Quote Originally Posted by khronik
Democracy is a double-edged sword. The government has to abide by the will of the people, and right now most people don't support the legalization of marijuana. Until they do, weed will almost certainly stay illegal.
i bet in current financial mess a suggestion about "decriminalization" and reducing costly and worthless penalties will have many people rallying behind it.

keep it "illegal" change the penalty of jail to fines and keep everything else regarding first, second or more convictions the same.

more money to be saved and more money to be made. I hardly think any1 is opposed to this, it wont send the wrong message to lil idiot kids without any caring parents either. we are speaking of non-violent small time offenders.

I very much will have it that way as the first step towards change of status regarding mj.

Each arrest and detention even for the shortest amount of time costs taxpayers roughly about 2000-3000 USD.

any hillbilly will get this simple logical math equation no matter what their beliefs are.