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I know it's popular, but I feel this is a mistake. If we had the chance to disallow tobacco use before it was available, don't you think we should do it? The

• mchusma 6y ago
  I appreciate you sharing your comment, but the reality is you can't just stop something by making it illegal. Even if we all agreed "marijuana for recreation is bad" (which it is not so clear on - it seems likely less bad than tobacco or alcohol), Then you still can not want it criminalized. This is because when something is not criminalized you don't: -force only criminals to sell it -provide criminals funding by allowing them to sell it -prevent users from getting help -prevent criminals from solving disputes through the State, instead they have to enforce their own violence -people should be free to do things in general that don't directly harm others (e.g. pot on the couch is ok, while driving not) -jailing people to enforce the criminalization The war on drugs is directly responsible for huge amounts of global violence (e.g. mexico) andenormous incarceration rates in the US (about 10x our peers). The downsides are huge, the upsides are harder to quantify.
• schwartzworld 6y ago
  if you think it's a risk, don't take it. what skin is it off your back if other people feel differently? Besides, you'd achieve a lot more boost to public health if you banned booze and processed sugar than you ever would for pot