Why marijuana shouldnt be legalized

For everyone that didn't check out the link from my previous post here's the basics to end the money debate:

-----In "The Budgetary Implications of Marijuana Prohibition" (released June 2, 2005), Dr. Jeffrey Miron, visiting professor of economics at Harvard University, estimates that replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of taxation and regulation similar to that used for alcoholic beverages would produce combined savings and tax revenues of between $10 billion and $14 billion per year.

Using data from a variety of federal and state government sources, Miron concludes:
Replacing marijuana prohibition with a system of legal regulation would save approximately $7.7 billion in government expenditures on prohibition enforcement -- $2.4 billion at the federal level and $5.3 billion at the state and local levels.
Revenue from taxation of marijuana sales would range from $2.4 billion per year if marijuana were taxed like ordinary consumer goods to $6.2 billion if it were taxed like alcohol or tobacco. -----

So maybe if you follow the old money trail it will lead to continued prohibition, but I don't think a Harvard University professor is going to be ignored especially with this:

-----More than 500 distinguished economists -- led by Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Milton Friedman and two additional Nobel Laureates -- endorsed the report and signed an open letter to President Bush and other public officials calling for "an open and honest debate about marijuana prohibition," adding, "We believe such a debate will favor a regime in which marijuana is legal but taxed and regulated like other goods."-----

Our government has kept us in the dark for a long time, but I, for one, am pulling the blindfold off. I would hope that fellow cannabis advocates would do the same, and realize we are the generation that will do this, and we are the generation that will get that $10 to $14 billion a year for our government, and we are the generation that will be running these massive pot fields, not these old jerks, it will be us deciding if we want to produce the best, organic, grade A+ buds, or if we want cannabis to end up like tobacco is now.

We better take hold of the situation now, before all the conservatives get on board and try to legalize cannabis with a system so regulated that it becomes meaningless (Bill O'Rielly is already on his way). That is where the debate needs to go. Not if and when it will happen or not, because it already is, but how to regulate and run a nation wide cannabis system that allows the best buds possible and the most distributed profit for small cannabis businesses, as well as allowing the homegrowing hobbyist to do as they please. We need to look at the strict regulations at the end of alcohol prohibition, some that still exist, and make sure we don't have some of the same limits that happened at the end of that prohibition, at the end of this one.

Chris,
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Originally Posted by darkside

passionate grower is right -the so called "drug war" is an industry. too many other industries have too much to lose. it doesnt matter who you vote for, because all politicians are pussy sellouts getting fucked in the a$$ by big corporations. Sad but true -this country is not controlled by the people anymore-its controlled by big tobacco, big pharma, the food industry,andthe petroleum industry.

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well in canada we have a better chance with politicians, as we have a big percentage of voters...

but if nobody vote for them they won't be elected, and if they are not elected, big corporation won't have any puppet to play with the strings, so when people, and only when they will realise pot is really not as bad as we hear all around, they will make pressure to legalize it...Still politicians no matter how deep they lick the ass of big corporates they need to lick our ass too to get them elected..

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Originally Posted by Stoner Shadow Wolf

and FUCK YOU for not offering your life in honnor of the plant, by defending your rights to use.

believe me, if i ever get busted, you'll know it. i wont go down for pot, not alive.

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Ask me nicely and I'll think about it.

Seriously, I am an active supporter of NORML, MPP, and libertarian platform issue #1,...so what's your problem with my post? You don't believe the list of profiteers I cited? You don't believe that all the Drug War supporters aren't equal scumbags to dealers selling to kids on the street?

I'd be fine if more places had the same view as the Netherlands, like places in the US. and then the US would have shops that wouldn't be bothered. that would be really cool, i wouldn't grow it, i think that would cut down like all the people growing it you know? anyone that grew for personal use only, wouldn't have to grow if they could walk up town and buy a couple grams. and then if they would let growers grow for the shops, just like they let people grow for the medical things. that would be awesome! lol

can't wait for the ignorant hypocritical babyboomer generation to die out so us, more informed, individuals can take over the reigns in the upper administration and government. Hopefully we can finally talk some sense into the administration and legalize a PLANT.

Because it has more rights to this planet than puny earthlings, having survived Dinosaurs and the Ice Age.

