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If cannabis use results in higher health costs. However, the preponderance of research suggests a null hypothesis at worst and a reduction in cancer rates and
by elif 8y ago
If cannabis use results in higher health costs.
However, the preponderance of research suggests a null hypothesis at worst and a reduction in cancer rates and opiate dependency at best.
- dgacmu 8y agoAnd more: If it results in higher health care costs than the savings realized in law enforcement, judicial proceedings, and prisons.
- Rebelgecko 8y agoThey're asking about legalizing other drugs with more severe health and societal impacts (potentially meth, heroin, PCP, etc)
- bitcoinisqueen 8y agoHigher health costs matter insofar as the gov't steals at gunpoint your income (via taxation) and redistributes it. Remove coerced theft (taxes) then the healthcare cost argument is not a problem. In fact, it will be a good thing if people screw up their bodies and die prematurely because it means they will acquire less assets and basically are socializing their future potential into the ones that are not so dumb to ruin their bodies.