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UCSC sociologist says making pot legal does not boost use
Santa Cruz (CA) Sentinel ^
| May 4, 2004
| ANNA GOSLINE
Posted on 05/04/2004 9:34:07 AM PDT by The Other Harry
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To: MEGoody
Oh, they CAN get busted in SF, but they hardly ever do I once went riding with a policeman in a city not too far from there. He was stopped, talking with another policeman when a call came in about some teenagers who were apparently smoking marijuana. The one cop said, "We'd better get right on that." Then they continued talking about other things.
To: Belisaurius
Are we really spending 'billions of dollars' chasing pot users?We're spending $36 billion a year on drug enforcement, and pot is far and away the most popular illegal drug.
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05/04/2004 10:37:10 AM PDT
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The kings dead
(O.C.-Old Cracker:"It's time for some of our freedoms to get curtailed for the sake of the Republic.")
To: The Other Harry
Yes, we are literally spending billions. The feds don't break it down by drug, but the federal share of the drug war was 15 billion last year and that does not include cost of incarceration. As the most popular drug by far, we can assume much of this 15 billion was spent chasing pot.
Why would anyone think legalization would increase use? As far as I can tell, and I really am a barkeep, I hear a lot, any fool who wants the stuff now doesn't have any problem finding it. Seems to be primarily the young and dumb who get caught, I have friends who have smoked for 30 years without a bust, just by being reasonably cautious. Philosophical arguement aside, this a huge waste of tax money.
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05/04/2004 10:45:14 AM PDT
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barkeep
To: VisualizeSmallerGovernment
So why legalize it, if the same people are going to use it anyway? Well, I had a similar question, but my initial reaction was, "Why criminalize it?"
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05/04/2004 11:13:38 AM PDT
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tdadams
(If there were no problems, politicians would have to invent them... wait, they already do.)
To: The Other Harry
The Dutch have had the same statistics for 20 years. Why the big deal now?
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05/04/2004 11:16:19 AM PDT
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Wolfie
To: The Other Harry
UCSC sociologist says making pot legal does not boost useIf I'm somehow able to avoid Kerry ads, this my well be the stupidest statement I hear this month.
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