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Debate Score:61
Arguments:49
Total Votes:69
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Should Marijuana be legal?

Lots of people disagree with the whole 'medical marijuana' thing. So what is your opinion on it? Do you feel that it should definitely be legal, or do you feel that marijuana should be illegal? Please explain.

Yes.

Side Score: 43
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No.

Side Score: 18
2 points

Alcohol is worse than weed. I think there should be an age limit and driving rules etc. I don't see such the big deal about it.

Side: Yes.
2 points

Yet another Marijuana debate. +1 for originality.

Side: Yes.
1 point

lol the sarcasm I love it.

You should enlighten the forum onto which other debates are more original than others.

This isn't fucking ancient times when the first questions were asked by our species.

This 2013 where every single debate has been debated before. And so, unless you've got something to pull out of your ass that is OH SO ORIGINAL, perhaps these sort of sarcastic remarks do more harm than good. Not to me, to others. Your remark just frustrated me a tiny bit... about {}, that much.

Side: Yes.
1 point

True most debates are repeats but there are some that have been posted 50+ times at least.

Side: Yes.
2 points

I think either both marijuana and alcohol should be illegalized or neither of them should be. At least then we are being consistent, marijuana is generally less addictive than alcohol and less consequental. The fact that you can only get it through the blackmarket is really what makes it a gateway drug, exposing you to the access and presence of other drugs. Legalizing weed will also make it easy to regulate and can be made for healthier use. It will also probably bankrupt the business of spice which is a LOT less healthier than marijuana. We can also tax it putting another small dent into our current debt.

Side: Yes.
1 point

All Marijuana needs is regulation and it would be fine. Economic benefits would be astronomical. Plus eliminating the criminalization of using or possessing Mary would decrease the prison populations by what maybe 25%??

Too many pros to even worry about the cons.

Side: Yes.
1 point

The fact is, Marijuana is more of a "gateway drug" than a harmful, dangerous drug. Marijuana leads you to take more serious (and potentially dangerous) drugs. It has been known for a long time that marijuana has the ability to cure diseases (the medicine that Franklin Roosevelt took contained marijuana, albeit in small quantity). As long as people can restrict themselves to only taking marijuana or less serious drugs, marijuana should be legal.

Side: Yes.
Quocalimar(6470) Clarified
1 point

I think cigarettes can count as a 'gateway drug' also. Since people usually start on those, then move to weed.

Side: Yes.

based solely on the fact that Alchohol, which has even been proven to cause more death and injury, is legal.

I won't get into the specifics, because sure weed has it's downsides, and technicaly it counts as a drug, whic like any drug can be abused.

I also know of no one who has ever been addicted to marijuana, i often have friends do it for long periods of time, then quit on a moment's notice for a job that may require them to take a piss test.

Side: Yes.
1 point

Marijuana is perfectly legal for recreational use in my city. Seattle is a great example for you. We have legalized marijuana and the sky is not falling.

Here, where marijuana is totally legal, crime rates are falling and we are looking forward to a big boost in state revenue when we get our weed stores up and running. Here the issue is settled, we are in favor of personal liberties. No more denial and propaganda about marijuana. The only issue Washingtonians are talking about is whether it should be legal to allow employment drug tests for marijuana or not.

I think in 2013 people are finally growing up and being adults about marijuana, at least some of us.

Side: Yes.

Have you noticed that the government is unable to keep drugs out of prisons? What makes you think making the world a prison will keep this stuff out of people's hands?

Side: Yes.
1 point

MIRJUANA IS A SAFE DRUG YOU HAVE TOO SMOKE OVER LIKE 100,000 JOINTS A DAY TO DIE...and if it was legal think about how many people would acutally go out and buy it...we'd probably lose a lot of our debt in this country....

Side: Yes.
1 point

Yes, Marijuana is harmful.Yes it's not good for you.But neither is alcohol,or cigarettes.It should be a personal choice to smoke Marijuana,Just like alcohol or cigarettes are.

Side: Yes.
1 point

Yes, Marijuana is harmful.Yes it's not good for you.But neither is alcohol,or cigarettes.It should be a personal choice to smoke Marijuana,Just like alcohol or cigarettes are.

Side: Yes.
1 point

It is harmful to a extent, as far as lung (as well as other) problems can arise.

It's like "the lesser of two evils", except Mary Jane is NOT evil and is actually quite amazing.

Mary Jane is as good for a person as caffeine is, if not more good for you than caffeine. People drink coffee, drink sodas, chocolate all of the time. People smoke mary jane all of the time.

Side: Yes.

States can make plenty of money from the sale of legalized marijuana.

Side: Yes.
2 points

Marijuana is bad for you. Smoke does not belong in lungs. This makes people un-healthy and the Medicare bill goes up and production goes down.

