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chronic_chick

undefinedThis is just to find out how everyone feels about the effects legalized cannabis would have, whether they're bad or good effects. So just say what you feel about the effects it will have. If you want you can also say how you feel about it being legalized at all.

Personally I think that it should be legalized. I think that there are good and bad effects to it. The 2 main good effects are:
1)Less of today's youth will want it because its legal
2)LESS CRIMES will be going on for it

If you disagree with these 2 examples or want to see more or have you're own thoughts just post.

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BassPirate

All I really want is for the gov't to leave me alone and I will leave them alone. Unless that gov't happens to be followed by a mule Seriously though, I think that there are pro's and con's to outright legalization...but I think that the pro's outweigh the cons. A lot of drug dealers would go dirt poor when nobody wants to pay fifty bucks for slack bags of commerical nuggets. We could all just grow our own...you know the way humans got the plants and herbs they wanted for thousands of years before...hmm, imagine that.

Buzzby

It would save me several hundred dollars a year.

Quality would go up and prices would go way down.

I might start to grow my own.

I wouldn't feel nervous when someone knocks on my door.

I wouldn't have to think about whether a new acquaintance should or should not know about my "hobby".

Pot would be less available to people under whatever the age limit might be.

People who can't control their intake would be able to seek help without worrying about getting arrested.

People who drink or do other drugs because of marijuana testing could switch to a much healthier alternative.

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nacrypt

I doubt that this would be true. Since:

A. Underage people have very little trouble getting alcohol.

B. 10,11,12 Grades are about the time most people start using marijuana and I think this is about when most people are ready and interested to try it out, so I don't think this will change.

However, a Marijuana <=> Alcohol Equalization Initiative like the one in Denver, would be a very welcome thing in my book, for most of the reasons Buzzby stated. People under 21 would still face some minor penalties if caught but the rest of us could smoke our herbs in peace.

stinky

1)Less of today's youth will want it because its legal
2)LESS CRIMES will be going on for it
Both of your claims are bogus

1.There is no evidence to back up your claim that todays youth would want
ganja less if it were legal.

2 Ganja crime is not really the issue because as with ganja overdose there are
no certified cases reported.

Giving the weed a rep for causing crime is negative to the demands to legalize,
personally i dont give a toss wether it is legal or not, dope laws wont stop me
toking and they never will, I know by smoking ganja i am hurting no one, so as far as im concerned the law can keep its opinion on drugsw.......all drugs that is
to its self

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chronic_chick

I'm sorry but i have to say that you're wrong there is in fact a lot of evidence to back both of my claims.
A recent study/survey in North American marijuana that 64% of todays youth started to smoke dope because it is illegal. In Canada alone there is up to 70% of youth that say if it was legal when they started they never would have started at all.
It is also true that there would be a decrease in crimes having to do with marijuana. Every week there is at least 20 drug busts in Nova Scotia alone which is a very small province in Canada. But the drug busts are that bad compared to all the homicides caused by arguments over dope. If it was legalized it would be easier to achieve leaving a decrease in murders and abuse.

king cola

Legalized pot would end people getting it laced if it was government controlled or homegrown because everyone would know where it came from. The cops would be able to focus on real crimes, i agree that there are people out there that might use marijuana because it's illegal but they are going to smoke it because they like it. Some people might just try it because they are told they can't do something, the more they are told not to, the more they want to. When all of us were younger we would hear things like, don't eat too much candy it's bad for you, they would say the same about alcohol and everything else. They tell people to stay away from it so much that they end up becoming curious about it.

I don't think it's bogus that less crimes would be going on from legalized pot either. When alcohol was illegal there were a lot of people getting killed over it, organized crime was involved in the sales, they were fighting for competition to control it all. The same is going on with marijuana, we hear stories of organized crime in Canada being involved in big marijuana operations. Theres gangs killing each other, they are doing this because of the money that's involved, they become greedy and want all the money and no competition to achieve that goal. Alcohol on the other hand causes crime when it was illegal and even that it is legal because some people get drunk and become violent and get into fights, beating their wife or kids, some refuse to pull over for the cops and think they are the greatest drivers in the world.

