Should Marijuana be Legal?

I used to smoke week a ton, but on new years I decided I didn't like it at all anymore and havnt smoked since then. Even though I don't smoke weed anymore and nor do I like it, I do believe that it should be legal. It can help people in many different ways and the negative side effects are significantly less then most other (legal) drugs people consume. Just because it does nothing positive for me doesn't mean that nobody should have it.

 

Drugs are drugs so should stay illegal

 

Alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine are drugs and they are legal. Your argument has no substance.

 

I agree it should be for medical reasons and not sure yet about legal to all.

Isn't marijuana super easy to grow and hard to regulate? This would cause many kids to start taking it.

Kids can't just make cigarettes or alcohol but could easily have weed.

 

It should remain illegal. It might not be the worst thing in the world, but it's a gateway drug. No doubt about that.

 

I think cannabis and MDMA should be legal.

I don't even smoke weed any more and use MDMA once or twice a month, I think they should at least be legal for medical purposes.

I support Professor Nutt.

 

Agreed, MDMA has been shown to be effective in treating PTSD and should definitely be looked into.
Btw nice avatar

 

I'm not sure if those studies actually exist, I believe they're all theoretical. If you've got the time I'd suggest watching the Channel 4: Drugs Live documentary. It's the real deal, people taking MDMA under strict lab conditions, backed by the channel 4 with a host of varying participants (including an Ordained priest and an ex-soldier). It's absolutely awesome, a suggested watch for sure.

Thanks, you too .

 

It definitely should be legal. I don't see it being a gateway drug because people who go onto other drugs just might happen to start with weed. Makes perfect sense to me.

 

http://www.freedomisgreen.com/new-human-research-on-cbd-endocannabinoids-and-depression/

Its another study on the effects of CBD on the human body should also shed some light to the ignorant. So tired of everyone acting like meth and pot are one in the same.
Oh wait and before the Schitzo police roll into the conversation.
http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/...phrenia-with-few-side-effects-clinical-trial/

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...lps-manage-side-effects-researchers-find.html

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/09/20/nbc-news-reports-that-cannabidiol-cbd-turns-off-th/

Just a little bit of light reading.

 

It's a possible argument for legalisation of the medical uses of cannabis, but not full legalisation. We need extensive studies, but finding the money is impossible .

 

I don't smoke, and I think it should be legal...

 

The Gateway theory is absolute bullshit. There is nothing in the substance that makes you want to move on to the other drugs. I've been smoking weed for over 2 and a half years (I'm 17 now) and I've never even been drunk. On top of that, I've only ever tried tobacco once... on accident... and I vowed to never do it again. I've done shrooms once, but since one of the side effects of my medication is the prevention of hallucinations, nothing happened and I have no plans to use any other hallucinogens. I've been prescribed vicodin and other narcotics after surgeries, and I've chosen to NOT take them because of how they make me feel. I would always smoke/vaporize some weed instead and that always did the trick. I've been offered coke, meth (I lived with a meth addict for ~2-3 months), LSD (many times), LSA, Ecstasy, heroin (rival school had 6 overdoses in the last year), and many others. I've turned down every single one of these offers without any kind of hesitation or regret.

YOU make your own decisions, not the drug. If you have willpower and are dedicated, if you tell yourself you'll never try X drug, and you fail, then you've failed yourself.

Also, if the government set up a regulation system where you could only buy from certified, licensed dispensaries that have government inspections/evaluations, and require a specific age w/ID to purchase any herb or seeds (for growing, obv). Sure it's not perfect, but it's exactly the kind of system we already see with Alcohol and tobacco. The Gateway theory is only plausible because the dealers decide who is old enough to sell to, and what kind of drugs to sell to these kids. It's easier to purchase illegal drugs than it is to purchase legal drugs. With legalization & regulation, to say pot is a Gateway drug is to say Alcohol & Tobacco are Gateway drugs. And even if they are, they are still both legal to buy in the US after X years old.

 

If one of the 3 states on
Novemver 6th votes yes for pot. The federal government will go insane and raid the fuck out of any pot store. Marijuana prohibition is completely retarded and made no sense in 1937 and still makes no sense. 75 years and people still can't open there eyes and see the light.

