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Legalized chronic would go along good with aliens, gambling and legal prositution according to some Nevada lawmakers. 
If it passes November 7, Nevada will be the first state to allow adults to possess up to an ounce of pot that they could buy at government-regulated marijuana shops.The Committee to Regulate and Control Marijuana, which has pushed medical marijuana and decriminalization laws around the country, thinks Nevada — with its embrace of certain vices and its streak of Western independence — is a perfect venue.
If I lived in Nevada I’d vote for taxing and legalizing marijuana. I’m not a stoner and haven’t smoked any weed in a long time, but I don’t have a problem with people getting high as long at they don’t get high and do something that puts other people at risk like driving stoned.
Seems weird to write this but these days with meth and other creepy drugs being popularized, pot seems tame by comparison. Alaska already has a law which allows possession of one ounce of marijuana. Would you vote to legalize possession of one ounce of marijuana if it was on the ballot in your state?
Yes. Why spend millions fighting against this drug that is really no more harmful than alcohol or tobacco, when you could tax and regulate it instead?
Comment by Sterling Camden — October 19, 2006 @ 2:17 pm PST
I would prefer to vote to simply decriminalize the possession of one ounce of marijuana. Taxation and regulation means state control of distribution, an administrative bureaucracy to implement policy, and an enforcement agency with enhanced powers to harass small time growers. I’d like to see this country move toward a sensible laissez-faire approach like that of the Netherlands, where fewer teen-agers smoke marijuana than in the U.S.
I agree with John Perry Barlow (he wrote lyrics with the Grateful Dead) that the failed ‘War On Drugs’ has arisen as a totalitarian impulse among the American people themselves. He says, “…In this futile jihad, Americans have largely suspended habeas corpus, have allowed government to confiscate our goods without indictment or trial, have flat discarded the the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, and are voluntarily crippling the First…”
Hear, hear!
Comment by Vince Williams — October 19, 2006 @ 6:17 pm PST
I mean that a smaller percentage of teen-agers in the Netherlands smoke marijuana than in the U.S., of course.
Comment by Vince Williams — October 19, 2006 @ 6:23 pm PST
I dont think i would vote to legalize it.I hate it,My bf does it and i dont like the affects its stupid and pointless.
Comment by his girlfriend — November 2, 2006 @ 11:45 pm PST
While I can appreciate “his girlfriend”’s opinion of the wisdom of smoking pot, I still don’t believe that it’s he government’s business to save us from our own stupidity or to regulate our vices.
Comment by Sterling Camden — November 3, 2006 @ 12:38 pm PST
I say legalize it,
because it has no harmful affects except a few loss brain cells,
and they grow back fairly quick,
so i see no problem!
Comment by Jonathan Heldreth — March 27, 2007 @ 8:05 am PST
yes! let the capitalist state of our nation pump more capital into our economy by taxing marijuana sales, instead of losing money feeding all of the incarcerated marijuana users. while complete decriminalization but no government regulation would be best in my mind, i’m all for government sale and regulation. legalize it!
Comment by Matt Winnick — April 25, 2007 @ 7:53 pm PST
LEGALIZE IT!
Comment by tiffany — March 12, 2008 @ 5:21 pm PST