Should they make marijuana legal?

Why is marijuana legal in other countries but not the United States?

Evidently the powers that be in this country have deemed it detremental to society.

Well, amblessed is only partially correct there. If you look at the history of the drug and the political reasons for its prohibition following the failed prohibition of alcohol, then you will see kind of an odd picture that seems racially motivated to start but has taken on a heavy financial motivation for its continued stigma.

The reasons that teens use the drugs.... is because it is a drug. The numbers of teens and children using drugs skyrocketed after Nancy Regan began a War on Drugs. She meant well, but the placement of such hyped taboo seems to have had an opposite effect. Experts have argued that this was a cause of poor auditing prior to the push against drugs even though the numbers go up, not down.

Here in California it is technically legal if you have a card that says you can use it medically. This is still a violation of Federal laws however and the DEA has the right to ignore local laws about the drug.

Hemp is NOT marijuana, but it is also illegal. This is where the conundrum comes into play. Alfalfa has more of the active ingredient in marijuana than hemp yet its similarity to marijuana in shape and color is too much for the Fed to bear. The lobbyists against hemp are not family values campaigns or anti-drug malitia. They are backing, cotton, timber (yes our starved resource of wood as paper rather than anything else), textile companies, and natural resources that are driving good prices in the market because of their scarceness. Greed keeps hemp illegal. Hemp is perceived to be related to marijuana which is a drug. So unless pharmaceutical companies, various anti-hemp lobbyists, and poor education and policing of drug awareness all become pro-marijuana and pro-hemp then the two will always be illegal here in the US. So the society that is referenced by 'amblessed' is actually a small number of people that are making good money by keeping it illegal. The majority doestn't matter in this country anymore. Just look at the presidential elections. If we all had muskets I'd say that we go to storm DC for some answers, but today we are different people than our forefathers.

You want to change this scenario? Get people that are pro-hemp to get some motions on the next ballot near you. Raise awareness of who should be getting marijuana in a society that is suffering from more and more cancer patients yearly. Bring the fight to those that are behind the campaigns against marijuana and hemp. Show the statistics for non-violent criminals who use marijuana or have grown it taking space in our jail cells following the anti-marijuana commercials. ..... or just light up and forget about it.

In Canada we can use it only for medicinal reasons and it is a very controlled amount.

we have allot of dumbass's in the US and for some reason they won't allow us to impare ourselves and make us stupider... imagin that.

Don't get me wrong, I smoke every day. I just don't see it becoming legal any time soon.

It's not legal in the Uk either!
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Cuz the ppl in otha countries are just a bunch of lucky b*stards!

it will probably become legal again because alcohol used to be illegal in the 20s but now its not

I hope it legalizes then I can get more way cheaper than im gettin it now

They are afraid potheads will take over the country... muhahahhahhaha

Hell NO!!! Its a drug non the less and it is harmful and has even more lasting affects than smoking and drinking combined because if your high and kill yourself being stupid there is know second chance and its the same with achahol. Second chances with making minor mistakes not killing youself with pure stupidy and for all of you who think it should think of how it affects the children of the world considering people have killed each other of a stupid plant. Its not only immoral but unethical to have 70% of the damn population runnin around higher than a freakin kite.

YES!!! It's awesome, helps me sleep. The best thing that I've ever put in my body.

it should be lmao...:P

Medical marijuana, yes. Recreational marijuana.. not sure yet. I need more info.

xpunkx27 is an idiot because weed will be more expensive and less potent if it because legalized because the government will put taxes on it and they will lower the potency so people wont get too high. Also steph forever mine is an idiot because the longer lasting effects are good effects not bad effect and weed isnt very harmful, it is a lot less harmful than cigarettes and alcohol, name one person who has died or gotten lung cancer from just smoking weed with no other drugs or cigarettes or alcohol. You dont kill yourself when your high. If it were legal people wouldnt be killing each other over it and their would be way way way less people getting arrested. Youve probably never smoked weed before have you. If you had you would see that people can function and think the same when their smoking weed than when their not. It just makes you feel better. Weed should definately be legalized, it helps with sleeping disorders, marijuana is the best sleeping medicine know. It also is a better pain reliever than most prescription pain relievers.

Recent Study:

Dec. 14, 2007 -- New research from Canada shows that some toxins may be more abundant in marijuana cigarettes than tobacco cigarettes.

The researchers burned 30 marijuana cigarettes and 30 tobacco cigarettes on a machine in their lab, measuring levels of chemicals in the smoke.

Ammonia levels were up to 20 times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke. Levels of hydrogen cyanide and nitrogen-related chemicals were three to five times higher in marijuana smoke than in tobacco smoke.

That doesnt mean that marijuana is worse for you than tabacco, look almost anywhere on the internet, write something like what is worse marijuana or tobacco, or something like that, you will see what is worse, also that study only shows some of the chemicals that marijuana has more of than tobacco has, that study doesnt show all of the chemicals that tobacco has more of than marijuana, including nicotine which marijuana doesnt have and is addictive, marijuana is not addictive

Weed is one of the best drugs, cause you can never over dose on it, you can smoke consistantly for 10 hours and you'll reach a certain high and wont get any higher. Of course it will prolong yur high but the worste that will happen is you eat a lot, have some laughs, and fall asleep, that's it. Yeah stuff can happen because of stupidity, but thats it, STUPIDITY!!! Things can happen because of stupidity whether you're high or sobber, like my neighbor he was sobber, never touched anything like alcohol, weed, nothin! One day he was changing the tire on his car but because of stupidity he didnt put the jack in the exact right place, and the car fell crushing his foot, now the poor bastad only has one foot. Because of stupidity, not weed, just stupidity. Did you know about 200 people die in a year because of too much caffiene, and that there are no recorded deaths because of overdosing on weed? Weed is the only drug that can't kill you from an overdose!!!
And one last thing before I leave...

God is perfect, Man is not!
Man made beer, but God made pot!!! lol

omg wow steph_forever_mine are you fvckin serious? you cant even compare alcohol to weed alcohol takes thousands of lives every year I've never heard of anyone dying from blazing, yeah it should be legal but with an age restriction atleast

ok honestly I've been stoned before and I NEVER wanted to kill myself and I've NEVER done stupid things before its what people are telling you to SCARE you to not do it..
it damages brain cells yes but when you STOP smoking they grow back now if you SMOKE EVERYDAY for 7 years thats when its over and your brain is destroyed
every year this substance or thing kills people look at the diffrences!
Tobacco: 435,000
Poor Diet and Physical Inactivity: 365,000
Alcohol: 85,000
Microbial Agents: 75,000
Toxic Agents: 55,000
Motor Vehicle Crashes: 26,347
Adverse Reactions to Prescription Drugs: 32,000
Suicide: 30,622
Incidents Involving Firearms: 29,000
Homicide: 20,308
Sexual Behaviors: 20,000
All Illicit Drug Use (direct and indirect): 17,000
Non-Steroidal, Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (such as aspirin): 7,600
Marijuana: 0

So weed meets the criteria for substance dependence? what the hell is that all about.. I smoke cigarettes and they are addicting.. alcohol, is addicting and I've seen it first hand.. but smoking smoke pot? no. not addicting whatsoever. It just is so stupid how alcohol, which is killing 100,000 Americans every year, is legal and weed, which has never killed ANYBODY, is illegal. The government has issues and no, I don't think weed will ever be legalized.. not in my lifetime atleast. Too many people are against my girl Maryjane well yeah it was put on this earth by God but yet the government thinks they have a right to make it illegal? niiice how things work out. peace love p.s. proud to be a stoner!