who supports marijuana rights?

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Awesome, no one should ever, ever accept the kind of rhetoric that you use here, on principle that should have been pounded into everyone's head since birth.

There are all sorts of flags here that say "this thesis is wrong and anyone with a mind should discard it and ask the speaker to leave his life alone." It helps to know that the rhetoric comes from tainted sources and that whoever wrote the brochure did not bother to do even elementary fact-checking.

Alcohol and cigarettes kill so many people because they are the most dangerous legal drugs out there. If we had made them illegal a long time ago, they would probably kill only about as many people as pot.

The problem, of course, is that making alcohol and cigarettes illegal today would be impossible; prohibition showed us that. I think if we made pot legal, we would have as much trouble with marijuana use as we do today with alcohol and nicotine.

I have no problem with medicinal marijuana use; and I don't think people ought to be jailed for years on end just for smoking pot (though for driving while smoking pot, I'd have no problem with a long jail term). However, making it legal would simply increase the number of legal but problematic substances available on the market today.

I find it interesting how such a serious topic is discussed here in such light matters.

Gateway drug - YES

However not for all, but for those it is, it is - duh.

If you sell it, its criminal, period.

What you do in your own home is your own business. Buy it from someone, get caught with it, then you get punished.

Those same people that buy it, can sell it underage peoples illegally. Anyone buying it not knowing where the money goes to me is the following:

1. Indirectly or possibly supporting terrorism. Yet unlikely, still yet criminals.
2. Disobeying the law, funding criminal activities.
3. Needs to go to jail or do community service via probation to learn his or her lesson.
4. Supporting possible gang activities, funding illegal weapons and putting innocent people indirectly in harms way if it is circumstantually accurate.

No wonder tax payers must spend so much money on the war against drugs, because degenerates and extraordinarily bad examples such as those supporting medical substances to be used freely by anyone are likely or have funded those who sell it.

Not causally linked? Seems as if it is, unless your acting logically dumbfounded or blind.

Your funding criminals, go to a doctor get a prescription and if you don’t have a script then its like buying pharmaceuticals illegally.

Some of you are a very poor example to younger members here, some of you are younger members yourselves that might have unfortunately have chosen to do drugs illegally.

sc;

i hope you dont eat chocolate, because most of its harvested by men abducted, tortured & forced into slavery. In fact i want an answer do you eat (non fair-trade) cocoa products Y/N?

better not use coca-cola products either because they order assassination for troublesome trade union reps in south america...

If the people who support the drug war can't tell that they opened a can of worms already, what use are they now? Opposing the appetites of humans causes problems. The people who oppose those appetites take no responsibility for their own actions and blame them on the people they are victimizing. The people who push the prohibition laws can't and won't see that their own behavior is criminal and inspires criminal behavior and disrespect for the law. Once they decide to force aside the human rights of their targets, that's it for them, they don't recognize those rights anymore and they don't recognize that their victims have every right to defy them.

"Awesome", the people who are backed by the law are backed by a law that they made, by deception and manipulation. The Constitution is obviously just a piece of paper to them because they don't treat it as a law.

Well, I don't like alcohol or tobacco either so does my position make more sense now? However, I do support medicine, this can include marijuana so long as it is used as medicine.

And banning marijuana is a hell of a lot more damaging to people's health and society's health than is using marijuana. That just goes right by you, like the fact that we can use the plant for a lot of applications that petroleum is a poor substitute for. And I have real problems with obeying a law that was obtained by deception, tramples human rights, and inspires such hideous behavior in law enforcement and so-called society.

Banning marijuana is not really that horrendous to human health. Allowing the stuff to spread freely would though. I don't want to walk down the street trying to stay upwind of the stoners. I am perfectly healthy with marijuana not being legal and smoke would not be good for me anyway because I have asthma. If we legalized marijuana then we would probably also have people smoking marijuana, this would not be good for me because of my asthma and my desire for a smokefree environment. Tobacco is bad enough.

The hemp used for marijuana is not effective for recreational use anyway. We can allow that hemp to be grown because it is a different plant than the one that marijuana users like to use anyway. Hemp grown for biomass makes very poor grade marijuana and industrial hemp is not useful for marijuana either.

Honestly I don't care if you do have problems with obeying the law. It is the law. You may disagree with it but you can also vote to repeal it, however, drug use is not a human right. No force ever gave the right to use whatever drug that makes the fairies come back to talk to you. It is not in the Constitution, it is not in any foundation document that I have ever heard of. The fact that you consider it a right is your own justification of your behavior, it is not a right and it never was a right.

The fact that you consider it to not be a right is a justification of your own behavior, which is destructive of other human lives.

With two million people in jail for marijuana-related offenses, with a lot of glaucoma victims who have been unable to get medical marijuana, with a lot of people using god-awful drugs instead of marijuana, the health damages caused by the ban have been tremendous. If you and yours want to promote such a ban, take responsibility for the damage that it causes.

Cannibis smoke is also damaging to the lungs and can cause cancer. I typed that thinking of the affects of cigarette smoke on the lungs and considering that the smoke from dope is as bad or worse than that from tobacco. At the very least I am correct in not wanting damaging smoke to be near my lungs as I tend to do relatively well and don't need the extra medication but would simply prefer to avoid any harm. I really don't want to have to deal with smelly stoners hanging out in front of my favorite places to eat and such.

I don't think that marijuana is the religious drug of any of the people arguing here.

Right, I was simply using that to illustrate a point. I have never heard of marijuana being causing fairies but mentioning the fairies is not the way that the pro-drug people usually want to be seen.

I do not have any problems with medicinal marijuana. I don't like recreational marijuana though. There is a difference. The 2 million people who are in jail are there because they chose to violate the law, we should really make jails provide cheap labor for society to mitigate the costs of supporting prison. The people on harder drugs are hardly even related to legalizing or illegalizing marijuana. Heck, there might be more if we do legalize marijuana considering the current status of marijuana as a gateway drug. However, the legalization of marijuana would do nothing for the people that are taking the hard drugs anyway, they still probably would have done it as they probably aren't affected by the legality of marijuana.