Society desperately needs to learn the difference between crime and vice. Prosecute crime, counsel against vice.

All of the so-called "recreational" pharmaceuticals should be legal, regulated and available OTC. This will:

1. Greatly reduce or eliminate drug overdose deaths, which result from lack of quality control.
2. Greatly reduce the prison population and save billions of tax-payer dollars.
3. Allow law enforcement to focus on their primary duty of protecting citizens from each other.
4. Help addicts kick their addiction by restoring their self respect and allowing them to be functional, productive members of society.
5. Greatly reduce the revenue and resulting power of organized criminals.
6. Reduce or eliminate drug-related gang violence and deaths.

No interest in it for recreational or medicinal. It will be legal here nationwide in October. I don't care to try or use it. Everyone else pretty much already does so it's just a matter of the government making money out of it. I don't particularly care if other people use it, as long as they use it responsibly.

No longer smoke the herb. Once in over 3 decades. Don't do medicines either so the medicine aproach to weed is nil in me. But for those that believe... hey there is people that Swear there is a god. There is people that find help in alcohol. Don't mind those that smoke recreational, medicinal. Never been commited to anything Forever, I don't think I ever will. Don't care for the weed.

I've tried it, but it only made me feel ill. I have no desire to try it again.

However, if others want to use it, as long as they do so responsibly, I have no problem with it.

I have never done it, and besides, I don't particularly like it

I am not opposed to legalization of marijuana and responsible use. I still don't care for it, but I occasionally drink, and it's well documented that alcohol has a lot more negative consequences than weed and none of its b benefits.

Legalize it. Leave regulation and taxation to the states. Yes, for Adults only except for medical necessity and then only under a doctor's supervision.

its a fine plant slowly getting over its reefer madness bullshit, with regard to the many miracle claims put forward sure why not a few more years of proper testing and the truth should become better known as to what it actually helps and what can be put down to placebo effect

Like to smoke/vape in evening after dinner while relaxing. Like mental clarity during the day. A joint lasts me around 3/4 days.
Living in Jamaica right now, it is everywhere, cheap, and pungent. Plenty of Rasta a blaze di herbs from mawnin till dark.

My longtime conclusion on ‘weed’ was, it makes an adventure out of brushing your teeth. But after cleaning water pipes.. I had no desire to have that gunk inside my lungs. As I age, mental clarity is a source of pride, not how far from it I can get…

‘Weed’ magnified my anxiety, so it was never a ‘mellow trip.’ Fun, lots of laughs, but having challenged myself to achieve those laughs ..unencumbered is more appreciated by others and myself.

Much less dangerous than alcohol. I no longer use either. Government has no business in people's personal lives.

Echoing others on here I agree weed needs to be legalised in fact all drugs should be. Maybe history will look back on the war on drugs as an unmitigated disaster and how did we as a society allow for so much financial wastage and the criminality of people using drugs the same as one would alcohol or tobacco. Yet here we are where governments direct us towards legal drugs and wasting the massive opportunity to reduce crime, regulate and control the strength and purity and most importantly have revenues to educate and alleviate serious addiction.
Will we ever get there?

Don't care that much about marijuana per se.

It would be great to see all drugs legalized, regulated and taxed. Then the money we waste on the "War on Some Drugs" could be put to good use, non-violent drug offenders with good records inside prison (meaning no assault or drug offenses behind bars) could be released and we would save a crapload of money that way, gangs would lose a lot of power since currently they have a lot of influence based on the drug trade.... the pass-along effects would be incalculable.

Why Not?

FOR, of course! I have a great cookie recipe....

Don't smoke it anymore. Smoked like a chimney during the 60s and 70s. Guess I'm for it just cuss it's alright for everyone else. Great sexual enhansement though.