If you were president of the USA, would you legalize marijana??

[Frank_Carbonni]

Absolutely.

Although, technically it would be Congress that has the power to do so, but I would enforce the laws in such a manner that it would be de facto legal until they did so.

[Gtownoe]

Originally Posted by Sonrise

Drugs are for losers. Anyone who's anti cigarette smoking and pro pot is a hypocrite. I'm against both.

It's not about whether or not you personally want to smoke marijuana or not, its about what kind of impact legalizing it would have on the country.

That's the million dollar question.

[odanny]

3-1 in favor of legalization. And, to be honest, I've found some conservatives to be remarkably (to me, anyway) open to the idea. Thats progress.

[afoigrokerkok]

The President doesn't have the authority; it would have to go through Congress. And, even if federal laws against marijuana were repealed (and I strongly believe they should be), states would be free to continue their bans.

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by odanny

3-1 in favor of legalization. And, to be honest, I've found some conservatives to be remarkably (to me, anyway) open to the idea. Thats progress.

Vote is nearly 4 to 1 now.

Banning alcohol back in the 1920's simply made alcohol very expensive to get, created a whole class of organized criminals, made most of our citizens criminals for possessing the stuff and proved that you cannot control such things.

Weed should be legal and taxed to the hilt, like alcohol.

Then we can move on to legalize prostitution, since we'll never do away with it either.