Legalize it. I know a case of legal marijuana where is CURED a cancer patient, it's called my own aunt. She refused any other treatments, used medical marijuana and no sign of cancer. Boom. More and more states are accepting it and are debating legalizing it. It's a major income booster, and lots of Americans honestly either don't care or might would like to see it legal. <br /> It's A HUGE SOURCE OF INCOME, and would provide much needed JOBS

I'm Dutch an marijuana is legal (to a certain extent) here. You'd think that It would be made illegal if it was so dangerous. My parents used to smoke weed and as far as I know they do not have any permanent health issues because of it. In the Netherlands, people sell weed in coffeeshops, and they have some couches in front of the stores where stoned people can chill out with friends. They don't bother anyone and they are usually just chilling out, not attacking people and all that. I've never had any problems with marijuana use and I don't understand why you should have because stoned people tend to not cause alot of legal issues. I think countries should loosen up when it comes to marijuana

"but do you people know how messed up weed-smokers are when they are smoking?"<br /> <br /> I do. They lay around and ask people to go buy them chips and donuts.

The thing is, no one knows the effects of smoking marjuana yet. It was the same with smoking cigarettes and cigars back in the 60's. I'm not even gonna bother arguing because I'm too lazy to type a lot, but do you people know how messed up weed-smokers are when they are smoking? It's not... natural, to smoke stuff like that. It's not NORMAL, and it should not be legalized. Especially if there are children involved... <br /> <br /> Our society is so messed up.

<i>"however I don't think it would make someone go out and kill people lol."</i><br /> <br /> It wouldn't. Not unless the person was already prone to doing such things or suffers from some sort of mental disorder.

Ah yeah that's true with sativa.. however I don't think it would make someone go out and kill people lol.

<i>"I don't understand what you mean. Marijuana is not like stimulant drugs, it doesn't make people energetic and aggressive.. it makes them tired."</i><br /> <br /> It depends on the marijuana. Some makes you sleepy and some makes you hyper.

"<i>it's bad for your heart and Kills and Fries your brain cells.</i>"<br /> Can you cite your sources on this? This is the first that I've heard that marijuana use is bad for your heart.<br /> Inhaling any sort of smoke, regardless of what kind... bonfire smoke, cigarette smoke, burning tires, marijuana, your own hair on fire, lol... it will all damage your lungs<br /> However, there is not <b>one case</b> of someone getting lung cancer from marijuana, and there is no evidence that it "kills braincells".<br /> <br /> "<i>as for 'medical' pot, don't make me laugh. i hate doctors who proscribe it. there are so many different alternatives!</i>"<br /> Marijuana is a natural plant and has been shown to help people with cancer and even slow brain aging (contradicting your previous point about "killing brain cells"). Marijuana is not harmful.<br /> <br /> "<i>plus i know of cases where a person was high from smoking pot andwhoa thered women and other cases where a person was high off pot and killed a person(s)</i>"<br /> I don't understand what you mean. Marijuana is not like stimulant drugs, it doesn't make people energetic and aggressive.. it makes them tired.

I'm all for legalizing it. It will save the U.S money, be beneficial to the people of the U.S in terms of not going to jail for something harmless and is an all around good thing in my opinion. If no one has died from it and there are no negative affects why should it be illegal?

Even the US Army knows marijuana isn't going to kill you or else it wouldn't have tested <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-05-army-experiments_n.htm"><b>weapons grade</b> synthesized marijuana on its own soldiers.</a> The army found the effects to be "too mellow" to be used as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incapacitating_agent">incapacitating agent</a> for use on the enemy.<br /> <br /> "Ketchum says the Army phased out the hallucinogen project in about 1972, in part because disclosure of such research would have caused a "public relations problem."<br /> <br /> Ketchum's notes suggest the Army's fears were not imaginary. They describe soldiers on "red oil," an especially powerful form of marijuana, who smirked for hours and found even routine spatial reasoning tests to be hilarious."<br /> <br /> Marijuana concentrated down into an oil, and all the soldiers really did was find everything funny, it seems - rather than dropping over dead or being anywhere near incapacitated. No one suffered any physical health problems from these tests - not from the concentrated pot, and not even from the concentrated LSD, though the latter might have caused some mild psych problems as mentioned on that page. This stuff was much more intense than anything the average person is ever going to get their hands on, and everyone was physically fine. Psychologically fine, too, as far as the intensified THC went.

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