Do you think marijuana should be legal? If so, could this be the answer to the economic issues faced by the US?

I think it should be, but this time, we should nip some problems in the bud (no pun intended). We should make marijuana legal, but with the following included in the law: 1. In order to purchase, possess, or consume marijuana, you must be over 18, and must have a current marijuana license.2.To obtain a marijuana license, you must take a class and pass a test verifying that you understand all of the health hazards, side effects, and risks of choosing to use the drug.

Then you must sign a waiver, releasing the manufacturer from any liability should the drug cause you harm. 3. Marijuana must be used in private homes or bars, where no minors are present.4. Supplying marijuana to a child, or interacting with a child while under the influence of marijuana, will be punishable with incarceration.

5. Going out into public under the influence of marijuana will be punishable with fines and/or incarceration.6. Individuals holding marijuana licenses may be legally discriminated against by employers, landlords, and insurance companies.

Marijuana smokers will have no recourse if they are denied a job, housing, or health/life/auto/renters insurance. If they put all of that in place, I would say, let them smoke away! Unlike cigarettes, I don't want to have to hear them whining about how after smoking themselves half to death, they now consider themselves victims.

If people can smoke weed while taking personal responsibility for their own actions, and not making their habits anyone else's problem, then I don't have an issue with it. I do believe that taxing marijuana would greatly reduce the budget problems in just about every state. Some skeptics think that people would just grow it at home rather than buying it, but no one grows their own tobacco, precisely because Philip Morris can outdo any home farmer.

No one would smoke their little ditch weed again once they got a taste of what the companies could make. The stoners would pay the tax happily, it would get spend on schools and other social problems, and so long as we didn't have to spend it on the stoners themselves (thus the provisions above), it's win-win.

From just a use platform yes it should be legal and controlled under the same laws as alcohol. On a global view it is what the purchase money does when it goes to other countries. Is it supporting illegal activity in another country, who is dying to get it to market or will only US pot be sold here?

Then can it match the quality of foreign pot, if not people will still buy illegal. There is a larger world view that must be looked at here. It cannot solve the economic crisis in totality but what would be the tax on it vs. all social costs to enforce and manage this new venture.

How would law enforcement manage the illegal problems with it-DUI, etc.. This is really not as simple an undertaking as OK why not.

Yes, I think it should. It is not a bad thing if you use it responsibly. If alcohol and cigarettes can be legal, why can't marijuana?

The law spends way too much time busting people for smoking it when they could be focusing on more important matters.

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