If MJ is legalized in USA, will the world follow?

[PhantomPower]

I've been thinking lately what our country would be like if complete legalization of Cannabis took place. I think the masses would get used to it pretty quick.

However, I wonder what the rest of the world would do? Would other countries follow suit?

The DEA is probably the main reason many places in the world attempt to prosecute narcotics. I think most people on this planet have no issues with mind altering substances and it's the people in power who keep drugs illegal.

What do you guys think?

 

[Guest]

The real question is, would we give them a choice?

 

[Cannabal]

Answer is yes. Since illegal status is because of UN resolution, USA needs to change that first. USA was the country who pushed illegal MJ trough, at UN. No other countries can legalize MJ before UN resolution is changed.

 

[vhGhost]

Mj will never be LEGAL in the USA.. its a nice thought but i just can't see it happening!

 

[Guest]

would we give them a choice?

we would. but if they said no, they'd be sorry.

 

[AriesXX]

MJ will never be legal here until we dismantle the house of cards that makes up our economy. Too many people are getting rich from prohibition; DEA soldiers, prison contractors, and leaders of organized crime. In order for there to be justice, every non-violent MJ offender would be released from jail, all current cases dismissed, and marijuana regulation as agreed upon by the people, and in the interest of the people. House siezures are big money these days, I just wish the people in our armed forces would wake up and realize who the real enemy is, since eventually it will be the people vs. the army.

 

[waydee]

I believe the single convention allows countries to "control" drugs as they see fit, i'm not entirely sure how it's done but I do believe the drug policies The Netherlands and Switzerland do not defy the convention, more they interpret and enforce the requirements of it as they see fit.

Its a hurdle but the single convention isn't the biggest problem, its mainly just ill informed officials and a public who've been told for decades that pot is the devil.


It'd help but I don't believe it would spur many other countries to legalise or enact toleration policies etc.

 

[Moppel]

duh...

 

[iseankimi]

Legalization of MJ in the US seems unlikely, at least for a while. I think legalization is a double-edged sword. The good part is ...it's legal...we can smoke but the bad part is ...suddenly all these assholes who have been hating on weed and giving it a bad name are gonna start smoking and enjoying what we have fought for for so many years and what they have fought against for so many years. You know what I mean? It's so bittersweet...then again...the world would be a lot better if everyone just lit a fat one.

 

[Guest]

Alot of europe has medical cannabis including germany and holland where they have it at the pharmacy by prescription. Canada has federal level medical cannabis program. America is behind the world in alot of ways.

 

[reaperz]

more states decrim'in and spain its legal to grow for personal use or legal as...

 

[Passenger]

I think Australia would follow, I would like to hope so.

 

[MoeBudz^420]

Well, I'm pretty sure we would be the first to follow suit, as it was Walters' threats that pretty much held us back the first time 'round...


Peace

 

[Guest]

Legalization of MJ in the US seems unlikely, at least for a while. I think legalization is a double-edged sword. The good part is ...it's legal...we can smoke but the bad part is ...suddenly all these assholes who have been hating on weed and giving it a bad name are gonna start smoking and enjoying what we have fought for for so many years and what they have fought against for so many years. You know what I mean? It's so bittersweet...then again...the world would be a lot better if everyone just lit a fat one.

I don't give a ratsass about those people, I just want to be able to grow without being thrown in jail for it.

 

[newbgrow]

I doubt many, if any, of the western nations would start legalizing drugs based on a cultural moral issue. Hundreds and perhaps thousands of years of western religion and culture needs to be backtracked before our perceptions of "good" and "evil". For now, drugs are illegal for the same reason suicide is illegal.
"It is morally wrong to waste lives."

At least that's what moral authority teaches us...

 

[_angst_]

Why not just make the DEA people grow the pot and legalize it. Then they'd all keep their jobs and pretty much be doing what they're doing anyways, the crooked ****s.

 

[PhantomPower]

I have to agree with those who say it will take a while for MJ to be completely legal. Too many peoples uneducated bias toward this plant would have to change and people usually are pretty set in their ways.

I believe the best thing any of us can do is to continue growing!

Every day, someone, somewhere in the world decides to put a seed in the ground for the first time. I remember when I first got into this crazy hobby of ours and 5 years down the line I'm stronger than ever.

In the end, we will continue doing what we do anyway, illegal or otherwise, like our colleagues through the centuries have done before us.

 

[Lune TNS]

I don't think that it will be legal in our lifetimes, I hope I'm wrong.

Iseankimi brought up a good point, legalization would pretty much destroy the ganja culture....

 

[b8man]

It's a good question.

I think the UK has it's own anti-cannabis campaigners and mis-information campaign. Same with Australia who have had widespread government backed coverage of extremely bad science (Doctors Say Heroin is Safer Than MJ... etc). The government have been so stringently behind the notion that cannabis is dangerous than any change in position is admitting they were lying and that they are wrong. For this reason no political party will make the change because they will take the inevitable backlash.

I suspect that even if it were legalised in the USA, the pseudo-science reports criticizing cannabis would continue and would probably increase exponentially. Too many groups stand to lose income if it were completely legalized. We all know that laws are created by those that think they know, not those that know, and when they're being shouted at by a million groups offering them money just to listen to THEIR "evidence" then their minds will easily be turned.

Legalisation would last 6 months - tops - before it's re-criminalized ("new evidence has been found etc"). It has nothing to do with proof, nothing to do with what is right - everything to do with politicians constantly trying to appear as the good guy.

I seriously doubt that it will happen in my lifetime.

 

[Discombobul8]

So, when the USA has made it so the rest of the world can legally smoke MJ. Pinch me. Only the USA can do it. F#@k yeah.