@Calgaryborn: Why are you continuing to argue in favor of a system that has completely failed in every respect? You arguments against any of the sane suggestions given in this thread is to come up with a loose analogy that really does nothing to help reach any sort of conclusions or even be analogous to what you are arguing against.
You are of the opinion that drugs are wrong, are illegal, and having anything to do with drugs is a crime and you should be punished to the fullest extent of the law. That's fine. I just look at the facts and see that the type of drug policy you suggest has had little to no positive results over the past 40-50 years, so why do we continue on with it?
Also, you think that if pot were legalized there would be growops everywhere? The circumstances surrounding growops now is that growers need to drill into the foundation of the home to route electricity in a certain way so that insane amounts of electricity and power can be drawn but not reported to the vendor. This creates a huge danger and an extremely high risk of fire. This is where the danger comes from.
Why would individuals seeking to grow a small amount of weed for personal consumption do this? Do you think they would have massive growops, completely ruin their own home in the off chance that they can sell their product when a person can just go into any number of stores and purchase it over the counter with no problems? Why would anyone do that?
Do you really believe that if pot were legalized everyone would all the sudden start screwing around with their incoming power line and all of this other nonsense in the place that they and their families live? I doubt it. "Worst" case scenario is someone grows one or two plants in their home safely and what is the harm in that? You may have 1 or 2 lights drawing a proper amount of power. The risk of fire and harm here would be greatly reduced.
Lastly, you choose to see addicts as criminals. Again, that's a fine point of view. I see addicts as people with serious problems that act in certain ways because of the way they, as addicts, are treated in society. They are criminals for something they really cant help. They lose their families and friends and support group. They lose their jobs and everything. They have no choice but to turn to a life of theft to sustain this horrible way of life.
Addicts generally do not want to be addicts. But the way society treats addicts, by segregating them from the rest of society is just completely the wrong approach to take in my humble opinion. Why not take steps to incorporate them into society and try to help them?
I know this will not change your mind, but seriously, can you explain how your point of view will help the drug problem overall?
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