I honestly would rather have alcohol be illegal, and marijuana be legal. I don’t understand the hate. I know tons of functional drunks that do stupid things all the time, I know tons of potheads that go to work everyday, pay their bills and don’t get obnoxious or violent or kill people when they wreck their cars.
It isn’t morally superior to any other industry, every industry has corruption. But I would say marijuana is superior to other drugs compared to what drugs do to people. In some cases, I agree it is a gateway drug. But a lot of the time it isn’t. So whatever. Legalize it. Tax it. Let the stoners do what they want.
However, I do not want the “hard” drugs legalized: Heroin, cocaine, crack, meth, ecstasy, etc. If marijuana will be used as a “gateway” to legalization of other drugs, then I am against it.
Modern cannabis is anything but a soft drug. Genetic improvements have made the stuff up their with LSD as a powerful hallucinogen.
Pot is only a “Gateway” drug because one has to go to the black market to get it. Once there, other drugs are on offer as well.
I am not tempted to buy cocaine when I am in the liquor store. No reason why a legal marijuana store would be a “gateway” to any other drug.
Prohibition of alcohol = Sharia law.
Also funny that you said “when” potheads “wreck their cars”.
Taxing things is a liberal argument. Taxes on tobacco went way up in liberal states in the Northeast, and that created a cigarette-smuggling black market.
Oh sure... but have you seen the damage a stoner can do to a Pepperoni Pizza?
Not for kids. There is enough mind numbing going on (media, gaming) that we don't need to encourage more. Kids could also get drunk, but there are more consequences to that. Vomiting is the turnoff. Smokers might get a headache the next day but not much more than that. It's just too easy to be stoned all day and I don't want to make it easier.