'It's bad because it is'

"It's bad because it is" - That seems to be societies view on cannabis. Why do you think that is?

People reading cheap gossip rags rather than actually researching the facts. But then if you were never really interested in smoking weed/ had a family member who smokes why would you? So my worthless opinion is that mainstream media is to blame.

i blame teachers and schools and D.A.R.E, anything of that nature

"mainstream media is to blame."

Seems to be that way for the majority of the problems in the United States, no?

Every one of you missed. People think cannabis is bad for them because governments have been telling them it is. Now the governments are being proved wrong and nobody wants to admit it.

you will die from smoke inhalation before dieing from an overdose. Weed is probably the most safe drug out. Safer than most legal drugs.

The govt will lose way too much money if it were ever to be legalized which is why it never will be. This isn't like tobacco which needs to be cultivated. Any moron can grow weed so who would pay for some low quality bud from the local gas station?

people think its bad because thats wat goverment and school and such tells them, people are ignorant and are scared of nething new and the goverment cant ever stop it, its the most popular recreational drug out there so the goverment wants a piece of it thats why i think its gonna be legalized, sorry yzfr6, or opinions seem to differ greatly

"would pay for some low quality bud from the local gas station?"

It wouldn't be low quality for exactly the reasons you state and not everyone would want to grow their own. A Canadian government study worked out that with their current population they would make £3.5 billion per year in tax. Do the maths.

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You sure about that? We have low grade beer don't we? You don't think they can beer stronger? Weed would most definately not be high grade stuff.

3.5 billion is nothing. Look how much has been made off of it being Illegal. our entire judicial system is financed by drug arrests and convictions. That is the main reason our prisons are overcrowded.

Marijuana is Far less harmful than alcohol but I do not seeing it being legalized anytime soon.

we need a scientist stoner here...somebody who can make weed resilient enough to grow pretty much anywhere, and fertile enough to reproduce a millionfold. think dandelions...they're puffballs, but every one of those little floaty things is a seed! if weed were planted all over the country, in the wild, in the cities, people's gardens...they'd have no choice but to make it legal. they could spend tons of gov't money to cut/burn all of it down, but it'd keep growing back...and they'd get criticized for wasting money. they wouldn't be able to profit from it either, since it grows everywhere...

while I'm at it, why haven't we fixed grass? regular lawn-type grass, I mean. make it so it never grows more than two inches high, and you'd never need to mow your lawn again! I can't possibly be the only person to have thought of this. lets put genetic engineering to good use, people!