Should Marijuana laws be relaxed? (Blog 8)

So the question I decided to answer and give my opinion on is “Should marijuana laws be relaxed?” and my response to that is NO! I’ll start out by giving you my opinion on both Paul Armentano (Pro) and Robert DuPont’s (Con) answers to the question. Then I will give my own thoughts about why the laws about marijuana should not only be enforced but also be enforced even more than it is right now.
Lets start with Armentano’s point of view. I don’t agree with the way he thinks about it. He is basically saying that since a lot of people use it in some way that it should be legal to use. That is just a dump way to think about things. Just because a lot of people do something wrong doesn’t mean it should be legal. If lots of people robbed other people, should we make it legal to steal or rob from other people? He makes another point that the government spends so much money on the fight against it and that they should make it legal so they wouldn’t have to. I say if the people would stop using/selling it, the government wouldn’t have to spend all that money on fighting it.
DuPont has lots of points about how you don’t really get into that much trouble if you are caught with it. You get more into trouble if you are selling it. That is true but I don’t see why using it is less bad than selling it. I’m not saying the people should that use it should get into lots more trouble but make it equal. He also states all the health problems users get from what else, using it. Ok, if people want to harm their own bodies in their own homes that’s one thing but when they are out in public I don’t want to smell that stuff or have to inhale the smoke. That’s my views on those two interviews.
My opinion is if people were able to obey the law and only use it in their homes, I’d be fine with it but they aren’t. I know that once the government makes it legal people are going to get high and then drive their cars. That’s what worries me is I’ll be going home from a long day of work and get hit by someone that is under the influence. Just like drunk driving, the person doing the right thing will get injured or killed and the person breaking the law will walk away without a care in the world. So that is my opinion of marijuana in short. I could go on but this is getting too long as it is.