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Marijuana should be legal. That it is a schedule 1 narcotic and that we put people in prison for decades and even life is immoral. https://www.dea.gov/druginfo

Marijuana should be legal. That it is a schedule 1 narcotic and that we put people in prison for decades and even life is immoral. https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/ds.shtml http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/life-sentence-marijuana-pot-prison-commuted/ http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/07/life-sentence-ma...

nkrisc 9y ago
Interesting how legal opioids are fueling a national 'crisis' while illegal marijuana, though widely used, is not.
- trhway 9y ago
  Hard to find a person/family devastated by marijuana use. At least devastated beyond what alcohol does.
  - cr1895 9y ago
    It’s not hard to find lives devastated by the illegality of it.
    - trhway 9y ago
      It is devastation by police and/or by trafficking mafia, not by marijuana itself.
- soundwave106 9y ago
  I personally think the combination of the (legal, or at least government approved) prescription opioid crisis, combined with the relatively successful decriminalization at various levels of cannabis in several states, has really changed the tone of conversation on pharmaceutical compounds, recreational or otherwise. Old paradigms (particularly ones that are not 100% based on factual / scientific analysis, as drug law tended to be) die hard, and it will take some time to change laws as a result. But the moral panic over "illegal drugs" is way less these days than it was in, say, the 1980s.