I believe that weed should be legalized. Every study I have ever seen lists pot at being far less addictive than even alcohol and nearly impossible to overdose on (you would have to consume your body weight in a day). In fact President Nixon commissioned a study on the drug in the early seventies and when the results of the study actually recommended the legalization of the drug he had the study buried.
I also don't think you should just let anyone who wants it, have it. Place the same regulations on weed consumption that are placed on alcohol consumption. No one under 21 (or 18 if Canada or whomever) and no driving while under the influence or operating heavy machinery. Let the state regulate it, tax the crap out of it and that way it will be a boon to the state's pocketbooks instead of sucking them dry. As of 2001 (I think) over
$70 billion have been spent by the US alone to stop the trafficing and use of weed. What a waste.
The real reason why pot will never be legalized is because of the petroleum industry, not the pharmaceutical industry. Hemp can make plastics, clothing and fuel and its all very affordable and very replenishable. There are strains of hemp that contain NO THC (the chemical that produces the high) that my and most other governments WILL NOT LEGALIZE. Why? Big Oil. Petroleum runs the business world from plastics to fuel. Looks around your room and wonder how many things in it are made from petroleum.
THATS the real reason why weed will not be generally legalized anytime soon.
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IMO
