No. All offenders should be locked up for life. That’ll stop the bullshit.

Yes. Smoking pot has never hurt anybody.

Sure. It would cut down on small-time drug dealer violence, cut down on the number of drug-related incarcerations, and it’s no more harmful than ciggies or alcohol.

Federal gov has too much power over state in my opinion, especially on what we should be allowed to do to our own bodies.

Sure what’s another few thousand dead mexicans (in the wars down south) and 30 million more stupid Californians going to hurt?

“Smoking pot never hurt anyone”, said the 35 year old still living at home

They should legalize it.

From a business stand point, you’re looking at a market potentially as large and profitable as the tobacco or alcohol industries.

From a social stand point, you’re looking ending victimless crime and criminals.

From a financial stand point, less criminals means less inmates, less inmates means prison funding, less funding means less tax.
Less criminals also means less enforcement (ei. DEA & drug task forces), which means even lower taxes.

Everbody wins.

I don’t see why not. After the Jerkinator got done with the state, that’s the only joy the people have left in life.

They need it. California’s tanking economically. Their state needs money. The people need money. The majority of California’s population classifies themselves as “habitual or social users of marijuana” anyway. Might as well allow the citizens to profit from their plants in a legal way & allow the state to collect the taxes it needs to balance out their deficit.

They’ve clashed with the fed before, they’re used to it. The DEA shut down many licensed legal medical marijuana distributors but they just set up shop elsewhere. The federal government needs to relax on this topic… especially once a state has seen fit to legalize a substance. They should, at that point, stay hands off.

Okay, so coming from someone who has never touched the stuff, what are the effects of it? Kinda like alcohol from what I have heard from the research performed as far as slowed reactions. Anybody care to find out how many people died in alcohol related accidents last year? Funny how the stuff is so much like alcohol when you talk about how legalizing it. But then it is called harmless as alcohol.

People are too high to think straight.

If any state should legalize it, it should be California. I hope they succeed and getting a bill in place for 2010. The California border has been a hot bed of violence for years and it is getting worse.

Not even safe to go to Baja anymore due to so much anger and senseless blood shed over the marijuana trade. There are far more important issues for law enforcement to be concerned with than marijuana possession and distribution which should for all sakes and purposes be legalized and sales and marketing regulated by states.

Obama should leave the legalization of it up to the states.

Marijuana and health care reform are two issues which seem to scare certain factors of our society mainly the pharmaceutical industry and insurance companies. Why? Well, for one thing, marijuana is a threat to the drug industry as it stands today and health reform is a threat to insurance companies. Why can’t we give marijuana a chance and why can’t we give the public option a chance?

If left up to the American people, they would be voted in a heart beat, no hands down.

Do we really have a democracy or are the insurance companies and big pharm going to rule out world forever? Do the American people really have a say in the matter? It does not seem so. More legislative power should be given to the states if Washington cannot get their act together to make appropriates decisions that will help the American people.