Look. Kids are getting f'd up on paint, gasoline, and glue. This stuff is cheap and available and REALLY does do brain damage in the near and long term. Now, we can't really make those substances illegal right? But we make it illegal to grow a non-physically addictive weed whose mild effects include increased appetite and a euphoric feeling. Never heard of anyone smoking a joint and committing acts of violence, they usually at worst become paranoid and fall asleep at high doses. Why not legalize it and put it in the same class as alcohol, which IS an addictive drug associated with violence and which in large quantities is a lethal poison? Simply make it a major felony to sell either substance to minors, and increase penalties for driving while intoxicated. Tax it, use taxes for rehabs and substance abuse education. Anyone see the logic here?
Everyone but the allegedly "conservative" WOD-lovers sees it.
I am a very conservative man and see it (weed) as less dangerous then alcohol and all the other things you mentioned.
I design computer websites and was a mainframe online programer for years. My thinking is clear and mind is strong.
I joke about it... but it IS less dangerous then any other so-called drug.
I would oppose it's legally though. I had fun... no reason for anyone else to have any.
Logic???
On a marijuana thread?
Sorry, we're talking doubleplusgood duckspeakers waging the WOD here!
Mere logic must wait its turn in line while established prejudice holds the floor.
Oh, btw, those under 21 already account for a high percentage of users and would be unaffected by any change in the law. Actually, if history is any guide, their numbers would increase if marijuana were legalized for adults (happened in Alaska).