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Here's a representative Kleiman article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/six-undeniable-facts-abou_b_9664302.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-
by rectang 9y ago
Here's a representative Kleiman article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/six-undeniable-facts-abou_b_9664302.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/six-undeniable-fa...
The bullet points:
1. Cannabis prohibition is broken and can’t be fixed.
2. Cannabis is an abusable drug, and the rate of
problem use has been soaring for two decades.
3. Legalization on the alcohol model is likely to make
cannabis extremely cheap.
4. Cheap cannabis is a threat to public health.
5. The interests of the industry conflict with the
public interest.
6. There are many alternatives to current laws, and
the differences matter.
- microcolonel 9y agoMy own bullet point: 7. The market is moving forward despite the law, so current [and likely future] laws are largely irrelevant (save for a small and shrinking premium in price). I don't think anyone can credibly suggest that more enforcement is a practical solution to detrimental habitual use of marijuana. As far as I can tell, it is effectively a demand-side problem. I also think there is a greater societal cost to somebody in prison for weed because they had too much on stock, than there to somebody who is at home and stoned all the time.