Any non-stoners who support legalizing weed?

It seems like more and more people are supporting weed legalization, while more and more people are smoking weed. I can't help but think there's a correlation going on.

Me, I need to keep my job opportunities open, so I don't even though I'd really really... really really really like to. I also support gay marriage and gay rights even though I don't participate in the gay lifestyle.

I support its legalization and I've never touched the stuff.

Yes I know someone who grows the stuff but I've never been keen on inhaling any smoke fumes of any kind, I see no harm in legalizing it though. Infact the first time I could vote I voted for the Legalize Cannibus Party, I still maintain weed makes people paranoid but compare it to alcohol and the devastation that causes and really it should be alcohol that is illegal and weed that's legal.

@lamprey263 How does your stance in weed legalization affect your job opportunities?.

I meant I support it but don't smoke so I can pass a piss test. Even in states that have legalized it for recreational usage, employers can still refuse to employ people who use it, even if they need it for medicinal reasons.

I'm a.o.k with legalizing that stuff and never touched it and I never will.

@lamprey263 Employers in the states let the candidates take urinal tests? Then im sure as hell glad I live in the netherlands :)

Haven't touched the stuff and likely won't, but after having read facts about the substance then I don't see any harm in legalizing it on the same level as alcohol.

Meaning enjoy it but please don't drive under the influence.

lol

They should legalize and regulate it similar to alcohol. Right now it's solely being ran by criminals. In 50 years people won't be able to comprehend the level of carnage created by selling weed just like how it's hard to fathom today how people in the 20s and 30s were blowing up buildings, kidnapping children, and doing drivebys just to sell beer.

Yeah I noticed as well. It's strange, oh and yes I support it and have never touched the stuff or even smoked at all. In fact I think regular cigarettes should be banned in place of cannabis.

I support it. I think you should be barred from coming to work high, driving high, or anything you wouldn't be allowed to do drunk. Some people know their limit, others don't, and everyone reacts differently to pot.

I haven't ever used it myself, but would not be opposed to taking the oil without the hallucinogenic whatever it is or cooking it into food as a medical treatment. If I ever get cancer I'll probably go straight to weed for some of my pain management, but I'm not interested in smoking it as an intake method.

I support it and while I did smoke weed when I was a teenager that was like 20 years ago so its not about getting high. At the least it should be decriminalized and legal for medical. Especially since weed could be used in a lot of situations where opiate narcotics are prescribed instead, and a large part of Americas heroin crisis stems from people getting hooked off legal pain scrips.

Weed has many health benefits apparently, and is even being considered to help with Alzheimer's amongst other things. To much though can give you mental health problems. You get cigarettes, which are harmful to your health, alcohol also harmful, these two things kill countless people every year, I've never heard of anyone dying from smoking weed. Plus if the governments legalised it and regulated it, it would take the money away from criminal organisations.

I have no problem with it becoming legal. I have family members who used it and I have worked with people who experimented with it in the past and are hard workers. I never used it personally but I don't smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol either.

However, if it does become legal people need to stop pretending that weed has absolutely no harmful effects whatsoever. What that means is they shouldn't be up in arms if employers won't allow them to come to work high, or if they are given a DWI for driving high.

Also, people need to stop pretending that if weed was federally legalized today it would cure cancer and erase the national debt within a year...

I support legalization for the simple fact that money can be made. if alcohol is legal, weed should be

Yeah That bugs me. While it can retard the growth of certain cancers it is not a cure. Also smoking it can be just as bad as any smoking, human lungs are not designed to do that.

My biggest issue though is the people that say " oh its a plant so its not a drug" first they need to learn the definition, it is a drug, second it is heavily processed if they were to grow it natural with no extras in the wild from non cloned/tampered seeds it would not have the effects of all the popular brands which are definitely tampered with and processed to increase the THC.

