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Originally Posted by MattyC
So you're against legalization of alcohol as well then? (not saying this is a bad thing, if you're against booze, that's fine, to each their own).
You say you are prohibitionist, then list a few personal reasons for being against it, all fine. Then you mention one of the main reasons for legalization (revenue) as a "scheme" when it's pretty much just logic. There's a multi-billion dollar black market for this that we want to bring into the actual market. It's one of our province's largest industries and it's not on the books. Then you say how you're against people being jailed for this, the other major reason people want it legalized.
So what side are you on?
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Truth be told, I hardly drink. Certainly never to the point of drunkenness. I am appalled and revolted by the level of public indiscretion, and unruly behaviour shown by a lot of people my age on the streets of Calgary. Alcohol used in excess is truly disgusting. So I don't oppose stricter controls of alcohol. In fact, Prohibition did decrease the amount of wife-beatings, and liver disease fell through the floor.
But we do have a cultural attachment to alcohol in our society. It has symbolic, ritualistic, and aesthetic elements that are impossible to eliminate.
As I said, just because we have one poison, why should that mean we legitimize another? You aren't skeptical of the "big-business" of marijuana? This isn't just some sort of liberation or some sort of free-love recreational movement. There is money to be made here. As you said, lots of it. The potency of marijuana has already been greatly increased due to the market's nefarious means of delivering more immediate satisfaction for long-term payment.