Do you support legalizing marijuana?
Just wanting to gauge how the Y!A community feels about the issue. I think it’s going to be legalized, eventually. It is increasingly popular among the younger generations and only getting more popular. I thought I’d write out a little pros and cons list.
Pros:
WE CAN TAX IT!!! Lot’s of tax money, if we tax it at even close to the rate of cigarretes we will be getting billions every year just from the taxes.
Less strain on the prison system. We can get all those people out of prison who got caught smoking a joint, because they definitely deserve to be there. It will also reduce costs of our courts having to prosecute these people.
We can regulate it. Greatly increasing the safety of it, making sure it isn’t laced with anything and also making sure it isn’t coming from Mexico where people are being killed just to bring the drug to the states as well as making sure you have to be carded like cigarettes
More jobs will be produced, from jobs on farms producing marijuana, to large companies like Camel selling marijuana to local shops like we see in California
Cons:
Greater availability of a mind altering drug.
If you have more cons let me know my mind kind of went blank. I thought I had more cons than just that. Also please keep the discussion civil and don’t try to propagate marijuana myth like marijuana causing schizophrenia or something else the cops lied to you about in DARE.
yes but first legalize gay marriage in all 50 states.
YES.
Legalize it, then tax it, and have local, state, and federal government actually MAKE money off of it instead of spending hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars every single year trying to incarcerate people for growing it, selling it, and smoking it.
Yes, yes, yes. If alcohol and tobacco are legal, so should maryjane.
I love Colorado, they are starting to pull their heads out in our state legislature.
Decriminalized, at least.
Of course and to your con Benadryl can be used as a mind altering substance and I don’t even think they ID you for that at the drug store.
Cons- Government pot would be sh*t pot.
The Federal Government should stay the hell out of regulating what people put in their bodies. Providing information? That may be a good idea, but they should do it evenly without political agenda, and they have no legal power to impose prohibitions. That power is not granted them in the Constitution, it belongs to the individual & to the states should they choose to get into it, but they shouldn’t.
No, I don’t. Not anymore.
“WE CAN TAX IT!!!”
Yes we can. We could also tax heroin and cocaine.
“Less strain on the prison system.”
Just because stupid people can’t follow the law, doesn’t mean the justice system has to give up.
“More jobs will be produced”
Maybe we need more policemen and rehab doctors.
Marijuana IS linked to schizophrenia and many other mental problems.
http://www.schizophrenia.com/prevention/streetdrugs.html
i support it.!!! weed is less dangerous den any other drugs. weed is the least common thing that causes deaths. also if weed is legal crimes will go down because people wont have business of selling illegal weed.