Yes, marijuana should be legalized. There are very few negative effects to marijuana use and very many beneficial effects. You can't OD. You can't have a fatal allergic reaction. It makes you happy, hungry, and sociable. I can find no logical reason for it to be illegal, and especially for it to be a Schedule I substance.

This is a no brainer.

1) Criminalization is an unjustified intrusion on individual liberty. The precedence has been set with alcohol. It is logically inconsistent to favor the prohibition of one, but not the other.

2) No significant health effects. No long-term brain damage. Doesn't cause cancer. Not a single person has ever died from pot usage. And on the flip side, it has a plethora of benefits.

3) Legalization does not lead to an increase in usage. When the Portuguese essentially de-criminalized it, usage decreased. This decrease included a drastic decrease in underage usage.

Yes, not be sounds like prick, I mean I think weed should be legal and all, but this debate gets re-done on weekly basis, so can we stop doing it.

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Legalization of marijuana will bring plenty of revenue and this revenue will help many States.