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To: MarMema

“People are smoking it now - better to have the money for it come to the state coffers than to drug cartels in Mexico where it funds violence.”

Hm...so you want more pot at cheaper prices (possibly) and widespread availability so your kids and grandkids can be taught that - because pot is legal - it is okay to smoke? I agree with you on States’ rights - no problem. But to have a hallucinogenic substance widely availabe in a free society cannot produce anything good. There will be more impaired people on the road...just like alcohol. I would rather pay for an unending “war” than open the door and let the Trojan horse in the front gate.


49 posted on 11/24/2012 9:33:29 AM PST by DennisR (Look around - God gives countless, indisputable clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: DennisR

How have we survived all these years with spray paint sitting on the shelves at Wal-Mart?


50 posted on 11/24/2012 9:38:37 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: DennisR
No. I want the pot already being smoked to be taxed and benefit the state rather than the cartels.

People assume this means more people will smoke it. Wrong. Study after study after study has shown that legalizing a drug actually results in less use of it. What it means is that those who already smoke it will not be jailed and they will pay taxes on it.

Many of the largest public supporters are judges, police officers, attorneys and ex-DEA. That in itself is telling.

marijuana prohibition has done far more harm to far more people than marijuana ever could

a recent study by the World Health Organization showing that the U.S. -- despite being the home of the global "war on drugs" -- has the highest rates of marijuana and cocaine use in the world. Indeed, Americans use drugs at a higher rate than people in other countries that have modernized their laws by treating drugs as more of a health -- rather than a criminal -- issue. It's clear that creating harsh penalties for drugs doesn't reduce use, and the absence of harsh penalties doesn't lead large numbers of people who wouldn't otherwise imbibe to become addicted to dangerous drugs.

51 posted on 11/24/2012 12:37:52 PM PST by MarMema (eh.)
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