marijuana

Earlier in the show today during Kat's news, the debate about marijuana legalization came up.  We had callers on both sides of the issue.  What do you think?  Do you support legalizing marijuana?  

#1 - Weed Could Kill You Researchers and scientists have had a difficult time finding a direct correlation between smoking weed and lung cancer. The reason being they have a hard time finding people who have smoked marijuana and marijuana only...

#4 - It's good for the economy Everybody thinks they have the answer when it comes to what's best for fixing our busted economy. Let me be the first to suggest that what the economy needs is to sit back, relax, and get stoned out of its gourd...

#5 - Less Chance of Baby-Making This may not be a deterrent for some. Actually, if you have absolutely no desire to have children, this fact may even drive you toward smoking pot. Let's say for argument sake, you do plan on starting a family some day...

#4 - Weed Makes You Stupid A guy I went to high school with was a heavy pot smoker. One of those guys who used any amount of spare time to blaze up. As the years went on, you could see the toll it had taken on his brain. He was "burnt"...

#3 - Weed Can Make You Crazy The whole draw to smoking pot is the feeling of getting high. THC relaxes muscles and alters brain receptors to create a euphoric feeling. It's also well documented that weed can heighten emotions which can cause some users to feel paranoid or anxious, hallucinate, and even convince them that Phish and the Grateful Dead are great bands...

#1 - Regulated Marijuana = Better Quality Marijuana Say what you will about the government needing to have their hands in everything, but I truly believe that if marijuana fell under the jurisdiction of the Food and Drug Administration or some other government body, not only will it open up a new revenue stream for the economy, it will result in better quality bud...

#2 - It like, totally helps sick people...and stuff Many of the decriminalization laws passed by states center around permitting the use of pot for medical purposes. A study by the University of California Center for Medicinal Cannabis Research (only in California would such a place exist), showed that patients suffering from "painful HIV peripheral neuropathy" experienced 34%-40% decrea

#3 - Weed Makes People Happy and Less Violent Name one time you've seen two people high on pot in a fist-fight over something stupid. You can't. Because it doesn't happen. I have no scientific evidence to back this up, but I don't need it...

#5 - A Lower Crime Rate Overcrowding has been a problem in our nation's prisons for some time now and I think much of that has to do with the amount of marijuana related arrests. The most recent data available from the FBI shows that in 2010, there were over 1...

#2 - Weed Can Make You Sick Let me start by clarifying that I when I say sick, I don't mean it can give you a headache or a belly ache. I mean it can make you literally ill which I find ironic as most of the debate around the benefits of little ganja centers around its medicinal properties...

As the saying goes, "there's two sides to every story". In this world of 24-hour news channels, those with the loudest voices and most polarizing positions seem to get the most recognition regardless of whether or not they have their facts straight. And like sheep following the shepherd, people buy into the opinion because they're too lazy to read up on the issue themselves. In the inter