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Originally Posted by hihigh

can't wait for the ignorant hypocritical babyboomer generation to die out so us, more informed, individuals can take over the reigns in the upper administration and government. Hopefully we can finally talk some sense into the administration and legalize a PLANT.

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please some lil respect for people who have been brainwashed...you would have been just the same as them if borned within those years...they are not ignorant, jsut misinformed...big difference dude

-peace out :dance:

errr, "the point of weed"? the point of weed is to fucking get stoned. if companies and/or the government distributed weed and if it was as potent or more than the weed we have now, then why the hell not? do you realize that if the government legalizes and sells pot, that it would get rid of over 60% of drug dealers? and it would get rid of a bunch of people who don't need to be in prison, saving a SHIT LOAD of waisted tax money.

a real stoner, or anyone who enjoys pot, would want it legalized.

hey yall how old is a babyboomer??????so i know if i be one. I had my first J in 1974. Hell yall they dont have to say Legal, Just stop fucking with us. All I want to do is smoke a little bud, hey no big thing. Right Guy's??!!!!!! Hell Yea!

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Originally Posted by Nightfox

Syrrus is completely right, mainly cos he kinda agrees with me, but ppl need to change their views on bud as a drug.

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Drug - (3) A chemical substance, such as a narcotic or hallucinogen, that affects the central nervous system, causing changes in behavior and often addiction.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Horse

errr, "the point of weed"? the point of weed is to fucking get stoned. if companies and/or the government distributed weed and if it was as potent or more than the weed we have now, then why the hell not? do you realize that if the government legalizes and sells pot, that it would get rid of over 60% of drug dealers? and it would get rid of a bunch of people who don't need to be in prison, saving a SHIT LOAD of waisted tax money.

a real stoner, or anyone who enjoys pot, would want it legalized.

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Just to place another opinion on this topic. I have been smoking pot for more than thirty-five years, still grown to this day. I am for decriminalization and completelty again legalization. There is a major difference, with legalization you will get government controls, regulations, and modifications. With decriminalization, it simply removes any and all criminal punishment, for adults over the age of 18, for the growing, cultivation, possession, and smoking of marijuana. At the same time it puts in place a method to where by the government can still bring prosecution against people who deal to minors and who commit other crimes regarding other so called "soft drugs". If more marijuana activist would just listen to this arguement they would understand the fastest and best way to actual legalization would be first through decriminalization and then to legalization. More people would vote for than against. When asked recently why the voters OVERWHELMINGLY voted down legalization, in Alaska, the number one response was always something regarding needing a way to try and keep it away from kids. At the same time they all stated that if it were decriminalized for growing, cultivation, possession, and smoking for adults over the age of 18, while retaining criminal punishment for dealers, they would have voted in favor of decriminalization.
Just something to think about.

