Should the prohibition against cannabis be lifted?

This is an equal-opportunity forum. Once you put a question on it, you cannot dictate or control a bias in the responses.

Welcome to fluther, however.

Understood:)

@gailcalled people do it all the time on here…. I think @theodiskaz has every right to say they’re especially interested in views from a particular group, its not like they said only Christians can answer.

As long as alcohol and cigarettes are legal, both of which are several times more harmful than weed, there is no justified reason to keep weed illegal.

@theodiskaz – Yes. That way I could get it easier
Beyond that, I 100% agree with what @ragingloli has to say.

Even if it was deadly poison it should not be outlawed for personal use. Laws against suicide are also wrong.

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This Christian will never say it should be banned, it helps too many people like my father in law with stomach cancer and my mom with breast cancer.

God gave every seed to man to use, and the Bible says so.

Is this like jeopardy, where we phrase answers or add spice to the stew in question form? Any way, I believe impaired driving, impaired relationships and indeed impaired most things, by definition of “impaired” are greater or lesser social ills. But (provocatively) I also believe It is a Human Right to be buzzed. And I note that we are not the only species on earth to pursue it, as well.

Yeah, we’d make a ton of money, and people would be happier, and there would be less drug related gang violence and crime. Plus, we’re animals, and we should be free, not ruled by a bunch of high up douche bags who want to keep something illegal that they are misinformed about, have never tried, and don’t understand. Fuckin pointless. I cannot have this argument again on here. I’ve said it all too many times. Last night I drank so much coffee I thought I was tripping. No one’s outlawing coffee. And alcohol? About a million times more dangerous. Takes so many human lives each year. But we rave about it, talk about it all the time. Weed? So benign. Just a plant. Big deal. Lets never talk about it again.

Yeah, I just knew I wasn’t the first to bring it up. But I just love the way eyebrows rise when i say being buzzed should be, or actually is, in my view, a basic Human Right.

It’s a natural herb growing in nature. I don’t see why it should be illegal. I people are afraid that it’s harmful or if they don’t wanna smoke it, they can simply not do it. I think the criminalization of it is costing society much more than the opposite would.

All I know is that policy should be data driven. What is the harm of which policy? If we allow people to smoke what they want, how much medical harm is there? How much harm to others due to impairment of judgment and physical skill? Are there ways of mitigating these harms by changing people’s behavior?

Give me the data, and I’ll tell you how to construct a policy.

The potential negative consequences – driving under the influence, impairment in the workplace, etc. should of course remain illegal. The consumption itself, a relatively harmless (and certainly victimless) act? Legalize it, for goodness’ sake!

From a Christian viewpoint, neither Christ not the prophets of the Torah spoke against marijuana. Given that God is asserted to be omniscient and omnipresent, he surely would have know about it and laid out his objections if he had such. So legalize it. God wants it legal.

Oh yeah, from the Christian viewpoint, there’s always Genesis 1:29.

As soon as the government can figure out how to make money off of it without looking stupid or hypocritical for being so down on it for all these years they will make it legal and tax the hell out of it.