If Ron Paul were president and he just legalized marijuana, how would you feel?

And how would you feel about him being president otherwise?

Public Comments

1. Happy.
2. Bewildered.
3. I'd be smoking a lot of it, because if Ron Paul was president this country would be truly borked.
4. It would be great for me. I'm an old guy who would never touch the stuff, and that would make me more marketable when competing against all the idiots who think there aren't any consequences to smoking the stuff.
5. Somewhat entertained. Might even start my own country and supply the west with premium-grade cannabis, pre-rolled.
6. I would feel high.
7. Ashamed
8. No different then I do now
9. High.
10. Surprised. How on Earth did he get to be president?
11. Pissed that I would have to pay taxes on it now.
12. Wouldn't make me no nevermind. But I'd feel sorry for cops on DUIs.
13. Buzzed. 8^|
14. blissed out
15. Good, and I'd first force Ron Paul to feed it to his grandkids.
16. denver voted to allow free leaf. not that it is free but for the most part you can smoke in the privacy of your own home.
17. smoke of if you got em. I'd be lining up to open my pot store.
18. baked. Wait. Ron who ? Yo, those cookies sound sooooo good right now. Wait. What were we talking about ?
19. I would feel he overstepped his presidential authority.
20. Ron Paul only got 19,800 votes in the general election. So I would feel we had a president elected by the same number of people who vote for mayor in a small city. Fewer than 20,000 voters in the entire United States voted for Ron Paul for president. Do not expect a Ron Paul follower to volunteer this sort of information.
21. I would be concerned that some frickin hippy dashing to 7-11 with the munchies was going to run a red light and kill my wife and me.
22. High.
23. Glad that someone who forcasted the recession long before anyone else was in charge. Glad that someone with enough common sense to decriminalize cannibas was in charge.
24. 2-biggest drug killers: tobacco and alcohol Also the mildest two drugs out there
25. Paulinsky is a disinformation cell and controlled opposition to the collectivist coup.
26. what a waste of time that would be, it would aggravate me because the president should not be wasting his time with substance legalization, he should be worried about pressing concerns for the nation, not about stoners being able to get stoned legally
27. That guy is worse than McCain Palin. Ron Paul has a bunch of radical ideas that are scary. The man didn't know what to do with 5 million dollars how would he deal with a trillion? If you want to legalize pot you probably smoke it now so what's the difference.
28. Wouldn't care. I have never really understood how something that grows wild could be made illegal anyway. I also do not support the enormous sums of money spent trying to police this particular drug. As for Paul being President, I would have voted for him if he had actually put his name on the ballot. Instead I voted for Barr.
29. Well I for one would be happy. I haven't smoked since I was a youngster but I think it is crazy to punish someone for using a drug that cannot kill them when alcohol is completely legal. Unfortunately this will never EVER happen. As long as there is no way to tax marijuana the U.S. government will never allow it to be mass produced.
30. Ron Paul can't legalize marijuana as President. Legalizing marijuana is up to the legislative branch. Anyway, having Ron Paul as President would be a good sight better than the morons we've been putting in office.
31. Just great, and I mean that with the utmost sarcasm. After all, the Supreme Court has done far more than its share of usurping the power to make laws. So the President is doing so as well? Waiving that magical presidential wand and making laws without Congress having passed a bill?
32. although legalized marijuana would help the state through tax money and help communities by cutting down on drug dealers, they will never legalize it. But, it doesn't matter since the black market for marijuana is unstoppable. It is easier to get marijuana then it is to get beer or cigarettes, since the latter has a cut off point but drug dealers stay up all night long. as I said before, a 14 year old has an easier job buying ecstasy then she does buying a six pack of beer. Why? Because DRUG DEALERS DON'T ID! on a side note: the "black" market is simply the free market, except where the free market is regulated (i.e. drugs made illegal) the black market crops up in its place. This proves the market is unstoppable.
33. Terrified. Marijuana can be dangerous, and I'm guessing that the crime rate would go up. Why would marijuana need to be legalized here? It's already legalized in Canada I believe. If you are that much of a druggy, just cross the border!
34. I think it should be legalized, if Prozac is legal pot should be. And pot doesn't kill anyone. I'd plant some on my balcony. I'm not sure who Ron Paul is or what he stands for.
35. Pretty stoned. And hungry.
36. First off, he wouldn't because this would be against his own policy. He doesn't want to 'legalize' marijuana, he wants to decriminalize it at the federal level. If you can't understand the difference between legalization and decriminalization, then I can't help you. Bottom line is Ron Paul would NOT "legalize marijuana". But otherwise, how would I feel? I probably would feel high due to the sheer excitement that we actually have a president who cares about America more than any other has in my life time.... yes, INCLUDING Ronald Reagan (he failed to reestablish the gold standard.)
37. any president that will undo the prohibition is a good guy in my book. It was made illegal in the 8th year of the first great depression to protect the southern cotton industry from economic collapse, among other reasons which really had nothing to do with THC.
38. Great about the law...not so great about Paul.
39. I would think that finally someone is doing something better with our money in govt rather than just wasting resources on a trivial plant and the people who use it
40. If Ron Paul were president I would feel great because I believe he would put us the USA back on the Gold or silver standard. If he legalized Marijuana and tax the living H E double tooth picks out of it to help pay down the national debt I would feel even better. If he was just the president and did neither , oh well no better no worse than who we have now or have had in our recent history Democrat or Republican.
41. Fantastic,finally we can take a step forward and use the law enforcement resources,courts and jail space for real criminals.You would be able to plant your own or buy it much cheaper than it is and get some revenue to boot.Hemp would be legal and that would save trees for various products and to be used for fuel instead of using corn and other bio's that are no where as efficient.FYI,Roosevelt rescinded a previous ban on hemp during WWII,until that point we were importing hemp from Japan.We used the oil from hemp to fuel are planes during WWII,THATS A FACT.The Declaration of Independence was written on paper made from hemp.I can go on,but the basic premise is government control,especially Federal.Get rid of t.
42. Ron's proposal was NOT to legalize maryjoanna, but to DECRIMINALIZE it FEDERALLY, as the issue is out of the federal governments hands by Constitutional law. The proposal stated by Ron Paul on the issue would leave the "legal" status of ALL drugs up to the INDIVIDUAL states.
43. I'd be happy if he were president. He wouldn't legalize marijuana, though it should be (as well as all substances), but would probably end the DEA, so it would be up to the states to pass their own drug laws. Does the "War on Drugs" actually work? Not! Drugs are available in prisons!
44. 1. fine (I assume you mean he'd end the federal war on it since he thinks it is a state issue, but also that if it isn't hurting others, it is an individual's perogative to make mistakes.) 2. wonderful