For the first time, 50% support legalizing marijuana

[Honu]

and also it seems our values and beliefs and country are all falling apart faster than ever these days with the kind of people we have now

they do that and the fall of the country as we know it is not far behind

[aflin]

I can honestly see MJ being legalized within the next decade. I support the legalization purely on the basis of taxing the hell out of it. No, I don't smoke it, so many are inclined to think that based on my position.

But looking at statistics, alcohol does kill more people than MJ. If anyone wants to dispute this, google it and look for any reputable sources.

[4x4twenty6]

I honestly dont think that the number of pot smokers will have some dramatic increase if it is legalized.

I think it should be legalized.

I do not smoke now and i honestly probably would not smoke if it was legalized. I am a cop and honestly i dont give a rats ass about some body with a marijuana for personal consumption. I am more worried about the cocaine, heroin, meth and crack which contain a ton of harmful chemicals. Plus the only violent people i have ever dealt with concerning marijuana are the dealers. Make it legal and we essentially can get rid of the illegal street dealers.

[ICANHITHIMMAN]

I honestly dont think that the number of pot smokers will have some dramatic increase if it is legalized.

I agree with you. I dont think it will be dramatic. Their already doing it, in fact everyone is doing it! I have stoped being shocked when I hear that so and so smokes Every single person in mine or my wifes family smokes with 3 exceptions that are all cops or mil. It dosent effect the 3 of us we would not even know they were doing it if that didnt tell us. Imagin how many people you know like that?

[4x4twenty6]

My buddies that smoke told me one night when we were all hanging out that the general consensus was that they dont give a **** if im a cop or not, that they were gonna smoke anyway. I laughed and told them to smoke up cuz i dont give a shit. I know people from all walks of life from cops to doctors to attorney's who do it.

It needs to be legalized and we need to take advantage of the economic advantages it would bring.

[kartoffel]

Meanwhile in Alabama, a law is going into place next Monday that will make herbal and synthetic "fake marijuana" a controlled substance. Good job, Montgomery. You're about to turn a bunch of people who were conscientiously operating within the law into criminals overnight.

Legalizing pot may be gaining popularity on the national level, but locally it feels a bit darker lately.

[bp7178]

It needs to be legalized and we need to take advantage of the economic advantages it would bring.

Kind of like how casino money was suppose to go to schools, and how the taxes on cigaretts were suppose to really help out...

[KhanRad]

Kind of like how casino money was suppose to go to schools, and how the taxes on cigaretts were suppose to really help out...

Sin taxes always have the best of intentions, but after a while the government becomes addicted to the revenue......and thus, the government becomes dependent upon the sin.

[Belmont31R]

I think more and more people are looking at the situation from a Libertarian approach. The comparison between Mexican drug cartels of today, and the Italian Mafia of Prohibition is strikingly similar......which is another incentive to take way the cartel's business.

However, I don't have a whole lot of faith in the majority of the US population not to become addicts. Whether it be marijuana, or some other type of legalized drug. The #1 cause of death in the United States is not auto accidents anymore, it is abuse of prescription drugs. China destroyed itself as a society and nation in the mid 1800s after most of its population had turned into opium addicts. Even the Netherlands, which was full of "coffeeshops" which legally sold marijuana, are becoming more restricted and regulated as the detox centers are being over taxed with patients, and the job force is resorting to bring in immigrates who aren't drug users to be productive.

Ive been to Amsterdam many times, and I have close blood relatives in Holland right now. Much like the rest of Europe they accepted in huge numbers of 3rd worlders which took their "liberties" and ruined them. The last time I was there the only time we got hassled was 3rd worlders asking us if we wanted heroin and opium.


You can go into a coffeeshop there, and no one is going to hassle you to smoke weed. We went into many and never even got mentioned unless you asked.


The same thing in Germany. The only time I got offered drugs there was Turks in a park.

[Belmont31R]

I agree with you. I dont think it will be dramatic. Their already doing it, in fact everyone is doing it! I have stoped being shocked when I hear that so and so smokes Every single person in mine or my wifes family smokes with 3 exceptions that are all cops or mil. It dosent effect the 3 of us we would not even know they were doing it if that didnt tell us. Imagin how many people you know like that?

When I was a sat dish tech I went into lots of homes that reeked of it. I can't stand the smell of it myself but I imagine there are lots of people who are "friends" with neighbors who have no clue.