[IrishCatholic]

“Also, it would free up jail space for non-drug related crimes.”

I stopped at this horse crap. Make drugs legal and then the criminals would be law abiding citizens? IS that the premise?

I weep for what public education has done to this nation.

[Son House]

For one thing, this would provide a great source of new tax revenue.

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Disagree, Politicians won’t lower anyone’s taxes in exchange, and the author probably doesn’t want to pay tax at some druggie’s expense. Drugs Poison Brains. Drugs Poison Brains.

[Obamageddon]

I wouldn’t be surprised to see Obama emulate his idol, Roosevelt, and legalize, regulate, and tax Marijuana. Prohibition ended Dec 1933.

[TYVets]

It is not about drugs, it is about more taxes for government to waste.

Just more "raise the taxes" bs.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Burt, one day your life may be forever darkened, and perhaps suddenly and horribly shortened, by someone under the influence of drugs. If that happens, it won’t matter to you whether they got that poison legally or illegally, and it won’t matter if the govt got a cut of the profits.
Right now your chances of experiencing that awful fate are slim. Let’s legalize the s#i+ and increase your chances. There must be a lot of infantile hedonists out there who are just too chicken to break the law, but once they see how acceptable it is to get high, I’m sure they’ll be more open to experimentation and recreational use.
What people? Oh, your doctor, your kid’s school bus driver, your pilot, your neighbor, your legislator...
Or maybe one day you’ll look out your window and realize that the huge turd floating and bloating in your pool is the neighbor’s kid, and he didn’t overdose, he drowned while in a drug-induced stupor. Better scan your insurance policy...top drawer where you used to keep that Bible.
Really Burt, America’s not compromised enough for you yet? You want the price of mind-altering and addictive drugs to come down so the govt can have more money, and prisoners more elbow room? WTH are you smoking?

[Charlespg]

I see the prohibitionist’s all ready have their knickers in a knot

[a fool in paradise]

Minors would uses drugs as they do tobacco and alcohol, setting an age limit on it would not prohibit use. And stores and customers and “bars” that sell to minors would still be prosecuted. And there would be no “exceptions” to law for people who are “close” to the age of consent as there are with our nation’s sex laws (which permit minor members of the opposite or same sex to engage in prohibited acts with people over the age of majority if they are ‘close’ in age).

There would still be enforcement by law officials, and prosecution by DAs, and legal defense by defense attornies. There is money in it.

Plus the DEA would go under the ATF (”tax the hell out of it”) doesn’t work when people can manufacture on their own and avoid the taxes.

[a fool in paradise]

With the legalization of drugs, the profits that currently accrue to dealers, who use a portion of their ill-gotten gains to pay off politicians, judges and corrupt cops, could go to American companies and American workers.

How about death penalty for corrupt politicians, judges and cops who engage in the drug trade?

[Jim Noble]

For years I paid my people extra so they wouldn't do that kind of business. Somebody comes to them and says, "I have powders; if you put up three, four thousand dollar investment, we can make fifty thousand distributing." So they can't resist. I want to control it as a business, to keep it respectable.

I don't want it near schools! I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people, the coloreds. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls.