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Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut

Don't be flippant. Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence.

bitlax 8y ago
> Don't be flippant. Naming the bill S.420 is unserious. > Marijuana criminalization and the war on drugs causes a vast amount of harm to the entire country, including millions of lives ruined or cut short. Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated? > Just recently a completely innocent couple were gunned down in their own home by the police executing a no knock raid based on completely bogus (or at best horribly mistaken) evidence. Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing?
- tumahimikka 8y ago
  > Naming the bill S.420 is unserious. Are police canine units not serious because they're called K-9? What a stupid comment > Which drugs --prescription and otherwise-- do you think should be freely available and unregulated? There's a difference between decriminalizing and making something freely legal. Stop conflating the issue > Bad policing doesn't justify bad policy. Could you please cite the specific case you're referencing? The case the parent comment referenced could be 1 of hundreds, because this happens frequently. Why is decriminalizing drugs bad policy? Portugal has had no problems in addition to the many states that have already legalized MJ, let alone decriminalizing it