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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
uummmm are you really equivocating the emancipation of women and abolition of slavery to drug legalization? I'll try and keep it simple but 2 of those 3 have clear ethical & functional benefits without risk, while the other.....
I'll also re-iterate: You have not presented any facts, only conjecture.
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Haha oh man. Thank you for putting words into my mouth. My point was that people once thought one way, but their stances have evolved. I chose to use easy to see examples and you choose to say I'm equating drug legalization to slavery? Ugh, I get we completely disagree on this one, but come on really?
As for facts, this one alone should be pretty eye opening
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A 2008 study by Harvard economist Jeffrey A. Miron has estimated that legalizing drugs would inject $76.8 billion a year into the U.S. economy — $44.1 billion from law enforcement savings, and at least $32.7 billion in tax revenue ($6.7 billion from marijuana, $22.5 billion from cocaine and heroin, remainder from other drugs)
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And the UN Global Commission on Drug Policy says...
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"The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world."
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We obviously will never agree on this, but your argument is what exactly? That legalizing drugs would result in nothing but negative consequences? Any more so than now? See I don't. Drugs are illegal now and have massive consequences. Legalizing them isn't going to change much, except save us as taxpayers a ton of money. As a taxpayer, I'm pretty much cool with that.