Obama's Words On Marijuana

[Shadowstar1922]

I think it's nice he's verbally pushing for being in favor of pot, though his past history dictates otherwise, he's going in the right direction now.

[Shadow00]

I believe we should also make meth legal then.
After all, its less harmful than alcohol.
In fact, most drugs (if not all) are.
Anyone else up for meth?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/

[Shadowstar1922]

I believe we should also make meth legal then.
After all, its less harmful than alcohol.
In fact, most drugs (if not all) are.
Anyone else up for meth?

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/01/alcohol.harm/

The acceptance and legalization of marijuana is not solely justified in the fact that achohol is 3x more damaging to your body than marijuana, and cigarettes is 4x more damaging to your body than marijuana yet cigarettes and alcohol are still legal. Though, this point plays a big role and it is pretty valid.

Meth can give little to no medical benefits and meth can cause extreme long term damages to your body and you can die directly from it and it can destroy your physical and inner body works. Marijuana cannot. You can't even OD on Marijuana, it's impossible.

Marijuana also gives numerous mediical benefits, such as those who smoke marijuana are less likely to develop specific kinds of body cancers, such as bladder cancer, and if not abused, one's immune system can be more efficient and more productive.

Marijuana can also extremely slow down the production of cancer cells, and in some cases, completely stop the reproduction and work hand in hand with other medicines to eliminate cancer. It helps with cancer-curing studies. Marijuana can also treat seizures and help people who have muscle problems to get in better control of their body. The only long term harmful damage marijuana can cause if damage to the lungs/lung cancer, but that is only if you smoke it, and there are numerous other, more safety measures in putting marijuana in your body

Meth, on the other hand does not help in medicine nor treatments. Nor, can a majority of other drugs that remain illegal.

Though, the fact that countries outlaw marijuana based off of it's so called harmful affects and damages, the point that caffeine, alcohol, and cigarettes are far more addicting, and alcohol and cigarettes can do damage to your body 3-4x more than marijuana, does say something. It's illogical and ridiculous. And the medical benefits and treatments and lives it could save (never mind the economic boost and hundreds of billions of dollars it can give into the economy) does justify it's legalization.

[mmm]

I'm just here to say that any argument using health benefits or detriments cannot stand. None of the studies can agree on anything. While smoking marijuana does cause lung damage (like smoking anything else), no one knows how bad it is.

I also don't like the "alcohol and cigs are way worse than marijuana so we should legalize it" argument. If substance A causes emphysema and lung cancer, but substance B just might cause emphysema, I don't find it a compelling argument for legalization; less worse isn't the same as good.

Until marijuana is proved to be sufficiently safe, I won't touch the other facets of the argument. For some reason, marijuana (along with LSD and ecstasy) are classified as Schedule I drugs. This means researchers are all but banned from researching it, with a long, complicated, and expensive approval process. Making these drugs Schedule II would not legalize them for public use (meth and opium are Schedule II), just make them more available for researchers to evaluate whether they are safe for public use.

[Dr Frook]

I think all drugs should be legal. Making them illegal only caused the majority of crime in the world. Controlling the drugs through legal services would kill the crime element, would make it safer for the drug users, as they would not be taking something that was not expected and then dying.

think of how empty jails would be without all the drug dealers or drug addicts that have resorted to stealing from people, convenience stores, anything else to feed their drug addiction.

Legalising marijuana is the first step, but to kill the drug lords, all drugs need to be made available in a safe and legal way.

thankyou

[ghost 9]

You will never successfully outlaw drugs entirely. I support the legalization of marijuana, but not other things. (Meth is more harmful than alcohol. It rots your teeth, causes heavier hallucinations, and lasting brain damage.)

Pot is something that should be legalized at the age of 23. Why that age? Because your brain fully develops at 25 years old. It should most definitely be illegal for minors because of the potential damage it can do to them while they're still developing. (Mmm's point still stands, though, that it can cause lung damage.)

Most of the people who I know do marijuana, only do it because it's illegal. If you legalize it, they'll probably stop doing it, or cut back majorly.

It's a gateway drug? Well, so can advil and asprin if you think of it like that.

[dEAR_cHILD]

I think all drugs should be legal. Making them illegal only caused the majority of crime in the world. Controlling the drugs through legal services would kill the crime element, would make it safer for the drug users, as they would not be taking something that was not expected and then dying.

think of how empty jails would be without all the drug dealers or drug addicts that have resorted to stealing from people, convenience stores, anything else to feed their drug addiction.

Legalising marijuana is the first step, but to kill the drug lords, all drugs need to be made available in a safe and legal way.

thankyou

I have to agree with your point here, by legalizing said drugs and simply influencing other factors such as price (Such as Cigarettes) we can stem it down. This means that while the price with turn some away it is still available to those who really want it, and can in turn kill the black market demand for said item. This would also prove as a positive boost for the economy as well. Take Nevada for instance, with the allowance of prostitution under strict rules the state itself will receive a healthy monetary boost and have the ability to limit the illegal demand. ITs a matter of Would you rather risk imprisonment and a fine, or take a route that would be a bit more expensive and legal? By having drugs legal and selling them with strict oversight we could open more jobs, bring in a steady supply of income in the form of sales tax, and ensure that precautions were taken. It wouldn't be foolproof but it would be a better step that allowing the drug lords to make a profit and thrive off the untouchable resource.