Do you think marijuana will be legalized for recreational use in the next ten years?

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Progress in this country moves at a snail's pace. There was a time I would have said yes, but observing the unbelievable resistance to freedom and rights flourishing in this country, I now doubt it, unless there is some astonishing shift from lunacy to clarity.

I think in an enlightened world the government would legalize ALL drugs. Doing this would take the power and money out of the criminal's hands and would allow the government to tax it and regulate it. Allowing a black market is just stupid.

Also, with drugs legal it would lessen the burden on the prisons and jails and it would allow police to focus on murderers, thieves, prostitution, rapists and child molesters. There are more drug related arrests than any other crime. The argument that some give against legalizing all drugs is bogus.

Some argue that people who otherwise never would do drugs would start doing it if it was legal. Not true. I think the use would go down dramatically.

Also, it is much easier for kids to get illegal drugs than it is to get alcohol. If drugs were legal there would be laws in place to protect minors from getting it. I'm sure a black market would still exist but it would become significantly diminished and eventually as people realized there was no real money in it and that they could not compete with legal alternatives it would disappear almost completely.

Of course this is all wishful thinking and will never happen. Wheelie_McDuff 3 months ago .

I completely agree with you about this. We have too many money making operations in place right now to effect any change. Too many ridiculous, unfounded excuses are being used to keep those operations in place.

For example, one of the main reasons marijuana isn't being legalized is the claim that it is addicting. Cigarettes are leaps and bounds more addicting, and they're one of the biggest killers every year, and marijuana actually has some healing application. Pure idiocy and greed.

Same with alcohol. This country is being hijacked by a bunch of self serving, deceitful MORONS who prance around like some arrogant brain dead Borg and play parlor games with our rights and freedoms for the sake of their own power and accumulation of wealth. Sorry, but they really piss me off.

Nixon's ridiculous 'war on drugs' to punish the hippies who he felt were threatening the government doesn't have a logical leg to stand on in relation to the facts about other substances out there that have been legal for decades. How on earth has this been allowed to persevere? This country is a mess.

I thought that it might be legalized twenty years ago. Obviously I thought wrong. Criminalization of marijuana and other intoxicating substances has created major industries, legal and illegal.

For example, drug cartels would not have evolved to the extent existing today had the war on drugs not been started. However, the war (like all wars) provides employment to many in the manufacturing of specialized equipment, law enforcement, the legal profession and incarceration (not to mention production, distribution and sales of the prohibited). Everyone profiting from this war, legally or not, will vigorously support its continuation for ever.

Do we need any more problems...it everything is legal...American may not be able to handle it. I don't want to drive on a road with others smoking marijuana or out in public for others to see.

NEWS FLASH: You already drive on the road with people high on marijuana and a plethora of other drugs. All the problems that people say would arise from legalizing drugs already happen. Legalizing them would actually decrease those problems because there would be government regulation.

Wheelie_McDuff 3 months ago .

No, there are too many complicating factors.

Well........as some say, tax it and help with deficits in city/state/federal government. That's one approach to legalizing MJ. And as we know, politicians always want more money coming in.

But those who advocate legalizing marijuana (and other illegal drugs) seem to say it's use is harmless. Not so, according to medical researchers. Just as the effects of smoking have been proven to cause lung cancer (one of ten smokers will develop lung cancer) and nicotine contributes to the development of other cancers (colon, kidney, bladder, many others); and nicotine contributes to degenerative disk disease (oh, my aching back); and nicotine slows healing in the body, including after surgery; so there is a growing body of evidence that marijuana use harms the body."(Reuters) - Long-term heavy use of marijuana may cause two important brain structures to shrink, Australian researchers said on Monday.

Brain scans showed the hippocampus and amygdala were smaller in men who were heavy marijuana users compared to nonusers, the researchers said. The men had smoked at least five marijuana cigarettes daily for on average 20 years. The hippocampus regulates memory and emotion, while the amygdala plays a critical role in fear and aggression.

The study, published in the American Medical Association's journal Archives of General Psychiatry, also found the heavy cannabis users earned lower scores than the nonusers in a verbal learning task -- trying to recall a list of 15 words. The marijuana users were more likely to exhibit mild signs of psychotic disorders, but not enough to be formally diagnosed with any such disorder, the researchers said."Here's one statement we can count on: There is no drug without side effects. That includes legal and illegal drugs.

