[AntiGuv]

And, to ask for the names of people imprisoned for "smoking pot" is to ask for the names of people imprisoned for simple possession. There's no other way in which one can answer that question legitimately. In other words, this guy is in prison only because pot is illegal, and for no other reason. His term is 4 years.

OK, I'm ready to hop off here myself. I'll say one last thing. I'm much more ambivalent about the harder drugs where I just advocate harm-reduction policies, but there's absolutely no rational argument for the illegal status of marijuana. None whatsoever.

[Yeti]

I'm much more ambivalent about the harder drugs where I just advocate harm-reduction policies, but there's absolutely no rational argument for the illegal status of marijuana. None whatsoever.

Agreed, and that's where I come apart from many libertarians. Some libertarians think that the government has no business regulating plutonuim.

I think that heroin and cocaine and possibly crystal meth could be reasonably regulated by the government as toxic because of their predictable addictive and psychosis-inducing properties.

Marijuana just has no business in the same legal category.

Not that I expect any of the VERY DISHONEST pro-WOD posters on this thread will ever be persuaded to see reason.....

[Libloather]

And, to ask for the names of people imprisoned for "smoking pot" is to ask for the names of people imprisoned for simple possession.

Nope. Possession is different from use. When you finally come around, this ain't such a big deal.

In other words, this guy is in prison only because pot is illegal...

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