[GSWarrior]

It's my understanding that if decriminalized pot would be under government regulation and it would be taxed. This is going to decrease cost?? And would it not still be illegal to cultivate it in private?

[babble-on]

It might well be taxed, but do you know how expensive this easy-to-grow plant is? An ounce can cost well over $100. Compare that to tobacco, which is more difficult to grow and is also taxed. It might be illegal to cultivate it in private, but if it were decriminalized, it would be pretty absurd to try to enforce those laws.

I think the WOD is a failure and should be abandoned because of the social costs it creates, but at the same time I have vary little doubt that we would have a much bigger "stoned people" problem if pot were decriminalized.

[PaxMacian]

"And would it not still be illegal to cultivate it in private?"

Tell me, why it is illegal to cultivate herb now?
Some seem to believe that an herb given by God to man and beast alike at the beginning of time and which happens to have grown freely almost everywhere, including here long before our nation was formed, is permissibly eradicable by the federal government through powers granted by the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. Though, nobody has ever shown me a logical explanation of how this could be true.

I can grow hundreds of herbs in my own garden all of which have an effect on the human body in one way or another. Some have medicinal properties. Some which I am permitted to grow have portions that are deadly if ingested at all and others if in too high a quantity. Why this one herb? There is no justification for imprisoning an individual for possession of a flower or growing an herb from the garden of God solely on the basis that it may alter the thoughts in that individual in a manner deemed inappropriate by corporate pawns seeking to maintain the efficiency of their chattel.