Whats your position on marijuana laws and punishment?
Please add, if you're against enforcing legalization or an advocate.
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first of all it is mis-classified, it is an herb and should be as legal as any other medicinal herb, period end. there should be no issue of legality at all. it's so much safer and more effective in treatments of certain symptoms of certain conditions than pharmaceuticals used to treat the same things, much fewer negative side effects, etc. i think this is why it's suppressed and demonized.FOLLOW THE POTENTIAL LOSS OF MONEY by the big drug companies and consider how in BED with certain government officials they are... i believe therein lies the answer
i would add that there are much more intensely psychotropic drugs being given by prescription than any herb i know of that's being smoked...those people are driving and probably more dangerous in many, many cases!
ALL drugs should be legal. What a person does to his/her own body is their decision. If they commit a crime or accident while on drugs than the punishment should be greater. If they sell to kids, the punishment should be even GREATER!
My position is that all drugs should be legal.
I am torn on marijuana legislation. I realize that Prohibition is not working and I would love to have pot smokers pay heavy taxes so that I do not have to, the same way cigarette smokers do.
But I also know that in places that it has been legalized the usage rate goes through the roof.
I am for medicinal marijuana but I am suspicious of the people who are pushing for it. I realize that they are just using that as a backdoor attempt at legalization. Yet I know that if a family member of mine was suffering a a little pot would help them I would walk over your head to get it.
I am a man of very strong opinions. I usually think I have the answer for everything but this is one issue that I am truly on the fence.
I think if it did not get anyone high no one would even pay attention to it.
I believe that we have bigger fish to fry. We have to pick our battles as one nation. The majority of people smoke marijuana, legal or not. Who cares ...
I'm one of the few who have never tried it, and never will, but I don't care that my neighbors do it. The only issue I have is that it can and does lead to harder drugs.
I think that certain doctors should be able to prescribe any pain relieving medications they feel are adequate on a case-by-case basis. If they can give out morphine like candy, what's wrong with a little peyote or pot?
Realistically, people are not going to stop using. If it was legalized, street-corner dealers would have to switch to the harder stuff to keep the lifestyle to which they've grown accustomed. The price of weed would go down. However, the bad side is more impaired drivers on the road. I have followed smokers who were obviously intoxicated and a menace to others. Anybody under the influence of alcohol or marijuana caught driving should pay a higher price than the current celebrities are paying. They are dangerous and the car they can barely drive is a lethal weapon.
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