[SaraJohnson]

I can’t help but wonder if we wouldn’t have been better off just letting the druggies have their pot 50 years ago.

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If/when pot is legal, we will hear the same arguments for legalizing heroin and cocaine.

Although I believe free, abet stupid people should be able to kill themselves with whatever they choose, I don’t want to support them and their families as they kill themselves.

If we don’t support them, they will turn to crime and there goes the reason for ending the ban on drugs in the first place. Dog chase tail.

[JustSayNoToNannies]

Although I believe free, abet stupid people should be able to kill themselves with whatever they choose, I don’t want to support them and their families as they kill themselves.

If we don’t support them, they will turn to crime

No they won't - no more than alkies do to get their legal-thus-cheap drug. Legalization increases competition among suppliers, thus lowering price.

[EndtheFed]

Everyone handles drugs differently. Some use casually, some abuse drugs. Mankind has been using drugs for millenia. Prohibition leads to black market, untaxed money. Lots of it. At the very least, it should be an issue state legislatures deal with, not the Feds.