Retired from 23 years in the NYPD. I spent time in the Narcotics Division and arrested my share of people for possession and selling marijuana. Alcohol causes more problems with violence etc. I’ve seen plenty of guys get liquored up and so ballistic. Pot doesn’t cause these kinds of problems.
Do we need another legal drug? No, but we don’t need to make tens of millions of our fellow citizens criminals over this stuff.
REgardless of how one feels about legalizing pot or anything else, we don’t make them criminals. They decide whether or not to break the law. Your logic sounds a lot like the one used by illegal aliens who say they did not cross the border, it crossed them.
“Do we need another legal drug? No, but we don’t need to make tens of millions of our fellow citizens criminals over this stuff.”
That’s pretty much my opinion. Pot definitely is not a good thing, but millions of people are going to use it no matter what enforcement is in place. Most of the pot heads aren’t violent criminals by nature, but as long as pot is classed along with meth, coke, and the like, we’re kind of pushing those people to the margins of the criminal world, and wasting space in prisons that could be better used for real threats to society.