Should marijuana be legalized?

[jt money]

First off, anyone openly discussing what they do illegally on a public forum is a complete moron. IP lookup or just run a search your posts, see what you drive, find you at a meet, get your tag...bust you there or be at your front door that night. That simple.

Then how much money do you suppose is being made off it? about $50 Billion per year is spend on the 'War on Drugs'. Add up the salaries, time, labor, equipment, etc. spent on a seizure then in court and think again....the average cost to prosecute and incarcerate each person on drug charges is $450,000...PLUS welfare cost for that person's family. Nearly 60% of the 1.5+ million prisoners in the US are in for drug charges.


It's just as easy [or complicated, whichever way you look at it] to make liquor in your own home...you don't see too many people with stills or brewery's in their basements.


Make it zero tolerance. Try and come up with a good excuse at why your eyes are dilated...plus THC saliva tests are available.

You get better with practice. I'd imagine a majority of the peoples times would be better, i've seen how nervous people are at the tree.Then again good bud makes some people jittery and sometimes paranoid.

It's a tough decision to legalize or not, i don't see it happening...especially since the people making the decision have only smoked the much less powerful marijuana from the 60's and 70's.

glad i could be your example. dont think anyone is going through all that hassle for a smoker. now if i said i delt that would be dumb. you have a good point on money in versus money spent. 450k is a few cars at some seizures. and out of the 60% of drug offenders ill bet its less than 5% are for marijuana. now making it yourself. your right not many people make hard alcohol any more cause it is hard to reproduce all the science thats in it today. but i have plenty of friends with microbrew setups. the zero tolerence i have to agree on. now the track i had alot of experence (4 years @ 200+ runs a year) before i quit smoking before i got there. im not saying my reaction times where crappy before but they did get better if i had not smoked before hand.

[mirageturbo]

Yep stop wasting money on the war on drugs because the pot heads are just taking up space in jail. If you legalize it the stream of income from selling pot legally will allow the USA to focus on killing of other drugs coming into the USA.

[{X}Echo419]

weed is like a fake vagina.

if you need 1 to have a good time I think that's pretty lame. but,

I don't give a shit if you have it or use it. just don't use it around me.

[Ran]

It's only another step downhill IMO.

- The government spends lots of money trying to fight marijuana.
- So we legalize marijuana and now use that same money to fight cocaine.
- Oh no, now we're spending a lot of money on fighting cocaine!
- Why not just legalize cocaine now?


See how that's a real half@ssed excuse? Sure, there are worse drugs out there, but if you legalize something like marijuana, then other drug users will start pressing for legalization of other drugs. They'll even use the same excuses that you're using now.

Give somebody an inch, and they'll try to take a mile.