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What are the Best reasons/arguments to keep marijuana illegal?
National Review ^ | July 29, 2008 | me_a_republic

Posted on 07/29/2008 8:38:33 PM PDT by me_a_republican

Dear fellow forum members,

What are the best reasons or arguments you can think of to keep marijuana illegal?

It would really really help to if you can reply only after reading http://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html .

Thank you.


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To: 5thGenTexan
My biggest concern is that pot has an equivalent intoxication effect as alcohol but it's ease of production (anyone could easily grow it) would make it all but impossible to enforce any restrictions, like age limits.

At the age of 15, I made prison hooch in the back of my closet with fruit cocktail, sugar, water, and a little yeast. Tasted like hell but got us drunk.

Also, the intoxication effects of marijuana are not at all equivalent to alcohol, and in fact are much more benign. Ethanol is an exceptionally potent disinhibitor, and debilitates good judgment more than almost any other drug. Drunks start fights, rape women, and drive like maniacs. Potheads eat Pringles and fall asleep on the couch watching Brady Bunch re-runs. If they get pulled over while driving, it's typically for going too slow.

-ccm

61 posted on 07/29/2008 10:19:23 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: me_a_republican
I know from your join date that you may be new to this forum and all but one thing you need to know is that a lot of the posters here respond with out reading the articles. It would help if you posted an excerpt, if allowed by copy write laws.

It has not always been this way here, posters used to read articles and not just the headline/title before responding. Now some here just seem to want to be the first to post something back. Makes for too long of threads and too many closed minds. I lurked for 3 years (1997 or 1998) before I logged on.

62 posted on 07/29/2008 10:23:17 PM PDT by BBell
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To: me_a_republican


63 posted on 07/29/2008 10:25:26 PM PDT by JRios1968 ("If you go over a cliff with all flags flying, you are still going over a cliff"--Ronald Reagan)
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To: me_a_republican

Ron? Bob? Is that you??


64 posted on 07/29/2008 10:35:26 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: me_a_republican

It’s entirely too much fun.


65 posted on 07/29/2008 10:39:56 PM PDT by wildbill ( FR---changing history by erasing it from memory.)
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To: me_a_republican

The number 1 reason is people would smoke it in public and offend my nose. It stinks so bad it makes tobacco smell nice in comparison.

That said it shouldn’t be illegal, just keep it in your mom’s basement.


66 posted on 07/29/2008 10:53:59 PM PDT by Impy (Spellcheck hates Obama, you should too.)
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To: 5thGenTexan
It would have way too easy access to minors, who do not have the maturity to make that type of choice. That is why we have age of consent laws.

So what you're saying is that you want to give the job of parenting to the government? You expect the government to be able to provide the monitoring for a child that the parent(s) who lives with the child can't even accomplish? Why would you believe government to be capable of this?
67 posted on 07/29/2008 11:10:54 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: americanophile
Undoubtedly were it to be legal, it would be more readily available, and more people would try it as a matter of course.

Except of course for the fact that in a country where it is legal, people are half as likely to try it as here. Story here. What exactly are we getting out of marijuana remaining illegal?
68 posted on 07/29/2008 11:19:39 PM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: me_a_republican

Because if it is kept illegal it allows the Lib’s something more to whine about.


69 posted on 07/29/2008 11:29:30 PM PDT by SledgeCS (Build the fence. Deport the Illegals. Sell all their assets to cover the cost.)
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So, let's legalise them under certain restrictions and conditions:

I would expect the first six months to be fairly bloody, and the number of criminals will vastly be eradicated, then things will settle and we can get back to having a free society without the over-priced, over-bearing LE/Prison drain on our country.

70 posted on 07/30/2008 1:02:25 AM PDT by brityank (The more I learn about the Constitution, the more I realise this Government is UNconstitutional !!)
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To: me_a_republican

potheads are stupid


71 posted on 07/30/2008 1:38:19 AM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: me_a_republican

Better get used to herbal remedies, legal or not. If National Health Care becomes a reality, we’ll all be medicating ourselves at home anyway.


72 posted on 07/30/2008 3:35:16 AM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Mr. Blonde

I just flatly don’t believe that more people wouldn’t try it if it was legal.


73 posted on 07/30/2008 4:17:15 AM PDT by americanophile
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To: americanophile

Not familiar with the idea of forbidden fruit? When the mystery and excitement is taken away from something it becomes less attractive.

I’m guessing that you don’t believe the studies that show that teenagers who first drink alcohol with their parents are less likely to binge drink in the future.


74 posted on 07/30/2008 5:08:11 AM PDT by Mr. Blonde (You ever thought about being weird for a living?)
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To: me_a_republican
I've hear all the arguments (I *do* live in Massachusetts,after all).There's at least one *very* good reason....you talk to 100 heroin/crack/meth addicts and 99 will tell ya that they started with pot.
75 posted on 07/30/2008 5:32:21 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Obama:"Ich bein ein beginner")
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To: 5thGenTexan

It is way easier to make beer than it is to grow Mary Jane.


76 posted on 07/30/2008 5:38:58 AM PDT by numberonepal (Don't Even Think About Treading On Me)
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To: me_a_republican
1) US Senators need the bribe money.
2) Local law enforcement agencies need the asset forfeiture money.
3) The Mexican government needs the cartel payoff money.
4) The Crips need the sales commission money.
5) The tobacco industry hates competition - and their bought-and-paid for Congressional representatives need the contribution money.
6) The Democrats need a crime epidemic to secure the Federal money for their pet programs.
7) The Republicans need the whole cast of villains to run against.

It's the Perfect Scam - you can't ask them to give it up now. ;)

77 posted on 07/30/2008 5:53:57 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ("One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word." -- Robert Heinlein)
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To: Old Sarge

Bingo!


78 posted on 07/30/2008 6:13:58 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: ken21

“there are none.

it’s destructive.”

I agree. Marijuana prohibition is destructive. It is futile and counterproductive. There is no compelling reasons to keep marijuana illegal.


79 posted on 07/30/2008 6:56:50 AM PDT by TKDietz
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To: Redcoat1982; Coffee200am
To heck with Jose. Let's just legalize it and regulate it similar to the way we regulate alcohol and Jose can go jump in a lake. He can go try to weasel in on Juan and Pedro's cocaine business and end up dead. In the end I think that is what would happen if we legalized marijuana. The hardcore organized crime types would lose billions of dollars in revenue and end up killing each other fighting over the remaining business.
80 posted on 07/30/2008 7:08:30 AM PDT by TKDietz
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