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Originally Posted by Shazam
Well, heroin and cocaine are widespread and available. Do we make those legal too? Heck, everything is widespread and available these days.
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No, because the effects of heroin and cocaine are not similar to those of the already legal drugs cigarettes and liquor. The fact that people already do marijuana is not the main justification for legalizing it, its more the fact that we're allowing very similar drugs but disallowing marijuana, for no apparent reason.
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A lot of the stuff we already talked:
- Violence from widespread ganja use.
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I still don't get why violence would occur. Weed is already widespread, how does legalizing it incite more violence?
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- The beauracracy of regulation.
- And as a parent, it's a lot easier to guide a child away from drugs if you tell them it's illegal.
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Frankly I'd be more worried about my kid drinking than doing weed, but I guess thats each parent's call. My personal belief is that drinking is downright 'worse' than marijuana considering its effects, and I've done a whole lot of both.
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We've got enough tax money being spent on smokers, on drunk driving, on drunks fighting, etc. Now we're going to need even more money than what's being spent now on ganja use. Yay.
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Right... and we're getting no tax dollars from the billions in sales right now. None. People are smoking it, some might even get sick from long-term use of it, but no tax dollars are being brought in to subsidize treatment (unlike liquor/cigarettes). If we're worried about the increased cost of marijuana consumption, shouldn't we be doing something about it like taxing it?