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"Better legalize heroin, then!"

Actually, you're correct. There would be much greater 'harm reduction' by legalizing heroin and cocaine than by legalizing pot. Opium and coca extract could be sold as well to encourage moderation. Thousands of lives per year would be saved; billions of dollars worth of property theft and damage would be prevented; and billions of tax-payer's dollars could be employed at preventing terrorism, for instance.

Pot, OTOH, is not resulting in many deaths comparatively, either through use, or by associated poisoning and other crimes against persons and property. Mostly, it's inconvenient that it's illegal, not life-threatening. Pot-smokers are managing, somehow, to survive and kvetch about how hard done by they are. ;^)

This is judging the matter from a moral point of view, of course.

I realize that's not normally much of a consideration when it comes to unconstitutional laws.

But the next generation may be more 'sensitized' to the consequences of unconstitutional usurpations by the State.

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"Better legalize heroin, then!"

Actually, you're correct.

(No comment here - just wanted to repost this for everyone to see.)