Medical Marijuana... yay or nay in the USA

If alcohol and cigarettes are legal, then marijuana should be also. I don't agree with using any of them, but alcohol and cigarettes have proved to be far more dangerous yet are not banned substances. That's not fair. Besides, the US could use the money it would make off of marijuana taxes and should regulate it the same way they do cigarettes and cigars or ban alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana.

Are Medical Marijuana Raids the Price We Must Pay for National Health Care?

Read more: http://healthland.time.com/2012/04/...t-pay-for-national-health-care/#ixzz1rbwYwjMH

What are your thoughts?

 

California has been practicing the legal use of medical marijuana since 2002; an additional 16 states have followed the lead of CA.

I would imagine that the nationwide spread of this trend will eventually create a major shift in public perception throughout the Unites States. Then again, some states are just too traditional and progress 100 years behind the rest of the nation.

 

They should legalize it but I really doubt it's going to happen. At least not anytime soon. There's too much money to be made keeping it illegal. Plus very few politicians want to be seen embracing marijuana. For medicinal purposes or otherwise.

 

Legalize it. It's a herb, straight from The Almighty himself.

 

I dont smoke pot, never have - tried it a few times but its not my thing.
However, I do think its weird that alcohol is not banned and pot is.
Looking at the facts, looks to me that alcohol is far more dangerous than pot.

I think its important to distinguish between the recreational user and the daily pot head.
I think a lot of people automatically think that pot smokers are abusing it and not using it recreational as most people do w alcohol.

Once its becomes an abuse, it becomes another story, as it does with alcoholism and should not be a part of the discussion about legalizing pot imo.

 

They need to spark one up and make love. Then vote: YAY.

I agree with this.
"Abuse" fear-mongering has no place in any Congressional discussions to legalize it. Prescription drugs/pain killers - which are abused and are far more damaging - received zero scrutiny. Pot, with its many diverse benefits, has been given such a bum rap.

 

Totally agree w that!

 

IDK...petty weed charges are usually probation, if that. Wouldn't the Fed Govt or States make much more money controlling and taxing it? I would think for sure.

 

I already know it is. I've read on this subject for decades. In fact, before the Mob was taken down and the pedo scandals, the 3 biggest business in the U.S were/are The Justice system, the Mafiaso and the Catholic church. One as we see, is alive and kicking.

But to my original point.....petty weed offenders...do not fill jails.

 

I have seen a report about private jails.. it's disconcerting

 

The solution that one can posess a daily dose of Marihuana (Cocaine or heroin) legally is pretty good. Dealing is illegal. Addicted people will buy it anyway. To legalize Marihuana in general I don't think is a good idea.

 

People drink and get themselves/other people.

People smoke, play Smash Bros., eat, laugh and pass out.

Legalize the shit so I can stop hearing all the bitching.

 

I dont even think I understand the justification of private jails, wdf???!!!

 

Well in Philly, first time weed smokers don't usually go to jail. If they do, they're out swiftly on O/R. No bail, no bond. You know what OR is, right?

So 2 points:
After reading your examples of the legal procedures you outlined, you didn't subtract the cost on the taxpayer's dime for your offender's 2 days of 3 hots and a cot, access to a free lawyer, the city workers salaries, cost of O/T, the probation officer's salary etc.. Why then would the Govt choose the route of siphoning the cash from a possibly broke petty weed offender who is a cost to incarcerate and may or may not be able to pay his fines, ....when instead, they could bypass all that and go straight for the jugular - which is cutting out the dealer, and taxing the import and export of weed. That leaves taxpayers dollars once spent to coddle your offender through the justice system put to better use and the Govt still makes out like bandit.

Second point: To use your example some more...think of how many pot smokers cops actually stop and arrest, compared to those that buy it and use it without the govt getting a dime. Let's say the Justice system makes $500 off of your offender after all is said and done. His dealer probably made $10,000 off the batch your weeder bought from him. With the Govt taxing that at an easy 25%, you're looking at the Govt making $2,000 straight cash. And that's WITH a dealer. Remove him and pay cheap labor to sell it (like they pay liquor store clerks) and the profit margin of legalizing and selling weed to a patron, versus arresting and housing a petty weed offender is fiscally incomparable.

 

Many of them probably already do lol

 

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Legalize it.

Not only just for medicinal purposes, but also for general usage. If you look to Portugal who has already decriminalized all forms of drugs, the crime rate of that country dropped dramatically, not just in drug related crimes, but also murders and other forms of criminal activity. Furthermore, the usage of weed (and other drugs) usage in that country hasn't increase. Rather it slightly decreased since. Thus, there's no need to be scared of the idea of making them accessible for the general public.

Also, the whole situation regarding cannabis was nothing more but a propaganda tool because, according to government findings, weed doesn't have any detrimental effects to your health (permanent or long term). The "war on drugs" was created by a bunch of conservative nutjobs who saw that it allowed people to liberate their thinking patterns.

 

Yay all the way around not just medically. I see nothing wrong with a person being high vs a person being drunk and yet alcohol is legal and marijuana isn't.

 

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