What are your thoughts on Marijuana legalization?

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I think the whole "war on drugs" has been a pointless expenditure of money since it's inception.
 
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Yep...make it legal and tax the fool out of it (like everything else.)
 
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Well here in GA there are news stories of basements of empty high dollar houses being filled with marijuana. Pay no attention to the voodoo symbols trying to protect it.
 
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The problem with weed compared to other legal but controlled substances (e.g. alcohol and tobacco) is the ease with which it can be grown.

Sure kids can get cigarettes and booze, but they'd have a hard time making them. On the otherhand, if a kid can grow one good pot plant out in the woods somewhere, they're pretty much set.

Other than that, I don't see a problem with at least decriminalizing it.
 
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volinbham said:
The problem with weed compared to other legal but controlled substances (e.g. alcohol and tobacco) is the ease with which it can be grown.

Sure kids can get cigarettes and booze, but they'd have a hard time making them. On the otherhand, if a kid can grow one good pot plant out in the woods somewhere, they're pretty much set.

Other than that, I don't see a problem with at least decriminalizing it.
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Give me a hot stove, some yeast, sugar, and a can of corn, and I guarantee I can have drinkable booze before you will have smokable pot :whistling:
 
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volinbham said:
The problem with weed compared to other legal but controlled substances (e.g. alcohol and tobacco) is the ease with which it can be grown.

Sure kids can get cigarettes and booze, but they'd have a hard time making them. On the otherhand, if a kid can grow one good pot plant out in the woods somewhere, they're pretty much set.

Other than that, I don't see a problem with at least decriminalizing it.
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Given the option of running down to the local 7-11 and picking up some, I doubt a large percentage of pot smokers would opt to grow their own.
 
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volinbham said:
The problem with weed compared to other legal but controlled substances (e.g. alcohol and tobacco) is the ease with which it can be grown.

Sure kids can get cigarettes and booze, but they'd have a hard time making them. On the otherhand, if a kid can grow one good pot plant out in the woods somewhere, they're pretty much set.

Other than that, I don't see a problem with at least decriminalizing it.
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In HS it was much easier for me to get weed than it was to get alcohol. I doubt that has changed in the years since I was there.

The money the taxes could bring in would be huge.
 
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utvolpj said:
In HS it was much easier for me to get weed than it was to get alcohol. I doubt that has changed in the years since I was there.

The money the taxes could bring in would be huge.
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1. 1st statement is still true today.. (Just left high school myself)
2.Yes, the government could make some serious bank with that idea.
 
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:ill_h4h: ive got the worse toothache ive ever had in my life!!!!! i feel like tom hanks in "castaway". i guarantee ya if i had a quarterbag right now id be feeling no pain!!!! please make it legal!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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MG1968 said:
I think the whole "war on drugs" has been a pointless expenditure of money since it's inception.
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True. Generally, nothing good comes of a government declaring "war" on a concept. See the wars on poverty, drugs and terrorism. More harm than good has been done by all of those. Declare war on slumlords, drug dealers, and terrorists and you might get somewhere. Abstract concepts are tough opponents.
 
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hatvol96 said:
True. Generally, nothing good comes of a government declaring "war" on a concept. See the wars on poverty, drugs and terrorism. More harm than good has been done by all of those. Declare war on slumlords, drug dealers, and terrorists and you might get somewhere. Abstract concepts are tough opponents.
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Not to mention all the money the Goverment makes on perscriptions (legal drugs):thumbsup: but there ok
 
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melissa hyberger said:
:ill_h4h: ive got the worse toothache ive ever had in my life!!!!! i feel like tom hanks in "castaway". i guarantee ya if i had a quarterbag right now id be feeling no pain!!!! please make it legal!!!!!!!!!!!!
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surely there are dentists in Rebel Flag Land somewhere that can help your problem. I understand that dentistry requires a lot of education, so most candidates would be precluded, but surely you can find a transplant from the big city.
 
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I read a study done last year that said decriminalization could result in a 14 billion dollar turn-around for our government. It used a similar taxing policy to the one we use for liquor, and used the figure of estimated marijuana users from the FBI. Using these numbers, we would save just over 7 billion spent on the war on drugs (just on marijuana enforcement), and we would make just over 6 billion on taxes.

The report carried signatures and support from many well known economic experts.

I personally think that we shouldn't be policing private behavior. I would agree to a set of laws that regulated driving and other potentially dangerous activities (a policy essentially the same as for alcohol).
 
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