perhaps all drugs should be legalized and regulated

• people get them anyway

• state can get taxes out of them

• no more deaths due bad quality

• no more money for criminals

• tabacco and alcohol do way more harm than all other drugs combined

• make people consult a doctor to get prescription to those 'harder' drugs (he can talk to people about the risks and monitor their health)

• use taxes on drugs to compensate the costs they cause

It's like this:
If you would illegalize olives, suddenly your country would cry for olives.
But because they're legal some people like and eat them, and others never touch them.

Same concept goes for weed; Here in Holland it is legal, but no one cares.
Some people smoke it regularly, but most people never do.

The only time it bothers me, is when a smoker gets on my bus. Weed reeks like a dead possum wrapped in dung and rotten eggs, and the smell will stick to your clothes like a newborn monkeybaby.

NO.

Legalized or not, i don't care.
I don't use it, never did, and never will.

Here are some quotes from this thread. I dont want to answer to anyone in person.

"Drugs are unhealthy."

People who say that most likely have not ever tried anything else than alcohol.
The feelings you get from drugs are original. You cant get the same feelings from anything else. What if some people really like it? Who are other people to tell you what you can and cant do.
Yeah it might be unsafe but so is bungee jumping and skiing. Should we just forbid everything that might hurt you?

"You get addicted to drugs"

Really? How do you know? Have you tried?
All the drugs are addictive in some way. So is chocolate, shopping and even working for some. Again, we cant forbid everything that is addictive.
Some drugs like opiates, cocaine, nicotine, etc are physically addictive. Most of the drugs are not.

pros and cons about legalization.

pros: Weed can cure cancer, weed can relax, dealer become business men instead criminals and pay taxes for sell it reducing crime, weed taxes can be used in campaigns against smoking weed, the government can control the weed quality reducing the health problems caused by foreign substances mixed in weed, less ppl will be depressive, other products besides the cigarette will appear.

cons: pharma industry will be sad, weed can be addictive ( coffee, cocoa and sugar are more addictive than weed ), cause memory lost ( but the weed negative effects disappear when u stop using ).

feel free to complement the pros and cons.

Every drug should be legalized - it's your own business what do you want to do as long as you don't cause any harm to other people. It doesn't matter if drugs are harmful or not, if I'm a moron and I want to take it it's my own business and government should stay out of it. Seriously - they should stop treating people like mindless kids.

for medical purposes definitely, either self-grown or growing controlled by state just like is happening now in Czech republic

If I think of it from my dark side (or light one, when it comes to animals), then yes, it should. If I wanna care about humans, then no, it shouldn't. I still don't get why people don't see how it is TOTALLY unhealthy to smoke weed... They say "Smoking cigarettes can kill, same as drinking alcohol", but they just can't put in their little head some logic and see how smoking ANYTHING can actually KILL them. Even if you smoke burnt wood's smoke, you can STILL die... The best thing is that they ask a link to a research that proves it, but when you tell them to do the same, they are like "Look at the annual deaths from alcohol/cigarettes and weed smoking. They are far less." OF COURSE THEY ARE FAR LESS, THAT'S WHY IT IS FUCKIN' ILLIGAL... SO THAT YOU WON'T DIE... Cigarettes should also be illegal, but drinking alcohol is a different think. It doesn't kill you, you kill yourself. In order to DIE from alcohol, you must drink so much that it's like you don't have a brain. Or if you are just an idiot, like that guy that drunk so much that got crazy, undressed and almost died by coldness. You can't just argue with the logical facts.. You just CAN'T. No matter what you try to prove, the logical facts are straight and unchanged. It's like saying that playing games makes you stupid. It doesn't, but still many idiots try to prove it...

Bad arguments from either side: "It's not a drug". Yes it is. "It's not addictive". That's a matter of perspective. "Everyone will start doing it if it's legalized". People who smoke weed are going to use it regardless of its legality, the people who don't, generally won't. "Cigarettes and alcohol are legal, why not weed?". Just because a couple of bad things are legal doesn't mean another one should be, that's not even an argument, it's whining. "But weed isn't bad". Anything that interacts on a chemical level with your brain can be harmful, anything you have to burn and inhale is potentially harmful to your lungs.

