NO, because ppl would use it twice as much……imagine if it was legal….yea right

Yes it should be legalized and imo, we will probably see it legalized in our lifetimes. I don’t know a single person under 35 years old who thinks it should remain illegal. When the people who are young now start running the government we will probably see it legalized or at the very least decriminalized. I’m thinking we’ll see this happen within about 20 years.

Legalize……Happy Holidays !!

Yes, because pot is no different, than booze, cigs, porn, bingo games, we all have vices, and its not the governments job to control a substance that is as dangerous a cig if you smoke weed like you do Marlboro. Weed legalization would save a lot of taxpayer dollars, and free up police departments to enforce traffic law, and allocate resource to real social problem instead of Joe average toker getting stoned for the last 40 years.

yes…

alcoholism is the real problem in America

marijuana is an reasonable vice

I agree. I don’t smoke marijuana but think it should be legalized. Think of how much money the government would save/make.
1 The government spends loads of money to try and prevent people from using marijuana. With advertisements and all.
2 the government has to spend tax money to build new prison’s, because so many people get arrested for possession.
3 Government could tax it similar to how they tax tobacco and alcohol, so they could potentially make Millions maybe even more.
4 police could spend time actually helping people rather than trying to bust people for smoking a little marijuana every now and then.
5 could create new jobs and stimulate the economy with people buying and selling.

Wouldn’t you rather be around somebody who’s not on drugs at all? Just because it’s a less evil drug doesn’t make it right. I at one time smoked every single day and also thought it should be legalized. I’m past my partying years and can finally see things clearly. Alcohol should be illegal as well but hey, no way that will ever happen. It’s the tool by which many of us were born. Good luck with your cause though. It’s been around for a long time.
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In my county (mendocino, Ca) it is legal to grow 25 plants for personal use if you’re a resident. Measure G–I voted yes. God bless America.

The statement “the war on drugs is not working” is almost a masterpiece of understantement. Regardless of one’s personal feelings or beliefs about using marijuana, chances are that someone you know or close to someone you know has started using harder drugs because of drug testing policies. Marijuana remains detectable for far too long for people to risk losing their jobs. So they just pop some pills or snort some powder, because by Monday morning, or thereabout. thoses substances won’t show up in the urine tests while marijuana would. You can’t make people stop getting high, and by denying them the relatively benign effects of smoking pot, they are seeking out more dangerous ways to get high. Someone is arrested in this country every minute for marijuana. Please show me the benefits of putting a non-violent, non-larcenous person in jail with robbers, rapists, murderers, burglars, etc. Though legalization may be too much to ask, decriminalization of marijuana would go a long way to lessening young people’s use of harder drugs and also help them avoid the many negative results of being broken on the cogs of an undeniably brutal and reform-hungry penal system.