Should mar1juana be Legal or stay Illegal

alcohol = drunk driving

cig = lung cancer

weed = hungry?

 

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Legal. Alcohol kills people. Cigs kill people, yet they're legal. Smoking weed is better than doing both of those things too.

"Unjust laws are meant to be broken" - Thomas Jefferson. (Or something along the lines of that)

 

Weed is illegal because the alcohol and tobacco companies lobby to keep it illegal at all costs.

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smoke responsibly just like alcohol drink responsibly

 

Regardless, both will inevitably destroy your lungs and liver respectively. Its better to just not do either.

 

I don't care either way, I'm just thankful that my parents raised me well enough that i never gave in to all the peer pressure back in high school....

 

I dunno, red wine in moderation is supposed to lengthen your life span.

 

I barely drink but i do smoke mar1juana but not that much. i can seriously take in the smell of mar1juana smoke not cigarette smoke

 

interesting fact: prescription drinking alcohol made a lot of people a lot of money during the prohibition

i don't smoke or do drugs, legal or illegal, has no effect on me

 

If history could be re-written back in the days after prohibition, knowing what we know now, it would have been mar1juana that was made legal and alcohol banned.

Now that it is what it is they would never go back and say, 'hey we (the government) tried to be your parents again, and again we screwed up.

 

True.
Most people drink beer in large quantities though. Haha.

 

It's just as much the fact that it's the easiest way to keep prisons full.

Full prisons = incrased funding = campaign contributions = the fight to keep it illegal

 

And mar1juana can be used for many medical reasons from arthritis to anxiety.

 

Word. Most certainly helps with anxiety.

 

Don't forget about privately owned prisons.

 

Unfortunately, more people in prison also = more of a burden on taxpayers.

 

If you want to be technical, the only physical damage that could be attributed to the smoking of mar1juana is simply from the act of intaking burnt material in the form of fumes, paper/rillos, or just too smoking your throat raw.

If one smoked solely through a vaporizer, I wouldn't be surprised if you actually added a few years to your lifeline

 

I don't smoke weed at all, and I think it should be legal.

Tax the **** out of it like what they do with cigarettes.

I'd also legalize online gambling and do the same thing we need methods to reduce the debt, every little bit helps. That is a completely different argument though.