Kushman1995
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Do you think Marijuana should be legalized.
Do you think Marijuana should be legalized........
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KayAreOEnnEyeSee
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I say we take it one step at a time... Medical Legalization, then Decriminalization, then total Legalization... We really need to use it to its full potential (paper, fuel....and the other many uses we have/had for it before it was illegal)
Kushman1995
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yeah I agree
Kushman1995
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Kushman1995
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why fr0zen
sunshine1754
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All drugs should be legal and the government should control and sell them. Although I would still grow and not pay for it.
Kushman1995
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I agree with vertise
stickyfingers
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The prohibition of cannabis is a failure so decriminalization or legalization is the way to go.
HowardWCampbell
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Is the pope catholic?
I have yet to hear a convincing argument in favor of keeping it illegal.
I have yet to hear a convincing argument in favor of keeping it illegal.
Anonymiss1969
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The problem with making it legal is that the government will have to say SOMETHING to the hundreds of thousands of people in prison for simple possession alone.
I believe it should be legal. 3 of my grandparents need it medicinally and the greatest times of my life were when I was stoned out of my mind because I'm a very shy person and it allows me to open up.
As for all drugs being legal... It would take a completely reformed society for that to happen safely... unfortunately.
I believe it should be legal. 3 of my grandparents need it medicinally and the greatest times of my life were when I was stoned out of my mind because I'm a very shy person and it allows me to open up.
As for all drugs being legal... It would take a completely reformed society for that to happen safely... unfortunately.
SmokeNowSmokeLata
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YES 
JimmyPot
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Yes! The government is not totally stupid and realizes marijuana is the type of drug that makes a lot of users think different and view things in other ways.It is harder I think to make a pot user into a 9 to 5 working class type that keeps the world easier for the elite 1%. Potheads are always trying to find ways to make their own money with out the traditional methods.The government knows legalizing weed would change the country in a big way.Its the fear of the change and less people going the slave to the machine route that keeps the powers at be preaching propaganda against Marijuana.
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chitownsmoking
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they make much more money with it being ileagle the taxing it and making it legal. in some states like cali they have the best of both worlds, were they make money on taxes of legal mmj patiants and still take people to jail by the masses and give them fines and shit
vertise
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if you make it legal you can turn it into a industry as large as spirits. Booze every year is worth about 140 to 160 billion dollars. Thats alot of money in taxes when all is said and done. Plus yes they make alot of money from prosecuting but yet at the same time you spend more money keeping prisoners in jail. Building jails, hiring Prison guards, food, trials where you use public defenders, DA, Judges, Etc. All adds up.
Green Cross
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In 1932, wealthy industrialist John D. Rockefeller stated in a letter:
The Twenty-first Amendment is also one of only two operative provisions of the Constitution which prohibit private conduct; the other is the Thirteenth Amendment. As Laurence Tribe points out: "there are two ways, and only two ways, in which an ordinary private citizen ... can violate the United States Constitution. One is to enslave someone, a suitably hellish act. The other is to bring a bottle of beer, wine, or bourbon into a State in violation of its beverage control lawsan act that might have been thought juvenile, and perhaps even lawless, but unconstitutional?"[2]
When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognized. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.[1]
As more and more Americans opposed the Eighteenth Amendment, movement grew for repeal. However, repeal was complicated by grassroots politics. Although the US Constitution provides two methods for ratifying constitutional amendments, only one method had been used until then; that was for ratification by the state legislatures of three-fourths of the states. However, the wisdom of the day was that the state legislators of many states were either beholden to or simply fearful of the temperance lobby. For that reason, when Congress formally proposed the repeal of Prohibition on February 20, 1933, (with the requisite two-thirds having voted in favor in each house; 63 to 21 in the Senate and 289 to 121 in the House) they chose the other ratification method established by Article V, that being via state conventions. To date, the Twenty-first is the only amendment ratified by conventions held in the several states, rather than being ratified by the state legislatures.
The Twenty-first Amendment is also one of only two operative provisions of the Constitution which prohibit private conduct; the other is the Thirteenth Amendment. As Laurence Tribe points out: "there are two ways, and only two ways, in which an ordinary private citizen ... can violate the United States Constitution. One is to enslave someone, a suitably hellish act. The other is to bring a bottle of beer, wine, or bourbon into a State in violation of its beverage control lawsan act that might have been thought juvenile, and perhaps even lawless, but unconstitutional?"[2]