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Careful, this argument could easily be used to criminalize a whole lot of things, alcohol, tobacco, maybe even guns.

• slibhb 2y ago
  Weed was already illegal! We could have kept it illegal and simply punished people less for using and selling it. Whereas making alcohol, tobacco, and guns illegal is clearly impossible.
  • Teever 2y ago
    But it obviously wasn't impossible to make alcohol illegal in the past.
    • drdaeman 2y ago
      Alcohol is illegal in some countries out there, today. I'll refrain from making any judgements, but I'll note that the word is, people still drink it there.
      • bediger4000 2y ago
        Sure, but the argument was that widespread, legalized use of $X caused more harm than the bad effects of using law enforcement to suppress and punish use of $X. Maybe illegal alcohol consumption in some countries causes less harm overall, including whatever legal system punishments on the few consumers who get caught, than legal alcohol consumption would. I'd believe there's less drunk driving, fewer bar fights, fewer piles of puke in alleys in those countries.