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You know, when he leaves out the religious stuff, he can actually make sense. Story here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/pat-robertson-marijuana-should-be-treated-like-alcohol-says-war-on-drugs-has-failed/2012/03/08/gIQARikHzR_story.html - broken link).
You know, when he leaves out the religious stuff, he can actually make sense. Story here (http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/pat-robertson-marijuana-should-be-treated-like-alcohol-says-war-on-drugs-has-failed/2012/03/08/gIQARikHzR_story.html - broken link).
Has the "War on Drugs" accomplished anything but wasting trillions of dollars, destroying low-income society, locking up more citizens than any other nation for doing the "wrong" drugs (while cigarettes kills 1/2 a million Americans a year), and proving that Prohibition doesn't work?
How many out there still think drug addiction can be "cured" by jail instead of medical and behavioral intervention?
Isn't Big Pharma and Big Health rich enough with their monopoly on medicinal substances, now that the taxpayer and nation is bankrupt and African-American society and families either on welfare or in jail?
Haven't the 100-year-old grannies in nursing homes spouting "Just Say No!" lost their outdated influence yet?
Id prefer dicriminalization. Realy dont want it taxed. Not real big on the idea of paying $600 an oz.
Taxed? Unless you plan on buying it from someone else, if you're growing it on your own property for your own consumption, you're not going to be taxed.
Taxed? Unless you plan on buying it from someone else, if you're growing it on your own property for your own consumption, you're not going to be taxed.
[just like home-brewed beer]
But thats the problem with out and out legalization. Those who favor it want to legalize it so it is controlled like liquor, which you can't produce at home for consumption. It used to be illegal to brew your own beer at home also.
They want it controlled by the government, grown in specific locations, and taxed at a rate where you have to buy it from a "package store", type facility that ID's the buyer.
I would favor decriminalization, as I can grow my own. But the simple matter is, if you want to keep it away from under age children at the highest level possible, making it a controlled substance like liquor is the best way.
There would still be people that grow it at home, and some of those people will face fines or arrest if caught. But to get the general population on board, controlling it like liquor, where you can't make that at home for consumption, is the most likely answer.
Massachusetts decriminalized it in 2010. Has come uo in NH the last 3 sessions. The latest was introduced by a repug. That may be enough to do it as in the past some have voted aginst it because it was introduced by a dem. Dem gov says he will veto it but repubs now have a veto proof majority in both chambers.
1 yr after mass decriminalized it , the mass supreme court ruled that " the odor of reefer is not probable cause for a search as reefer is no longer ilegal"
Massachusetts decriminalized it in 2010. Has come uo in NH the last 3 sessions. The latest was introduced by a repug. That may be enough to do it as in the past some have voted aginst it because it was introduced by a dem. Dem gov says he will veto it but repubs now have a veto proof majority in both chambers.
Those who are caught with an ounce or less still get a ticket, but don't go to jail.
One plant is more than an ounce, and if its more than an ounce, you still go to jail.
Thats the problem with decriminalization of this kind.
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