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To: NobleFree

Yet you want it legal so more and more people will get stupid. The argument that “booze is bad so we should legalize mj which is just as bad”. Yeah, makes sense not/! Of course mj is worse than booze, and this is something no pro-dope person will ever admit.

Wherever mj is legal, use goes WAY WAY up, especially with young people such as teenagers, so their lives can get ruined early on.

Only someone who uses mj would think that is a good idea.


66 posted on 12/17/2017 5:10:10 PM PST by little jeremiah (Half the truth is often a great lie. B. Franklin)
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To: little jeremiah
Yet you want it legal so more and more people will get stupid.

So your theory is that many people who before legalization were responsible enough to avoid breaking the law, will after legalization be so irresponsible as to smoke themselves into chronic stupidity? Can you provide any reason to accept this dubious theory?

The argument that “booze is bad so we should legalize mj which is just as bad”.

That's your straw man. The real argument is that booze is bad yet legal and that's the right choice (because alcohol Prohibition showed us that the cure of banning is worse than the disease of use - it does more to enrich criminals, with all the ills that follow, than to reduce use) and that the same logic applies to marijuana.

Of course mj is worse than booze

Nonsense - alcohol is more addictive, and is the only one of the two that can cause fatal overdose.

Wherever mj is legal, use goes WAY WAY up

False. In Colorado between 2003 and 2014 (the year of legalization) monthly pot use percentage went up by 0.87%/year among 18-25 year olds and 0.59%/year for 12 and older; after legalization those rates dropped to 0.48%/year and 0.50%/year.

69 posted on 12/18/2017 7:50:14 AM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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