Should Marijuana be Legalized

[Decypher]

Should Marijuana be Legalized, studies have discovered that marijuana can cure cancer. meanwhile they are children in their thousands dying and suffering of cancer.
and scientist discovered that marijuana is 114 times safer than alcohol.but alcohol is legal and marijuana is illegal. and i still don't know why marijuana is still made illegal.

 

[Deleted member 5665]

Roger Stone has been convincing me to legalize Marijuana across the entire US, but legalizing it isn't a simple thing.

You have to consider many career politicians who want to keep up the war on drugs. As well as the fact the Democrats will probably say if I legalized it that I was legitimizing drugs and should be impeached. Big Pharma may also try to kill me, but I am not to worried about that.

As for curing cancer. I am sure if I did that the Democrats will twist it into a bad thing.

 

[Jason76]

You have to consider many career politicians who want to keep up the war on drugs.

It's sort of a many-sided issue. The War on Drugs is racially motivated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_War_on_Drugs

In 1998, there were wide racial disparities in arrests, prosecutions, sentencing and deaths. African-Americans, who only comprised 13% of regular drug users, made up for 35% of drug arrests, 55% of convictions, and 74% of people sent to prison for drug possession crimes.[34] Nationwide African-Americans were sent to state prisons for drug offenses 13 times more often than white men.[35][36]

However, though, pot does indeed have terrible consequences (ranging from being as bad on the lungs as tobacco to permanently lowering intellectual ability when smoked in the teenage years).

 

[Deleted member 5665]

You have to consider many career politicians who want to keep up the war on drugs.

It's sort of a many-sided issue. The War on Drugs is racially motivated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_the_War_on_Drugs

This is not true at all. War on Drugs benefit Big Pharma as well as the CIA. As Ron Paul has said the CIA has profited so much from the War on Drugs they could fund themselves for more than 10 years even if they were dropped tomorrow.

Why do you think Big Pharma is extremely against the wall for the southern border? It would hurt drug cartels from Mexico and South America and their profits.

 

[overcast]

No it should not be legal. Plus people who consume it and claimed to be genius with it can't even differentiate how many fingers are in front of their eyes when you wave hands. So no.

 

[Jon]

It's legal here in Canada as it should be. If grown adults decide to unwind with a puff after work in the comfort and safety of their own home, no one should be able to tell them differently. As stated, it's been proven to be multiple times safer than alcohol, doesn't make the user aggressive like alcohol can, and is completely innocent and safe in more than majority of cases. We have cigarettes and alcohol killing millions and people want to fight a plant that has done virtually no harm to anyone, very strange. It also has multiple medical and building properties(hemp). It's been used for thousands of years and can be abused like literally anything else this earth has provided us such as sugar or caffeine to name a couple, and yet most of these marijuana protesters don't bat an eye in the direction of actual harmful misuse of these substances. In my opinion, the war on drugs is a massive failure, and most people who use drugs do so to escape reality. If you want to stop the use of harmful narcotics and substance abuse, then start by treating the root of the problem, not the result of the problem.

 

[Jason76]

Being legal is fine. However, that doesn't make it a plus for society - anymore than tobacco.

Well, it being illegal is a drain on police resources - is why it should be made legal.

 

[Setfragil]

Before marijuana will be legalized there must be a strict laws regulating and monitoring it uses to prevents it abuse from the underage and minors. I do not really understand the benefits of smoking marijuana to health than puffing out smoke from your mouth.