OK, now you are in for it. I have read the initial post and the conversations that follow. I hardly know where to start. Maybe a compliment (so as to keep your attention). Mattâ??s point about the peopleâ??s right to self determination and the laws we choose to enact and enforce is good. And yes, commercial production of weed would/could just fall into another big corporation umbrella. I am responding in the hopes of STIMULATING some honest research from you folks. Many comments (temporary taxes from WW2) are accurate but only go HALFWAY!
Matt and I can tell you FIRST HAND that the way to get the governments attention is with the MONEY. Thatâ??s how we stopped the Vietnam War. When hundreds of thousands of middle class Americans deducted a portion of their taxes that was being spent to murder people overseas there was not enough jail space to house them all. So they had to pull out of the damn war.
The WAR ON DRUGS is no different. ITâ??S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!
Yes there is 70 years of propaganda telling people that DRUGS WILL KILL YOU and we all know just how far that crap got with US. If you can find a copy of the movie â??GRASSâ?� buy it or at least rent it for a weekend and invite a ton of friends. The war on drugs is just another aspect of the larger war on personal freedom. Dear GOD you donâ??t want me to go on that RANT for long.
So yes it is the money. PLEASE remember there is more than one side to that coin. There is the income from taxes, but the greater amount of money is the SAVINGS from not having to fund: the DEA, Drug Courts, Prisons, propaganda programs, drug stings, welfare for the left behind, and all the ancillary costs of drug persecution. If you read my article The True Cost of Cannabis Legislation you can do the numbers your self, itâ??s stunning. How about $1,000,000,000 (one BILLION) a year to start; TO START!! Thatâ??s US dollars we are talking about. Thatâ??s just the savings, the SAVINGS!!!!!!!!! The additional income from allowing individual states to regulate cannabis use (like alcohol or gambling or prostitution) is another BILLION a year. Not over ten years not after five but from year 1 and ON. DEAR CREEPING JESUS WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK ITâ??S ALL ABOUT?!?! Cops need criminals in order to justify their jobsâ??; an efficient police force just puts itself out of business in a few years.
As DAVES19 mentioned the Netherlands has gotten past the initial problems with a simple and elegant solution. Possession of more than five plants gets you a jail sentence. However if you are registered and certified with the Cannabis Producers Assocician ( read Union) and you have a contract to deliver to a specific coffee shop you can have 25 plants. With proper conditions thatâ??s about twelve pounds every sixty days, not a misprint: twelve pounds every sixty days. For more info on efficient growing methods go to www.growweed.com and order Cathyâ??s book, its real; Iâ??ve used it. That is the way Dutch coffee shops provide an average of 20 jobs per storefront. If the 735,000 people imprisoned for cannabis crimes in the US in 2000 each ran a coffee shop that would be 14.7 million NEW jobs. In Amsterdam each coffee shop keeps a couple of hotels and a restaurant or two in business. More jobs. Please read my articles on cannabis legislation scattered through this category.
So while concerns about taxation and corporate cannabis are valid, so are concerns about personal privacy from the grow light squad. HOWEVER if ENOUGH people got off their ass and read up on the subject and spread the truth to the non smoking Americans we would be able to convince the majority of taxpayers that the waste of their money can STOP and stop NOW. We can provide healthcare for all Americans, we CAN provide a quality education for ALL Americans, we can provide good housing for ALL Americans. IT CAN BE DONE.
The only problems are that most potheads would rather get stoned and play video games and BITCH rather than get out the vote and drag their friends to the voter registration tables. REGISTER, PARTICIPATE, VOTE. Itâ??s your FREEDOM at stake.
OK enough for the moment, I need to go smoke a thumb sized joint of some White Rhino to get my attitude under control. In the mean time YOU, thatâ??s right YOU! Go search out my other articles and read about what you can do to help the cause of personal freedom.
Two last points. The American Colonies supported the revolution with cannabis. Possession of Cannabis is LEGAL if you have an ATF issued TAX STAMP. Yes today in 2006 it is legal if you have a stamp. You never head of this? Read some more of my articles I discuss this more than once. There is an office and a bureaucrat in Washington DC whose job it is to issue the stamps that are still printed and issued. Abit erratically and only a dozen a year but he does have a desk, a phone and a filing cabinet full of stamps waiting to be issued.
To anyone who finished reading this thanks; Iâ??m sorry I want off for a bit

Tons of Love to All
Doctor G

I found somewhere, not too long ago, that ending prohibition would save the United States $25 Billion. I'll look for it.

My state, Virginia, would save $5.3 Billion.

This is a really long thread, and I can't be on here for to long because I have a 3 year old so forgive me if someone has already said some things I say.

Making MJ legal would save a ton of money on inmates in prison for one thing. We have a prison in the town I live, and I have known many gaurds out there. Small town, I babysat for a few of them. I know that like half of the population in this prison is in there for MJ. I-80 comes through here too, and TONS of drugs travel across the united states on this interstate. A lot of people get busted for it, and it costs more money than most people make a year to house 1 of these "criminals", "danger to society". It is crazy, legalizing it would SAVE money for sure.

And as far as not legalizing it because it is "fun" to break the law. Some of us have kids whom we love very much and cannot risk going to prison, and some of us smoke because it calms our anxiety, or curbs our depression. We don't get a kick out of being "hidden" at all. I am a very happily married woman, with tons of morals, but I would probably fuck the cop to get out of being in trouble for my sons sake. I cannot go to prison.

Just my opinion on it all :)

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Originally Posted by passionate grower

Ask me nicely and I'll think about it.

Seriously, I am an active supporter of NORML, MPP, and libertarian platform issue #1,...so what's your problem with my post? You don't believe the list of profiteers I cited? You don't believe that all the Drug War supporters aren't equal scumbags to dealers selling to kids on the street?

