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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 11/16/05
Cedric from TX said:
You have to look at the big picture. alochol kills more people than weed does so why dont they make beer illegal?
On 11/16/05
leah from AR said:
weed is safer to smoke than alcohol is to drink and the affects are controlable and have you ever heard of anyone driving out of control after smoking a joint opposed to drinking a bottle of alcohol? it doesn't cause liver and or kidney dammage and if you don't smoke cig's no lung cancer from it either! it should be legall for everyone over the age of 21!! there would be less criminal activity arise from the possession or disturbution cultivation and less people in the prsion systems therefor less taxpayers money!
On 11/12/05
kevin from OH said:
i love smoking weed i will keep smoking into the day i die!!!!!!!!!!
On 11/11/05
Derek from TN said:
Dude, I have weed plants in my feild it should be legalized before they find them but because its like not a bad thing i dont see what the big deal is i mean make it like drinking that would be fine with me if it was leagal but you couldnt drive if you smoke too much but i mean darn they wont even do that.
On 11/04/05
Danielle from MO said:
Marijuana is not bad it's just that soem people become more out of control then others. I know people that when they do it that they only smoke enough to calm them down not because of all of the giggling and stuff. It's not as bad as what most pepole think. People shouldn't judge the way how they will react to it from other peoples reaction to it.
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