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Legalizing pot to reduce crime is a unimaginative solution and just moves the problem along for society to pay downstream.
That's because it doesn't take ANY imagination to know that legalizing pot IS the best "solution" for society.
"Crime" WOULD be greatly reduced, considering that all the so called criminals (people who relax after a day at work with a joint) would no longer be committing a crime.
This is the kind anger I expected. It doesn't matter how many times things are explained to people like you, because you either fail to understand, or refuse to listen.
I am happy to pay for law enforcement, when I know it is done to ensure domestic tranqulity (like the Constitution calls for). The people in prison are not innocent. They chose to violate the law, and they are paying the price for it. Changing sentencing guidelines for drug offenders could be reviewed, but in the light of the what happend in Holland, legalization of drugs gets a "NO WAY" from this citizen.
It's laughable that you consider "domestic tranquility" to be threatened by marijuana...Do you not understand?...Do you fail to listen?..
Do you really think that prescription drugs and alcohol aren't to blame for domestic violence?
The only thing accomplished by jailing a working man/woman who smokes a little pot occasionally to relax after work, is that the breadwinner in the family can no longer provide, so the govt needs to.
Ask any cop who he feels most threatened by...a gentle, relaxed, happy pot smoker, or an insolent, violent, unpredictable drunk.
Legalizing pot to reduce crime is a unimaginative solution and just moves the problem along for society to pay downstream.
Do you have any concept of time or history?
Marijuana has NEVER been illegal on this Earth except from 1937-2013-that is less than 1% of the time of its known existence and acceptance by every documented human civilization in history.
Slimy Corporate Suits, Puppet Politicians and Propagandists were the reason the very useful hemp plant was banned for the first time in history in 1937 and these people that you so blindly follow continue to be obstructionist to any progession in our evolution as humans.
It's safe to say that that little experiment on outlawing a plant and imprisoning people for growing or consuming it has been an absolutely dismal failure for society.
You, T310 and Finn are most obviously on the wrong side of history, but I'm willing to bet that people like you would accept your circumstances and laws in society no matter what time period you were born into. Not a great way to live IMO.
Marijuana has NEVER been illegal on this Earth except from 1937-2013-that is less than 1% of the time of its known existence and acceptance by every documented human civilization in history.
Slimy Corporate Suits, Puppet Politicians and Propagandists were the reason the very useful hemp plant was banned for the first time in history in 1937 and these people that you so blindly follow continue to be obstructionist to any progession in our evolution as humans.
It's safe to say that that little experiment on outlawing a plant and imprisoning people for growing or consuming it has been an absolutely dismal failure for society.
You, T310 and Finn are most obviously on the wrong side of history, but I'm willing to bet that people like you would accept your circumstances and laws in society no matter what time period you were born into. Not a great way to live IMO.
The indoctrinated Anti-Hemp people are lucky they were born during the astronomically small time frame that marijuana has been illegal.
But even luckier for us, they will still be around when it is completely legalized again. What will they do then?
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