[vin-one]

SAVE billions in tax dollars. Sure. NEVER happens. just gets spent elsewhere. The only direction taxes go are up. And revenue for whom? More social engineering programs and forgeign aid that's what.

Well it is better that the money go else where versus, putting non-violent pot smokers behind bars.
The basic premise here that the ANTI-WOD crowd is voicing is that the Gov't has no business
in what I as a free person decides to injest into my body
Why is booze legal and Pot is not?
I will say it again, Pot is less adicitive than alcohol, less damaging to the body,
and has less of an effect on the personality.
boozers get violent, pot smokers get mellow.
Legalize it tax it, and save billions, maybe they could redirect that savings to the National debt, or Social Security.

[MrLeRoy]

boozers get violent, pot smokers get mellow. Correct. From the U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service (publication NCJ 145534): "Of all psychoactive substances, alcohol is the only one whose consumption has been shown to commonly increase aggression. [...] Marijuana and opiates temporarily inhibit violent behavior [...] There is no evidence to support the claim that snorting or injecting cocaine stimulates violent behavior. [...] Anecdotal reports notwithstanding, no research evidence supports the notion that becoming high on hallucinogens, amphetamines, or PCP stimulates violent behavior in any systematic manner."

[taxed2death]

You should talk to my brother, perhaps he's an extreme case though. Cronic dope smoker......feet don't hit the floor in the morning without scorchin' a root. Real nut-ball. Poster boy for why you shouldn't smoke dope. Started out a normal kid, how 45 and wildly paranoid....no ambition. He might have about 6 or 7 brain cells working on a good day. Had all the breaks in life but still can't hold down a job for more than a few weeks. One way trip to loserville. No one can ever convince me, ever, that dope smoking doesn't effect your brain in an adverse way. Go peddle that less addictive stuff somewhere else.

[Hammerhead]

quite a bit of writing to somebody who could care less considering In 39 years I never NEEDED to touch the stuff.

Anyone who smokes dope is a loser who has no respect for his/her body.