Inquiry by Bluefast: How do you sense toward marijuana legalization from a clinical, economic, prison pop., and crime top of check over?
I was questioning about how you experience marijuana legalization would subsidy or harm the U.S. population? I’ve heard, and have generally agreed on, positions that say we expend as well greatly money to bump and imprison marijuana end users and that prison overcrowding tends to make this even a lot more tough.
Marijuana smoker legalization, approximately have said, could support consumers get aid through counseling (like AA for alcoholics) that they have a hard time getting at the moment, it could increase the economy as marijuana is quite valuable for shape-related purposes, recreational use, and could be employed as manufactured goods materials in approximately cases. (no skepticism a billion dollar business)
Also, it was mentioned that by producing Marijuana in the hands of businesspersons vs. road drug dealers, crime and drug-linked inner city violence may decrease.
That is what approximately supporters say – I’d like to hear what the antis and approximately additional supporters say – would marijuana legalization be beneficial to the U.S. population or negative?
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Also, drawing conclusions by evaluating marijuana use with alcohol, tobacco, prescription drugs, and so forth… are skilled also.
Oh, before people start responding I also want to state that I am not a marijuana consumer (truly I do not smoke cigarettes and I drink alcohol only on unusual events), but I am curious about marijuana legalization from an economic and crime-reduction viewpoint.
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Tax it like anything at all else.
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Habitual weed smokers are slackers who cannot visage reality…like we don’t by now have enough of that type in the US now.
Even if pot were legal, as is alcohol, Employers can still terminate employees for using it. In effect, you may end up with a bunch of unemployed pot heads. Or would it be ok with you if the paramedic treating your vital injuries was high on pot? or the control officer who is investigating your home break in was high, or perhaps, your surgeon?? If it’s legal for one, it has to be legal for all…
I am really for legalization of marijuana. It could generate fantastic tax revenue!
I personally don’t reckon pot is as terrible as alcohol. When’s the continue time you saw a name get violent while high on pot?
I for myself am not a pot smoker but reckon it’s honest to smoke it recreationally.
Drugs are terrible M’kay.
-Mr. Garrison-
decriminalization is a skilled thought, legalization is not.
what is the difference?
if it is decriminalized, possession or manufacturing wouldn’t ruin a person’s life, like it does now, and trap them in that lifestyle.
If it is decriminalized, the cops could still sieze generous amounts of it, and regulate it like alcohol, without over-burdening our justice system. It could be regulated to keep it out of the hands of minors, and taxed to provide revenue that could lead to reduction of returns tax.
any generous manufacturer not liscensed, that has their manufactured goods siezed could be fined, to deter that type of action, and their manufactured goods sold by state owned shops to provide the state with even more revenue for education, and additional programs. What user wouldn’t buy the stuff from a state owned shop, knowing that the proceeds were benefiting our youth?
Businesses could still drug test employees to prevent on-the-job injuries, and to promote workplace saftey, along with getting out of any civil liabaility for injuries caused by a pothead being high and injuring himself.
If leagalized, none of this regulation would be possible.
Decrimilization would prevent everyone from growing and possessing because of fines for unliscensed manufacturing and distribution, but would not make a person into a criminal.
People who are habitual users of anything tend to be “slackers” and irresposible, that isn’t the recreational user’s fault. Even habitual fishers are slackers, is that everyone else’s fault?
Legalize it for cryin’ out loud
Alcohol is deadly; marijuana is not. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 20,000 Americans die every year as the direct result of alcohol consumption. The number for marijuana is zero. In addition, alcohol overdose deaths are not just possible, but an all-too-frequent occurrence.
Studies have repeatedly shown that marijuana is less detrimental than alcohol. Thousands of people every year are killed, directly or indirectly, by alcohol abuse. Alcohol overdose kills hundreds. Spousal abuse is nearly always linked to alcohol. Drunken driving is a huge problem.
On the additional hand, here has never been a single death from marijuana overdose. Users do not become violent. Marijuana is not addictive.
It just makes sense to legalize it. What doesn’t make sense is smoking it.
Check out this LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition) video:
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“After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we top out to take up again this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have ruined and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far simpler to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people take up again dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists take up again to grow richer than ever before. We would recommend that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must stop!”
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And no, I do not smoke it, abandon back in the 70s, don’t care for the things it has on me. I don’t drink or get high, and recently stopped cigarettes.
I reckon it would offer alot of people what i feel to be a slightly safer/healthier ALTERNATIVE to alcohol and cut down on the general drunkeness
I am against legalization, I am for normalization and decriminalization. Why? Because I don’t want to be paying ridiculous amounts of money for a small bit of fun.
If marijuana gets officially recognized it would become a controlled substance like alcohol and tobacco, it would be taxed extremely because of the “dangers”. Also if marijuana is officially recognized and they bump a name with anything additional than the government certified pot, the fines and sentences will be even worse than before, because let’s visage it the government wants their money. But, it won’t be “officially recognized” any time soon because here is no logistical way to differentiate between government legal bud and homegrown.
Decriminalization is a far better alternative, it would in the end leave the general process of buying, selling, growing and possessing the same, but here would be no fines or charges, and if theres no fines or charges, more trustworthy people would deal, eliminating the makings buyers’ risks of buying from approximately sketchy dealer.
I reckon that people need to reckon about the fact that marijuana is a plant, and just let us burn in peace … Delight!
Did a whole discertation on this for a class, got a perfect notch.
Legalizing marijuana would reduce the population in prison, can be taxed, and revenue can be used for oh, I don’t know. REAL drug rehabilitation, education, and the like.
No one NO ONE has died from using marijuana. They have not crashed cars, they do not feel the things the next morning, more people die from over eating than from smoking pot. More people die from everything, since no one dies from smoking pot.
Cigarettes are much more perilous and deadly. They have also not been able to find a link to cancer and marijuana…
It’s a plant…. it’s not detrimental, not deadly, does not cause cancer, helps AIDS victims enhance their appetite, which helps them to eat and get better… helps cancer patients the same way…
I reckon that marijuana is a stupid thing to make illegal. Obesity, alcohol, cigarettes, opaque vehicles, all should be illegal….. but marijuana is not detrimental at all.
it would certainly be negative
to much money in it for the mob and government
It would take it out of the hands of the underground government.
The greatest danger with marijuana is that with regular users it robs them of here ambition. It brings on a lethargy which can greatly hamper their chances of success in school or careers. If you don’t belive this, mind a college student who becomes involved with marijuana. You may by now know a name like this. Over a period of time you will see here “get up and go,” “get up and leave.”