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Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

"I highly doubt marijuana would spark a billion dollar industry."You obviously haven't done ANY research. Well, I have. :)Here:"According to the data, the state's medical marijuana patients are currently consuming somewhere between $870 million and $2 billion worth of weed a year. That would translate to somewhere between $70 million and $120 million in state sales tax revenues, the authors estimated."from http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/467/ california_medical_marijuana_could_increase_tax_revenues  We're already (meaning, like, right now) getting 120 million dollars in revenue from California alone. There's no reason why this couldn't increase to a billion or more federally if legalized nationally.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

You can brew your own beer at home... but Im pretty sure the alcohol industry is doin alright
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

Alcohol brewing is not as popular as growing your own weed. Alcohol requires a lot of large machinery. Pot requires, well, a pot... and the sun and some water. I work out right next door to an alcohol brewing store. I've seen in the window and I don't think too many people would have that machinery in their homes.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

Your pretty ignorant, then. Many people brew their own beer and other alcohol (even wine) - far more often then any one person growing pot. They sell kits at grocery stores for doing it.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

actualy not really... all you need to brew beer is a few containers.. in fact you can buy a beer brewing kit for roughly $30... although yes you can purchase more expensive setups... the same goes for marijuana... Really all you need to grow weed is the ground (because its natural, not man made like alcohol) but if you want to spend more you could spend thousands on hydro systems
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

Here is a link to one... maybe you should actualy know your facts instead of making shit up
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

The drug use in Amsterdam is lower than it is here. Given your argument, how do you explain this?References: http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/67
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

Did you read my argument entirely? I clearly stated that eventually, the rampant use of marijuana would level off, but immediately following the legalization of the drug would cause widespread pandemonium. And I'm not sure how last that would long.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

So after legalizing eventually we would get all the benefits to our society that drug war has promised us for 35 years and failed to deliver, but because of a few years of hardships we should ignore these benefits and continue the war that has failed for over 35 years... Oh yes it makes perfect sense...NOT!!!
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

....SO?Besides that; look at Amsterdam, did it happen there?Also, where are you getting your data? Is this just an assumption? History does not agree with you. Where are your references?
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

When was the last time pot was illegal in Amsterdam? They've never had to deal with an initial burst of pot smokers. And although it may be an assumption, I know quite a few people who would like to smoke pot, but don't want to because of the law. And I even know some people who have smoked it, but have tried not to do it too much because of the law.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

1976: http://www.thesite.org/travelandfreetime/travel/beingthere/ amsterdamdruglaws and http://www.drugpolicy.org/news/05_04_04dutchdecrim.cfm and http://norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=3383&wtm_format=print There was an increase, but it was on par with any increase the US had. Besides that, the increase is due to the fact that it was once illegal, nothing more. Put more clearly: we shouldn't keep laws just because of the negative side affects the law has had/does/will have on society.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

That seems illogical. "we shouldn't keep laws just because of the negative side affects the law has had/does/will have on society." Why would the government want society to have any negative aspects? Isn't it the government's job to create laws to keep society a positive aspect rather than an anarchy?
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

I'll clear it up a bit:First of all, an increase in cannabis users isn't a bad thing, but thats a different argument. If it were bad, though, it's only happening as a side affect of laws to begin with. Also, just because something is bad in the short term, doesn't mean it can't have long term beneficial side affects.Also, the government doesn't want that. But it still happens. Interracial marriage was illegal. African American voting was once illegal, but now we have an African American president.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

Well he's only half black... ;)Interracial marriage and suffrage rights did not and do not hurt anybody. The government realized these laws were wrong be cause they were denying certain people from something that honestly couldn't hurt anybody else. Smoking pot- smoking ANYTHING is harmful to your health. I honestly wish the public was taught more about cigarette smoke more. Hopefully, then the amount of smokers could go down without a ban.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

It is not the governments business to protect me from myself. If you want that live in North Korea. The idea is as stupid as making suicide illiegal.(which it is)And by the way, smoking pot is only 1 way to ingest it. I myself use a vaporizer the avoid the negative effects of inhaling burnt plant matter. You can also cook with it and eat it. Nummy.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

