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I truly believe that the government is doing a huge mistake by keeping this herb illegal. They could make a killing off of the taxes just like ciggarettes, and it can be easily controlled. It's effects are less strenuous than alcohol. Plus you just relax and watch tv / talk to friends when you smoke.

When I'm high I don't feel like jumping out of a window or dropping out of school. That's just bullshiz that D.A.R.E. teaches us at a young age when we don't know any better about anything and we aren't able to think for ourselves.

Now, chemical drugs (i.e. cocaine, crack, heroin, etc) should still be illegal showing how they literally kill people. Marijuana contains a smaller amount of tar than a ciggarette. An acre of marijuana plants produces just as much, if not more, oxygen than a square mile of pine forest. Now if you believe in the green house effect, this can be a fix for it.

If anyone has any thoughts on pot's effects, legalization, or anything....post away.

Well, they do say its a "gateway drug", but I don't think there's anything wrong with it.

the effect of smoking a lot of it is loss of memory. my classmate that smokes it for 3 years has very bad memory. it's a miracle that he can remember his girlfriend's name

i doubt that alcohol companies would allow making it legal, cuz they will loose a lot of profit then.

wow thats crazy memory loss would suck. I dont think they would allow it either its all about the money

all i have to say is yum.

Saying there are worser drugs doesn't make this one any better. I'm not 100% sure what's up with Marijuana and the whole Medical thing but as a smoking thing it's pretty bad. You might not want to jump out of a building or feel invincable but a lot of other people do (It's been shown in studies) so as a whole it's more dangerous then it is helpful.

Yeah I have heard about that to. Im not dumb enough to try it to see though either . I dont know how it can be helpful medically either

think about green house effect, as thien said ! let's all smoke it to save our world from the polution !!! peace... green peace...

i don't smoke it cuz i tryed 2 times & it had small effect over me, so i said: "doh, forget about it!"

There isn't anything wrong with it. All the government would have to do is make a legal age until you can smoke it. Kind of like the system they have with alcohol and tobacco cigarettes.

Or the cigarette companies could start slowly putting a little bit of marijuana substituted for tobacco in their cigarettes until the whole cigarette is marijuana. Nobody would notice. Well, they probably would, but I wouldn't complain.

Or maybe this is just the bud talking, I dunno.[/NOTRIGHT]

if you legalize it to people from a certain age the young ones will still smoke it. it's not hard to get alcohol for a not adult, so why should marijuana be hard to get?

the alcohol companies will not let that happen.

The war against Marijuana is an expensive battle, as a great deal of resources go into catching those who buy or sell Marijuana on the black market, prosecuting them in court, and housing them in jail.

So think about that, if they legalize Marijuana they would actually save money. These costs seem particularly exorbitant when dealing with the drug marijuana, as it is widely used, and is likely no more harmful than currently legal drugs such as tobacco and alcohol.

There's another cost to the war against Marijuana, however, which is the revenue lost by governments who cannot collect taxes on illegal drugs. So now, if they are to make it legal they can actually collect taxes.

When considering legalizing marijuana, there are many economic, health, and social issues we must analyze. One economic study will not be the basis of Canada's public policy decisions, but Easton's research does conclusively show that there are economic benefits in the legalization of marijuana. With governments scrambling to find new sources of revenue to pay for important social objectives such as health care and education expect to see the idea raised in Parliament sooner rather than later.

Don't ya just love this color?

They should legalize it. It will create tens of thousands of new jobs. But will also destroy fewer. Poor dealers and growers would get shafted..[/NOTRIGHT]

Economically, there wouldn't be much revenue for the Goverment.

The people will still sell it in the same way, privately so that nobody knows. It'll be sold and bought with cash. There's no tax paying in there because technically, it didn't happen.

Another problem is that they will be charging taxes to generally, the lower and middle classes, classes which can barely pay more taxes. If you think about it, drug dealers become drug dealers because of lack of money, it's great business, you don't pay taxes and with the proper connections, you've got great money. Now your going to tax them, making the lower classes much poorer.

Then you have US Customs in the way. Pot is generally brought into the States and sold within a short period of time. Now it has to wait, in the docks, for a few more days. A few more days waiting means a few less dollars.

You also have to consider that Drug Importers will also have to pay to import it. They'll still smugle it because it's cheaper to smugle it.

You also known that most pot comes from outside of the US. This means that it'll takes years or decades to have a big enough surplus so that it can be exported. Only by exporting the drug, can there be big profit.

New plan. Moving to Amsterdam.[/NOTRIGHT]

Since when does the government care about making the lower classes poorer? They seriously don't care about how rich/poor they actually are.


But if it were to be legalized they probably wouldn't try and smugle it because of the chances of getting caught. Why not just import it since it is legal now?


And finally, if it were to be legalized citizens of the U.S. wouldn't have to worry about getting caught with a farm or just a few plants in there house. They would probably mak there whole back yard a Marijuana farm. And alot more citizens would do this increasing the ammount of Marijuana in the United States.

You're all forgetting about the children...

...The children!...

Think of all the fun the children would have...[/NOTRIGHT]

Like stated above, there would be a certain age you would have to be before you could use Marijuana. Now I know not all children would obey this rule, but what makes it different from today?

Nothing really. But the government just wouldn't legalize it and piss it away to any age. They'd have to set their standards like 18 is smoking age and 21 is drinking. Kids are still gonna smoke it underage though. Like if it was made to 18 years, I'd be breaking the law.[/NOTRIGHT]

In reality, our own government is selling marajuana, and for exorbitant prices. Illegal things are expensive I have personally discovered. If it were legalized, there would be more grown, prices would lower, governments under-the-table profit would decline. That's not going to happen. EVER. Either you move to a different country or you get overwhelmed by all the stupid laws and say screw it like I have done. The war on drugs is CONTROL over us, and other countries now in reality.

And for the 1 in 1000 retards that feel the need to jump out of a window when they relax a little fark them. We have enuf ppl on this planet to do without 1 retard. Can I get an amen?

The goverment actually cares. When they tax you, they give you back some sort of benefit, wether you notice it or not. The benefit of smoking marijuana is already there, now they will be charging you for something you're already doing for free.

If you import it legally, you still have to pay import taxes. Would you rather smugle it and save thousands of dollars or import it and pay up?

First you need to pay for the plants, knowing that you won't get profit for a while. Not a lot of people are whilling to invest so much money upfront with big chances of failing because there's already a steady market with the ouside. There's already stiff competition on pot, why get yourself involved?

I know about smugling around US Customs and such, because during the summer I used to work with them. I saw that people would say that their containers had X amount of Y merchandise, and when a random inspection went on, you'd see that they had more merchandise than what they really told us in the papers. People will still try to save money, legally or not.

I would legalize it but tell everyone how bad it is for you and everything.. some people will still 'import' it illegally to not pay taxes, as Beer said, but the government will still get profit from it. More teenagers will start smoking pot, probably creating chaos, and for a while, life would be worse then before, but when the problem will become ridiculous the government will be forced to do something about it, and guess what?

Population goes down.

Or is it just wishful thinking?

If that plot can never work, then keep it illegalized.. we don't need any more dangerous drugs that won't reduce world population and will increase the number of idiots.

It's illegal for EVERYONE to smoke it now, and I don't think slapping on an age limit on the drug is going to stop anyone. It just means the 21 addict doesn't have to be so careful anymore.