Pot makes you lazy... you should go to jail for 20 years.
Pot makes you stupid...you should go to jail for 20 years.
Pot makes you think. Pot makes you read. Pot makes you open you're eyes. pot enlightens...We can't have that so i think you should spend 20 years in jail.

Just based on the social effects it should be legalized alone. No person has come home from a night of getting high as shit has EVER beat there wife and kids. No stoner will go and rob a liquor store for cash to buy a gram of weed. No stoner will sell his house and lose his family over marijuana. NO ONE HAS DIED DIRECTLY FROM MARIJUANA!!!!!!!!! this is hypocrisy at its finest.

The reason it's a gateway drug is because its illegal. Its mixed up with other drugs like LSD,shrooms,meth,coke,PCP,speed,MDMA(ecstasy). You're dealer might be selling you weed for a few months but then offer you something "stronger" IE the gateway effect. If you got rid of the dealer and regulated it through a licensed establishment they would not offer you any other drugs obviously so you would not be exposed to other drugs. You should what "The union" its a very very good pot documentary. Very informative.

How to distill hand sanitzer into a drinkable form of alcohol.

You can buy tobacco seeds and even cigarettes online. With almost no risk.

Plus actually growing quality marijuana is more difficult then it may seem. It's not just planting a seed in dirt and watering it everyday. To grow "GOOD" marijuana its much harder.

 

There is a lot of attraction in a substance simply because it is illegal, I think the whole curiosity thing will cease if the stigma is gone.

 

Well to begin with, it is legal to smoke weed in most states with a medical referral.

As for it staying legal is a good idea. People still smoke it anyways so not really seeing a difference. As for it being legal, just the outcome would not be good for most people. Can see a lot of riots as well.

 

Why would there be riots?

 

It's a gateway drug because you buy it off dealers and dealers want as much money as possible out of selling drugs so they sell other drugs than just weed, I've done most drugs and I will agree that there are negative side effects to smoking weed, lung cancer being just one (anyone who says you don't get lung cancer from weed is either miss-informed or talking about brownies or vaporisation). Ultimately people can very easily get ahold of weed now whilst it's illegal and all it's doing is costing police forces around the world money because their told to drive around and when they spot some teenagers sat on a bench passing around a spliff they have to go over take down names conduct searches and in some cases make arrests for people who otherwise have done nothing wrong. Legalising it COULD save police time that could otherwise be spent looking for robbers or murderers. As a side note criminal organisations will use drug money to pay for all kinds of other much worse illicit activities, legalisation would remove the money from drug gangs and give it to legitimate buisiness owners and provide huge income to government through tax

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Originally Posted by only75def
I agree it should be for medical reasons and not sure yet about legal to all.
Isn't marijuana super easy to grow and hard to regulate? This would cause many kids to start taking it.
Kids can't just make cigarettes or alcohol but could easily have weed.

Kids can make cigarettes you can buy tobacco seeds and grow them to grow tobacco and then buy filters and rizlas and roll some cigarettes or you can buy rolling machines. To make alcohol all you need is sugar and yeast and yeast is globally used for baking and easily available for purchase. I know neither of these two methods are for top quality products but they work.

As a second point if kids want to buy alcohol or cigarettes/tobacco they get a fake ID or ask someone else to buy it for them it isn't very hard.

Finally assuming it was made legal and kids tried buying it I doubt you'd see a huge increase cause they'd buy it roll some shitty joint take 2 tokes and spend half an hour coughing their lungs out, the taste (which I love) Puts alot of people off to give a real life demonstration of this how many teenage smokers do you see smoking cigars/cigarillos

 

basically

also i dunno if anyone has mentioned this already
but if you think about the effects of weed vs. alcohol
weed vs. alcohol = chilling out vs. going crazy/some type of violence

so weed should be legal
your arguments are basically everything i would say
plus that tax thing could really help them out too

 

They're illegal for a reason if it as good as you guys are trying to portray it as it should be legal, but it's not.