Colorado, Washington, and Oregon all have ballot measures to legalize marijuana for personal, recreational use this year. How are you voting for this if you are in one of those states? If in another state, how would you vote?

With drunk drivers killing innocent victims,i worry that if it were legalized there would be even more accidrnts/deaths.

Alcohol is a much more destructive drug than marijuna is. People should not be driving while under the influence of *any* intoxicant. I would even question some of the prescription medications that people drive around on, like Xanax and other anti-anxieties.

Making marijuana illegal will not stop people from using it, this has been proven over the last century. All it being illegal has done is move the wealth from potential taxation and movement in the economy to the hands of drug dealers and cartels. Mexican cartels are very dangerous and very rich - a lot of it because of marijuana. Drug dealers are often dangerous and deal in other drugs as well. Legalizing it would curb the black market by a significant margin.

The deaths from black market dealings and drug cartels will not only be more numerous, but more brutal than any potential traffic accidents.

There is No Legal, Moral or Ethical reason why Marijuana and Industrial Hemp was made illegal to begin with as neither plant actually harms anybody and both plants were and still are very useful for many reasons.
Marijuana has been a medicine for Centuries as well as a religious plant used by virtually every culture in the world, and Industrial Hemp has been the substance that most fabrics, ropes, foods, sails, and many other items in our past were made from, and a whole host of newly discovered uses has been found for Industrial Hemp, if farmers were allowed to grow both of these plants, they would have a brand new cash crop they could sell which would be a boost to their industry, and many Industries would spring up literally over-night which use Industrial Hemp to make many items. This in itself would create hundreds of thousands of badly needed jobs, which would be an instant boost to the tax base for our government, and families could return to work which would be an instant boost to their personal financial status, and our nation would begin a new economic boost and growth of our GDP would instantly begin to rise again which it hasn't done in years. Yes, I am very much in favor of both marijuana and Industrial hemp being re-legalized, frankly they should neveer have been classified as Illegal to begin with, why people support keeping marijuana and or Industrial hemp illegal is bewildering to me.

Well stated, I neglected to mention hemp - I can only see special interests and lobbyists as a reason why hemp would still be classified as illegal, of course I don't know that for sure. A resource as renewable as hemp could prove to be a great boon to our country and would help to protect our less renewable resources as well.

It doesn't hurt anyone

I see two votes from TX voting for legalization in their state. Is there a proposal coming up that I'm not aware of?

I live in Washington State, and it's one of the things I think is none of the government's business. The war on drugs has done nothing but enrich the drug lords. Time to stop wasting that money and worry about the real problems facing this country.

Hempfest, surprisingly, did not endorse one way or the other. They stayed neutral. Not me.

That is surprising.

I have to revise my answer to "No" ! I believe marijuana should be legal
everywhere but have just read what this amendment is about. They want
to legalize it and then use it to fine people for DUI. This is unacceptable!
They are trying to revise the amendment but were unable to get it done
before the deadline for 2012.

I didn't find specifically what you were refering to. Driving while under the influence of marijuana would (and should, IMO) be classified as driving while under the influence of intoxicants. You should always be clearheaded while driving. It is the most dangerous activity that americans routinely do.

Can you be more specific about the amendment you are refering to?

The most dangerous activity Americans do is smoke cigarettes.
Next would be drinking too much alcohol.

I was specifically referring to driving when I said that, not marijuana. Sorry if I wasn't clear. Traffic related accidents are the #1 cause of death of americans between the ages of 3 and 32. After that natural causes takes over, but traffic related accidents still stays near the top. (This statistic is from a recent traffic safety class I took and I haven't verified it)

My point is that driving is a dangerous activity that most americans take for granted. It is important to be clearheaded and free from distraction while driving. Other peoples safety as well as the drivers are at risk.

Good luck!

The people of the United States need to take their balls out of Canada's purse and start living free again.

Sadly, NC is so backward it doesn't even honor people's right to ingest cannabis for MEDICAL reasons. This will be one of the last states to ever turn away from prohibition.

The good thing is I think we can finally look ahead and see the end of prohibition. Even if NC was one of the last states, I think it will even happen federally, hopefully sooner rather than later.

No, I believe Illinois will be one of or the last state to finally legalize marijuana for any reason, our legislatures are so ass backwards towards doing anything that benefit the citizens it is a wonder that the citizens of Illinois haven't revolted and hung every legislature we have in Springfield (our state capital) as well as Chicago the headquarters for the Illinois Mofia.

Why not?
With all the stuff out there that is legal but terriable for you, this just seems right.