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lol, sorry about that... :( one of my pissy moments...


unfortunately, anything dealing with money is only part of the problem, so dispite my passionate support for NORML, they are coincedentally a part of the problem as well, which is why i am not (and never will be) a finincial supporter (of anything for that matter).


hemp can replace currency, and that's the only way i can be ok wit htaxes and even then, the corperation still poses a huge threat.


once again, sorry, i got all bent out of shape... again... lol

Odds are that if it is legalized several things will happen. The tobacco companies will jump on the bandwagon and switch a large portion of their fields to weed. (several have already admitted to being ready to convert if it is legalized) It will become a large commercial business akin to alcohol, tobacco and firearms. however, it will no doubt be handled the same way, you can reload your shotgun shells or whatever, you can make beer, wine, even whiskey in your basement up to a fairly large amount without being taxed or hassled as long as you don't sell it. I suspect they would do the same thing with weed. It would be taxed, it would be regulated yes, but it would also generate a boatload of revenue for the feds, save a shitload on legal costs and generally no longer be a problem. As for stoners not getting involved in the political process I would venture to guess that their numbers are no greater a percentage than any other group. But Washington has no balls. Only numbnuts.

Lets not forget the forfieture laws. Another reason Gov does not want it legalized. Many , if not most, states have forfieture laws that rake in millions, if not billions a year in homes, boats, cars..etc.

{eace,

HeyDan

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Originally Posted by saleemgreen

well i think the reason it shouldnt be legalized is b/c do u really dont want to get up when ur stoned the only time u really think about getting up is to go get so food do u really think ur going t owant to get up for school or work no ur going to sit their and think whats one more day of work then u dont got a job but u still got to pay bills u cant pay them when u have no money they take everything frome u now u live on the streets just b-c of one thing or u could be like a few smart people i know and get high and still b/able to do things :stoned:

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Im currently in collage, holding a job, and a frequent smoker. :thumbsup:


You all can argue over facts and whose opinion is better, etc.

For those who do care for decriminalization / legalization / medical / agricultural purpose / what the fuck ever. . . .
I'll see the some of you at Tallahasee, FL for the Marijuana March in May.

Go to your state capitol. Speak. Get yourself heard.

Think this way. If "I" (as in yourself) don't do it, because some one else will... wait... Im that some one else for that some one else. So thusly no ones doing it. *Le~Gasp* But If I, the 'some one else' goes, and speaks out, then there surely will be other 'some one else'(s).

Yeah, i sometimes think that if it were legal that it wouldnt be as fun cuz you wouldnt have anything to hide and ud just be high like everyone else. I dont drink because i know everyone else is doing it so its like "hey i got drunk yesterday" and then everyone else is like yeah so did we big fuckng deal.....

That why it starts w/you in your community,tring to educate is hard but everyone must know,that canibis has no ill effects exept for smoking it.If taken w/food or a vaporizer or pill form,there is not one harmfull thing that is happing to youre body...The reason people want this drug legalized is the jail time!!!who gets a rush from thinking you could go to jail for having some dope on ya??certinly not me!!that has nothing to do w/my high,if it when it becomes leagal in 10-20 yrs maybe sooner the price of weed will drop dramaticly.... educate when ever given the oppertunity

i think if it was allowed in the states, we would run into some problems, mainly more people going homless, becase you gotta think some dealers live off the profit they make from selling this drug.....

i mean theres good and bad sides to alowwing this to happen.
good
1.never run out of supply
2.being high at all times
3.able to walk down the steets with no worrys(of course they well make rules :( )
some bad.
1.more anti drug ad's(Isn't there enogh already?)
2.more people bitching about shit becase of weed
3.homeless ppl
4.Possible market pickup(for those ppl who don't wonna grow or can't)

i say we do away with all laws, but nooooo :(

What!!!!! Legalize the gunja? No way in helllllllllllllll

My opinion on legalizing pot is that it should be, just like alcohol. The government could make a lot of money on taxes. Save a sh*t load of tax payers money thatâ??s paying for leo busting ppl, and incarceration.

Alcohol is easier to make than it to grow pot. Some ppl make moonshine and sell it and donâ??t pay taxes on it. It would probably be the same with pot, but at honest innocent ppl could legally buy it with out worrying about getting busted or ripped off.

