Quote Originally Posted by jailer3000
Here is my theory:

Ok
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
All good points except we live in quite the capitalist time and unfortunatly if 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.

Not to mention the reefer madness and reefer madness 2 movements. You can't expect a country to admit that all the "facts" they've told the country over the years were lies. The population would think to ask "why", to find rascism to be a major factor. This is turn would make society lose respect and feel betrayed by their perfect little gorvenment, ultimately loosing some patriotism and support.

All in all I fully support the legalization of marijuana but it's going to be a tough fight and Denver and the SAFER organization are definatly helping out along the way.
adamforsure Reviewed by adamforsure on . My simple reason why mary jane should be legal... There's probably something I'm not taking into account, since it seems so simple to me but anyways: If you can legalize alcohol, and you can legalize tobacco, why the hell can't you legalize weed? For starters, alcohol and cigarettes play huge factors in the economy: so would weed. I'm just trying to ask why the world is so scared about weed. In my experience an overdose of alcohol is infinitely worse than an overdose of THC. Plus weed doesn't have nicotine or anything its not physically Rating: 5