I don't smoke weed but I support it. I vote yes because of the revenue that America so desperately needs. To those that talk about it's dangers...well processed food isn't healthy either. Actually, there isn't a lot out there that really and truly is healthy for us. Our whole culture is one big unhealthy attitude half the time. Almost everything we do or consume has some type of negative and they are always combined daily. Too much fat, too much sugar, too much air pollution..hell, what difference will weed make, it fits right in.

I do

I just made a new account, and for some reason I started out at 5 posts even though I hadn't posted a thing. In other words, my first post was my sixth.

Yeah, I've never touched the stuff, but I support decriminalizing it, at least. Too many people are in prison for marijuana "crimes". It's insane- and we're also paying tax dollars to keep these people there.

The last time I smoked weed was 5-6 years ago and I fully support it.

It's only a gateway drug because of the circles you have to hang around with to get it. If they sold it at Wal-Mart................

That was not my point. I support legalization and do not think lots of things are healthy. I am talking about the uninformed stoner contingent on the web that act like it is not a drug because its a plant, say that it is healthy for you even the smoking, and claim that it is not just a treatment but bonafide cure for all cancer. its idiotic and it makes the informed legalize supporters look bad, and sets back the cause.

I'm not in favor of people using weed, it's not a healthy substance, but it's about as easy to obtain as alcohol is and peeps gonna smoke it anyway so why not try to get some tax money out of it? The roads in my state suck.

In my line of work there is a zero tolerance for any drug use (beyond Advil/Tylenol/Aspirin), legal or not, and I fully support the legalization of all drugs. Including meth and heroin.

If vicodin and morphine can be legal, then there is nothing wrong with meth and heroin being legal either. People of an adult age should be allowed to put whatever they want into their body. Have all the same legal consequences for use in public and while driving as alcohol. It's not hard.

Funnily enough, Portugal legalized weed a little while ago and noticed total drug use dropped.

never smoked weed in my life, but yeah it should be legalized. I've known stoners and I have yet to see the harm it caused them nor the harm that they caused others due to smoking it. I don't see why people should get in legal trouble for something that doesn't harm anyone.

Nay. Although eventually I'm sure it will become legal in all states.

Well, smoking anything unfiltered can severely increase the risk of developing lung cancer.

*raises hand* If cigarettes are legal, it seems like weed should be.

Yes, if only to stop hearing the stoners bitch about legalization. Intoxicants are not a way of life. Maybe if we legalize, we'll see less people who use marijuana to define who they are.

Never smoked weed in my life and I support the legalization.

Of course, but if that was all it took to make something illegal there are some other things that we should be focusing on.

It's hard to make an argument against it when alcohol remains legal

Me.

Legalize and tax the shit out of it. The thing about drugs (alcohol, tobacco, marijuana) you get addicted and keep coming back - so tax and regulate the filth.

Define "stoner"

I'm in my 30s and have never tried it, nor do I intend to regardless of legality. I support legalization.

I completely support it and have never touched it. I've only ever seen it once when I was doing a group project in high school and someone in my group passed a small bag of it to his friend. I live in Colorado where it is legal to use it recreational and I've still not tried it and none of the people I am close with use it either.

there are plenty of people that support legalization even though they don't smoke just like there were plenty of people that were against booze prohibition that did not drink and were not alcoholics.

hell, gutting the ability for criminals to make money on it alone is plenty enough reason for pot to be legal just as it was for alcohol.

technically it is not countless.

tobacco kills around 400,000 per year,

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/tables/health/attrdeaths/index.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cdc%2FGEla+(CDC+-+Smoking+and+Tobacco+Use+-+Main+Feed)

and alcohol around another 90.000.

http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

i don't smoke but i support the legalization of weed. no, it's not healthy for you but neither are drinking, smoking tobacco, eating a bacon whopper, and a bunch other legal activities. in the grand scheme of things, it's not a big deal and i'd rather it create tax revenue for valuable social programs than have to pay taxes for its prohibition to be enforced.

If my state were to legalize marijuana, it would mean they would shift law enforcement to other drugs like meth or crack cocaine. The state would then have an increase income from additional sin taxes coming from pot sales.