Marijuana

• What do you think the affects of legalizing and de-criminalizing marijuana use would be?  Should this be enforced?

I think that once Marijuana is decriminalized, the world will get a little more laid-back, and a little less insane.  I do not believe in full legalization and production of marijuana.  If this were to happen, the same decline in quality and increase in price would be seen as was with tobacco.  When mass-produced, marijuana prices will rise to $30/gram for bud that costs $10 in todays market.  Also, in order to keep a stable product, harmful pesticides and poisons will be pt in the plant, making it a lot less safe and making the companies producing it a lot richer.  For a smoker, this is a nightmare.  Instead of this, the world should do as Alaska has done: make it legal for an adult to posses up to an ounce for private use.  When it comes to distribution, cannabis should be first taken off the Schedule I list of drugs, then a dont ask dont tell policy should be put in place.  As of now in Alaska, it is technically illegal to traffic marijuana, but that raises the question: how do the people that are allowed to smoke it acquire it?  Well, you can't explain that.