[fr_freak]

Why don't we legalize burglary to make the crime rates plummet even more?

False analogy. Some guy getting high in his living room (or even in the park) doesn't deprive anyone else of life, liberty or property. In fact, making pot illegal with such high demand for it creates a perfect breeding ground for a violence-enforced black market. And that would be true if, say, X-boxes were made illegal. You'd have X-Box dealers shooting each other on the streets for territory to sell to the lucrative market.

[GeronL]

Anyone giving it to (or making it available to) kids should be arrested for a felony.

[longtermmemmory]

ok legitimize adultery and infidelity goes away.

nobody is hurt and it feels okey dokey.

[fwdude]

...making pot illegal with such high demand for it creates a perfect breeding ground for a violence-enforced black market.

In case you haven't noticed, the new legalized pot laws still require enforcement, as there are myriad restrictions as to its use: prohibition to minors, locations use is allowed, amounts allowed, possession for use or sale, etc.

If you consider all of the management laws now required, outright prohibition was much, much simpler and easier for law enforcement to implement.

[DiogenesLamp]

False analogy. Some guy getting high in his living room (or even in the park) doesn't deprive anyone else of life, liberty or property.

I have lost count of how many children I have heard of over the years who's fathers sat around stoned all the time instead of PAYING FOR THEIR CHILDREN'S UPKEEP!

I know one man now who is a stoner and owes $28,000.00 in back child support.

So let me ask you, do you think perhaps the "victims" of this "victimless crime" might be us tax payers who have to pay to keep these children fed and sheltered? How about the children themselves, could they be victims of these people's pot use?