So its 4/20 today and it so happens to coincide with Easter Sunday, a holy holiday for Christians, and a Pagan holiday for those who celebrate the Easter Bunny. Isn’t that special? Now then, there has been this years-old debate on legalizing marijuana, with many people this year for the first time, are toward legalization. (<!-- m -->http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/2 ... 69420.html<!-- m -->)
Pro-marijuana legalization has gained a lot of ground since then, with organizations with dedicated research and legal teams, along with the more neutral scientific research teams that post their findings that are calling into question about marijuana’s supposed effects that warrant it be classified as a Schedule I drug in the first place, which pro-legals do use their findings to advance their case. And why do they advance their case? Because the circumstances that got marijuana to be illegal was a combination of racism, yellow journalism, greedy and or corrupt business executives, corrupt and ignorant legislators, and personal advancement, all unjust.
So I would like to ask of you, do you think marijuana should be legalized and have the government reexamine its status as a drug or not?

Here are some resources to help with the discussion.

Facts/Endnotes
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PR
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And some history of Marijuana itself that I wrote: <!-- m -->http://www.sendspace.com/file/81bg55

i'm gonna say the same thing i say any time this comes up: i don't care if weed gets legalized or not, and i'm pretty conservative on most everything

however, i really don't like marijuana, both because i've met too many users of it who are pretentious s***heads who think it's the cure for anything that ails you and because it smells so bad that i don't want to be in the same neighborhood as someone who uses it.

It's good to share other viewpoints, although posting links to 17 articles is a bit much. Personally, I have mixed feelings about marijuana. I think it's crazy to spend as much money we do enforcing existing anti-marijuana laws. As for medical marijuana, I've seen some times when access to high-quality, uncontaminated cannibis would've been beneficial to people with cancer or certain other illnesses. However, there's been little research on the long-term effects of marijuana use, and it's hard to forecast the possible side effects of legalizing recreational marijuana.

But the few research that has been undertaken, have called into question about marijuana's status as a schedule I drug due to the propaganda that is a direct product of those greedy corporate executives and corrupt legislators calling for the government to criminalize it in the first place, hell, I could even say that it was likely the premise for why we have these pro-marijuana interest groups fighting for its legalization and further studies currently being undertaken.

Two things about pot (and I should know):


Some people been smoking for decades, leading productive lives as lawyers, cooks, accountants, techies, mechanics,....all kinds of professions. They get home at night, rather than a drink they roll a joint or reach for their bong. Others guys, pots turns them into catatonic zombies, in capable nearly of speech let alone thought or work. So you've got friendly drunks and your mean drunks. You just never know.


The second thing is that pot stays in your system, depositing itself in fat cells, for longer than any other drug. A lot longer. So that's about it.

Too much of anything is bad, as well as mixing different medication to intake at the same time, which Im assuming the latter. Or it could be that he could have been smoking "Spice" (http://www.drugs.com/synthetic-marijuana.html) which is much worse than real marijuana.

But there are a lot more benefits marijuana smoking has on one's health than the risks attained from it. This one example shows how marijuana helps stabilize an otherwise debilitating condition: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/07/health/charlotte-child-medical-marijuana/

I honestly have no strong feelings one way or the other. My only concern with it being legalized as something recreational or even medical is running into those that shouldn't be using it but are, but that's kind of about the same as with drinkers.

Pretty much.

My main gripe is how people in this state have already been blowing themselves up by trying to make hash oil indoors.

It generates review, legalization would lessen the costs for the judicial system, and the government is already invasive enough.

Tyrone knows, my vice comes in bottles but if people can attain guns with relative ease (and I don't care who owns guns.... gun owners tend to kill other gun owners)why are people going to jail for herb?

The real question you should be asking about internment is why is the Judicial Branch of the US government using dispoportionate sentencing against criminals who smoke it, some of whom who do not commit violent crimes or even be part of a gang?