LEGALIZE IT, DONT CRITICIZE IT!!!!!!!

I think it is a great thing to have if you are sick and really need it and maybe it would be better to be legal so people do not get so dependent on it and obsessed since they know it is illegal. When alcohol in other states is legal the kids there are used to it and do not become overly obsessed with wanting to drink (like in the US), so maybe it would be better to have it legal although there are many negative consequences when smoking it. I am not sure it is a great question.

People should have a chioce to use something if they want to and can pay for it all by them selves.

Legalizing marijuana for the sole purpose that it helps the sick is okay. But it should be legalized for everyone because the reasons that "prove" listed above.

Prove is right when he says that alcohol is a bigger issue. People can't overdose on marijuana, but they can on alcohol. Too many deaths have occured when teens binge drink, and drive. Plus we are wasting money on keeping mary jane useres in jail.

I rather see kids relax with weed then die in car accidents, or alcohol poisoning.

However, I also believe that alcohol should be legal at eighteen because it will force parents to educate their teens on safe drinking, and will get teens to slow down at parties.

Theres no doubt that marijuana should be legalized, not just made into a medical drug.  Marijuana prohibition only began in this country in the 1930's as a result of a mixture of racism (towards Mexicans who introduced it into this country), misinformation (did you know that in the 1930's murderers were let off on the insanity plea becasue they claimed they had smoke marijuana before the crime?), and down right lies (in 1937 a pharmacologist told the government that he had injected the active ingredient in marijiana into 300 dogs' brains and it had killed 3, but THC wasn't synthesized until nearly ten years later, so that was a lie)--before that it was seen as an infringment of the law because people weren't paying taxes on it even though they were selling it (tax evasion).  In modern days people are against marijiana use because they claim it is the gateway drug, but in my opinion its alcohol.  When I was younger i started drinking a little at my friends house--we would steal our parents booze or beer and sneak off to the park or something.  Then we started going to parties to drink and thats where i first encountered (and sampled) marijuana.  What society needs to do is create a more responsible mentality around marijuana use.  Did you know that alcohol prohibition was started because in the public opinion alcohol was a habit practiced by vagrants and the poor?  Then mentality around it changed and you began to get you so called "sophisticated" drinkers (wine, port, brandy etc.), and now we are encoraged to practice safe drinking habits like not drinking and driving.  Thats what we need to encorage in today's youth, like not losing track of school or work obligations due to its use, not spending all of your money on it, and not letting it draw you into more harmful drugs.  Plus there is the fact that marijuana users are needlessly clogging up courts and prisons with paperwork, prisoners, paper work, and they are consuming our tax dollars when we imprison them.  Did you know that there is a group of cops working with other organizations to legalize pot so they don't have to waste their time and our money by filling out paperwork to book them and hold them?  Marijuana prohibition is senseless.

I believe that maraujau should be legalized for the sikple fact over years of reasearch it has does not cause lung damage or any other fatal problems. when u compare cigarretes to weed. cig. kill millions of people a year  an marajuana 0 so why is it outlawed how many people has it killed?

i think it should be lagl for many reasons, its comforting and relaxing and fun and can help with peoples sicknesses