I can garuntee you for absolute 100% certainty that AT LEAST 20 times as many people will die from alcohol and nicoteine related diseases. Why are these drugs legal?

If marijuana was made legal it could be monitored, regulated – and above all else, taxed the hell out of.

How about 1.

The next person who dies from a marijuana “overdose” will be the first.

How many more people will die from alcohol and tobacco as I write this?

Legalize it, tax the hell out of it.

you cant overdose on marijuana you will pass out before you can kill yourself.

The only way you could overdose is if they lock you in a room and constantly blow smoke in the room (but even then you’d probably die from suffication)

You sir, are misinformed. Vastly more people die from tranquilizer overdoses, but you don’t advocate making them illegal do you? What about from drinking too much alcohol? Cigarettes are one of the biggest killers, oh, but too many Republicans get rich from growing tobacco, so we better leave that legal. What hypocrisy.

More people have died from having sex (heart attacks) then ever have died from smoking pot… So is making sex illegal the answer? Hmmmmmm I believe liberals are there to keep governmental control out of our lives, they aren’t there to make pot smoking legal it’s all about governmental control. After all isn’t that why this country first started to get away from governmental control???

additional note…. no one has ever died from an overdose of pot! It’s not possible. But you can die from an overdose of asprin.. Lets all go get the liberals for allowing asprin to be legal…

It’s illegal because the DuPont company didn’t want hemp grown for rope to compete with their new (in the early 30’s) product nylon.
You obviously have never tried pot, never researched anything about it, and believe anything you’re told. It is impossible to overdose on marijuana.

Liberals think there is no problem until it happens to THEM. Then they want the world to stop and help them, when they didn’t give a rat’s arse about anyone else before.

A marijuana overdose? Where do you get your information?

it’s always tricky

take alcohol – it clearly causes a lot of deaths (health, driving accidents, domestic violence, etc.). it was made legal because during Prohibition governments saw that the traffic of alcohol was causing so much violence that it was hurting public safety. Government was also bothered by the fact that what could have been tax dollards, ended up in the pockets of alcohol traffic gangs (Al Capone and others).

So they liberalised alcohol. Tough to decide whether, overall, it was good, or bad, for Society as a whole. Maybe it initially was bad, but nowadays that people drink much, much less, maybe it was good in the end?

Marijuana is the same thing. It is far from innocent to the health. It has bad side effects (long-term brain damage, near-term distraction causing road accidents, though it does not seem to cause violence). Being illegal it involves trafficking by gangs, meaning gang violence, meaning the traffick money goes into the hands of gangs instead of being tax money.

on tobacco the stance used to be full liberalisation, but this has come back in the past decade or so. In the past the public didn’t know / think / bother about cancer, in recent years people have been more more bothered by the though / social cost / actual medical costs. In the past the tobacco grower / seller lobby was quite powerful and today it is less powerful.

on hard drugs most people seem clearly against any liberalisation. But then if you take specific examples, the Bush administration has encouraged cocaine / opium, by invading Afghanistan for no (good) reason and removing a government that was not very democratic, but at least had succeeded in removing pretty much all of the opium production. Now a not better government is in place, which allows opium production so Afghanistan can again supply over 90% of the world. I find it quite paradoxil that Conservatives should have spent taxpayers money on this!

I know that some Liberal groupds advocate its liberalisation. What you find is that some more Economics, than Liberals, groups also advocate the liberalisation, on purely economic grounds (The Economist newspaper does advocate it, although they’ve always been in favour of the intervention in Iraq, typically fought by the Liberals).

now if you look at the Netherlands where marijuana is mostly legal, it is tough to argue that the wide use has done a lot of good (although it’s tough to prove it has done a lot of bad – apart from the fact that whole blocks are heavy around drug and sex which makes for a pretty nasty atmosphere and petty crime).

it’s a difficult issue to decide and if this was ever put to vote in my country I’d have a tough time coming up with a decision

hope this helps?

The government has labeled MJ as a dangerous drug, other countries have not and allow it’s use. It is illegal in neighboring countries because the USA threatened sanctions if they did not follow suit unlike other prescription drugs you can buy over the counter in Mexico and Canada. I saw your other post about this and can honestly say in all my time in law enforcement assigned to various narc task forces, I have never once heard of anyone OD-ing on marijuana. Never ever. Now plenty have died from laced marijuana and I am sure if someone had a strong enough allergic reaction to it they could die – but the actual marijuana wouldn’t be the cause just the carrier. Like when a kid spaz’s out after eating a peanut….The peanut didn’t cause it his reaction to it did. I seriously doubt the information you were given and would question the heck out of it if it were my child.

I don’t know where you got your information but, you cannot overdose on marijuana. How many people die from alcohol,heroin and crack? I am not a liberal and I do not smoke it , but I do think it should be legalized-it would create jobs,raise money from taxes and it would clear up some prison space for violent criminals.