Poll: What do you think would happen if pot were legalized?

[Infohawk]

Overall I'm for drug legalization. We should tax it and profit from it. I'm guessing not too much would change if pot were legalized, but part of me worries. Will I have to deal with more second-hand smoke? Will the average person become even lazier, dumber, and apathetic?

What do you think? You can vote for multiple options.

 

[Tab]

People would get high.

 

[1prophet]

Instead of people being arrested for possession or sale of marijuana they instead would be arrested and probably convicted for not having the required and expensive permits to grow or distribute and of course evading taxes.

 

[bfdd]

The only thing that would change for me is instead of stopping off to buy a pack of cigs, I'd stop off to buy a pack of spliffs. I wonder if they'd still let me have smoke breaks at work

 

[IronWing]

Price would drop removing incentive for trafficking related violence. Fewer cops killed. Fewer cops needed, save tax dollars there. Prison and jail costs would go down. Private prison industry would suffer.

 

[Craig234]

My position: don't use it, provide prevention and treatment, and legalize it.

 

[bfdd]

Price would drop removing incentive for trafficking related violence. Fewer cops killed. Fewer cops needed, save tax dollars there. Prison and jail costs would go down. Private prison industry would suffer.

i hope the prison industry suffers in a good way, you know taking away all the fucking bullshit we allow prisoners to have in prison now. tv? get rid of it. computers? get rid of them. prison should be a goddamn hell, prisoners get more money spent on them than high school students.

 

[Theb]

Everyone would turn into pregnant teenage terrorists. Harmless?

 

[DaveSimmons]

- Tax revenues would increase
- Law enforcement, court and incarceration costs would decrease
- Gang activity would decrease
- Mexican drug lords would lose some power as a major funding source was removed
- Mexico would become safer and people would have less incentive to come to the US illegally

But:
- OMG! Stoners would get high! OH NOES!
- Think of the chillldreeennnnnn! (So what if many ghetto kids are fatherless now thanks to the illegal drug trade, right "war on drugs" supporters?)


The only recreational drugs I use are caffeine and chocolate but I think legalization would do much more good than bad compared to our current prohibition approach.

 

[Fenixgoon]

at first, people would go apeshit.

then things would settle down. it's just like US kids getting alcohol. "OMG WE CAN BUY ALCOHOL" and then it wears off...

 

[IGBT]

there will be more dopers along with all the existing drunks.

 

[dahunan]

our politicians would start smoking it and Bill Clinton would be Pimp Mac Daddy

 

[nonlnear]

I almost didn't select world peace. I was going to go only with Nothing, The government will have more money for schools (assume a healthy pot tax), and Everyone will just be a little more laid back. Then after contemplating how many wars and insurrections are directly or indirectly attributable to our misguided drug laws I had to tack on world peace too. Sure it wouldn't be total, but there would be significant improvements to global security. Let's just say that the global security improvements due to this one policy change would dwarf many other "achievements" that have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

 

[jman19]

Society would crumble. Just like if we let the gays marry. :hmm:

 

[sandorski]

Short term Increase in Crime, mostly Gang Turf Wars. After that significant Decrease. Other than that, not much really. I'm sure there will be an increase in Anti-Pot activism, both on the streets and in the Media. That will eventually dwindle to small groups of Self Righteous twits claiming severe After Life consequences because their Real Life consequences never panned out.

 

[LunarRay]

The Catholic Church will have a hissy fit. The Baptists will better define the anti-Christ and the Jews and Muslims will sit down and dine on a leg of hindu. At first that is... Then they will all stare at the night sky and repeatedly say... "Man... where did the sun go, totally tubular?"

 

[ultimatebob]

Knowing my luck, I would probably end up getting hit by a stoned driver trying to drive to the grocery store to get more munchies.

Oh, and state governments would tax the hell out of it (just like tobacco), to the point where people would start growing their own to avoid the Pot Tax when they buy it at the smoke shops.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Who is it?
Oh, what the hell is it...c'mon. Open up the door! It's Dave!
Who?
Dave! D-A-V-E! Will you open up the goddam door!
Dave?
Yeah, Dave!
Dave?
Right, man. Dave. Now will you open up the door?
Dave's not here.

 

[classy]

Price would drop removing incentive for trafficking related violence. Fewer cops killed. Fewer cops needed, save tax dollars there. Prison and jail costs would go down. Private prison industry would suffer.

Well marijuana users are not the ones who are usually associated with the things in your post. Unless you are for legalizing all drugs which I can't see how that would be good at all.

 

[Sinsear]

Westboro Church will update slogans to "God hates fags who smoke weed"?

 

[IronWing]

Well marijuana users are not the ones who are usually associated with the things in your post. Unless you are for legalizing all drugs which I can't see how that would be good at all.

Users aren't. Traffickers are. Prohibition has pushed up the price to where the profit is worth the violence. Legalization will reduce the profit and reduce the trafficking related violence.

 

[sportage]

I'd rather see a poll on safety.
A) would the country be safer with a national ban on pot?
B) would the country be safer with a national ban on all cell phone use while driving?

I pick "B"

 

[piasabird]

Fewer people will go to jail for possession of MJ. Farmers will get rich. Government will make lots of money. People will still be poor.

 

[MJinZ]

Instead of people being arrested for possession or sale of marijuana they instead would be arrested and probably convicted for not having the required and expensive permits to grow or distribute and of course evading taxes.

Excellent

 

[MJinZ]

at first, people would go apeshit.

then things would settle down. it's just like US kids getting alcohol. "OMG WE CAN BUY ALCOHOL" and then it wears off...

Yea, I mean pretty sure that Alcohol wastes you completely too and does not let you do anything productive.

But Alcohol is legal.

So dunno why marijuana is illegal.

Even though tobacco products are legal.

Basically it's fucked up and people are retards.