Side: No.
CodeRed(18) Disputed
3 points

Ethanol is bad for you. This makes people unhealthy (mentally and psychically) and also kills people. How does Mary Jane make people unhealthy? Oh maybe some temporary memory loss and some diluted brain function? OooohOOOh..

Side: Yes.
kozlov(1754) Disputed
2 points

It's still bad for you. Why don't these people who do marijuana grow up and realize their habit not only hurts them, it hurts others. For one, the national medical bill goes up, furthermore they are supporting drug dealers, these drug dealers are a threat to our peaceful way of life. Now you may say ohh kozlov if you legalize marijuana than you put the dealers out of business. However, this is simply not true. Look at the Netherlands, their Marijuana dealers went into harder drugs.

Side: No.
Sitara(11080) Disputed
1 point

Bullshit. Weed is good for you .

Side: Yes.
kozlov(1754) Disputed
1 point

Good heavens! How can you ignore the facts. To say Pot is not harmful is one thing, to say it is GOOD for you is quite another. I will ask you one simple question: Are human lungs designed to inhale smoke? NO! Massive irrefutable proof listed below:

http://alcoholism.about.com/od/pot/a/effects.-Lya.htm

http://www.livestrong.com/article/101801-harmful-side-effects-marijuana/

http://www.drugfreeworld.org/drugfacts/marijuana/the-harmful-effects.html

http://www.cpha.ca/en/portals/substance/ health/faq02.aspx

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/drugs-drogues/learn-renseigne/cannabis-eng.php

Side: No.
Cambriel(711) Disputed
1 point

Hmm... Smoke does not belong in lungs. This makes people unhealthy.

Ugh, smoke is in our air nowadays.. air pollution, but we cant do anything about it. Even if we dont want to, there are other sources of pollution in our world like factories, fire smoke.. which leads to an abundant amount of smoke which we inhale every single day.

Side: Yes.
Quocalimar(6470) Disputed
1 point

you can vaporize it, that makes it virtually the same as air, or you can eat it. Smoke is bad, marijuana isn't necessarily.

Side: Yes.
kozlov(1754) Disputed
1 point

If it is the same as air, then why can you get high off it??

Also, if it is not in smoke form, then the effects are a bit less, but they are more prolonged.

Side: No.
judas(295) Disputed
1 point

Marijuana is bad for you. Smoke does not belong in lungs.

The second part of this statement I actually agree with. Unfortunately, you are out of touch with what is going on out there.

There are several ways to use marijuana without smoking it. I'm sure you already know of one or two. Making weed brownies is a good example. That is one way to use marijuana without smoking it.

Another way is vaporization. Many marijuana users do not like to smoke marijuana. We smoke something called BHO which is basically a marijuana extract. If you take this oil and super heat it (much hotter than fire), you will get a water vapor that is loaded with THC. This process requires special equipment but it gets you super high without any of the carcinogenic tar involved with smoke.

Side: Yes.
kozlov(1754) Disputed
2 points

Yes, I do realize that there are different ways to do Marijuana without smoking it. And yes, it is better for you. However, there are still negative effects and they tend to last a bit longer. At least you won't have too much lung damage.

Side: No.
1 point

Marijuana doesn't have to be smoked, this is common knowledge. Marijuana is bad for you? Uh oh, someone watched Refer Madness and Devil's Harvest to many times.

As for the medicare thing, yes I get that, however, someone else's health is none of your business. As for production, what is your point? You assume everyone will light up on the job then quit their profession so they can blaze 24/7? Seriously, smoking some weed on the weekends lowers production about as much as having a beer on the weekends does.

Not to take into account that you are trampling on people's property rights to do what they want with their bodies and not taking into account all of the crime that comes with having weed be illegal along with all of the leverage ti gives the government to take away rights.

Side: Yes.
casper3912(1581) Disputed
1 point

What if they use a vaporizer?

further more, marijuana is safer than energy drinks, and most foods.

There has been no recorded overdoses.

Side: Yes.

It wouldn't help to anything. .

Side: No.
1 point

It would help all of the people who have to deal with crime. It would help all of the people that have their rights taken away because the government needs more tools to "win" the "drug war."

Side: Yes.

screw that its the devils drug!

Side: No.
0 points

The purpose of a government is supposed to be ensuring the people under it are well of both mind and body.

Current governments are ruled by idiots, that pretty much in the most literal sense. Those people have no idea what they are doing, they have no objective sense of right and wrong. And so the "laws" themselves are a mess. But hey, humanity is learning, slowly... extremely slowly... there's almost no hope left slowly. Very sad.

Side: No.
2 points

Right and wrong? Look, we aren't talking about legalizing murder or rape, the idea is not throw someone in jail or shooting them for smoking something you don't want them to smoke. Drug prohibition has never worked and it has always ended up making things worse.

Side: Yes.