I have seizures i can not work drive and drink becouse of it but i do smoke weed and it does help it seems to me like we are losseing our freedom First, marijuana appears to be less harmful than some other legal drugs. Unlike the nicotine found in cigarettes, THC, the active chemical in marijuana, has never been proven to be physically addictive. While the alcohol found in beer, wine and other such beverages has caused many deaths-by-overdose, there have been no documented cases of fatal marijuana overdoses. It makes little sense that these proven-harmful substances remain legal and widely advertised while marijuana is illegal and condemned. Secondly, contrary to the opinion of Justice Thomas, evidence suggests that marijuana does have valid medicinal applications. It has enabled many cancer patients ravaged by chemotherapy and AIDS patients on numerous nauseating medications to eat again, preventing their weakened bodies from consuming themselves. It has been used to ease the pains of quadriplegia, to soothe the seizures of epilepsy and the pain of multiple sclerosis. People unfortunate enough to be stricken with terminal diseases should not also be denied their sole relief or sent to jail for trying to lessen this pain through marijuana use. This brings us to the next contentions in the case for legalization: Possession arrests and prison overcrowding. About 85 percent of marijuana-related arrests are possession arrests. Every day, law enforcement officials waste their time and our tax dollars by arresting people merely for possessing the drug. Additionally, U.S. prisons are just teeming with marijuana offenders, people who have never done anything to harm anyone else. If marijuana was decriminalized and these "offenders" set free, there would be more space in our prisons for dangerous, violent criminals (e.g. rapists, child molesters, murderers, etc.) who pose an actual threat to society.

I have smoked weed for a long time and i have had 2 simple possession charges. The idea of it being illegal is stupid. It is a plant, its not even a drug. It doesn't have to be chemically altered. In the bible it even says that god give us all animals and all seed bearing plants for our use. What the gov. and cops need to do is legalize weed and focus on the other drugs the hard stuff. Weed should be the least of their worries.