When I and all my friends started smoking it back in the late 60â??s, I thought that when my generation got older and started voting it would become legalized. I guess I was wrong. I canâ??t understand why though.

Peace
T

One of the big reasons it will take a long time to legalize weed is because of all the people who will be out of work. All the guards who wont be needed at our prisons when the inmate population plummets. The construction companies who will lose work when they aren't called upon to build new prisons. All the cops who won't be needed for drug enforcement.(of course there are always other drugs to enforce laws against but some cops will surely become unneeded.) And those people in the legal field who won't be needed to file papers, defend people in court, etc.
Now I realize that legalizing weed wil also create a staggering number of jobs, but remember that most people hate change so regardless of personal polotics those people who stand to lose their jobs will fight legalization, possibly just so they won't have to find a new job.
I'm not proposing a solution, just giving everyone something to think about, as this is a problem that will need to adressed when we make our move to legalize.

In many parts of the U.S. they've quit trying to legally define drugs except to say that possession of a hallucenogen is bad. I've been amazed at the botanical knowlege that must have been required to indentify obscure species on sight.Analyses of pineal glands are revealing that more and more well known drugs (or very similar compounds) are already in your body. More obviously, the circuitry that they trigger is already there. And there are so many claims that, when properly used, these substaces cure aids and cancer. No, it's not tiny quantities that are ruining peoples' lives. Having noticed that you almost never see the drugs as they are being found on police video, I think I have an idea of what sort of politics are in play here.

ohio has decriminalize weed

God, I would love to be in Amsterdam right now.

It's ok though, I have a way where I can get a little piece of Amsterdam to my doorstep :)

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Originally Posted by shamrok16

before everyone gets mad, just read why i think it shouldnt be legalized. If marijuana was completely legalized, then it would end up being mass produced by big corporations. And if that happened, then wouldnt it ruin the point of weed? i mean look at what happened with tobacco. a completely harmless drug being smoked and grown naturally by the native americans. then the big business comes and takes half the high away from the tobacco, and puts all sorts of addictive crap in it to keep people hooked on it. So wouldnt it make more sense to just make the punishment for having weed on you so small (like a 10$ fine or something like that) that the feds and the police won't even bother to try and catch people with weed. just a thought :rasta:

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The people would not stand for it being made by large corporations and have them adding chemicals to it. More people would probably try to grow themselves if it did that.

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Originally Posted by HeyDan

Lets not forget the forfieture laws. Another reason Gov does not want it legalized. Many , if not most, states have forfieture laws that rake in millions, if not billions a year in homes, boats, cars..etc.

{eace,

HeyDan

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Too often overlooked.

I wonder if there are any statistics spelling out how much revenue is earned through selling the possessions of druglords, and even your everyday regular John, when they go down for major drug offenses. Not to mention the fines they have to pay on top of sentencing, which is sometimes not even compensated by forfieture. A lot of people going to prison for serious drug offenses that have their stuff auctioned off are paying for a huge chunk of however many years they end up there.

I'm not very informed when it comes to forfeiture, though. But I can imagine that it, itself, is also a multibillion dollar industry.

For those of you who believe that "Marihuana" cannot be legalized and taxed, think again.

We already did it twice. The first time the marijuana plant was legalized was in 1619, and it remained legal until 1937. The US government legalized and taxed "Marihuana" again in 1942. "Marihuana" saved George Bush's life. "Marihuana" helped stop Hitler. Follow this plan again.

http://www.chaozation.com/politics/hemp/HFV_video.htm

Just a quick note on the tax issue fm someone in the tax rip off capital of the planet. im in Scotland and i hope they dont legalise it cos the gov we have here are greedy bastards and will tax it to the death. i.e it costs me 9 quid for a pac of tobacco and the same baccy is sold in france for less thatn 1 quid. The tax over here is just stupid. But even if it was legalised i would still grow my own.

The guy that made "Marihuana" illegal in the US said there is no way for the source of cannabis to be controlled, and that was why it had to be outlawed.

His name was Harry J. Anslinger, and he was a drug dealer. While he campaigned against cannabis, calling marijuana the "worst drug menace in the history of mankind," he was illegally supplying morphine to Sen. Joseph McCarthy. His exact quote was, "The supply is so vast and grows in so many places that gangsters perhaps have found it difficult to dominate the source."

