I'm stating FACTS, not making assumptions. Marijuana use, all drugs usage and drug trafficking all dramatically have increased in the left-wing Netherlands when it was decriminalized there.
It's amazing this sort of stupidity being promoted at a conservative website. This is the sort thing that should be promoted at the Daily Kos by the idiots there.
Still waiting for you to NAME ONE POT addict who can not obtain it illegally on the street.
The FACT is you can not name ONE. Because making it illegal does NOT stop it’s sale by criminals.
Learn the most basic fundamentals of economics. If there is
demand for any product at a good price, the supply will materialize, legal or not.
I would much rather prefer there were was no dope in the world. But that is not reality. People like you sit on their high horse and are happy when something you don’t like is made illegal, yet it is being sold right under your nose all around you ILLEGALLY. So who benefits? the CRIMINALS! So in effect you are advancing the cause of criminals.
The stupidity you are observing is the Libertarian wing.
Legalize anything, and people will do more of it.
It doesn’t matter what it is.
Legalize pot, and more people will smoke it. If the Libertarians think that is a good thing, then I guess they’ll vote for it.
If alcohol, for that matter, were illegal, less people would drink. I wouldn’t drink, if it were illegal.
If smoking tobacco were illegal, fewer people would smoke. No question.
There are MANY people who have a sense of responsibility about the law, and will simply avoid doing illegal things.
There are many more who avoid breaking the law because they don’t want to deal with the repercussion.
I personally will be voting against it. I don’t think pot does one good thing for one person, and does active harm in many. That’s my observation. We don’t live in a vacuum, and our nation does not need yet more stoners.
But then again I am a conservative, not a Libertarian. There is a big difference.
It demonstrates that your opinion is quickly becoming the minority one on both sides of the political spectrum.
It seems to me YOU would be right at home at Daily Kos. They too want to regulate every aspect of our lives.
If you expect others to respect the way you live, then you must respect the way they live. What others do in private is THEIR business, not yours or mine.
Invading peoples homes, destroying & confiscating their property, terrorizing their family, & jailing them for benign, private behavior are NOT hallmarks of a free society, but rather that of a fascist, nanny state. This is what YOU support!
Drug ABUSE is not a criminal problem, it is a health problem. Prison solves few health problems. Casual & responsible recreational drug use harms no one, as is witnessed by the millions of people who take a drink (alcohol IS a drug, you know) or pop a prescription pill daily, purely for pleasure.
Finally, I leave you with words from the Bible, King James version, Genesis 29-31:
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
God thinks this is very good, yet you & our gov't think differently! Who is wrong?
There are a heck of a lot more conservatives who enjoy smoking marijuana than you may be willing to admit, including yours truly.