Legalize Marijuana!!

[MKusanagi]

My humble opinion: It would breed resentment and rebellion. Although, this country is deteriorating rather fast. Safety, safety, safety... even if it means sacrificing your rights. Unless nicotine starts causing people to become a danger to society (other than their odor) it should never be banned. Despite my drinking problem alcohol should remain. What would you say to all the wine connesieurs? I think if either or both of these got banned you would see mass migration to europe. And very angry europeans.

It's not just the odor I was referring to; it's second hand smoke and air pollution. Nicotine smokers are a danger to society for those reasons.

Solution: avoid smokers like me.

Well yes, the ban on any drug will inevitably cause a rebellion. But, it's the government's fault for allowing things such as drugs and even weapons to be distributed to the general public. Now, people have become addicted to things that they cannot control and it's hard to ban something like that when it is originally legal. That's why it's easier to ban marijuana because it isn't legal everywhere. The government was able to control it (in some cases) before it was made extremely accessible. Unfortunately, that isn't the case for nicotine, or what have you.

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this country is deteriorating rather fast. Safety, safety, safety... even if it means sacrificing your rights.

And you forgot to mention the angry europeans when lots of americans (smoker and nonsmoker, drinker nondrinker) migrate to europe. We're already on the verge of moving to canada. It's just asking for a "Diaspora of Americans".
We're better off keeping alcohol and nicotine legal. And we're much better off including marijuana on the list. You can cite reason after reason why marijuana should stay illegal. But there are much worse things to fight. Actual dangerous drugs whether they be smoked, snorted, injected or swallowed (cocaine, meth, yada yada ya...da) are extremely dangerous. They're extremely dangerous in that the chances of overdose are extremely high, plus the dangers of meth labs to neighborhoods, real and deep addiction (that if you use, you will abuse) that threatens the lives of not only themselves but others. Drug addicts like these will do anything for the next hit. And drugs aren't cheap. Now, correct me if I'm wrong but I have yet to see a smoker pulling a gun on someone for a smoke. These concerns are valid and need to dealt with. But as long as we continue to prosecute people caught with marijuana we aren't helping the fight but putting it behind. Clogging up (I'm repeating myself now) the courts over a pot smoker taking a drag in a park is no where as bad as someone handing over X to a young teen who later died from dehydration. (Ecstasy effects body temperature especially when combined with alcohol. Deaths attributed to X frequently are the result of overheating, overhydrating and overdose.) Marijuana has none of these effects unless you combine it with another illicit drug and even then the bad effects are majority because of the second drug. Legalize Marijuana. And win the war on drugs!

!!!VIVA LA MARIJUANA!!!