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I could care less about marijuana. I am not going to protest in front of the White House or the building of my state capital to demand it be legalized. At the same time I am not going to call the cops if I see my next door neighbor smoking weed, its her or his life.
Since I do not smoke weed, it is not really a cause that I get passionate about. Just like I don't expect someone who would never be open to buying a gun for themselves, to be passionate about protecting the civil liberties of legal gun owners to have a right to carry.
Apparently you care enough to post in a thread about legalizing marijuana in all 50 States.
I think marijuana and all the rest of the currently illegal drugs should be legal in all 50 states. They should be, like whiskey in New Hampshire, sold in state owned stores for profit in lieu of taxes. Some of this profit should be available to help people that desire to recover from the addictions.
I think marijuana and all the rest of the currently illegal drugs should be legal in all 50 states. They should be, like whiskey in New Hampshire, sold in state owned stores for profit in lieu of taxes. Some of this profit should be available to help people that desire to recover from the addictions.
Legalize drugs, and then use tax money to help the addicts
Legalize drugs, and then use tax money to help the addicts
Isn't that essentially what happens when addicts become too sick or incapacitated to work? They can go on disability or other state-sponsored assistance programs. Prior to that point, we are all paying for it through rising insurance costs because insurance policies cover those addiction-related illnesses and injuries.
Isn't that essentially what happens when addicts become too sick or incapacitated to work? They can go on disability or other state-sponsored assistance programs. Prior to that point, we are all paying for it through rising insurance costs because insurance policies cover those addiction-related illnesses and injuries.
Why would you want to encourage people to become addicts?
Why would you want to encourage people to become addicts?
I don't want to encourage people to become addicts. Some people ARE addicts. That doesn't change if the substance of abuse is legal or not. The only thing it does is cause ridiculous drug raids (on usually innocent people) and fill up the jails while murderers, pedophiles and rapists get to walk out.
Why would anybody care if a person CHOOSES to inflict harm on their own body by abusing substances? I would rather incarcerate the people that CHOOSE to inflict harm on other people.
I think marijuana and all the rest of the currently illegal drugs should be legal in all 50 states. They should be, like whiskey in New Hampshire, sold in state owned stores for profit in lieu of taxes. Some of this profit should be available to help people that desire to recover from the addictions.
Thanks, but I will pass. Turning the government into drug pushers that profit off of people's vices is not my idea of a moral government. We already made that mistake with alcohol and tobacco. I would hope that we could learn from those mistakes.
Glitch - I hate to be the first to tell you but governments are completely amoral instruments of economics. Or at least they should be. The results of governments enforcing morality (which morality? Your religion's or mine?) have been universal disasters. Prohibition or high taxation of drugs, alcohol to opiates, of any kind is the heart of the criminal economy and having the government help the smugglers is just plain wrong.
Let the drugs be sold at market prices, even though I prefer price and availability control through state owned stores, so there is not enough profit to justify illegal smuggling. I realize there is a economic cost of treating the addicts as well as a personal costs to the addicts families but I believe that is less costly and dangerous to the rest of us than the open lawless gangsterism associated with the smuggling of prohibited substances. Some people will kill themselves with whiskey and some with KFC salty grease. That is too damn bad.
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