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Question: Is smoking weed (marijuana) legal in some States?

Answer: No. Every State, from Alabama, Colorado, Kentucky to Vermont, including Arizona and every State in between, has enacted various criminal penalties for the possession, use, cultivation, transportation and distribution, of marijuana, including even the smallest of quantities.

Arizona punishes possession of amounts less than two pounds as a class six felony with fines between $750 and $150,000 and jail or prison time from six months to a year and a half.

A few States have decriminalized marijuana use and possession in small amounts (N. Carolina and California for example) but even there, its still illegal.


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On 03/22/06
Eddie_420 from SD said:
I think they need to just make pot legal and cigarettes illegal, and if anyone thinks thats stupid their in denial.
On 03/21/06
fuzzy from IN said:
I feel it should be legal as well, and why couldn't thay tax it. if thay would do it like tobacco we all could be out of the debt that the US is in. the way i see it it comes from the ground, harvested like tobacco. maybe the US could help out others (which it does all the time, and puts us in more debt) as well as our own. freedom, giving and getting.
On 03/20/06
piney from CT said:
i think marijuana is good illegal. ok bye
On 03/09/06
victoria from AL said:
i think that weed should be legal for many reasons. one reason is that they government could tax it like they tax cigarettes. Also it is a apin releiver!!! my mother had brain cancer and she shouldve been allowed to smoke pot to help with all the apin she was under
On 02/23/06
1_love_ from CO said:
i think marijuana should be legal becuase its the best thing in the world and i love it to death... i rather have mary jane more than anythin else in the world.. and no im not addicted to it i just LOVE MARIJUANA..can u really blam me?
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