It has: smoking cigarettes has a much more harmful effect, statistically then smoking pot. And yeah, there are many, many ways to consume cannabis. You can smoke it, vape it, eat it, and spray it. The last 3 have 0 harmful side effects.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

no its the governments job to create a safe productive land for people to live on... it is not the governments place to control personal aspects of my life that would have no affect on anyone else... the problem with government is that it is all about special intrests... the only reason weed is illegal is because some asshole from the logging industry got up in front of congress and lied through his teeth so hemp manufacturing wouldnt destroy his profits
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

First of all you have no evidence that there would be a significant increase in marijuana use immediately following legalization. Furthermore why do you think an increase would cause "pandemonium" as you put. I don't think you understand the physical effects of marijuana. You need to forget everything you know stemming from the reefer madness movement. Marijuana does not cause people to have giant drug and violence filled orgies in the street.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

Honestly, I thought this debate was over. I got enough opposition. :)But when I look into legalizing something, I try to look at the worst case scenario and a likely scenario and combine them. In the case of pot, I'm sure a lot of people would go out and buy it to try it or buy it to continue their addictions (don't say it's not addicting. I know people that are addicted.) Worst case scenario, half the population would go out and buy it, get high and wreak havoc on America. Productivity would go down :) and some people would simply do reckless things.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

"I'm sure a lot of people would go out and buy it to try it or buy it to continue their addictions"Once again you have nothing but speculation to back that up. This didn't happen with prohibition of alcohol and it didn't happen when Amsterdam legalized marijuana and it didn't happen when Portugal decriminalized all drugs."don't say it's not addicting. I know people that are addicted"I will say it isn't addictive because it is not physically addictive. I don't care how much anecdotal evidence you have, it has been proven to not be physically addictive. While cigarettes and alcohol are incredibly addictive, yet you seem to be okay with them."Worst case scenario, half the population would go out and buy it, get high and wreak havoc on America."You are completely making that proportion up. It is based on absolutely no evidence. You would be just a justified if you literally picked a random number because that is basically what you did.And what havoc do you think people wreak on America that do it now. Once again as you failed to acknowledge marijuana does not cause reckless and uncontrollable actions like alcohol does. Yet once again I doubt you support the prohibition of alcohol."Productivity would go down"And again another statement based totally on social stigma and no actual evidence.I challenge you to cite one negative result of legalizing marijuana that does not apply to alcohol or cigarettes that you actually have a shred of evidence. I really don't think you can come up with a single one. If you can, prove me wrong. Once again it cannot also apply to alcohol or cigarettes and must be have evidence. Don't speculate or provide anecdotal evidence.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

"I challenge you to cite one negative result of legalizing marijuana that does not apply to alcohol or cigarettes that you actually have a shred of evidence."Of course cigarettes and alcohol are bad for you. But the American public has come to understand the bad that can come of these drugs. When you see a movie and there is a drunk in it, typically he or she is not the most lovable character, but is actually looked upon with disgust or pity. Just because pot may not be physically addicting, does not mean it is not mentally addicting, which is just as bad. It means your brain is hooked and can't function without it. American pot advocates also seem to be slightly ignorant. They tend to forget that marijuana smoke is 6 times worse than cigarette smoke, when it comes to carbon monoxide and the toxicity of the smoke itself. Regardless of that, any smoke that enters your lungs will get into your blood system. It will create little nicks in your blood vessels and your blood will see this as an injury. It will then try to fix this by clotting at that site. The clotting continues to pile up and can eventually block an entire artery, like the "widow maker", which is the first artery to branch from the aorta. This artery heads directly back to the heart to supply the heart itself with oxygen so it can function. Mostly in men, this artery is the most susceptible to this clotting from smoking and causes many men to suffer heart attacks and possibly die.Now the article below... a few main points about it. It stresses ignorance in the public about marijuana smoke. "Surveys carried out earlier this year showed that 79% of children believed that cannabis was 'safe'.Only 2% understood correctly that there are health risks associated with smoking the drug. "It also shows how marijuana smoke is actually worse than tobacco smoke (although both are bad)."A study by the British Lung Foundation found that just three cannabis joints a day cause the same damage as 20 cigarettes."
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

