Drug Legalization

What do you all think? I say pot should be legalized immediately.  About one person every 40 seconds gets arrested for smoking marijuana - an activity which, in and of itself, doesn't hurt anyone but the health of the user.  Making marijuana legal would strengthen and reaffirm the notion that an individual has the liberty to do with his property and his body as he pleases - so long as he does not harm another human in the process.

Furthermore, I think police resources would be far better used hunting down REAL violent criminals, such as murderers, robbers, rapists, etc, rather than harassing and imprisoning people for peacefully enjoying a joint while sitting in their home.

Of those arrested in 2005 for marijuana use/possession, 88% were charged with possession only - indicating that the vast majority of marijuana users are not harming anyone and should be free to pursue their happiness by smoking a joint, if that does it for them. 

Almost 94 million americans have admitted to having used marijuana at some point or other in their lives, including presidents, congressman, and even supreme court justices. 

>>16
What? This is a completely retarded comparison. Hogwash.


Christ 4chan, I thought you guys were Libertarian at least enough to want marijuana legalized. I am dissapointed. Pot is a way safer drug than alcohol, when you are high things are hardly that different, and you know you are high so you won't get in a car and crash into a stop sign. It's also only psychologically addictive instead of physically addictive. If it's legalized we will be able to spend way less on throwing harmless people in jail and filling them up. And it would help the econonmy once a marijuana drug company starts up, the government can even tax the shit out of it for all I care. I see no downsides to legalizing pot.

>>24
Fallacious. There are more than the options of "help" and "harm". Such as, oh I dunno, not effect other people. That seems logical to me, don't help or harm people, just stay out of it. And the assertion that everything we do to harm ourselves affects other people is bullshit. There is no way you can ever prove that. Look, I just ate a chip full of salt and fat. It is bad for me, yet it will never affect anyone else ever. Look, and emo kid cuts himself. Nope, not affecting anyone. The assertion that everything we do to harm ourselves affects other people is bullshit. There is no way you can ever prove that. If you truly believe that harming ourselves always affects other people AND if it doesn't help them than it is hurting them and that that should be illegal than you would be for banning alcohol, tobacco, and all unhealthy foods. That is facist. People are allowed to harm themselves, and it is not people's responsibilty to help people.