My simple reason why mary jane should be legal...

[Monkey4Sale]

If you live in the United States, and are over 18 years of age, you vote for things. If Weed became legal, we'd vote on it. If the tax was too high, we could vote for a lower tax. We run our government by voting for what we want. If we don't like something we can change it. We pay their paychecks, the government are our employees. So if you want weed to be legal, and not have it taxed, vote for it to be legal, and not taxed. That's how America works.

[jailer3000]

If you live in the United States, and are over 18 years of age, you vote for things. If Weed became legal, we'd vote on it. If the tax was too high, we could vote for a lower tax. We run our government by voting for what we want. If we don't like something we can change it. We pay their paychecks, the government are our employees. So if you want weed to be legal, and not have it taxed, vote for it to be legal, and not taxed. That's how America works.

thats how we would like it to work........unfortunatyl there r greater powers at work.

weed were sold than, as you said, there would be mad taxation, boosting prices. That is the reason for people growing their own. Therefore, no money would be made, leaving no reason for a country to legalize weed.

yes some ppl will grow their own, but the majority of ppl wont be willin to put the effort into growin it. plus the quality of the pot u could get would be so much greater then it would for the regualr grower. u can grow tobacco or make alcohol...but not that many ppl do it cuz its not worth the effort and the quality wont be anywhere near what u can buy. i bet the same would happen with pot

[mikomomma]

Here is my theory:

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1. If weed is legalized, then you immediataly put into control of the gov't
2. By having it gv't controlled you eliminate a huge % of our prison pop.
3. This would save the gov't money which in turn would save us money
4. The weed production would then either be cntrolled by the gov't or companies that would be watched by the gov't
5. The everyday person is not going to waste their time trying to grow their own stuff, when you will be able to buy top of the line stuff in stores
6. As the gov't has done w/ the alcohol and tobbacco industries they can tax the hell outa weed and make good money
7. By legalizin pot, you elimante a huge portion of the youth violence rates on our streets
8. Cops would be able to work on catchin REAL criminals instead of the harmless mary j growing facilities
9. Since smokin pot for a lot of kids is just a rebelious thing, you might even see a decline in use by minors (i kno this is stretchin it a bit)
10. The gov't wuld be able to monitor all weed activity and control the content etc. eliminating people who sell laced stuff to unsuspecting people
11. you wont have to worry about gettin ripped off nemore
12. the gov't culd also make good money off of the sale of smoking paraphanalia (sp)
13. the medcal prperties culd finally be cmpletly understood

as far as i can c it would be a win win situation for the gov't and the ppl of america, but then agian im just a 16 yr old w/ my opinions

I agree with the point in whole. I wish one day weed would be legal but I don't think government having control is the right way and I know many other people like myself who would still grow. The government is too money hungry to trust and does add things to substances unnecessarily. I would grow my own still, knowing what I am smoking is very important to me and I am not paranoid either. Fluoride is a good example.

The Big Bush won't allow it because he has a hard on for control and legalizing mj would mean legalizing hemp. Boy would he lose control if hemp were legalized. It would help our deficite in more ways than most can imagine but the major thing holding it back is the drug companies. Most of our governments, doctors and many other leaders accept money from drug companies in various ways.

[Kryzco]

About the addiction part, I would say that it couldn't be an addiction because I felt I was addicted but I wanted it, not needed it, and when your addicted to something your mind and body tells you you need it or you'll die

I don't think it should be legalized, just de-criminalized