I wonder why the number of deaths due to marijuana are so low? Maybe it's due to the fact that it isn't as widely used as either alcohol or tobacco as of right now. Also, maybe some deaths are unrecorded or from people who smoked both pot and tobacco and the blame was put on tobacco. Regardless, it is almost impossible for a drug to have a total number of deaths equal to zero. People die from nearly anything and everything, including drugs. Pot may not cause cancer, according to these studies, but it can still nick away at your arteries and cause clotting. In fact, your first source only says that marijuana does not cause lung cancer. It said nothing about brain cancer, heart cancers, etc. I find it extremely hard to believe how there has never once been a single recording of any death from pot, including but not limited to overdose (really 1/3 your body weight? doubtful), oxygen loss, and coronary clotting. People understand the danger of tobacco and alcohol, but there are so many deaths because these people are either irresponsible or addicted.And pot is addicting. I know people, on a personal level, who are addicted to marijuana. You cannot deny that. "As I said name something bad that it doesn't have in common with those two drugs." I did. I came up with a source that deliberately stated that marijuana smoke is 6 times worse than cigarette smoke. Although it may not cause cancer in lab animals, how can you assure that it would behave the same in a human being without first doing an experiment on humans? It's also not "proven" that cigarette smoke causes cancer in humans. The carbon dioxide, which is 6 times as much as in cigarettes, is extremely harmful to the body. The presence of carbon monoxide hinders the body's ability to carry oxygen to the brain and to the rest of the body. If somebody smokes for long enough, either in one sitting or during a lifetime, he can cause brain damage. A lack of oxygen, hypoxia, will cause neurons to die, which will eliminate thousands of connections in the brain and make a person much dumber. If a brain without any oxygen can die after a few minutes, imagine what happens to the brain when it has limited oxygen for several minutes, like half an hour or even an hour. Cancer is not the only way people can die from drugs.From the website: "The clogging and clotting effects of nicotine and carbon monoxide are the primary reasons why smokers are at such a higher risk of this condition." It mainly addresses cigarette smoke, but only because nicotine speeds up the heart muscle. Carbon monoxide injures the inside lining of the arteries and the body deposits clotting factors, like platelets, to heal the "injury". These platelets, along with fat, continue to build up until blood can no longer flow through the artery. As stated in the last argument, the first place this happens is in the "widowmaker", where the blood must go to supply the heart muscle with oxygen. If this artery is blocked, the heart cannot get oxygen and cannot pump any blood to the rest of the body. Basically, you suffocate.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

For the record, smoking marijuana is not the only way to enjoy it. So, while y'all can debate the harmful effects of smoking it, just keep in mind that really none of them can be valid arguments of keeping it illegal.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

Very valid point! But if it were to be legalized for all purposes aside from smoking, people could much more easily get their hands on it for smoking.Besides, I have a problem with the actual drug itself, not just the smoke. Smoking ANYTHING is bad.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

The number of deaths due to marijuana is not low, it is 0. I don't care how impossible you think it is, try and find one death due to marijuana. If it was as dangerous as you seem to think it is surely it should be easy to find one."And pot is addicting. I know people, on a personal level, who are addicted to marijuana. You cannot deny that. "Unless you are a doctor you are not qualified to diagnose an addiction in someone. And are you really going to try to use anecdotal evidence to combat scientific claims that it is not physically addictive. Just because someone does something a lot does mean it is addictive, that is a common misconception.No you didn't come up with a negative factor of marijuana that it does not share with tobacco or alcohol, you came up one they share but said it is worse with marijuana, which it isn't anyway. Come up with something unique to marijuana, do you know what that word means?It has never been proven that cigarette smoke causes cancer? You are joking right?You think that inhalation of marijuana smoke can lead to cerebral hypoxia? Unless you inhale almost pure smoke continuous for a few minutes that can't happen. Smoking marijuana does not cause brain damage. Guess what does though. Alcohol which you think should be legal. How do you think doing a few bong hits leads to complete brain oxygen depletion for any amount of time whatsoever let alone an hour?The website you are citing is exclusively referring to tobacco smoke. So all you are doing by citing it is furthering your hypocrisy.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

