Why are non-stoners so shy about speaking out against marijuana legalization?

Where there's smoke, - there's fire.

I don't want to appear like I'm a stoner.

Frankly, - I'm a libertarian. Let the lobotomize their brains, - it doesn't really concern me. I just don't want to have to pay for their medical ailments.

Marijuana should not be legalized. I believe it is even more potent and addictive today than when I was young (20 yrs ago). I have a 17 y/o niece who is a "stoner" living in a bad environment and wrecking her life by smoking pot every day. She's dropped out of school, steals, and lays around zoned all the time - it is a sick waste of a lovely bright young woman. I can't believe Calif. is considering legalizing it to generate income for their state. What a terrible idea.

There is a huge criminal element in this country making billions and trillions through the sale of marijuana. They definitely do not want it to be decrimalized as they would totally be out of business and that would definitely clean up our borders and save a thousands lot of lives.

If marijuana were legalized, you would see the criminal element fade away and thus many lives saved and no need for the huge border control we have now. People could peaceably cross the border and it would be like any other NAFTA product coming and going across the border, no guns, no criminal element just the free sale of a natural product that many people find enjoyable, comforting and very medicinal.

Why the US government does not take more control over the sale of marijuana and allow its usage, regulate it and tax the sale is really a huge oversight and they need to really start thinking about doing so very soon.

Why are they allowing so much blood shed at our borders over such a such as product as marijuana? Marijuana has always signifed PEACE and goodwill among men. The Native Americans considered it sacred and shared it as a peace offering among neighboring tribes.

Why can't we as Americans share this hospitality with our neighbors in Mexico and Central America and come together and clean up the crime and mean spiritedness caused by greed?. We need to reevaluate the value and significance of this plant and remove its criminal facade and replace it with friendship, sharing and new reverence. Continuing to ignore this issue will only make our nation fall to further depths of despair.

Many Americans are in need of such a sacrament in these very trying times of economic decline. We need now more than ever to commune with gifts that are given through our almighty creator

I am not a stoner, but I believe in legalizing marijuana for medical reasons.

When my uncle was going through chemo, there was no medicine that could help him keep his food down except when he broke the law and puffed some. Thanks to that, he managed to eat enough to stay alive through the chemo and live another ten or so years after that.

There are thousands of similar cases of extremely sick people who break the law for the first time in their lives in order to survive. There's a 90something year old lady in my area who had to break the law for the first time by puffing up just to eat enough to survive through her cancer.

You don't have to be actively involved in something to support it, dear. It's not just the stoners who want it legalized.

Think about all the men who support women's rights.

People who choose not to have children yet support their well-being and the laws that make that so.

People who don't own pets but support animal rights.

You support keeping marijuana illegal and that's your right, but don't assume that everyone who doesn't puff up agrees with you and is simply shy about it.

I do not use the stuff myself, but it should be grown and controlled for pharmaceutical reasons, not just be given the general stamp of "ILLEGAL" and stamped out.

Actually, there's a whole organization of law enforcement professionals dedicated to ending the drug war, because they've come to the realization that if it continues, half the population will be in prison, and the other half guarding them. Is THAT the kind of country you want?

The drug war has been no more effective at stopping drug use than prohibition was at stopping people from drinking. It must end NOW.

I tell people I want it legalized even though I am not a stoner because then we can tax it!

Oh please. Stoners aren't hurting anyone.

Mostly they roll their eyes about how everyone else drinks themselves into oblivion, start fights, crash cars, choke on their own vomit and generally make a mess of themselves.

If we're wanting to make the world a better place, I'd hardly make dealing with weed-smokers my priority - they're harmless.

actually i know quite a few people who don't smoke marijuana who think it would make more sense for it to be legal.

Uh, I'm not shy about being against it >.>

Unless it's being perscribed...it shouldn't be legal. We have too many idiots with a car....

GOODGOOD's argument is yet ANOTHER pile of uselessly comparing one bad thing with another bad thing.

'Yeah I stabbed her, but its not like I chopped her up and threw her into a meat grinder!' IDIOTIC....Driving while drunk is wrong, driving while high is wrong, etc, etc. All who resort to that are pathetic losers who do not deserve to share my air.