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35
17
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Debate Score:52
Arguments:46
Total Votes:58
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Should Cannabis be Legalised?

Yes

Side Score: 35
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No

Side Score: 17
2 points

It's no harmful than tobacco or alcohol (2 legal products), and the ban on it costs the taxpayer millions of pounds. In some countries, the ban costs people their lives, what with all the gunmen in South America.

Legalize cannabis, and you save money, lives, and preserve freedom in our society.

Side: Yes
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I second this comment.......................................................................

Side: Yes
2 points

I don't feel like making some long argument rehashing all that has already been said time and again, but here's a point I can't recall having ever heard before:

If marijuana is legal and you are legally allowed to grow it, it is safer. As it is now, you can buy some weed off the street and, unbeknownst to you, it is laced with meth or PCP. I've been most comfortable smoking what I've received directly from the grower. If I could grow my own (being something of a green-thumb I definitely would like to try it, but won't until it is legalized), I would no longer be at risk of receiving drug-laced pot.

Side: Yes
2 points

If alcohol and tobacco are legal, so should cannabis.

Ideally, legal cannabis could become so popular that we can make alcohol and tobacco illegal, finally, without causing harm to our culture.

Side: Yes
2 points

Even though I'm not a user, I defend it should be legalized.

The most important point is that we have our freedom to use it,

and this "drug" particularly does no harm to others but the user. Besides this, it's less harmful than many others that are legal.

Side: Yes

Absolutely

Of all of the criminal drugs, it is one of the least harmful and addictive. It is safer and more useful than tobacco, and AT LEAST as safe as alcohol.

It has therapeutic and medicinal benefits.

While it is illegal, people who are using too heavily are not going to be as inclined to seek help.

The massive amount of money spent keeping it criminalized if ludicrous, but we could make it back through taxation.

While the cartels who transport marijuana may sometimes become violent, the users are not. Use legal methods of distribution and sale, and there would be virtually no association between pot and violence.

Also legalize hemp while we are at it, as it does not have any properties of intoxication and is useful for a wide variety of products.

Side: Yes

States can make plenty of money through the legalization of marijuana.

Side: Yes

In reality, Marijuana is just as bad as tobacco and alcohol, however, Marijuana is proven to be a gateway drug into crack cocaine, heroin, opium, etc. It is also proven that the typical marijuana user smokes until high, not until relaxed. When a person is high, he or she is not fully functional. Most daily alcohol drinkers do not drink to get drunk, they drink until they're relaxed, that is one reason alcohol is legal. Marijuana is unfiltered and will cause lung damage as well as tobacco, however tobacco does not affect how you function while marijuana does (as previously stated). Marijuana also has proven to take a permanent toll on the adolescent brain. It has proven poorer performance on thinking tasks, slower motor skill speed, poor attention span, poor verbal memory, and planning ability. Even with 3 weeks of abstinence of Marijuana, attention span is permanently affected but motor skills, planning ability, and thinking tasks have slightly increased but are still affected. With Marijuana use, the brain is working harder than it should causing stress, shorter life span, and a weaker body in the long run. Though Marijuana has proven to help slow down medical issues, it still only slows down, does not cure the medical issue. Same goes with prescription medicine. Most of them only slow down your issue, not get rid of it. The reason prescription medicines are legal is because your doctor needs to allow you to take it. I'm fine if you use marijuana because your doctor prescribes it to you, however most of the time, that is not the case and Marijuana is abused by many teens and young adults. There is a reason the future of America (and the world) is going downhill. The increased Marijuana use in high school and middle schoolers is one of the main reasons.

Side: No
0 points

Don't need people that work that have been smoking. Would you trust your family with them?

Side: No
1 point

IS this question asking "would you trust your family with cannabis smokers?"

If so, yes. Absolutely. As much as with someone who has a drink or two in the evening or who smokes cigarettes on their work breaks. Though being a cannabis smoker who often has a couple drinks in the evening and smokes cigarettes on my work breaks I might be a little biased.

Side: Yes
drigorr(4) Disputed
1 point

Yes of course, i guess you trust people who drink and smoke.

Side: Yes
mykell(2) Disputed
1 point

Yes, I would trust my family with people who have smoked marijuana.

Side: Yes
1 point

Yes, yes

Side: No
0 points

No, cannabis should not be legalized because it makes people extremely lazy and delays judgement in teenagers. Thus, it will basically destroy the whole country's next generation,as well as the current one. Consequently, the unemployment rate will go up, causing America's economy to go downhill, for the whole country will be run by lazy-ass potheads, if cannabis is legalized. Therefore,once again, no, cannabis should not be legalized.

Side: No
1 point

Yes, yes

Side: Yes
-1 points

Cannabis is a huge problem already, to legalise it would mean that a lot more people would have access to a substance that can kill you.

If you think that doesn't matter, then not only have you got something wrong with you, but it is severely wrong.

Side: No
TheAshman(2299) Disputed
2 points

What proof have you got that Cannabis can kill you? I have researched this and no-one has ever died from smoking too much Cannabis to die of THC overdose you would have to smoke roughly 15 pounds of Cannabis in roughly 15 minutes, the tobacco you mix with the Cannabis could cause Cancer but that is not because of the Cannabis.

The main health risks with Cannabis is that it can cause mental problems in some people but this is the same for a lot of Legal substances, Alchohol, Tobacco, Fatty Foods and Water are all Legal and have caused more deaths than Cannabis and their all Legal. Cannabis is also helpful for people with Multiple Sclerosis and can help reduce the side effects from Chemotherapy (the drugs used for Chemo are among the most toxic on the planet). I think Legalise it, whilst not totally risk free (but then nothing in life is) it is a lot less harmful than a lot of things already legally available

Side: Yes
1 point

Well guess this debate has just been summed up I say you can close this debate now. Cause boy I tell ya some people make BS claims and don't know what the heck they are talking about. He will either reply with some more BS or not reply at all because how how easily his comment was debunked.

Side: Yes
Micmacmoc(2260) Disputed
1 point

Just because nobody has died of it in the past does not mean that they can't. Someone may have an allergic reaction to it.

Just because nobody has died doesn't mean it doesn't have bad effects: people can feel very hungry when they have cannabis, this is known as 'getting the munchies'. Cannabis can make people feel paranoid, suspicious, anxious, panicked, light-headed, faint and sick.

Can water cause all of this damage as easily as cannabis does? No.

According to talktofrank.com cannabis is a hallucinogen drug, and can therefore cause you to hallucinate. If you like cannabis, then do you want what happens in the video to happen to you as well?

Cannabis Effects
Side: No
1 point

Yes, yes

Side: No
Liber(1730) Disputed
1 point

a substance that can kill you.

Cannabis can kill you no more than grass can kill you.

If you think that doesn't matter, then not only have you got something wrong with you, but it is severely wrong.

There is virtually no danger involved in occasional use of marijuana; alcohol and tobacco, however, now those things are real dangerous. Something must really be the matter with you if you think I should be able to decide for myself whether or not tobacco is worth the risk!

Side: Yes
Micmacmoc(2260) Disputed
1 point

I wouldn't call paranoia, sickness, angst, etc., non-dangerous. If you are then do you mean to say that something causing someone to be sick is a healthy thing?

Side: No
1 point

Yes, yes

Side: No
1 point

Yes, yes

Side: No