And the fewer drugs we put into our bodies, the better off our bodies and minds will be.Com/article/2008/06/02/us-marijuana-brain-idUSN0227147420080602? FeedType=RSS&feedName=topNews.

Yes, but it should be down to personal choice. If I can legally destroy my liver and lungs, I should be able to legally destroy my brain as well. Wheelie_McDuff 3 months ago .

No argument from me on your statement. I know people do kill themselves........and I think that's their right, to choose when and how to end their own life. I understand your point.

We can legally destroy our liver (with alcohol) and our lungs (with cigarettes). We can legally destroy our brains with legal prescription meds and legal alcohol (see numerous celebrity deaths due to a combination of both). So you are saying you should be legally able to destroy your brain.

Just as you can legally ride a motorcycle and do it foolishly, have an awful wreck and leave yourself brain dead. Or drive a car foolishly and have a wreck, with devastating injuries and death to ourselves and others? But when we do these things, legally do them to our own body, should others be involved in our decisions?

Should others be involved physically, financially and emotionally? With a motor vehicle crash caused by alcohol, drugs, speed or a combination thereof, innocent victims can suffer grievous injuries and death. So the driver of the car/motorcycle/boat has involved others with physical injuries.

And others are involved financially as well. Alcohol and drug use costs the USA billions of dollars each year, for treatment mandated by the courts, for treatment at taxpayer expense in hospitals and rehab facilities, for disability payments for those who end up in wheelchairs and/or hospital beds in long-term care facilities. And the emotional toll to the families, to the children and parents and spouses of those who put legal and illegal drugs into their bodies and/or who drive foolishly and too fast, is horrible.So while I support your right (and the rights of others) to destroy your own brain(s) and bodies, I do not support the right to transfer the costs to others.

Should the motorcycle rider choose to ride w/o a helmet, should he have a tattoo that says "do not treat me if I wreck, let me die"? How about the drug user - legal and/or illegal drugs? Should s/he have the same tattoo that says "do not pump my stomach, let me die".

Should the long-time alcoholic say "don't even consider me for a liver transplant"? You're not in this life alone, Wheelie, you're not by yourself.To me the larger issue is not whether you should be able to legally buy marijuana, it's why do people choose to use alcohol, tobacco, legal drugs they can do without and illegal drugs they can do without. I suppose that's another question.

Like I said previously, all that stuff already happens. People are already getting killed from illegal drugs and it will not stop. If all drugs were legal the government would be able to tax it and there would be millions or even billions of dollars in revenue for the government(that could pay for drug treatment and hospital bills)instead of the money going to drug cartels, drug dealers and criminals.

This "war on drugs" does more damage than it prevents. Wheelie_McDuff 3 months ago .

NOPE! We do not have the FUNDS for this right now. FAR more important issues we need to focus on.

THEY SHOULD JUST decrease the punishment to maybe what it would be to get busted jaywalking. Personal stash should just be ignored, dealing get community service or some other nasty job nobody else wants to do. BECAUSE people can easily grow the crap, the reality is, very few people are going to actually BUY the stuff legally anyway.

Cheaper and easier to just lower or eliminate the punishment instead.

I certainly hope so. The facts are ignored. We have too much invested in the war on drugs.

Pot is a drug of youth. Somewhere along the line you'll grow out of it because the last thing you will need is something that enhances your appetite and puts you to sleep. I don't thing the liquor and cigarette companies want the competition...yet.

They already have the competition, it just isn't legal competition. Wheelie_McDuff 3 months ago .

Look at the lineup of political candidates on the conservative side and ask yourself the question again. No one learned the lesson from "the great experiment" in the 20s except of course organized crime. It was the Volstead act that put the Mafia on the map, and cemented it in place as one of the longest running and most successful business enterprises in the history of the country.

The primary beneficiary of the current war on drugs is of course the prison industry, which as a result of the "war" has become a powerful (and insidious) political force in its own right. Now, while we are treated to colorful images of Rick Perry praying for rain, his neighbors to the South are experiencing all the joys of living in a narco state, as a result of our criminalization of narcotics. It's only a matter of time before Mexican cartels will be "lobbying" our politicians.

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