It’s stupid. Do you really want 5 year olds losing their brain cells due to some jackass smoking pot in public?

Edit: It’s illegal to smoke cigarettes in public in lots of places. People still do it. Don’t tell me I’m ignorant, I just think outside the box.

Cigarettes are ten times more damaging, and contain ten times the toxins.
Why are they legal and marijuana isn’t?

I hope it passes. This law will tax and regulate pot, and it’s stupid that you can go to the grocery store to get a drug that may make you drive drunk or beat up your kids but you can’t get a drug that makes you happy and relaxed and affectionate. This will also make dangerous drug cartels loose business and make them weaker, saving many innocents from the crossfire of the drug war.

I’m for it. I don’t smoke, but I definitely think it should be legal, provided that it is regulated like alcohol (no minors, and no driving).

It makes absolutely no sense that cannabis is illegal while alcohol and tobacco (both of which are MORE harmful and MORE addictive) are legal.

Legalization would:

– Create thousands of (legal, income-tax paying) jobs
– Devastate drug cartels, which would suddenly be without their most profitable product (and 75% of their income)
– Provide an enormous windfall for the government, which would bring in billions in taxes and SAVE billions more on law enforcement (ending Prohibition played a big part in getting the U.S. out of the Great Depression)
– Allow police, courts and prisons to focus their resources on DANGEROUS criminals, rather than harmless potheads

The more taxes the pot smokers have to pay, the less the rest of us will have to pay – everybody wins!