Folks, I haven’t blown weed since February 2001 (and that happened after a loooooong unmeasured absense). So I’m not some druggie. We just need to stop doing things that don’t work. The War in Drugs is essentially a war on marijuana, since MOST people have used pot as at one time or another.
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I admit to being somewhat conflicted on the issue. People toking up a little at home on the weekends? I have a hard time having a problem.
It would be interesting to see what happened to the illicit trade if pot was legalized, taxed and regulated like tobacco. Mexico would go broke-er.
Vonster – partially true. Mexican cartels would lose more than 60% of their business. So bad guys in Mexico would be broke-er, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
I wouldn’t use tobacco as a guide for cannabis legalization, we should probably have different regulations for cannabis. Big tobacco has the game rigged in their favor at the national level, which is not a good model for cannabis. I’d leave most of it up to the states, and have state regulations that limit production totals in order to keep Big Tobacco from monopolizing the industry.
And then we have industrial hemp. Why in the world is hemp still classified as a dangerous narcotic drug? That is insane, and teaches our children that our politicians are complete idiots who are paranoid and delusional.
Maybe a step in the right direction would be stop qualifying yourself by saying you’re “not some druggie” because you don’t smoke weed.
I said that because it lends some credence to my argument in that I am not arguing for personal gain (in that I would be able to smoke all the weed I want to). And I mention that I used to smoke because I don’t want to be hypocritical.
Marijuana was illegal not what what its effects were, but because of who was using. It used to be all those Mexican temporary workers, and it was popular among African-Americans in the Jazz Age. It wasn’t until all those white middle class kids started smoking it in the 1960s was there the beginnings of talk of legalization.
Prohibition is always a means of social control over minorities. Prohibition in the 1920′s was a means to control all those hard drinking German immigrants. Take a look at how offenders are treated in our legal system. A white kid in Woodford county will get multiple chances before facing incarceration, and the poor, African-American kid gets how many? There is a reason why some African-American want legalization and not de-criminalization, since they fear that “intent to distribute” would be used to charge African-Americans with crimes.