100% yes, it should be, that way the state can control wether it's good quality or not and it will keep people out of criminality, because even if it's illegal, people use it anyways so better legal and less criminality and better health than illegal and letting criminals sell a bunch of unhealthy ****.

I too have a very negative opinion about weed smokers.
When I was in my -teen years, many of my classmates (first in elementary school and later highschool) started smoking weed at some point, and I had the "honor" to witness how it turned them into complete shitheads.
And yup, they were slowly getting dumber and dumber, in terms of school grades (although that might be either because of the weed or because they stopped giving shit about school... most likely a bit of both).

Really, they become impossible to get along with, because all they cared about was smoking weed in the restrooms. That, in my opinion, is just pathetic.
Plus, it smells awful. Way, way worse than nicotine.

So, to answer OP's question: No. Weed shouldn't be legalized, I think. Letting trustworthy doctors cure health conditions with it is fine with me, but completely legalizing it? Not so much.

I am giving away 1 kg of marijuana
Hope no cops here

I say legalize it. legalization will most likely decrease sales on the street making it easier to watch that its not sold to minors. But its already legalized here.

Well I'm a drinker, but I do believe weed should be legalized. Safer more controlled product would protect the children who will try it anyway. The new trend in here in Hungary is a stuff called herb with similair effect, but it's totally artificial. I've seen 2 or 3 of my friends puking after smoking one, and they are no strangers to the stuff.
So yeah I say legalize the real deal. Or at least decriminalize it.
Also it goes without saying that i mean smoking reefer once in a while is okay, but you WILL get addicted to it after daily usage. Not physicaly but mentaly. I know that type, not cool bro, not cool.

Pot legalized? HELLZ YEA! Taxes for local economy, STEAL MONEY FROM THE DRUG CARTAL JERKS, and a lot less people in prison.

weed?NO..the end,close this topic now

While we're at it: should unicycles be banned?

Do I smoke weed? NO

Should weed be legalized?

YES!

Weed is not good for you. It just isn't, and don't listen to the potheads who have convinced themselves otherwise ("No man, it grows connections in the brain and makes you more creative!" Great, have you taken your ideas and turned them into anything? No? You just sat on your couch and smoked weed for six months? Super.).

But! It should not be the government's job to protect people from themselves. Especially when such "protection" is detrimental to society as a whole.

1. Weed is bad for you.

But if you want to harm yourself, I'm not going to stop you. But! What if you're underage? Kids can get weed so easily these days. You want to keep it out of the hands of teens? You need to regulate it, and step one of regulation is legalization. It should be treated exactly like alcohol, legally speaking. We already have all the right rules in place.

2. Weed funds criminals.

Criminals that then have a financial incentive to commit further criminal (sometimes violent) acts, in order to keep selling weed. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to live in a less violent society. Legalizing weed defunds criminals, and removes incentives to violence.

3. Weed is costing you money right now.

Well, it is if you pay taxes. All that money flowing into the hands of the criminals, that's MORE TAXES you're going to have to pay. Taxes directly lost through not taxing that weed, taxes needed to fund police and incarceration and the entire justice system to prosecute weed offenders. Hey, I like my money where it is!

Long story short: it is in your best interest to legalize weed, even if you don't smoke it yourself!

Legalise all drugs, but have a ban on all advertising and use in public areas.

"Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else" from Declaration of the Rights of Man

"The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant . . . Over himself, over his body and mind, the individual is sovereign" John Stuart Mill, On Liberty.

I'm 16 and I smoked weed for.the first time last month. I liked it a lot. I do think it should be legalised. its not much worse than alcohol.

In my country there's a website for drug dealing. Yeah, pretty insane. It's there and anyone can visit it. It's basicly a forum/picture board that uses TOR. Currency is bitcoin and private conversations through hushmail. Completely untrackable by my country's police. I myself have just studied about this matter and would never touch it even with a 5 meter pole. (It's also used as a hacking society, illegal programs, illegal "adult content")

what, weed is illegal, i never heard that here in the netherlands