"Smoking marijuana does not cause brain damage. Guess what does though. Alcohol which you think should be legal."Yes, alcohol does cause brain damage- in minors. As we mature, our neurons deposit a compound called myelin around the axon of a dendrite. These myelin deposits are known as Schwann cells and their purpose is to make transmitting information quicker. Electrical impulses simply skip over these sections and go from node to node much quicker than if they weren't there. That's why it is illegal up until 21, when this stage of development has stopped and cannot be harmed any longer.Truth is, smoking anything is bad for you. The only difference is that marijuana smoke has way more carbon monoxide. Inhaling this will limit the amount of oxygen that can go to your brain and can kill brain cells if they do not get enough oxygen. It could also cause other parts of the body to not get enough oxygen, like the muscles and the heart. This is why when people are high, they slow down.And no, cigarette smoking has not been scientifically proven. The only way to prove this would be to formulate an experiment where you assign X amount of people to smoke 10 packs a day or whatever and X amount of people to smoke nothing for 20 years and get back to them to compare results. This is an unethical experiment and cannot be done since one part of the study could lead to death. (I took a stats course and we discussed this in depth for a day.)And the website was about tobacco smoke. I knew that. But I deliberately pointed out that it mentioned how carbon monoxide can harm the blood vessels, which is present in marijuana smoke as well.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

No alcohol does not just cause brain damage in minors. Thank you for the lesson in high school biology though.http://pubs.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/aa63/aa63.htm http://www.alcohol-drug.com/neuropsych.htm http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2005/11/07/mapping_alcohol_brain_damage.html Sustained alcohol abuse actually kills brain cells."The only difference is that marijuana smoke has way more carbon monoxide. Inhaling this will limit the amount of oxygen that can go to your brain and can kill brain cells if they do not get enough oxygen. It could also cause other parts of the body to not get enough oxygen, like the muscles and the heart."Marijuana smoke does not kill brain cells. It does not lead to cerebral hypoxia."This is why when people are high, they slow down."No first of all that is not why people "slow down." Your heart rate actually increases from ingesting THC. Once again you demonstrate how little you know about this.You are trying to reference the fact that correlation does not prove causation. While they may have never proven 100% that if you smoke you will very likely get cancer, observational studies on humans have shown an incredibly strong link between smoking cigarettes and developing cancer. This is good enough proof for medicine.But marijuana does not harm your blood vessels. Find me a source that says it does.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

Oh... could you tell me... is that what happend when they ended alcohol prohibition? No it wasnt was it... Also is that what happened in the netherlands when they legalized drugs? No it wasnt... quite the opposite actually
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

It employs people. But it also takes countless other people sitting at a desk, an incarceration system, a trial, and payment for all of the law enforcements equipment. The flagrant waste of tax dollars outweighs a handful of jobs. A handful of jobs paid for by YOU so you can be slammed against the hood of a car for a victimless crime.And legalizing may spring the use forward a bit, however during the Prohibition era of America, the restriction of alcohol brought innumerable amounts of new people to drink regardless, and its inevitable sale was instead left to booming gangs. Don't tell me restriction is an effective/ethical practice
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

Our prisions are overcrowded... and there are pleanty of other crimes that police officers could be investigating... The current "anti-drug industry" would not lose any money... it would just be allocated elsewhere. Also if you look at other countries that have legalized drugs, they seem to have FAR less problems with abuse and dependancies than we do by criminalizing it...
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

I don't think legalizing pot would be an end to the war and damn the day I see the war on drugs end. Drug abuse kills people all the time, screws them up, messes with their faces, gets people killed, infests the country with greed. Why the hell should we let that run rampant?I have my dictator's hat on tonight. :D!
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

There's a difference between all drugs and marijuana. Caffeine causes more deaths annually than marijuana.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: End the war on drugs, legalize

Caffeine is also more addictive. I'm a slave to my morning caffeine fix - the day cant go on without it. Comparatively a much longer marijuana habit can be dropped and picked back up on a whim.
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

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Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

There are 0 deaths related to Cannabis a year. There are 1000 to 10000 caffeine related deaths:http://www.jackherer.com/comparison.html References are listed in the link (the U.S. Surgeon General, for one)
Debate: U.S. should put an end to war on drugs, legalize pot?
Side: Continue the war on drugs

"CAFFEINE (From stress, ulcers, and triggering irregular heartbeats, etc.) " Jack Herer doesn't believe this himself I would bet!