In the USA 13% of the population is smoking pot. In Holland where I can get some pot within a 3 minute walk from here, only 6% of the population smokes pot (when things are not allowed, those things get more exiting).

We are about to legalise marijuana so it can be taxed. And why not? Alcohol is a harddrug (legal, because it’s socially accepted) and marijuana is a softdrug (in the US not socially accepted).

American should know that coffee (caffeine) is also a softdrug just like marijuana.

@Indi139115
Obviously you don’t know much about cannabis..do you?
Pot related deaths..lol
The only pot related deaths are shootings etc. by drug dealers and cops etc.
Also once a few tons or so of pot fell on a customs officer and killed him.

alcoholic is the worst…the worst of the worst…

@Indi139115 Pot does not cause overdoses. Also you fail to realize that it’s already illegal to be intoxicated while driving. You also fail to realize that most teenager are already getting high or gotten high. If you don’t want minors getting hold of this stuff then it’s better to legalize it because then the pot dealers who don’t ask for ID are not the ones in charge of sale of it. I work with troubled youth and they tell me it’s easier for them to get a bag weed than a pack ofCigarrettes.

Recently, NTF (narcotics task force) in San Diego raided a collective, sent people to jail, continued the operation as if it were a crack house until MMJ patients realized they were police they finally left. If Prop. 19 doesn’t pass.. this will obviously continue.

Cigarettes are bad and deadly, but legal. Look what happens when you legalize something like this. The under-aged get their hands on it, pregnant women smoke it, people smoke it around their kids and toxify their homes such that the only way to get the stuff it is by tearing out all the walls… pot’s only good for medical purposes when the patient is dying and wants the pain to go away. It has no place in recreation.

@Qwanzonline I use to live in Alaska in November 2004 and voted for propsition to decriminalize marijuana in alask but it failed 48%/52%.

Good luck on the west coast! I’m sure if Cali passs Prop19 it will spell the eventual end of marijuana prohibition in the rest of the nation in these coming decades as the older conservative generation passes away and the new generation inherits the world.

@Qwanzonline oops I meant prop 19

@NOstevecooley Hello! how would you access the current situation with votes split down the middle?

@Qwanzonline generally speaking yes, from the studies and polls ive seen and by the voting trends, when this kind of thing comes up the data seems to be the younger the more likely your attitude towards weed is more lienient as opposed to the older bunch who have been soaking up goverment sanctioned propaganda most of their life. but it could just be bad information at its core, theres alot of bogus information out there even now.

pot should be legal because the legal implications are much more harmful than the actual use of the plant.

When people smoke pot they have more to fear from the government than the health effects of the drug where as meth or cocaine abuse actually destroys the person without the governments help unlike pot which simply gets you an unaddictive high.

That being said if it’s legal I still wont smoke it but I’d rather see my tax dollars go toward something other than prisons for potheads.

i’ve never registered to vote, but you can bet your sweet ass I registered to vote yes for prop 19. I’ll be dragging anyone i can to the voting polls.