Is it time to legalize pot and reduce the death rate of tobacco and alcohol?

[Greatest I am]

[KichigaiNeko]

Totally disagree with you here GIA.

[thesummerqueen]

They tried to outlaw booze already in this great time period called Prohibition. I'm a fan of Tommy-guns and pin stripe suits, but not a fan of black market alcohol and wholesale gangster slaughter.

[Tiberius]

We're still living in the Prohibition. Gangsters have been replaced by drug lords and drug dealers. Tommy guns have been replaced by handguns and knives. Black market alcohol has been replaced by black market drugs, and the dangers of these black market substances are still there, with hundreds, if not thousands of people dying each year from impurities blended into the drug at the manufacture stage.

It's time for the governments to legalize all of it, across the board, and let proper companies make these substances as safe as they possibly can get, whilst at the same time helping charitable organisations reach out to the addicted and try to get them to cut down and / or stop completely.

[Neo-Scholastic]

It's really sad that we reached the point of outlawing plants.

[thesummerqueen]

Especially a plant as useful as hemp.

[kılıç_mehmet]

And I think that you cannot guarantee me that pot will kill not more people than tobacco if it's legalized and becomes as widespread as tobacco amongst the masses, especially the lower sections of society?
I think that all such drugs are dangerous for society, if not for the individual, however, tobacco has the advantage of not being a mind numbing drug of sorts. The reason it causes large numbers of tobacco-consumption related illnesses and deaths, is due to it's wide usage amongst the people of earth.
Regarding the "legality", I'd say that using such substances should be legal, however, manufacture, and sale thereof, should not. One should destroy such plantations wherever one comes across them, and deal with the sellers and distributers harshly. However, it's your country, do what you will.

[reverendjeremiah]

Especially a plant as useful as hemp.

...and that is WHY it is illegal. Many companies stand to lose money if Hemp gains status in America.

[Minimalist]

It is time to legalize it so we can start to recover our civil liberties from a police mentality which is totally out of control.

[Tiberius]

It is time to legalize it so we can start to recover our civil liberties from a police mentality which is totally out of control.

THIS.