Bonneville America Forums Forums Off Topic Discussion Forums Lounge Marijuana Legalization Question

wow...I give an opinion then it gets dissected. That’s cool though. Double edged sword meaning your ****** if you do and ****** if you don’t.

Legalize it and now you have to tax it and control distribution etc...more cost that gets passed to the consumer and really...it grows everywhere. It’s like a weed (haha...LMAO)...seriously though. If it was easy to grow tobacco and roll my own cigars I would do it instead of paying upwards of $25 a stick for a great smoke. But I can’t so I pay. Pot on the other hand grows in a person’s closet with a heat lamp on it. Why would anyone buy it legally and pay tax on it!
Legalize it and you can free up the $$ we spend on convicting small time users and free up some prison space. Now we get into a whole other realm of a conversation and I just don’t feel like typing that much right now.
Don’t legalize and things stay the same. People use it by their own free will and will keep doing so but risk the possibility of getting caught. Don’t legalize it and you keep the mystery around it and we all know we want what we can’t have and now we have made it desirable to try and do.

Alcohol…I like it, I prefer it and yes…I know…it’s really no different. Alcohol impairs as does pot. I hope I didn’t give the impression one was better than the other…neither is one way or another. Yes, I smoke cigars and no they aren’t any better (in the long run) than cigarettes except that cigarettes make me gag and cigars smell good to me (relax smokers…I said to me, not to everyone). If I could and one day I will, Ill take up smoking a pipe…cause I like the aroma. Its still going to give me cancer and kill me.

You see…”double edged sword” means the conversation can go on forever and there is no end as there is no right answer. I can debate this all day and night and I don’t even need someone to do it with.

Heck…legalize it, lets see what happens. In a few years if things are out of control then ban it. Maybe the problem gets worse maybe it gets better.

Do you think society is ready for this!? Isn’t that the real issue/question here! I for one can go either way, leaglize it...great, Im still not buying (at least I dont think so). Keep it illegal...fine, I dont use it anyway! Didnt like it when I did those few times. I suppose if alcohol didnt make me feel the way it did I woudnt drink it and if cigars didnt calm me down like they do I wouldnt smoke them. Was that a big enough circle for ya?