Making Marijuana and other drugs legal does have some benefits:
>> Less burglaries and robberies committed by addicts who can not afford the high street prices of illegal pot
>> Fewer cops needed to arrest pot smokers
>> Fewer jails needed to house arrested pot smokers
>> Fewer judges needed to preside over court trials
>> Fewer bailiffs needed in court trials
>> Fewer defense lawyers needed and subsidized by tax payers
>> Fewer court buildings to try pot smokers
>> Fewer criminal gangs making profits on selling pot
>> Bring in additional tax revenues on legal sale of pot
>> Pot is illegal now, and it does not stop any one from obtaining it
>> Alcohol was prohibited during great depression and it made Al Capone very very rich selling bootleg booze.
Just so you don’t make any hasty decisions, I personally
have never smoked pot and don’t intend to do it in future.
Heck, I abhor smoking of all types. It makes me nauseous.
It's STUPID idea that will increase the number of losers smoking pot, increase the number of potheads that negligently kill and harm others, increase all drug usage, drug trafficking and a crime.
Liberaltarians are in many as stupid as liberals.
Your arguments appear to be opinions. Any facts?
Read the actual proposition/measure...it has stupid restrictions on the amount you can possess and limits growing to a small plot. I want to make some money on the side farming the stuff and selling it to the pot-heads! If I want to do 3 acres, so be it!
Also, now that we are quickly headed further into socialized medicine...I don’t want to pay for pot-heads emphysema and bullous lung disease.
It was the PROGRESSIVES, not the conservatives, that we can thank for creating our nation's first major anti-drug laws @ the federal level. The Harrison Narcotics Act in 1906 & the Marihuama Tax Act of 1937, (if I remember correctly) for example...not to mention the 18th Amendment.
Progressives think they know how to control or improve human nature & think the government is the best method for doing so. Call me strange if you will, but I have always thought that the best way to do that was for a person to get down on their knees in prayer, but who am I to say???