# Pot-free, support marijuana legalization - anyone else in this boat? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 24, 2009, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420 "2009-12-24T05:24:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/21 "2009-12-24T09:40:08Z")
> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#): > > I’d be OK with legalizing it, as long as people can’t smoke it in most public places. Pot and tobacco smoke both affect the people who breathe in the secondhand smoke to some degree. That’s my attitude as well. Anything that affects other people logically runs into the “your right to swing your arm ends where my nose begins” principle. If you want to nibble some brownies that’s another matter. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/22 "2009-12-24T13:02:43Z")
Yep – smoked twice in college and once the following fall (at Homecoming!) and didn’t much care for it. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/23 "2009-12-24T13:13:29Z")
I agree with **Lynn**. As long as it isn’t affecting me then have at it. I’d go as far to say if you want to snort cocaine off a prostitute’s bottom while injecting heroin directly into your brain, then it should be allowed, too. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/24 "2009-12-24T13:31:40Z")
Never tried it, but probably would. I do think it should be legal. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/25 "2009-12-24T13:34:32Z")
I’m a teetotaler, but I support legalizing it. I suppose I generally just have libertarian leanings…but also for the possibility and regulating and taxing pot like tobacco or alcohol. I’m _entirely_ in favor of making money. ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/26 "2009-12-24T13:39:09Z")
I have not only never used pot, I’m allergic to pot smoke. I think it should be legal, though subject to restrictions like tobacco smoking is now. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/27 "2009-12-24T13:42:42Z")
The only reason why I don’t smoke it now is because it’s illegal. Man, I’d love to be able to sit in front of the TV while smoking a dube and laugh my ass silly like I used to when I was a younger. That’s what I love about pot. It makes everything funnier. How can anybody be against that? ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/28 "2009-12-24T13:46:19Z")
Tried it a few times, never liked it, but would still support legalization. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/29 "2009-12-24T14:06:10Z")
Yep. Don’t smoke it now but did in the 70’s. But I didn’t inhale. No, wait, that isn’t it. I DID inhale. That was the point. I agree we would need restrictions to protect the health of “secondhand smokers”. I also think we may need various protections from people being inebriated while driving, or performing critical jobs. I’d like to see a somewhat cautious and thoughtful legalization, with the eventual goal of complete legalization except where specific harm ensues to others (whether anticipated or not). ---
**Author:** ![Uzi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/91b2a8/32.png) [@Uzi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uzi)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/30 "2009-12-24T14:06:12Z")
Interesting timing as I’m just watching the Rifftrax version of ‘Reefer Madness’. Damn, I never new that pot was such an evil drug! Maybe I’ll have to change my vote. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/31 "2009-12-24T14:16:24Z")
Add me to the list. I haven’t smoked in ages due to a paranoid episode, but I’d like to see it legalized and put under the same restrictions as cigarettes and booze. I’d like to see harder drugs legalized, too (and I don’t do them, either). ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/32 "2009-12-24T14:30:35Z")
I’ve never smoked it and support its legalization. Though to me its in the same boat as cigarettes. Smoke it in your home or in your car I don’t want that smell shit near me. ---
**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/33 "2009-12-24T14:37:35Z")
Count me in. I don’t enjoy smoking _anything_, and I really don’t have the time to get stoned, but I’ve yet to see a compelling argument for continuing to ban the recreational use of pot. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/34 "2009-12-24T14:42:25Z")
I’ve used it, and will again if I ever want to, though truthfully I don’t find it that interesting. I think it would be great if it were legalized. ---
**Author:** ![Eva\_Luna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e495f1/32.png) [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/35 "2009-12-24T14:59:45Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > I have not only never used pot, I’m allergic to pot smoke. I think it should be legal, though subject to restrictions like tobacco smoking is now. Likewise (asthmatic, and pretty much completely disinterested in partaking of any substance that affects my thinking abilities, legal or not). I don’t consider pot smoking to be some kind of moral failing, but I do believe that there are some people who can handle it, and some who can’t. But then that is true of alcohol and many other legal things. And there are documented benefits to pot in some cases. I’ve known of doctors who recommended it for cancer patients, legal or not. It’s silly for, say, morphine to be legal, but not pot. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/36 "2009-12-24T15:30:27Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Sure, but all they’ll get is my vote-no cash or anything. > > And it would help if they would just stop with the fucking lies about the wonders of Hemp.:rolleyes: You mean like you can get a higher yield per acre of paper from hemp than from trees? Those kinds of lies? Or do you mean some kind of pseudo-mystical hempseed oil is a wonder food kind of stuff? Most of the stuff I hear is about what great cloth it makes and how much more efficient it is as paper stock. ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/37 "2009-12-24T15:32:03Z")
> [@Terraplane](#): > > It’s been years since I’ve tried it and I don’t have any plans to do it again, but yes. I don’t think it’s any worse than alcohol and probably not even as bad. It’s silly for weed to be illegal and I think legalizing it would cause less problems than the current state of affairs. > > It’s nowhere close to an urgent issue to me when compared with healthcare or **civil rights** or foreign policy but if given the choice between two otherwise identical candidates I’d choose the one in favor of legalizing pot. It _IS_ a civil rights issue. Mostly white people don’t go to jail for it, mainly it’s minorities, but even when white people do go to jail for it, it’s a violation of their civil rights. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/38 "2009-12-24T15:45:21Z")
I haven’t smoked today. I would support decriminalization or legalization. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/39 "2009-12-24T15:56:38Z")
Yeah, pretty much. I wouldn’t touch the stuff myself though. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/40 "2009-12-24T16:21:33Z")
I dont smoke anything except the occasional hunk of meat, or a kipper … I just dont see why it is any more dangerous than alcohol and cigarettes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420.md?page=3)