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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
What you are suggesting is adding another vice for no better reason than adding more tax revenue. If legalized marijuana ever became as popular as beer imagine the increase in road accidents and work place accidents. Marijuana offers the user instant mental impairment. That might be good for the user if they got some life they want to waste but, it isn't for society in general and certainly those who have to deal with them.
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Why would it increase? If what you claim is true about it being so easy to hide than what would change? Again show me a study that links legalization of marijuana and increased usage of the drug compared to other countries. Seems to me the two countries in Europe that it was legalized (or close to in Holland's case) have the lowest percentage of users in any country in Europe, both being nearly 1/3rd of the USA who has one of the toughest drug policies in the world.
You keep saying that marijuana users are wasting their life, which isn't at all true. As I listed above many successful and smart people admit to smoking marijuana on a regular basis. And people you know that you think would never could be doing it, you would be shocked!
Forget the average "stoner", would you be in favor of at least passing some type of law that would allow doctors to prescribe it to patients?
And honest question, have you ever smoked marijuana before?