(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I believe the whole arguement is overrated.

Marijuana been proved to help treat some diseases that are otherwise unbearable (Keep in mind I said "treat", not cure. By that I mean stuff like dealing with pain from arthritis and glaucoma patients and induce hunger for chemo therapy cancer patients who otherwise can't eat).

1 acre of hemp, a product of the marijuana plant, produces 4x as much oxygen and paper as 1 acre of timber. Keep in mind a Marijuana plant is on average 4-10 feet tall depending on strain, whereas a timber tree is, what 40-50+ feet?

Legalizing marijuana and regulating it's distribution like tobacco and alcohol would take a majority of funding away from gangs. Not to mention the fact that a store clerk asks for I.D., whereas a Crip/Blood could care less.

Fact: It's physically impossible to overdose or become addicted to marijuana. A mental addiction is possible, but if you smoke weed for a week and then suddenly stop, your body won't have withdrawals or side effects like you would by smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol or doing "hard" drugs (cocaine, heroin, meth, etc.) Over 200,000 people a year die from alcohol related deaths and 450,000 from tobacco related products or second-hand smoke.

Not moving on to the reason WHY marijuana illegal, for anyone who doesn't know. In the early 1900's, hemp was poised to replaced timber as a major source of raw material for paper due to the fact it's much more space efficient. William Randolph Hearst, the guy who started "The New Yorker", had money invested in the timber industry. Obviously, he didn't like this and ran a smear campaign against marijuana to make it illegal, and using his political connections and rather large wallet, he was successful. The movie "Reefer Madness" is a political propoganda film funded by him and his cause and shows what kind of stuff he was putting out to convince people marijuana was bad.

Here is the video, it is long but watch it and you'll be amazed by how stupid it is.
[ame=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2FZgErvNTE&ob=av1e]YouTube - Reefer Madness[/ame]

That is the real reason marijuana is illegal. For all of you that are still blind, look at this video stating some more facts.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4CnGaTd9h8[/ame]

Tell me now, why you think marijuana should be illegal.

Kill the ignorance people. Open your eyes.

I didn't know that about aids...

Anyways, I voted 'illegal'.

.. Do you really believe that? .. If they do legalize it, they will probably decriminalize it, not just medical.

How do you figure? I tried weed for the first time over 2 years ago, and I've never done a "harder" drug.

Yes, it is true that almost everyone who smokes crack or shoots up heroin smoked weed before they used those drugs, but what does that matter? Almost everyone who smokes crack probably used caffeine or aspirin sometime before their first use of crack; does that mean that caffeine and aspirin "lead" to other drugs? No, it's completely unrelated.

legalize weed and make penalties on other drugs stiffer, automatic felony and jail time.

Why is that a good idea?

I'd say legalize it but you've got to think of all the other sub-consequences that comes in with it. Weed will eventually die out and lose it's "high" power from how much people will smoke it. The pricing will be changed significantly, and it could possibly lead to being like alcohol when it tempers with a weak mind.

Well that brings up a good point, and as much as I disagree with the government controlling our lives and bodies there are some substances that could put others in danger.

The top one being alcohol, however being that it is a multi-billion dollar industry it won't be outlawed any time soon.

Marijuana however has never directly taken a life(Yes...NEVER). Whereas cigarettes and alcohol are legal and deadly not only to the user but also to others.

i smoke weed and i have done for a long time
ive never wanted to try harder drugs and i never will

im happy when i smoke weed and i study more as well
it makes food tast better and i can get to sleep easyer too

but i do agree that it sould be legal! (To a certain extent) like not giveing it to kids and driveing when smokeing it

keep it illegal should be option 2 not make it illegal.......and i hope to god it stays illegal