There is absolutely no reason why pot should remain illegal. And I say that as a card-carrying Extreme Right Wing Republican who wants to starve children and minorities.
End the Drug War!
And England out of Wales!
the problem with the WoD is the fact that the vast majority of the arrests are for minimal infractions. its rare that a large manufacturer/ dealer gets busted. and when they do, they typically have enough money to get out of it.
Welcome to FR. Many of us here support the Bill of Rights.
As Martin Behrman, then mayor of New Orleans, said when the Navy made the city shut down the Storyville red-light district, “You can make it illegal but you can’t make it unpopular.”
If you want to know whether legalizing vice will eliminate the criminal participation in that vice, look at prostitution in Amsterdam. The trade is legal, and it is still controled by criminals. Whether mind altering drugs in general or particular drugs should be legalized can be debated, and I haven’t settled on either position, but doing so to eliminate the criminal incentive for the drug trade is unlikely to work.
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Note: Don’t worry if you get flack with this post. It means you are over the target. It also isn’t representative of the majority here. Just take the constructive and ignore the idiots.
Whether on this or any other thread you find interesting discussions and two knuckle deep nose pickers at the same time.
Why Cannabis was made illegal:
1. Racism -(number one reason)
2. Fear
3. Protection of Corporate Profits
4. Yellow Journalism -(certainly you jest)
5. Ignorant, Incompetent, and/or Corrupt Legislators -(no way)
6. Personal Career Advancement and Greed
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762/stories/2003/12/22/whyIsMarijuanaIllegal.html
So now keeping pot illegal is necessary so drug dealers will not lose their jobs. Got it.
People who just do a little weed, or cocaine, or etc recreationally will not be counted as criminals unless they cause harm while under the influence.
Meanwhile, the corrupt WoDs is shut down, bad LEOs, judges, politicians, border patrol, etc no longer are able to be bribed because of drugs
Illegal drug cartels are put out of business.
The only downside I see to this, and I'm not so sure that it IS a downside, is that some people will become addicted, ignore everything else, jobs, food, drink, family, etc till they starve to death and die, meaning that the gene pool gets cleansed a little of addictive types.
And the problem is............?
Drug laws were invented by liberals into order to create government power and government workers.
All about police control.
Yep. Tens of thousands of Government employees who work in completely un-Constitutional Agencies depend on it.
And yet another noobie wanders through without even a perfunctory glance at the FR Homepage...
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