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Topic: Should Marijuana be legalized?

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Opinion #1
Debater: JustMe
It's possible someone just got this one right
Though I agree with the thought that tobacco and alcohol can be just as harmful, I don't see that as a reason to make marijuana legal. If anything, it should encourage the government into taking a more direct stance against these other substances. In point of fact, though not being banned in the U.S., tobacco is taxed at an outrageous rate and many cities and counties are banning it completely in public places. There are counties that are completely dry of alcohol.

The point being that maybe someone just got it right where marijuana is concerned. How many cases of lung cancer or drunken accidents could we have avoided if someone had taken a good look at alcohol and tobacco before just marketing it?

The THC in marijuana affects memory, impacts coordination, carries 4x the tar as the typical tobacco cigarrette, and has been known to cause impotency and sterility in men and the ability to affect unborn children. Do we really need to put more harmful products for sale in our stores?
Supporting URL[s]:
http://www.aafp.org
http://ncadi.samhsa.gov
http://www.marijuana-addiction.info
Opinion #2
Debater: PierceMePlease
Society has lied to you, I'm sorry but its true.
Weather or not marijuana is harmful is not what is being debated. What is being debated is if it should be legalized. So with that in mind consider this, the government spends $7.5 Billion a year to enforce the laws against marijuana. This is an enormous waste of money and could be much better spent on educating people about marijuana and then leaving it up to them to decide for themselves if they want to smoke marijuana or not. Encouraging the government to take a more direct stance against marijuana is absolutely ludicrous. Today people arrested for nonviolent crimes evolving marijuana already spend more time in prison then people arrested for violent crimes. When compairing the amount of harm to someones lungs from cigarets to marijuana people fail to realize that the amount of difference in size that someone smokes is a huge difference. A marijuana joint equivalent in weight to a tobacco cigarrette would cost about $50 and would be more then a weeks worth for the average "pot-head"
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