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Originally Posted by Frequitude
I'm not going to lie, this is the kind of thing that resonates with me on the issue so much more than scientific journals. I just find it hard to believe that there won't be more people driving high or just generally being high and more youths being high.
Crap, now I got drawn back in. Thanks Dion.
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See the major problem here is you basically have to support banning alcohol, and also prescription drugs, because they are far more dangerous than pot. So your rational for being fine with alcohol is essnetially it's already legal and pot isn't, so keep things the way they are.
But if we didn't change stupid, outdated, destructive or archaic laws, we'd still have women without the right to vote, blacks as 3/5 a person in the US, slavery etc...I'm sure there were more than a few people who wanted the status quo on those. Thankfully they were wrong. The amount of money that is pissed away annually to policing and imprison pot is absurd, and that doesn't even include the money that could be earned from legalization.
When people talk about "government waste", pot prohibition is one of the largest wastes there is. All that money spent, and pot use has not gone down in any significant manor. To reference Einstein in a pot discussion, if you spend billions over the years and get nothing about it, its insanity to keep spending billions more expecting different results.