Budgetary Implications Of Marijuana Prohibition in the U.S.

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I am completely for legalization. I think the only thing stopping it is a accurate, efficient field test. If you are suspected of being high while driving or at work, the police/bosses will want a test that tells them how high you are, not that you have smoked in the last week/month/months.

They need to develop a field test that tells the authorities how impaired you are, then a limit can be set for driving, etc. As far as I know there isn't a test that will do that, and until then, I don't think legalization will happen.

 

This is my problem with legalizing marijuana. I've often heard it referred to as a "gateway drug," meaning that marijuana usage will lead to usage of more powerful drugs. If it becomes legal to use marijuana, and the number of users increases, how many of those people will migrate to cocaine or heroine? Do we come back in 20 years and legalize the more powerful drugs and tax them too? I just think that legalizing marijuana for the sake of taxing it opens pandoras box with other drugs. Where would it stop? Just something to think about.

 

propaganda, that is a bunch of crap. When i smoked my first joint, i didn't say to myself, man that was great, i wonder what cocaine is like. the government at one time also said that marijuana makes black people want to rape white women. That is all false, in fact amsterdam (where pot is not legal, but tolerated at coffee shops, and police wont break into your house searching for pot) heroin use, and cocaine use is almost a non statistic.

 

even if it were a gateway drug, why should it be illegal? if people like gateways, so be it.

its called freedom, bros.

 

thats fine. I didn't know, just going of what i've heard. I've never smoked weed and I have no desire to.

However, have you ever been to amsterdam? I have. I spent a morning wandering around the city during a long airport layover a couple years ago, and I have no desire to go back. The history and architecture of the city was beautiful, but the entire place stank. It smelled completely aweful. Whether its illegal over there or not, the smell of marijuana is everywhere. Just walking some of the main streets over there made me sick to my stomach. If that is what casual marijuana use does to a city, I want no part of it.

 

in 2 years i will be going 22ND HIGH TIMES CANNABIS CUP - NOVEMBER 22-26, 2009 - AMSTERDAM (of course it will be the 23rd annual by that time)

i will get some judges passes, and i may never come back. hopefully i can watch LSU games in Amsterdam.

it would be nice to walk into a coffee shop and buy some pot sit there and smoke it, but i never was a stoner in public kind of guy. I have asthma which medical marijuana is being prescribed for now, and RLS, restless leg syndrome, in which marijuana helps greatly, and also insomnia, which is the same as the previous 2. I would be just fine, sitting at home eating pot cookies, or pot pancakes, or smoking a bowl, the whole coffee shop wouldn't bother me, i think just getting the federal government to recognize its medical value is the first step.

 

The argument to make it legal is the argument that gets ignored when we buy alcohol.