Yes. Each individual owns their own body, therefore the government should rightfully have no say over what you do to it.
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I see no reason to legalise it. There are no benifits to having weed legal.
Mabe it isn't as bad as alcohol and cigaretts.. that isn't a reason to introduce another drug.
Alcohol and Cigaretts cause enough health and social problems. The last thing we need is some other harmful drug to get addicted to.
Also, there are alot of links between skitsophrenia and marijuana use.
Skitsophrenia is a terrible disease. It attacks your mind - who you are as a person.
Bad skitsophrenia patients need a carer 24/7. This will cost tax payers in countries with health care, and would put unfair strains on families in countries without health care. |
There was no good reason to make it illegal initially. Bad laws should be removed from the books. The vast amount of money saved by law enforcement and the judicial system would be greatly beneficial, either as a cut in tax or re-spent more effectively.
As for the skitsophrenia point - The links between cannabis and skitsophrenia is not that it causes it, rather that it makes it worse. How many products are on the market place that make an illness worse? Should we make it illegal buy, sell and consume all sugary products because they make diabetes (which type i'm not sure) more difficult to control? In my experience, lime cordial has an adverse effect on asthmatics, should that be banned? Hell, what about nuts?
If a person has a mental illness and abuses a mind altering product, be it alcohol, cannabis or even just too much Red Bull, there can be problems. But just because one person, or even one category of people, fail to control themselves, is no reason to proscribe the activity from the rest of us.