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Originally Posted by wookster
So you don't think that the majority of drug dealers might also be selling other "products" other than pot...."products" that they will still sell because there will still be a demand for it. Criminals are usually greedy, so if they can make $10,000 a week selling whatever illegally as opposed to making $2000 a week selling pot legally I'm pretty sure which route the majority will choose.
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every other thing out there is way too strong/synthesized. Most people who sell marijuana only sell marijuana by the way, and I stress most. It's like a line between the two because generally pot dealers aren't scumbag criminals and crossing the line into other things opens them up to violence and theft a lot more than just with pot. I've personally never heard of marijuana dealers and violent incidents (it probably does happen) and the demand you speak of is overwhelmingly for pot.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I'm on the fence with the drug laws. I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say I've never done it or don't like the occasional puff but I have friends that I grew up with that have had their lives permanently sidetracked due to chronic use. One guy was a brilliant guy with a calculator brain that now in his 40's works in a grocery store stocking shelves and the other painting for cash under the table and living in a trailer.
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but that's a reflection of their personality. There are many intelligent hard-working pot smokers, it effects everyone differently. I've got 2 degrees, a scholarship and an internship at a large oil company all while smoking way more than the average person, that being said it's not because of pot I am successful. It's just personality most of the time, some people who are susceptible to certain mental illnesses can trigger them by smoking pot and that's why real education is so much more important than fear mongering. Give a person pot with no mental illness in their family that is calm and tends to not get anxious they will be completely fine. Give a person with a genetic predisposition to mental illnesses pot while they are anxious and stressed out and you can trigger lifelong depression or schizophrenia. The more you know about how it works the more you can understand it's effects on different people. For some it relaxes and creates lethargy, for some it's a mental stimulant and an energy boost which is why it shouldn't be criminal. It's not physically addictive which means people should be free to decide whether they screw up their own lives. In a free society if you are allowed to buy alcohol you should be allowed to buy marijuana, of course there are some dangers to pot but it's never killed anyone.