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People who think smoking pot is harmless are wrong on so many levels. Why do we need another bad thing to be legal?

• eurasiantiger 5y ago
  Because trying to keep drugs banned makes criminals ultra-rich, corrupts entire societies, eats away at LEA resources and marginalizes otherwise innocent people?
  • JoeyBananas 5y ago
    Legalizing the crimes that the criminals are getting rich off of is not a good way to stop crime or save money. Do you see how this argument is backwards? The reason why we spend tax dollars on locking up drug dealers is because it's worth doing from a moral standpoint.
    • errantmind 5y ago
      There is nothing backwards about the argument. By legalizing it we will see a reduction in real crime unrelated to drug use, like violent gangs. Separately, marijuana being illegal while smoking, alcohol, and surgery foods are legal is a contradiction. If you want the government to regulate everyone's lives for the greater good, you might as well ban those as well.
    • eurasiantiger 5y ago
      Locking people up for life for wanting to get high is not ever morally right.
• seanicus 5y ago
  If you could Thanos-snap every drug in the world from aspirin to beer to crack you'd have people huffing or spinning around in their yards until they puked just for the buzz. Proper education on the effects of all drugs will always trump prohibition. I'll give you this, though: in many conversations weed is being made out to be totally benign. While I think it's more benign than alcohol or many prescription drugs, it still makes people lazy, contributes to poor health, can be carcinogenic if combusted, and can be abused in the sense that a user can rely on it to attain a sense of exhilaration or happiness.