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Should marijuana be legal?

Legalize it?

  • Yes, recreational marijuana should be legal

    Votes: 63 85.1%
  • Only medicinal marijuana should be allowed

    Votes: 3 4.1%
  • No, don't do it.

    Votes: 4 5.4%
  • Justin Bieber looks just like Miley Cyrus

    Votes: 4 5.4%

  • Total voters
    74

Peter Grimm

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I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?
 
Yes, locking someone in a cage for owning a plant is absurd and has absolutely no place in a free society.
 
Yes but, at least as regulated as alcohol.
 
Yes on legalization; treated like booze.

They'll have to do it federally, though. My state will probably not get on board for many decades.
 
I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?

Of course it should be legal. Why feed the drug thugs?
 
Absolutely

Because there is no legitimate reason to outlaw it
 
I just came back from Colorado, where recreational marijuana is legal. Would you like to see it in your state? Why or why not?

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Let the state tax it with a sin tax like they do alcohol, tobacco and gambling. Let's reserve our prisons for actual victim-crimes. Let's stop ruining the lives of otherwise law-abiding people by putting felonies on their record and condemning them to lives of under-employment and public assistance -- and other criminal behavior as they try to support themselves in a world where a felony marijuana conviction is a scarlet letter for life.

Enough already.
 
Colorado stash: $184M in marijuana taxes

Colorado expects to take in about $184 million in tax revenue from marijuana in the first 18 months after legislation -- and much of that money will be funneled into teaching kids to stay away from pot.
There you go, 184 million reasons for legalization, not to mention the money saved from dealers not being incarcerated. All that money was going into the pockets of gangs and thugs.
 
I would support the legalization for medical use.

Also for recreational use, but only if use disqualified the user from welfare, Medicaid and there were extra penalties for crimes committed by users under the influence and crimes committed to support a drug habit.
 
Legal (and regulated).

Can't stand the stuff myself, though.
 
Totally one-sided issue. The only arguments against are unfounded horror stories with no basis in the scientific history of medicine. It's never killed anyone, ever and it's not a 'gateway' drug. Compare the fatalities stats for cigs and booze and it's beyond a joke. The government just wants to preserve its blank cheque for a 'war' that was lost before it started.
 
The real question is: what gives the government the right to decide what you can and cant put into your own body?
 
Yes, acquiring and possess even controversial forms of private property is declared inalienable and indefeasible in most State Constitutions in the US. And, not only that, but there is also federal precedent in support of that very same concept.
 
Death by Mississippi Mud Pie.

I can think of worse ways to go.
 
Legal (and regulated).

Can't stand the stuff myself, though.

sort of an every great once in a while thing. i don't want to spend my entire life watching seemingly boring documentaries that are suddenly absolutely fascinating.

when i tried it again a couple years ago for old time's sake, i watched a documentary about the history of tugboats. it was 17 hours long (about 1.5 hrs reality time.) then i went to McDonalds.

BEST DAY EVAR
 
my good Sir, have you no respect for a Tradition of respect for Religion? according to some, plants were created by a god and declared, good and not bad. only "original sinners" keep trying to convince us of the opposite.
 
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