It will remain illegal. Big pharmas will ensure it.

I would hope they would legalize it.  I don't want to pay casual users' jail sentences.

I don't like pot myself and it wouldn't affect me at all since I won't be using it.  Quite a few of my friends do it though.

I'm gonna go out of the usual crowd here and say this is terrible news. It really should stay illegal. Sure, it's not as bad as alcohol, but that doesn't make it right to just add more harmful stuff to life. I mean, the cons outweigh the pros. There will be more car crashes if it's legal. This is a fact because when people are high, their focus is obviously a lot worse, and thus will lead to more crashes. And even if it's illegal to smoke and drive, just like Drinking and Driving, people will still do it. How does this help my argument you may ask? People will smove and drive highly frequently; much more than nowadays since it's illegal. How many cases do you hear of MJ-induced accidents right now? Not nearly as much is Drinking problems. So by making it legal, you will just create a 2nd major accident causer, when it's really unnecissary to do such a thing.

Another thing is this will lead to more drugs being made legal. If this completely becomes legal, then people will get greedy and start demanding other drugs to be legal, since "this was made legal too". This will then lead to even worse drugs being made legal, which will thus ruin this country permanently.

Also, if you are around people who smoke MJ, you get a contact buzz, and what if I don't want to get high? I won't get to choose if I'm forced to be around a pot-smoker.

PS. No trolls or personal attacks. I want to have a clean discussion free of pointless attacks.

SO why not legalize it and take the power from the powerful brutal mexican mafia. What about cancer and people that can't eat. Relaxing stressed muscle's, helping sleeping desorder. I can go on and on about the positive side that doesn't include horrible side effects such as sleeping pills and others that can help you sleep but swell up your tongue and kill you in your sleep.

just watch tv, look at all the side effects from the drugs that marijuana can cure. you are really demonizing pot here.

Same people that will take tylenol with no problem, when it eats away your stomach and can cause damage to your liver and kidneys. But hey lets go after the potheads.

this was never about pot being bad but about hemp selling and taking over paper. lOOk it up.

Man the US will never beat Canada, we'll legalize pot first (hopefully)

To be honest as long as we tax the shit out of it and bring it under official branding and legal distribution I see nothing wrong with legalizing it. Sure it impedes the mind but alchohol does too and thats legal. Now the police just need a breathalizer device that can sense if you've smoked any cannobis lately (A device I bet already exists I just don't know of it).

Driving under the influence of any mind altering substance should remain illegal.

Also its funny that people talk about the Christian Right? I'm a Christian and a Conservative and I think we should legalize pot. So do many card carrying and elected conservatives (In Canada). Lastly why is everyone who is conservative automatically called the Christian right? Their are Athiest rights, Muslim Rights , Jewish Rights....etc....etc..

But I'm guessing this guy is a Christian and he's right wing so people will call him Christian Right. But its not like Christians are the only right wingers out their.

Couldn't agree more.  Though I am for the legalizing of all drugs, with more serious ones being regulated at special places as needed.  We all make choices that are seen as "disruptive" when viewed vs the collective, but unless they directly harm others they are exactly that.  Our choices.  It's nobodies buisness to judge them or try and limit them.

It will remain illegal. Big pharmas will ensure it.