Legalize Marijuana? Yes or No?
Wait wait wait before you judge!!!! I am a 46 year old who has not touched the drug in many many years. In my past there may have been a time that it was in my hand, I may have taken a hit…..or two…..and possibly inhaled…..deeeeply…….There’s even a possibility that I enjoyed it at the time. There’s also a very good chance that I was drinking legalized Beer at the time increasing the tax income for the city, county and state. With that said and now being older and more responsible I seldom drink and no smoking Marijuana (Pot) at all and not sure how many years it’s been since I last did and it really doesn’t matter.
Let’s get down to business now. And business is gaining tax revenue from the Billions (yes Billions with a “B”) marijuana trade in the US as well as the trade between other countries that are currently smuggling it in. I know there’s a downside to drugs as there is in anything similar including alcohol, guns, food (yes food), cigarettes, and prescription medications. Anything can be abused.
If Marijuana were legalized and controlled similar to alcohol it would cause no more social issues than alcohol and I agree those are bad enough but most of those issues can be helped by education and needs to start and run K through 12 . The main advantage of legalization would be the tax revenue that the government would gain which could pay for social security, Medicare and health care. I think an individual should be able to grow their own for their own personal use maybe pay a yearly license and then buy a different license to be a retailer or wholesaler. The same rules and regulations that apply to alcohol should apply to marijuana. There are many things that would have to be worked out to make this work and stop the billions in spending on the drug war. I do think that it could help the country’s economy in many ways. This is just an opinion…..what’s yours?
Legalizing it would be good. Make some tax money off of it.
At least decriminalize it.
Being that I live in Northern California and I have a medical card which I go in twice a year to the doctor to update. The problem is not with those of us who do it legally where it can be controlled so to speak but with the mexicans that come in and farm illegally with mass weapons for mass distribution. I also do not want the government to control something else so for me I want to know how they are going to do this where it is in the control of you and me and not the government for their doing and we don’t mind paying the taxes
Since many of us are not from Cali can you tell us how the Medical Marijuana thing works…..I agree about the gov control but to keep just anybody from growing it and selling it to kids it has to be managed somehow. And we know from the Great Tobacco companies it can’t be managed by the growers. It needs to be ran like a good business that isn’t connected to pharmecuticals that believes that kids under 21 shouldn’t smoke it and you shouldn’t smoke and drive
Grow your own should be legal…..
No, No, No:
That will just be something else to worry about. “Head Lines 3 killed in two car accident. Marijuana found in car”. The driver tested positive for Marijuana use. Legal or not someone will die. As of now the main concern is impaired driving from alcohol so I guess we can add this to the list.
Yes Yes Yes
With marijuana users no longer being jailed for possession lots of room would be opened up in our already overcrowded prison system for more hardened offenders such as: murderers, rapists, child molesters and other violent criminals.
The Judicial system would no longer be burdened by having to trial cases involving marijuana.
The police will be able to allocate more resources to solving more violent crimes.
Since marijuana could be purchased at any drug store after being legalized, violent crimes such as: robbery, drug warfare, contamination of drugs by other substances such as: LSD, PCP and Cocaine could quickly become a thing of the past.