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NY we have PRIVATE liquor store that sell liquor and wine....beer and wine can be gotten at any grocery store or 7/11
in NC they had ABC stores (government run liquor stores ) for liquor and wine...and you could also buy beer and wine in the grocery store (but not on sundays......later not till after 2pm on sundays)
"A new study has revealed a link between states with legalized medical marijuana and a reduction in traffic-related fatalities. The study was conducted by D. Mark Anderson, a Montana State University economics professor, and Daniel Rees, a professor at the University of Colorado Denver.
In looking at state-level data from sources such as the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, Anderson and Rees discovered that states that had legalized medical marijuana saw an average of a 9 percent decrease in traffic deaths.
"We were pretty surprised that they went down," Rees told the Denver Post."
There has to be some laws or there would be anarchy.
Laws against murder, rape, pedophilia, assault, and robbery.... things like that make sense. Laws against speeding make sense... laws prohibiting what people can and cannot consume do not make sense. Unless of course they're driving under the influence, then laws against that make sense.
Employer testing would skyrocket if drugs were legalized.
Employer testing is already at 85% in the US, so no, employer testing won't skyrocket. Having that rate climb to 95% I don't think you could characterize as skyrocketing. We're already a country where what's in your pee is more important to employers than your performance.
Employer testing is already at 85% in the US, so no, employer testing won't skyrocket. Having that rate climb to 95% I don't think you could characterize as skyrocketing. We're already a country where what's in your pee is more important to employers than your performance.
Drugs (not just pot) affect the society as whole because many users finance their habit through crime, and many non-users are their victims. Down here in South Florida we have many neighborhoods which have been destroyed by drugs. Liberals have found the backdoor to liberalize republican voters, and that backdoor is the libertarian movement who support many socially liberal views such as gay marriage and drug use.
If drugs were legal, but regulated the cost would go way down. Making something illegal drives the cost up.
Your neighborhoods have not been destroyed by drugs, they have been destroyed by making drugs illegal and making disputes in the drug trade result in violence because drog sellers can not go to the courts for redress.
If you want to regain control of the situation in your area then you would be for treating addicts as having a medical problem, just like we treat alcoholics. You would also be for taking the illegality off these substances so that real addicts could seek treatment in treatment centers that are now filled with people mandated to be there that don't have an addiction problem, but chose that instead of incarceration.
You are basically arguing laws are immoral and lawlessness is moral.
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No, it won't
