well the war on drugs hasn't worked, its a waste of my tax money arresting innocent people cos of what they do with their spare time. Look at history, America prohibited alcohol and it just got driven underground, funding organized criminals and making the whole affair more dangerous. They spent massive amounts of time and money hunting down Pablo Escobar and he has been repeatedly replaced by one coke baron after another ever since. I do think drugs should be controlled but outright banning them all is probably the worst way to reduce harm.

As far as cannabis goes im baffled as to why its still illegal. the British government are banging on about it causing mental health problems in a small proportion of users but whats that compared to the number of alcohol related deaths we have every weekend? Its just being used as a vote winning device at the minute, it just defies logic.. I think i might shut up before i go on a rant about politics hahaha.. more later :P

Most drugs today (at least the commercial most effective ones) are designer drugs, chemicals. They are highly addictive and are banned for very good reasons as you can get addicted easily without even knowing you took them (if someone puts them in your drink). And they destroy your life in an instant.
As to Marijuana, your right, it is some sort of natural drug, but THC is very strong, much stronger than alcohol and nikotin, the only reason for Marijuana to have such a good name, is that there is so few THC in it. But that amount increases fast and it will increase further, therefore weed is about to become a more and more dangerous drug. This effect wouldnt stop if it was legal, i guess i would get faster as more people would be able to cultivate and evolve stronger and stronger marijuana. Therefore i think, allthough it could be legalized today, the potential of it is too dangerous.

Of course it is!
What you ever thinking?

OK this is one thing that i prob know more about then anybody on here. I live in Humboldt County California the biggest pot producing county in the United States. Over 500 million dollars is made tax free every year this could be taxed and making alot of money for your country. Marijuana was made illegal because then white americans saw mexicans and africans smoking they feared a rebellion and sought to illegalize marijuana. Medical use is legal in a handfull of states and has seen minimal abuse. on a recent poll according to CNN 73 percent of americans opted to legalize marijuana. Anyways legalize it tax it and show some profits for us americans

And so?We have oppium-receptor,thc-receptor and a lot more(ok,we dont have ketamine-receptor...),but are illegal.But we dont have aspirina-receptor too,but,like the other medicinal,are legal.The Aulin(a medicinal)kill a lot of poeple,psycopharms too...what u want to tell me about pharms/drug?

In italian= CHE STRONZATA! in english:WHAT A BULLSHIT!How old are u?have u never take some drugs?I have,but i'm not a tossic,i go to university(with excellent vote)and have a normal life..and so?who care that sometimes i take drug?The important is read about drug,and have a full information about what u take,because is true:drug are danger,isnt a toy.If government make a good information,we can have few death for drugs,because often who take drugs,mix with alchool* and often die(in italy,but think everywhere,this summer die some guys in raveparty for mixed alchool+drug).If government make a bad information and continue to perseguitate people,the only result is the actual presenteople take drugs even if government dont want,but without a good information.WHERE IS THE GAIN?

I don't know where are u from,but have u never listen about holland?In holland weed are legal and 1)(like someone told before)they have A LOT of money from weed 2)holland have few tossyc than,in order for europe,:spain,italy,france. (In italy we can take from 6 to 20 year prison for have more than 5g of weed,but a lot of people have more than 5g....).This established that repression are fallimentar under all aspect(prison full of normal guys,a lot ofmoney spent on antidrug operation,but a lot of people that take likewise drugs).
so the only solution is to control the sale of drug(maybe with a max quantity of drug that u can buy in one month).
And remember:now the drugs are in the hands of mafia(expecially in italy:P)that put in tossic sostance for grow the weight.Often this is more dangerous than the drug

*for precisation:alchool is 1 of worse drug in absolute,under every aspect(dipendency,tolerance,abstinence)

Roflmao lets just hope you know more about that than Geography Hehe just playing but anyways I think it should be legalized even though i do not smoke it, Who gives a Sh*t what people do and spend their hard earned money on its just limiting our freedoms IMO

It should be legalized, its preventing evolution.

If we let all those who would smoke pot smoke pot, then they will lose braincells and will then not repoduce. In a couple of generations the law would be useless.

I say it shouldn't be legalized. The tobacco industry probably would corrupt it. Legalization would only be ok if it were legal to GROW and SMOKE but not SELL. Would people sell it illegally? Yes. But this would be a more safe system in the end, because mass selling would not be possible. Therefore preventing a widespread selling of marijuana laced with things such as nicotine, making it addictive.

My dad also falls into EXACTLY the same category as DesertPunk's. They're even about the same age, which is really weird.

Well, it is true that marijuana is less harmful to the body than cigarettes.

That being said, the mental side effects have a vast range. If pot was legal suddenly MASSIVE amounts of people would be smoking it, probably enough to rival those who smoke cigarettes. What most people may not realize is that driving while on pot has as bad of effects, if not worse, as driving while under the influence of alcohol. So how do you propose to cut down on driving under the influence of pot when so many people do it?

TRUE
Marijuana kilss only 1 guy in 1 year so it should be legal.(not 100% sure about that but wiki says that its true)