I second that as what you said, jiro123! Some people just don't get it.
Preferably to legalize marijuana with some control esp personal responsibility - still much better off than criminalize it due to some great reasons just like what jiro123 stated.
Don't forget that it indeed helps many farm businesses and using hemp for such products that helps both government tax thus some businesses aka clothing, farming, etc.
Also that it would help save lot of wasted tax money by releasing prisoners who smoked except for those who did illegal deals on the streets without paying taxes like that. It would produce billions of dollars for certain.
Plus to save some cop time to focus safety or such more important stuff... and yes, to arrest those who do or sell any illegal drugs worse than marijuana.
It's undeniable fact that alcohol drinking is much worse off overall comparing with the marijuana use for certain. However, if one uses marijuana too often, it causes lung cancer and else; a negative side.
Yet drunk driving killed so many people and will continue doing more while I haven't heard of one who did marijuana and killed anyone while driving on the street. It should scream aloud by this one sample alone! (hmm)
I used to smoke frequently but not anymore. So I know what I'm talking about simply because I knew what it's like. Liked it over alcohol for sure.
For those who are against marijuana, I could personally understand, but my main point is just much same what jiro123 said. Even in the old days we talked about this and found that how others say which indeed don't make much sense. lol
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Originally Posted by jiro123
Marijuana should be legalized. Like what Jillio said, the war on drugs was lost long time ago. We're already spending billions on it and still not a single positive result yet. We're spending millions unnecessary-incarcerating people charged with small grams of weed.
The biggest reason why marijuana's still illegal and was illegal in the first place is because of pharmaceutical companies. We all know weed is great for medicinal purpose and it's probably the only natural drug with very minimal side effects for people with cancers or pain. of course... that is bad business for pharmaceutical bastards. they want you to keep buying their medications even though it's not even close to being as effective as weed. they advertised and lobbied very heavily at Congress to criminalize it and did a very good job instilling a stigma to people.
Saying weed is bad for your health and kills your brain cells is ludicrous. So do alcohol, aspirin pills, TV, McDonald, etc. There are 1000000000000 things we can get addicted to and die from it. It's about personal responsibility. Funny thing is... smoking kills about 440,000/yr, alcohol kills 85,000/yr, and marijuana kills 0 so far.
we spent over $19 billion in 2003 on useless drug war! end it now! free up prisons! Drug Laws are INDEED socially created. You get harsher penalty for a small bag of weed than a brick-worth of cocaine. Why? because cocaine is the rich xxxxx xxxx drug. Hell President Bush snorted some, too!
oh btw - I don't do drugs nor drink alcohol  but logically, economically, politically... it does not make sense to criminalize marijuana. |