(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.

No It is a drug that leads to other drugs.

The gateway drug theory was disproven long ago. If marijuana is illegal why not alcohol? It cause more deaths and it leads to other substances.

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Both You stop protecting weed it's bad for you and it corrupts you're mind just like alcohol.

Ahh see I like you. Either legalize both or make both illegal. Though I may not agree with you on the fact that you want to make it illegal, I like how you didn't discriminate between the two.

Republican much? j/k

open your eyes , take off your pants, come one lazlow become one with the world, clothes are evil

I don't believe in banning substances, period. Why should the government decide what you can and cannot put into your own body?

i could really care less if its legal or illegal but I say make it legal

I really hate the people who smoke and say oh are u stupid for saying make it illegal it doesnt do anything bad for you it should be legal.

Well F you get this in your head if weed is legalized the us will put so much tax on that shit it wouldnt even be funny. It will maybe double the price of weed and THAT

That is not cool man.