Should Marijuana be legalized?

Steven · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 4:59 pm

Should Marijuana be legalized? I personally think it should, and it'd help out the economy right now too, because if they add a pot tax, it'll get them some money, and they'll have to stop spending millions on tracking down pot dealers.

How about you?

Adbot · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 4:59 pm

Warren · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 5:33 pm

I don't think we're ready. But it should be decriminalized (and I think most major parties in Canada are for decriminalization/legalization except the Conservatives XD).

For example on not being ready, MADD would probably go crazy over it, since there is no roadside test that can measure it directly? And at what point would you be considered impaired by a limit?
Although, there are a lot of signs of impairment that would hold up as evidence. I don't know but I don't think you'd be charged anyways if you're pulled over (without causing a collision) and found to have over .08 but no other signs of impairment for alcohol.
& What if can be measured directly but people are impaired with a mixture of it and alcohol? They could be under both limits but really impaired (that's ignoring how much it would show though XD).

Probably will sprout groups like Parents Against Breaking in and Raiding Fridge Over Getting Violent and Injurying People.

imac · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 6:08 pm

Alcohol is worse than Weed. Weed mellows you out kind of and it makes you tired. Beer makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. On top of that it causes drunk driving,Girls getting taken advantage of,and raging fights.

In conclusion Weed makes you laugh eat and sleep. What is so bad about that, on top of that the Government can even make money off it. So yes it should be legalized.

Sunset Fish · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 8:33 pm

Nope, I hate druggies and potheads. Really nothing else to add. Hopefully it never will.

Owen1892 · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:01 pm

imac wrote:

Alcohol is worse than Weed. Weed mellows you out kind of and it makes you tired. Beer makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. On top of that it causes drunk driving,Girls getting taken advantage of,and raging fights.

In conclusion Weed makes you laugh eat and sleep. What is so bad about that, on top of that the Government can even make money off it. So yes it should be legalized.

Wow that was a good point... However, I don't want them to be legalized or else people all over the streets will have them and making them a popular product.

Jason · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:05 pm

I kinda think it should. It seems like it would be good but I am not 100% trusting of it. Maybe legalize it for a month and see the results.

Adbot · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:05 pm

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:13 pm

Do you not get Health classes in schools outside of New Zealand? As if tobacco isn't bad enough.

Jason · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:16 pm

Chief Snake wrote:

Do you not get Health classes in schools outside of New Zealand? As if tobacco isn't bad enough.

Yea we do, but think about this. Are more people gonna do pot because its legal. In my opinion no. People do drugs because they think its cool, and people who dont think its bad. So a lot more people aren't gonna do it cause its easier to get.

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:26 pm

It makes sense in a way, but even if that were to prove effective it would completely defeat the purpose of legalisation. You'd be turning the entire concept of right and wrong on its head. Whether it works or not becomes irrelevant.

However in any case, alcohol is legal; kids my age and younger still go out and get smashed off their faces every weekend. There'd obviously be an age requirement to legally purchase marijuana (well, I don't know how exactly it's expected to work) but that'd only make it more accessible and just as tempting to troubled teens.

Steven · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 9:57 pm

Cheify, I don't know if you know this or not, but, marijuana has less addictive chemicals in it than tobacco. There's hardly any addictive stuff in it, and it's not the worse drug out there. It's actually the best.

Hospitals grow marijuana for patients who have back problems and stuff.

rs josec78 · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 10:39 pm

isn't pot a gateway drug? can't also kill you (as in lung cancer)?

try pot, enjoy it, go try something more intense, get addicted, BOOM health problems maybe death no?

try pot, enjoy it, keep doing it, BOOM lung cancer, people die?

Chief Snake · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 11:17 pm

Steven wrote:

Cheify, I don't know if you know this or not, but, marijuana has less addictive chemicals in it than tobacco. There's hardly any addictive stuff in it, and it's not the worse drug out there. It's actually the best.

Hospitals grow marijuana for patients who have back problems and stuff.

Addictiveness is not the problem. However even if it were less harmful, just because it is currently legal to smoke tobacco does not justify the legality of marijuana. One is already illegal, the other widely available to the public - albeit consistently plastered with the all too familiar words "SMOKING KILLS" - and meanwhile we are bombarded with advertising campaigns telling us to say no to cigarettes, chew Nicorette gum, and call the Quitline. If it weren't for its addictive properties making total illegalisation unrealistic at this point in time, tobacco would be illegal too.

Sworder · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 11:22 pm

No. The stuff is 10 times worse for the lungs than cigarettes. Eventually, people will not consider it good enough and will move on to "bigger and better" drugs. (gateway drugs) I don't need people to be walking around freely smoking that crap on the streets. I hate it when someone smokes a cigarette around me. I walk around them, and make it easy to notice. The stuff smells horrible, and, to me, is just unappealing. Keep it away. I don't need that stuff to be legal so people can become more dumbed down then they already are. (brain cell loss)

Kenny · **Posted:** May 10th, 2009, 11:44 pm

Warren wrote:

For example on not being ready, MADD would probably go crazy over it, since there is no roadside test that can measure it directly? And at what point would you be considered impaired by a limit?

That's the kind of thing they'd have to decide before they legalised it.

Warren wrote:

I don't think we're ready. But it should be decriminalized (and I think most major parties in Canada are for decriminalization/legalization except the Conservatives XD)

I think your right when you say we're not ready just look

Sunset Fish wrote:

Nope, I hate druggies and potheads. Really nothing else to add. Hopefully it never will.

If it was legalised Sunset you'd have to learn to like them because you'd become friends with or come into contact with potheads on a daily basis.

Steven wrote:

Should Marijuana be legalized? I personally think it should, and it'd help out the economy right now too, because if they add a pot tax

Pot tax imagine that XD

Anubis · **Posted:** May 11th, 2009, 12:09 am

I think we should legalise heroin because it's not as bad as ecstacy. :roll:

Here's a situation for you;

You're out at the local game shop, buying a new xbox 360 because yours broke and Microsoft blame you. On your way out of the shopping centre, you'd normally get bombarded with 5 or 6 fat slags smoking a dozen cigarettes, losing a few months of life through breathing in their noxious fumes. However, weed's been legalised. So you've got 5 or 6 fat slags smoking their cigarettes and a dozen stoners smoking spliffs. Imagine now that every time you walk out of that shopping centre, from now on, you're going to lose a year of your life. That and it **** stinks.

I really don't care if people say weed isn't as bad as alcohol, the fact is if you're drinking a berr I'm not going to get any closer to dying. If you're smoking a spliff on the other hand, you look like a **** (unlike when you're drinking alcohol) and I will be closer to death, because of you.

From a strictly political standpoint, saying that the legalising of weed won't end up in more people smoking is moronic. If the government legalised murder, would would-be criminals murder more? Of course they would, they're already **** up in the head to break into someone's home and steal a dvd player, if killing someone's going to make it easier and there's no consequences, they're going to do it anyway. The government legalising weed practically shows that they endorse that kind of behaviour, people will smoke weed simply to try it - because there's no consequences. Hell, i'll admit i'd probably have a spliff if it wasn't illegal and someone offered it to me, and I'm 19. How do you think the 12 year old sheep of our generation will react when weed urrounds them like tobacco does? Think they're going to be sensible and not smoke it because it's bad for them? :/