Government cannot regulate morality...and PROHIBITION had to be repealed because it created a terrible black market for alcohol, that we still deal with today...it never got anyone to stop drinking, it only went underground and flourished. Marijuana is no different.
There is a big difference in Heroine and Cocaine addiction compared to Marijuana use. Of course hard core religious fanatics will object to that statement, but that is how it is. We have young criminals who got caught with a small amount of MJ and ended up being trained by the drug dealers in prison to become hard core dealers and ruined their lives.
There should be a balance in all things....not the force of compliance we see in ISLAM....that is what we had in the beginning of the War on Drugs....did it help? NO.
I do not do drugs, so don’t jump into that nonsense, I taught Criminal Justice so I know the statistics and what our history of the War on Drugs has taught us works and doesn’t work. Young lives ruined for no reason.
“We have young criminals who got caught with a small amount of MJ and ended up being trained by the drug dealers in prison to become hard core dealers and ruined their lives.”
I would have to call BS on that one. Nobody is in prison for a small amount of pot for personal use. If they were sent there for pot they were selling it, or it was a parole violation they were busted for and they already had a rap sheet a mile long.
A convicted felon might go back for pot use, but nobody is there for that as their only crime.
I see this claim all the time, and like pretty much everything Libertarian, it's utter nonsense.
Discrimination is considered immoral. Try doing it and then come back and tell me the government can't regulate morality.
If you've given the matter any serious thought, you quickly realize that Laws are nothing but "regulated morality." That is what a law *IS*. Somebody has an idea that something is "bad" and so the government regulates it by passing a law.
You want to see another example of the government "regulating" morality? Try refusing to bake a gay wedding cake. You'll find out they regulate your morality just fine, it just may not be *YOUR* idea of morality, but rest assured it will be SOMEBODY'S idea of morality.