Marijuana Debate - Shelby, NC

IT should be legalized. There are manyuses for hemp. It could revitalize our economy.

It just makes sense to use our nations, states, counties and cities limited resources on more serious crimes instead of spending so much of our hard earned tax money (much of which is generated by lots of hard working and productive closet pot smokers) than running down and locking someone up for years then taking away their personal property and many of their constitutional rights just because they choose to use, buy or grow a naturally growing plant like marijuana, while giving shorter and less harsh sentences to most child molesters, rapist, and murderers as well as thieves and disease carrying prostitutes, all of which can get government assistance once they are released, unlike a pot user with a class G conviction. We need to fix this and allow ALL adults their legal right to choose if they want to use. Our world has started accepting and even embracing the un-natural acts of homosexuality so why can’t they accept people who choose to inhale, eat or drank from the marijuana plant for a milder buzz, which has NOT been proven to be as harmful as our governments propaganda wants us to believe, instead of all the harmful effects one gets from our nations chemically treated tobacco and alcohol?

less hazardous than the booze and pills that the government has figured out how to make money on.

It's a money maker

Nope

I just don,t think it is needed to be available to everybody.

In my opinion for the federal government to keep marijuana as an illegal substance is just so they can keep people goin through the court system so they have to pay. I dont understand how they can get away with it we work are asses off and if we get in trouble over marijuana one time you have to pay out 600 dollars and now they have just raised the court cost AGAIN I mean do they only care about us payin money in that we dont have because thats what it seems like to me come on people we have to do something about this they are taking advantage of us in every way I think if they legalized marijuana the tax money from it could pay to at least put money in there crooked greedy pockets so hopefully they will leave us alone I mean that is the only illegal drug I do and because of that im a criminal why dont they leave the pot heads alone and go after a real life destroying drug like meth i mean that drug actually does harm to millions of adults and kids they could use the tax money from marijuana to fight that drug and that I think would make a difference we have to set an example for the future and I think the tone we need to set is teaching kids what the real dangers are in the drug world and pot doesnt even cross my mind when I think about that

YES, much safer than Alcohol and it's legal...

The government should put a huge tax on it, that way the government could get a generous income from it. With strict guidelines and not to be used during driving. I personally hate it, but if it's going to be used so widely, there should be something that can be gained by it's use.

Marijuana is bad

i support the legaliztion of Marijuana