Should marijuana be legalised?

Drug cartels murdering farmers to steal their land is quite direct.

 

Do you have any hard facts to back this up?

IMO alcohol is far more destructive (generally) but most of us do it. If marijuana was legalised then surely there would be a way of applying taxation. If it was sold through licensed agents then legalising it would stop the pushers so that would be a one positive. The problem is that marijuana can and does lead to much harder drugs so any decision to legalise could be seen as dangerous and would have to be so strictly regulated it might not be the answer.

 

All drugs should be legalised....then part of the MILLIONS that is wasted trying to fight a war that can NOT be won, should be spent on education and rehabilitation...Drug related crime would decrease...drug wars would end...one day someone will tell King Canute..that the tide wont stop no matter how much you try...or throw money at it..

 

And I've seen the same with alcohol and tobacco, in fact far more so

 

No thanks, don't want my drugs taxing (Johnny Rotten, c.June 2012)

 

It would be easy to tax it. Grown under licence, sold under licence from licenced vendors. If it was legalised and taxed it would be cheaper than it currently is, forcing the illegal producers to reduce their prices and therefore reduce their profit, making it a less attractive proposition to illegally sell.

 

Thats not through direct usage of the substance though is it?

 

I was talking about direct deaths from overdose like for example you can die from alcohol poisoning or lung cancer caused by excessive smoking. but point taken

 

But legalising is one way to reduce that.

If we could have something like in Amsterdam it would be good....then again I'd settled for them leaving Amsterdam as it is rather than them trying to restrict it to residents.
We went to Amsterdam earlier this year when my step-daughter was visitng from the States. As an occasional user her view was that the quality available was so much better in Amsterdam than the illegal stuff in the US and it was cheaper as well. She was pleasently surprised as to what it was like. And the atmosphere in the coffee shops is amazing, so laid back and friendly....far better than many pubs over here.

 

Correct

They often do drugs tests down here as part of the RBTs. When stopped, I'm always drug tested. It must be my appearance! Or the battered old Commodore I used to drive. Either way, they do have em. Expensive kit apparently. The war on drugs don't come cheap. It come expensive.

As far as I can work out, this state has slightly relaxed rules regarding possession of marajuana. I'm not sure but I think it used to be legal here. Maybe.

Generally, I'm all for the removal of much of the crime from drugs. Decriminalising and downgrading seems a good thing to me. Take it off the streets, control, education, endeavour. No, not that last one. Jeez, I'm stoned*.

*Joke, numpties.

 

Correct - can be detected by taking a blood sample in a post-mortum but not at a roadside check as far as I know - don't think the police are allowed to take blood tests (!). And by the time they've arrested someone on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs then got the clearance required to take samples, invariably the drugs have worn off. Not entirely sure about all of this though, tbh.

 

the state of maryland is testing an oral fluid test for duid its still in its early stages,but apparently is used in australia.

 

look up jack herer on youtube and watch the docs about it then give your answers

 

Yep

It's a thing they get you to place on your tongue for about a minute.

 

Jack Herer, now that is a top smoke, makes me giddy when I've tried that particular strain, not the best by far but still nice....

And of course it should be in my mind be legalised without a doubt. I've never once seen a toker in a gutter fetching his guts up or for that matter wanting to batter some innocent unconscious like the tossers who cant handle their booze....

 

Re: Yep

If it's reliable test, that would be a great thing to introduce in North America. It's not my scene, but I know that there are a lot of people who use marijuana over here and then think it's safe to drive home.

 

I'm not going to defend alcohol,it is undoubtedly damaging,but it has been with us for thousands of years and is accepted
by almost everyone,but to suggest weed is less harmful is rubbish,for a start most people I know mix it with tobacco,so you have the worst of both worlds to begin with,and I know several people who are mentally impaired to one degree or another after years of use,the only people who can't tell are the users themselves.Governments recognised many years ago that mind altering drugs are not good for the long term benefits of the people,in my view they were proscribed for good reasons,
and should remain that way.