Of course it should be legalized, along with other types of drugs. The intelligent approach has already been implemented in Portugal, providing help for those who are addicted to drugs rather than prison. Why can't the United States just follow that way? Probably, because it would mean lost jobs in the "criminal justice" and law sectors.
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you know it kills cancer cells right? yeah, im not joking. google that ass.Comment -
You legalize it tomorrow and there's a lot more to do. How would the drug then be classified? Like tobacco? Then can you smoke weed while you drive like tobacco? How is it going to be taxed? How are business licenses going to be distributed to encourage commerce?Originally posted by DwightShrute
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its a controversial subject. i did an extensive research on this a few years back and honestly, there are more advantages to legalizing it. the government can control the market more that way as wellComment -
Classified same as tobacco or alcohol.Originally posted by 8ArIvd5
Can't drive under influence. (random testing already happens in Australia at very least)
Same as everything else is taxed.
Similar to how tobacco or alcohol sales licenses are now.
It's not even slightly complicated..Comment -
God forbide pot is legalized. How many law enforcement guys would be out of job? How manyd quit alcohol and tobacco?Comment -
marajuana is much safer than alcohol less addicting, but it does have a different effect on the brain and it is debateable that long term use is much worse on you than alcohol.
fact is that long term daily use and you will be retarded. very slow and withdrawn.
i say legalize so it will elimanate the criminal elimate.Comment -
decriminalize pot but only legalize the new genetically modified THC they've got that helps pain and nausea but doesn't get you high.
I am an avid smoker and even I don't want that shit around all the time in public and kids driving around high.
Have you ever been to Amsterdam? fuckers are so high its all chaos. people are passing out from weed and getting dragged out onto the street lol. At the same time people shouldn't be getting huge fines and jail time for it. Just take their weed and move on to bigger shit coppers.Comment -
Big tobacco bought a ton of land in NorCal when they tried passing legalization. The free market that produces low prices for medicinal out there would be instasmashed by megacorps.Comment -
If Mary jane becomes legalized big tobacco and alcohol will have their hand in it...Comment -
Yup, Phillip Morris already has a patent on "Marley" brand marijuana cigarettes. They're just waiting for it.Originally posted by GettingScrillaComment -
View Poll Results: should marijuana be legalized throughout the united states yes
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looks like gamblers love to get highComment -
Vote in my thread too obamaComment -
Hell yes. What is our goverment thinking......BIG BUCKS to be made.............
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They are already making the BIG BUCKS on tobacco, This product is in competition with marijuana so the gov has little tax revenue motive to legalize weed, unless everyone stopped smoking cigs and wanted to start smoking marijuana. Plus tobacco has been a large contributor to the US since the founding of the nation. The tobacco guys are strongly against legalization since people might stop smoking cigs if they could smoke marijuana.Originally posted by swaindexterHell yes. What is our goverment thinking......BIG BUCKS to be made.............Comment -
this is like going into a candy store and asking a fat kid if he thinks candy should be given to kids free.
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The government definitely has motive to tax weed, people smoke both regularly. Its Phillip Morris paying the BIG BUCKS to shut down any kind of legislation for marijuana. As someone else already said, if it ever became a federal law it would be because Phillip Morris is going to be the sole manufacturer of Marijauna cigs.Comment -
There should be nothing wrong to see Marijuana growing wild on the side of the freeway.
you should be able to walk into your local 711, grab a paper, a Slurpee and a bag of weed.
you should be able to go to the Home Depot and while getting some bark mulch, pick up a couple Marijuana starter plants.
You should be able to walk down to the local grocery store and while you are grabbing some eggs and milk, you also pick out a pack of Marijuana seeds to your liking.Comment -
They do, but if weed were legalized there would be enough people growing it that it would be hard to tax the product directly. The IRS would be running around with their heads cut off trying to "audit" individual weed dealers. Income tax would be their last/only net, and how many people would report this income anyway?Originally posted by brooks85Comment -
icwudtOriginally posted by 36mafiaWalter forgot... when you're desperate's when you got no choice.Comment -
I am pro pot. I smoke non stop all day. I live in Canada though, so I don't worry too much. Still should be legal though.Comment -
yes. laws do not inhibit use. therefore, the laws are making otherwise honest, respectable
citizens criminals. there are so many harmful foods, medicines, and other substances legal anyway.
let adults choose how to spend their money and do what they wish with their bodies.Comment -
Originally posted by NrmlCurvSurfr
I should have been more clear on the level of legalization I meant. Your 100% right, if it were fully legal to grow and sell your own that changes what Im talking about. What I mean is it just being legal for anyone to smoke therefore Phillip Morris would be the sole manufacturer of the product, not the people. That is the only way it would ever become a federal law.Comment -
Seeing how alcohol and tobacco are treated differently, which is it more similar to? And it has medicinal value so it's different than both. And there are different sides in the political structure so it would get messy fast. I don't think it is a drug that should be illegal but I don't think it's going to move the US forward from where it is now. Foreign policy is much more important.Originally posted by OptionalComment -
The question shouldn't be should we make it legal, it should be how in the **** did it ever become illegal in the first place. That's what blows my mind is how some things like pot and betting on sports were ever made illegal to begin with.Comment -
it also kills your brain cells .Originally posted by wquineComment -
Show me one iota of scientific proof that supports your statement.Originally posted by acekingComment -
Yes it should be Legal. The old style weed was good stuff
Now you have this Skunk crap which is causing all the problems.
If the old stuff was legal then all this other shit would go away.
Also you would know what you were buying. Who the hell knows for sure what else is cut in when you buy from a dealer
With all the Legal pills crap that 'Big Pharma' peddles , legal weed would be good. But of course we know this will never happen because weed is 'so evil' according to our beloved leaders
I know this thread is about USA but UK are just as paranoid about 'evil' weed as well !!Comment -
Smoke weed everyday!!!!!Comment -
Absolutely should be legalized
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Only a matter of time, makes no sense that people are fined and imprisoned over a ******* harmless plant, free up those jail cells for real criminals.Comment -
If it was legal everywhere, morons who don't know their tolerance wouldn't flock there to smoke.Originally posted by kiefynugs
No it doesn't. The "fuzzy" feeling is 100% temporary. You'd be thinking of alcohol. Close though.Originally posted by acekingWalter forgot... when you're desperate's when you got no choice.Comment -
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what did i do there?Comment
