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Should marijuana be legalized?
This November in my state (California), the will be an initiative on the ballot called Proposition 19. If it passes, it will legalize the recreational use of marijuana for persons 21 years of age and older. It will also allow people of the legal age to carry up to one ounce of marijuana one their persons; provided that the marijuana is not laced with other illegal substances. This law will also allow people to grow and cultivate marijuana in an area not to excede 25 acres.
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I'm of the opinion that all drugs should be legalized because most of the violence that surrounds drugs is merely an effect of them having been made illegal in the first place.
So more freedom for those in California is fine by me. The proposition might not do enough, but it's a good place to start. |
Marijuana should be legal. It is neither as addictive nor as harmful as alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal.
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But it's a gateway drug, it can easily lead to more hard drugs.
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I'm in full support. The way I see it, the economic advantage is too great. We shouldn't base decisions on money alone, but if substances that provide far greater hazards than weed ever could, such as alcohol and tobacco are legal, which have also seamlessly integrated into our society (to a point where alcohol is such a staple at every adult gathering) why shouldn't weed be legal as well? This stance does have a "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em" aura to it, but it only makes sense.
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I think those things should be illegal also, but the argument of "just because something worse is ok slightly lesser things should be fine" isn't very progressive. instead of working to make all bad things legal we should be working toward making smoking and drinking illegal
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That said, I would be fully supportive of legalization, as long as it doesn't make kids want to try it more. I know it's easy to get in most places, and I know it won't ruin your life, but chances are it's probably not going to help you and it would be a waste of time and money, especially at a young age. They don't need that stuff to have fun, there are better ways to get rid of boredom. So yeah, if someone could convince me that legalization would not make more kids want to try it, then I would gladly vote for legalization. |
It is a gateway drug to harder drugs for a multitude of reasons, where as your fake examples were sort of random.
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That can be an end result, but it is grossly over exaggerated
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Im happy that there doing this, and hope other states follow suit. It would dramaticly reduce border problems, and can be taxed. |
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When there's something like this that people generally don't see as harmful and yet it's illegal, it creates disrespect for the law, which can lead to much more drastic consequences. It's the same way with piracy. The best thing to do is for the government to recognize the activity isn't harmful and that keeping it illegal causes more problems. Unfortunately, sometimes there are other interests at work who find it more convenient for such things to be illegal, so little happens. |
Guys, stop attacking his gateway drug argument with the legality of weed. Cigarettes and Alcohol are also classified as gateway drugs, and they're legal and very obtainable. With the arguement that its already breaking the law, you've even proved that alcohol and cigarettes can be classified in such a manner, since smoking and drinking in high school is also breaking the law.
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Prohibition messed up big in the way they did things, i think that smoking should be illegal and drinking age pushed up or an alcohol content per bottle should be placed.
By end result i meant that it can happen if someone get's gatewayed. |
It's not a gateway drug.
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And why are you arguing the legality of forcing people into rehab? Just because you can't coerce someone into going into rehab against their will doesn't mean that you can't help get people who actually want to get out of their addiction into rehab. It's not up to some state goon to help someone get over their drug addiction; because they have no real incentive to help the person, there will always be some profit incentive over a charitable one. I believe that it's up to the family and friends of the drug user to get the junkie into rehab, and not against the will of the addicted user, and if they happen to die from their addiction? That's certainly a tragedy, but it's even more tragic to spread aids and throw people in cages creating criminals out of people who are merely addicted to a substance. |
Personally, I feel that is should be. If they were to tax it, it would definitely help with the state's budget problem, and pot's a lot better than cigarettes and alcohol. In moderation, of course.
Also, studies have shown that marijuana is not a gateway drug. If you go on to other drugs from pot, then that's your own damn stupidity and your own conscious decision to do so. Pot doesn't MAKE you do that, you do. The only thing pot might make you is hungry. ;) |
Whatever guys, smoking that herb is so bad. Being caught should be auto execution wtf.
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But you know, maybe this should be another topic entirely, as this one is about whether weed should be legalized or not. Quote:
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You seem like a liberal who thinks they can make the world perfect by just imposing more laws and making the country conform to what they think is a good life :/ The goverment shouldent tell me how much alchohal i should consume, or how much marijuana. If I die its my fault becuase I was stupid. |
The question isn't "Should marijuana be legalized?", the question is "Who is the retarded nutjob who came up with that stupid idea?!"
Then again, I'll just happily say the Pledge of Allegiance to 49 stars in a few years. I really don't mind. |
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Committing murder is a stupid decision that one makes on their own, law is around to keep order, but in a way to contain stupidity that for some people, always manages to manifest itself in horrible decisions. |
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Studies also show that second hand smoke has no effect toward cancer, also Pot is a gate way drug because of the way people describe it. By people i mean parents and the media. parents always make it seem like it will result in a similar scenario like that picture above, and so does the media. so when kids actually try it the think "hey this isn't that bad" then they begin their new life on weed. then slowly enough the begin associating themselves with other potsmokers, and one in 4 weed smokers tend to try things like Ex and inhalants because their dealer or other friend tells em it's fun. and because they have the thought in their heads "pot wasn't as bad as people said it was" they try it. Then begins their new life on harder drugs, these tends to go on until they try harder drugs because of the same formula, or because they get arrested and then anger/( other inmates) causes them to do more/harder drugs. Also the kid who stepped up to ex is still friends with the kid who just smokes weed and he then turns to them with the same effect as the person who started him on the harder drugs, thus causes the vicious cycle to continue.
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