized pot everyone would smoke it and you wouldn't be cool anymore.

 

"It seems a cliche unfair stance, because one person in the group did this, therefore everyone suffers."

How does one suffer from NOT smoking marijuana, also I'm sure it was more than "one person".



"I'm sure you support the criminalisation of both alcohol, and tobacco, do you not?

Your whole argument on marijuana rests on 1 cardinal premise: Marijuana causes people to harm others. "

My point is that marijuana shouldn't be legalized just because alcohol and tobacco are, also I don't see any actual "real" reason to legalize marijuana.

 

Is that perhaps because you are a part of a crime syndicate that profits off of the illegal sales of marijuana?

Marijuana should be legal, because it never should have been illegal in the first place. It was illegalized in the 1930's on the backs of racism (who would have guessed), political bribery and misinformation because the paper industry couldn't keep up with the hemp products which were cheaper and better, so they decided to print articles about how marijuana caused Mexican immigrants to kill white women and rape their corpses and such.

If the fact that it should have never been illegal in the first place isn't a good enough answer how about to undermine organized criminals? They profit off of the sales because people still use it regardless of its legality. Its the exact same thing as prohibition, people go to gangs to get the marijuana which in turn funds their arms that they use to kill deadbeats, cops and anyone else. Prohibition was shown to be a gigantic waste of money, and the war on drugs is ALSO shown to be a gigantic waste of money.

If those two are also not good enough for you, if it gets legalized and distributed like alcohol and tobacco it will be taxed which will generate gigantic amounts of profit for the government and cause many agricultural jobs to be formed. Unlike alcohol large consumptions of marijuana doesn't lead to obnoxious behavior (including violence) in most of the population but quite the opposite actually.

 

That wasn't meant to be taken that literally as 'one person'. It's not a matter of someone suffering from NOT consuming marijuana, it's about the principal of one suffering from having their rights taken away from them.

Answer the first question, and, support your assertion that marijuana causes people to harm others.

I'm not making a point that because alcohol and tobacco are legal therefore marijuana should be.

You say that there's no "real" reason to legalize marijuana. Here's a reason: Liberty. People die for liberty, and you see that as an insufficient reason. By making marijuana illegal, you are revoking peoples liberty to consume the substance. Also, you're arbitrarily wanting to make it, or to be more precise, make it remain illegal as you have nothing to support your argument that 'it can harm someone else'. Marijuana does not cause people to become more violent. All your saying is that marijuana is illegal because it should be illegal, a tautology.

 

to each is own, let everyone use it if they want, enforce it like alcohol, problem solved.

 

They should just keep it the way it is. I've done it in the past and I wouldn't want, if i ever have children,them to do it. Legalising would make it even easier obtainable to the younger ones.

 

No.

So you're basically saying that cocaine, crystal meth and every other illegal drugs should be legalized.

 

Way to dodge every other single point, so I must concluded that you have dismissed your point.

 

I wanted to add to why marijuana is illegal in the first place for this thread. This is my statement from the other marijuana thread (popular topic huh?) about why, since 1961, marijuana remains illegal:

The purchase or cultivation of narcotic drugs is required to be classified as a criminal offense in all United Nations countries. This was a convention put forth by, yes, the United Nations. Seeing as the United States could not withdraw from a society it played such a key role in establishing and maintaining, the United States had to classify the possession of marijuana as illegal. All other countries in the United Nations must follow the same convention or face pressure from the U.N.. While the pressure may not be enough to really cripple a country in any direct way, said country would lose support and have the possibility of ejection.

Your reason (paper industry) is correct but is one of several reasons (another being pressure from the petrochemical companies which produce the plastic products you and I use everyday).

My opinion, as stated in the other thread as well, is that marijuana could be legalized but regulated. If it is possible to limit a consumer's purchase amount per month then that'd be ideal (I know there would be ways to obtain more but I think that, like tobacco, marijuana could only be sold from authorized dealers. I know there's no way of stopping people from buying it for others but this was just a spitball idea.) I believe providing a near infinite supply of a narcotic would cause some social problems followed by a plethora of "I told you so's."

Though, if it stays illegal I do not mind, if it becomes legal then, as stated, it should be regulated.

 

legalize, its good for errbody