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louisev:
you should have included a "decriminalized" option.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: louisev on April 03, 2009, 05:24:50 pm ---you should have included a "decriminalized" option.

--- End quote ---

I thought about it, but there were already so many choices. Plus, I do tend to see this particular issue in sort of black-and-white terms. I mean, if you think it's bad, why not keep it illegal? And if you think it's OK, why not make it legal? To me, decriminalization is a halfway measure; it would eliminate most of the cops, courts and prison costs Amanda mentioned, but would not turn it into a revenue source or reflect the fact that 42 percent of Americans have, at least at some point in their lives, deemed it acceptable to use.

But obviously there are probably people who believe that's the best option, so I will add it to the poll.

I also checked the box allowing people to change their votes.

delalluvia:
Have never smoked it, have no interest in smoking it, but IMO it definitely should be made legal.  People have yet to die from marijuana smoking as opposed to anything else you might think of.

However it should be handled like alcohol.  No under the influence important activities.

Kerry:
IMO it should be legalised and put in the same category as alcohol and tobacco.

There should be restrictions re its use I believe, as with tobacco; i.e., no smoking in public places, bars, restaurants, cars with children, etc. No advertising. Similar to the present tobacco restrictions.

Marijuana acts as an excellent analgesic when administered medicinally as part of a palliative care regimen for the terminally ill. With terminally ill AIDS patients, marijuana encourages them to eat.

I was unsure what to tick so chose the second option, which implies that I used to be a regular user. This is not the case. The only times I've ever used marijuana was when I was dating guys who liked to use it prior to love-making. I'm a life-long non-smoker (of tobacco), so it was all very foreign (and repugnant) to me. I never suffered from paranoia. I'd always dissolve into fits of the giggles and ended up being too busy laughing (at any and everything) to have sex. That, and eating. I would eat everything in sight and still be hungry.

Katie77:
I agree with the de-crimilization of it. At least that would take the control of it, out of the hands of the unsrupulous and back alley dealing of it.

I also think it should be legal to grow a couple of plants, for one's own use. At least then, the user can have some control over what they are smoking without any unknown additves that may be put it in. They say the safest marijuana to smoke is the stuff you grown yourself.

I dont smoke it myself, (tried it twice only), but I do smoke cigarettes and I would be very hypercritical if I was against someone somoking marijuana. When my sons smoked it, my defence to them to not continue, was the criminal link to it, as well as the cost of it.

I think the same rules and penalties should apply to people driving under the influence of marijuana as there is to people under the influence of alcohol.

The only thing that worries me about legalising it, is that it takes the act of "doing something that they shouldn't" away from the younger generation, and may take a bit of the appeal away from them, and cause them to go onto something harder that is illegal.

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