Jose Canseco was on Howard Stern this morning shilling the product.
Arguments for prohibition include physical and mental health for the user and damage for non users, the increased concentration of THC in marijuana, more accidents, more risky behavior, public order grounds, the “gateway drug” argument, increased cost for public health and treatment of addicts, loss of manpower, loss of tax income and purely political grounds such as vote catching and simple dislike of the drug culture. Other types of arguments are the same as the arguments for prohibition of smoking of tobacco in public places like restaurants, trains, etc.
Arguments against prohibition include civil rights issues (including religious ones), loss of potential tax revenues, unnecessary criminalization of ordinary people and the enforced mixing of cannabis users with sellers of more dangerous drugs and the associated criminal underworld.
An often overlooked argument against prohibition is the inevitable increase in potentially dangerous impurities that distribution through criminal networks entails (although this is mainly relevant to hashish and, of course, other illegally manufactured drugs) and the health hazards and their costs that these impose.
An often overlooked argument pro prohibition is that legalization will promote drug tourism and criminal networks in other parts of the world where cannabis is not legal.
At one time Alaska legalized pot and I believe they stopped the legalization because it was a disaster.
I’ve never tried it myself but I’ve always known a lot of people who have.
They think everything is funny, which is probably why humor has suffered so much in media.
A lot of them get fat.
They are not good conversationalists. They say “dig” a lot.
They forget things, like going to the rally to legalize it.
Some become paranoid.