He said "gangsters" can't dominate the source. By that, he meant DuPont, Pfizer, Monsanto, ConAgra, OPEC, and other large conglomerates that sought to dominate the source of everything we use.

Anyone with a backyard, a frontyard, a closet, a windowsill, or even the homeless Vietnam vets living under bridges can grow "Marihuana." Cannabis grows in every climate, all over the world. There is absolutely no way at all for any corporation to take over the "Marihuana" market.

We, the people, will always control the source of cannabis. "Marihuana" was outlawed because corporations could NOT take it over.

Even though "Marihuana" was outlawed in 1937 as the "worst drug menace in the history of mankind," the US Federal government legalized "Marihuana" in 1942 to support the American military during World War II. "Marihuana" made the rigging of the parachute that saved George HW Bush's life in 1942.

Legalizing "Marihuana" helped stop Hitler. Legalizing "Marihuana" again will help stop Cheney and bin Laden.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but people can grow their own tobacco plants. Some of my buddies just made their own beer too.

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Originally Posted by Stellar

Too often overlooked.

I wonder if there are any statistics spelling out how much revenue is earned through selling the possessions of druglords, and even your everyday regular John, when they go down for major drug offenses. Not to mention the fines they have to pay on top of sentencing, which is sometimes not even compensated by forfieture. A lot of people going to prison for serious drug offenses that have their stuff auctioned off are paying for a huge chunk of however many years they end up there.

I'm not very informed when it comes to forfeiture, though. But I can imagine that it, itself, is also a multibillion dollar industry.

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There are entire police drug task forces within several states that opperate solely through seizure assets. If they don't bust people for drugs and sell off all the siezed items then they have no funding. Talk about your breeding grounds for corruption.

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Originally Posted by GlenCoco

Sorry to burst your bubble, but people can grow their own tobacco plants. Some of my buddies just made their own beer too.

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I can't argue with you about the beer (The only kind of beer I really enjoy is made by a friend of mine in his basement), but tobacco is one of the most disease prone plants around, and it only grows well in certain environments. Do you know people who grow their own, I'm not saying it can't be done, but I bet it's alot cheaper to just pick up a pack of cigarretts or even a bag of premium tobacco from a smoke shop.

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Originally Posted by Esoteric416

One of the big reasons it will take a long time to legalize weed is because of all the people who will be out of work. All the guards who wont be needed at our prisons when the inmate population plummets. The construction companies who will lose work when they aren't called upon to build new prisons. All the cops who won't be needed for drug enforcement.(of course there are always other drugs to enforce laws against but some cops will surely become unneeded.) And those people in the legal field who won't be needed to file papers, defend people in court, etc.
Now I realize that legalizing weed wil also create a staggering number of jobs, but remember that most people hate change so regardless of personal polotics those people who stand to lose their jobs will fight legalization, possibly just so they won't have to find a new job.
I'm not proposing a solution, just giving everyone something to think about, as this is a problem that will need to adressed when we make our move to legalize.

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This is an irrelevant concern. Drug offenders wouldn't just get out of prison because its decriminalized, leaving the prisons to lay off a substantial amount of prison gaurds.. They broke the law when it was illegal, and thats all that matters when it comes to justify having them behind bars. There would be no significant job losses as a result of marijuana being legalized, at all..

The more important thing to think about, is how much harder it would be to come up with a perfect plan to regulate the use, sale, and cultivation of Marijuana. Its realistically impossible. People will use it, grow it, and sell it whether it is illegal or not. It just needs to be decriminalized.

alot of sence being made above.

didnt feel like reading any of the other pages except this one but im pretty sure legalization is the main topic. well my opinion is america is already fucked and theres no turning that around.

if it became legal to buy and the government sold it and they taxed it i would still buy it. growing good buds takes a lot of effort, where as buying it would be just like how people buy alcohol, where you just go and pick up a box of blunts of whatever when you feel like it. growing takes too much effort and time. the thing is, i know a lot of people, including myself sometimes, that go entire days being stoned. if it was legal do you think more people would be stoned all the time. would it then become a "problem" like alcohol and you'd have to go to Marijuanaholics Anonymous meetings and shit? i dunno i'm pretty blazed right now. i agree that it should just be decriminalized. whoever said that no matter if its legal or not people are still going to grow it and sell it. if it was decriminalized it would be basically legal anyways.