# 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:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![kenner116](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecb155/32.png) [@kenner116](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenner116)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/81 "2009-12-29T17:15:26Z")
I’ve never smoked pot, but I have been to an Amsterdam coffeeshop. Not long enough to feel any effects, though. I’m in favor of legalizing it and taxing it at 7% or whatever the sales tax is in your state. I’d tax the hell out of sugar before going after marijuana. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/82 "2009-12-29T20:06:18Z")
Tried it twice, had negative effects and am not interested in trying again. I suppose I would support it in that I wouldn’t actively oppose it. But I don’t have enough of an interest in the concept to go out of my way to help with legalization. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/83 "2009-12-29T22:39:07Z")
> [@Antinor01](#): > > Tried it twice, had negative effects and am not interested in trying again. I suppose I would support it in that I wouldn’t actively oppose it. But I don’t have enough of an interest in the concept to go out of my way to help with legalization. What about the cost to society of imprisoning people over it and spending billions of tax dollars trying to eradicate it? To me, it doesn’t seem like the kind of issue that is a toss up and I can be apathetic about. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/84 "2009-12-30T04:39:20Z")
> [@levdrakon](#): > > What about the cost to society of imprisoning people over it and spending billions of tax dollars trying to eradicate it? To me, it doesn’t seem like the kind of issue that is a toss up and I can be apathetic about. Just because I agree that the billions being spent and the massive imprisonments aren’t the way to go doesn’t necessarily mean I support full legalization. If such a thing were on the ballot, I would probably vote for it depending on how it was worded though. ---
**Author:** ![Simmerdown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simmerdown/32/14859_2.png) [@Simmerdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Simmerdown)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/85 "2009-12-30T05:55:21Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > 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). Perhaps if it had been legal, you would not have had a paranoid episode? 😃 I haven’t smoked in about a year and a half. Did plenty in my lifetime. I might smoke again, if offered, but don’t seek it out. Certainly support legalization. ---
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/86 "2009-12-30T06:06:12Z")
I’m for legalization/legislation for multiple reasons, but those aside, I would be for the sheer hypocricy of allowing - nay, encouraging - alcohol, tobacco and caffeine use \ and having the brazen BALLS to claim that pot is somehow worse. O.o On precedent alone, pot should be legal. ---
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420/87 "2009-12-30T15:55:02Z")
Count me in. I’ve never even tried it, and I still support legalization. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pot-free-support-marijuana-legalization-anyone-else-in-this-boat/522420.md?page=4)