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Originally Posted by peter12
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.
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Because realistically the number one issue here isn't about the poison, it's actually a fiscal issue. The current set up drains a lot of money and produces results that do not justify how much is being spent. That's the thing people who choose to look at this as a public health or morality issue are missing: There's a lot of money going into this and very little coming out, and that doesn't include the lost revenue. Some will dismiss that, but it's impossible in my opinion to ignore how much money is being wasted (and not collected) with the current set up.