Marijuana on the other hand does cause violence because of the fact that it's illegal, but it should be legalized and i don't know anyone whos smoked a joint and wanted to fight after or drove wreckless while on it. I don't think alcohol should be illegal again, i like to go out and drink here and there, it's our choice to, much like it's our choice to smoke some grass if we want.

"i dont give a toss wether it is legal or not, dope laws wont stop me
toking and they never will"

Theres a lot of people on probation right now that actually have to stop smoking pot during that time, i see that as the system getting them to stop toking, if some of them violate their probation by having pot in their system they could find themselves in jail, that does stop them from toking. I care that it's illegal, who the hell deserves to get put in prison or face fines for smoking something that grows in the dirt? They ruin peoples chances at scholorships or pentions for college because they get busted with some weed but turn around and blame the person who got caught because they did something illegal that some of these stupid politicians probably used when they were younger too.

I don't think anyone should have to be 21 years of age to buy or smoke pot, i feel the same way about alcohol, i think people should just be atleast 18 years of age seeing that people are considered adults at 18. They will put people in federal prison at 18 with people over 60 years old but make laws that you have to be 21 to do certain things. Seeing that the U.S makes people be 21 though for things like alcohol, i guess i would have to say that if pot were legalized people should be 21. Pot wouldn't be 100% out of any underage kids hands, but it would reduce it. People who are 21 years of age or older and buy for underage people risk getting charged with alcohol to minors, same would apply for marijuana.

People could grow their own pot without fear of having their doors kicked in. The quality would be good and the prices would be low if it was sold in certain stores. If the government arranged for it to be grown in warehouses, someone tries to rob it, treat them like a bank robber, call it a federal offense and treat their sentence the same, a bank carries money and a warehouse full of pot plants would be considered a building with a large amount of money too but the money would be in bud production.

One thing that would have to be worked out, we all know that during the summer when people run air conditionars, the power gets drained and theres outtages, the same might happen if too many people were growing pot indoors during the winter. During the summer people would be able to grow their plants outdoors.

If it was legalized atleast parents who do have underage kids would know if they were using or not because it wouldn't be frowned upon in society and would be tolerated the sameway alcohol is.

Legalized pot would help keep people away from hard drugs because pot as of now is an illegal drug and there are people out there who deal pot that also have other illicit drugs to sell. Buying pot where it's legal, they would be seeing nothing but pot, they wouldn't have the option of buying hard drugs when getting their pot which is the real reason in my opinion on why people start getting involved in trying those other drugs.

If anyone showed up for work high fire them, the same applies anyway if someone shows up for work drunk. People often say "do you want a doctor going to work high?" The answer to that is no, but that's a weak arguement on their part because what is stopping a doctor from going to work high now unless they get drug tested? I haven't even heard of a doctor going to work drunk and alcohol is legal, what makes people think a doctor would go to work stoned because pot would be legal? They can do either of the 2 after work anyway and some just might be doing that as of now when they are done working if they don't recieve drug tests.

There wouldn't be anymore wasted tax dollars to fight the war on marijuana.

carlover_36

One of biggest concerns right now is the fact that my 12 yr old son has to lie.I have told my son that I smoke pot,he thinks it's much better than me drinking.I don't smoke in front of him,and don't,won't,allow him to smoke it.Have explained to him that when he's out of school and has a career it would be then he might try it.The problem he has is that the DARE program at school consistently degraeds pot smokers and asks them to snitch on thier parents.He has to lie to them about me smoking.My doesn't smoke,and we don't do any other drugs.When I was in my teens I smoked a little and drank,wound up in prison at 18 for burglary charges,drunk,and at 19 thought that if i didn't smoke then I wouldn't get into trouble.After being releaesed from prison at 20 I drank for several years and was always in trouble.Started smoking again about 6 years ago,only trouble I have been in is for growing.Seems somewhat odd that mj is illegal.My wife and son most think that i'm much easier to be around when I'm smoking than when I drink.I cann't be the only person out there that gets a tad grouchy when drunk,yet happy as a lark when stoned.It's just all the lies our society has made up that keeps pot illegal.But if we educate,as DARE un-educates perhaps our plight will be realized soon.

teufelfisch

I would be able to smoke in public.
At parties people would go outside to pass the dutch, instead of staying inside.

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hendrix lives

i think if its going to be legal it should be like the way it is in amsterdam. It works so why cant it work in other countries!!